"How many locations does the WTS have now and past ones."
What happened to Patterson?
news is that the ramapo project has been approved by authorities and can move forward..
"How many locations does the WTS have now and past ones."
What happened to Patterson?
yesterday was remembrance day/veterans days in canada.
we had a couple younger half wits in the cong in field service yesterday.
both are trying to climb the ladder with the entire elder body ready to die in the next 10 years.. i just of thought it was a dick move to go door to door about the merits of fighting for freedom or not fighting on such a sacred day.
A lot of these days are paid public holidays that JWs feel no personal obligation towards. Perfect conditions for getting car groups together and finding people at home. A dick move, for sure, but perfectly logical for a contrarian group who have issues with mainstream churches and government.
Historically, it wasn't just about public holidays. In 30 Years A Watchtower Slave, Schnell says that they would deliberately have field service on a Sunday at times when the mainstream churches would be holding their services. That way they could find the disillusioned churchgoers (American society was much more church orientated in his time) and persuade them to give the JWs a chance. I think they held their Kingdom Hall meetings at non traditional times on the Sunday, such as during the afternoon.
i know we get a bit cynical and hard boiled about the exploits of wt inc. but this takes the biscuit.
apparently these ecuadorian indigenous people objected to being targeted by the sect.
so wt inc rode in and guess what?
A link might be nice.
https://youtu.be/tppmprdxxzw?si=shh5vkmuzfp6c9_m.
so the watchtower has come out with sn article, study article 2 in their newly released study watchtower magazine for 2025 and we see from the start how they keep perpetuating the same old outdated narrative that when it comes to marriages the husband is the one at fault, we'll thats i think when i read paragraph from this article where i man has to work on a whole list of things and not once the wife is instructed to do any of these things, but let's just read together paragraph 14:.
what are these steps?
"Apparently, there is a problem with a lot of JW men abusing their wives both physically and verbally or why the article?"
I learned many years ago that when a WT article says "True Christians don't", it really means "A lot of JWs are".
i wasn't surprised they didn't go online, i was shocked.
the perfect opportunity handed in a silver plate.
more time goes, more proof coming they took wrong decision going back to hall's.
There's no reason why they couldn't bring back the book studies and make them zoom only. Weren't they abandoned due to the high risk of CSA incidents in private homes?
BTW, what is the Tuesday night meeting that I "witness", as I pass the Kingdom Hall, on my way to a different church's Bible study? Lots of cars in the Kingdom Hall carpark, and people getting out of them.
disfellowshipping is slowly fading into the night.. last efforts to survive.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1gh3ilq/wt_vs_norway_wt_sends_letter_to_the_goverment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button.
Why November the 14th? Is there some financial deadline that the WT is working towards? Perhaps part of the tax/payout cycle?
Boogerman, great suggestions on your part. 👍👌🙏
disfellowshipping is slowly fading into the night.. last efforts to survive.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1gh3ilq/wt_vs_norway_wt_sends_letter_to_the_goverment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button.
The new shunning, same as the old shunning. 🙄 I hope that the Norwegian Government doesn't fall for this trick.
realistically, between now and 2034, what do you think watchtower will change or reform to appear more mainstream?
what business opportunities do you see watchtower getting involved in?.
my predictions are as follows: .
"I wonder how Jehovah’s Witnesses will respond if 20 years pass and the end has not happened?"
The way they always have. Watchtowerites have been expecting the end within a very short time for about 140 years.
A Rumph parliament.
the watch tower society of pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on september 3, 2024, naming as defendants the russian federation, the russian ministry of health, and the almazov national medical research center.
unfortunately, i can't access the case documents, including the complaint.
i would appreciate if someone with an active pacer account could make them available.. anyway, it is enough to know the almazov center is one of the entities sued by the wts to say what this case is about.
Most organisations, both religious and secular, would probably "take the L" materially in order to protect their people living in those situations. The WT have no such scruples.