in the march 2025 jw broadcast david splane in his morning worship talk mentioned that "some thought" that armageddon would come 40 years after 1914. such statements are usually meant to shift the blame of their own false predictions on to their members for speculating.
however, i was unable to find anything in print showing that such a thing was indeed taught by the society.
was this really a thing?.
I've never heard of that date, Jerome. But maybe some of our more senior or long time members may have heard of it?The only thing related to Watchtower and 1954 that I could find was the Douglas Walsh trial in Scotland, where Fred Franz was found to be unable to translate a Bible verse into Hebrew.
However I don't trust David Splane and I wouldn't put it past him to either arrogantly get the date wrong, but refuse to correct it, or use a false date to throw people off.
i swear, you can't make this shit up!
for years and years growing up in this cult, i had to constantly hear from my parents, from the stage, in the literature, about "keeping your eye simple", not being "materialistic", not "having a showy display of one's wealth.
" of course, this never seemed to apply to the wealthy business owning elduhzzzz who ran and lorded it out over the congregations, but i digress.
😂😂another daft GB name! Judy? "Can be a boys name"? Yeah if you think that...I knew a Boy named Sue, too!
NB Marion is an old Polish name and it's MariON not MariAN.
blood donor james harrison has died aged 88 in australia (17th feb) has saved the lives of over 2 million babies.
after receiving a huge blood transfusion during heart surgery aged 14, he vowed to become a donor at 18. he held the record for the most blood plasma donated until recently, donating every two weeks from the age of 18. his blood produced anti d used to produce jabs that protect unborn babies from hemolytic disease of the foetus & newborn (hdfn).
this occurs in pregnancy when a mothers red blood cells are incompatible with her babys.
I certainly remember being told that as a child Not former! I'm not sure if it's anywhere in writing ..I imagine there is! I'll have to see if I can dig it out somewhere. There was so many crazy stories told about blood transfusions.
Now I understand JW medical staff have been told not to administer it, let alone prescribe it. They have Bethel doctors & nurses. If they continue with that ruling they won't have any in a few years because such a ruling will prohibit any one training as medics in future🤷♀️
blood donor james harrison has died aged 88 in australia (17th feb) has saved the lives of over 2 million babies.
after receiving a huge blood transfusion during heart surgery aged 14, he vowed to become a donor at 18. he held the record for the most blood plasma donated until recently, donating every two weeks from the age of 18. his blood produced anti d used to produce jabs that protect unborn babies from hemolytic disease of the foetus & newborn (hdfn).
this occurs in pregnancy when a mothers red blood cells are incompatible with her babys.
Blood donor James Harrison has died aged 88 in Australia (17th Feb) has saved the lives of over 2 million babies. After receiving a huge blood transfusion during heart surgery aged 14, he vowed to become a donor at 18. He held the record for the most blood plasma donated until recently, donating every two weeks from the age of 18. His blood produced anti D used to produce jabs that protect unborn babies from hemolytic disease of the foetus & newborn (HDFN). This occurs in pregnancy when a mothers red blood cells are incompatible with her babys. Her immune system sees her babys blood cells as a threat and attacks them, which can be lethal causing severe anemia & heart failure in her baby.
James even saved two of his own grandchildren with his blood plasma. Nothing any witness could do could ever compare with the joy and happiness this man has given to millions of desperate parents.
strange that after 2 years we still don't know the facts about anthony's resignation.
grant davus writes:.
the announcement.
Fedup exjwAs he is in very close contact with Warwick personnel he told me that the reason Morris is not a governing body member is severe advanced dementia along with the mental and emotional effects becoming more obvious. I have never known that person to lie to me, or to pass along idle gossip, and I've known him for nearly 55 years.
Is it possible that senior-ish members of Bethel have been told this but that given that it may be true he has cognitive decline of some form, there is still more to why Ant Mo was "pushed" rather than left *only* due to health?
The reason I ask is that there is no reports of his wife - whom you would think would still be attending meetings in some form if his leaving was only related to health, doing so?
january 2021: the norwegian state denies state subsidies to jehovah's witnesses, citing exclusion policies.. august 2021: a norwegian court annuls a disfellowshipping decision by jehovah's witnesses.. may 3, 2022: the supreme court of norway upholds the decision to annul the disfellowshipping.. october 25, 2022: the county governor of oslo and viken demands changes to jehovah's witnesses' practices.. december 22, 2022: jehovah's witnesses' registration as a religious community is revoked.
—---anthony morris iii officially stepped down from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses on february 22, 2023.
march 4, 2024: oslo county court rules in favor of the state, upholding the decision to withhold funding and retract registration.. february 3-14, 2025: the oslo appeal court hears the latest appeal from jehovah's witnesses.
Lol according to that flow chart (and depending on my mood at the time) i should either be a Jehovahs Witness or a Wiccan
MoomanchuThe cruise is my favourite!
hi, my name is leacy and i am 41 years old.
i live in california.
i attend the rancho santa margarita congregation.
IiamThe USA laws favor women in a divorce, even with a pre-nup. Smart rich young men DON'T GET MARRIED.
😂Oh it's a shame I'm not young nowadays, then! I once had this rich, good looking tanned Californian Lamborghini dealer chase me all over London...he even rang my grandma trying to get a hold of me (he thought I looked like Brooke Shields)
He said to me "Anna...isn't it just as easy to love a rich man as a poor one?" And I - the Brain of Britain - said "No!"🤦♀️
not really a scandal, but serena williams doing the crip walk on national tv wtf .
Apart from anything else the length of her skirt would be an issue right there!
As an aside I was thinking yesterday how small the world is now and how American cultural hegemony has multiplied due the internet. For instance my British kids stayed up all night watching the superbowl with their mates - a "watch party"! I don't exaggerate when i say very few of my generation would even know what it was (I'm sure other Brits would back me up here!)
My kids also pronounce things in an American way like the word Dune they say "Doon" like Americans, not the British way "DJune" (a sort of june with a slight D at the front). There's so many words like that Gen Z no longer pronounce in the British way. My grandparent's generation had regional accents from one village to the next nearly....now the world is one cultural village (well the western Anglophone world anyway)
i was reading an intriguing post on the exjw reddit, a forum i do not with to sign up for, as i'm not interested in the internal politics of reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1hwlja8/the_governing_bodys_letter_that_shook_bethel_and/.
another post counteracted this one, driven by the "conspiracy theory" card.
On the second reddit post someone posted that they were forced to get vaccinated at work so why the conspiracy theories with watchtower "employees" because it was fairly standard practice and didnt mean watctower was "making bank". Although I agree with his observation that people on the one hand call the GB stupid but on the other think they are in bed with billionaire financiers (although there is such a thing as a kind of "sly smarts" that isn't intelligence but more a side effect of greed). However there's a big difference between insisting employee's get a vaccine and members of a church doing so (nor that i think any kind of vaccine mandate is ethical)
I also get annoyed when (usually SJW) ex JW's conflate being "anti vax" with the scientifically valid and proven concerns around the covid vaccines.
