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  Can Jehovah's Witnesses explain the overlapping generation?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found this interesting topic on the current views among jws regarding the overlapping generation.. the posts are hilarious.

  how do most jehovah's witnesses explain the overlapping generation?.

  i've asked a couple of jws to explain the overlapping generation and they directed me to the website jw------org.. either they don't know, or they do know but don't want to discuss it because they know it's bogus and embarrassing.. either way, surely they must know that this just extended the last days another 80 years from the time fred franz died.

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  Fedup

  That explains how I am a revolutionary war minute man, mtn. man, civil war vet, and cowboy. Here I thought it was my imagination.
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  Can Jehovah's Witnesses explain the overlapping generation?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found this interesting topic on the current views among jws regarding the overlapping generation.. the posts are hilarious.

  how do most jehovah's witnesses explain the overlapping generation?.

  i've asked a couple of jws to explain the overlapping generation and they directed me to the website jw------org.. either they don't know, or they do know but don't want to discuss it because they know it's bogus and embarrassing.. either way, surely they must know that this just extended the last days another 80 years from the time fred franz died.

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  I know some who can quote the watchtower word for word on it. But not explain it.

  I noticed they said Jesus apparently meant 2 generations then edited the apparently out.
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  We are now around 25 years past the point when Armageddon was to arrive as PROMISED!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  absolute worst case scenario, the last of the generation that saw the events of 1914 would have died off would be in the mid to late 1990's!

  so we were told in the 1980's!

  so now we 3/4 of another generation past that!.

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  Didnt you listen to conehead? A generation is 120 years or more.

  I liked the Joseph reference that his brothers were far older, then same guy in another talk says they were early 20s and teens, shooting down their own shaky argument
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  JW healthcare

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  given that us healthcare isn't free at point of contact and people have to pay for insurance, which can be expensive and is often linked to employment how do jws get on ?

  if they are encouraged to take low paid or part time jobs so l assume don't get good healthcare insurance from their jobs .

  how do they cope with medical bills?

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  Don't go, or Bankruptcy. I had a friend fall and get brain damage/ concussion working at a convention in a job that should not have been assigned to an elderly man. They lost their modest home and ended up living on charity from a witness.

  Look at the teeth of speakers the WT has. Dental care is lacking and is a big gap in all USA health.

  Emergency rooms are required to take anyone so a cold can become an emergency to get a doctor. Low ( really low) income can get Medicaid. Lots of poor know how to work the system.

  The "Affordable care act" raised prices, installed deductables and out of pockets in the thousands so people with insurance suddenly had care only for catastrophic illness. The insurance companies, hospitals, and the doctor associations know how to manipulate treatment for profit, not outcome.

  People point to deficiencies in Canada, UK, but they inevitably are employed in good jobs that provide expensive insurance for themselves.

  There is a buried line item in the " "voluntary" congregation donation to insure COs. Any that get very sick are reassigned.

  Remember, lots of well off witnesses encourage the part time job pioneer for everyone else
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  So many are waking up. Pandemic gave jws time to think.

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is not about stats, but "actual experiences" happening world wide in the organization.

  there is about 156 comments of what some jws are seeing in their congregation.

  feel free to read and come to your own conclusion on whether the watchtower organization is turning pimo but no one says anything in order to keep family relations.

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  Nowwhat: nope, full suit, tie, dress, nylons, makeup, no striped socks is asked but not complied with. I think a lot of us keep off screen because of that.

  Greenhornet: do the parts with a split screen. The better make believe actors hold a phone to to their ear like they are phone witnessing. The videos show normal door to door and attentive audiences in halls. Strong disconnect; we always knew the leaders have no clue.
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  'We thank Jehovah for Dark Mode'

  by Smiles in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  new light!

  or is it new darkness?.

  like online video conferencing and apps, apparently the faithful & discreet governing body class now bless the masses with divine dark mode.

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  Is Jehovah actually Al Gore?
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  So many are waking up. Pandemic gave jws time to think.

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is not about stats, but "actual experiences" happening world wide in the organization.

  there is about 156 comments of what some jws are seeing in their congregation.

  feel free to read and come to your own conclusion on whether the watchtower organization is turning pimo but no one says anything in order to keep family relations.

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  The one comment mentions real worship instead of boring same old.

  The only church I see is funerals. I can contrast the various things, even if I do not agree.

  A mention of the horrid songs, sung off key on the videos.
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  Poll abouth new media center

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  lets take a poll abouth new media center.

  maeby its gonna show how well it's gonna be accepted in the congregations.

  you can only choose this two options.

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  road to nowhere

  Sitting at home. No dressing up, popcorn, no traveling.

  Jade and Nita have been a big hit. I wonder how many other brothers wonder if Jade "did it" or still does?
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  Love one another intensely...avoid partiality

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | march 2020. study article 13. love one another intensely.

  if we have intense “love for the whole association of brothers,” we will avoid being partial.

  7 jesus urged us to keep treating others the way we want to be treated.

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  Elderly guy wants to get home. He doesnt care about the football game. And he does not ti hear a 45 year old tell him how they know all about arthritis pain
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  No rational reasoning with cult elders

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  https://youtu.be/elm5y8t3pjs.

  this is why i can't in good conscience go back to the organisation.

  you are pressured to bring others into the cult and then for them to wake up and find they are caught in a web of rules and policies such as shunning.

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  road to nowhere

  Judge: "we're not going to get any where" says it all.