does anybody know what this message will contain ?
is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ?
or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.. or is it going to suggest to the government officials that this mob could very well be the next jonestown /wacol incident and we need to act now.
And let's not forget the "worldwide" letter writing campaign that JW's did just a few years back when the Russian government was clamping down on religions in Russia! I'm pretty sure that the Russian government didn't respond to that "important" jw letter writing campaign! As I remember, when my wife was writing her "protest" letter, it was more of a polite plea than an angry demand!
just saying!
does anybody know what this message will contain ?
is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ?
or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.. or is it going to suggest to the government officials that this mob could very well be the next jonestown /wacol incident and we need to act now.
Being 73 and having been a virtual born-in, I've see many of these hyped campaigns to get the R and F all fired up but like many old timers here, we know that JW's and the WT organization are like fleas on an elephant! Very insignificant, sometimes irritating, but never of any real impact!
just saying!
brother gave a zoom talk this morning about the conquest of “the promised land” and how in many cases, ‘everything that breathed” was destroyed.
how loving!
but the real question here is:.
Brother gave a Zoom talk this morning about the conquest of “the promised land” and how in many cases, ‘everything that breathed” was destroyed. How loving! But the real question here is:
What kind of super audio technology did they have in those bible times?
I mean, really, today we have to have hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of audio equipment to be able to clearly communicate with large crowds of people (conventions for example) but when we read the bible’s accounts of how Moses addressed the MILLIONS of Israelites that left Egypt, how Joshua addressed the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who, (with jehober’s help of course), wiped out the inhabitants of the “promised land”, Damn you have to marvel at their advanced technology in audio communications!
just saying!
hillary clinton is telling all democratic supporters to be ready to fight if trump wins.
other democratic leaders are telling the masses to destroy everything in their cities and cripple the economy if trump is elected president.
other democratic leaders are appealing to the military who support the democratic agenda to step in and stop any arm citizens on the side of trump if he is elected, and remove the president by force if he wins the election.. hillary clinton is making it clear to the democratic supporters, that joe biden will become president -after president trump becomes elected.. looks like a dictator coup d'état,to overthrow the usa government by non-democratic means is now in the making.
I absolutely detest Hillary Clinton! But at least an adult would have been president if her 3 million popular vote margin counted!
Besides, jehober is going to tear down the cities and the government at the big A----right?
just saying!
as someone who left in 1991 aged 21, one of my overriding memories of growing up in the watchtower was being able to "prove" the end times by referencing 1914.. major change in 95 then again after that.
if i'm being honest i could not even tell you now what the current teaching is.. for those who still attend the meetings, is it still openly spoken about?
i genuinely curious as i wonder if the teaching will be altogher dropped eventually, and one of the easiest ways to achieve that is to stop speaking about it.
When you make the mistake of painting yourself into a corner, (oops!), it's best to wait for the paint to dry! The wt's 1914 bullshit is drying up! Pretty soon the mistake is forgotten!
just saying!
saw this on a friend's facebook page.
of course all the jws were quick to say that it must have been the apostate israelites.
bbc news - 'cannabis burned during worship' by ancient israeli test.
I believe it!
I also believe that some of the guys that wrote the bible were on LSD! I don't have any archaeological evidence, but I have read their writings! Holy shit they must have been on one fantastic "trip"!
just saying!
i understand it’s a cult.
but what makes an intelligent person actually believe they have the “truth” as taught by jehovah’s witnesses??
?.
This question posed by the subject of this post is an oxymoron right?
just saying!
the scene openssetting: beth sarim is a ten-bedroom mansion in san diego, california________curtain rises.
night has come to beth sarim mansion as president joe rutherford (the "judge") sits cleaning his pistol and sipping whisky from a flask on the edge of his silk sheets at bedtime.
(rutherford heads up the watchtower bible & tract society).. there is a knock at the bedroom door.____________.
I liked it Terry! Maybe you should try to sell it to some evil "apostate driven" repertory outfit!
just saying!
today's article prods active jws to participate in the effort to reactivate us backsliders.. unfortunately, it fails to prepare the participants to adequately address the real reasons so many have left and want nothing frtherethan to be left alone: the un and child abuse scandals, prophetic failures; dumbed-down, increasingly specious and simplistic verbiage in literature and talks, the cult of personality and unwarranted veneration of those 8 singularly unremarkable members of the gb, etc., etc..
You can't un-ring a bell or unlearn ttatt?
I was an elder for 2+ decades also and really had to force myself to give meeting parts and public talks and go on sheep herding calls over the last 7-8 years. I still go occasionally on Sunday for the sake of my pimi wife so I guess I'm not considered a full blown 'inactive'. Haven't been in fs for about 7-8 years and not one sheep herding call from the "concerned, loving" elders!
just saying!
from the faq as captured on the website with this question (how many jehovah's witnesses are there worldwide?
) led to this question of mine who do the organization sees as a jehovah's witness?
the organization answers: .
You make a very valid point! And again the borg has really painted themselves into a corner. The #2 baptism question is sort of a mute point!
just saying!
