so all the bs and hyperbole aside, to me it really looks like the cult is in trouble.
shrinking member, selling halls.
the move to televangelism is really strange to me.
Definitely the Borg is in serious trouble....having no meetings at KH represents a lot less of revenue...maybe the only option is selling all the KH and just keeping the Assembly Halls...going like full internet, stopping preaching, etc.
However, religion in general is suffering a lot the same way due to Covid.
i live with my parents in law and yesterday, my mother in-law was very nervous about an email she got from the brothers in her congregation.
it was asking if she would be able to receive people over at our house should there be a catastrophe.
so, she asked me if i would agree with this.
When I think about all that money that the central banks are creating lately that make make me a little nervous too....but nothing is to happen. Remember, the Borg has been in catastrophe mode forever and ever.
just because you believe something as truth, it doesn’t make it truth.
religious leaders may be admired and believed but they could be dead wrong.
politicians can spout out “facts” that support their truth yet once further evidence comes through these facts are questionable.
Yeah...Pontious Pilate say too: "The truth, what's the truth?"
what do you guys think....the topic seems to being on fashion lately.
some in the borg told me one time "of course, they are for real, they could be angels, demons".. .
Ohhhh...it's just the media that seems more receptive now to the UFO thing....not long ago was so fringe and lunatic.
By the way I always thought that ET life could be so different...maybe we could not even detect it.
Yea, smiddy3 some topics here become ghostlike really fast...
someone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
I'll bet that Awake is gonna be digital edition only...such a lovable provision....I think Watchtower too....just imaging simplification and huge $ savings!
what do you guys think....the topic seems to being on fashion lately.
some in the borg told me one time "of course, they are for real, they could be angels, demons".. .
What do you guys think....the topic seems to being on fashion lately. Some in the Borg told me one time "of course, they are for real, they could be angels, demons"..
israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.
evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict needs a strong peacekeeping force, like the one, remember in Kosovo, supported by the UN Security Council and Nato. When it started had like 40 k troops and it worked. Otherwise the conflict is gonna drag more or less forever.
someone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
Maybe they are gonna print just one public Watchtower and one Awake each year...or make it biannual. Change coming for sure...
don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.
let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.
france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.
It reminds me....China....is...."the King of the East" ....or better....now is part of "King of the North"....don't give them any ideas.
parte de la informacion de los anuncios y recordatorios por parte de la watchtower mes mayo 2021traduccion:"3. agradecimientos por donaciones: elogiamos los esfuerzos de los muchos publicadores que se han adaptado a utilizar métodos electrónicos de donación para apoyar los intereses del reino, como por ejemplo utilizando donate.jw.org.
se ha hecho un ajuste para unificar la forma en que se reconocen todas las donaciones recibidas en la sucursal.
una vez que se reciba su donación, se le enviará un recibo por correo electrónico para reconocer el importe de la donación.
I'll bet is gonna end in something like this: "Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most Highest God received 10 percent from Abraham....we are not under that, but what a lovable example for Christians. It is not at least that we should follow that example?
If everything is gonna be electronic they could encourage the 'happy donor" at least to be at 10 percent.
