hoser - "Do these relatives actually believe it’s the truth or are they stuck in a jw social stratification prison?"
Yes.
They actually believe it’s the truth...
...because they're stuck in a JW social stratification prison.
i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.
i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.
they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.
hoser - "Do these relatives actually believe it’s the truth or are they stuck in a jw social stratification prison?"
Yes.
They actually believe it’s the truth...
...because they're stuck in a JW social stratification prison.
Magic Eight-Ball?
so i have not been to a kh for 26 years.
if i wanted to dissociate what would be the procedure and is there any gain in doing it so long after i left?.
Yeah, it's not enough to let you quietly leave; they wanna kick you in the ass on your way out.
a watchtower brooklyn real-estate watch list.
eye on real estate: what's for sale and what isn't (yet) by the jehovah's witnesses.. https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/11/09/a-watchtower-brooklyn-real-estate-watch-list/.
Wouldn't it be a kick if the buyers built a wastewater treatment plant on the site?
if you are a jw you think god is punishing watchtower?
after watchtower got banned in russia and buildings seized, lot's jws said russia would be punished.
org kept losing in court with child abuse cases.
DesirousOfChainge - "If the favorable court cases in the 1940's and 1950's were indicative of divine blessing, what else can all of these losses indicate but that WTS/JW's have lost God's blessing and He is using the Nations to discipline them?"
Yeah, didn't God let "Satan's World" bitch-slap his "chosen nation" of Isreal when they got out of line and wouldn't straighten up?
Retirement, eventually.
if you are a jw you think god is punishing watchtower?
after watchtower got banned in russia and buildings seized, lot's jws said russia would be punished.
org kept losing in court with child abuse cases.
hoser - "I see the watchtower corporation as a rudderless, captainless vessel steaming at full power in an ocean full of icebergs."
Or a fucking train wreck in slow motion.
Sure is interesting to watch, though.
what “the abomination that causes desolation” mentioned in mathew 24:15 means could be understood only by close followers of jesus because it was part of his personal discussion with them.
by stopping to greet those whom they consider as “their enemies” jws are identifying themselves as “pagans,” according to jesus.
(mathew 5:43-48) thus they cannot correctly understand what the abomination that causes desolation” that would appear as part of signs of “last days.”.
"...Abominations... desolations... interpretations... that's all you're gonna find down here!"
so i have not been to a kh for 26 years.
if i wanted to dissociate what would be the procedure and is there any gain in doing it so long after i left?.
Balaamsass2 - “If no one is bothering you, why wake a sleeping dog?”
To loyalists in leadership positions, inactives are a potential threat.
They need to suss out potential “apostates” and DF them, so that the rest of the rank-and-file don’t talk to them and find out why they’re inactive.
Procrastinate? 😁