i've seen a few threads/posts where some of y'all have heard from jw contacts and how they've stepped up their 'the end is close' rhetoric because of the earthquake/tsunami in japan.
i usually take those things with a grain of salt.
there's always some jw whose cheese has slipped that reads prophecy into every little thing that happens.
JW`s get excited over any and every natural disaster /war / uprising / catastrophe/ fires /floods/political upheavals/religious conflicts anything you want to name and they will believe the end is imminent .
Their like robots their programmed that way to respond the way they do.
Its sad.
And the majority will never learn .
140 years that Armageddon is imminent ? And a Paradise which by the way is never mentioned in the Bible is to follow the big A?
a few weeks ago i took the jw channel off of our roku.
i was just cleaning off unused channels and wondered if my wife was actually watching this.
yep.
Beth Sarim
I truly think that`s what keeps many of the oldies still in BS , the time in many years and effort invested in the religion and their pride in not admitting they have been conned or fooled all of these years and admitting their mistakes keeps them captives to a religion they cant break free from .
I guess they get to the point that they are so heavily invested emotionally in it that it is all they know, nowhere else to turn or divert their time and attention to.
I agree wholeheartedly ,sad but true.
if your not worried about jw moral standards you may like to hear this verse, about the dangers posed by some makes of plastic chairs to manly men.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/818023414953244/permalink/1667787039976873/.
dont forget to turn the sound on!.
It gave me a laugh and I put it on my FB page for others to enjoy.
have you had a religious experience, such as being saved, that made you beleive in a higher power?
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please share your experience..
The only religious experiences I had were the ones I created for myself convincing myself that JW`s had the "truth" and then wasting 33 years of my life ,putting my kids through school hell ,convincing my wife and then finally breaking this insane thinking where we all exited .
"Religion is the opium of the people" and I tend to agree with that statement.
And i don`t care who said it .
Having said that if you can have a religious experience without any GOD involved ,then I do marvel at the diversity of life on earth and elsewhere ? in the Universe in general and what man may discover in the future exploration of Space and other Worlds .
That I can relate to.
i have just been informed that there is a 'special letter' to be read at the meetings week of feb 3,2019 in canada.
anybody heard of this!!
just a heads-up!
Dear brothers ,
We have just been informed by none other than Jesus Christ himself that the G.T. is just around the next corner ,not too far away and the big A is around the next corner after that ,so lift your heads up because your deliverance is very near .
P.S. Don`t forget to donate your valuable things $$$$ while their is still time left before it all becomes worthless refuse.
Your Christian Brothers
The Governing Body
the gb individuals are chosen not by holy spirit as we well know but by being selected for one quality only, that of implaccable loyalty to the watchtower organisation.. to be up there requires the fixation that the org is being used by god -- even though now in the small print they claim they are not divinely guided -- what a laugh, what a puzzle?.
the more i watch their antics the more implausible they seem.
their function: to persuade as many people as possible to conform to their own whacky beliefs.. most jws eventually leave the fold, only one third remain as we understand, so will any of the gb become pimo?.
Anythings possible Hb .Its true that most of us here at one stage never dreamed we would be sitting on this side of the fence exposing WT `s deceptive ,manipulative and controlling practices .
Yet here we are , so anything is possible.
Though it is hard for humans to give up prestige ,adulation,power & authority,not to mention the life-style they enjoy,world travel along with other lurks and perks they undoubtedly have.
It would take a man with intestinal fortitude to do so and I`m not sure any of the present GB qualify.
just a thought and perhaps this has been discussed before but no jehovah's witness ever actually dies in the truth.
pick a year, any year.
if a jw died in say 1920 or 2020 or whatever...the doctrines change so much and so fast that what is "truth" today is "untruth" the next within this religion.
The fact that the GB/WT speak out of both sides of their mouth enables the R&F to flip flop between one belief and then an opposing belief with apparently no problem to their sanity ?
That`s why they seemingly have an answer for everything ,they can pick and choose how they answer a question because of the many flip flops.
anyone here from or living in aberdeen area of scotland, uk?.
I lived in Aberdeen Street Melb.Vict for a while does that count ?
Sorry I couldnt resist that.
in the image you can see what jw wrote about how galileo was treated by the catholic church.
now they are disfelloshipping me because i believe the earth is flat.
is this coherent?.
I don`t know whether to laugh or cry about that waton i have tears in my eyes thinking about it .
at matthew 24:45, where jesus discussed the faithful and discreet slave, he gave only two identifying features of that slave.
(1) providing the master’s domestics food at the proper time; and, (2) after having done so, being appointed by the master himself over all the master’s belongings.. since current watchtower teaching is that the appointment over all the master’s belongings is yet future and that such appointment is to be made by the master himself, how does the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses account for the fact that it has preemptively identified itself as that faithful and discreet slave?.
surely there remains among believing jws some who can discern the problem with this teaching!
What authority does a slave have over his Master ? It reminds me of the slaves leaving Egypt .
Where did they get all of these tents, equipment ,livestock,utensils,etc,etc,they were slaves for Christs sake.!
Sorry to go off topic.
