why is it important to some that god only have one visible organization to represent him on earth?
why is it important to jehovah's witnesses that people recognize their organization as such?
what makes a witness more moral or righteous or save-worthy if they accept that it is his one and only organization?
Honestly, I think it’s even simpler.
At this point (despite what any loyalist will insist), the everyday, mundane, boots-on-the-ground aspects of being a JW aren’t particularly appealing.
Affiliation with “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization” is really the only half-tangible incentive left.
Case in point; how many of us here started planning our WTexit (consciously or otherwise) the moment we realized it wasn’t?
i think it's been a while since this was asked.
tell us your hobbies, interests, pastimes, whatever you find enjoyable as a diversion from work and school.
i am lucky enough to live in a small cabin on a lake, i enjoy rowing my old boat and fishing, i play with car projects, and we travel as much as we can.
Trolling. 🤪
how do you get out of watchtower?
am i supposed to write letter to bethel or local congregation telling them i don't want to be a jw anymore?
how are the steps.
If you happen to move, don’t tell ‘em or leave any kind of forwarding address.
admittedly it 90% crap over there but still they are up to 80k in subscribers.
over here it's the same half dozen or so that posts something, including myself.
why is that?.
Growth = God’s blessing!!!!
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there seems to be no end to the many jw's who sexually abused minors.
here is another story:.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pa-jehovahs-witnesses-sex-assault-attorney-general-shapiro-20221027.html.
What Thomas and Phizzy said.
A cornerstone of the WTS’s entire reason for existence is the fiction of “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization”.
Undermine that too deeply, and that existence is threatened.
And nothing undermines it more than evidence - i.e. admission via their own internal correspondence - that sex crimes were repeatedly occurring and being swept under the rug, all the way up the Watchtower hierarchy, for decades…
…and that - most egregiously - the Org’s so-called “Biblical” policies for dealing with it were making the problem worse rather than better.
unbelievable news: they've actually built a kingdom hall, and it was thanks to jehovah!!!!.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/canada/kingdom-hall-completed-in-canadas-place-of-many-fish/.
“from the logistics of getting the construction materials to the far north, to navigating how to solve unexpected supply problems, nothing could stand in jehovah’s way.
Bets on how long it’ll be before it’s listed for sale? 😏
i was googling the subject and came across this story.
i just had an incredible phone conversation with a long-time jw who has strong "q-anon" "sovereign citizen" beliefs.
the wife(first gen) says she is not surprised.
Data-Dog - “…You don’t have to believe in Satanic Lizard people to disapprove of those actions and stand up for freedom…”
…but it helps.
All hail the Neworldordereptilianuminati!!!
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while back, not here on this net i don't remember.
i predicted that watchtower would allow you to buy your way into the kingdumb.
does anyone find this interesting?.
Seriously, though, I suspect they kinda have to.
Selling off the family silver - i.e. real estate assets - to stay in the black is not sustainable in the long run.
If - or more likely, when - the Org’s tax-exemption reaches the chopping block, they’ll need something else to shore up the revenue flow.
That’s the reason for the recent dialed-up-to-eleven multimedia initiatives, IMO.
while back, not here on this net i don't remember.
i predicted that watchtower would allow you to buy your way into the kingdumb.
does anyone find this interesting?.
@ Mum…
Nope.
They’re pretty much already there.
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watchtower has just lost its appeal in the norwegian courts over the withdrawal of the funding it receives from the government as an officially recognised religion.
the initial decision will now stand due to what the court termed 'exclusionary practices' which includes the witnesses barbaric practice of shunning minors, even by family members in their own homes.
the ministry of children and families have decided they are now no longer eligible for the state grant of 16 million norwegian kroner given to officially recognised religions.. the following is a statement has been issued, i have summarised if it isn't readable: .
@ Fisherman…
So…
…you think governments should subsidize religious groups?
