i keep hearing that the watchtower org is going to be around forever because of the many other religions that have been around a long time.
but i disagree because the wt is not like other religious cults.. the watchtower's breath of life is dependent on the last days that started in 1914. .
you can’t change 1914 without a death blow to the entire organization.. the watchtower's 2nd reason for staying alive, is it's continual urging that the life saving preaching work of warning people is the most important work ever.. but- it's very obvious to many, even the old ones that instead of speeding up the work------the work is slowing down to a drip.. comment by former believer; .
They ve changed the meaning of 1914 for over hundred years and still grew regardless....changing it again in the. next 100 wont make a big difference.
the difference is the accesibility of YouTube and google. that will make a difference. when i was 6 and had questions i would ask my indoctrinated mother and she would give me the answer... when my 3 year old has questions he says 'hey google...."
i was raised as a jw and left the group as many of the teachings don’t align with my core values.
now, forward almost 10 years, my wife and i are raising our kids through puberty and i have to admit, this challenge is not easy and seems to be even more difficult in that my own upbringing was very different.
i find it hard to compare how i was raised with what i now must do for my own kids.
what defines a good principle? what is a principle? a philosophy?
JWs follow the religious philosphy imposed mainly by rutherford and franz.
children copy their parents philosphy... and in its absence their friends or the movies or music.
so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.
and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.
Sure... the remaining Jws will double number of doors they bang.... to see less than half the result they had in the past... no matter what they say or do..... The numbers will continue to decline.... its written on the wall.... of the park restroom.
mene mene call my number tekum
so i noticed one of the members here came to my jwtalk website, where i am an important administrator, and tried to join my site.. i check in here every so often and i was able to deduce that person was an apostate fraud, likely bent on polluting my site.
i denied their request to join.. ha!
gotcha!
One of the members here? Are you sure it wasnt from Redit or Facebook?
Well good job! you got one person who wanted to get in your blog... but what if that person wanted to got back to the organization and was looking for assurance? I guess he's stuck here.
i have been hearing the cult is upset that this video leaked and is trying to remove it off the net.
lol are they really that stupid?
but if anyone has a link to the video i would love to see it.
it's my video... mine.. eventhough I didn't pay the actors, the editors, the writers, the composers, the musicians, the producers..
i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.
i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.
anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.
yes I have.. 40 years ago
most of the witnesses i knew never really talked about sex.
whatever couples did was pretty much kept quiet.
every once in a while a wife might complain to the elders or a friend that the husband is too demanding or even immoral because of the sex practices the husband wanted.
Any religious or social group that gives rules to normal body functions alters the functional view of such functions.
However, "normal" is defined by what the majority practices.
all of us who lived under those influences are biased at some level until we identify the processes
if your sex is only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality, .
your race can be only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality.. .
is this repudiation of science?
we havent entered the science era yet. the majority is just enjoying their technology without wondering... or caring to know, how, when and where.
although this is not a jw thing, the netflix co. is running a new show called "the great hack"- it relates back to 2015 pre trump era/ obama involved with the cambridge analytica group about how inserted these companies are in our lives.
anyone in the world, especially targeting the us- has 2000-5000 points of interest about them, enough to sway their thinking on any specific subject - this covers the us election tied to brexit, to bannon, to breitbart and tied to rise of hate, this company worked with biggies, facebook, google, etc to release personal information to cambridge -- talk about gerrymandering!
they targeted the fence sitters in the 2016 election and promoted ads that "pushed" voters to vote in a specific way.
Interesting... can you see people with drastically opposing views anywhere? not here.
cults are famous for controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.in my experience from the beginning of my personal contact with jehovah's witnesses - i knew next to nothing at all.
i was in elementary school in the 6th grade, age 12. a school chum who was a jw befriended me and the indoctrination began straightaway!it took all of 6 years of studying and attending meetings before i agreed to be baptized on a date very easy to remember: it was november 23, 1963 - the day after president john f. kennedy was murdered a few miles away in dallas.
(during the convention i attended - not a single mention of assassination or kennedy or his family was spoken.
Excellent article! Thanks.
