i hope to make a very interesting post here, and informative.
i’m quite sure no one here has heard this content.
i would like to finally make known some heretofore undisclosed details concerning something that has affected probably everyone on this board to some degree.
Diogenesister - "...I think they simply don't want Witnesses seeing their hypocrisy, so they've taken to printing 'Nations'..."
Ten bucks says their lawyers have told 'em that the Org's tax exemption is approaching the chopping block, and they gotta quit rocking the fucking boat.
Gotta be tough when you're stuck with an outdated Cold-War-centric End-TImes script and no one left with the imagination or narrative chops to give it the page-one rewrite it so sorely needs. 
ah!
yes, that remark made by pilate after pilate had asked jesus wether he was a king.
( john 18:37-38 ).. how would you answer the question according to what we know from the bibles definition, and how the faithful and discreet slave have endeavored to give us spiritual food at the proper time?.
“ …What is truth? Baby, don’t ask me… don’t ask me… don’t know… “
after a conversation with hubby l started thinking about silly lyrics in songs , of which there are many .bang a gong by marc bolan is pretty daft , although apparently his lyrics are deep .
do you have any favourite daft lyrics?
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Anything by Bob Dylan.
this is not about stats, but "actual experiences" happening world wide in the organization.
there is about 156 comments of what some jws are seeing in their congregation.
feel free to read and come to your own conclusion on whether the watchtower organization is turning pimo but no one says anything in order to keep family relations.
Regular booster shots are almost always necessary to maintain any kind of ideology.
In the WTS, in-person group activities like regular attendance and ministry work were vital for that.
How they expect to maintain group cohesion and solidarity without them is a mystery to me.
Except maybe by dialling the rhetoric up to 11.
witnesses never watch r movies.
but they understand references to wood chippers and banjo music.. other than that the rating system is not worldwide .
I remember when I first realized how disingenuous the Org forbidding R-rated movies was, considering just how much graphic violence, horror, and sex the Bible actually contains*.
I firmly believe Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino are huge fans.
(*Right around the time I started reading to my kids, now that I think about it.)
well don't know if this page has tread for new years predictions or with date it starts.
so might as well start now.
my new year's prediction for watchtower would be a big big sell out of kingdom hall's.
"...there will not be any public editions of the Watchtower or Awake for several months...
...so hunker down in your bunkers basements, and wait for the NWO stormtroopers to come round-you-up-slash-persecute you, whilst the GB and a few select helpers fuck off to the Caymans are raptured away..."
...eventually.
We swear."
one of my jw family member had a big get together.
he invited a lot of his jw friends.
there was teenage kids, couples, singles.
re. asp59's post...
First I've ever heard of it.
i think the first thing to consider is that it takes a while for humans to wake up to the truth.
this is not just a jw thing.
around 1600 ad, galileo challenged the catholic church's long held view that the earth was the center of our universe.
Take any numbers the Org puts out with a Gibraltar-sized grain of salt.
i have a new article at http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/birthdays.php outlining why the watchtower stance against birthdays is wrong.
there have been a number of threads on jwn discussing this, and the article collates and summarises the points raised in these threads.
please feel free to point out any errors in grammar or logic.
What dropoffyourkeylee said.
It's been a really effective way of socially isolating JWs from non-members.
you might have seen my post a little while ago about how they were throwing around a new term, "jw news" and inserting it in articles.
well now they went ahead and made a logo for it.. .
oh brother 🤣 i wonder if this'll be part of the programming on jw studios' paid streaming service 😉.
"This just in...
...the Faithful Slave would like to (lovingly) remind you that we are deep, deep, deeeep in the Time of the End (TM), to remember to Listen, Obey, and Be Blessed, and to ignore all those apostate-driven lies about pedophiles, declining attendance, or mass real estate liquidations.
Or else.
In other news, stay tuned for a behind-the-scenes look at JesusVision, the new and exciting limited series, debuting eventually, exclusively on JW Broadcasting."
