jwfacts show that publisher growth was 15% pre- 1975 and has decline to about 2%.
what prevents them from fudging the annual growth and keeping it at something more positive like 10%?.
"a great crowd that no man is able to number".
John: I think they will.
Here's why:
When good things happen (i.e. growth), it's the truth.
"Look at how Jehovah is blessing the work!"
When bad things happen (i.e. negative growth), it's the truth.
"It was prophesied, the love of the greater number will cool off."
So, that's why they don't have to fudge the numbers. They have an excuse for both scenarios.
around memorial time this year, i stated to my nephew on facebook that my sister was brainwashed.
stupid me putting that on a public forum!
he was offended because she continues to invite him to the memorial even though he has ptsd from his jw experiences growing up.
Wasn't there something on JW Broadcasting since October about JW's being "brainwashed." And that it was a good thing?
I believe brother Herd said something like that on his broadcast.
after leaving the organisation 10 years ago i fought with everything i had to stay in my marriage and with my three children.
after a tumultuous number of years trying to maintain a happy family life while living in a divided home, it's finally over.
the religion is single handedly responsible for destroying my marriage and my family.
I'm sorry that your marriage has fallen apart.
When I think about the relationships that will be destroyed due to my fade, I try to live by this:
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha (supposedly)
It's not easy to do, but there will be moments of clarity if you attempt it.
i know one of the former members of the writing department and i think he believe the people at the writing department and the gb are just ignorant of what the bible really teaches.
but i say that someone knows better and they are just liars.
here is just one example of why i can confidently state this.
Well, it's proof of something.
It's more likely proof that the statement was overlooked in the editing process or that it was overlooked in a rush to meet the printing deadline. Then, likely when the magazine was initially printed, it caused a lot of stir amongst the rank and file witnesses thus triggering an edit before the bound volume was printed.
so i went to get a burger just now, and a couple of elders from my former congregation caught me off guard.
they started giving me the we feel so sorry for you, you must be so lonely bit.
i kept telling them im doing great and im not lonely but its like they couldnt hear me talking.
But be prepared for a judicial committee because most likely their cult training would kick in after the fact and they'd confess to the elders.
They'd have to have a second witness to the fornication put you in any danger.
I'd still do it if I weren't married. lol
Again, just as a social experiment. :P
i went to see the new mad max movie last night: "fury road.".
this post-apocalyptic world is not recycled gray, it is blazingly colorful australian desert terrain with wide shots that will stop your heart.have you ever seen an heironymous bosch painting of hell with its where's waldo panoply of brutish, demonic, figures inflicting torments willy-nilly as far as the eye can see?
well, fury road makes bosch look like a knit-one-purl-two doily maker at a sunday brunch.. director miller has thought about this movie, planned it, sketched it, worked it, perfected it millisecond by millisecond before scene one was ever shot.one second of onscreen activity has more interesting business happening than two hours spent by a voyeur in a nudist colony of playboy bunnies.. what is watching this film all about?
I am looking forward to seeing this.
I had never seen the original Mad Max until about 2 months ago.
Then I saw The Road Warrior a few weeks ago.
I absolutely loved them both. The original was so unexpected. I was tainted by "Waterworld" and had heard so much about Mad Max over the years that I expected something along the lines of Waterworld. But, man was it better than I thought it would be.
Great filmmaking.
if you are excommunicated, a.k.a.
disfellowshipped, from the organization, you are a victim of a pagan practice!.
the faithful and discreet slave has said so!.
GB 2.0 discredits anything that starts with a 19 on it..
Right, but supposedly God's Holy Spirit was operating upon the individuals that wrote this article.
Why is this TRUTH one moment and NOT TRUTH the next? TRUTH IS TRUTH.
"I am Jehovah, I do not change..." Mal. 3:6
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I did a search on that site for "Stephen Lett" and nothing came up.
That must mean it's a fake site.
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LOL J/K
HAHAH! Didn't see Lett's face the first time.
OH MAN! Crying over here, that's so funny!
if you are excommunicated, a.k.a.
disfellowshipped, from the organization, you are a victim of a pagan practice!.
the faithful and discreet slave has said so!.
YES! That's right! If you are excommunicated, a.k.a. disfellowshipped, from the organization, you are a victim of a pagan practice!
How do I know this? The FAITHFUL AND DISCREET SLAVE has said so!
Awake 1/8/47 Are You Also Excommunicated?
(Excommunication) is a “canon law” which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy seeks to enforce on the pretext that it is God’s law. The authority for excommunication, they claim, is based on the teachings of Christ and the apostles, as found in the following scriptures: Matthew 18:15-19; 1 Corinthians 5:3-5, 16, 22; Galatians 1:8, 9; 1 Timothy 1:20; Titus 3:10. But the Hierarchy’s excommunication, as a punishment and “medicinal” remedy (Catholic Encyclopedia), finds no support in these scriptures. In fact, it is altogether foreign to Bible teachings. – Hebrews 10:26-31
Where did this practice begin? The Encyclopedia Britannica says that papal excommunication is not without pagan influence, “and its variations cannot be adequately explained unless account be taken of several non-Christian analogues of excommunication.” The superstitious Greeks …. Even the Druids had a method of expelling those who lost faith in their religious superstitions. It was therefore after Catholicism adopted its pagan practices, A.D. 325, that this new chapter in religious excommunication was written.
Thereafter, as the pretensions of the Hierarchy increased, the weapon of excommunication became the instrument by which the clergy attained a combination of ecclesiastical power and secular tyranny that finds no parallel in history.
Here is the screen capture of the article for you to see for yourself:
