even some democrats are advocating for reopening society, and are at least hoping for some point in 2021, but the governing body just announced that they're canceling the assemblies in 2022 as well, aiming to restart in 2023. .
they're really milking this 'pandemic', because as soon as things go back to normal that sense of urgency will start to die again, and publisher counts / meeting attendance will go down as well.
i wonder how many jws are suffering form (additional) depression from this as well, because with meetings, assemblies and conventions at least you could see and meet new people, as well as socialize.
the Governing Body just announced that they're canceling the assemblies in 2022 as well, aiming to restart in 2023.
The actual announcement is that special conventions are on hold until 2023. No announcement has been made about "normal" regional conventions or circuit assemblies.
"Special conventions" are those mega-sized international do-ups that feature talent shows by JWs, special field service arrangements for delegates, overpriced airfare & hotel arrangements for delegates, etc.
this concept was leaked here not too long ago, and it was just announced at the next section of the 'annual meeting' on jw broadcasting.
they allude to it being a half hour series and say that it will cover literally every detail in all four gospels in chronological order through the course of all episodes.
they also insinuate that it's the most ambitious project yet (i guess making use of that new media production facility).
Can't wait for the dialogue where Jesus tells his disciples, "This generation will by no means pass away....actually, before I go any further, let me tell you guys that by 'generation', I mean two groups of people who just happen to have a couple of months or years of overlapping lifespans, so, for example, someone born 70 years after another person was born, but whose life overlapped the life of the older guy, well, see they're really just one generation, and even though the first guy died at age 99 30 years earlier, if the younger guy is still alive, then that generation is still the same, see, and...WAIT! Hey come back guys! I'm not done yet, I haven't even touched on the part where it's not only their lifespans that have to overlap, but their period of 'being anointed' has to overlap too, see, and....Huh. Where did everybody go? Hmmm, maybe next time I'll make a chart."
this concept was leaked here not too long ago, and it was just announced at the next section of the 'annual meeting' on jw broadcasting.
they allude to it being a half hour series and say that it will cover literally every detail in all four gospels in chronological order through the course of all episodes.
they also insinuate that it's the most ambitious project yet (i guess making use of that new media production facility).
Fffffpht - "support".
i.e., "give us gobs and gobs of money".
if it is a non-jw who did this as a result of their pandemic campaign (letter-writing and telephone calls), jehovah’s witnesses really need to check themselves.
they have been directed by their new york headquarters (since last year shortly after the start of the pandemic) to send letters to only people they know.
people don’t like receiving unwanted, unrequested, unsolicited letters and phone calls, especially from jehovah’s witnesses.. if it is a former member who received a letter as a result letter-writing pandemic campaign- most former members do not like being harassed by active jehovah’s witnesses and have been directed by their new york headquarters to send letters to and call only people they know.. .
People have been getting peeved by JWs for many decades, I dare say centuries.
Kingdom Halls all over the world have been vandalized hundreds or thousands of times over the last 50-60 years.
It's not clear why you think this particular vandal did this as a result of recently receiving a letter.
when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?
i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.
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It would be great if a WT reference to this teaching could be found.
"Ask, and ye shall receive".
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1999323#h=14:0-15:594
God’s people once understood that the first phase of the great tribulation began in 1914 and that the final part would come at the battle of Armageddon.
However, in later years we have come to see things differently. On Thursday, July 10, 1969, at the “Peace on Earth” International Assembly in New York City, F. W. Franz, then vice president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, gave an electrifying talk.
Then a significantly adjusted explanation was offered: “To correspond with the events of the first century, . . . the antitypical ‘great tribulation’ did not begin in 1914 C.E. Rather, what took place upon Jerusalem’s modern antitype in 1914-1918 was merely ‘a beginning of pangs of distress’ . . . The ‘great tribulation’ such as will not occur again is yet aheadYou can get a whole long list of "clarifications" here:
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200277174#h=1:0
"Let the reader use discernment" as to which is wackier - old beliefs, or current beliefs.
someone i know from england is a nurse.
she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.
she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.
I know of a nurse in the UK who had covid last year, got the vaccine in December and is in hospital now with Covid in January.
I one time heard about this person who was wearing a seatbelt, got in a head-on auto collision, and died anyway.
So why bother wearing a seatbelt, hey?
someone i know from england is a nurse.
she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.
she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.
I'm hearing that several people are still getting the virus after vaccination.
The vaccine requires time for the immunity to "kick in" Plus the vaccine is only 95% effective, meaning that "several people" will still get COVID after vaccination.
Didn't we already establish these points?
when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?
i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.
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But at that time it did seem to make a lot of sense during the "Cold War"
That's what's missing these days.
Back in the 60's & 70s, it was all rubbish and foolishness, but at least it was coherent crap. If you suspended belief in reality, you could pretty easily imagine the WTS picture "fitting" world events. The puzzle pieces fit together.
Today, it's just fluffy panda-petting promises and behavior modification guidelines.
someone i know from england is a nurse.
she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.
she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.
Peaceful Pete,
Hard science and facts are merely a distraction on threads like this.
On discussion boards like this....but I digress....
when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?
i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.
.
You can now read an entire year's worth of Awake magazines in like 20 minutes.
Literally.
Although, which really is worse: Silly bullet points copied from the back page of "Psychology Today", or 40 pages of Fred Franz's blather about the type / antitype relationships between Antiochus !, Ptolemy, etc. vs. 18th and 19th century popes.
Which is worse: Brief, vacuous nonsense, or long-winded pseudo-intellectual claptrap that aspires to be profound but is just essentially word salad?
