Posts by hoser

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The Holy Spirit made a mistake in selling off KHalls ?

by Splash in

a couple of years ago the wt began their program of selling off dedicated kingdom halls and consolidating congregations into fewer halls.. had they kept these halls, more sparsely occupied as they were, they could by now be bringing everyone back while respecting the distancing laws.. jw’s love to find reasons how jehovah foresaw something and guided them, but it never works the other way when they make a decision that later on turns out to have been a bad idea..

hoser

3rd generation businesses fail at a rate of 90%. This is where the jws are at now. Most companies gave up on unprofitable door to door sales in the 1970’s but the jws continued until 2020. Businesses that rely on a bricks and mortar presence are also on the way out. The watchtower is so big and has such an ineffective bureaucracy that they can’t react fast enough to market signals. One of our elders is an HVAC tech and had to get permission from a committee to fix the broken furnace in the Kingdom Hall.

Kodak

Eatons

Sears

Blockbuster

They along with the watchtower failed to adapt quickly enough to changing times

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

hoser

Stopping door to door might work in their favour. Let’s face it. No one under the age of 50 really wanted to do it anyway. The zealous old timers are nearing the end of their lives. Reporting hours was a game of creative accounting and because of privacy laws it is now illegal to keep record of not at homes and return visits. The amount of hours of door to door to make a convert is staggering. It is an outdated sales tactic that is inefficient. Without door to door and in person meetings at the Kingdom Hall it is so much easier to be a jw. With a few tweaks on policies they can retain more of the born in witnesses and grow or at least maintain membership that way.

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Jehovah's Witnesses are a breakaway

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

let me follow the trial.

in 1931 rutherford started jehovah's witnesses.

be before that.. bible student and they merged before 1917 with russelites and they merge with adventists, and then miller in 1844.before that be disperse into baptist and other denominations.

hoser

The franchise business model is what led to the Jws success. Go to any McDonald’s restaurant in the world and the Big Mac is consistently the same hamburger. Go to any Kingdom Hall and the watchtower study is the same world wide.

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The Craziness of JW's.

by Overrated in

jw
friends

my dad and i would work on different "pioneers" vehicles in our kingdumb hell.

and to nuts and bolts they where real "hoopties" anytime ready for the crusher.

both my dad and i would work with our skills to keep their cars running since they don't have a real job to get a real working car.

hoser

I helped out pioneers who would ask for my money out of one side of their mouth while saying I was spirituality weak out of the other side. Talk about craziness. I just don’t help anymore. Time to look after me. Get a real job or find some other sucker to mooch off of.

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Just invited to a zoom memorial.

by Overrated in

jw
friends

walked away from the trooth years ago(over 20) my older sister sends me an invite to the memorial via zoom.

i have no interest in jwism at all.

should i ignore or respond?.

hoser

Should you respond to a used car salesman? Enjoy your jalopy!

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Memorial Prep question

by ExCircuitOverseer in

so are individual witnesses being told to prepare bread and have wine on hand for the zoom memorial?

are they saying it’s “vital” or is it just a “suggestion?” .

hoser

It is virtue signalling. Making an external appearance of spirituality. It is the same as wearing a convention badge to the zoom meeting last summer to be seen by others. It is the same as having a visible share in the ministry when we used to go door to door.

This religion is a joke. If they could just see themselves from the outside they would realize how shallow and superficial they really are. Jehovah’s witnesses wouldn’t know spirituality if it hit them in the side of the head.

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Suggested Songs for this year's Memorial

by Vanderhoven7 in

here is a memorial-worthy song...at least in my books.

got any other suggestions?.

https://youtu.be/5fa58v6lrto.

hoser

My generation by the Who

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Report Card : How’s President Biden Doing?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i give him an f for falling down on the job..

hoser

Socialism doesn’t necessarily help the poor.

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the gaping hole in this week's weak wt study.

by waton in

for pimi pimo persons: give us one text that says those aspiring to everlasting life should not partake of the bread and wine.

in the article, the whole proposition of refusing the emblems is based on the personal experience of one brother in the 1930s.!

all jws partook.

hoser

In the latest? jw.borg video Lett used some scripture to show that anointing can happen many years after baptism. So a person with the earthly hope can at any time proclaim themselves anointed and be appointed to the governing body. I’m not sure if this is noo light but it is a convenient way to keep the sham alive.

Notice how many new governing body members come from outside headquarters? I did. A big fat Zero. They are all chosen from the inner party. Being anointed is a job requirement so they have a sip of wine on memorial night to keep their job

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When You Were A Witness Did You Believe Everything Taught?

by minimus in

jw
friends

obviously at some point you stopped believing the witnesses had the truth or else you wouldn’t be here.

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but for the most part, were you a true believer or were you typically a rebel or a doubter?

hoser

Yes, I believed it all and berated myself for not being able to live up to the standard the watchtower corporation expected.