These days children ask questions about why a smalĺ group of white, old Americans are the brothers of Christ. And know everything better then other institutions.
It's a so stupid reality that it could be humor, but it's for jw deadly serious.
Gorby
the video on apostates in the congregation and how to deal with them at the 18 minute mark.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1kssfr9/2025_convention_apostate_video/.
so by now, a lot of us have seen a clip from the "apostate" video from the 2025 convention.
These days children ask questions about why a smalĺ group of white, old Americans are the brothers of Christ. And know everything better then other institutions.
It's a so stupid reality that it could be humor, but it's for jw deadly serious.
Gorby
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.
There is a lot of disruptive and undesirable behavior in the workplace from jw.org I have heard many anecdotes about bullying and abuse of power.
G.
watchtower august 2025: new teaching: the hailstone message intensifies during the great tribulation.
preaching continues after babylon the great falls, up to armageddon.
some may still respond.. larchington .
Use your time wisely instead of analyzing this sect doctrines 🤣
G.
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.
Sect thinking. My advise use your time for better things, like family and friends, a nice hobby or something that brings in money.
Gorby
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 .
Our children study medicine and law.
They could be stuck in the sect jw.orgBut we were lucky to escape in 2008.
Gorby
i knew a lady who was disfellowshipped for 20 years for smoking.
she finally went back to the kh and since they couldn't find her paperwork, (all the former elders were dead) she was allowed back in without reinstatement.
no one even remembered her.
I remember a 70+ year old brother, smoking secretly in his shed, this was found out by his JW wife, he got DF because she told the elders.
2 months later the DF brother died because of a heart attack.
What a sad end of life. The snitch sister kept his family name. She got the guts.
G.
hi .
who do you think are the best historian/historians about the history of jehovahs witnesses?.
paul.
Reading the post above, i'm just realising that all those good studies and books are about a different JW organization. The current jw.org is a social structure, without any deep knowledge. It became a franchise.
That's what I miss these days, a publication about how the organization rebranded itself into a light version and what the impact is on the life of it's members.
G.
i finally got my own copy of the new song book in english.
i notice that the lyrics in one of the songs have been changed from:.
fear not those who kill the body, but cannot destroy the soul.
It is a scary song melody, in my memories.
G.
how many of you here remember 1975?
i hope the newer generations never forget.the true believers got shamed for it.
those who were hedging their bets, fared much better.
i was completely out by 1991 and 1989 would have been the last time i had to attend regularly.
that over the top franz writing style was still there in the 1980's although i've heard he wasn't actually doing much writing by then.
but his style was definitely picked up and imitated for many years beyond its wacky, outlandish peak of the the 50's - 70's.
It would be fun to create a Ask Fred Franz AI chatbox.
At work we do so with retired advisors.
G.