well,according to my mother,lots of bible studies and newly interested ones because of the promotion of the website.
it is just growing,lol.. i have no clue.
it's funny their spin on things.
The only real number IMHO that matter are the baptisms, which tell us how many actually dedicate their life to this silly little cult.
Unfortunately those only come out once a year so its kinda like watching paint dry.
Everything else is subject to inflation and speculation, as the OP's experience shows.
friends.. i'm sure you will all be encouraged by this nice story related to me by a brother in my old congregation.
4 year old "jana" (not her real name), is from a witness family in a middle sized city.
she has faced many challenges in her pre-school class.
4 year old "Jana" (not her real name), is from a witness family in a middle sized city.
Was her real name "andre'?
so it's been about 10 years since i have faded out and have stopped believing in the jw teachings.
since then, i have accepted jesus and have experienced an amazing tranformation in my life and have been freed from the jw prison mentally and spiritually.
a more detailed thread about my journey is here if you are interested.. anyways, my jw family lives in another state so they are unaware that i am no longer "in the truth" since i have not told them.
Never say you are the A-word to anyone who you want to continue to communicate with, the JWs have loaded the language with that term.
There are other ways to simply let them know you agree to disagree with them.
i cannot wrap my mind around the fact that there is jw tv.
being a born in and living most of my life hearing how tv evangelism is wrong and lazy preaching yet seeing this unfold solidifies this religion as a cult!.
i remember back when i began my fade a few years ago i told my brother during an argument how this religion is just like any other religion in that its bull.
Yeah its a joke to call it a TV channel. Its just more content for the fully brainwashed rank and file JW.
The world at large knows nothing of this silly little cult.
i've heard about his bombastic, overly patronising, cartoon-ish delivery before, but i'd never actually seen it...until now.
and i should add, this religion bears little to no relation to the one i left 6 years ago.. .
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And, I also, never heard the names of the GB back in the good old days. Didn't know their names, rarely heard anyone speak of them.
Now they are mentioned in every meeting, in almost every prayer. I don't get it.
Its idolatry. They are the modern day Golden Calf. Too many years of waiting for Jesus to do the job and the troops are restless, thus they are falling all over themselves to worship the Governing Body.
so i had to see what the hubbub was about.
pointed my browser to the tv site and started watching the streaming video of the prodigal son.. here's my review:.
first, not a lot of dialogue.
Mmmmm....Vanna White, but I digress.
Yeah, that video sucks. Sucks big time. Did I mention that it sucks?
who thought in the early months of 2012 that such a rebranding would take place in only a matter of 24 months?.
they managed to go from an antique looking and boring website (watchtower.org) with hardly any attractive content to go to a fresh looking new website with stuff for everyone, families, children, teenagers.. movies, and short videos about almost everything and new ones added every month.
cartoons, animation video's , interviews, picture activities all kind of projects, many audio files like dramatic bible readings, dramas and music, online research tools, new brochures for kids (off and online) etc.
Conclusion here on this forum reside a bunch of amateurs, the pro's are in Brooklyn, Patterson , Wallkill and soon Warwick
They are ten steps ahead
ROFLMAO! The douche bags that run this religion got their asses handed to them for the first 17 years of the internet's existence (counting from 1995 to 2012). Basically they stuck their scraggly necks in the sand and prayed for Jehoopla to remove the evil interwebs from the earth. Finally the old timers die off and they decide to pull their collective head out of ass and enter the 21st century.
Too late. You can't play catch up with something that you cannot censor. Sure the little cult will sputter on for another century, but the glory days are long, long gone.
I think that if most JWs knew these teachings, they would bail out of WT!
I never knew that the Bible Students continued on for the first 35 years of my life as a JW. That being said, once I started reviewing their teachings, I found them to be just as nutty as JWs. I think 99.9% of JWs would view them as apostates that splintered from the WTBTS, even though it is the other way around.
if so, its amazing that jah's chariot moves slower then satan's and i think we could use this argument to maybe get people thinking.
thoughts.
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Examples?
Most of the churches are liberalizing actual bible doctrine, something JWs will never go along with (gay marriage, female clergy). JW changes are primarily blowing smoke up the collective ass of the Rank and File with the purpose of making them think there is progress, when its just change for legal or monetary reasons alone.
here's my prediction; the gov body giving regular talks will come across as crazy ass idiots.
this will strengthen the opposition and give something to refer too that is concrete evidence of crazy town in the jw headquarters.
there will be screen captures and clips that will be used all the time on youtube accounts to show the ttatt.
It will be watered down Public WT like content.
They don't have the balls of Chuck Russell or even Rutherfraud. They go toe-to-to with nobody in the "world", only mushy platitudes will come out of the online channel.
The nasty stuff comes via the WT study, conventions, and CO talks - and it will stay that way.
