Gespro, I thought of that blood/milk angle. Eu!
Hi Robhic, at least you didn?t spend over 45 years listening to the "end is near."
Didn't the story of the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" make it into JW literature and legend? Geez, it makes me want to gag seeing this endless stream of gloom and doom with no end in sight. How do they do it?!
They do it by aging membership and selective history. I wasn?t aware of the 1925 fiasco when I was living through the 1975 fiasco because the people who had lived through 1925 were mostly gone and the publications about it were out of print.
Bluesbrother
, many JWs accept the destruction of the wicked because they think somehow their nonJW friends and family members will be exempted. It is easier to think of faceless, nameless ones dying.
OHD
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They want to force the End to come right now, before the last of their Remnant of anointed ones passes off the scene.
The WTS has said the end must be near because some of the anointed must be still on earth when it comes and the anointed are getting ancient. Ha, they don?t factor in the new anointed some of whom are on the GB, men in their 50?s.
Elsewhere
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Loyalty to God = Loyalty to the WTS
You have that equation correct.
Dustb,
yes, that is what young people in love talk about, the kingdom of God (smile).
Lonestar
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Out in the "ministry" we spent more time deciding who was going to work with who, who was going to drive, who had to leave at 11 AM, thus stranding their partner who had to be picked up by another group, driving from one end of the territory to the next, talking for at LEAST 10 minutes before getting out the car to do a return visit (whom we knew was not home), stopping for coffee breaks, making runs to the post office, etc. In the meantime, people would pass us all the time on the street, and instead of taking an "opportunity", we'd let them walk by and continuted to talk (gossip) to one another. If it were so URGENT, why don't jw's act like it?
JWs have so many ways to waste time and avoid talking to people. Their own salvation is what matters and that is secured whether you actually talk to or convert anyone. I remember being with a newly reinstated sister. She jumped out while we were waiting for another sister. She talked to someone walking down the sidewalk. Finally, the other sisters told her to stop because it was embarrassing them.
She hadn?t learned what wannaexit and I did:
I would bring up a point I read in the mags/rags or I would ask what they thought on a particular passage.
To my surprise NO ONE was interested in this. In fact I soon realized that my partners were actually irritated. They accused me of trying to show off.
And there you have it. J.W are not interested in discussing the kingdom. And If they do its just a facade.
Maverick
The WTS need their peons very sensitive to any who might speak ill of them! Control, control, control!
Especially, the other peons in the congregation. Can?t have any JWs speaking ill of the WTS. Can?t have anyone saying the WTS (Emperor) has no clothes on.
Yes, jgnat, fondle originally had a good meaning. The big problem with the WTS is that they put their reputation and so-called good name ahead of showing compassion for the children. Instead children are expected to sacrifice their own self-esteem.
