go listen to the opening verse of the smallest man who ever lived..
MM ! good to hear from you ! I met you at an Ex-JW meal at Wagamama's in Covent Garden , I I.D'd you as an ex-J.W before the meal. maybe in the Pub ?
I bet you could not be easily I.D'd now as anything like a J.W ?
For me, that life is like one lived by a guy , not me, in another Country.
I am now the real me, as rightly identified by my darling wife the other day, when she looked at me and said , quite firmly, "You Bastard !". LOL.
my father was a member of the widnes kingdom hall and we are trying to find his old friends who use to go to the kingdom hall in widnes.
his friends would have known him as ken mckie.
my father is now in a nursing home due to his health issues kenneth mckie had many friends in the widnes kingdom hall and lost there contact .
So your father was living in the Town known as Jehovah's Widness ?
God's own Town ?
I hope you get a positive response.
2024-04-april-announcements and reminders.. (3. bible studies: recent reports indicate that in some lands the number of bible studies is decreasing.).
4 pages.
https://pdfupload.io/docs/e3685cbe .
And I doubt the second message you mention has much truth in it BB, or at least that many "studies" actually started will result in long lasting converts.
2024-04-april-announcements and reminders.. (3. bible studies: recent reports indicate that in some lands the number of bible studies is decreasing.).
4 pages.
https://pdfupload.io/docs/e3685cbe .
Thanks Atlantis !
The bit about Bible Study numbers decreasing comes as no surprise to me, but it is encouraging to see that they are now pushing for more effort from the J.W's to make converts, this means that they are in fact losing members in large numbers perhaps, but at least means that there are now more J.W's doing "Fake Ministry", just counting time, but never really trying to trap more gullible people.
I am sure the pushing for a return to more House to House and for J.W's to offer a Bullshit Study at every opportunity will not work to the extent of making enough converts.
The Org's desperation is showing.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/29/explosion-hits-jehovahs-witnesses-prayer-meeting-in-indias-kerala.
" Course correction"??
I presume this means he wanted to meet with the Elders and asked to be re-instated perhaps ? (If he was DF'd),
Whatever, the Elders ignored his requests, and so have to be held accountable, even though they could not have foreseen the outcome of their deliberate inaction and downright rudeness.
when i was a jw i did and still enjoy visiting old churches and cathedrals because of the history and amazing architecture of these wonderful old buildings.
a sister in my old congregation regaled us with a story of a visit to the tower of london and walking up this crowded narrow staircase only to discover it led to an old chapel.
the way she described her horror at almost entering you would have thought they were doing human sacrifices.
My wife and me did, for the same reasons as you, and never gave it a thought, apart from being aware that other J.W's would have a stupid fear of doing so etc. I never bothered about what other J.W's would think of our enjoyable visits.
After we woke up and left, we were able to visit more of these wonderful buildings, and we also visited Winchester Cathedral one Sunday, and joined in the Service to the extent of sitting through it, we really wanted to fully see the cathedral when the Service had ended.
We also visited a number of Churches and Chapels, of various Denominations, and sat through the Services there.
Nowadays we would not bother with the Services, we are both Atheists. But if able to do so, will still visit any building that is historically and/or Architecturally interesting.
looks like things are heating up in the czech republic over the horrifying practice of shunning children that ask the "wrong" questions.
kids now days have access to all of the watchtower's lies, manipulations, unnecessary deaths, flip flops, rejection of jesus as mediator etc, etc.
i predict this issue of shunning children will continue to threaten free government money that the wt receives.
" That's where the legal battles must target to. " That would be great, but Courts around the World will shy away from any such action I fear, for a number of fairly valid reasons.
But, as Shunning someone the Org. labels as Apostate, under their catch all, and broad, interpretation of the word, does remove the Human Rights of the individuals shunned.
Human Rights always take precedence over religious belief and practice, or should do.
a thread about steve hassan re-emerged and got me looking him up.
his wikipedia entry had a point under "criticism" that there is an underlying assumption in his approach that all members of high control groups ultimately want to leave*.. while it is generally believed that there are a lot of pimos still attending, doing field service and giving lip service to the wt, i doubt that everyone within the congregations want to get out.
it's not always internally and logically consistent, but it's been around long enough for enough workarounds to make it tolerable to emerge.. what do you think?
" I was a PIMO, but I could not stay that way and support the lies and get others to join the BORG."
Me too, for some years before I finally woke up and left, I made no real efforts to make Converts, some excellent "Marks" I did not continue to call back on, eventually I stopped F.S altogether, as I could not in all conscience teach the 1914 crap, or defend it of course.
An Elder who had called on me to find out why I, the best real doer of F.S in the Congregation probably, had stopped cold turkey. He promised to call back on me and prove 1914 to me, he never did, says it all.
if you don't want to be thrown into gehenna, read what your own faithful evil slave & christ say:.
cj chap.
3 p. 110 chapter 3 - "jesus christ said: “whoever says, ‘you despicable fool!’ (apostate) will be liable to the fiery gehenna.” (matt.
" that fact alone technically makes you an apostate."
Spot on, using the real definition of Apostate, but we all know it is used as a demonising trigger word for J.W's, part of the Org's extreme Mind Control.
It is done so that J.W's just will not listen to our words, even thought they are words of truth.
As a wise man said " Even if the Devil himself speaks truth, it is still Truth".
But J.W's mainly cannot handle the truth !
i stumbled, via a google search, upon a part of jw space that is usually heavily defended against outsiders like my good self.
in a discussion, someone started their post with "i (started doing x)... when the slave began to suggest doing so"*.
do pimis really talk that way?
It is a shame those people using that name/label "Slave" do not have the sense to realise anyone fulfilling the Role of Slave/Servant should be working ONLY for the benefit of those they serve, in this case, the JW believers worldwide.
The G.B & Cronies only look after their own interests, which mainly consist of $$$.
