years ago, when i was studying with the witnesses, my bible studty conductor's sister in ohio died.
of cancer as i recall.
so he flew back to ohio ( from san diego ) to be with his family .
Well, if some of you remember the recent Elders instruction video...the brothers tell this sister who lost her husband that it has been almost a year now and she should get over it. So, although shocking, such loss of natural affection comes straight from "mother". What a sad CULT!
Thanks for sharing your stories...Wow, just wow
http://bayfiles.net/file/1jpu5/qhxxxl/w_e20141115.pdf.
select "premium download".
(thanks breakfast of champions).
Interesting how it is now stay close to the congregation...while up to a few years ago it was stay close to your bookstudy group. With the end so near, they dropped the bookstudy due to fuel prices.
did anyone catch this quote?
"over seven and a half million witnesses of jehovah really have found him and they truly love him.".
why are they no longer touting "nearly 8 million" witnesses?
Actually after giving it some thought, this is probably a smart move.
Surely some dubs in each congregation are aware that they have passed the 8M mark...And surely in many congregations at least one will answer up on how the work is being speeded up by big-J, along the lines of this: "As you can see in the paragraph, at the time the FDS was preparing this article we were only 7.5M publishers. At the Regional Convention, we now heard that we have more than 8M brothers and sisters serving Jehovah. Here we can see how close Armageddon must be; Isn't it great to have the truth."
did anyone catch this quote?
"over seven and a half million witnesses of jehovah really have found him and they truly love him.".
why are they no longer touting "nearly 8 million" witnesses?
Great catch!!! (Page 13, Paragraph 5 of the June 15, 2014 WT)
Normally "nearly 8 million" is used. Perhaps the numbers are under pressure.
"I don't want to believe. I want to know." - Carl Sagan
this ticks me off!
last sundays watchtower talked about how organised the heavens are.
how it works so acuratley.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance , it is the illusion of knowledge.” - Stephen Hawking
recently a jw friend that my wife & i knew 3 years ago added me on facebook, after i accepted the request she invited me to a dinner that her and her husband are holding next month.. i imagined that she was unaware of our apostasy, so i declined the invitation on the basis of not wanting to ruin her dinner after the rest of her guests fled at our presence.. i'm never sure how old friends will react when i tell them that i'm no longer a jw.. usually their response is "..... permanent-silence......".
her response went something like this, " we are all out!
everyone that is coming is out we all look forward to seeing you guys so much" it turns out that there will be 6 people at the dinner all friends of ours from a congregation that we attended a few years back.. they have all left the organization recently.. pretty crazy experience..
Wow - thanks for sharing! Great news!
this weekend we visited the convention.
my findings:.
- no jw.org marketing here at this moment.
My aging JW-mother attended the convention recently and told me (her apostate son) that she was not impressed. No real new publications, everything electronic, which she can't comprehend. She really came back exhausted and not refreshed. Sad - if she was younger I would try to wake her up.
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This seems to be another religion than the one I grew up in...
the annual meeting of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will be in october 2014.. .. in november 2013, just after the last one they published this now famous statement in the 15th of november 2013 watchtower page 16 paragraph 17 says:.
"at that time, the lifesaving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.
all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.".
144000 to become symbolic. 2014 to pass with nothing happening. More need for money.
