this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.
(i don’t go on jw dot org).
it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.
Elder Berry
What you are describing is just a continuation of the old theme “Promise them a Pie in the Sky, so they will be content for now to have crap”.
The problem with that idea is a thing called the internet, which makes it harder and harder to keep up that “Pie in the Sky” charade. (Particularly when it becomes obvious to all who make even a cursory search that the JWs have been waving around almost forever that same carrot on a stick).
here is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.
my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.
i had actually become a circuit overseer!
Ex Circuit Overseer,
Out of curiosity, was your experience one of the “Road to Damascus” type - or was it more accumulative, over a longer period of time?
this is the watchtower study article being studied today.
so it’s the current new light!.
what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.
Didn't they do the same after the fallback of 1975? Appoint elders early when old timers realised the gig was up?
There were instances of that when the "elder arrangement" was first implemented. Amongst the first group of elders to ever be appointed in our district (which happened during September-October 1972), there was one who was only 19, and at least one other who had attained the mature age of 21!
As far as I can recall, though, these were "one-off" situations. By the mid to late 1970s, they made a particular point of only appointing those who were in their late-20s or older. (And used to look down their noses at the LDS "Elders", most of whom were barely in their twenties).
this is the watchtower study article being studied today.
so it’s the current new light!.
what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.
Elders only in their early 20s - The very same thing they used to criticise the LDS for.
like the one in tennessee, this one in maddison, wi, was done be a female.
the police chief points out that: .
“yes, i don’t know whether [the shooter] was transgender or not, and quite frankly, i don’t think that’s even important.
freedom of the press is not something these Countries enjoy.
Not according to the organisation, Journalists without Frontiers (an organisation much concerned with censorship of the media). Their experience has been quite different.
https://rsf.org/en/2024-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-under-political-pressure
Anyone who thinks that Britain is on a par with China when it comes to freedom of the press really ought to think again! Bloody Hell - the USA ranks lower on the World Press Freedom Index than does the UK.
this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.
(i don’t go on jw dot org).
it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.
Beth Sarim
Absolutely!
According to Raymond Franz in Crisis of Conscience, the then President of the WTS even admitted that.
https://www.jw.org/hwc.
i just discovered this translation into 'hawai'i pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.
they even dubbed the caleb and sophia cartoons into this dialect.. not because i look down on pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways..
Bribie,
You have a PM
https://www.jw.org/hwc.
i just discovered this translation into 'hawai'i pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.
they even dubbed the caleb and sophia cartoons into this dialect.. not because i look down on pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways..
If English is your first language, the Papua New Guinea "Tok Pisin" language is not too difficult to pick up.
For example, a roadside sign at one of PNG Power's hydroelectric power stations reads:
LUKAUTIM GUT: ("Look-outim Good" i.e. Pay Attention)
Draiv isi ("Drive easy" - used in this context, "easy" means to drive both slowly and carefully)
Rot bilong man-wokabaut ("Rot" = Road, and "man-wokabaut" i.e. man-walkabout = pedestrian)
What the last sentence is saying is that, within the plant, pedestrians have right of way.
(It must be said, though, that Pidgin is not "baby-talk or similar; it is a language in its own right, and grammatical errors are quite possible - just like in any other language)
as someone who never grew up in the shadow of the wt, i love reading accounts of people who began to wake up and think that the wt wasn't all that it represents itself to be*.
and especially when they see that the things that they were told to avoid were harmless at worst, and quite often fun.
christmas is a prime example.
The cynic in me might say “The main role of Christmas is to give everyone an excuse for a booze-up.”
However, the reality is in fact quite different. In my adopted family ( going on 22+ years now), it is more like an annual family reunion. Always held on Boxing Day, there are 50 -60 people in attendance - with the number growing yearly as more of the younger set get married and have families of their own.
that's what the word says.
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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..
Joey,
