why the watch tower society is already in decline.
good article, cedars.. http://www.freeminds.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3236:why-the-watch-tower-society-is-already-in-decline&catid=31:governing-body&itemid=346.
it's also on the front page of freeminds.org.
Good article Cedars, very good read.
Personally, I think the collective foot-off-the-gas that has happened since "the generation that will not pass away" doctrine passed away has hit the society financially too. Back in 1995 my congo of about 120 publishers contributed about £350 per month to the world wide work. Seventeen years later, my congregation of about 120 publishers still contributes about £350 per month.
Apathy has set in in the west.
recently, when saying goodbye to my grandmother, who i only see a few times a year, she started tearing and said something that made me very sad.
she said she had to tell me that the door to jehovah's kingdom is closing at any moment now, and that if i didn't do anything now, it would be to late.
to her, she is facing an eternity without her grandchildren and it makes her very sad.
If you can, you may want to say "Jehovah is loving and forgiving and can read hearts - you must trust him to give you your heart's desire"
in he's nephews book i could not believe some of the things he mentions.
when his father died fred franz told his mother he could not go to the funeral because he was just too busy at bethel.
she spoke to rutherford who ordered him to go.
Asexual.
I met him a couple of times, not to talk deeply to, but he didnt give off a gay or straight vibe. He had the air of not being quite 'there'. I don't mean he was slow or anything, quite the opposite, but that his mind was busy elsewhere and that dealing with people was an unfortunate side effect of living in bethel and going to conventions.
in he's nephews book i could not believe some of the things he mentions.
when his father died fred franz told his mother he could not go to the funeral because he was just too busy at bethel.
she spoke to rutherford who ordered him to go.
Freddy always struck me as an asexual type. Head so full of the kingdom he was no earthly good. If he was in the middle ages he'd have been living in a cave away from people - desperately trying to see visions.
This type of weird personality is fine as long as they're never in a position of power and influence. The society's doctrine today is a laughing stock because of Freddy. The "prophetic thrill" or shiver of anticipation many felt in the 60s & 70s due to the Daniel / Revelation interpretations has long turned into an embarassement.
They need to get rid of 1914 and go mainstream, if not they'll end up as a wierd little fundamentalist 3rd world religion.
the letter leaked today on "confidentiality" had an infurating set of paragraphs on suicides, attempted suicides, and threatened suicides.
here is the excerpt.. suicides and attempted or threatened suicides.
20. at times, judicial committees may deal with someone who is so distraught that he attempts.
Bungi Bill - They held a Judicial Committee for your daughter's attempted suicide after her own brother died? How old was she?
The very idea sickens me. Shelters in a storm. Not.
apparently the regular pioneers will be nominated by the body of elders, not bethel.
however, elders will have to send bethel a notification when a pioneer is nominated or removed..
Yep, previously (on friends) Regular Pioneers were approved by the service committee and appointed by Bethel. Bethel would send a new Reg Pio an appointment letter. This has been simplified to regular pioneering being more like auxilary pioneering, only the approval of the BoE is now required.
This breaks the link between Bethel and regular pioneers.
i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
I am so sorry for your loss. This just isn't fair.
as some of you who read my previous thread know, my matrix moment has passed, and i am on my way out.
i am trying very hard to fade slowly in hopes that my wife will wake up, and maybe my family too.
the problem is, my conscience still works well, and i don't want to go out in if service and tell people things that i know aren't true.
Visit the elderly or sick ones in the congregation.
Start late finish early, take a coffee break.
Go one step ahead of the society and start 'internet witnessing'
wt out on jw.org now,,shows front page laptop being used on field service call along with sign language.. will jws soon be bringing a laptop for all door to door presentations in the future?
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LOL, new presentation:
"Good morning, glad to find you at home, my partner and I would just like to show you an exiting glimpse of our new website where you can find out how to liveforeverinparadiseonearth. But what ever you do, don't google us."
yeah in the section on attending the convention, you will find this gem:.
"therefore, we should give attention to our dress and grooming while in the convention city, including when we check in at the hotel.
arriving in shorts and a t-shirt would not reflect dignity.".
I wonder who on the GB is so obsessed with how JDubs dress themselves? I thought it was he who shall not be named (Ted Jarez) but clearly someone else has a lady shoe obsession as well.
Seriously, the Sister in the "innapropriately dressed for a bethel tour" photo is wearing a smart jacket, dark trousers and medium heeled shoes - Surely that is appropriate 'business' attire! Normal people would think that "overdressed" to tour a factory!
The control is crazy.
