when i was a jw, i relished explaining my beliefs and why we had the truth!
lol.
todays witness has no clue , in my opinion..
"This Good News of the website will be declared in all the inhabited earth..."
The decline began with the publishing of "Reasoning From the Scriptures".
When I was a pioneer in the 80s we began to be encouraged not to provide answers from the bible in our own words but to take out the reasoning book and read the answer. I never went along with that. I took pride in being able to deal with any objection directly from the bible.
I suspect the motivation was uniformity.
does any one think the wt is going to go out this way?i know its dark but i can see it going down that way but i dont see it being the way there would go down..
No. It's still a long way from that end of the cult spectrum.
this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.
1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.
6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.
I suspect the GB genuinely believe their own bullshit. I reckon they are stressed out trying to make sense of why everything is going wrong.
lots of good comments already about the content of saturday's agm broadcast.. i just thought i'd add my (trivial!
) comments about the magnificent 7:.
-- loesch - was he intentionally trying to be boring?
It was a mistake to let the masses see behind the curtain.
since the advent of the trolleys do the majority of jws still go door to door like we used to?.
do they still have meetings for field service on sat mornings and sun afternoons where most head off to the local territory while one or two go to do trolley work or has the importance of door to door work reduced?.
with the reduction of printing wts and awakes what will they offer at the doors?.
Interesting thanks. koncpetual99 it looks as if they still do as much door to door officially but not in reality.
Snugglebunny I'm going to have that tune in my head today!
maybe, they distributed your picture as an evil and dangerous apostate Cofty - Suavojr
I was talking to a JW at a cart in Edinburgh last week while his partner stayed back out the way. Another two JWs arrived to take over my wife overheard one of them saying to him "you shouldn't be talking to him, that's that apostate I told you about."
the modern history is full of deep, dark tragedies.
and, my intention, as i sat down to write of those tragedies for a fb page i look after for a macquarie university student society, was to tell the story of these very dark contemporary events.
but east asia history is complex and i think its helpful to try to have an overview of that history to understand what has happened in the recent past.
Thank you. Interesting stuff and great pics.
since the advent of the trolleys do the majority of jws still go door to door like we used to?.
do they still have meetings for field service on sat mornings and sun afternoons where most head off to the local territory while one or two go to do trolley work or has the importance of door to door work reduced?.
with the reduction of printing wts and awakes what will they offer at the doors?.
I often see 4 or even 6 JWs standing in the vicinity of a cart. Total waste of time!
Even when you go up and take a magazine off the trolley it's like none of them want to be the one who has to talk to anybody.
since the advent of the trolleys do the majority of jws still go door to door like we used to?.
do they still have meetings for field service on sat mornings and sun afternoons where most head off to the local territory while one or two go to do trolley work or has the importance of door to door work reduced?.
with the reduction of printing wts and awakes what will they offer at the doors?.
Since the advent of the trolleys do the majority of JWs still go door to door like we used to?
Do they still have meetings for field service on Sat mornings and Sun afternoons where most head off to the local territory while one or two go to do trolley work or has the importance of door to door work reduced?
With the reduction of printing WTs and Awakes what will they offer at the doors?
this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.
1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.
6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.
I am all in with wt - Fishy
No you are not.
when discussing the watchtowers financial problems, i've generally been of the opinion that they probably are not in a real financial crisis.
i've come to believe that money may be something of an issue, but its wrapped up in a much larger problem.
this came to me this morning when reading about the annual meeting.. i think the society's leadership is just plain out of ideas.
JeffT I agree. They really have nothing more to say.
Russell said in his will that no more books were ever to be published after his death but that the Watchtower should continue to be published by committee until the imminent end.
Nobody foresaw having to say the same things over and over again for more than a century.
