from a reliable source:.
a young cobe - late thirties, maybe forty - has resigned in december 2015, both as the cobe and as an elder.
word is that he is a man with a young family who is stressed out and has had enough.
That's the route I took. "Stepped down" as an elder (which was, by the way, a huge "step up" in life) and 6 months later pretty much quit the borg altogether.
It's a trend that should start gaining some traction as the 'sheeple' start seeing and feeling the real direction of the borg.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
i think it was gary and heather bottings' book the orwellian world of jehovah's wifnesses that noted the function of the habit of the watchtower organisation of changing organisational terminology periodically.
congregations became companies and then back to congregations again.
circuit overseers became circuit servants and then back again.
It's change for the sake of change IMHO. It's a way of trying to make an archaic religion look like it's doing something, moving forward. It's "New light" from jehober just like j f rutherford received when he changed the name to 'jehober witless'.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
doesn't that throw off the date?.
*** w51 6/15 p. 383 questions from readers ***.
in establishing the length of the seven times of the gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when ezekiel 4:6 is applied.
A question I asked of the whole Body of Elders in my congregation some time in the '80's was :
"Why, if a "Prophetic Year" was 360 days long, were the years fulfilling the prophecy not, likewise, 360 days long ?" (In slightly different words, but essentially your Thread title question)
Hey Phizzy,
I had exactly the same question back in the late 60's. I got the same bluster from a brother that I asked.Trying to explain this non-sense to any thinking person is absolutely impossible. I've dubbed it "math-magic" and I now also wonder how I swallowed their bs for so many years.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
does anyone know the names of the gb members wives?
where could i find them?
just curious!.
The names of the gb's wives are NOT important. After all they are only women! Does the bible give the names of the the apostles wives. NO! Face the facts, if you're a female jw, you are just not important! The gb brothers are so busy supplying "spiritual food" at the proper time (lol), how can they possibly find time for a wife?
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
put aside all the stupid rules,beliefs,doctrines and practices of the jehovah's witnesses.this is one of the main reasons why i stopped attending all meetings!
boredom.
monotone speakers.
Fortunately we all lived through it and now have a life. On the occasions that I do attend with my wife, I have an ipad so I can check my email, ebay, and the the NFL scores. Still boring though.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
just to say merry christmas and a happy new year!
i hope wherever you are that you have a lovely holiday, even if like me your celebrating on the sly hehe in which case happy christmas on the sly.
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Merry Christmas to all of you too!
Even though I was a jw for 98% of my life, I always liked the Christmas season because people just seemed to be in a better place mentally and emotionally. It was just a 'warm' time of year and I really like the music (even though we were suppose to hate it). As dubs we were taught to pity the poor worldlings because (christmas) "that was all the had".
Well they had a sh*t pot more than we had. We had nothing. No fun, no joy, no spirit, no special occasion (oh yea, lol, the Memorial). Poor worldlings only got to celebrate a birth, but us jw's, well we got to celebrate a DEATH. Lucky us!
Enjoy your families and the spirit of the season even if you don't celebrate the actual holiday!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
it has just turned 12 o'clock in n.s.w, australia, is i am just saying merry christmas to all you on the forum & i hope you all happy a happy new year.
big hugs all round.
sabin.
Yea Merry Christmas to all. God! remember when that was taboo to say or even think such a thing as a jw?
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
if you were a jw and are now an atheist or agnostic, what was the tipping point that made you turn to it?.
the reason i ask is i have noticed that many who leave the jw's seem to turn to atheism, versus still having some form of a faith.
have many of you given up on god first or have you had atheistic views first and then found atheism to be true.
68 years of living in this world and not seeing any "real" evidence that a god really exists outside of our own imagination.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
i have been a jw my whole life and i have never been able to get a clear answer on this question.
jw's do not believe that jehovah will intervene if someone is sick, dying or stopping a car crash.
they feel that jehovah is letting "this world" play out before he solves all of these problems.
The foolish one says in his heart "There is a jehober"......Proverbs
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
it has to be starting to fade somehow.
the very last time i went out in field service, hardly any were out.
maybe just about nine people were out and man if you could just see their faces.
There may be a unanimous unwillingness to 'talk' about it but--there ain't much zeal or enthusiasm about door knocking any more. The emphasis is on building not preaching.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
