source - march 2021 announcements - - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5085868283920384/2021-march-147-english-german-announcements-reminders.
this is a sobering reminder of what happened some 40 years ago when raymond franz and others were literally kicked out from the jehovah's witnesses for having pre-arranged private spiritual discussions.lesson: paragraph 7 is another example of the i and t in dr. steven hassan's bite model of the 21st century cult - information and thought control at its best!!!!
"my gosh, there must be a lot of independent meetings these days.
even beginning and ending such meetings with prayer
WHAT??? Even if you agree that people shouldn't meet on their own, how is praying the cherry on top?
"It's bad enough that you talked about bible stuff outside of the meetings but how dare you speak to God in the process." FDS
What are these people supposed to do with their time?
I would imagine JWs were hit pretty hard by the pandemic layoffs and many of them have a lot of extra time on their hands.
2021-march-s-147--announcements and reminders.. english and german.
https://filetransfer.io/data-package/jtoy3vol#link.
another link:.
I just actually read the letters. I'll say it again. What a horrible religion.
2021-march-s-147--announcements and reminders.. english and german.
https://filetransfer.io/data-package/jtoy3vol#link.
another link:.
I guess the gruel they are passing out isn't satisfying the spiritual hunger of the peasants any longer.
One theme I've noticed on JWN is people mentioning how the JWs don't dig into the deeper things anymore. Instead they keep passing out the same old reheated leftovers over and over and over.
Can you imagine being a good JW especially in the pandemic. Trapped in your house with only WT literature to read? (provided you are following all the other rules uhh I mean suggestions...)
What a horrible religion. Throw a drowning man a waterlogged life-preserver and tell him he isn't aloud to kick his feet.
basic blood questions for jehovah's witnesses.
where does the bible outlaw blood transfusions?
(acts 15:29 gen.9:4) .
Yea i must have missed that scripture that said of every animal you may eat but as for the blood you must put it into a centrifuge to separate it into separate parts. Some of those parts may be used while others are forbidden. Which parts are which is subject to change.
library.
books & brochures.
who are doing jehovah’s will today?.
The JW MO seems to be; Be different but leave something in place that we can point to to prove we're normal.
Dressing up makes the JW feel special. If they didn't feel special they might start listening to the message. And we know what would happen then.
Another family making money with nothing to offer except for being famous.
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/edinburgh-residents-targeted-with-handwritten-letters-from-child-members-of-jehovahs-witnesses-brand-the-move-sick-3153697?amp .
how the residents feel about receiving a letter from a jw children..
LOL I think they found the EX-JW in Edinburgh
i know i have made some uncomfortable at times and others have thanked me for telling them about the cult because some family member is one and they thought it was a bad cult but did not know details.
personally i take every chance i get to tell others about the cult.
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Nope; I find most non-JWs don't want to hear about it, and there's nobody in the religion I have any interest in saving. I don't even think I'd have any interest in talking to most of my jw friends even if they decided to leave.
i stopped going to kingdom hall meetings about nine years ago.
i was fading for the longest time, refused to go out in field service, dropped out of the ministry school talks, no longer answered at the watchtower study, arrived at the meetings the last second, and left as soon as possible.
i couldn't take attending the meetings any longer.
I don't remember exactly when it was, 20 or so years ago, but my story is a bit spirtual. I am DFed and in an effort to go back I decided to "make the truth my own". In an effort to accomplish that I decided to really study the creation book looking up the references at the library. Just as I was coming to the realization that the creation book was full of it, not one, not two but the next three Sunday public talks were the exact same talk on creation. That was the last meeting I ever went to.
judging by jehovah gods past dealings with the israelite / jews , i wonder why anybody can take seriously anything that he has promised for the future .. or is it what humans want to believe he has in store for them ?.
during jehovah`s dealings with the israelites they had a leprosy colony in their midst .he didn`t do anything about that .. they had wars that he instigated and supported and people died on both sides of the wars.
israelites as well as the enemy.. he accepted slavery ,did nothing about it .
I feel like the god of the bible is somewhat of a functioning alcoholic. You never quite know what side of the bed he is going to wake up on. You might get promised a trip to Disneyland or you might get smitten.
Or course that opinion could be because there's some truth to Tyler Durdan's quote in Fight Club: "If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God."
