this website is an invaluable source of knowledge for me in my deconstruction journey as i gradually fade away from the org.
i absolutely love it here.. however, i haven't been very well as of late.
and i make an effort to bring a sad little message.
Sorry to hear of your diagnosis.
I received similar news around Christmas of 2022. Did 45 radiation treatments and 18 months of chemo. Monitoring things with testing every 30-90 days. So far, so good. Presently, no evidence of cancer. I'm also about your age, so I suspect I will likely succumb to other issues as a sedentary, overweight, red meat consuming, regular drinker of good scotch.
No longer expecting the Big A to escape the final eventuality of all men (at least to date).
Carpe diem!
Doc
the message they have been pushing for 150 years or so is "the end is near !"..
in the educated, civilised world, people think " yea ?
maybe because of economic meltdown exacerbated by climate change, but not from some intervention by a non-existent god".. "would you like a free bible study ?
They provide companionship to lonely old folks and the kind of "odd ball" person that gets excluded everywhere else.
is the sunday special talk prior to the memorial just an introduction of a new outline for the sunday public talks?.
is it an attempt to get the faders back to the meetings?
they present in a way like some new light is going to be presented at the special talk..
SPECIAL usually means boring or just alot of crap in Jwism. ~ you got
For sure the "Special Talk" is never really special!
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.
particularly since the unbelievably ridiculous Overlapping Generation thing came in, how can anyone not see what nonsense that is ??
I too have wondered about this and have concluded that most (remaining) JWs just haven't even given enough attention to the explanation to understand it -- or realize that there is NO way to understand such BS. They are just blindly following their blind leaders.
https://youtu.be/7xumqjq3zfc?si=ivcg96t4dtgze4ft.
so this is from the brand new watchtower study edition of june 2025 which has just been posted on jw.org .under the title: modestly accept what you do not know, a let’s read paragraphs in question 4 &5: “read matthew 24:36. we do not know when the end of this system of things will come.
even jesus, while on earth, did not know the ‘day and hour.’ he later told the apostles that jehovah, who is the great timekeeper, keeps the timing of certain events ‘in his own jurisdiction,’ or authority.
God has said you should follow and obey us.
i received a phone call from a jw inviting me to the "special talk.
" in 25 years out, never happened, don't know them, phone # nowhere near me and it was like she was reading from a script.
i hung up... any one else?.
We actually received a visit at our door from two young JWs (both of whom we know the families quite well) inviting us to the Memorial and giving my wife the tract. My wife actually felt they were canvasing our neighborhood (vs calling specifically on us) so D2D is still alive here, if that is the case.
please please contact us by private messaging us.
we didn't know what to put this under so sorry in advance but this is why we are here.
courtney was a co serving in another country when his father was dying.
We sent him the link to this thread. Thank you everyone -- Newly Enlightened
Let's hope we get an update on this! And hopefully their "revenge" continues.
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The greatest revenge is living a happy & successful life!
https://youtu.be/7xumqjq3zfc?si=ivcg96t4dtgze4ft.
so this is from the brand new watchtower study edition of june 2025 which has just been posted on jw.org .under the title: modestly accept what you do not know, a let’s read paragraphs in question 4 &5: “read matthew 24:36. we do not know when the end of this system of things will come.
even jesus, while on earth, did not know the ‘day and hour.’ he later told the apostles that jehovah, who is the great timekeeper, keeps the timing of certain events ‘in his own jurisdiction,’ or authority.
It's about time they admitted it.
But did they really have any option? Hasn't everyone figured out by now that they have no frigging idea?
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.
That 1/2 of JWs are gone does not surprise me.
The fact that 1/2 are still there is what amazes me!
i have worked for over 25 years now in a day habilitation program for persons with physical and mental diabilities.
in recent years this has often involved assisting them in doing community volunteer work, as in our state, persons receiving services are required to have a 'job' of some sort.
as a result, we have worked in catholic and salvation army food pantries, animal shelters, libraries, a nature center, a vietnam war veterans museum and delivered meals on wheels.
Ever hear of paragraphs?
Just saying it would sure make it easier getting through this.
