i have another post here about how the wts is reeling from covid, as reflected in their abysmally catastrophic service report:.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6315842470936576/annual-service-report-yet-another-analysis-big-trouble-wts.
here's another rupture showing.. in the latest "announcements and reminders" to elders, there is a paragraph with these sentences:.
Oh you got that right, I have seen the dumbest of people appointed on the grounds of being a good "company man".
A real blessing was cutting the Public Talk from an hour to 45 minutes to just 30 minutes.
The pain of sitting through one being given by an unqualified elder has been greatly reduced.
i found this on exjwreddit.
a pimo elder is in the middle of an event where a former co allegedly kissed a brother from another hall.. the co denied it so the other elders are frustrated because they can't have a judicial meeting.
if true, can he be disfellowshipped?
I'd be curious to know from what culture the men were from. At least in the US, two hetero dudes kissing is.........well....... weird. But not sure that is the case in all cultures.
apr 20, 2020. novak djokovic sparks a backlash after publicly opposing the covid-19 vaccine.
he says: “personally, i am opposed to vaccination, and i wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine in order to be able to travel.”.
asked by sky news australia anchor danica de giorgio why djokovic was granted the visa in the first place, the home affairs minister said: “they’re entirely separate processes”.. “to gain entry to australia you need both – you actually need the visa, which is determined quite separately, and then you have to meet the entry requirements,” she said.. “i know that people are putting the two issues together, but the visa application process and the granting of a visa is very separate to the additional entry requirements that every traveller needs to meet to be able to enter australia.”.
Countries have rules. If you don't want to abide by those rules you can't enter.
Too damn bad the US has not figured that out.
i have a real problem with this one.
jesus said follow his steps closely.
never read in new testament about people living in convents.
1st Century Christians had no convents, but they all lived in a commune. You sold everything and gave the money to the congregation. In turn you would have you basic necessities met. ~ Truth b known
TBK, when the WT crew assigned to review this board reads your post I'm really afraid of what you might have just initiated for JDubs.
Once I found TTATT I found that I had no longer had faith in any of that Goat-Herder doctrine.
One thing I learned holds true: RELIGION IS A SNARE & A RACKET
some jokes i`ve heard and 1 or 2 i`ve made up .. the shortest man in the bible ?
knee high mia.
one with a facial affliction.?
First record of sports?
Baseball. "In the big inning................" (Gen 1:1)
Most constipated Bible characters?
Moses took 2 tablets
Peter said heaven & earth couldn't move him.
Satan. Bound for a 1000 years.
with the current discussion if someone in his twenties can be elder or not.
i'm interested in what a elder in jw land really do.
all speeches already come in video format from headquarters.
#1 Paperwork for "Mother" (esp Service Overseer)
#2 Schedule regular pep rallys (meetings) (never accept TMS position)
#3 Discipline anyone who gets out of line ("sinners" but also shit-disturbers that get on the radar)
#4 Give Public Talks (that are all now Zoomed) Most enjoy their time in the Limelight.
#5 See that Mother's property is well maintained to protect Her investment
I really don't think they can be nearly as busy as they were expected to be a decade ago or more. There are no longer scheduled shepherding nights. There are no longer meetings for Field Circus (other than laughable Zoom meetings).
It's a title that qualifies you for more work. But it gives you a deeper look at the "inside operation" of the Cult. Sometimes that appointment is what takes a sincere brother right out of the Troof.
imho, its the one rodney spinks and terry o`brien parroting the governing body direction is that when somebody leaves the religion whether they just fade ,disassociate or even get disfellowshiped ,then they are in fact shunning all members of all congregations worldwide including family and friends ,.according to their testimony at the arc.. this is a blatant lie and misrepresents the truth,.and they know it.. when a person leaves the religion for whatever reason they are rejecting the governing body`s teachings ,doctrines and practices of the religion of jehovah`s witnesses and not all peoples associated within the congregations.. especially not family and friends who they may have long standing relationships with.. they try to shift the blame and put the onus on those who leave.. shame on them for perpetuating such a lie..
Shame on them for perpetuating such a lie.
They have no shame.
edit .. i messed up the title, on this touchscreen tablet and now i can’t edit it !
the title should be “ the watchtower’s (sort of) apology for 1975 ….. sorry.
january 1st 1976, i remember that day when i heard a radio disc jockey gleefully announce that the world had not ended as jehovah’s witnesses had said it would .
So WHAT?
DEUT 18:20-22 --20 "But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ 21“You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ 22“When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him."
To continue to follow these men/prophets (Yes, they claimed to be God's prophet equal to Ezekiel. WT 1972 04/01 pg 197) is to directly go against the direction of God's Word.
matthew 24:15.
15 “therefore, when you catch sight of the disgusting thing that causes desolation, as spoken about by daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place (let the reader use discernment),.
luke 21:24 *(this scripture is incorrectly referenced to daniel 4:25. correct would be to revelation 11:2 nwt).
The GB has done good work. They really push the preaching and make Jehovah's name known. ~ Sardis
Now that is total BULLSH!T!
JW's are the biggest failure in PR history.
Billions of (fake) hours counted and a shitload of money (all contributed by the R&F) in the effort of getting a message out to the public to save lives -- with what result? 1/10th of 1% of mankind has "gotten the message" about their survival.
1/10th of 1%
If hurricane warnings and tornado warnings and flood warnings achieved that same kind of results, (almost) everyone would die.
JC and Joe Hoover desperately need to find new PR representation!
