maybe this has been discussed in the past and i wasn't here... what do you think?
are the gb members knowingly pulling a con, or do they have delusions of grandeur?
i will go out on a limb here to say that i think they are con artist.
It's a bit like the story of the emperor's new clothes.
They are convinced that they are resplendent in their outfits as befits the Guardians of Doctrine.
Whereas the increasing shouting and finger pointing from the sidewalk of former believers is "you're naked!" But they are not going to admit it because they can still fool the R+F that they are not.
"Hey look at us, we're TV stars now. Please keep on paying our salaries, global travels, and expensive scotch, because hey we love you all."
study article 19. how can we strengthen our faith in jehovah’s promise of a new world?.
17 many servants of jehovah have applied jehovah’s counsel to “keep in expectation”—even for decades.
louise, for example, began serving jehovah in 1939. she says: “at that time, i thought armageddon would come before i finished high school.
I have heard it from witnesses time after time, "I can't wait for the new world where I can learn to play the guitar", "... where I can learn to swim", "... where I can find out how to knit and crochet", etc; etc.
FFS why aren't you doing those things now if that's what your heart desires? Why are you putting it off for the future? Who told you that you aren't allowed to do it now?
Their refusal to engage with life as it is meant to be lived irritates me no end. Just because the big A was meant to be coming down the track never stopped me learning what I was attracted to even back when I was PIMI. I want to scream at the sheeple "Do it now!"
2023-01-27--civil unrest.
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https://postimg.cc/gxqvnfcq.
I feel sorry for the elderly and those with special needs. During the 2 years of the Covid pandemic most of them didn't see or get a visit from elders according to a post on a different website.
I don't fancy their chances of help being readily available should civil unrest suddenly break out as the elders will be too busy protecting the congregation records to go visit the old folks.
apparently it isn't just jw children who live with a fear of dying at armageddon, kids from born again families live with a similar fear, as this article explores.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/rapture-films-left-behind-evangelical?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab.
Apparently it isn't just JW children who live with a fear of dying at Armageddon, kids from born again families live with a similar fear, as this article explores
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/rapture-films-left-behind-evangelical?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab
atlantis:.
how many versions of the book called riches were there?.
that was a project jerome was working on, so we will give him credit for this information.. .
Yes, same here. My copy has the phonograph on Page 349 as well.
after being around this site for 21 years now, i've heard many recount their stories and feelings.
many times i can immediately relate but other times they seem to have had a very different experience with the church.
i'm sure that is because not only are all of us different in personality, but congregations and family dynamics vary as well.
I do think that part of the mind control aspect is the way that for years individual witnesses would write to the HQ and ask questions that they should have made personally. Can I watch this type of movie? Is this music appropriate for Christians? Can I eat this type of food? Should I tip my hat to a member of the opposite sex? etc...
The WTC assumed the role of dictating what was appropriate or not. Think all those convention talks about dress and grooming, which were then reinterpreted by local elders either harsher or milder depending on the type and overall age of the body of elders.
We still know brothers who are in their 70s who upon learning about a new craze in the local community immediately respond with "I'll need to talk to (name of current presiding overseer) about it" instead of having an opinion like normal people do. FFS.
most churches in the usa are in decline according to pew research.. i wonder what the real jw attendance percentages would be?
mind you from what i hear there's still a lot of them attending meetings on zoom.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/22/us-churches-closing-religion-covid-christianity?.
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Most churches in the USA are in decline according to Pew research.
I wonder what the real JW attendance percentages would be? Mind you from what I hear there's still a lot of them attending meetings on Zoom.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/22/us-churches-closing-religion-covid-christianity?
for many years the only place i heard the words " new world order" together or the words "new system" were in the meeting talks or maybe we endeavored to explain them to people we witnessed to.
i just find it interesting that the worldly institutions are using the same word terms.
i just saw an article of some 5 points that came out of this last davos meeting, and all five of these points were using the term "new system" in the changes they want to force mankind into .i am wondering what is the likelihood of the most powerful people on earth borrowing words from a "hated" religion.
I might be mistaken but weren't elders sometime in the 90s told not to use the phrase "new world order" in their public talks?
this looks like your typical watchtower study meeting.
lots of empty seats.. twenty-five years ago my old congregation had around 180 congregation members.
the elders decided to split the congregation in two.
If there are so many people coming in, why are they merging congregations and selling kingdom halls?
what does anyone think about the "famous people" who allegedly predicted the future?
edgar cayce, nostrodamus, etc.... are they just as much whack jobs as the wtb& ts?.
What does anyone think about the "famous people" who allegedly predicted the future? Edgar Cayce, Nostrodamus, etc...
Are they just as much whack jobs as the WTB& TS?
