not to be overly harsh...but if you just left, what the hell were you thinking?
between 1995 and now, you never did an internet search of "jehovahs-witness" or "watchtower"?
good god.
Just to be clear, the overlapping generation nonsense was introduced in 2010:
"He evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation." Watchtower 2010 April 15 p.10
the needle has been stuck on the record for over 130 years - thanks to mr. russell and his successive cohorts:.
page 11, paragraph 19 - “as this system nears its end,....”.
page 13, paragraph 5 - “do my actions show that i truly believe that these are the last days and that the end of satan’s rule is near?”.
In our day, the last days, as this system nears its end and the end of Satan’s rule is near and his world is coming to its end, we must remember that someday the Memorial we observe will be the final one because these are the last days. God’s Kingdom reigns and will soon bring to earth unimaginable blessings.
Did we mention these last days? Because they are. In fact, these are the "lastest" of the last days.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
i asked the question on quora "how do jehovah's witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the watchtower and awake!
magazine is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts, and online content are being discontinued?".
https://www.quora.com/how-do-jehovahs-witnesses-feel-about-the-announcement-that-the-public-edition-of-the-watchtower-and-awake-magazine-is-being-reduced-to-just-3-issues-a-year-and-the-number-of-books-tracts-and-online-content-are-being-discontinued.
God who loves all humans, and simply hates those who cannot see their way clear to obeying Him.
Curious that the person that wrote this did not seem to notice they contradicted themself.
How can God hate some humans whilst simultaneously loving all humans? Stupid.
my freind (who is also out) and i were talking about this the other night.
i was a born-in, 3rd generation jw and she converted when she was in her late 20's.. when she left, she said that she knew the world wasn't as bad as she was told as a jw, so she knew she would be fine.
also, she still had lots of "worldly" family who welcomed her back with open arms.. it was harder for me - i had nobody in the "world", no family or freinds.
Harder for born in because of the family being held hostage.
Not true. I became a Witness as an adult and started a family. After realizing it was a cult I wanted to leave WITH MY FAMILY. I actually spent six or seven years trying to figure out how to get all of us out of the cult together.
It didn't work.
I left. They stayed and all of them shun me. I have an adult child that lives less than 1 mile (1.5 km) from me. I reach out regularly, but still get rebuffed. This has been the case for nearly a decade.
Let's accept the fact: it can be hard for everyone, perhaps not in the same ways, but it is hard ... and very painful.
another agm thought.
in tight pants tony's part, he mentioned several times that jehovah draws those he chooses and only those rightly disposed would come in.
and individuals that liked the literature but made no progress towards becoming jw were a "waste of time".. was he setting the stage for them introducing the thought of predestination?
Brother Splane is already preparing his new chart for the "overlapping predestination" video!
It's his moment in the spotlight. All the cameras are focused on him.
He loves 'splaining things and pretending to be "the scholar" of the gubberning bod-ay -- he fancies himself an intellectual giant among a mob of midgets.
page 19, paragraph 12: "with prayerful consideration, the governing body strives to be faithful and discreet with regard to how the organization’s funds are used.".
yeah, i "prayed" too - that more and more j.w.
's would discover that millions of dollars of their hard-earned cash were being misused to shut the mouths of j.w.
NBD: "Are the millions of dollars worth of child abuse judgements and out of court settlements taken from the GAA, or is that another fund?"
Does it matter? Ultimately, the source of all money the WTBTS has came from members, even if it was then leveraged into real estate or other investments.
a christian at work has been after me for more than a year to go to his church and be saved.
i like the guy and consider him a friend and have been politely trying to avoid the subject.
i have recently decided that enough is enough and i told him i would discuss religion with him.
PX: I'm afraid that ... we won't really get very far ... because rationality doesn't seem to be very high on the list.
That actually was the implied point of my previous post.
when i was a jw, i relished explaining my beliefs and why we had the truth!
lol.
todays witness has no clue , in my opinion..
No. It is illogical, absurd even, to suggest that illogical, incoherent, and internally contradictory beliefs can be explained logically.
Quit trying to make sense out of nonsense.
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i start this thread in response to a comment by a jw apologist called simonsays on another thread.
he claimed to have read all three volumes of vindication by rutherford (my sympathy if true).
he further implied that it didn't matter that old jw literature said wrong and stupid things, saying:.
Flip-flop.
But never mind. To be a faithful JW you must believe whatever the WT leaders teach now, as of this present moment, which ultimately is why I am no longer a JW ... faithful or otherwise.
"New light" is just old light recycled.
