i was a jw for over 50 years and recently just stopped cold turkey going to the meetings.
years of sitting at the meetings with the boredom, the gloom and doom, repetition of doctrine, the gloom and doom, the fake love, the gloom and doom, the end being so close, do more - do more, just got to be too much for me to stomach.
i stopped praying to god and no longer thank god for the food before i eat.
If he would have brought the end in 1975, close to 800,000 million people would not have been born who now have to die.
Aw...but in true WT "logic" that means that there would have been 800,000 million people that would have never had the oh-so-loving opportunity of joining the WT and avoid being slaughtered simply for being born...
at the agm on oct 7th, his eminence miserable morris iii stated the jw yearbook would cease publication and that the annual report would instead be released via the "about us" menu in the jw website.
related to this, the "life and ministry meeting workbook - january 2018 (living as christians)" outlines the following item to be considered jan 1-7 2018...."annual service report: (15 min.
) talk by an elder.
interview publishers, selected in advance, who had outstanding experiences
Typically here it is an "experience" along these lines: "I noticed a young mother with thirteen children having a hard time changing the youngest ones diaper in a 60 MPH wind while keeping an eye on the other twelve, and holding the leash for seven family dogs who were all trying to run in different directions. So I kindly engaged her in a long winded discussion about the Awake magazine's newest article on the mating habits of of the Tse Tse fly, and how in the Paradise her kids could pet pandas and cobras. She said she was too busy to talk so I gave her Jay Double U dot Org calling card and told her how to use her phone to look up more things for her kids. I don't know if she did or not, but I look forward to sometime seeing her at home and finding out."
clap...clap...clap...clap....
Thank you sister busybody for your encouraging experience! You never know where you will find a interested person victim to talk to.
reading the meeting workbook study for this week to see what my family will be reading at their meeting, once again they are asking for members for generous gifts not only from money they earn but also part of any investments they may have and making future arrangements for them to inherit after death through their wills.
take a look at the lower part of the page on this link, its awful!
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20151115/donations-worldwide-work/.
Frankly, I'm surprised they included this one:
CONDITIONAL DONATION ARRANGEMENT
Donations of cash with the condition that it can be returned if needed by the donor.
Oh, but just wait, see how damned near impossible it is to get any of it back when it is needed! Remember, money only flows ONE WAY in the WTB&T$...and that isn't from them to those in need!
just talking to someone recently about former co's in our area.
it went as follows,,,,george cook,saw that he was now in princes congregation or should say the former prince.. brother gwaltney,,nw usa area now drives a school bus his wife sold cosmetics at a nordstrom.
brother spangenberg had to leave co work as his wife was sick ,,went to low paying menial job.. brother ---- cant remember his name but he is now working a a waiter in a italian restaurant,,singing as requested by customers.
Brother Spangenberg had to leave CO work as his wife was sick ,,went to low paying menial job.
Not sure if it is the same Spangenberg, but in the Roswell, NM (USA) area there was an older guy with that name that had all sorts of "I remember..." stories. Seems his wife was a bit of a hypochondriac, and he finally had enough and died. Or maybe he got fed up with being ignored by all the young bucks running the show, and their obvious lack of love and checked out.
he became co when he was 23. i was wondering is he the youngest co ever?
his name is jonathan smith.
he is from south dakota.
Jonathan Smith was in South Dakota, though that was not his home state. Actually not to bad a young fellow. Not afraid of the old-timers who liked to "lord it over the flock" as I remember. I knew him in the early nineties. He was single at the time. Some years later I spoke with him briefly on the phone. He was in Tennessee at that time. Had also married by then. No idea where he is now.
It seems the better C.O.'s usually drop from sight. Definitely in the case of circuit overseers the cream does not raise to the top.
the cover page shows a photo jws loading a small plane with watchtower literature to take to a remote area in bolivia.the first study article introduces the 2018 year text isa.
40:31 "those hoping in jehovah will regain power".
according to them, you may leave home to do field service or attend a meeting feeling exhausted but you return home refreshed and 'jesus' yoke is kindly indeed!
More wheedling for money?
Good grief, it's getting tiresome.
Wish I could give 100 thumbs up votes for that comment. I may have to be PIMO for the time, but I do everything I can whenever these begging articles come up to make it plain what I think of their money grubbing.
.....the truth was not the truth... ?
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(John 13:35) 35 By this all will know that YOU are my disciples, if YOU have love among yourselves. . .
The blatant lack of meaningful love between "brothers" and "sisters". As long as you look like them, talk like them, eat like them, bathe like them, walk like them, drive like them (well we all get the point) they "love" you...but the second you are not a mirror image clone of what they want you to be the love just psst disappears!
If they are not disciples of Jesus then there is no way they can have the truth according to their own Bible. (John 14:6) 6 Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. . .
this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.
1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.
6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.
Dammit...I just spat coffee all over my keyboard! I wish I could give you more than one vote up!
this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.
1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.
6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.
Study Watchtowers will now be simplified or rather be in a simple language
How much more simple can they get?
Instead of a regular "study" WT written at a third grade level plus a simplified edition written at a first grade level there will be just the one written at a second grade level. This effectively also cuts the number of "study" WT's in half.
when i was a jw, i relished explaining my beliefs and why we had the truth!
lol.
todays witness has no clue , in my opinion..
@The Fall Guy
Agreed. However, the JW will look at that Bible directive and see only the words (1 Peter 3:15) But sanctify the Christ as Lord in your hearts, always ready to make a defense before everyone who demands of you a reason for the hope you have, but doing so with a mild temper and deep respect.
And their eyes will glaze over and they, being ALWAYS READY, will robotically point the other person to the web-site. Never will they truly understand that is NOT what is meant by that Scripture. Sad.
