Posts by Vidiot

dropoffyourkeylee - “ To which I would add that, in my opinion, Rutherford's intent at the time was to drive a wedge between the WT adherents and the Bible Student movements. The Bible Student movements have diminished to the point most people are hardly aware of them, but during Rutherford's time, about 75% of the religion left the WT and most of them joined in with the various Bible Student associations. A lot of JW families were split, and Rutherford couldn't have his JWs associating with their family at birthdays and other holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.”

Nice catch.

I knew it about socially isolating members from non-members, but those particulars hadn’t actually occurred to me.

God, what a vindictive prick that guy was.

I’ve long felt that if there’s any true justice to the universe, he and Jaracz are cellmates in Hell.

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Toasting

by hoser in

jw
friends

when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

Vidiot

r51785 - “I think what we have been seeing is a walking back of the religion that Judge Rutherford created.”

Or, at the very least, what Ted Jaracz turned it into.

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Toasting

by hoser in

jw
friends

when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

Vidiot

hoser - “I think wind chimes are allowed now”

Yeah, like piñatas, and (to a lesser degree, tattoos).

Like I’ve said before, go back far enough and pretty much everything has “pagan”/“false religious” origins.

Wedding rings…

…baptism…

…the days of the fucking week… 🤨

79

Toasting

by hoser in

jw
friends

when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

Vidiot

hoser - “After being ostracized for decades by not celebrating, all of the social and financial benefits they lost out on by being different than the crowd, they may become bitter towards the organization.”

This.

By that logic, field service checkboxes, beards, and toasting were beta-tests to see how the rank-and-file would respond to bigger things like birthdays…

…and the constant, dialed-up-to-eleven rhetoric regarding the GB’s authority is intended to mitigate any of that bitterness, and compel members to stay the course.

Or am I overthinking it?

79

Toasting

by hoser in

jw
friends

when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

Vidiot

Damn, that combover is epic.

😏

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Toasting

by hoser in

jw
friends

when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

Vidiot

Beards and neckties on guys, trousers on girls, and now toasting are optional, now…

…witnessing is just parking it next to a cart, saying “hi” to randos, pointing to a website, and checking a box, now…

…attendance is just Zooming in and tuning out, now.

…

I think I know what’s going on.

The GB is “wisely and magnanimously” lifting all these “burdens” from the rank-and-file’s shoulders (whilst plastering their names and faces on everything)…

…they want to be viewed as heroes to the rank and file.

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Armageddon 50th Anniversary

by apostrate in

well, it's been 50 years since armageddon occurred.. seems to me that things haven't really changed all that much.

is it just me or does anyone else seem to think that things have actually got worse??

?.

Vidiot

budbayview - “…Why did Satan go rouge?”

I know, right?

Seems strange that the Prince of Darkness would need any kind of cosmetics, really.

😏

79

Toasting

by hoser in

jw
friends

when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

Vidiot

Different for the sake of different.

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Few JW leader have children

by slimboyfat in

it’s been discussed before that few jw leaders, past and present, have had children.

this is in contrast with other groups, such as the mormons, whose leaders have had a lot of children.

i wonder if this has impacted jw growth.

Vidiot

It’s funny.

They used criticize secular society about its supposed public promotion of sexuality, and the corrupting impact it would almost certainly have on young people…

…yet at this point, “The World” arguably smacks you harder than the Org if you start publicly discussing sexual content that’s inappropriate for young people.

😅