i was told today that my jw family had a massive family gathering with presents exchanged, drinks and a big roast dinner.
they even wore paper hats.. the day they chose for this family day?.
26th december.. totally not christmas or anything - honest.. does anyone elses family do that?
We did it since we had our first kid.
Many in the congregation with kids did to.
"family day" just around Xmass.
And my VERY in inlaws did turkey at Thanksgiving - cuz it was the only day everyone had off.
People rationalize whatever is important to them.
during gerrit loesch's talk just released, he goes on a long list of the false end times predictions throughout the millennia.
i didn't expect it, but then he goes into the precursors to the bible students who, when their dates failed, changed christ's presence to have happened 'invisibly'.
then it goes right into the jws, and he reads the quote from millions now living will never die about how we can 'confidently expect' the resurrection in 1925, and then the life everlasting book that predicted 1975. of course, he doesn't say how it's still going on, namely with the overlapping generation and its' accompanying convoluted chart, but still, this is more than they've ever said on the subject, especially recently.. it almost sounds like a forced statement, to address any backlash from people reading 'apostate lies' online, because he also says how the gb 'humbly' admitted mistakes, referencing the non-apology after 1975 that disturbed raymond franz.
I just watched it and to me its not a backpedaling at all!!!
Its the same old same old - We told you not to expect anything - but you did, see you should have listened.
1975 was only a "possibility".
"It was regrettable that people mistook what we said."
"No reason to be shaken in the faith"
"the date is not important, being faithful is"
ABSOLUTELY not walking back anything!!!
during gerrit loesch's talk just released, he goes on a long list of the false end times predictions throughout the millennia.
i didn't expect it, but then he goes into the precursors to the bible students who, when their dates failed, changed christ's presence to have happened 'invisibly'.
then it goes right into the jws, and he reads the quote from millions now living will never die about how we can 'confidently expect' the resurrection in 1925, and then the life everlasting book that predicted 1975. of course, he doesn't say how it's still going on, namely with the overlapping generation and its' accompanying convoluted chart, but still, this is more than they've ever said on the subject, especially recently.. it almost sounds like a forced statement, to address any backlash from people reading 'apostate lies' online, because he also says how the gb 'humbly' admitted mistakes, referencing the non-apology after 1975 that disturbed raymond franz.
I think the way any of us would take it is completely different than how an average IN JW will take it.
Remember back when we were in?
hope you are all well,.
i was wondering within the organisation if there are any guidelines or grounds for nullifying a baptism.
see i grew up a jehovah's witness and was baptised at age 13, i didn't get baptised for the right reasons, i felt pressured to because my friends were getting baptised at the same time.
Whats the point, you would be Shunned anyway.
it can be beautiful landscape, etc... share it with us!
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Well it would be of a nude woman - or a 1000 of nude women.
But either Starry Night, or I could go with The Pale Blue Dot thats already above.
i received a call from a friend in new york city that don adams passed away late last evening (30 dec 2019).
many of you bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the gb got out of the corporate structure business.
from what i understand, he was generally liked by many there.. some in my family knew him.
My family knew him.
I met him a long time ago.
Thanks for letting us know, I will tell my mom-in-law, she knew him.
the 2019 report is out:.
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/media_publication/29/syr19_e.pdf.
the “average publisher” figure for individual countries has made a comeback!
Average Population Growth is about 1.1% - so really No One is coming into the Org, just born-ins.
so i use to go this hall that was basically 100 percent white and basically anyone under the age of 40 has either faded or makes a token effort to keep the peace at home, of course outside of the usual dregs of society .
the hall went from two congs to one and i was quite happy that in ten years they would be lights out.
then in the last two years about six young filipino families have moved in and three of them are newly baptized .
No not at all.
I don't get that connection?
Wish you and everyone a Happy one!
Lots of controversy on this blog, but we all share a very special connection that is almost impossible for non exJWs to ever understand.
some points for awakening jw's to consider in 2020: .
"joining a cult: religious choice or psychological aberration" by dena s. davis.
some of the following characteristics are listed:.
Isn't everyone in a Cult - unknowingly in a Cult?
I mean, no one says, hmmm today seems like a good day to join a cult.
