the governing body just doesn't let up on encouraging the young children to reach out to do free labor for the organization.
so another generation of young people with ruined lives.
another generation of young people that will get old and wake up in their 50s to realize they were in a religious doomsday cult.. and they are getting rid of some old workers that ran the branches of the organization, and giving them different assignments or maybe they are just sending them home, who knows.
I wonder how long those old-timers served. When did they first arrive at Bethel? Did they ever think they would get this old before Armageddon? Did the org make any attempt to make sure they had their financial future taken care of, or would that have undermined the message that the end is very, very close?
How many of them are still loyal, after giving so much for so long, only to find themselves still in the "old system"?
the governing body is going all out at this years convention.
they are still discouraging university education.
i guess the end must be real close .
They could use a few more lawyers these days.
this magazine was disturbing to me at the time, but i lost track of it and only recently found it .
this is exactly as it was printed, no photo shop, i am not that clever.. it is credited to a newsagency, jan banning , panos pictures - so i do believe that she was a real child prostitute .
there is something that gets to me even now about this picture.
NotFormer: everything published is valid until it's officially countermanded.
And also, they are directly led by Jehovah via the holy spirit. So, when they spend a good part of the 1920s and 1930s posting twaddle like this: https://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/0159.html ...it is what Jehovah intended for them to say, regardless of the potential consequences or outcomes.
back when the dinosaur soft tissue story was broken in 2005, i predicted that that many more soft tissues would be found and that it wouldn't matter if it was supposedly "65 million" years old or "165 million" years old.
the prediction has proven true and dinosaur soft tissue is routinely now found regardless of supposed age.
this is easy to predict using a literal reading of genesis and accepting it as history.... .
Interestingly, the people researching this do not express any doubt that the fossils are tens of millions of years old. They don't subscribe to the literal reading of Genesis.
ever wonder about the story of cain and abel?
why did jehovah like abel's sacrifice more than cain's?
maybe there's a subtle reason why jehovah likes animal sacrifices.
Cain was rejected and reacted by killing someone. Typical vegan...
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
How could anyone defend someone who betrayed his wife and kids with drugs and prostitution?
To their credit, a large number of his supporters left after his confession livestream/video. At least one generous spender made it clear that Evans had abandoned the moral high-ground and this made it impossible to support him anymore. The only ones left at this time try to minimize or deny what Evans has done, even though these are actions and behaviors that he is admitting to, either in video or writing. So they pretend not to know.
I think that many of them are so grateful for finding a way out of the JW organization that they cannot see the issue rationally. I bet that they would see it clearly if it was anyone other than Evans. I bet they would see it really clearly if it was one of his critics. At some point, they probably will admit that Evans did not deserve their support after they learned about what he did. But confirmation bias is a very powerful thing.
9.“this calls for a mind with wisdom.
the seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.
10.they are also seven kings.
What made you think this mile-long pile of crap was worth posting TWICE?!?!?!?!
babylon the great: a prophetic warning.
babylon the great is not just a city—it is the system that governs the world economy.
this was god's first judgment against economic babylon, but it would not be his last.. the three parts of babylon's economy.
Hey, if America was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for us!
...anyway: people have been making these sorts of predictions for centuries. There are endless Bible verses that can be interpreted to match the world's circumstances, and lots of visions and dreams filled with symbolism that is just begging to be applied to whatever we want.
What surprises me the most is that the people making these predictions are very much aware that others have been doing the same thing and failing every single time. But they are confident that they are the exception and that they will get it right. In some cases, like the WTS and people like Harold Camping, they keep making predictions even after they got it wrong!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
just came into 21st century and got myself a new fangled mobile 'phone.. question: is it safe to download the wt library from the google playstore - without the borg tracking/tracing my data?.
thanks..
They shouldn't be able to. But I mean that in the sense that everyone --from Apple to individual app developers-- will insist that they respect your privacy. But they also are the ones who build the applications and interfaces and services which ALL make sure to record as much information as they can. Let's be clear: they could very easily not record and collect that data, but they do.
it seems like the organization is hunting down pimos.
maybe the mark o donnell lawsuit is just the beginning.. this leaked survey in canada is asking some very weird questions from select publishers.
all i can say is that this will help wake up some pimi straddling the fence.
350 questions! That's not a survey, that's a doctoral thesis!
Let me save the WTS the time and effort:
QUESTION 1: Are you a loyal Jehovah's Witness?
QUESTION 2: Are you sure???
End survey.
