you might have seen my post a little while ago about how they were throwing around a new term, "jw news" and inserting it in articles.
well now they went ahead and made a logo for it.. .
oh brother 𤣠i wonder if this'll be part of the programming on jw studios' paid streaming service đ.
"This just in...
...the Faithful Slave would like to (lovingly) remind you that we are deep, deep, deeeep in the Time of the End (TM), to remember to Listen, Obey, and Be Blessed, and to ignore all those apostate-driven lies about pedophiles, declining attendance, or mass real estate liquidations.
Or else.
In other news, stay tuned for a behind-the-scenes look at JesusVision, the new and exciting limited series, debuting eventually, exclusively on JW Broadcasting."
nasa hiring religious leaders just in case they found extraterrestrial life, at priceton university's center of theological inquiry.
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just of curiosity, if nasa find something, how do you think the borg is gonna spin it.
A funny thing about ETs...
...American Evangelical ideology and cosmology (the JW variation included) doesn't really allow for the possibility of them.
I have, in fact, heard that it's one of the real reasons why UFO research has been so publicly stymied in the US for so long...
...numerous high-ranking military officials and politicians have subscribed to those belief systems and used their influence to avoid the issue, because it too deeply - and uncomfortably - challenged their belief systems.
Not to mention that politically, Evangelical Christians were too large a voting bloc to... well... alienate.
...
BTW... even as a young guy, I'd grasped that if a full-on First Contact scenario actually took place, the WTS would not handle it at all well.
2017 - wt: the gb is neither inspired or infallible and can err in doctrine and organisational matters... clearly gb have received biblical information about things that been done wrong.
not from god directly, but letters received at headquarters.
if important new light about biblical matters have come to the gb attention, why are they not telling the congregations about that information?
Like I keep sayingâŚ
âŚthey know itâs wrong, but believe itâs trueâŚ
âŚat the same time.
2017 tony morris jw gb.
"the end is imminent!".
timestamp (06:00).
âCourse, going around jabbing folks in the eye with a stick and whining when you get a beatdown for it doesnât make you âpersecutedâ.
It just makes you an asshole.
2017 tony morris jw gb.
"the end is imminent!".
timestamp (06:00).
If the Rising Tide of pedo cases and potential loss of tax-exemption get so bad that they feel like theyâre backed into too tight a corner, I can totally see them trying something stoopid like provoking âSatanâs Worldâ into âattackingâ them in the misguided hope that Godâll drop the Big A and bail âem out.
tricky words .
perfectly good words go unused in writing and speaking.
their meaning isn't clear and the eye is 'tricked' by similarity to other words or sounds.. .
When I saw the thread title, I assumed it meant weasel-words...
i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.
i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.
they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.
Not unlike how like the WT leadership knows it's wrong...
...but believes it's True...
...at the same time.
new information added to the "shepherd the flock elder's book" .
they have updated their policy on viewing child pornography.. from a congregation standpoint it is not viewed as child sex abuse and is something that should not be automatically handled by a judicial committee.
it states that a person viewing child pornography should be strongly counseled.
hoser - "When the authorities start throwing governing body members in jail they will cry persecution."
'Course they will.
Getting anyone but the small percentage of hardcore Lifers to really believe it is another thing, though.
i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.
i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.
they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.
hoser - "Do these relatives actually believe itâs the truth or are they stuck in a jw social stratification prison?"
Yes.
They actually believe itâs the truth...
...because they're stuck in a JW social stratification prison.
Magic Eight-Ball?
