active believer...still attend meetings, go out in field service, believe it's ''the truth''.
active non-believer... go to meetings and field service to please family... living a double life .
inactive believer...don't attend meetings but believe it's the truth, one day might go back to kingdom hall.
I doubt if you'll hear from any who are #1.
Can I add a #6?
6. Very content P.I.M.O. Very low hour publisher; believer in God. I'm a liability to this cult; my congregation would be better off without me; rarely attend zoom meetings...when I do attend I will sometimes turn camera on just to show full nicely trimmed beard; absolutely refuse repeated invitations to meet with meathead elders. You might ask: Why am I still in? Deep family ties & shunning threat!
someone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
It sounds like to me that the Awake was put to sleep...as in euthanized!🤣🤣🤣
someone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
Wow!...The Awake magazine has apparently gone by way of Sears And Roebuck Department Stores and Montgomery Ward Department Stores...finally!
Without so much as an announcement the WTBTS Society has buried one of its landmark publications...The Awake...is this true???
good to see you again!
much discussion now about the fallout that is coming due to impacts of the pandemic combined with the long-term downward spiral of jw.org.
i am active as a pimo and my wife is pimi....much of our personal conversation and conversation with others in jw land focuses on how things will play out for jw.org in the next 12-24 months.
It's a given that WT has backed itself into a corner with its hardliner, hardcore cult practices & behavior over the past many years...& this pandemic has not helped in any way. The amount of JW youth who are online stumbling across YouTube channels created by other XJW youth is getting increasingly worse for WT to defend against. Add to this the high number of JWs in their 20s, 30s & 40s who also are frequenting XJW online sites & getting a crash course into the dark side of their own religion is very damaging to the growth and advancement of this organization.
So yah...WT not only has to...but will need to make some drastic changes to maintain acceptance just by its current members.
I don't know, from what I see WT overdosed on false prophecies and abuse coverups, and then cry religious persecution when called out on it.
Gawd-damn right neat blue dog!
Wasn't it the ole fart Uncle Rutherford who said that "religion is a snare and a racket"...little did he know how true that is of the cult he helped create!
well guess what!
they are using whiteboard animations!😳.
The long-dead old-timers' reaction to what is going on today in JW land:
"No...wait...whaaaat! You're telling me Jehovah’s Witnesses now use a Toolbox instead of Magazine bags when preaching door to door? And they now use cartoon characters (Caleb & Sophia, etc) in their demonstrations? And they've replaced God's hard bound Bible with electronic devices and our beloved Kingdom Halls are now becoming Churches...I don't believe it...never!"
Believe it!!!
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let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.
...there's got to be somewhere in the U.S., U.K. or else where in the world where a once dedicated Kingdom Hall is now being used as a brothel...cathouse...whorehouse!
Inquiring minds want to know!🤣
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let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.
That op image of how a previous Kingdom Hall is now being used by a nemesis of WT/JWs is very telling. There have been too many other sales of KHs to other religious groups...sales of this sort are not going to age very well.
How does a KH when 1st built get dedicated to 'Jehovah' & then one day end up in the hands of the arch enemy Satan. I've also heard of Assembly Halls that were dedicated to 'Jehovah' then later sold to mega churches.
I guess WT can give a rat's ass how 'Jehovah' feels about how the Faithful Steward is handling the Lord's belongings.🤣🤣🤣
so sam rolex had this months talk on jw cult broadcasting.
my question to sam rolex is why not sell your rolex and give it to the cult?
how about muppet lett, why not sell your rental property in ga and give it to the cult?
Whatever happened to the thought, idea and principle of the 'widow's mite'?
Is it possible that 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 of the JW rank and file who Sammy is belly-aching about are giving all they can give and that the Special Pioneers, Regular Pioneers, Auxiliary Pioneers & Bethelites are all giving out of their surplus!
Give the low hour publisher a damn break!
Sammy should be focusing on the very low productivity of the high-hour ones who WT labels as 'Exemplary'!
whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?
do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?
will there be a mass selling of halls?
Yes indeed pistolpete...the world wide web has in effect been a two edged sword...especially for the JW organization...the internet has resulted in both favorable & unfavorable consequences. Unfortunately for the WT the web ain't going anywhere...and the problems will only intensify and worsen for this cult...Yay!
