what do you guys think....the topic seems to being on fashion lately.
some in the borg told me one time "of course, they are for real, they could be angels, demons".. .
I suspect that a big reason the predominantly US-centric parts of the world are more amenable to acknowledging the phenomena (after a half-century of knee-jerk dismissal and discrediting) is the declining influence of Evangelical Christianity on American political and national security policy.
Seriously.
billions of people around the world beleive in a god of some sort or other who exerts some power or influence to some degree or other in lifes affairs .. i don`t think there would be anywhere near that figure that would entertain the possability of extra terrestial life elsewhere in the universe.. and i find that curious .. the ancients didn`t know that their were other humans on other continents on this planet until they ventured out and found them .. we live somewhere in the milky way galaxy with millions of suns and planets that orbit them.. our galaxy is only one of trillions if not zillions of galaxys in the known universe.. look at the diversity of life on just this one planet earth ,what possabilitys could exist elsewhere ?
on alien worastronomers can use the hubble space telescope to view galaxies near the edge of the observable universe (the region of space from which light has had a chance to reach us within the last 13.77 billion years).
by examining a very tiny portion of the sky, counting up the number of visible galaxies in the universe in that specific region, and then multiplying that number to account for all the regions of the sky, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe.
Pretty sure there's been more UFO sightings than God sightings.
to be a witness you had to accept whatever spiritual food was being dished out.
even if it didn’t make any sense, we were expected to believe.
now that we are out of the cult, do you find yourself a person who doesn’t just accept the status quo?
are you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.
thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.
the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.
Like I keep saying...
...they know it's wrong... but believe it's true... at the same time.
Who'd of thought standards of "spirituality" fell under a checklist, huh?
i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.
i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.
anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.
hoser - "The reason they are building is that the end is so soon. With all the resurrected after Armageddon they will need these facilities for education work... That is their spin on it. I heard it at an assembly one time from a DO when that was still a thing..."
This.
Same reasoning they give for the shiny new compound in Warwick...
...the New System will be governed from there as the de facto planetary capital.
And that’s probably why. 😏
it just that the gb has a problem mixing biblical fact with goofy opinions.. but at least is isn't like the churces!.
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stan livedeath - "is 'truthmatters' the same person that was on here with several usernames recently?"
If he is, he'll be due for a JC if his local elder body finds out. 
That video pretty much confirms what I suspect...
...the Org leadership doesn't like long hair and bears because they often can make a man look more attractive.
And they don't want the rank-and-file to look too pretty.
watching in on my wife's zoom meeting last night, there was an item about discipline is love.
they played a 'caleb' animated cartoon and then the instructions were 'if possible, ask selected young children' several questions.. it seems however, that there are no children in my wife's current congregation so the questions were all answered by retired brothers and sisters.
the congregation mainly consists of elderly people (like us) and the few of childbearing age seem not interested in having children.
JW GoneBad - "Two things are certain. JW rank & file membership numbers will continue to drop & JW partakers' numbers will continue to climb... this outcome is the complete opposite of what the 8 clowns at the top of this cult hope for..."
They definitely dislike the latter, but the former?
I actually think they want to prune the membership down to a more manageable size (without actually looking like they want to, of course, because "growth=God's Blessing" has been burned so deeply into the Org's ideological DNA).
