The percecition in Russia is the best outcome for the GB. They can play the End of time card now. Like the local brother here saying "the world must hate you!".
G.
gb member sanderson has given a hate speech in response to the recent russian ban.
it was given as a morning worship rant.
sanderson sports his usual smirk.. he opens up quoting matthew 10:22, 23 about persecution.
The percecition in Russia is the best outcome for the GB. They can play the End of time card now. Like the local brother here saying "the world must hate you!".
G.
with the "generation change" and them changing it all the time it would make sence to dump it all togeather.. lets face it ,it can be disproved easly.. they dumped 1975 in a heart beat .. this would buy them all the time they wanted as they would just find another date to start the generation from ie: "the u.n year of peace and sercurty'',1986 i belive or whatever else they could think of.. they could sell it to the r&f as easly as they sold 1975,then dumped it when it did'nt happen .. anyone questioning them would be told they are running ahead of jehovah or lacking faith in his earthly org that feeds us food at the proper time .. what do you think?.
karter..
They dropped the 1914 and 1918/1919 allready invisible...
They don't mention it and during meetings you never hear those dates.
The same with paradise earth. I don't hear it often.
G.
so it's not enough that i'm dealing with post traumatic stress/anxiety and panic attacks all related to my life as a jw (50 years baptized -- i stopped going a couple of months ago) at 3 a.m. i get an email from the other side of the world.
'you have to go to the convention.
bro sanderson says we must watch the news, things are happening.
Sometimes I think, how criminial is the jw organization. Dollars and real estate, that's what it is, a pyramid fund.
G.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.
no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.
instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .
Kiwiboy, those details are scary. The effort they make to go back in time. Very, very strange!!
Sometimes I think there is a mole in the writing staff.
G.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.
no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.
instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .
Born in 1970, I still hear my fathers comment about the 1980 excuse of 3 lines in a WT article. Way too short, way too late. He did not believe in the date and mentioned the fiasco later to me.
Why this video now? I have no idea.
They give "some" the blame for the Fred Franz madness. That's incorrect.
Fact finding will show that easely.
G.
the truman show is on tbs tonight and i know, it's been mentioned before here, but it has to be a movie that gives jw's the creeps.
jw's know something is not right in the wt fantasy land, but until they have that epiphany, that the wt has lied to them, the jw is just left with a niggly feeling of "something is just not right" in the back of their mind.
now when jim carrey- truman burbank- figures it out and becomes self aware of the lie, everyone around him tries to redirect his focus away from his epiphany , then convince him he is the only one who see's a problem.
For me, The Firm was an eye opener.
The fake friendships, the loyality first, just like jw world.
G.
i normally don't bother going to the midweek jw meetings much.
however, upon reading in the april 2017 meeting workbook that there was to be a video about erich frost (former do for saxony & nazi prisoner in sachsenhausen concentration camp) i wanted to attend as i had read about this brother in history texts by detlef garbe and hans hesse.
i had also visited auschwitz several times and noted that the museum had a display / exhibition about jehovah's witnesses.
They should made a clam video about Paul Balzereit. This brother, is abused by Rutherford and Knorr. They lied about this honnest brother. Gave him the blame for their anti seminist letter and declaration. And then excommunicated him. Since knowing this I hate the JW leadership. They will kill you if it's for the porpose of them and their property, then and now.
G.
on http://avoidjw.org/2017-regional-convention/ you can find the talk outlines of the regional convention this year.. i looked into the final talks each day and found these releases to be announced:.
on saturday:.
new magazine-size book entitled "lessons you can learn from the bible".
The return of the wife of Lot...
I can still hear her ugly cry in a 1970's drama that has hurt me when I was a little boy.
Now I f*ck*ng hate those drama's for the pure emotional abuse they are.
G.
short info on interesting changes to the major conventions this year: there will be a new security concept that will be implemented at all regional conventions in 2017.. similar to other major events (e.g.
festivals, concerts), there will be admittance controls in stadiums.. - at each entrance, there will be a massive presence of attendants that look at each visitor.. - there will be pocket checks at the entrance.. - suspicious persons are no longer left on the convention grounds.. - suppliers to the stadium will be intensively inspected by attendants.. - there will be a special sign for attendants that must enter the stadium before 7.30 am.
all others (even all attendants) can only enter after 7.30 am..
Here in Holland the conventions are since 2017 no longer in public buildings like the usual stadiums and convention centers.
From now on the conventions are held the whole summer through in the own jw circuit fascilities.
It keeps the money in the jw organization and is more an internal gathering, like the circuits.
G.
this is obviously a question for the older generation.
i'm really curious what it was like to be a witness in the 60's and 70's?.
was the society as strict as it is today?.
In the 70's I was a little JW boy, believing his sick brother, his grandparents and every body he loved would never die. You can imagine what happened...
The congregation was strict but with more love for each other. That's all gone now. Real friendship and compassion. With strange folks. Funny folks. Funny things happened. Now it's an American dream showroom. Then people were authentic.
G.