have you noticed how the main Jw preaching message has changed?

by nowwhat? 24 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  scratchme1010

  The changes make strategic sense for them. The availability of so many ex-JWs being able to communicate, unite and compare notes has created a major problem in all the BS that they used to preach. Today it's way easier to find out who/how they really are since information now it's easily accessible, and communication and testimonials from other people are more easy to find.

  People now can have the complete pictures and all the information they need to make more informed decisions today. Before if at all, they would hear from one or two ex-JWs and would have been dismissed as people holding grudges or deserving of being shunned. That's not the case today.

  As sparrow down hints, they will change anything, not just what/how they say, to whatever fulfills their agenda better.
  
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  truth_b_known

  I noticed this began over decade ago. The literature cut back on Paradise propaganda because "We don't want people focusing on salvation, but rather developing a relationship with Jehovah."

  You may recall that the cover to the "Knowledge" book was changed from a paradise painting to a mountain.
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  OUTLAW

  have you noticed how the main Jw preaching message has changed?

  Buy a Cart, Find a Corner, Say As Little As Possible...
  

  
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  Crazyguy

  Yes they have become all cute and cuddly until you roll back the cover and their still filled with maggots.
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  Vidiot

  Kinda hard to attract converts with the threat of the world going to hell in a handbasket when, statistically, world conditions are actually getting better...
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  nowwhat?

  Make no mistake the message on the inside is still fear obligation and guilt.
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  Gorbatchov

  Even a recent CO said in our congregation that the New World can be reached only by Underground (grave)...

  So it's a long term issue now.

  G.
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  Vidiot

  @ Gorby...

  "New World Underground"...

  ...sounds like a hipster garage band.

  
  
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  Giordano

  Wow! What happened to the old days when JWdom was bold and more confident and more assertive and more confrontational?

  For one........ the internet............ just like the Mormons and other 'far ranging' religions that drifted away from a more conventional ministry.........information lesson's their appeal. When a person learns about their history....their troubling beliefs ....... false end of the world claims the unnecessary Blood Ban and other medical interference, their two witness rule and pedophile problem their appeal dims.

  Nothing can be hidden or glossed over anymore.

  Their light no longer grows brighter their long past that bright sunshine......it's just about evening for the JW's
  
  
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  Bungi Bill

  Interestingly, this has happened at least once before.

  During 1975, and for a year or two afterwards, the JWs took much the same line. We started hearing a lot about "Christian love", supposed "Design Patterns in Creation" and similar - but nothing at all about such matters as "hours".(Previously to that the meetings and assemblies seemed to feature nothing but "hours" and "full time service").

  This, however, did not last very long. In the congregation I was in (Newmarket, QLD, Australia), the return to a more usual "Heads Down, Bums Up" approach was heralded in 1977 by the assignment of a new CO to our circuit - the unforgettable "Cyclone Rex" Mainwaring.

  As Sparrowdown has observed, they (the WTS/GB) will say / preach whatever they like, depending entirely on their - and only their - agenda. A return to the more usual JW equivalent of "Hellfire and Brimstone" methods could not necessarily be ruled out.