our insightful posters on this site were able to predict the new "spirit directed" generation teachings and fds teaching even years in advance.
what bomb do you thing will be dropped this year?
i know it will be big.
If any bomb is dropped, it will be at the AGM early October. My best guess would be one of the following:
- The DC will be discontinued and replaced with the AGM (also one day, max 2)
- The 144k will become a symbolic number rather than literal (but they may push this change a few years out)
- Public Magazines become only available on-line (Tracts now counted as placements)
Look at whatever teaching are not sustainable or whatever costs can be cut and you will have their changes.
b.o.r.i.n.g.. same ol' stuff.
highlights:.
- reading the bible "must be more than an intellectual experience".
"They are LAZY"?!?!?!?!?
One thing I am not and most active "apostates" and that is lazy. I am far more knowledgeable about and up-to-date on JW teachings that probably 999 out of the 1000 witnesses. I could debate any JW with a seconds notice.
we have had a letter read the last 2 meetings to all congs attenidng the detroit dc's... seems people are not going, or not booking their hotels.
and the society is pissed!
they are imploring every one to not wait for a new list with new hotels, it is not happening.
I think many are looking online for good hotel rates (e.g. Booking.com) and see that they can get better and closer hotels for a better rate than the WTBTS offers. In this case, Detroit being one of the most violent dangereous cities will not attract either.
If the DCs no longer create the expected Cash, they too will soon be history.
this may have been discussed, but i just recently was told that a km this past year stated that inactive ones are now to be treated as if they are df'd.
is this so?
cynisister.
Not a written rule...but my wife and I faded six years ago after having been in respectively 20 and 40 years. How many active JWs still have any contact with us...indeed ZERO.
i have never seen an episode but my wife loves the show.
we just heard today that our 18 yr. old granddaughter will be an extra in an episode filming now.
guess i'll have to watch it.
Yes, Scully...We had the same thoughts when watching it.
recently attended a sad.. bethel speaker was gushing about the wt's embrace of new technology, in the part of his talk warning about "apostate" web sites.. a loose summary of his comments:.
"and the brothers at headquarters have made it very safe for you to go to our website.
in fact, the brothers talked to the folks at google, and they made a special arrangement so that when you type in 'j w period' into the google search engine, it automatically shows you the jw.org website.
I tried typing jw. in google and while I was typing JWSURVEY showed up on page one and when I hit enter JWFACTS was on page one. Not too smart a move to share that with the dubs, unless he wants them to find this.
i only ask because i hardly ever see them out on the ministry.
it is a very rare sighting to spot them actively engaged in the house to house ministry.
or out on the street work, in the marketplace, etc.. the other reason i ask is because they are constantly pictured as being on the preaching work.
I only get an annual "memorial tract drop-off" visit. I do not see them calling on my neighbors either the rest of the year. They are more than welcome to a respectful debate over a good coffee.
email that's being sent around.
will yet praise thee more and more.- (ps.
1940 "my heart shall rejoice in the salvation."-(ps.
1969 "Lift your heads up, because your deliverance is getting near." - Luke 21:28
This was the yeartext when we first started attending meetings - I was still a young kid. Now 45 years later deliverance has not yet arrived...CULT
pixel's boe letter made me think of this.
i have been out since january 2006. here are the ones i can think of:.
1. deletion of cong.
Add in 2015:No more 2-day Circuit Assemblies
pixel's boe letter made me think of this.
i have been out since january 2006. here are the ones i can think of:.
1. deletion of cong.
Interesting to see is how much the organization and its teachings have changed in the past five years:
Book study has been dropped
Auxiliary Pioneer hours dropped to 30 hours
Both parents can now count four hours each month for family study (was only one of the two)
The magazines have been reduced from 32 to 16 pages
A first JW store has been opened and many have book stands where they can just sit and wait
Brooklyn has been sold off (for over $1B)
Branch offices have been merged and many closed down and sold off (42 closed so far)
The WTBTS is dealing with a number of lawsuits for sexual abuse of children and currently in appeal for one that may set them back for more than $20M
New Elders book, with new DF offences (Brazen Conduct) and a harder stance towards DFed ones (no rides to the meeting)
Generation teaching has been changed (now overlapping)
1919 has been dropped
Importance of Russell has been minimized
Faithful and discrete slave is now the Governing Body, instead of the remnant of the 144k
Two Governing Body members died and one new one has been appointed
The remnant has increased so significantly (2013: 13204), that partakers are now referred to as ‘mentally imbalanced’ and is no longer used as a sign on how near the end must be
No apologies have been given and ‘apostates’ are now referred to as ‘mentally diseased’, helpers of Satan, sitting at the table with demons – treated less than human
Pressure not to follow higher education continues
Pressure not to associate with DFed persons, including family members and minor children continues and appears to increase. The destruction of families continues
Refusal of Blood still continues to cost many persons, including Children, their lives
Propaganda videos (Caleb and Sparlock) are now produced for young Children
Articles on displaying Christ-like behavior and cultivating the fruitage of the spirit remain absent
The literature still continues to focus on the letter of the law that on the spirit of it and therefore continues to be a Pharisee organization – an iron fist in a velvet glove
