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  Remember...Remember...The Sixth of November?

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  some big announcement or reveal is coming from the borg november 6th, according to the exjw reddit.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/13xljaa/secret_boxes_to_be_opened_only_in_november_6th/.

  what do you guys think it could be?.

  my guess is a study companion to go with their new jesus series, they really need to rebrand at this point..

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  FFGhost

  The day of opening coincides with a monthly broadcast so it sounds like there will be an announcement.

  Yeah that’s it exactly.

  The sheep are not responding with the unbridled frenetic ecstasy that the gb was hoping for with regards to the door to door work.

  So, they’ll probably announce in the November JW broadcast some sort of “special campaign”, maybe an official “Kingdom News #896” (or whatever number they are up to) for some upcoming month. The “confidential boxes” will contain the congregation’s allotment of tracts.

  It may well be some sort of “hard hitting message” like the by-now forgotten “The End of False Religion is Near” tract campaign maybe 20-25 years ago. Something to get the householders riled up to feed the JW persecution complex.

  They’ll announce the “special campaign” on the November broadcast, then distribute the tracts at the CLAM that week.

  Watch for lots of “don’t miss the November broadcast! Don’t miss the meeting the first week of November!” breathless announcements in advance.

  It’s little more than a silly enthusiasm generator to try to get JWs back to the Kingdom Hall (they’ll say you can only get the tracts at the KH) and back in the door to door work (they’ll say it’s essential that “everyone” gets the tract).

  In other words: same old, same old.
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  Normal people don't give a darn if you're a witness

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was posted on exjw reddit, check it out if some of you never have.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/13q6k5l/normal_people_dont_give_a_darn_if_youre_a_witness/ .

  i find this to be the case, people in general are so not interested in religion that they really could care less about jws.

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  FFGhost

  But….but….but….

  It’s a vital life saving work! The greatest witness the world has ever known! The nations shall know that I am Jehovah!

  Pfffft.

  Not only does no one give a crap if you are a JW or not, this “vital life saving witness work” has not made an iota of difference in the world at large.

  if you polled a cross sample of 1000 people worldwide and asked them “what is the message of JWs?”

  — 500 would have never heard of them

  — 450 would barely be aware of their existence but would never have interacted with one

  — 49 would say “oh those are the guys who sell Watchtowers and don’t take blood”

  — 1 might….MIGHT….know something about JW doctrine

  Worldwide preaching work…pffft.

  As I’ve noted numerous times, if “Jehovah” as conceived of by JWs really existed, and really did charge them with a worldwide preaching work, he’d execute the lot of them for the piss poor hash they’ve made of it.
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  New Convention Song “ It Will Not Be Late”

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this made me chuckle.

  a new song that they are encouraged to practice for the convention.. “ we know your day will come, sure as the rising sun.

  no matter how long it takes , it will not be late” …………... it is based on habakkuk 2 , we discussed this in depth around 1973/1974.

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  FFGhost

  Clunky tune, awkward lyrics, hard to sing….

  All the earmarks of a Splane splecial!

  You’d think someone with a special pipeline to God would have been told by said deity, “Dave, pal, stick with the charts and the overlapping stuff, leave the music to people who have a clue.”

  Apparently not.
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  Weasel Word Phrase--The Bible Does Not Say...but

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the bible does not say—the weasel word phrase that bugs me the most.

  note that though the wts says this, it then proceeds to add :.

  after jesus’ birth, why did joseph and mary remain in bethlehem instead of returning home to nazareth?.

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  FFGhost

  Lol.

  The full story:

  ”The Bible does not say”, but if you dare to breathe a word in contradiction to our suppositions, we’ll have 3 elders on you to disfellowship you for “causing divisions” so fast it will make your head swim.
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  Young "Elders"

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ever since the annual meeting last october and the letter to bodies of elders stating that "exceptional young men perhaps in their early 20's could qualify for appointment as elders.." it even states this in the updated elders manual!

  have any of you pimo's, pimq's, or those on here with family/friends still in hear of any young men being appointed as elders yet?

  i am talking 21, 22, 23, 24 etc.

