how many think they will announce in the annual meeting they just gonna have one meeting a week?
if they dont it will be astonishing, amazing and other things..
So let me get this straight... they're scrapping the simplified mags and making the regular mags simpler with big letters?
So in reality they've just scrapped the normal mags and made everyone read the dumbed down version.
They sure are going out of their way to keep the rank and file stupid and spoon fed. This would have been infuriating for me when I was in, I was a deep studier.
it was announced at our clam that there "was no shipment of the october study editions of the watchtower" and that they were asking if people could just use electronic or make their own copies.. is this just happening in ohio, or did you hear the same thing?.
It's probably nothing. I deal with hundreds of UPS shipments a week and even they screw up a delivery 5% of the time.
Although... you'd think they'd have their own couriers delivering for free wouldnt you?
i asked the question on quora: .
if the governing body abandoned the 1914 teaching, would you leave jehovah's witnesses or you would remain a member regardless?.
https://www.quora.com/if-the-governing-body-abandoned-the-1914-teaching-would-you-leave-jehovahs-witnesses-or-you-would-remain-a-member-regardless.
If anyone has ITV iPlayer there's a great documentary about Charles Manson with recovered lost footage of interviews with his "family" cult.
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week39/manson-lost-tapes
The stuff they say are eerily similar to indoctrinated JWs.
"I love Charlie. More than I love myself".
"If Charlie told me to kill, sure i'd do it, I wouldn't even have to think about it".
"It doesn't matter that that baby died*. It'll live again somewhere."
*Referring to the Sharon Tate murder where they killed her unborn baby.
just a hypothetical question.
if the society was right and armageddon came a knocking would you want to live in a society run by the org and bully elders.. would rather die at armageddon.
i would.
IF the society was right and Armageddon came a knocking would you want to live in a society run by the org and bully elders.
If I were given a summons that informed me that I'd be deported to North Korea and that the North Korean regime would last for at least until my death I'd rather shoot myself in the head.
Same goes for the JW version of the "new world".
this is an example of a story that just strikes me as funny from their publications:.
"wilson, a christian from ghana, was notified that in a few days, he would be fired from his job.
on his final day at work, he was assigned to wash the private car of the managing director of the company.
It's a good thing Stephen Lett wasn't there, he would have put it in the contribution box!
i asked the question on quora: .
if the governing body abandoned the 1914 teaching, would you leave jehovah's witnesses or you would remain a member regardless?.
https://www.quora.com/if-the-governing-body-abandoned-the-1914-teaching-would-you-leave-jehovahs-witnesses-or-you-would-remain-a-member-regardless.
Let's be honest, when we were in the majority of us couldn't explain 1914 in our own words. It took a Watchtower magazine and a bible and flipping back and forth between scriptures - try doing that with someone on the door, they'd close the door in your face.
I tried many times to research it and understand it but just gave up in the end. I reasoned that "it must be true otherwise 8 million people wouldn't go along with it".
Well clearly I was wrong because that's precisely whats happening.
i asked the question on quora: .
if the governing body abandoned the 1914 teaching, would you leave jehovah's witnesses or you would remain a member regardless?.
https://www.quora.com/if-the-governing-body-abandoned-the-1914-teaching-would-you-leave-jehovahs-witnesses-or-you-would-remain-a-member-regardless.
I asked the question on Quora:
If the governing body abandoned the 1914 teaching, would you leave Jehovah's Witnesses or you would remain a member regardless?
Their replies were unanimous. They'd still stay with the org!
I would absolutely NOT abandon my faith. - Ben Gordon Burns
I’ll stick with Jehovah God and whatever organization - Brandon Wilson
There have been many adjustments to our understanding of the scriptures. People have been taught lies for centuries. - Mary Crosby
I would remain with Jehovah’s Witnesses, because I appreciate being in a religion that changes a belief when they realize that it’s wrong. - Sam Thorne
I would stay a Jehovah's witness for as long as it had Jehovah's blessing. - Mick Tunbridge.
It was only Edward Smith who refused to beleive that they'd even do it.
Not going to happen. - Edward Smith
I guess Edward will have a hard time with cognitive dissonance when the time comes.
The cornerstone of the entire belief system was always 1914. Now it seems the emotional attachment is more stronger than pesky facts.
courtesy of a redditor:.
https://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-jehovah-s-witness-sex-abuse-case-underscores-church-s/article_fddc41e5-536b-5843-af30-200cc14892d8.html.
montana jehovah's witness sex abuse case underscores church's worldwide reckoning.
It still makes me sick even now when the JW's will call the Catholic church on it's pedophile priests and their policy of covering up and moving them from church to church.
Pot, meet kettle.
Thanks for sharing. This was an informative read.
let's say an aunt or uncle dies.
.
let's say you barely knew them.. let's say their memorial service was held at the kingdom hall.. let's say if you attend, you have to deal with shunning from family and jws, and you are forced listen to them present their paradise promotional materials, and the dead person's "earthly hope™", and let's face it ... the heeby-jeebies of having to be in a kingdom hall again.. would you put yourself through it?
I'll never set foot in a Kingdom Hall again.
You can take that to the bank. I dont care if it's a funeral, a wedding, a memorial...
It
will
NEVER
happen.
its been a minute since posting, have been trying to put this cult in my review mirror and just live life.
but you know this beast rears it's evil head.
my wife found my crisis of conscience book and out came the horns plus i guess what she is hearing at the meetings isn't helping either.
I remember back in 2008 when I was dating the woman who I'd later marry. Whenever I'd stay over at her parents house I'd be in the spare room which was literally a stockpile on bags of pasta, rice, tinned food and bottled water.
10 years later, the world is still here and all that food must have gone off by now.
Some entrepreneurial JW nut is even selling go bags to JWs on his website.
https://www.ministrygallery.com/go-bag/#null
I love how, on their offical website, on a list of essential items the bible is even on there... right at the bottom.
