i am starting a new topic since this blog entry is about something different.. i have posted before about my recent split with the jws.
no exit comes out of nowhere and there were seeds planted long before this.
i have never enjoyed field service.
I absolutely dreaded the door knocking stuff. I only pioneered(tm) to virtue signal. I was a Jobot idiot. what was I to do? God was going to lovingly murder me SOON(tm) if I didn't.
Then I became an Elder(tm) and the veil lifted.
I saw what a vile Corporation(tm) I was enslaved to.
Good for you Madz. Good for you.
" and a mighty cry went out over all the land: "sell !
sell !
sell !
It makes me wonder how they'll cope with all the 'growth(tm)' they're always boasting about?!
you still have to be fully vaccinated to attend any theocratic schools.
elders and ministerial servants have their kingdom ministry school every year, the cobe of every congregation has to check that everyone is fully vaccinated.
after the school everyone will ask any bothers who were not there why not?
exbeth - Some of us will have missed two KMS’s because we are not allowed to go until the direction changes.
That's a reason to be 'happified(tm)'.
The more you miss is the better it is for your noggin.
you still have to be fully vaccinated to attend any theocratic schools.
elders and ministerial servants have their kingdom ministry school every year, the cobe of every congregation has to check that everyone is fully vaccinated.
after the school everyone will ask any bothers who were not there why not?
We need a vaccine to protect us from weird religious cults.
if you are pissed-off with christianity and/or religion in general, then you may like this overview of the downfall of the hillsong (pentecostalism) franchise.. it was made by a staff member of sbs an australian tv, who is apparently an ex-hillsong attendee.. the description blurb notes: " marc fennell investigates the successful, but scandal plagued megachurch hillsong, stepping back into the world of pentecostalism that he left behind and asking what happens as the hillsong kingdom crumbles.".
you can find this report on sbs ondemand.. link: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/the-kingdom/2204846147867.
there are other links on the web to other critical examinations of hillsong's failings, including the failure of pastor brian houston's failure to report his father's (the founder of hillsong) pedophilia.. another australian link is to channel 7's spotlight;.
R1st - If you are PISSED-OFF with christianity and/or religion in general,
I'm not bothered really. It's people that are the problem.
you still have to be fully vaccinated to attend any theocratic schools.
elders and ministerial servants have their kingdom ministry school every year, the cobe of every congregation has to check that everyone is fully vaccinated.
after the school everyone will ask any bothers who were not there why not?
exbeth - This is ridiculous.
Like all things Jobot.
Lots of dimwits won't change their views on the rona. I still see people with their rona masks on in supermarkets and such. You can tell the lights are on but no one's home!
Lots of corporations and politicians are on the make with their over blown nonsense. That's why 'fact checkers(tm)' who are on the payroll of these pigs, halt anything that exposes the rona lies.
We live in a dictatorship but we just can't see it.
We are being conned! People need to AWAKE! (Good name for a magazine, ay?)
so the end was going to come by 2000 as documented in the magazines back in the late 80's early 90's.. so how did they get the time off so badly ( over two decades and still nothing) since the gb is jehovah's earthly mouthpiece right ?
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*** jv chap. 28 p. 632 Testing and Sifting From Within ***
Based on the premise that events of the first century might find parallels in related events later, they also concluded that if Jesus’ baptism and anointing in the autumn of 29 C.E. paralleled the beginning of an invisible presence in 1874, then his riding into Jerusalem as King in the spring of 33 C.E. would point to the spring of 1878 as the time when he would assume his power as heavenly King
Ratty - The one who is not serious but pulling our legs said - The end was never forecast in 1914, 1925, 1975 or 2000.
Oi, Ratty I know you're having a laugh with us. But any in doubt can have a quick a butchers at this
so the end was going to come by 2000 as documented in the magazines back in the late 80's early 90's.. so how did they get the time off so badly ( over two decades and still nothing) since the gb is jehovah's earthly mouthpiece right ?
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Watchtower 1989 January 1 p.12
"He was laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our 20th century."
(The 1989 Watchtower used the term "in our 20th century" in the magazine, but this was changed to "in our day" for the bound volume and subsequent CD library.
Armageddon(tm) came invisibly.
got something to say about the organization, the "truth", the gb, the witnesses, the apostates, life and quantum mechanics?
say it with memes!
let's create a repository of memes on this thread, new old and whatnot!
...and that means practicing Jobots
article from the last days newsletter (june 5-11, 2023).
it has been said that by reading the watchtower and awake!
magazines, along with other publications of jehovah’s witnesses, a person will receive, over a period of years, a considerable and broad education.. …would you like to grow in knowledge, obtaining an education of even much greater value than can be received in any college?
Tone- They want the rank and file to see this massively-reduced output as a blessing of some kind.
Where will they get their 'Spiritual food(tm)' now?
Blimey, surely not their awfully drab website?
Barnes notes and William Barclay commentaries are in plentiful supply if they decide not be bored by the relentless and constant browbeating of 'DO MORE' and 'GIVE US ALL OF YOUR MONEY'.
