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JW TV isn't about making new converts, it's about satisfying the R&F, using smoke and mirrors to distract them from the obvious issues this "end-time", apocalyptic cult has.

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Apple Cider Vinegar

by poppers in

i've been drinking 1 tbs with a glass of water twice daily for digestion for about 3 weeks now.

i've found it helps, but it also acts as an appetite suppressant; i've lost several pounds since using it.

i'm consuming fewer calories because i'm just not as hungry as before.

passwordprotected

I've been using it for a year or so, works great at suppressing appetite and it also de-toxes the liver, which helps process fats in the body, hence ideal for natural weight loss.

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Strange situation

by Gorbatchov in

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hi folks,.

the rank and file is now in a strange situation.. it is clear that the jw leadership is in for a huge change.

the type / anti type change makes clear that they make a u-turn.. it's clear that with this changes the current doctrine are temporary.

passwordprotected

The religion is changing.

Some will wake up as a result, some always do and many of us are here as a result.

But most will stay safely ensconsed in their spiritual paradise, surrounded by their similarly atrophied conditional friends and family.

However, as to whether these changes, whether doctrinally or technologically, will bring in new converts, I highly doubt it. Is any Abrahamic religion other than Islam growing in the West, where surely the GB wants to see growth (the West is where the cash is)? It doesn't seem so.

I think the WTBTS will happily plateau for the forseeable future. After all, it takes considerably less effort and resource to keep a customer than it does to gain a new customers. The GB will be content to see incremental growth from within; the born-ins. Keep the families already in the cult happily sated on Spirituality Lite, giving the parents as many tools as possible to guilt-trip their kids into becoming the next generation of suit-wearing, bag-toting faithful adherents.

And when the down-turn in membership inevitably happens, it won't bother them; the love of the greater number is due to cool off, after all.

The GB doesn't want a big religious following. Too hard to control. A satisfied and loyal/faithful core is the end-game. And everything is set up to make that happen.

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the new TV show, is it just me or is the guy really creepy??

by purrpurr in

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He fluffs his lines several times. Why didn't they re-do those parts?

Simple answer; they're trying to make it look live. Note the be-suited JW "count him in" right at the start. Fuck's sake - it's not a live TV show...therefore that's completely unnessecariy.

OR

They didn't ask him to re-do it because he's a GB member and therefore infalliable. Any mistakes were Jehovah's intention all along.

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JW TV - One Further Step Towards Making the Organization Soft & Cuddly

by steve2 in

one of the more astonishing developments within the organization in recent years is the muting of the more "out there" behaviors of this once fiercely confrontational and proud end-times religious group.. members were unapologetically no part of the world and couldn't give a rat's ar*e what you thought of them.

whereas the organisation fostered an outlook of warning the "wicked" world of the imminence of its destruction at the hands of the almighty - and spared no effort in doing so - nowadays the organization is sucking in its more "loose cannon" elements.

in the place of these elements is a sparkling, smiling, airbrushed group of worshippers who parade their wholesome settled lifestyle to win converts.

passwordprotected

Good post.

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Prediction- JW's will create their own Social Network Site

by Skinnedsheep in

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with their advancement into web based programming and their soon to be broadcast meetings the need for a physical meeting place is quickly diminishing.

i predict that the large scale sell-of of kingdom halls will begin in the next few years as the people get their meetings online.

the one thing that would be missed with a liquidation of kh halls is "upbuilding" association which will force the society into creating a jw social media app which will not only allow for association but close monitoring of the pubs.

passwordprotected

Churches like Mars Hill have their own social network. Only approved members of the church have access to it. It could happen in JW.Org land.

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TV.JW.Org - Streamed to KHs via the New Projectors

by passwordprotected in

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i read here recently that the khs are being instructed to buy and install projector systems.. now that we've seen the launch of of tv.jw.org we can fully expect public talks to - on a monthly basis at least - be replaced by content streamed from the site to the screens in khs.. .

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passwordprotected

I read here recently that the KHs are being instructed to buy and install projector systems.

Now that we've seen the launch of of tv.jw.org we can fully expect Public Talks to - on a monthly basis at least - be replaced by content streamed from the site to the screens in KHs.

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tv.jw.org Female Presenters?

by jw07 in

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Let's not forget that tv.jw.org is ALL about the Governing Body. Yes, there will be streams from talks etc, all presented by "brothers". But the main showpiece broadcast will be presented by a Governing Body member. This is about their position in the minds of the R&F and about harnessing the long-forgotten cult-of-personality last seen in the JF Rutherford days.

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TV.JW.org - Purpose?

by passwordprotected in

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there's an interest point raised by stephen letts at around the 7 minute mark of the intro video;.

much of the equipment used to build the studio was made available by donation.

he twice mentions (once at the start of the video) the need for "support", which we can assume means donations.

passwordprotected

There's an interest point raised by Stephen Letts at around the 7 minute mark of the intro video;

much of the equipment used to build the studio was made available by donation
he twice mentions (once at the start of the video) the need for "support", which we can assume means donations

Then he states that "many will be wondering why we're building this studio in Brooklyn when, in two years time - Jehovah willing, we'll be moving to Wallkill.

This belies that fact that the GB has no doubt that "Armageddon" isn't coming any day soon.

At the start of the video, and throughout the first 7 minutes, they bang on about it was made clear to them by Jehovah that this new video project had his blessing.

Therefore Jehovah can't be planning to launch Armageddon within the next 2 years, can he?

Anyway, I think right away we've got to the route of the purpose for this TV channel; donatations. But as has already been pointed out in other threads, the GB will slip up, just as Lett has done in the intro video, letting the R&F know that the end isn't quite as near as is promised...