soooo... i think the main strength of this group is having the finances to keep this con game going.
i'm hoping that the pedophilia cases are draining them dry so we can be rid of this stumbling block from an organizational stand point.
how is the constant surge of bad news getting out on them effecting the everyday person in this organization?
When the product that you 'sell' is no longer in demand, business dries up and eventually disappears. No wonder the WT for years vilified the internet. It slowly killed their printing business and they haven't figured out a way to capitalize on free information.
Their situation was predicted at Revelation 18:11
11 “Also, the merchants of the earth are weeping and mourning over her, because there is no one to buy their full cargo anymore,"
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
from interview magazine, in october.
she has a new memoir, should be a good read.. [bold is mine, and yes!
to whole thing, and especially the last sentence.].
Seems like a quite a few ex-jw's became famous musicians. Poor kids, they must have had "spiritually weak" parents!
just saying!
eyeus2badub
i was listening to beyond belief yesterday, a radio 4 programme that treats religious ideas as worthy of consideration and discussion.
yesterday they were talking about belief in the afterlife.
they mentioned something i'd never heard of before.
In those days, silly religious ideas sold. Today it takes naked women to sell something!
I'm content with today's marketing!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
it seems like the watchtower is still encouraging "theocratic warfare".
in the no.1 watchtower of 2016, they (ironically) printed an article on honesty.here is something they said:"lyingwhat is it?
saying something false to someone who is entitledto know the truth.
"What is Truth?"----asked Pilate of Jesus, right? If that same question were asked of the current GB, they'd answer, "Whatever we want it to be!"
Also don't forget to add the word 'soooon' to the new WT dictionary!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
on another thread shepherdless sketched out the past business model of jws and its demise.
until 1990 they were a straightforward publishing business with the tremendous advantage of free labour in production and free distribution agents.
since then they've been relying on donations for literature to keep the old model going.
There can't be much money in "the carts" business. However, the organization could start making automobiles. The new 'Theomobile' would be virtually accident proof and the tires wouldn't wear out for 40 years. The opportunity to own and drive a vehicle designed and engineered by a select group of men, whose names will remain anonymous so as not to deflect glory from the 'real guy' and assembled by 'volunteer' labor will "no doubt" be enthusiastically received by all rank and file witnesses.
If Tesla could start a new car company with just money as his backing, just think what jw's could accomplish with the backing of 'holy spirit'.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
jehovah's witnesses are purportedly 'active' in 240 'lands', quite a remarkable feat for a planet with only about 200 sovereign states (206 if you count all that are recognised by at least one un member, of which jws are present in 166).
more than half of all jws worldwide are in just 10 countries.
over 90% are in 45 countries.. to achieve this mathematical miracle, various places that are not separate countries are counted as 'lands'.. tahiti is counted as a separate 'land' though it is part of the society islands, which is part of french polynesia, which is part of... france.
Are they preaching in Syria? They could really use the "good news" in Syria! And I think that East Los Angeles considered a separate land also. How about Detroit? Those are some dangerous places that need the "good news".
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
my name is eric hendrickson.
i have been on a journey led by the holy spirit which has brought to this point that has allowed for me to open the seventh seal and understand god's master plan.
i am the lion from the lost tribe of judah who has come to the world and be the messiah king.
My name is Eric Hendrickson.
Please remember this name. He will probably become part of the 'Governing Body' along with the other delusional guys that think that they are god.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
soooo... i think the main strength of this group is having the finances to keep this con game going.
i'm hoping that the pedophilia cases are draining them dry so we can be rid of this stumbling block from an organizational stand point.
how is the constant surge of bad news getting out on them effecting the everyday person in this organization?
Damn the borg is good at releasing and publishing (bragging about) "their" numbers and statistics regarding "their" growth and "their "ability to product so much literature. How about they release and publish "their" financial statements for all to see. I know that nearly every jw alive would be interested in those numbers. I even think that the borg could use that information as a sort of an international fund raiser to create a sort of 'theocratic' competition between countries. Which country will "give" the most? Then when those numbers are published we can all see how much money goes to feeding the hungry, helping the widows and orphans.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
if this has been discussed i missed it.
i think the january study watchtower is a concerted attempt to reduce the numbers claiming to be anointed.
but i love the sneaky way they go about it this time.
At the upcoming Regional Convention this summer, the organization is releasing a new publication entitled: "Organized to Be of The Anointed". It will clearly show that the rapidly growing "new group" of "anointed" will soon reach 144,000 and will "overlap" with the "older group" of 144,000 anointed. There will 3 paragraphs that will "prove" that that is "evidently" what Jesus was referring to by "this generation". There will be 144 questions that the 'newly anointed' will be required to go over with the congregation elders in order to see if they "qualify" for the heavenly calling.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
1: where the "f" are you, since there are no signs of your existence?.
2: why did you "create" life forms that by default hate to follow what your rules.. 3:.
from what i read in the bible, why are you such a petulant, vengeful, bi-polar nut who seems to only look for flesh and spirit to kiss you enormous godly ass?.
I fear you but why don't I love you?
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
