when i was a kid i would hear religious songs on tv and start sining them... not knowing they were church songs... one day i started singing the hallelujah song (not sure the exact name of the song) my father quickly gave me a hard slap on the mouth and said if i ever sang that song again he would take his belt off and beat my butt until it was red!.
well fast forward 30 years..... the public speaker was missing today and so tv.jw>org to the rescue.... instead they decided to play the new video about the last hundred years since 1914.. instantly the hall was filled with the exact same song i was punished for!
yes a church song filled the hall for almost 5 minutes as we watch br.
They admitted that their teachings were corrupt back then, but it's all good now - at least since the 1950's.
"The anointed remnant of spiritual Israel have been cleansed of past derelictions in matters of worship, and their field of worship has become pure and blessed like the original Eden." w51 10/15 p. 639 QFR
was just thinking of how i used to sit in audience growing up at the kh hearing of "those in noah's day" eating and drinking and what not during some wt article.
i thought, "those poor people, doing what their hearts desire, and then perishing because they were not people of jehovah.".
they lived, partied and died.. we don't live any differently today.. we are those people.. we thought we were the exception.. fools we were.. phae.
What happened to Noah and his family?
Oh yeah, they died too.
i have a serious problem that i cannot solve on my own.
i was born-in but am only in by a thread at this point.
i quit the tms a few weeks ago and wrote a post on it.
carey barber ..................b 1905. lyman swingle.................b 1910. albert schroeder.............. b 1911. john barr ..................... b 1913. daniel sydlik...................b 1919. milton henschel ...............b 1920. theodore jaracz...............b 1924. and.
guy pierce .....................b 1934 (b.
1 year before end of h.c.)*.
i have a 2011 new year resolution to avoid reading jw literature or watch their videos.i am not "religious" about it, and will watch/read excerpts, but pretty much stick with that resolution as it only angers me when i read the stuff.. well, someone posted their video of philippines disaster relief due to a 2013 typhoon as a response to a news article to demonstrate that they are not really helping and that it is just propaganda.
i watched the video and was immediately able to see what the hell is wrong with jw's and their leadership and, as i figured- i was angered.. so i will post this link, but then go back to not watching/reading.
it just isn't worth it.. in the video, when they knew the storm was coming, the pre-planned disaster relief people texted elders to warn them to evacuate.
The video says at 2:40 "Before the storm hit, the Philippines Branch office began coordinating the evacuation and relief efforts.'We are preparing for the typhoon because the news said that we need to prepare, so I text everybody, every elder...' (- Rodnie Barcenas Circuit Overseer)."
So yes, the branch knew the typhoon was coming, they planned the evacuations (to kingdom halls?), instructed the CO's, and made sure all elders and congregations were informed of what to do.
Cedars covered this very well at the time. He calculates some figures:
"According to the 2014 Yearbook, the population of the Philippines is 97,701,745. And according to this new video (and official figures), Typhoon Haiyan claimed the lives of 6,200. That is a mortality rate of 0.0063% for the country.
By comparison, Watchtower claims to have 185,000 Witnesses in the Philippines. When we include all those presumed dead with the confirmed figures, this gives us a mortality rate of 0.024% among Witnesses for Typhoon Haiyan – nearly four times the previously stated figure."
If you're interested in this topic it is worth reading.
jwsurvey - Philippines video
as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!
) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.
i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.
many, many, many posters here have wondered what happened to the religion that they were raised in or baptized into 20 or more years ago.
i just got the shock of my life on jw(dot) org.tv!
there is a video testimonial of an american indian witness that was inactive for many years and has now begun to preach again.
No, beards are still bad.
In this weeks WT study there's a cartoon style picture with a brother being tempted out for an after-work drink.
You guessed it, one of his tempting colleagues had a beard.
Beard = Bad.
wt dec 1880 (no.
6) p. 5 "false christs".
"we have reason for believing that after 1881, there will be wonderful spiritual manifestations.
WT Dec 1880 (No. 6) p. 5 "False Christs"
"We have reason for believing that after 1881, there will be wonderful spiritual manifestations. The prince of the power of the air...[Devil and his angels]--The rulers of the darkness of this world [wicked spirits--] will now make a last great effort previous to their binding, at which time these powers will be subdued.
Those angels which kept not their first estate God hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. They were cast down to hell. ("Tartarus" lower atmosphere--our air.) For 6000 years these spiritual powers have been deceiving and misleading mankind.
These like the good angels, have also had power to appear as men, but they must always appear in the dark, for God had placed them under darkness."
this brings back memories.. https://instagram.com/p/0n8sxirizd/.
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https://instagram.com/p/0n8sxirizd/?taken-by=marcusastanley.
I felt the same way during those super long and totally unfollowable resolutions.
"We Resolve..... snoooooze...... CLAP CLAP CLAP!".
"Can we go now?"
i'm in contact with service and writing and brochure first step there bleeding publishers they can't take it anymore publishers are depressed because they feel they must shun others and they know it's unloving.
I'm in contact with service and writing and brochure first step there bleeding publishers they can't take it anymore publishers are depressed because they feel they must shun others and they know it's unloving.
I'll translate:
"It's starting! Shunning will stop - brochure is first step.
I'm in contact with the service and writing dept's, and this new brochure is the first step. The publishers can't take it anymore. Publishers are depressed because they feel they must shun others and they know it's unloving."
My view is that the new brochure to reach out to those that have left comes from the realisation that increase has all but stopped, and the only audience never previously targeted are those who have gone. They have haemorrhaged millions of people over the last few decades and now want their donations.
Another thread on this topic said the new brochure is really for those already 'in', to show how much the GB care for the lost sheep. I think that's a very valid position as well.
I can see elders being ordered into a special effort in every congregation, checked by the CO, to contact every one who ever used to be a JW.
In response, ex-JW's should be aware of this and use it as an opportunity to expose these elders to TTATT. Find something in the brochure to discuss that sheds light on the falsehoods and danger of the Org - maybe even the scriptural view of shunning itself.
