Posts by Olivia Wilde

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CO just confirmed worldwide construction halt and possible JW.ORG news of it

by LevelThePlayingField in

just had the co visit tonight.

i asked him if he had heard about the worldwide halt of construction besides warwick and to my surprise he said he heard the same thing.

then he went on and add that also some branches are closing and some bethelites going into pioneering but, "all because of the preaching work now.

Olivia Wilde

I wonder if it's a strategy, saying "brothers we had to stop construction because Jehovah is showing & revealing to us we need to focus more on the preaching work, we had to send construction brothers home to focus on preaching since now is the time the work is more urgent than ever since the workers are few for the work & Jesus told us to ask the Father for more workers".... in other words "we notice alot of jws are awakening, leaving & need to recruit more people= more funds" wonder if we they will repeat the 70s....

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My Mother Died Two Weeks Ago

by Perry in

jw
friends

none of my jehovah's witness relatives called to tell me or my family.

just found out this morning.

Olivia Wilde

Sorry for your loss...

Totally heartless they didn't inform you....

sending genuine love and hugs for your loss.

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So changes were made, but who cares because were so deep into the end, nothing the Organization does, really matters—does it?

by John Aquila in

so i called a few jwdubs that still talk to me, not to try to convince them of anything or wake them up but to try to get a feedback on how they took the big meeting change and other announcements.

generally speaking, all the ones i talked to were not even fazed by the changes.

many of them still didnt even realize the meeting format had changed and thought the layoffs were a normal thing that happens all the time.

Olivia Wilde

He said that the changes for the Israelites were very frightening, nerve-racking, petrifying. They moved from one place to another at the spur of the moment. The changes from one camp to another were never explained to the Israelites . Jehovah just moved the cloud and the Israelites didn’t question it, even if it looked ridiculous and stupid from a human standpoint.

“They just obeyed”

They forgot to read Jesus words in Mathew 24:31-32 "But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30"And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. 31"And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other"".

Jesus will send the Angels giving us the instructions (he has a whole legion of angels at his command) and there will be no question in our hearts to seek the warnings, just like Jehovah gave the Israelites the signs.......A manmade organization made up of imperfect men giving us the instructions and must obey regardless if they seem "logical from a Human standpoint"????? HA!!! Yeah tell that to the Jonestown people, the Branch Davidians from Waco Texas and the Heaven's Gate people........

Arrogance...Can't believe how much They insult the Almighty God's and Jesus intelligence that they would need imperfect false prophet HUMANS to carry out the REAL WORK!!

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The NEW "Bible Teach" book

by Oubliette in

the new "bible teach" book is out!

thetruthbr has posted links for this and several other of the new publications.

as an educator, i am very interested in where the society is heading with their alleged "bible education" program.

Olivia Wilde

I honestly believe they are going "lower in their simplified" versions of literature to avoid "independent thinking".... It makes sense the more "simplified spiritual food" the more stupid they want to keep us and it avoids good level smart individuals to "question" anything or do smart thinking and they want to avoid and not give room for people to think beyond what is printed.

I believe that is why they will do away with the weekly bible reading to stop having people "express their own thoughts in the weekly bible reading of scriptures" in the TMS meetings. If i read it correctly with the new changes of this meeting this "wordbook" the letter reference talked abut questions being raised of the weekly bible reading and so you can find the answers. This is a perfect indication that no more freely "interpretting the scriptures" for yourself.... I commented a few times preparing my comments and all of a sudden I didn't get called anymore, hmmmm .... I found it very odd I don't get called on, now i don't raise my hand. I think they caught on, hey don't blame me I was trying to do some TTAT with my comments jejejejejeje

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Another great video of someone waking up!!! Using our "thinking mind"

by Olivia Wilde in

i love the fact what he said about reading crises of conscious: if you read that book as a jw and still think the wt has the truth, something is wrong with you....the song played at the end is simply classic and very appropriate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvditiopv4&list=llz1w0ll081jjiycjb298pow.

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Olivia Wilde

I love the fact what he said about reading Crises of Conscious: If you read that book as a JW and still think the WT has the truth, something is wrong with you....the song played at the end is simply classic and very appropriate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWvDitIOPV4&list=LLz1w0ll081JJiYcjb298pOw

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Again, where is the WTBTS letter in Spanish??

by DATA-DOG in

i started a post to inquire about it, then my post disappeared.

will this one disappear too?

dd.

Olivia Wilde

My meetings are on saturday does that mean I have to wait until the weekly meeting or will it be read on saturday if it's dated Oct. 4th.... hell I'll go to a Sunday mtg.... does anyone know?

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I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

by John Aquila in

yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

three of them were ministerial servants.

all of them are from the spanish congregation.

Olivia Wilde

John Aquila: the released letter no question is real, ceders just posted a video & article that he was contacted by a legal firm of WTBTS putting a compliant of copyright violation infringement on the letter leaked.... why else the WT will go this far if it wasn't true? They wouldn't

http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/watchtower-issues-dmca-takedown-over-leaked-annual-meeting-letter

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I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

by John Aquila in

yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

three of them were ministerial servants.

all of them are from the spanish congregation.

Olivia Wilde

John Aquila : ja jajajajaja that pretty much sums it ..... i think the spanish will turn a blind eye to TTAT, i really don't hear any getting DF or DA for "apostacy" in the spanish....i honestly believe the elders won't even know how to handle a JC for that.... one thing I've seen is a great Idea to do is when u submit a DA letter is to type/write ur letter behind the UN NATION certificate of confirming the WTBTS membership to the UN jajajajaja if it gets to that point for me I'll definitely will do that...

ViDOIT: EXACTLYYYY JAJA, soo funny

I think it will be classic many elders in sp speak eng so they would be exposed to it

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I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

by John Aquila in

yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

three of them were ministerial servants.

all of them are from the spanish congregation.

Olivia Wilde

Crazy it's true in the spanish they are more embracing of WT changes, I find they have more of a loyalty to GB, just hearing their comments makes it clear, I think cause its embedded in their culture.... i will admit I wouldn't have come across TTATT if i only knew spanish... it's all translation it doesn't come across the same believe me I only came across it because of my experience with a JW person in my congregation, English is my first language & once I discovered things I literally went back to all the Eng watchtowers & read them to see what we're people talking about..... besides the older publications in the 1800-1900 can be found mostly in english..... people in the spanish are more socialists & many don't want to jepordize their social friends so they ignore anything negative, we have gatherings every weekend everyone is always invited with music & dancing, it's a fiesta each time especially after our mtgs, someone's house hosting & all bring spanish food, this is for hours

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If your Bethelite Brother Doesn't Know About It, It Musn't Be True

by HomebytheSea in

a few weeks ago my deeply indoctrinated father who is a long time elder was wondering why we hadn't been attending meetings, and why my 8 yr old son wasn't on the theocratic school ( sounds like i almost off the hook with that one...lol).

we live in a different state, but i came to find out that one of the elders in our hall called my father, who he never met, to see why our meeting attendance had been so sporadic (i am in my mid-40's, so that knowledge made my blood boil, to put it mildly!

i tried not to answer, but he kept pressuring me, so i brought up the arc and child abuse cases i had heard of in our area.

Olivia Wilde

Homebythesea.....Hang in there like freemindfade said... i have a question how did u do to talk to ur son abt distancing ur self from WT? Reason I'm asking is i have my child abt the same age as urs & need advice?