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  The average Witness will continue to follow Watchtower leadership whether right or wrong.

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  2. beliefs

  i hate to say this, but given my own experience as a jw for almost 3 decades, i am beginning to believe the average jw will continue to look to and be guided by the gb regardless of whether they are right or wrong.. despite all the scandals and negative media attention the watchtower organisation is receiving, life seems to go on as normal in jw land.

  it's truly bizarre!!.

  clearly, the gbs tactic of mostly hiding away from the media is clearly working for them.

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  Thats why it is a CULT!
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  Doubling up on Circuit Overseers for Apostahunts?

  by Wakanda in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in my area i know of four congregations dissolved in one circuit, so that leaves eight weeks a year empty for that circuit overseer's calendar.

  dissolving congregations is happening more than in my area, so i believe we can assume other c.o.s have open time.

  it appears that c.o.s are visiting with a companion c.o.

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  Remeber - Contraction is really Amazing Expansion & Growth!
  
  Jehober is blessing the org!
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  What would happen if everyone who ever lived came back? - Video on Youtube

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  very interesting video showing what would happen if everyone who ever died came back...tldr: 90% would die (again) within two months because of famine.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-s34gz3xwgtherefore: "paradise" is just impossible..

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  :) HAAAA -- wait - a CO told we they all could live in Texas with plenty of room.
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  Ridiculous (degrading) comment on society's video

  by Festus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on video "benefits of divine education" william samuelsson makes totally appalling comment.. starting from 3:05 he refers to "an effort" that was made in past to see how society's curriculum corresponds with normal - worldly - universities.. then he claims that following question was asked (to university representative) "how we in five months can teach the same that for them takes two years"?.

  according to w samuelsson the representative of a university replied something like this: "your students are motivated, they have come to learn where as our students have been send to university by their parents and might have something else than learning in their mind".

  this is to crystallize what he said.

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  OMG the whole thing is evil.

  The girl before 3:05 - yea you cant put a dollar value on that education because it is worthless!
  It has no value except in Cult World!

  (just put it on a job app and see how far it gets you)
  
  And how nice that the Old Cook didnt bother to say "what university" or "what person" agreed with him?
  Complete BS.
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  God doesn’t foresee/foretell future

  by venus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if god foresee/foretell future, he could definitely have foreseen the communication revolution we experience today and sent jesus in the first half of 21st century [instead of first century] where the whole world could watch him performing miracles live as we watched will tsai, a young japanes visualist who brings dead fish back to life in america's got talent 2017—especially because god’s will is that “everyone is to be saved” (1 timothy 2:4)-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9af4wvd6cz0.

  if god does foresee future, it would mean that incident are foreordained in which case it is not foreseeing.

  but truth is that he has not fixed events.

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  He does what ever the GB says he does.

  That way they can spin it how ever they need it to be.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  Terry I still dont get why it took 30 years if there was such an outpouring?
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  Hey "faithful slave," when did Jesus become king?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  w78 3/1 p. 18 par.

  15 - "when was god’s son made a king-priest like melchizedek?

  this was 40 days after his resurrection from the dead, [33 c.e.

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  Vandenhoover7 - 1914 cant ever go and the Cult survive.

  Just like Service cant go.

  DFing cant go.

  Blood cant go (they have pushed to the limit with the fractions).

  Mandatory meetings cant go.

  GB being the voice of god cant go.

  These are all the mechanisms that keep the Cult together.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  TerryWalstrom2 days ago2 days ago2 days ago2 days agoThe pushback (re oral sex) was a gigantic tsunami back in the 70's and I'm pretty sure it must have scared the crap out of the GB.

  Terry - what pushback are you talking about? I was to young to really know what was going on, but I can not imagine ANY of the married couples in my hall - openly opposing the GB on that?
  
  I am interested to know more about what you may know about that time?
  Also why did it take them 30 years to do the 180?
  
  Interesting to Note:
  As an elder I did notice in the 2000's that any time Oral or Anal sex was mentioned at Assemblies - that it was only in relation to Pre Marital Sex - and that if "you dont think that counts as sex your wrong".

  It was obvious to me that they made an effort to not link it to marriage in a way they did in the past.
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  DId you ever fall asleep at the meetings, Assemblys??

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if i'm tierd i fall asleep anywere so the meetings ect were no diffrent my wife would always try to wake me but im a deep sleeper.

  karter .

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  At outdoor Conventions - when it was 90 and sitting in the sun at Phily.
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  Really struggling to go on

  by Isambard Crater in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, so much has happened in my life over the years and continues to happen, but i won't go into the details as it would take a long time.. i don't really know why, but i returned to "the truth" 15 years ago.

  in 2012 when the tv broadcasting station launched, i started to develop doubts.

  the australian royal commission and other scandals made me angrier, and i now don't believe most of the core teachings.. the only reason i show up at 5 or 6 meetings each month is to keep in contact with my parents and a few other family members.. but it's killing me, literally.

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  Its very very hard. You are dammed if you do and if you don't.

  There are always unintended consequences no matter what path you take.

  Just know many of us know what you are going through.

  We are here to support you in the small ways we can.