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  Do JWs Get Excited About WT Publications Any More?

  by NotFormer in

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  2. beliefs

  memory from long ago: my old mate from high school lived next door to a jw and was often "treated" to the latest jw literature.

  when the "you can live forever in paradise on earth"* book came out, this neighbour waxed lyrical about how good this book was and how powerful the message was.

  he acted really keen about it, like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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  Vidiot

  Not to mention that older folks who are anxiously awaiting The End do so because they feel so disenfranchised from the present-day “system of things” (sorry)…

  …it’s increasingly strange and unfamiliar to them, constantly changing at a rate they can’t keep pace with, and the media seems to go out of its way to report bad news at an unparalleled rate (sometimes, I think, to deliberately and constantly scare the shit out of as many people as possible).

  However, more recent generations are, for the most part, perfectly comfortable with the modern world and how it works, their bullshit detectors function better, and they don’t find the prospect of everything being swept away in a Biblical apocalypse all that positive…

  …along with religious ideologies that subscribe to that.
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  Watchtower Campus

  by Gorb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  information about the new watchtower campus, ready in 2027.. https://www.brplusa.com/projects/watchtower-bible-tract-society-new-headquarters-campus-development.

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  Gym facilities would suggest they give a shit about actual physical health.
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  Education video this midweeks meeting

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is an item this week all about yang ones leaving school.. the two brothers go to a career advisor seminar.

  one brother thinks it’s good to work hard full time while you are young and tries to encourage his friend to as well.. his friend (who is the good jw trust the gb no matter what they say)) he wants a part time job.. the video shows him dreaming about investing his money on his phone and the chart goes up, he drives a nice car and seems to be doing well financially.. then he reads the scripture in proverbs and next you see that investment chart go down in the red and he is so pleased he just got a low paid part time job.. this infuriates me.

  how many of us are now struggling because we were told to get menial part time jobs and we were told the end would have been here by now.. i will never tell a young person to listen to the gb advice on this.

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  “…he is so pleased he just got a low paid part time job.”

  …said no real person, anywhere, ever.
  
  
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  Do JWs Get Excited About WT Publications Any More?

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  memory from long ago: my old mate from high school lived next door to a jw and was often "treated" to the latest jw literature.

  when the "you can live forever in paradise on earth"* book came out, this neighbour waxed lyrical about how good this book was and how powerful the message was.

  he acted really keen about it, like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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  What Diogenesister said (at the top of the page).

  I think that to recent (non-overlapping) generations, the idea that the World could End just doesn’t seem possible. I think it’s partly because there’s so many people on the planet now… it’s kinda hard to get rid of 8 billion of anything.

  Not to mention that these days, the End-Time narratives in holy books sound more like bad drug trips than prophecies (Patmos Island in the First Century AD was used as an insane asylum… take that however you want.)

  For some of my still-in relatives, the “New System” is their carrot (they’re getting old and sickly, it ain’t pretty)… Armageddon’s just the unpleasant but necessary layover to get there.
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  Where is Tony?

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

  in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

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  @ Fragrant…

  Was that legit footage of Uncle Tony, or was it deepfaked or something?
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  Watchtower Campus

  by Gorb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  information about the new watchtower campus, ready in 2027.. https://www.brplusa.com/projects/watchtower-bible-tract-society-new-headquarters-campus-development.

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  ThomasMore - “Its a red herring,,,”

  Like you said in another thread a while back, a silt fence around the property means nothing.

  When they start pouring concrete, we’ll pay attention.
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  LEAKED 2024 USA SERVICE REPORT

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/lov1gsxj4tg?si=ze-fdc8yswirahwx.

  this is a mini report on usa that includes an update on ramapo as it was delivered during the british bethel inauguration few days ago....

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  “Making things up as they go along, the Borganization does.”

  
  
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  Who Was The Biggest Jackass Circuit Overseer You Ever Met?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  there was on older white-haired circuit overseer in houston around 1989 or 1990. last name started with a w i think.... not sure though.

  even the most brain-dead robotic elders told me he was offensive.

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  Vidiot

  Spoiled for choice, apparently. 😏
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  Overlapping Generation

  by pandorasbox1914 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the september 2015 broadcast had david splane explain matthew 24:34 “truly, i say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place”.

  his explanation of this scripture was by means of a chart to indicate an overlapping generation.. .

  no scripture was used to show the overlapping generation concept, and as a result it makes no sense.. to illustrate how crazy this concept is, look at the lyrics of the song my generation.. my generation.

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  ThomasMore - “… Remaining JW's (minus those who are not actively planning to fade or DA) cannot explain what the current thinking is. This is a REAL problem for the GB…”

  Only if they actually expect JWs to explain it.

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  On May 3, 2024, the worldwide United Methodist Church apologized to survivors of clergy sexual abuse.

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  'many survivors of clergy sexual abuse have never received an apology or any acknowledgement of the harm they suffered.

  but at the may 3, 2024, meeting of the general conference of the worldwide united methodist church in charlotte, north carolina, the following resolution of apology to all survivors and their families was approved.. .

  “the united methodist church apologizes for the times we allowed our desire to protect the church to outweigh our desire to care for victims and survivors of sexual misconduct.

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  Vidiot

  “Spank my bottom line! Spank it!!!”