there are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.
some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.
7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.
Bribie - “…the contents are prepared with chicken embryo fluid, which has been inoculated with the living flu strains. It is then treated with formaldehyde ( embalming fluid ) to inactivate the virus. Then, mercury is added to preserve the chemical stew. But that is not enough - anti - freeze ( ethylene glycol ) and phenol are put in to disinfect, and even animal viruses are sometimes introduced, undetected. It also contains aluminium…”
Yeeeeeaaaaaaaah!!!
Gimmegimmegimme.
🤪
i was going to write a new topic but now i just can't be bothered ... and i'll tell you why.. on my facebook feed a few days ago, i saw an interview of a couple of onlyfans girls, who said that they were active christians that attended church weekly.
and while i was going to spend some time writing about the virtues of our faith's strict moral standards ... i now understand that i'd only be flamed as a watchtower apologist.. that being said, out of the approximately 4 million onlyfan girls out there ... it obvious, that none are jehovah's witnesses..
I was going to write a new topic…
…about how I just can’t be bothered writing a new topic.
😜
https://youtu.be/vpws6ncqpla?si=dqnf7-hupfr4pdta.
for decades, jehovah’s witnesses have been banging on about babylon the great—the so-called world empire of false religion—being on the brink of collapse.
any day now, they assured us, churches would empty out, priests would be left twiddling their thumbs, and humanity would collectively bin organised religion.
All hail the Neworldordereptiluminati!!!
locally, in northern california i have seen/heard a drop in jw and mainstream church attendance especially in person attendance.
(exception: a new creepy local new-age charismatic/pentecostal group: "bethel church" 11,000 and growing mega church(kundalini yoga/sex combined with prosperity gospel, trumpism, guns, rock music, dancing, glitter, speaking in tongues, and faith healing).. for me this paragraph sums it up regarding jehovah's witnesses: " ...smith described organized religion to me as having become a “polluted” idea in the american mainstream, because of the publicity around sex abuse scandals and financial malfeasance in many different faiths in the ’80s and ’90s as millennials came of age.
“the scandals violated most of the virtues believed to make religion good,” smith wrote.
careful - “…The one place it has been increasing is in the extreme right wing of evangelical Protestants, Trump supporters and all…”
Yeah, they finally (re)discovered a “version” of Christianity that lets them be assholes again.
😏
what's with the attack (counsel) on husbands with no corresponding article for wives on the jan 2025 w that is being studied today?.
is there a point to that?.
“I guess Watchtower has finally decided to address the spousal abuse problem among JWs.”
That’s a joke, right? 🤨
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1jb6nv6/jw_vs_norway_march_2025_from_jan_frode_nilsen/.
the verdict is out.
after full understanding and decision by the state administrator, full confirmation in the appeal case by the ministry of children and family affairs, three victories in the injunction case, a full victory in the district court, we now faced a loss in the court of appeal.
Interesting.
Apparently, the WTS is free to resume ostracizing former members, concealing sexual crimes, and condemning secular authority…
…all at the taxpayers’ expense.
🤨
By the way…
…there’s no such thing as “unlimited resources”.
If there were, the Org wouldn’t have given a rat’s ass about losing their state subsidies in the first place.
locally, in northern california i have seen/heard a drop in jw and mainstream church attendance especially in person attendance.
(exception: a new creepy local new-age charismatic/pentecostal group: "bethel church" 11,000 and growing mega church(kundalini yoga/sex combined with prosperity gospel, trumpism, guns, rock music, dancing, glitter, speaking in tongues, and faith healing).. for me this paragraph sums it up regarding jehovah's witnesses: " ...smith described organized religion to me as having become a “polluted” idea in the american mainstream, because of the publicity around sex abuse scandals and financial malfeasance in many different faiths in the ’80s and ’90s as millennials came of age.
“the scandals violated most of the virtues believed to make religion good,” smith wrote.
Interesting piece.
This bit in particular stood out to me…
”… Part of why we’re seeing a particularly virulent strain of Christian Nationalists fight for power in American society right now is because, deep down, they know that they’re losing the long game. But the irony that Smith points out is that the more religious Christians tightly embrace electoral politics, the more they will continue to repel many of those they seek to attract...”
i have been away from the jw cult for many years.
i don't have any family i talk to that are in it.
so i don't know if the jws as a whole are seeing the cult fall apart or if they or the majority of them are head in the sand la la la the end is neigh.
Sea Breeze - “The word I'm hearing is that many members believe the org is gasping for air with appointing 18 year olds as elders, no field service requirement to speak of and the dumbed down meetings.”
Frankly, I think it’d be weird if some weren’t thinking thinking along those lines.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us.
i have never been so convinced wts blood policy is evil and wrong.
.
I remember reading about this guy when I was still in (I thought he was British, though, for some reason), and I could not, in good conscience, feel condemnatory about him (looking back, I think I always had reservations about the Org’s blood policy).
The WTS wouldn’t dare comment negatively about him… the resulting PR nightmare would crucify them.
must the norwegian state protect the children of jehovah’s witnesses?.
21-02-2025. northern europe.
evert van vlastuin, cne.news.
“Must the Norwegian state protect the children of Jehovah’s Witnesses?"
Well…
…if the Jehovah’s Witnesses aren’t gonna go it…
😒
