two days ago a new book was released for download, called "ever-changing teachings of jehovah's witnesses".
it was originally written by a polish jw scholar (who never was a jw himself) włodzimierz bednarski, with a help from szymon matusiak, who was a jw and an elder, and is a result of years of labourious work to compile quotes regarding every single doctrine the book describes.
it covers the most important changes in years 1879—2015.
Relevant to changes in the blood doctrine... http://imgur.com/a/7lqEJ
i.e., acceptance of a transfusion to be deplored, not necessarily disfellowshipped ; offending person to regarded mainly as "spiritually weak," not wicked. From 1958 Watchtower, I believe.
In all, a much more enlightened, comparatively reasonable approach.
sometimes it's hard to know if our own experience of jws was typical and what features were peculiar to our own area or the individual jws we knew personally.
i was wondering if others experienced this among jws:.
a few times on the ministry, when we were working wealthy areas with large houses, some brothers and sisters would make the comment that they look forward to taking ownership of one of these big houses after armageddon, when the worldly people have vacated them.
In a word, yes; I encountered it often in the course of working through the affluent areas of the territory with a group.
according to our sources, germany bethel will take in charge all treasuries for all europe starting sept 1st.. each bethel will deliver the funds as a donation to german legal entity.. gold ages for ibsa and other entities in eu are over :).
"must a lot of noses out of joint and sour faces from the heavyweights of the UK Bethel"
So I guess we can figure out how they're going to vote on the Brexit referendum!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46pnudcub0.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpqeptnux3o.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijg_-bz-k8.
Kudos to you wifibandit; what you're doing is of immense value, and I for one greatly appreciate it.
i know jws have long used the word "shun" in a general sense, as in "shun what is bad".
but i think they have long avoided using the word in relation to disfellowshipping.
in external media or literature wherever the word "shunning" was used in a piece about jws it was usually a good indication it was critical of watchtower and not a neutral or supportive commentary.
It's a word they've consistently avoided in the past, much like their aversion to "converting" or "conversion. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzgd8oa2re .
Here's a perfect example of how a typical "worldly" (read "normal" here) non-JW reacts when encountering JW propaganda intended mainly for the initiated.
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when i first saw the video, i was like, "wait... is that her... panties showing through the dress"?and it seems like it is so.turns out that if you look at the middle right of the video, there are some letters.
it reads, "footage provided by pond5".if someone wants to purchase that video to confirm, you can purchase it here:http://depositphotos.com/63621499/stock-video-violinist-girl-walking-through-a.htmli think that this was a royal mess up because i doubt they would put footage of a sister in a skimpy, revealing dress.doesn't the gb approve this?this will probably go down as another of the "subliminal images"...if there are thongs in paradise... might not be so bad after all!.
"I imagine that almost 100% of JW's would think that all the scenes and actors in the vids are JWs and the footage is shot by JWs, but no quite a bit is bought in footage produced and acted by "worldly people"."
That to me is the more damaging (ok, revealing! ) aspect of this video episode.....
one sentence answers only.. here's mine:.
jws exist because people want an escape from the modern world and are willing to give up intellectual freedom to get it..
The fear of death and the allure of easy answers/solutions drive them into the arms of the cults.
a few days ago i read a post of someone who has recently awakened to what the watchtower bible and tract society really is.
in their comments, they stated that they had been accused of "running ahead of jehovah.".
"running ahead of jehovah" was a statement levied at me many times during my convoluted journey through that organization.
I guess they've forgotten James 1:6: "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. about."
i was visiting with my family and it seems the rc was worse than i thought.
now they all seem to think that "we are so close to the end" and that the "brothers are really preparing us for the gt".
some even saying that soon our message will change to a judgement message for mankind and talking about how we need to improve "everything we do".
Boy, they're setting themselves to be a laughingstock .... the GT is their trump card,; once they announce its beginning, they've crossed the Rubicon there's no turning back... they will expend whatever's left of their credibility on that one call,,, and what do they do for an encore? .
