i open a new topic, to find out how it's going in your area.
from what i see as a southern european in my constituency the situation is patchy.. the congregation where i am now has 30% old people on zoom but also young couples with almost all their cameras off.
no increase but a slight decrease in the total number of publishers.. circuit assemblies: before covid you couldn't find a free seat if you arrived 10 minutes before the start.
Our hall is growing through immigration , as is all of Canada. The majority are still very old and the majority of younger ones are still unmarried and childless. People in there late 20s to mid 30s think they have all this time, to establish themselves with a career and family. Sadly they are mistaken.
I guess this isn't a problem unique to the JWs. Our hall although growing somewhat is still a demograhics nightmare.
apparently there has been quite a stir in jw apologetic circles recently about the translation of john 1:1 in the early sahidic version of john.
i don't know if this has been discussed here before - if someone could give a link to a previous thread they know about on the subject that would be great.
here is what i gather: .
John is saying the word or angel of Yahweh in the Old Testament was Yahweh incarnate . The invisible omnipresent god becomes stationary and visible. The infinite becomes finite. The creator steps into the creation.
https://youtu.be/cdzydtuoblw?si=tyr8hgdgaiyn7c4h.
this was leaked only few days ago and it's a small segment of the video from the 2024 convention that has already started.
the video shows a jw logo down while worried jws are watching it as a news item on their tv screens, others are seen hiding from the police, others driving is the countryside to escape the authorities.
I really like when they push this angle. It makes any fence sitters realize that it has nothing to do with the bible. It is just a batshit crazy doomsday cult. I really wish they would make more videos like this.
there is an item this week all about yang ones leaving school.. the two brothers go to a career advisor seminar.
one brother thinks it’s good to work hard full time while you are young and tries to encourage his friend to as well.. his friend (who is the good jw trust the gb no matter what they say)) he wants a part time job.. the video shows him dreaming about investing his money on his phone and the chart goes up, he drives a nice car and seems to be doing well financially.. then he reads the scripture in proverbs and next you see that investment chart go down in the red and he is so pleased he just got a low paid part time job.. this infuriates me.
how many of us are now struggling because we were told to get menial part time jobs and we were told the end would have been here by now.. i will never tell a young person to listen to the gb advice on this.
I have two brother in laws . One is a heart surgeon and the other is an engineer working in the nuclear power industry. Both are at the top of their fields and both are published in scientific and academic journals.
The idea that some religious half wit tells me it is all done for financial gain is truly offensive.
apparently there has been quite a stir in jw apologetic circles recently about the translation of john 1:1 in the early sahidic version of john.
i don't know if this has been discussed here before - if someone could give a link to a previous thread they know about on the subject that would be great.
here is what i gather: .
The reference in John 1 as Jesus as the " word " of god, is the phrase in the old testament " the word of the lord appeared and the lord said. ". The physical manifestion of god.
The whole " a god " or " was god " doesn't really matter , unless you believe Jehovah or LORD was " a god ".
what are your memories of hall cleaning?.
i actually enjoyed it on the whole, my dad as the elder always tried to keep it to under one hour but in my later years in a hard-line congregation it was a chore.
the po's wife had a printed list and we had to complete it all before left (or got disapproving looks if we left after an hour).. as well as vacuuming the whole building the lost said you had to dismantle the vacuum and clean and polish all the internal elements.
I never liked the idea of asking young people with families to help out . It seems to me there are enough retired people and single weirdo’s to handle the task.
In my experience it seems like to pay special attention to people with limited time.
this was prompted by another thread where it was revealed that the gb were referred to as "our future kings" in a wt video.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4911685446402048/fun-moment.
if i've got it right, the 144,000 are (or were until recently) the fds.
The theme of the new testament is the covenant blessings of the Jewish people being opened to all of humanity. Any who believes what Christ did on the cross is sufficient for our sins and becomes the new person in Christ , these are the new people of god. The jew to the gentile.
Building core theology around the book of revelations that basically voids the new testament for anyone but 9 men is pretty bloody silly.
i used to attend the meetings and was baptized about 30 years ago but i haven't gone to the meetings or associated with any one i new from the congregation for around 15 - 20 years.
i want to get back to studying but i am not ready to go to any meetings.
other than the watchtower and awake what book is used these days for people just starting to study with jehovah's witnesses?.
Bible Study
hahahaha
Slander, Insult, eschatology based nonsense then unique dogmas and legalisms . Then throw is a health dose of narcissist boasting about being a member of a really special club. Then some idol worship of 9 magical wizards.
Lets sing a song. Two hours of your life you never get back.
There is no actual bible study. I have never met a JW who could give me a brief summary of the book of Romans or what the Gospel message is.
holy nativity batman!
on jw broadcasting.
final song for this year's convention.
Sometimes it feels like they are making fun of us.
just a moment ago irán started to attack israel, guess they're gonna end in ruins because israel has a way better army than other country in the region and the support of the us....hope the gas prices don't increase too much.... wonder how the borg gonna spin it..
Iran gave the expected time of attack and flight paths to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which was forwarded to the Israelis and United States. It was nothing but a show. If they tried something like that clear out of the blue, Israel would have replied with a Nuclear strike. The really crazy part is warhead being shot down could have easily fallen out of the sky and hit the Dome of the Rock.
