Posts by Mad Sweeney

Following up on the foreign language growth comment, much of the growth in the foreign language congregations comes from brothers and sisters leaving their English congregatons and joining the foreign language congregation. These also drain the English congregations of many of the smarter brothers and sisters because these are the ones bright enough to pick up a second or third language.

So your English congregations and circuits are left with brothers who aren't sharp enough or driven enough to learn a second language. The English congregations are literally begging for brothers to "reach out" while many of the foreign language congregations are stacked. A typical foreign language congregation of 35 people may have 6 elders, 6 MS, 20 pioneers, and half a dozen native speakers of the language.

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Is The Internet The Worst Thing That Could Happen To The Organization?

by minimus in

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the witnesses try to demonize the internet.

in your opinion is the internet the biggest problem for the watchtower organization?.

Mad Sweeney

It isn't so much that there are more total people leaving as a percentage, it is the quality of people that are leaving that hurts the borg. It's a major brain drain. The ratio of intelligent brothers who are qualified to lead anything competently has been steadily declining over the past couple decades. They practically beg brothers to become (or return to being) MS and elders but the smart ones are saying, "no thanks," if they're even still in the congregation at all.

Look around here at this site. Look at the bright, insightful, former elders, bethelites, etc. The borg drives out the free thinkers and those willing to learn things on their own via the Internet and what are they then left with? Sheeple who can't tie their own shoes without "direction" from the "faithful slave." And a great number of these are burning out, too, with being overburdened as a result of the Peter principle.

So the Internet might not be hurting them in huge quantities but the quality is suffering greatly.

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Is The Internet The Worst Thing That Could Happen To The Organization?

by minimus in

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friends

the witnesses try to demonize the internet.

in your opinion is the internet the biggest problem for the watchtower organization?.

Mad Sweeney

I think it is a growing problem. Despite official opposition to Facebook and other similar sites, the rank and file have conveniently forgotten such counsel and are joining daily. This isn't necessarily a problem in itself, but it indicates that the r&f either are forgetting or ignoring the counsel they have gotten in the Service Meeting.

From there, it's just an easy few steps to getting onto a site like this.

The problem will grow.

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Did You Feel Let Down By Jehovah & The "Brothers"?

by minimus in

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did you find yourself disappointed in your life as a jehovah's witness?.

Mad Sweeney

I'm more angry at myself for ever buying into it. It's a blow to one's esteem (a result of excessive pride, the JWs would say), to find out everything that's wrong with the borg.

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Governing Body Member Learns the Truth About The Truth Scenario Played Out

by frankiespeakin in

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suppose a gb member is perusing the god forsaken internet(dirty word to a gb) and he stumbles on this site or randy's free mind site and his faith in the god almighty wt organization gets crushed beyond all repair.

say he's one of the younger bucks on that body and that he's only 65 years old.

and he well knows what happened to raymond franz.. what kind of turmoil will he be faced with?

Mad Sweeney

I'm not sure they call the shots on layoffs and cutbacks. I'm not sure they call the shots on much of anything anymore. Now that the corporate leadership is completely separated from them, I would guess they defer to the expertise of the businessmen who run the corporation side of things more often than not. And if that means changing doctrine to increase something the corporation needs increased (donations, for example), then that's what they'll do. They're not led by Holy Spirit. They're a business just like any other.

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Watchtower.org on "Manipulation of Information" - Hypocrisy Alert

by skeeter1 in

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talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

the watchtower has sunk to a new depth of hypocrisy.

check out this bullshit.

Mad Sweeney

Not repeated in print but they're posted on the website at present.

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For you Website and/or Youtube folks

by Mad Sweeney in

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anyone working on an updated version of the "growing anointed partakers" topic?.

Mad Sweeney

Anyone working on an updated version of the "growing anointed partakers" topic?

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Who is the Eighth King? From where does he spring?

by wannabe in

beginning with the words of the apostle john, as delivered to him, by the christ, we find these words, concerning this eighth king: as follows:.

daniel 7: 1-7,17 - revelation 13:1,2 - "as for the ten horns, they do not as yet have a kingdom!

Mad Sweeney

What I want to know is how he got such a long post to work without it being cut off!!!

My opinion on the topic is this: The ENTIRE "Last Days" is 42 months long. We're not in it yet. Keep awake. Show love before, during, and after it happens. That is all.