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  Hailstone message AND everyone will be saved? Questions

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve not been paying close attention to watchtower developments, but talking to a jw yesterday it occurred to me the society (yes, still use that term - old school) have been sending out mixed messages in recent years.

  from what i gather, a few years ago the gb announced that during the great tribulation jws would be required to preach a “hailstone message of judgement” which involved telling people it was too late for them to repent and they were definitely going to be destroyed.

  there were hints that this could be very soon, “any day now” preaching could stop and the hailstone message come in, kind of thing.

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  Mikejw - “…that can’t be true because they are openly contradicting themselves…”

  Bitch, please.

  When’s that ever stopped ‘em?

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  Again, More confusion about the direction of the Watchtower Society

  by Truth and Justice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi friends, i have not been on this board in awhile, and i would like to get some thoughts from some of you.

  i have noticed a change within my 4 siblings in approximately the last year and a half to 2 years regarding their communication with my mother and i. they have either phoned us, texted, emailed, or written a letter or card to us.

  the conversation has been good, and on any topic that comes to mind.

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  DesirousOfChange - “…Their conclusion was that if WT didn't have the balls to take a stand before the Court, then they would no longer take the hard line against their DF kids…”

  Nice, good for them.

  Long gone are the days of the Walsh trial…

  …say what you will about Hayden Covington and Fred Franz, but at least they had the spine to own that shit.
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  Hailstone message AND everyone will be saved? Questions

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve not been paying close attention to watchtower developments, but talking to a jw yesterday it occurred to me the society (yes, still use that term - old school) have been sending out mixed messages in recent years.

  from what i gather, a few years ago the gb announced that during the great tribulation jws would be required to preach a “hailstone message of judgement” which involved telling people it was too late for them to repent and they were definitely going to be destroyed.

  there were hints that this could be very soon, “any day now” preaching could stop and the hailstone message come in, kind of thing.

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  Vidiot

  Maybe they phrased it the way they did on purpose to leave enough wiggle room for either possibility.

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  Again, More confusion about the direction of the Watchtower Society

  by Truth and Justice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi friends, i have not been on this board in awhile, and i would like to get some thoughts from some of you.

  i have noticed a change within my 4 siblings in approximately the last year and a half to 2 years regarding their communication with my mother and i. they have either phoned us, texted, emailed, or written a letter or card to us.

  the conversation has been good, and on any topic that comes to mind.

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  Vidiot

  I think there’s a number of other factors in play, too.

  The threat of DFing doesn’t seem to carry the weight it once did…
  

  …it’s harder and harder to keep from asking oneself “if they’re wrong about this, that, and the other thing, what else are they wrong about?”…

  …and a hardline stance can never last long-term… it’s just too fucking exhausting for regular people to maintain it.
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  Attended the KH recently and found it to be thoroughly therapeutic.

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i had to attend a family event recently which involved attending the kh.

  before i went i had it in my mind this was going to be a different experience.

  tbh i’ve had an interest in super hero socks.

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  joe134cd - “…The first song on the playlist was from ‘system of the down”. Which shocked me. I observed another brother there on the dance floor looking some what intoxicated…”

  
  
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  NPCs at the Kingdom Hall

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in case you're unfamiliar with the acronym, an npc is a "non playable character" in a game.

  typically, they are kind of a placeholder that do set things rather than being controlled by another player or any kind of ai to vary what they do.

  they just follow a script.

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  Funny thing about NPCs (IRL or video games)…

  …you know they’re there…

  …but good luck remembering anything about ‘em.

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  Hailstone message AND everyone will be saved? Questions

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve not been paying close attention to watchtower developments, but talking to a jw yesterday it occurred to me the society (yes, still use that term - old school) have been sending out mixed messages in recent years.

  from what i gather, a few years ago the gb announced that during the great tribulation jws would be required to preach a “hailstone message of judgement” which involved telling people it was too late for them to repent and they were definitely going to be destroyed.

  there were hints that this could be very soon, “any day now” preaching could stop and the hailstone message come in, kind of thing.

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  Yup.

  There’s a difference between objective critical analysis and apologetics.

  Learning how to differentiate between the two is a useful skill for XJWs.
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  Barbara Anderson's important interview with Aussie activist Steven Unthank on Six Screens Mar. 2nd

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  Why SixScreens / Rick Fearon?
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  Radical shake up

  by Mikejw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  imagine if all the governing body resigned and a new set of brothers came in and said we are very very sorry for all those who have been disfellowshipped and disassociated over the years.

  we know many mistakes have been made.

  we are really genuinely sorry to all those who have been hurt and especially those who have died and been hurt by these mistakes.

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  Hailstone message AND everyone will be saved? Questions

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve not been paying close attention to watchtower developments, but talking to a jw yesterday it occurred to me the society (yes, still use that term - old school) have been sending out mixed messages in recent years.

  from what i gather, a few years ago the gb announced that during the great tribulation jws would be required to preach a “hailstone message of judgement” which involved telling people it was too late for them to repent and they were definitely going to be destroyed.

  there were hints that this could be very soon, “any day now” preaching could stop and the hailstone message come in, kind of thing.

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  Vidiot

  It’s funny…

  …back in the 2000s and 2010s, there were suggestions in the literature that even some dutiful JWs might not make it through.

  Looking back, that was when I first started asking myself “well, where TF’s the incentive to even be a JW, then?”