when i was a witness i knew what my beliefs were and could defend my views, even if it really was wrong.
i understood jw doctrines .
i could define what the faithful and discreet slave was.
WTWizard - "These days, the jokehovians are such pansies that they could not defend themselves against a regular cat lick, faith wise."
Crude, but succinct.
Like Outlaw once said, "...old-school JWs were Watchtower warriors...today's Witnesses are soft..." (paraphrasing, but not much).
when i was a witness i knew what my beliefs were and could defend my views, even if it really was wrong.
i understood jw doctrines .
i could define what the faithful and discreet slave was.
FedUpJW - "...Two phrases that definitely DO NOT belong in the same sentence..."
Damn, beat me to it.
just sharing this for all the people who hated me saying it.
funny how truth finally comes out if those of us who care enough to become lightning rods don’t let up.
it’s taken a year, but the left wing ( not the same as a traditional liberal ) nut-job bs is becoming quite evident, and this will continue across multiple subjects as time passes.
I've always liked Bill Maher.
last year millions of people were singing his praises.
what’s your opinion of him right now?.
Even though he hasn’t died for my sins (yet), I’ve accepted Fauci into my heart as my Lord and Savior.
Praise Fauci!
remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.
the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.
when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.
mynameislame - "When I saw the children's version of the story of Sampson, it dawned on me that the story is really best suited to a comic book."
Noah, Samson, David... superheroes of the ancient Hebrews.
The Old Testament... the original Shared Universe.
whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?
do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?
will there be a mass selling of halls?
joe134cd - "...But they are also going to lose the level of control they can exude on the rank and file..."
100% agree.
Rhetoric and propaganda only go so far in maintaining internal cohesion and discipline...
...actual, tangible group-oriented activities such as regular in-person meetings and the door-to-door work - regardless of how tiresome or unpleasant they may be - serve as the most effective tools for sustaining that.
I even remember an elder who, for all intents and purposes, spelled that out for me when I was a kid.
whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?
do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?
will there be a mass selling of halls?
Strange Days ahead, to be sure.
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let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.
I think it's at least partly a zoning issue, 'cause I've seen it before.
In a small city I'm familiar with, a little-used KH was bought by a local Sikh congregation (who proceeded to refurbish it accordingly), and an older one was also sold to an evangelical church, who turned it into a Christian bookstore...
...whilst the congregation(s) who'd been previously using it built a new KH right next door (admittedly, kinda weird).
remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.
the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.
when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.
Drearyweather - "...'the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually'..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM5Z6C5T9BE
remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.
the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.
when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.
I had issues with the hard-ass OT God and Revelation as a pre-teen...
...a little less so as a result of certain experiences as a teenager, though.
