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  Past the point of no return...

  by metaspy in

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  past the point of no return, the final threshold.

  the bridge is crossed, so stand and watch it burn.

  i've passed the point of no return.

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  bats in the belfry

  Did you send it to the HQ in Brooklyn? The letter then will have to trickle down to the local elders, getting more involvement.
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  I do not understand... How does the theory about when Jerusalem was destroyed relate to the JW?

  by FingersCrossed in

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  can someone please tell me in the simplest ways?

  thanks.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

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  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  bats in the belfry

  "to the point, no unnecessary articles" (...) Sorry to disappoint but nothing negative.

  The public mags prior to 2013 then must have contained "unnecessary articles". How unthankful of them for all that excess spiritual food from Jehovah's table.

  It just goes to show you what JWs really think about how redundant the mags were.

  In reality the JWs considered it to be 50% fluff.
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  IN HINDSIGHT.................

  by Black Man in

  1. jw
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  now that i've been away from the cult going on 4 years, one huge absurdity that sticks out in my mind is that we were doing things out of service to an invisible king.

  let me repeat an invisible king, whose only proof that he existed was through a global public relations magazine distribution campaign.

  no visible show of this king's sovreignty, no activity by this king to act on his campaign platform.

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  bats in the belfry

  And to think this KING has been ruling for nearly 100 years??!! And still NOTHING done by this KING to positively impact the world for the better...or worse (for that matter).

  Rumors have it Alcyone has been brighter in the skies for some decades now!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  bats in the belfry

  And they have HUGE margins.... Tons of white blank areas.

  That space is meant for personal note-taking, same as in the Shepherd the Flock book.

  Remember the time they had inserts . . . because they ran out of space with the drivel?

  Nowadays they increase fonts and expand spacings in the KM/mags to make it fill the space.

  Evidently, the spirit has nothing more to tell them.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  bats in the belfry

  Such ingrattitude towards Jehovah's theocratic arrangement is surely not going to go unoticed. Wait for the guilt inducing article telling everyone to be delighted about the new format!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  bats in the belfry

  This is the first visible and physical evidence to JWs gathering in any given KH that they downsizing - and they are not impressed.

  For decades they heard and read stories of expansion everywhere. Full-speed they were going into the new system (order). Why, if anything else, their organization would increase and expand. Properties & moneys & lit & everyhing.

  And now it hits them on the home front.

  The tract-like Awake! does not even cut it as a second grade National Geographic magazine. And it looks cheesy, and they ask themselves how this inelegant paper will be perceived.

  Believing in the 'highway of holiness' they are not used to lowering quality standards.
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  Awake February 2013: Where do they find these people?

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  professor massimo tistarelli:.

  "my sister gave me a copy of the book life - how did it get here?

  by evolution or by creation?

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  bats in the belfry

  Professor Massimo Tistarelli:

  "My sister gave me a copy of the book Life - How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? published by the Witnesses. The careful research that had gone into this work impressed me." — 2/13, page 11

  He must have done some lousy research, maybe just with the aid of the WTBTS library. Or else he would have found out about the quotes in that book.

  His bio you find here and here.
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  "AFTER LAYING DOWN WATCHTOWER PUBLICATIONS, BY YEAR TWO YOUR IN SPIRITUAL DARKNESS!"

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the september 15, 1910 watchtower has russell going on the rampage of how a person "could get by with reading "studies in the scriptures without using the bible, and remain in the "light".

  this same person "who decides to toss books in the trash, by year number two, loose all their light because the bible can't provide light by itself" you needed the "studies in the scriptures" to remain in god's favor, not the holy bible.. .

  can someone please print this article to this op thread, to show the "lurkers" the organization believed the bible was not as valuable as the crazy literature russell and rutherford wrote.

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  bats in the belfry

  Here it is:

  

  ... reading further on, the same article tells you how they kept them busy waisting time:

  
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  I dug deeper into the teachings of my Mormon faith . . and became JW

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  and also consulted with responsible mormon church leaders.

  i was told that the answers to my questions involved mysteries that one day would be solved as the light became brighter.

  (february 1, 2013, page 9).

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  bats in the belfry

  . . . and also consulted with responsible Mormon Church leaders. I was told that the answers to my questions involved mysteries that one day would be solved as the light became brighter. (February 1, 2013, page 9)

  Now, if he has questions, the elders will tell him to "wait on Jehovah".

  Not a heck of an improvement in the quest for truth, if you ask me.