Posts by Mikejw

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The Reason Behind Recent Watchtower Changes

by Vanderhoven7 in

eric wilson's video is worth a view.. https://youtu.be/iil4fryuczk?si=f566n0tdqgpqc2ok.

Mikejw

They have experienced numerous health issues since including a major surgery for her. She acknowledges the GB was wrong to push them but still keeps saying they’re just imperfect men and this is still Gods true organization 🙄🙄

Yes I have found two different ways JWs cope with the GB vaccine issue.

1. The GB never actually direct us to take the vaccine they always said it’s a matter of personal choice.

2. Yes the GB did direct us to take it but they are just imperfect men trying to do their best and this turned out to be a mistake.

The truth is they clearly did give wrong direction when they should have stayed neutral. They were the ones who caused division. I suspect this was probably one of the most divisive directions the GB have ever given with the most numbers of JWs writing in than any other direction they have given.

This is part of the reason for so many radical changes recently and I guess a lot more to come.

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Japan Probe into Child Rearing Practices of JW's

by Sea Breeze in

apparently in response to the probe of jw's in japan, the wt is seeking positive stories of jw's child-rearing practices:.

from reditt: .

re: urgent: request for assistance.

Mikejw

I do remember when I was a boy, exactly what the highlighted part said being talked about a lot.

Doctor Spock who was one of the experts at the time wrote his first book saying don’t hit your child at all. Then he updated his view saying “the only thing that book was good for was to hit your child with it.”

yes he really said that I can’t find it now maybe the internet is trying to hide it but I remember it clearly being talked about in the congregation.

JWs had to defend their stance on hitting children. They thought it was Satans world who said don’t hit them and Jehovah wants you to hit them. Of course they put it another way and use that scripture about not sparing the rod.

They have flip flopped these days saying it’s the rod of discipline and not literally hitting them with a rod.

but when I was young it was understood to be a literal rod, I remember talks about it and the general feeling that they were right, they were so sure of it. All those parents in Satans world had it wrong not to hit their children and we are so grateful to have Jehovah to tell us to hit your children and they will thank you for it when they grow up. Well I’m grown up and I don’t thank my dad for hitting me so much

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The Reason Behind Recent Watchtower Changes

by Vanderhoven7 in

eric wilson's video is worth a view.. https://youtu.be/iil4fryuczk?si=f566n0tdqgpqc2ok.

Mikejw

Lawyer quote:

"The F&DS class area a theological arrangement. And to understand what that means, think of a musical arrangement, you can listen to it, you can read the sheet music, but the sheet music isn't the music. You can have a recording of it, but it doesn't exist."

What a load of hot steaming lawyering manure.

I have always noticed and admired in a way how the branch office has its own version of reality. Everyone else is a guest in their reality.

As an elder of many years myself I often noticed an official request or even a legal demand to something that I personally would not question or delay in getting it done. But the branch does not comply or even reply sometimes.

I was surprised at the time, I didn’t even think that was an option to not reply and keep ignoring the letters.

The branch office really does have its own reality and everyone else just has to accept that. If they say they are like a piece of music that can be in the page when it suits and they want free money from the government but then they are like music that can’t be recorded when they don’t want to take responsibility for anything they don’t like

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Conscription FEARS to END? Jehovah's Witnesses in EUROPE?

by raymond frantz in

https://www.jwupdates.com/post/conscription-fears-across-europe-could-end-jehovah-s-witnesses.

as the clouds of war are gathering fast over the european continent many countries including britain are contemplating a return to conscription and some form of mandatory military service.

considering the fact that the watchtower fought long and hard especially in europe for the right of its believers to abstain from military service it is very interesting to see how this new development will affect the watchtower across europe.

Mikejw

Jan you must have your head under a rock.

How could you possibly not know?

Its in all the papers. All the news everywhere has had this as one of the top stories. The Metro in London has a big spread with lots of opinions. They think the new woke agenda conscription will not work.

They say the woke these days if called up for conscription would want to have gender neutral clothes be wrapped up in cotton wool, stay in bed until they felt like getting up and then winge and cry that it’s not fair the Russians are shooting at us🤣

Hard times create hard men, then hard men create soft time. Soft times create soft men and then soft men create hard time and the cycle repeats.

