many of us have watched the gb #4 update.
most of us jumped for joy when they basically said that there will be no meeting in person for a long time to come.. one aspect we overlooked was how hard they hit home the "love of neighbor".
how this "love" is what makes a true christian and as a result our love for our neighbors will motivate us to stay at home.. well now they released a letter that is instructing all kh's to view this video during their local needs part.
Hi, I agree with the sentiment, that somewhere in near future they adress the problem of turnig off camera while zooming.
But it can easily backfire. Right now attendance is high, since people who may not feel well or miss meeting because of stress or boredom, just sign in without camera. If they put pressure to the folks to turn on their camera, mayn might simply not zoom in at all. Then the attendance will drop again, something the org, number crazy as it is, would surely avoid.
the latest issue of the watchtower shows a man with a beard praying.. .
i fully expected to see him 'progress' to clean-shaven in the following pictures, but instead he is still bearded when 'applying bible principles'.. .
i then realized that he was already featured on the cover itself.. .
more and more beards to be spotted on brothers even in position of service in middle europe as well
however, I know still some who look at it with suspicion, which prompts the stumbling card for some
this was sent to me by a cooky uber-dub.
apparently it's making the rounds locally...it's typical lighthearted jw satire (that they think is great!!
smh :-/ ) .
Pete and bluesbrother: You guys are funny, I had to laugh out literally !
btw, got also the original message, very cultlike message, unless someone was just joking, however it was not taken like that...
not sure if this is in the right subject but here it goes.
i’ve asked this question to a few elders and bethelites but they don’t seem to understand or like the question.
to start off we have to agree that jehovah is all powerful.
Tim, I asked myself the same question, particularly regarding the betrayal fo Judas Iscariot. Even as a full believing PIMI could not wrap my head around it.
Now I know, that so called prophesy does not exist anyhow. Still, I do not have a scientific sound answer to whether we have free will or not .
for you poor saps unfortunate enough to have missed yesterday's zoom watchtower study, i thought i'd prepare a little summary for you.. in fact, to keep things really short, i'll just highlight the outstanding verbs from the article.. paragraph 2: do not view.
paragraph 4: think seriously about the warning.....partake unworthily.
paragraph 5: do not feel...does not give....do not feel....would never tell.
the best was, hen they said, we need not worry about the increasing number of partakers, but why in all the world do we always count them ?
What use of a statistical number if the content of its information is useless?
how do congregations in times of corona curfews handle it ?.
there should be a video of the talk on jw.org for the general public.
are publichers just encouraged to watch it on april 7th?
How do Congregations in times of Corona curfews handle it ?
There should be a video of the talk on jw.org for the general public.
Are Publichers just encouraged to watch it on april 7th? Or will there be a zoom meeting with a locla brother handling the talk?
What about the symbols? In my mothers (PIMI) congo the elders require the simple publishers to prepare the bread and the wine at their home, each of them, even if no one is of the anointed.
when i was affiliated with the witnesses, there were barely 6,000 who profess to be of the anointed remnant.
i recently read somewhere that today there are over 20,000 who profess to be anointed.
that figure may be more when you consider those who meet and partake privately for fear of the stigma of claiming to be anointed.
weird, so the "other sheep" should time and again talk about their future hope on a paradise earth, but this is not allowed for the anointed ? Another proof of how controlling this org gets….
here's a new article that came out:.
do jehovah’s witnesses baptize infants?no.
the bible does not endorse infant baptism.
sorry, wanted to qoute the Story of cognitivedizzy
anyway, I know a family in our hall, very similar Situation, one sone, babtized at 12, dfd at 18, no contact allowed, even though he is the most reasonable out of whole family. Another son, never babtized, did crazy stuff and caused lots of troubles, but if he occassionally enters KH, he is love bombed.
here's a new article that came out:.
do jehovah’s witnesses baptize infants?no.
the bible does not endorse infant baptism.
cognitivedizzy 4 hours ago
true story
Family, two sons, one DFd due to him no longer believing this is the TRUTH, younger did not get Baptized but does crazier shit and is downright vile, cannot be DFd, family can have a normal relationship with the evil younger son, the elder one who left for sane reasons cannot have a decent relationship with them anymore
some people on this forum have said that they never really believed any aspect of wt teaching, that they couldn't wait to get free of it all.. others seems to have been really gung ho, believing it all until something happened that got you questioning "the truth.".
i would say my own high water mark was about 50%, which put me squarely on the fence, trying to decide if i should be in or out.. how about you?.
good Question.
I was raised as a witness,initially I believed everything.
Later, when my interest in science grew, I stopped believeing, that all animals will eat veggies in paradise, I had doubts about a worldwide Flood, and I thought the trumpets in Revelation were bogus.
I also anticipated a change in explaining the generation in the 90`s,
I always knew the Society got 1975 wrong, it was not the rank and file fault, as they tried to blame them.
But all this was not the real issue for me.
What started to wake me up were the inconsistences in their blood doctrine, because this meant life or death for people.
