source - march 2021 announcements - - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5085868283920384/2021-march-147-english-german-announcements-reminders.
this is a sobering reminder of what happened some 40 years ago when raymond franz and others were literally kicked out from the jehovah's witnesses for having pre-arranged private spiritual discussions.lesson: paragraph 7 is another example of the i and t in dr. steven hassan's bite model of the 21st century cult - information and thought control at its best!!!!
"my gosh, there must be a lot of independent meetings these days.
The JWS heads (GB) have always been paranoid about people actually reading or studying the bible by itself.
Why ?
Many who do end up leaving the JWS after seeing their many false doctrines.
Obtained power can vanish if you dont instill regulations, controls, brainwashing technics with imposed fear and guilt, complemented with ignorance .
Maybe Harry and Megan withdrew from the Royal identity and participation because they thought it was phony, old and pretentious like many people today ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYA3oTG8fg&ab_channel=SketchiT
we were told we were part of the world if we got involved in politics.
if we had employment that had political involvement we were instructed to get another job.
we were told we might be considered disassociated if we voted and then it became questionable.
As I mentioned previously there is no instruction or admonishment for Christians to not participate in governmental affairs in the bible.
There have many devout practicing Christians and other religious denominations who do or have been involved in politics.
This forced separation from participating in world governmental affairs is not unique to JWS there are many religoius organizations who have the same doctrinal enforcement.
It becomes a bit ironic and hypocritical when these groups (JWS) take money from these governments from established worked upon social assistance programs.
These religoius groups seem to overlook matters when it concerns money.
I think the British Monarchy is now out dated and serves no real effective purpose other than to glorify a select group of people/family members because their own past heritage of power and control .
A colored Afro America brought into the Royal family through marriage .
My god ....... I shall faint
a number of states are allowing people to not wear a mask.
some think this is disastrous!
what’s your view?.
We have governments to thank for protecting their populations, as well financing and distributing the vaccines which is going to put their populations back to a state of normalcy.
Is it valid to be overly critical and disrespectful for these people's objectives and endeavors ?
a number of states are allowing people to not wear a mask.
some think this is disastrous!
what’s your view?.
Either way we are saying good bye to this virus problem this year.
Restrictions will be lifted in well vaccinated countries, travel border crossing will resume with some possible restrictions to countries which haven't been immunized completely.
Pre pandemic social activities will return.
Thank humanity and higher education for saving us.
No gods to thank this time
i recently had an online exchange with an active jw about the blood issue.
he originally wanted to talk about the potential dangers of transfusions but i pointed out that the risks of transfusions have nothing whatsoever to do with the reason that jws reject blood, and therefore i didn’t see any value in debating that topic.. not able to let it go, he then insisted that the blood mandate was a common theme throughout the bible, quoting acts 15:29.. it’s been a while since i looked into the subject, and i admit i’m now a little rusty when it comes to recalling where to find biblical quotes, but i remembered that there are passages in both the new and old testaments that, when read in the context of the time they were written, call into question the watchtower’s rendition of acts 15:29.. i offered to do some bible research and get back to the jw, suggesting that rather than letting our discussion become combative, we could have an informative and interesting exchange of ideas.
i reassured him that i was not looking to undermine his convictions, in fact i was more than happy to be corrected if my thinking was wrong.
Lets say there was a medical procedure of withdrawing blood from a person who died and that blood was used in a blood transfusion, then the JWS's no blood doctrine would certainly have viability and strength.
Obviously this isn't the case though the blood has not been withdrawn from a person who had died and has been taken out with no particular or detrimental health issue.
in the year 2000, our congregation decided to split into three separate congregations because of growth.
there were 186 members.
the kingdom hall had only 190 seats.
This situation of people seeing their funds that they paid for renovating their Kingdom Halls vanish by the persuasion of the money controllers of the WTS. is not unique.
Entire properties with buildings on the them have been sold and the assets forwarded to the WTS.
source - march 2021 announcements - - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5085868283920384/2021-march-147-english-german-announcements-reminders.
this is a sobering reminder of what happened some 40 years ago when raymond franz and others were literally kicked out from the jehovah's witnesses for having pre-arranged private spiritual discussions.lesson: paragraph 7 is another example of the i and t in dr. steven hassan's bite model of the 21st century cult - information and thought control at its best!!!!
"my gosh, there must be a lot of independent meetings these days.
Not surprising since the JWS is controlled brainwashing
Reading the bible alone by itself is admonished in the JWS cult.
