so what the heck are they brainwashing today in the meeting or what ever.
she is in full on cult mode talking about the end of the world.
she asked me to listen to a couple of talks and i respectfully declined.
The Zoom 2020 Convention is a perfect example of total F.O.G.
Fear because of the king of the north, king of the south, gog of magog, etc. (I'm scared shitless how about you?)
Obligation to "attend" the online convention (followed up later on Zoom for a local rehash of the convention talks)
Guilt if you don't get dressed up like you're attending a live meeting!
just saying!
i have a couple of thoughts on the blood and shunning doctrines, both of which have been covered well before.
here, and on j.w facts.com and elsewhere.. but i would like to point out the following, the only scriptures they can use in reality for their blood doctrine are the verses from acts chapter 15. o.t verse are really out of the question, and dishonest to use on their part, as they do not follow most of the injunctions in there!.
the context of acts 15 is a council of the apostles and others in the jerusalem congregation, to decide what they should ask of gentile christians in the way of behaviours and practices etc, as jewish christians were demanding they comply with the mosaic law, or were, at the very least offended if they did not.
Oh I get it now! We should shun the blood doctrine! Now that makes perfect sense! I may try 'sunning' also out here in sunny California!
just saying!
the watchtower—study edition | june 2020. .
study article 26.
6 who can share in the search for inactive ones?
@slimboyfat
The fact is that most JWs are no good at preaching or at “encouraging” people back into the congregation. What’s more, I got the distinct impression that most JWs didn’t care much either. In fact, on the odd occasion when a member of the public accepted a Bible study, it was often met with surprise, suspicion, and treated as somewhat inconvenient.
jw's today are really lousy preachers but not as bad as old Noah! Noah, with whom jehober had direct contact, had hundreds of years to convert people but only his immediate family was saved by jehober!
But then again, building that fabulous, wonderfully constructed ark probably was more important that trying to save people from drowning!
just saying!
pre elder arrangement.
we had congregation overseer.
when did the society begin publishing the secret “elder” books and training..
"elder books" were created so there would be more 'uniformity' in the borg! Pharisaical rules and regulations were needed to keep the sheeple in line!
just saying!
the watchtower—study edition | june 2020. .
study article 26.
6 who can share in the search for inactive ones?
I'm sure that some zealot will be calling at my door. My wife is still PIMI but I started doubting about 15-16 years ago and went "dark" about 12 years ago although I still attend conventions and some meetings with/for my wife of 54 years! I've had 2 official visits in 12 years and both times I was polite to the brothers, after-all, I've know them and been friends with them for decades. Both times they told me that they just don't understand how a 3rd gen born-in who had served as an elder for over 2 decades could just "quit"!
If I get another "shepherding call" regarding bein inactive, I'll tell them the same story. "It's personal and it's private."
just saying!
yesterday, on the thread i started on 4/15/14, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/279088/1/essay-by-barbara-anderson-whats-in-a-name#.u1e98jao7l9 that introduces a recent article i wrote which is posted on www.watchtowerdocuments.org , i thought i made an inaccurate statement in one of my posts about wt having a sign, jw.org, on the top of one of their buildings.
i was sure i had seen a photo of such a sign but couldn't prove it until last night when proof was sent to me in an email and the proof is to be found in the form of links to photos of the sign.
i was wrong in thinking the sign was on a wt factory building.
The re-branding of the 'jehober witlesses' religion is in full operation! Soooooooooooooooon new light from jehober will be given to the gb to change the official name of this religion. Any 'new name' suggestions?
I'm going with 'Zoomies' since jehober created Zoom just for jw's!
just saying!
just wondering if anyone can confirm or deny this unofficial jw experience that my father received by email.
i’ve told him that it against wt rules to forward unofficial accounts.
but of course he just puts that down to apostate driven lies.
Does such recognition by the CEO of Zoom therefore make jw's officially the "Zoom and Doom" religion of the 21st century?
just saying!
this is not a jw-bashing thing, but it always seemed odd to me that the "excuse" when things go wrong is that "we have to wait and see how the prophesy is fulfilled" or some other wording.. my question has always been, then what is the purpose of the prophesy if you don't understand it until after the fact?
isn't that like having a weather forecast but being told that we don't really know what the weather will be until the next day?
isn't that the purpose of prophesy?.
Words of wisdom from the modern GB of jw's regarding understanding prophesy! Can you hear David Splane's words on jw broadcasting?
"We use to believe that Armageddon would come in 1925"....then
"We use to believe that Armageddon would come in 1975"....then
"We use to believe that Armageddon would come by the end of the 20th century"...but brothers....
"Now we believe that it will fucking get here when it gets here so shut the hell up and keep preaching!"
just saying!
a real conspiracy to destroy anti-cult miviludes in france.. therefore, a question arises that burns the lips of all our interlocutors: who wants the skin of the miviludes?
"this disintegration of the fight against cults is carried by occult influences, at the highest level of the state.
the miviludes disturbs, "says georges fenech.
Are the French really good at combating anything?
just saying!
there is a surge going on of people buying guns, especially first time buyers.
with talk of police defunding and rioting in the neighborhoods, some people want to protect themselves.. do you support owning and using a gun if needed?.
Rule #1 when going to a gun fight.......bring a big gun!
Rule #2 when going to a gun fight......bring friends who have big guns!
just saying!
