"we're living in the final part of the last days, undoubtedly the final part of the final part of the last days, shortly before the last day of the last days!!!".
how are they going to phrase this in ten years time......
As a small child many decades ago, I had Armageddon nightmares. It was on my mind constantly because they talked about it constantly. Nothing has changed.
It is amazing the duration of crying wolf that WTC has practiced. Now I imagine a recording playing in a loop from Warwick while the GB eats a roast chicken and sips chianti. Does anyone seriously believe that they have ANY CLUE of how to explain the Bible?!
recent news on the jw website:.
town of fishkill, new york, u.s.a., gives approval for new support center of jehovah’s witnesses (jw.org).
on october 27, 2023, site plan approval was granted for new construction at the bethel facilities in the town of fishkill, new york, u.s.a. this approval from the town planning board means that work on the new fishkill support center of jehovah’s witnesses can begin immediately.
Keep your eyes on the KHs. Everything else is a distraction.
Similar to the Chinese who overbuilt, creating ghost cities, WTC is spending what they have (left), in an effort to create an illusion of prosperity.
In reality, they cannot figure out how to get members back to the meetings, much less reengage their hearts as they were in the past.
as the title says i'm having a total hip replacement on monday.
the pain has grown over the years and now i'm using a cane to walk.
after steroid injections and physical therapy, it was decided that a total hip replacement is appropriate.
Glad you are doing better. The report on your bowels is important but a little too much information… for me anyway.
The Witnesses are pretty good about visiting, especially if they can count time or get out of D2D work. Tell them you need help with the bed pan and they will leave you alone.
Take care my friend! Your experience gives us all hope!
fyi, i posted this prediction on my facebook page last night and it has received 224 likes and there have been 83 comments made.
many of the comments are hilarious.. .
a beard prediction for 2024:.
Brothers don’t leave the Org so that they can grow a beard. They grow a beard so that they can leave the Org.
I saw a brother comment that with the change in beard policy, he was losing excuses for leaving the Organization. This pretty much sums up the situation in Watchtowerland.
I recall being counseled for not shaving for a couple of days. I didn’t respond so they left me alone. I guess they read correctly that I cared nothing about their opinions. Fast forward and I have been out for a while. The beard change made me laugh - do they really think this will keep brothers from leaving? They are not the brightest bulbs in the lamp! Need I add “delusional”?
'use vegetable oil and soft margarine in place of animal fat,'.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101997444?q=vegetable+oil&p=par.
'when possible, cook with unsaturated vegetable oils.'.
Let me share this with you. My daily routine of a dozen donuts, a Mountain Dew and a bag of Cheetos is my secret to health. I chase each with some High Fructose (3 TBSPs at room temp) I got at a discount at Dollar Store.
On the weekends I fry 1/2 lb of lard and bread it with crushed Fritos so that I get the proper balance of animal fat. Sometimes I add a cup of quality white sugar to some melted butter and sip it slowly along with a cigar and a Bud Light.
For a pick me up snack in the afternoon when I am sluggish, I nibble on a few (6) Hershey bars and some Little Debbies filled with cream. A couple of Red Bulls help - just don’t overdo it. Let moderation be your guide.
This diet/routine makes me feel really good so I recommend it to everyone who cares about their body. I can’t believe Watchtower has failed to mention the benefits. Now you know! Good health to you!
lett has announced in the latest video update that jehovah has dignified the brothers by now letting them to choose for themselves whether they want to have a beard or not -.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/region/global/2023-governing-body-update-8/.
this applies worldwide and to all brothers in any position..
Rattigan - you should write them a letter!
The change is clearly a softening due to so many Brothers leaving, but let me offer this view:
1. Brothers do not fade because they want to grow a beard. They fade because they don’t like being managed by a high control group that over reacts in trivial matters
2. Like the field service reporting change, this is driven by the need to stop removing privileges when a man grows a beard. Many men did this so that privileges would be removed - plain and simple
3. More softening is likely. Hyper zealots use of judicial committees as a tool to inflict pain. I suspect that new guidelines are in the making to reduce judicial triggers and the harsh penalties for every infraction imaginable.
4. Probably no softening for sisters at this time. They don’t need to as sisters seem to be more agreeable to their control than brothers.
5. Redaction of all their unpopular restrictions that were scribed in the publications is now underway.
did rutherford have any "prophetic" justification for 1919 as the date that jesus declared him (ahem, the wt organisation) the fds?
such as some calculation attached to 1914?
that in 1919, jesus would come looking for his true organisation?.
Duran - well that's good enough for me! I am going back to WTC! They clearly have the truth...
as it’s nearly the new year my prediction over the next decade or so will see the sense of urgency dwindle.
then some huge huge changes.
for example by 2034 in a decades time, they will have address the 1914 issue and will come out and say we can’t be dogmatic.
WTC is disentegrating before my eyes, but in slow motion like a train that derails, folding up into itself and crushing everything in its way as body parts fly through the air onto the sides of the track.
Some telltale events could signal it's trajectory into the abyss, like:
Seriously, the recent defeats in court have shaken them up. The floodgates for massive losses are now open wide and plaintiffs are lining up to take their share, even if it's only a lazyboy chair from Mark Sanders room at Warwick. I even heard Donald Trump say that the only one getting charged more than him is WTC!!
I promise to come back and voice my astonishment if WTC makes it 5 more years without filing Chap 11.
.........because it would cancel out their "upper & lower class christians" fairy story - aka the anointed & non-anointed.. antitype: the fleshly nation of israel and exodus foreigner converts were participants of the mosaic covenant.. type: christianity - the israel of god ("spiritual israel") and gentile converts became participants in the new covenant..
NotFormer - WTC knows what a rotten Rutherford was, yet they hang on to some of his unique teachings. Did he conjure that one up while in bed with one of his paramours? I wonder.
our capacity for adaptation (there's an official term somewhere) is apparently very vast.
meaning that whatever is a novelty always becomes old news and apparently it happens very quickly.
human beings in fact have to put a lot of effort into not discarding valuable things and relationships because of our overwhelming tendency to become incredibly used to it and just plain bored with them.
I always marveled that anyone thought that man was made to live forever. Nothing else in the material world lives forever. The angels only live as long as they are faithful (according to JWs). So what is their lifespan without being "charged up" while continuing to be faithful? JW's teach that only God, Jesus and the 144K have immortality. They rest can only hope to have everlasting life. For a lot of people, that seems to be enough, but there is a lot to say about getting everlasting life.
I am not in the camp that says life would be boring. There seems to be an unlimited number of endeavors that one could explore. But I will need a good car - let me just add that.
Eve told the serpent that she and Adam could eat from "all" the trees except from one, the tree of knowledge. When they were expelled from the garden, the cherubs blocked entrance to prevent them from eating from the tree of life. I don't believe the tree had any special powers, but as long as they ate from it (which must have been whenever they wanted), they got "recharged" and continued to live. It was only an assurance that God would give them continued vitality. Letting them resume eating from that tree would have signaled that God had forgiven them - something that he did not seem inclined to do.
My conclusion is that man can only live when being "recharged", or revitalized. Otherwise, our telemeres get shorter with each cell replication and we age, then eventually die. Humans were DESIGNED to age and die, just like all other creations.
Is God prepared to do this forever on our behalf? That is the the real question for me. If you have the answer - let's hear it.
