last night i ran into a former elder friend, he is in his late 70s.
he asked how i was doing and i asked how he was doing.
then out of the blue he tells me; .
John Aquila,
How do you do it? I am assuming you have faded or at least not regularly attending, and yet people come to you and trust you with stuff they wouldn't trust another brother in the faith. You certainly have a knack for getting the kind of stories people want to hear. You are just like the best sellers fiction writers. You know what the public wants.
similarly, we cannotexpect that the future interruption inthe great tribulation will result in aninflux of new believers.
rather, it willbe an opportunity for all true believersto prove their love for jehovah andgive their support to christs brothers.. (par.
7, page 16, wt july 2015).
Half banana, prologs, lemon party,
Yes, a good part of the article seems to reflect an anticipation of events to come that they expect will result from recent and current world news related to the WT.
Yep, the money part seems to be at the front of their concerns.
They seem truly concerned about what's coming, and they want to spin it to their advantage to soften the blow.
similarly, we cannotexpect that the future interruption inthe great tribulation will result in aninflux of new believers.
rather, it willbe an opportunity for all true believersto prove their love for jehovah andgive their support to christs brothers.. (par.
7, page 16, wt july 2015).
Similarly, we cannot
expect that the future interruption in
the great tribulation will result in an
influx of new believers. Rather, it will
be an opportunity for all true believers
to prove their love for Jehovah and
give their support to Christ’s brothers.
(Par. 7, page 16, WT July 2015)
The underlying message here is that the WT anticipates that new members will be close to zero as a result of the bad publicity that we have seen and will continue to see in the near future. But also, I read that they want to turn the present and future unpopularity of the WT into evidence of the great tribulation, and thus prevent a mass exodus. It's not a bad tactic, it's worked before.
what is it about some of these self proclaimed "christians" who go seeking persecution when it don't exist?.
we've had a case locally in calgary where the initial reports sounded like the person had a legitimate claim: a bus driver didn't want to drive the bus in a gay pride parade and said he'd resign if they made him and that the local transit company was threatening him to force him to do it.. except it was all invented ... by him !.
they already proactively told him that there was no danger that he would be asked to drive that bus in the parade (i.e.
Viv,
"Sorry, I struggle to concern myself with someone who's argument boils down to "can't make a complete sentence"."
"whose" would make your own sentence look better
today i attended a one-day assembly in my hometown.
i knew when it came time to read the afternoon expenses that it would be an incredibly high and ridiculous amount that was nowhere near the real expenses for that day.
sure enough, after lunch came the announcement.
"12 baptized (3M+9F)". Only 1/4are males. Of those three, one is quite likely to quit soon. This will be a religion composed by a women super majority, but controlled by chauvinist males.
Ladies, please explain....
is this double talk or is it just me?
it's a comment in the sept 15, 2015 wt about higher education:.
11 today, we are blessed with much knowledge of jehovahs works of creation and the outworking of his purpose.
Paradisebeuty,
Small correction, "study only the latest watchtower magazines and publications". They don't want you to check anything that is only few years old. That alone would reveal too much.
that was the question to me tonight.
because of their beliefs they have a moral compass, a net work of friends and a support group.
they have what they believe is a loving god.
today i attended a one-day assembly in my hometown.
i knew when it came time to read the afternoon expenses that it would be an incredibly high and ridiculous amount that was nowhere near the real expenses for that day.
sure enough, after lunch came the announcement.
@bohm
"500$?! how is that even possible, my uber-jw in laws by all accounts donate at least 100$ per convention and likely more. The entire family alone would likely donate more than 500$ total"
Is it possible that what they say and what they do are two different things? Real spiritual people don't talk about giving large donations.
i stopped regulary attending meetings and going in field service in january.
the elders have left me alone for the most part i think because of my jw husband.
last week my parents came over and told me i needed to come back to meetings.
from reddit:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3iipt9/its_happening_a_big_news_story_in_one_of_the/.
Mad Irishman,
Without doing any research, i feel that you are right. However, as mentioned before, the larger issue is not the relative incidence of child abuse, it is the callous disregard for victims by the WT, as it is reflected in their procedures to deal with child sexual abuse. That's the BIG problem
