jehovah’s witnesses cancel in-person conventions worldwide, will stream online in 100 languages.
by: rocky nash.
posted: jul 9, 2020 / 10:23 pm pdt / updated: jul 19, 2020 / 11:22 am pdt.
Like I keep saying, the COVID crisis has given them the ideal pretext to transition to an e-religion... something more and more of us believe was on the Org’s to-do list.
Sure, there’ll still be in-person events from time to time, but the rank-and-file have now been primed for it in way that must seem almost God-sent to the WT leadership.
Further KH and AH sales should all but confirm it, IMO.
i might have missed this but blondie was always one of the best posters here.
her analysis and commentary was spot on.. is everything ok with her?
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Near as I can tell, Debbie and the gang are currently playing gigs in both the US and UK...
...oh, you meant the JWD member Blondie.
😜
now today this is of course a non-issue.
the wt has embraced the big bang/old earth etc just not evolution.
in fact the creator book has some decent info.. however i have a good copy of the 1958 paradise book.
@ Phizzy...
On a related note, I actually liked the way director Darren Aronofski portrayed the Adam and Eve story in an overtly fantasy-esque manner in Noah.
(Really, the whole movie was portrayed that way, but the Creation narrative particularly so.)
now today this is of course a non-issue.
the wt has embraced the big bang/old earth etc just not evolution.
in fact the creator book has some decent info.. however i have a good copy of the 1958 paradise book.
@ JoenB75...
I’ve long found it ironic that the WTS uses Jesus’ reference to the Eden narrative as “proof” of its historicity...
...when Jesus taught almost exclusively using parables and allegories.
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/07/20/mormonleaks-founders-pay/?fbclid=iwar31g8tcjkq3dtzxjx6mhinhqnk6fequaiwu_278zkhia6vmbyb6ha_jz28.
so i guess the wt holds free public gatherings, but will sue anyone who publishes a video of the free speeches?
what happened to advertise, advertise advertise the king and his kingdom?
@ Anna Maria ...
Fun fact...
...in Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the monotheistic Christian religion observed by a number of characters seems to have Islamic elements.
the sopranos was my number one show.
to me it was the best series ever.
for a good laugh, i still enjoy the beverly hillbillies reruns.
I gauge a TV show’s “favourite” status by how much it inspires a “damn, what’s gonna happen next?” vibe.
Back in the 90s, it was X-Files and Babylon 5.
In the 00s it was Galactica.
In the 10s, it was Thrones.
And now, it’s Lucifer (I have never laughed so hard).
now today this is of course a non-issue.
the wt has embraced the big bang/old earth etc just not evolution.
in fact the creator book has some decent info.. however i have a good copy of the 1958 paradise book.
@ waton..,
Fun fact...
...according to Jewish scholars, The original Old Testament writers didn’t necessarily view Genesis as literal history.
That became more of a Christian thing.
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/07/20/mormonleaks-founders-pay/?fbclid=iwar31g8tcjkq3dtzxjx6mhinhqnk6fequaiwu_278zkhia6vmbyb6ha_jz28.
so i guess the wt holds free public gatherings, but will sue anyone who publishes a video of the free speeches?
what happened to advertise, advertise advertise the king and his kingdom?
Damn, they’re getting litigious lately, aren’t they?
Ten bucks says that soon Scientology is gonna sue the WTS...
...for cribbing from their playbook.
😏
now today this is of course a non-issue.
the wt has embraced the big bang/old earth etc just not evolution.
in fact the creator book has some decent info.. however i have a good copy of the 1958 paradise book.
@ Phizzy ...
The Org can never budge on evolution, no matter what.
Despite what they may say, it’s not about evidence, or its (supposedly) inherently atheistic nature, or even basic scientific plausibility...
...it’s because the underlying foundation that WT cosmology is built on has effectively become completely dependent on the Genesis creation narrative being literal history.
If evolution is true, then Adam and Eve in Eden didn’t actually happen...
...and virtually all the theological assumptions anchored on the premise that it did effectively go out the window.
IMO, one could make a pretty strong argument that without WT-style creationism, there’d be no JW religion.
i have a niece who is trying to get pregnant.
she was telling me her husband had to go to a room with porn in it and masturbate into a cup to get tested.
i never thought of this before but but how would a jw handle this.
Know what I think?
I suspect all the WTS’s historical wank-related anxiety pretty much stems from a closeted gay higher-up who was convinced that all the jerking he did as a teen turned him queer.
