they know many people are fearful and feeling vulnerable due to world events.. but something i’ve always considered is how will they be better off by becoming a jw.
they can be a jw, but the world events still are happening causing everyone anxiety.
and no, jws are not immune from this, jws are more anxious and paranoid as ever right now.
BourneIdentity - "Do any of you see what strong benefits someone gains by becoming one?"
Despite what they say, being an active, obedient JW isn't really all that enjoyable... and on some level, the leadership knows it.
At this point, the only real incentive left is being affiliated with "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization".
Why else do you think virtually every decision the Org makes has the ultimate goal of maintaining that fiction?
what's the difference?
a millionaire, a billionaire, and a trillionaire recognize each other outside an attorney’s office.
chat reveals each of them just signed off on their last will and testament.millionaire: “i feel really good about what i did here today.
Too many illions.
I have a headache.
just an odd thought i guess.
i saw a large snake in the back of my house the other day and it went on its merry way.
i just asked myself, what if the snake turned around and wanted to have a philosophical discussion on life, the universe or the origin of creation and then began to ask me questions?
RubaDub - "How would you react if a snake started talking to you?"
Buy an English/Parseltongue dictionary. 
i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.
i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.
my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.
tiki - "Perhaps the blind are leading the blind..."
Close.
Ray Franz once quoted another Bethelite describing WT higher-ups as "followers leading followers".
i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.
i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.
my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.
Balaamsass2 - "She jumped up like she had seen a ghost and said: 'Don't read that old crap! It will knock you out of the truth!!!!!'..."
Sounds like a refreshing moment of (accidental) honesty.
I'd have felt an almost overwhelming urge to reply (at the very least), "well, why the fuck do you keep it???"
i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.
i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.
my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.
Giordano - "I've always thought that the WTBT Society was a lot closer to being akin to Amway then the Bible."
Holy shit, yes.
I had a "worldy" co-worker try and induct me into Amway back in the day (I was still an active JW at the time), and I found the parallels downright creepy.
i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.
i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.
my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.
fastJehu - "When I expressed my first doubts to my mother, she said to me, 'You read too much old literature'..."
I had the odd acquaintance (they never became actual friends) who'd say to me "you think too much".
i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.
i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.
my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.
Ding - "I asked, 'When do WT publications stop being the truth and turn into garbage and apostate literature?'...He stormed out of my living room."
Reminds me of a video on YouTube I once saw about a guy showing folks on the street certain passages in the Koran than they found offensive, with one fellow in particular espousing the Bible as therefore being inherently superior...
...only for the first guy to pull off the dust jacket and reveal that he was actually reading from the Bible.
And the Biblical loyalist turned and stormed off down the street in a huff.
Funny thing about assholes that we sometimes forget...
...you can give them enough toilet paper, but eventually they'll shit on themselves.
i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.
i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.
my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.
IWant2Leave - "...Old literature/light is right up there with apostate literature."
IMO, you're even more right then you know.
Hell, as far as the Org is concerned, anything that criticizes the the Society, contradicts "current light", or refutes WT ideology may as well be be "apostate"...
...even stuff that never had a WT connection in the first place.
The only reason they haven't fully set it in stone is that it would probably limit recruitment too much, and "growth=God's blessing" is still too strongly embedded in the JW worldview.
cities across america have been pillaged and destroyed these last few days.
a white policeman has been charged with murder of a black man.
protests have been organized across major us cities and horrible riots have occurred.
I've heard that some organized protests are often infiltrated by opponents who deliberately try to incite violence in order to discredit said protests' agendas.
