They really don’t want Bible readers, they want people to just listen and obey, and give us all your time and money. This “Bible based” organization is anything but.
Bible Reading Schedule, Dumbed Down?
by Slidin Fast 15 Replies latest jw friends
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blondie
I knew an ex-Bethelite, who advanced to being an ex-jw. I asked what was his "aha moment." He said he had to read the whole bible in one month to prepare for this training. He had never read the bible all the way through only the scriptures quote or cited in the publications. When he got through Genesis, that was his "aha moment." He stuck it out for about 2 months, then asked to leave because of health problems. Then he slowly eased out of the congregation. Yes, really reading the bible opened my eyes, I had so many questions after reading Genesis, I slowed down my meeting attendance and "preaching." I was so blind back then. No more.
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blondie
The WT study articles are so dumbed down, the WTS repeats the same phrases and key words in every paragraph and nothing is new. In fact I think only 4 new magazines are printed and the rest are old magazines from the past. One reason I stopped doing my reviews.
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jwpaul
Curious, anything in particular in regards to Genesis that gave him the aha? Or just generally reading through Genesis? On another point indeed it does feel like the study articles are really simplified now -
Ron.W.
Would be interested to see a random watchtower study paragraph from each decade up to date to see how simplistic/childlike the 'study' articles have really become!
I remember when young being perplexed about so many of those articles. Many well over 20 paragraphs long!
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blondie
Also, now larger margins and larger fonts so smaller study articles not so evident. The worst one I remember was 1/1/71 71 paragraphs p. 8-30???
Repeating words
January 1, 2025 WT study article "Glory to Jehovah" the word glory appears 44 times in a 16 paragraph article.