while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
Well if theories about us being in a computer simulation hologram are true then perhaps the purpose of life is to gather more information and down load it onto a chip.
It could be just like the Buddha said to stop being reborn once one masters desire and stay in the diamond light and don't keep coming back ending all suffering permanently by ending desire.
what's is the goal of this religion?.
i mean, if it's for money they could do a lot more like other religions do: tithing, paying for prayers from the gb, selling "miracles", selling "blessed" items, selling courses.. if its for power then what are they hoping to do with that power?
they dont seem to do anything.
Goal: Con as many people as possible to Listen and Obey the Organization and milk them of free labor and contributions to enrich the Corporation's assets.
this is so bizarre to me.. https://www.amazon.com/tuvaluan-dictionary-tuvaluan-english-geoffrey-jackson/dp/982902704x.
https://www.amazon.com/introduction-tuvaluan-geoff-jackson/dp/9829027023/ref=oosr.
20 x 364 hours to write the dam thing. I take it he was never a bright student in school and perhaps kind of slow in comprehension. Jenny must be Tuvaluan wife?
It would be interesting to see what any literary critics that understand the languages would say about the dictionary written by someone that thinks he's runs the organization of a bronze age Deity that is going to destroy the world.
i think the single biggest mistake the governing body have made in the last 10 years has to be creating jw broadcasting and putting their gb members on there... on a weekly basis too.. when i was a kid, i had no idea who the governing body were, what their names were or what they looked like.
there was one or two long term pioneers that knew the names of two of them but that was about it.. when i was about 10yo i imagined they looked something like this:.
ahh.... those learned men with a lifetime of bible knowledge just oozing out of their very hearts.
Hey I mean these guys on the Governing Body are totally off their rocker and to broadcast it on their website. They might as well get before the whole world and tell every lawyer in a law suit against them come and get the money just make me testify before a court that We are the Faithful Slave in charge of Jehovah's earthly organization and that we put children's safety first when it comes to child molester but fail to report them to the police because it will make us look bad and bring reproach on Jehovah's name.
These guys are hanging themselves before the whole world and they don't even get it! Hey GB keep them coming you'll be famous.!
google has a great search engine.
and gb member can find it a valuable aid to see what the world outside of jws thinks of them.
hey they should know what being said about them it would make them better gbs, it would give them a good view of their 'shadow' (jungian) and might make them more effective ceo of jehovah's chariot.if am3 typed in "anthony morris governing body" look at all the neat stuff he would find.. i know google is tailored to each individual but here's what comes up on my screen:.
I think it would be good for each GB member to Google all of his fellow GB members. And form a strategy as to what they are going to do? Time to keep their head in the sand is not now:
google has a great search engine.
and gb member can find it a valuable aid to see what the world outside of jws thinks of them.
hey they should know what being said about them it would make them better gbs, it would give them a good view of their 'shadow' (jungian) and might make them more effective ceo of jehovah's chariot.if am3 typed in "anthony morris governing body" look at all the neat stuff he would find.. i know google is tailored to each individual but here's what comes up on my screen:.
Google has a great search engine. And GB member can find it a valuable aid to see what the world outside of JWs thinks of them. Hey They should know what being said about them it would make them better GBs, it would give them a good view of their 'Shadow' (Jungian) and might make them more effective CEO of Jehovah's Chariot.If AM3 typed in "Anthony Morris Governing Body" look at all the neat stuff he would find.
I know Google is tailored to each individual but here's what comes up on my screen:
https://www.google.com/#q=Anthony+morris+Governing+Body
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so in an effort to relieve some pressure here are what i term the low-lites of yesterday's assembly that i had to endure for the sake of family still in and my progressing fade.
apologies in advance for being pretty long winded.. these may not all be the actual words used, but the ones i use are close, and they pretty well say what was said from the platform.. right off the bat in the opening prayer the praises of the governing body were spoken.
thanking the g.b.
