phttps://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=e&pub=syr20&srcid=share .
plus another increase in memorial partakes number etc .
And yet they've reported the highest number of 'partakers' since 1951.
The number of partakers won't get impacted by COVID. They are the members of the congregation, who have been attending through zoom, and would obviously attend the memorial. Some may have thought that covid is taking them to end and thus impacted their emotional closeness to be in heaven.
Rest all figures, like bible studies, hours, memorial attendance, are dependent on how local authorities dictate the laws during covid.
phttps://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=e&pub=syr20&srcid=share .
plus another increase in memorial partakes number etc .
Number of congregations have increased by 675, out of which 300 have increased in India.
The number of baptisms are not a clear indicator. In many countries, like India, baptisms were cancelled altogether since March 2020. No baptisms were allowed by the branch in red and green -zone covid areas.
Memoril figures suffered greatly in areas where people from villages (like India) couldn't attend the digital session, neither was there any broadcast.
a vaccine is here!!!
the light at the end of the tunnel is visible!!!
so what happened to armageddon?.
Technically speaking, Pandemic is just the sign of the last days.
JW's are waiting for the call of 'Peace and Security". and you cant have a proclamation of peace and security in the midst of a pandemic.
So, the vaccine is needed for Armageddon to come.
forcing someone to believe something that is untrure and shunning them if they do not believe it.
I blame the shit out of JWdom, and I hate it. It took the prime of my life and has destroyed what would be my "golden years".
Hi Magnum & others,
Sorry that you had to go through all of that. My post was not to minimize the pain and suffering of what others have gone through, and I sincerely apologize if it has come across that way.
I may not fully understand the pain that some members have gone through, and I hope the best for all.
i just saw a post on reddit: ‘wt are prepping the r&f for changes in the march/april meeting workbook’.. in the post the person noted what they read (for march 8) and it mentioned bethel adjustments and reference was made to 2015 when bethelites were let go.. if this happens (yet again) another bunch of people are being sent home to fend for themselves in the big bad world at an advanced age with little to no preparation.
even though this doesn’t surprise me, it could not come at a worse time with a global pandemic and massive job loss everywhere..congregations are already in turmoil because of so many who reached retirement age totally unprepared because they were told armageddon would be here before they reached that age.
this is in addition to all the other ‘needy’ and troubled types in the congregations looking for as$istance.. i hope any bethelites there have a plan and some people they can contact.
lived in nice houses with nice cars and had a retirement in place. And to add insult to injury, they all had kids and grand-kids. Then she asked my jw friend, "Why didn't Jehovah bless me? I did everything right"
She signed the vow of poverty before entering Bethel. She got what she signed up for.
forcing someone to believe something that is untrure and shunning them if they do not believe it.
The problem with a cult is actually the members who agree to abide by and enforce their rules. In the JW world, it's not the Governing Body that makes the membership grow, but the die-hard deep-in members who make the local congregation flourish.
A cult has power, not because of the leaders, but the followers. Many JW's voluntarily subscribed to their shunning policy when getting baptized, without getting mentally prepared to face the shunning themselves.
In my life as a JW, I chose to become a JW (no one forced me), and I played an active part in enforcing their shunning policy for many years. I felt it was right, however, when I became the shunned one, the reality dawned on me.
Rather than blaming the WT, it's just that I am reaping the results of my choices, and facing the same behavior that I did to others. Maybe it's even now.
JW's are not a cult. Their followers have made it one.
whats the latest news on this ?
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been quiet lately..
Bethel Family has moved to the new facilities in Chelmsford in January 2020.
and the older IBSA properties on sale:
if not ,why do they claim he took up his power to reign as king in 1914 ?
do they claim that ?
or is it that he has only returned awaiting for god to give the throne to him.?.
If they do ,then WTF has he been doing this past 106 years ?
He has been busy bringing in 8 million followers, and prime real estate in most countries of the world.
Also, he has been providing enough fodder to keep this site running. Just imagine, if he had brought the end 30 years ago, most of the users of this site would have ended up in paradise.
"He is patient concerning us"
:)
in talking to jw's, it is apparent that they believe they are the only ones who believe in a paradise earth.
in reality most bible-believing christians believe in a paradise earth, they just don't call it that, they call it the millennium reign.
i created the chart below in an attempt to highlight areas of agreement between christians and a watchtower view, while at the same time isolating the key difference - the rejection of the new covenant.
A few years back older brothers were encouraged to step down as elders and make way for younger ones.
Not true.
due to the many variables involved it has been difficult for science to predict how proteins fold to form their uniquely functional state.
proteins are built from individual amino acids up, coded by dna.
protein function is dictated by its shape and amino acid make up.
Is this the article/brochure?
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/origin-of-life-5-questions/
For a die-hard JW, Jehovah doesn't fill the gaps in science, however, is the designer of the science. He is the Stanley Miller of 1953.
For anyone with a basic understanding, you can appreciate the power of complex hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions of the molecule
For a JW, the more complex science becomes, the more he appreciates Jehovah as the brains behind it. Separating Jehovah from science is like separating Elon Musk from Tesla, or Zuckerberg from Facebook.
