yesterday’s watchtower talked about how by becoming a jw it enabled “worldly” people to ‘strip off the old personality’ and make really significantly good changes in their life.. paragraph named 4 individuals (anonymous names of course and probably embellished tales)) sakura, ribeiro, stephen, and hans.
their lives changed for the good because they found god or because they became jw’s---right?.
so on the way home from this wt meeting, my wife commented to me how wonderful our brotherhood is and how it helps people who would otherwise be ‘lost’ n this world.
Scientology apparently has a drug addiction course that works too. As do the Mormons. And I've heard many testimonies from Born Again Christians that tell me they recovered from drugs or pornography.
All it takes is for someone to replace their addiction for another one, or for them to hand over their thinking abilities to an organization that will tell them what to think, feel and believe.
the sky is so dark here in the south of the uk.
could be armageddon starting.. or then it could be dust particles in the atmosphere..
The sun was a reddish orange here in Liverpool around 12pm.
Or was it the moon turning blood red?
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; - Revelation 6:12 (KJV)
(I refuse to quote the from New World Bastardization unless absolutely necessary).
hi.
only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.
I have a suspicion that the JWs are in for some new light in a few years. Perhaps many are starting to realize that the 1914 teaching was built on sand. That maybe armageddon isnt gonna happen in their lifetime.
The convention video about 1975 stated "i remembered that i was serving Jehovah, not a date" (or words to that effect).
Next it'll probably be "paradise is an internal state". Or something like that.
a man can be a father .
a man can be a son.
a man can be a husband.
I cant believe people leave the JW and actually still believe in Jesus, or God.
This is the same guy that said:
"Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." - Matthew 10:37.
Cult leader at it's finest.
i believe that many witnesses are tired out or at least tiring out.
i know....... because i am tired out!.
imagine going to college for 20 years not knowing when college is finished.
not to be overly harsh...but if you just left, what the hell were you thinking?
between 1995 and now, you never did an internet search of "jehovahs-witness" or "watchtower"?
good god.
I was terrified of looking up JWs on the internet. I remember i'd read a news article and get really angry inside as if was being attacked personally.
i asked the question on quora "how do jehovah's witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the watchtower and awake!
magazine is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts, and online content are being discontinued?".
https://www.quora.com/how-do-jehovahs-witnesses-feel-about-the-announcement-that-the-public-edition-of-the-watchtower-and-awake-magazine-is-being-reduced-to-just-3-issues-a-year-and-the-number-of-books-tracts-and-online-content-are-being-discontinued.
Were you actually expecting active JWs to put in writing how they may really feel about it? The act of writing becomes a serious filter for those living in high-control groups.
I knew they'd put a positive spin on it. I was hoping they'd give me an indication of how they personally are processing it positively. I remember when they reduced the pages of the public edition of Watchtower and Awake! and my uncle (an exJW) asked me about it before it was even announced. I told him it'll be a lie made up. Then the announcement came and i defended Watchtower saying "it'll be so much easier for interested ones to read!".
Yes, i was a mindless Watchtower drone.
But i think if i were in now even i'd have seen the writing on the wall here.
i asked the question on quora "how do jehovah's witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the watchtower and awake!
magazine is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts, and online content are being discontinued?".
https://www.quora.com/how-do-jehovahs-witnesses-feel-about-the-announcement-that-the-public-edition-of-the-watchtower-and-awake-magazine-is-being-reduced-to-just-3-issues-a-year-and-the-number-of-books-tracts-and-online-content-are-being-discontinued.
Somehow having less to read is a good thing now? It's almost as if they found having to read all the magazines and books a chore or something. Hey, how about printing no magazines at all. Then they wouldnt have to read anything. Just the bible... like it was supposed to be in the first place.
i asked the question on quora "how do jehovah's witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the watchtower and awake!
magazine is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts, and online content are being discontinued?".
https://www.quora.com/how-do-jehovahs-witnesses-feel-about-the-announcement-that-the-public-edition-of-the-watchtower-and-awake-magazine-is-being-reduced-to-just-3-issues-a-year-and-the-number-of-books-tracts-and-online-content-are-being-discontinued.
I asked the question on Quora "How do Jehovah's Witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the Watchtower and Awake! magazine is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts, and online content are being discontinued?"
The replies actually took me by surprise. I'm assuming these are uber-dubs:
Sherryl Taylor, studied Law & Accounting (1985)
How do Jehovah’s Witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the Watchtower and Awake is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts and online content are being discontinued?
I feel Just fine, thank you for asking.
I think however, the arrangement is great and will be more productive for all of us. Less time spent with people who take the magazines out of politeness, but never read them. We will be focused on the people who are interested and willing to progress spiritually.
I frankly like the efficiency of this new arrangement.
Interesting that you have a letter from the Governing Body. Because you are not active as a Jehovah’s Witness. You obviously have friends that have access.
Eugene Rideout, lives in Windsor, ONQuite fascinating. We truly are living in momentous times, whether we are willing to recognize it or not.
“More emphasis will be placed on starting and continuing conversations.”
The added highlighting of “conversations” will enable JWs to concentrate on getting God’s way of thinking into the hearts and minds of those who express interest.
We long ago learned the destiny of those who. like the evolutionist Dr. Richard Lewontin, whose most remarkable thought was “We need to avoid letting a Divine foot in the door.”
Obviously Dr. Lewontin is one of those NOT willing to recognize that we do have a God who loves all humans, and simply hates those who cannot see their way clear to obeying Him.
Roosevelt Coopling, Active Member of Jehovah's WitnessesHello!I feel same-to-same.
As long as we keep the Bible forever, any changes on the magazines will not make a huge difference after all.
Nuff said….
Holumuyeewah Solomon Iperepolu, CAD Technician (Computer Aided Drafting Technician)I know everything is been done for our own good
ok, so hot on the heels of the announcement at the agm, we have been told that there are probably only 12 magazines left!.
yes, there will be only 3 wt each year, and 3 awakes.... and that they will do this for two years, then reprint those issues.... so yes, the "abundance of spiritual food" is limited to 12 more magazines..... surely, this is proof of the end coming so soon!?!
😉.
Sorrry WTWizard, i downvoted by mistake. Upvoted you as well tho.
3 mags of each a year. Thats pitiful. Inside 10 years it'll all be PDF downloads.
