Posts by smiddy3

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the watchtower is starting to crumble

by pepperheart in

for the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.

smiddy3

The "Plain Truth" magazine was a quality professional magazine that was free to anybody who wanted it decades before JW`s offered their 2nd rate low quality excuse for a magazine for free to escape paying a tax.

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The watchtower does not have the resources

by pepperheart in

if you have a look at the december broadcast on jw tv they tell you that they wont be showing you a normal format for december but the 143rd event of gilead because the watchtower does not have the resources other wise to translate it many different lanuages.. with all the cuts the watchtower have made and are going to make you would have thought that they would have lots of resources.

smiddy3

Do the rank and file JW even know of all the buildings being sold or are about to be sold in Brooklyn ? and how much money they have already received from those sales that have been finalized ? {over 1 Billion Dollars US so far}

Also with the sale of KH`s ,Branch Officers ,etc,etc all around the world and all of their cutbacks they have been making , JW HQ must be rolling in the dough ,$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

So not having the resources could not mean they are short of cash could it.!!

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What's destroying Watchtower!

by UnshackleTheChains in

for me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, it's the extreme shunning policy.. at a recent sunday meeting, i listened to a complete brainwashed sister saying how important it was that we stick to the shunning policy even if it is a close relative.. i just thought.

wtf.

there is a big difference between the brainwashed and the awoken class!.

smiddy3

The name Watchtower was taken to signify what these men who started this organization had something unusual and distinct in Christian theology, a truthful representation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his new prophesied Kingdom arrangement.

The magazine C.T.Russell started was "Zions Watchtower & Herald of Christs Presence" in 1879 ?

That also had Masonic symbols on the front cover ,including the cross.

He obviously believed in the Zionist movement of the day and also that Jesus Christ had already returned invisibly back then.

None of which is accepted by the GB of Jehovah`s Witnesses today.

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Hello Again

by everbrighterhal in

i'm sorry if this is in the wrong category!

i am formerly adimmedlight, or something close to that.

i have been lurking here a few years now and while i did make an account before, i used a fake email (i no longer remember it, since it was made only to log in the one time i posted.. )because i was so paranoid people in my home town would discover me and "out" me.

smiddy3

Is their anyway to see your paintings without going on FB ?

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What's destroying Watchtower!

by UnshackleTheChains in

for me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, it's the extreme shunning policy.. at a recent sunday meeting, i listened to a complete brainwashed sister saying how important it was that we stick to the shunning policy even if it is a close relative.. i just thought.

wtf.

there is a big difference between the brainwashed and the awoken class!.

smiddy3

In a nutshell the Internet and possibly the child sex abuse cases that are getting more media attention now ,that`s whats destroying (?) the WT/JW religion though it`s going to take a far longer time than most people would like.

"Destroying" is probably not the best terminology to describe their demise .It`s going to be a gradual thing over a long period of time which means they could still be around many,many years into the future , however with a much smaller membership than they have now.

As your OP suggests most/many JW`s accept shunning and are quite willing to abide by the GB`s directives to enforce it even when close blood Kin are involved .

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The emptiness…

by Maryo in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_fh9cygpp4&feature=share.

smiddy3

Why hire such a large stadium for such a small crowd ?

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Sign of the times

by recovering in

oh i have waited for this for many years.

it used to really irritate me when i looked out my office window at long island college hospital.

dang the witnesses presence in brooklyn even out lasted a117 year old hospital.. https://nypost.com/2017/12/06/iconic-brooklyn-sign-taken-down-after-70-years/.