We have a society of soft men now and next comes hard times.

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Conscription FEARS to END? Jehovah's Witnesses in EUROPE?

by raymond frantz in

https://www.jwupdates.com/post/conscription-fears-across-europe-could-end-jehovah-s-witnesses.

as the clouds of war are gathering fast over the european continent many countries including britain are contemplating a return to conscription and some form of mandatory military service.

considering the fact that the watchtower fought long and hard especially in europe for the right of its believers to abstain from military service it is very interesting to see how this new development will affect the watchtower across europe.

Mikejw

Here in the UK all the papers and news is talking about conscription coming back.

I think the situation is far worse than most realise and war between east and west is inevitable. It’s kind of already started but in a couple of years it will be clear. UK&USA plus Israel and their allies against Russia&China and the Muslim countries plus their allies.

m China are waiting for the West to run out of resources fighting for Ukraine and the Middle East problems before they choose the ideal time to retake Taiwan.

Yes there will be a conscription in most countries. There will be alternatives like working in hospitals or firefighting.

Or go to prison which many brothers will do because they feel working in other area’s support the war effort.

I can see this in a few years from now

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Geoffrey Jackson goatiegate Part 2

by Tahoe in

from ske graduation this past weekend.

(sent from a pimi).

from ske on zoom: .

Mikejw

I doubt the three pictures with the goatie they were fake

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Geoffrey Jackson goatiegate Part 2

by Tahoe in

from ske graduation this past weekend.

(sent from a pimi).

from ske on zoom: .

Mikejw

Jackson has a new talk on the front page without a beard

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My grandmother called my mother

by Anony Mous in

so, i’m just posting this as a warning to lurking jws.

if you’re still on the fence, here is a story.. my grandmother, now in her 80s hasn’t talked to anyone in the family for over 20 years ever since my mother was the last one of her children that left ‘the truth’, she had sent my mother a card to never talk to her again.

so here we are 21 years later, she gets a call out of the blue that she needed help, she hadn’t been able to get into her kitchen.

Mikejw

What annoys me is when adult children ask the congregation to take care of their aged parents.

The Bible says it’s the responsibility of the children doesn’t it?

often brothers and sisters in Bethel or busy with some work for the org are told not to stop working for the org but instead ask the local congregation to look after their parents

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Is there “new light” on 1914?

by wallsofjericho in

i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

is this regarding 1914?

or micheal the arch angel?.

Mikejw

Scholar Are you serious or a troll? You genuinely still think Jerusalem was destroyed in 607? You think that 7 times prophecy for Nebuchadnezzar had a second fulfilment and can be made into 77 weeks or years and that pointed towards 1914 when the Bible was written? You actually believe that?

And because that prophecy pointed towards 1914 that was going to be the year that Jesus waited until to this year to be called Michael the archangel to finally battle with Satan and the demons and throw them out of heaven.

Then using a totally random other obscure part of the Bible come up with three and a half years later which should be 1917/18 but let’s stretch it to 1919 and say this is the year that Jehovah chose his one true religion on earth?

You genuinely believe all of the above? If so then you do not live up to the name you have chosen for yourself

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Is The GB Paranoid? And Should They Be?

by NotFormer in

the gb seems to have a bunker mentality, that they are special, and that the world is out to get them, so they tend to keep within their tightly controlled, protective environment.

bottlegate proved that there is some danger outside of the rarified atmosphere of their echo chamber; you never know when a camera might be trained on you, or that someone might recognise you as being something more than plain old "joe citizen".

further, tm3's new address was quickly found and distributed, and (as i understand it) someone drove to his gated community to tell the security guard that tm3's "ass is grass".

Mikejw

The GB do have access to the secret bunkers and a few others at the very top including some top financial supporters.

They all know it’s not true the JW doctrine and they also know it’s the best way to keep donations coming in to support their luxuries.

Not only luxuries like staying in hotels paid for by block booking regional conventions, flying first class paid for by donations, but also the reverence and respect they get from rank and file.

Everywhere they go they get treated like royalty. The best food the best gifts.