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  FFGhost

  LOL ^ 100

  It really shouldn’t be surprising that the gang whose members…

  — have never had children * but write millions of words of “counsel” on how to raise children

  — have never paid a bill (or missed a meal) in their life but write millions of words about “Jehovah will (somehow) provide”

  — feel that women are not qualified to so much as carry a microphone (let alone teach a male) but write millions of words on how “Jehovah dignifies women”

  ….somehow also think that a kid just barely old enough to drive, who may not even need to shave more than twice a week, is “qualified” to give potentially life altering guidance to people old enough to be his great grandparents?

  As I am wont to say…

  Morons.

  * well, they did have one GB member who sired offspring, but of course they unceremoniously fired him a couple of months ago
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  Predict JW life in future

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a sister said the other day at the ministry group “”what is all this talk that the end is still some way off” she said she has been waiting for decades and she was told there is no way it would take this long.

  some others said in an annoyed kind of way yes they would have made different decisions decades ago if they knew the end still would not have come by 2023.. how will the majority react in a few more decades time when the end still hasn’t come?.

  why all that talk of sense of urgency decades ago?.

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  FFGhost

  how will the majority react in a few more decades time when the end still hasn’t come?

  Same way they react now: quiet resignation as they spin on the hamster wheel.

  why all that talk of sense of urgency decades ago?

  It’s their mind’s way of protecting itself. To admit that they were duped, perhaps for their entire lives, would cause such devastating depression, if not insanity, that they tell themselves (and any others near enough to hear) “it CAN’T be far off now”.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  FFGhost

  Jehovah God has never killed or had children killed.

  Except for those really hungry bears at 2 Kings 2:23.

  Oh yeah, and the flood.

  And Sodom and Gomorrah.

  And Achan’s family (“Daddy, what did you do? Daddy?….”)

  And….and…..and…..

  Other than that, yeah, he’s let the majority of the kids alone.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  FFGhost

  How could they possibly ever decide the best way to do this, they can’t exactly hope people wouldn’t notice that fat Tony hasn’t been on the broadcasts for a while.

  That’s just it - he WAS on the broadcasts, very recently.

  He gave the “governing body update” in late December, recorded just a few days prior to air time.

  His annual meeting talk was included in the January JW broadcast.

  A month later and whammo! No longer serving.

  This was a bolt out of the blue. This was no gradual decline in health, no “I think I need to spend more time with family” situation. They’d never have recorded and broadcast him in December and January if they knew there was even a hint he might not stick around.

  This was something really big, really sudden, and REALLY bad.

  But your question is a good one - how could they possibly think this was the best, or even a good, way to handle it?
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  FFGhost

  Just thinking more about this announcement….

  While they ostensibly give counsel against gossip in JW publications and talks, those at Bethel know how quick and pervasive it is. What’s the old joke - “what’s the progression of the quickest way to spread news? First the telegraph, then telephone, then television, then tell-a-Bethelite”.

  They know - absolutely 100% without doubt know - that anyone older than 50 will remember the Ray Franz situation, and “everyone” knows Ray was a <gasp> apostate., and the identical thing has happened to Morris, and do you suppose he’s an apostate too?….will be the thought process.

  They KNOW this will happen, they could have prevented it with even a slightly softer wording but they chose not to.

  The more I think about it…he got caught doing something really bad and they can’t, or don’t want to, stop the gossip and assumptions that are sure to come.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  FFGhost

  Whoa Nelly! Second time I’ve said that his week.

  Naturally no reason is given, but the timing with the developments in Pennsylvania is certainly interesting.

  This sort of thing just doesn’t happen. Certainly wouldn’t be a health issue - they kept Barber, Gangas etc. on the GB long past when they were mentally incapable of doing much more than keeping their eyelids open.

  The last time a “no longer serving” announcement was made was in 1981, for Ray Franz. AMIII is almost certainly not an “apostate”, he doesn’t seem to have the intelligence or character to make a principled stand.

  The terseness of the announcement makes me think it is disciplinary. And if so, it’s something far worse than “being caught on video buying $800 worth of scotch” since that happened many years ago and the video has been freely available since then.

  I keep coming back to the Pennsylvania CSA thing. Can’t say for sure that’s it but boy it sure would explain things.