i have a family member who had been df'ed for 15 years or so...recently they reinstated as a jw.
when i asked what motivated them to make that decision, the response was to be able to see family and old friends.
they insisted that things were different now.
TYA - The organization is all about love for one another, and that the judgmental elders have been removed or no longer in their positions.
My Maths teacher is Colin Hodgkinson's wife. He played with TYA not so long ago. He used to play in a jazzy band called Back Door.
jehovah's witnesses resume sidewalk carts after pandemic pause, soon will do door knocking.. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2022/08/05/jehovahs-witnesses-resume-sidewalk-carts-door-knocking-next-list/10168175002/.
How annoying for them. Just when they thought Armageddon(tm) was about to happen.....
Nothing!
Back to the thankless busy work.
DOC - Have you heard of anyone studying and reaching baptism from cart witnessing?
Nope. I bet the propaganda machine of the WBT$ will make claims about it which they can't evidence. We know they're lying about Andre again.
obviously, the older “ anointed ” from 1914 died.
and because they were anointed, they hopefully went to heaven.
in the first century though, a newer generation did not replace the old.
I think fisherman is sometimes being contrary just to play and have fun. I'm not convinced he/she/they are really being serious.
obviously, the older “ anointed ” from 1914 died.
and because they were anointed, they hopefully went to heaven.
in the first century though, a newer generation did not replace the old.
FM - The great tribulation will “shortly” hit any day now
Is this an 'overlapping(tm) day?
It all sounds a bit bizarre.
Nothing will happen any time soon, you know! I'm willing to bet on it.
being born-in and raised as one of jehovah's witnesses i remember a common theme or phrases used by the watchtower in its theory of why things are the way they are -.
jehovah created humans.
jehovah created humans as free moral agents.
FM - Since the future exists according to prophecy
Prophecy from where?
.....then the God of the Bible could not exist.
Not being funny, but I'm not convinced a does God exist.
was it melania?
don jr?
or gary busey's son, eric trump?.
What real story is this a smokescreen for?
The term CULT springs to mind.
having been a victim of this practice twice, i thought i would see if others had the same experience.
on one occassion, i was before the elders being told i was drunk on a certain day at a certain time.
( this was only brought up because when i was pushing for a meeting because of elder mr x adultery , i was threatened somethings would be brought out about me if i persued the meeting.
EIE - I hope you are not still hypnotised by this fraudulent excuse for a religion. I hope you have seen enough for the scales to have fallen from your eyes.
It isn't a real religion, it's just a money making corporation that doesn't give 2 hoots about you or anyone else.
Their ways are not Biblical even if they pretend that they are.
I refer to S Hassan's book Combatting Cult Mind Control for assistance in seeing this.
i decided to do this posting because of some comments in the post about pensions.
in the mid to late 1980's there was a flood and the local kingom hall was damaged and many of the friends homes were damaged...groups came in to help repair.
my then mother-in-law literally lost everything-she had no home to repair...she had been renting a small trailer and it washed away.
EIE - The WBT$ only care about getting money for the corporation. They really don't care who suffers in the process. This is passed down the ranks so that any sniff of money will not go to help anyone. The WBT$ demands it all for themselves.
You have to remember they need all the money they can get so that they can protect paedophiles in lawsuit payments and providing drunken TOMO the turd with as much booze as possible. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the money is used to get the GB children to abuse.
Why does anyone expect love from this bunch of pervert loving pigs?
obviously, the older “ anointed ” from 1914 died.
and because they were anointed, they hopefully went to heaven.
in the first century though, a newer generation did not replace the old.
DJW - ........you persist in believing in Christianity. Why?
I wonder this too. I also wonder why some believe in other Religions too.
I'd be interested in an answer to this.
I mean, believe what you want to believe as long as no harm comes to anyone. However, it seems that most religions will engage in bloodshed.
