Posts by FFGhost

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Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!

by pistolpete in

yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.

FFGhost

And, boom! Just like that, they pulled the announcement. It's no longer on the website.

No explanation given.

My first thought, when it appeared on Wednesday, is that some schmuck in Bethel IT pressed the wrong button and a draft copy got posted sooner than they wanted. But then it stayed up 4+ days...a goof up would surely be fixed before 4 days, right? Until Sunday, then one moment it just disappeared.

The rank & file are reeling a bit. I'd say it was about 50/50 between great joy at the prospect of returning, vs. fear & anxiety & "is it too soon"? Couple that with absolute radio silence to elders & COs about any plan whatsoever, and now apparently it's "oops, never mind, forget we said anything, carry on".

Something weird is going on at the compound. Anyone have any Warwick contacts who can give us the real story?

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Robert King aka e-watchman

by RolRod in

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friends

there have been a few post about robert king, the first was 16 years ago, the last was 9 years ago.

just to the let the old timers here know, he's still at it.

and for you newbies, robert king who wrote "jehovah himself has become king.

FFGhost

Well if a man who can stick tea-spoons to his chest isn't the messiah, I don't know who is.

Ooh, I know that one!

If it's not him, then surely it's the Diana Ross "drag" impersonator living in a dumpster who found the subliminal artwork in the Revelation book of a "sleeping black baby Jesus" and determined that that proved he was the Messiah (old timers on this forum will get the reference )

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2022-March-English-S-147-Announcements And Reminders!

by Atlantis in

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friends

2022-march-english-s-147-announcements and reminders.. see #4. https://www.filemail.com/d/npkqffhqzlttaly.

https://we.tl/t-ad3e9y8pdp.

atlantis!.

FFGhost

It all seems so perfunctory and boring.

You're just now figuring that out?

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Any in-house word on Ukrainian Witnesses form HQ?

by careful in

has anyone heard any word on active witnesses inside the ukraine and what has been happening with them the last week or so?

i checked the official org website but there was just the expected "fulfilling bible prophecy" stuff.

perhaps someone here has bethel contacts who have leaked some info on what the gb is trying to do for these victims of putin's madness?.

FFGhost

I've seen a few stories passed around via social media - mostly the typical stuff about Jehovah protecting Ukrainian JWs against all odds.

I imagine there will probably one of those insufferable "governing body updates" on JW broadcasting in a month or 2 filled with "enhanced" experiences more or less grounded in reality.

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The Watchtower—Study Edition | May 2022

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | may 2022. study article 19. revelation—what it means for you today.

15 satan instigated an attack on the anointed brothers who were taking the lead in the kingdom-preaching work.

prominent ones among them were the figurative “two witnesses” spoken of as being killed.

FFGhost

LOL on the "atomic bombs = fire from heaven".

Almost as good as those 1920s (?) Golden Age articles tying "Leviathan" from the book of Job to steam-powered locomotives.

But you know, JWs after the WT study will be all "W-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-w.....that's so de-e-e-e-e-e-p".

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The Watchtower—Study Edition | May 2022

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | may 2022. study article 19. revelation—what it means for you today.

15 satan instigated an attack on the anointed brothers who were taking the lead in the kingdom-preaching work.

prominent ones among them were the figurative “two witnesses” spoken of as being killed.

FFGhost

Looks like they still identify the "8th king" as the United Nations, but....

It barely gets a mention. 3 articles, 60+ paragraphs all about Revelation, and the UN is mention exactly once, almost in passing.

Used to be that the UN was front and center in WTS end-times rambling about the book of Revelation.

Maybe they are working on phasing out that particular interpretation?

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Attendance increasing?

by redvip2000 in

the time is at hand!

quickly run to get shelter is jellohoba's ark.. yup it's here again, a newly minted crisis for the org to capitalize on.

i'm sure jdubs are buzzing with excitement on the prospect of the big a arriving with the russia invasion crisis.

FFGhost

As with all other crises:

Inactive & fence-sitting JWs will be scared back to the (now virtual) Kingdom Hall. It will last a month or 2, they will see that the world isn't ending (and be reminded of utterly soul-draining JW meetings are), and will disappear again....until the next crisis.

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An upcoming Watchtower article saying if people Pioneer Jehovah will provide!

by LongHairGal in

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i saw the post on reddit and the thread got many responses..can anybody believe the religion is still saying this??

it has to be as plain as day that so many jws are poor and struggling today because they never got a career or decent job years ago.. sadly, there are still witnesses who believe money will fall from heaven if they are in the full-time ministry.

they expect some miracle to occur..but, we all know the truth: people in the congregation will be hit up for yet more money for another bunch of irresponsible people pursuing poverty.

FFGhost

I'm still haunted by the memory of an older couple who spent their whole lives in the "full time service". Never earned much money in their "secular work", no pension or savings other than Social Security (which was not much as they didn't work or earn much).

The one asset they had was their house.

Which they sold upon reaching retirement age, with the idea that "this will surely be enough money to live on, renting a home, until the end of this system of things, and we can continue pioneering".

10-15 years later, the proceeds of the sale of the house ran out. He was in his late 70s and had to go get a job. Struggled for years as his energy declined, but had to work. Then he gets a terminal illness.

Went to visit, close to the end. He was dead long before his heart stopped beating. An utter look of defeat and futility in his eyes. Scarcely said a word. "God only knows" what was running through his mind. There certainly were no happy retellings of a "life full of Jehovah's blessings" while paging through a photo album like they show in the JW Broadcast videos.

Hey JW lurkers, there's your future in a nutshell, if you heed the WT's advice that "somehow, Jehovah will provide".

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Adam & Eve: Perfect but not everlasting life?

by pixel in

so i was watching annual meeting.

towards the end of jackson’s talk, he says: .

“perfection doesn’t automatically means someone will get everlasting life.

FFGhost

I think it's probably based on their interpretation of Genesis 3:22:

Now in order that he may not put his hand out and take fruit also from the tree of life and eat and live forever—

Their idea is that the "tree of life" somehow magic-theologically conferred eternal life, and that they were somehow prohibited from getting to it even before messing with the "tree of the knowledge of good and bad". That somehow this blockage to that tree would be lifted once "X amount of time" had passed and they "qualified" to eat from it.

This is what you get when you have semi-literate guys who would be hard-pressed to hold down a job as a cashier at Wal-mart as your theological visionaries.

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Governing Body needs qualified ''early to mid-twenty year old elders''

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

https://avoidjw.org/files/en/docs/doc-s/s-147/2022/s-147-22.01-e_bi.pdf.

avoidjw.org has posted a letter titled, ''announcements and reminders january 2022.''.

the governing body are always changing bible procedures.

FFGhost

Long discussion on this topic here:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6019809971011584/more-cracks-dam-wts-pleading-elders-their-early-20s