Wow what a creepy CA. They will only get much worse as time goes on. Thanks for the report.
i think as we become a more enlightened society in the future we will be able to.i think laws of this nature may be in the works in some countries right now perhaps not addressing the actual mind control issue in those terms but laws to protect its subject from those that use those tactics to harm their people through fraudulent means.
so i think the wt hope for financial survival in the information age is very slim.
look at what spain, russia, are already doing.. but they may just go under financially from way sooner because of multple lawsuits and loss of charity status in one country after another..
http://www.anthonymathenia.com/spanish-jws-upset-over-bethel-move/
In December 2007, after an investigation, the Social Security office of Spain issued a ruling that the Madrid Bethel was required to provide a pension for those who worked in its printing facilities. Historically, Bethel workers receive no such benefits. Upon joining the Bethel “family” they take a vow of poverty and are inducted into a religious order, not unlike a Catholic monastery. While at Bethel they receive a small monthly stipend for personal items in addition to room and board. Though they are working in a modern printing operation, they are viewed as religious volunteers and have no workers’ compensation benefits or pension to support them, if injury, health, age, or other circumstances should force them out of their Bethel “home”.
In recent years, the Watch Tower has seen a fair share of corporate downsizing. This has been particularly felt in the United States headquarters, which has experienced significant cutbacks within the New York Bethel family. Many men and women in their youth were encouraged to make service at Bethel a “life career”, at the expense of family, education, and a secular career. They entered Bethel with the idea that they would stay there for the rest of their life, making it their “home”. Now as older adults they are feeling the sting of cutbacks as they are asked to leave their Bethel home, starting all over again in the secular world without pensions or without having contributed toward retirement or Social Security. This is the current situation in Madrid, where it is estimated that up to 200 Bethel workers are being asked to leave without reassignment.
The Spanish Social Security office’s decision to hold the Madrid Bethel responsible for providing benefits for printing factory workers and other members of the order presents a considerable financial hit in a religious organization that has already experienced hardships in tough economic times. This has caused some Spanish Witnesses to believe that the decision to relocate printing operations to another country is specifically motivated by the fiscal implications of the Social Security office’s decision, despite what the Branch Office claims about the reorganization being motivated by other factors such as simplification.
The Spanish Witnesses who might normally completely trust the decisions made by the organization’s leadership have reason to be suspicious. After losing their petition against providing Social Security benefits to Bethel workers, the Spanish Branch Office of Jehovah’s Witnesses sent a letter to the local congregations announcing the new provision. In the letter, Witness leadership implies that it was they who petitioned Social Security for entry into the system in order to provide benefits. The congregations were kept in the dark about the real reason that these contested benefits were being provided to those in the religious order
i thought, ok the case in australia would open the eyes of the world about this dangerous cult.. well that passed without a ripple.
we talk about the un and the wt link, none jw's don't.
understand the significance.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/is-watchtower-imploding-10-reasons-why-the-end-could-be-nigh
For many current and former Jehovah’s Witnesses who find themselves victimized by Watchtower’s cruel cult-like practices, the prospect of witnessing the end of the organization seems too good to be true.
Especially when you have spent many years being sold false promises of extraordinary future events, it’s understandable that you would be wary of getting your hopes up over something as significant as the downfall of the organization that misled you.
I obviously won’t make you any promises, because I have learned to be extremely cautious of wishful thinking in all its forms. But when I look at what is going on with Watchtower, I see an organization falling from grace at a rate faster than I could have ever reasonably envisaged.
The latest evidence of the organization’s free-fall comes in the shape of aletter to all elders in the United States branch territory, dated July 8, 2015. You can read about Watchtower’s new “master plan” yourself, but essentially it adds a further caveat to their smash-and-grab, stealth-tithing maneuvers from last year. (Thanks go to JWleaks.org for first making this letter available.)*
The new letter essentially says to publishers (or doesn’t say to publishers,
i think as we become a more enlightened society in the future we will be able to.i think laws of this nature may be in the works in some countries right now perhaps not addressing the actual mind control issue in those terms but laws to protect its subject from those that use those tactics to harm their people through fraudulent means.
so i think the wt hope for financial survival in the information age is very slim.
look at what spain, russia, are already doing.. but they may just go under financially from way sooner because of multple lawsuits and loss of charity status in one country after another..
I think as we become a more enlightened society in the future we will be able to.I think laws of this nature may be in the works in some countries right now perhaps not addressing the actual mind control issue in those terms but laws to protect its subject from those that use those tactics to harm their people through fraudulent means. So I think the WT hope for financial survival in the information age is very slim. Look at what Spain, Russia, are already doing.
But they may just go under financially from way sooner because of multple lawsuits and loss of charity status in one country after another.
