it was announced in this year’s annual meeting that they believe that the king of the north is russia and the king of the south is us/britain.
for me this is the first time hearing from the society actually identifying the identity of the king of the north.
very interesting times!
You watch, in 40 years they'll blame all this on the rank and file and there'll be a Watchtower video set in 2018 where they say:
"At that time, some were looking to Russia as King of the North. I'll admit, I was eager to see the end of this system. But i remember what I'd learned in our publications "not to make speculation about types and anti-types"".
I'll come back here in 2058 (if I'm still here) and bump this post and say "i told you so!"
i know it sounds kinda stupid and dramatic, but lately there’s been a lot of suggestive content about not watching tv.
the broadcast was telling people that watching tv snares you into getting an attachment to characters, (the one where the crazy sister prayed for a tv character).
and today this watchtower telling people that the only news that should be watching, or even interested in watching is the broadcast or on jw.org news room.
'It was mentioned in the DC that time for preaching the good news is over. Now it is time for preparing to watch the destruction."
The preaching of the "judgement message" is the final act for JWs. Even if they do end up doing this, something tells me that this preaching of the "judgement message" will go on for decades or even another century. It'll actually be a self fulfilling prophecy for them. It'll make them just like the Westboro Baptist Church which will ensure that they really are universal hated... which is exactly what Watchtower wants.
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..
Russia has been the king of the north before, although it was the USSR at the time.
This is gonna be hilarious.
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.
