thank you very much atlantis for all your hard work and for emailing a letter written by the watchtower (coming from the german branch possibly) to be read out to congregations by elders.. there is so much wrong in this letter.
maybe some of it is due to being lost in translation but since the watchtower is predominantly english, it doesn't seem likely.
the letter is as follows -.
JW News on JW Org no longer carries their story announcing the tragedy. It's been removed and there is no mention whatsoever on JW Org.
Because they are preparing pleas for what is stated below.
Likely the the next step is to announce that funds can be donated to the World Wide Work.
Remember, WT does nothing out of genuine love for fellow man/woman or without ulterior motives. It's going to be milked for all the $$$$$ they can guilt members into parting with.
jws see shunning as a loving provision.
but if a mennonite gal is shunned by her parents and friends for converting to jwism, would this be seen as a loving provision or as evidence of persecution?
how about parents beating a daughter who converted to jehovah's witnesses?.
Why can WatchTower call the expulsion of Mennonites cruel while calling expulsion of JWs a loving provision?
"Rules for thee, but not for me!"
i overheard my wife listening to '2023 governing body update #2, presented by kenneth cook jnr.
a few points i got from it.. new hour requirements.
quote "with the new hour requirements for pioneers, many us us can share in the pioneer work.
Quote "with the new hour requirements for pioneers, many us us can share in the pioneer work." Let's read between the lines on that.
Okay. Let's read between the lines on that. Quote "with the now minimal hour requirements for pioneers, all of you must now take up your share in the pioneer work. Those who rebelliously choose not to will be judged as 'not of our sort' and shunned accordingly."
I heard that type of comment in passing by a still-in JW who said, "With those low hours NO ONE who is faithful should not be pioneering now that we are soooo close to Armageddon!"
during the massacre of many witnesses at a kingdom hall in germany the other night, where was jehovah's holy spirit ?
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some said "perhaps they had a secret sin..like Achan..that blocked god's holy spirit.
Yeah, kind of like when they intimated on their broadcasts when the COVID Plandemic was getting up to speed that following all the orders and mandates of the governing body would protect JW's from getting COVID.
jws often try to justify their religion as being the only true religion.
questions like.
which other organization is doing this or that?
So, it doesn’t matter what you personally believe; preach what the people expect from you, preach what the society asks.
My answer to that would have been: 2 Timothy 4: 3-4, "For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths."
it it not easy for me but i would like to share with you my story and my take on what happend and is happening in jw.
for some my view can be unacceptable for others can be useful.
in fact it can be answer to the question: why am i still even bother what's is going on in this obviously corrupt organization?
Another iteration of the same idoubtbigtime, exbethalitePIMA, etc.??
mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.
at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.
single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.
@Freemail - re: your post 21 hours ago.
How very grown up and intelligent your comment makes you seem.
By the way. . .that was sarcasm. So now even a fucking idiot like you can understand!
Sometimes I get irritated and let it show. My apologies to the rest of you members here.
remember the made up stories of witnesses in djibouti,africa where they had to walk 2 days in alligator infested waters with no shoes in the blazing sun to attend the meetings?
they made it to the meetings in these terrible conditions.. talk about made up stories!
here is a field service experience that was told at yesterday's public talk which would fall into the made up stories!.
A few years back there was an experience on one of the broadcasts.
It was the wife of a C.O. telling how she was the ONLY member of her immediate family who persevered in Bible study and JWism while the rest of her family pursued "worldly" goals. She said she had the help of her granny. And it was through HER that they all eventually (returned to Jehovah) took up the JW burden.
I grew up with her family. Her parents and mine were close friends. I knew her grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and siblings.
Her story on the broadcast was at the best very close to outright lies. That is one of the now "missing" broadcasts from what I have been told.
hi everyone i’m not pimi or pimo i’m pima.. i don’t think the gb have everything right but i’m sitting on the fence that maybe they do some things.. if the great trib starts i will jump that side of the fence.. this is a definite little sneaky advantage dodging but even by their own doctrine last min some could come in.. i suspect many are like me.. i spent years in bethel and am very disappointed and disillusioned by it all.. but at the end of the day i love the bible and think it is the word of god and i don’t see any other religion that comes as close to what jesus describes his true followers or who are fulfilling mat 24:14..
ExBethelitenowPIMA, is that you indoubtbigtime?
.......you will experience a fate worse than death!
you have been warned - don't come crying to me if you don't go.
you've got one month to change your mind.
would not a more severe punishment be meted out to one who spurns the Lord’s Evening Meal...?”
