i wonder if the financial crisis is affecting the assets of the watchtower corporation.. after all, they are heavily invested in the stock market and they have millions sitting in banks somewhere.. will this financial crisis hurt them at all?.
just wondering..
I wonder if the financial crisis is affecting the assets of the Watchtower corporation.
After all, they are heavily invested in the stock market and they have millions sitting in banks somewhere.
Will this financial crisis hurt them at all?
Just wondering.
i'm quizzing all my sources for the ultimate "silver-bullet" question for a jw at your door.
the best questions will be used in a video series on watchtower comments.
the goal is to help people respond to jws.. the question must be direct and designed to open the jw mind, not necessarily to win an argument.. i would prefer to avoid doctrinal debate such as trinity, cross, even thiest/athiest subjects.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there have always been Jehovah's Witnesses on earth.
If that is true why did God allow the Bible to be compiled by the "apostate" Catholic Church and not by Jehovah's Witnesses?
and it said that based on their growth and such, that in 20 years(or by 2020) there would be 28 million jws.
any sign of imminent, widespread persecution that you all have noticed?
i keep hearing about kh's being built and remodeled, and how huge their conventions are.
I would be interested in what assumptions were used to define this growth rate.
Wishful thinking!
pioneer hour change is legit.
letters are being mailed out soon to all congregations for announcement in early october right before the tract campaign starts.. .
elimination of circuit overseers.
What I am saying is that these plans as announced by some unnamed "Bethel heavy" fall within the scope of what the WTS is urging it's followers to do and even if they believe the end is imminent that doesn't mean they should just stop everything and sit on their thumbs especially since these plans and the overall work they do is, in their minds, connected to the end that is imminent.
Remember this is a vague word and as I noted earlier, when any disaster is imminent, you don't bring your life to a screeching halt until you have to.
It looks like I may have cancer.
I don't have very much in this life and what plans I do have may seem small (certainly they are not the "so called normal everyday activities that Mary apparently engages in as cited above) but I do not intend to put those plans on hold or abandon them all together even though I firmly believe that my end is imminent.
I am so sorry to hear that you are ill. Cancer is a terrible disease and one that seems to affect so many of us in one way or another. I am awed by your courage and will include you in my prayers.
You are correct. Even though your end may be immient you need not bring your life to a screeching halt. I understand that completely. Day to day activities and chores would have to be taken care of. No sense in just sitting on a chair waiting for the end to come.
As an individual you might oversee the building of a house or of a garage because you knew that your family could use them and you would be providing for their future.
But we are talking about a corporation who tells us to be prepared because the end of the world is coming. We should spend our time preaching to others to let them know of the coming destruction that is just around the corner. A noble cause indeed. But if the end is so near and the message so urgent, why doesn't the Watchtower buy television time or print ads so that the largest number of people can be reached? Why not announce this coming destruction on the radio? They are not doing this because they really don't believe that the end is imminent. They just want the witnesses to believe it so that they will be vigilant in their recruiting work.
Thus the double standard.
If the organization truly believed that the end of the world is imminent, would they, for example, undertake vast building projects that they knew would not be finished for years? Would you?
Would you make plans to move your large corporation from Brooklyn to new headquarters in upstate New York. For what? The end is just around the corner. What would be the point?
Anyway, this organization has been preaching that "the end is near" for over a century. I am surprised that anybody believes them.
Your theatrics are obvious, to anyone with a honest heart.
I am not the judge of the GB or the WTS. I don't know all the facts. DO YOU.
I think they have learned a lot over the years. They have a great child protection policy.
Hello Fresia. I am an elder in my congregation and I am also what you label as an "apostate". My brother is a District Overseer. I say this only to let you know that we know a lot of facts and the Governing Body has not learned much over the years. Yes, they have a great child protection policy, but that has come into existence only lately and it is mostly just for show. It is great for them to have it all written down on paper so that witnesses like you can point to it and say "they have a great child protection policy."
In any event, what you must realize is that first and foremost the Watchtower is a multimillion dollar book publishing corporation. It is the third richest corporation in New York. For every book they publish they have a guaranteed 7 million people who will purchase it. And those 7 million people will go out and sell that book (contribution) to millions of other people. There are banks, industries and people who have made investments in their organization that they have to answer to. Their main concern in the bottom line. They want to continue the success of their business just as any large corporation would. They will do anything to insure this and stop the steady exodus of its members, It seems that members just aren't obeying them like they used to. You yourself can attest to this because you are on a strictly forbidden apostate website and commenting on it to boot.
I just returned from the special elders school in upstate New York. The brunt of the information we received was to study and research only the watchtower publications. There is no need for encyclopedias, or dictionaries or other "wordly" books. The publications of the watchtower are enough. They are trying to stop the flow of negative information about their organization that is out there because they realize that their teachings can be proved wrong by outside sources,
he violated the sabbath law and he saved a condemned woman from being stoned in compliance with the law.. does it matter he had scruples and self-justifying theological arguments?.
would those arguments have saved anybody else from being put to death?.
technically speaking (the letter of the law) could we truly speak of jesus as really without sin?.
He wore sandals and a long, toga like robe.
He would never be able to visit Bethel in that garb.
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