this is an hypothetical question...i am doing well.
but i was thinking about how my jw family, grandchildren and all will feel when their inactive grandfather dies with no hope of being reunited in paradise.
of course there would be immediate rejoicing if i came back to the "truth" and a surge of conditional love from the "friends".
Don't the Witnesses teach that the basic masses will be resurrected if they die before Armageddon on the basis of the ransom sacrifice?
So why wouldnt that same teaching cover the inactive JW?
Or are we talking about the standing of a DFd person here?
she certainly is passionate about climate change.
🤔.
I don't think shes accomplishing anything lasting but there's the potential for damage to her young psyche.
Shame on her parents for selling her out.
i can ,the people i had influence over in joining the religion.,but have now left the religion.granted it`s family,except for one.. those that were active jw`s and have now left :.
my wife .
my two sons ,and a wife of one .
I am happy to have my Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays back again.
i am wondering how many of the older publications they include these days?.
Thank you all for the comments.
I have a very good friend who is PIMO who told me they had added in the old pubs now.
I too am wondering about the modifications that might have been done.
i am wondering how many of the older publications they include these days?.
I am wondering how many of the older publications they include these days?
i can`t believe the tidbits i`m finding out about the changes ,dumbing down of the meetings i used to attend and participate in up until the late 1980`s ...
In the very early 60's the Written Review was a fearsome thing,
Several pages of questions and pencils were handed out. Then dead silence (I mean dead) while you looked at the small print and hard questions. When you were done you handed in your test to be graded. You had to give back the pencil too.
yesterday i got home from work and decided to buy a case of beer because, why not?
it’s monday.
the shop is conveniently round the corner from my place.
Its gotta be so fun to have an IQ just limited enough that you believe a tiny religious group is actually right when it tells you that you are one of the "chosen" and therefore have the right to judge all the losers around you. So fun! "The 'real' (TM) life!"
Me? I'm just rattling around on planet earth living in the real world accepting people as they come, happy in the knowledge that wonderful things happen in life and the next one could be just around the corner.
Oh how I suffer!
i hear rumbling about the rank and file not having the same zeal they had when new.. lets see: door to door at the time least likely to find someone.
waste of a whole morning.
isolated.
I would add the change in music. Some of the old songs had the ability to stir the spirit in people so to speak.
The new songs seem to have disoriented the flock for the most part.
anybody else in congregations that have parties in october for kids to dress in costumes and pick pumpkins, parties in november with turkey, fixings and candles, and parties in december with red and green colors and baking similar looking snow-themed desserts?
(not to mention the spiffy new wardrobes for easter.
i mean memorial season.
Holidays exist for a reason. They mark time, force people to slow down and think about the concepts that tie humans together.
Thats a pretty powerful thing to eliminate without replacing.
Big mistake on the part of the Org
When I was "in" I always bought my kids Halloween costumes the day after (reduced prices at least) along with tons of candy.
We always did a Turkey on T-day (because its cheap dontcha know) and I always took the kids to a lodge with snow for skiing at Xmas.
All in an attempt to give them the best of all worlds.
Now they are all "out" of the Org with me and life is so easy just letting things flow as they will.
i don't know what i am talking about... read this post at your peril.
back in the 1960s there was, seemingly, a brief period of relaxation in authoritarianism among jehovah's witnesses.
those who have read raymond franz's 'crisis of conscience' will have heard the story about dan sydlik's remark about the need to 'open some windows to let some air in here'.
Well I had to go back and read the original post (great job).
The point that struck me is they need another oracle.
Every great (and not so great) religion has to have one to rally and inspire people.
Right now the GB is all drones and no charisma.
