genuine question here.
a lot has been said on this site about how judge rutherford responded to events in his day by 'revealing' the great crowd of earthly subjects of the kingdom.
it was always portrayed to me as a reaction from the ground up of those who didn't want to go to heaven.
If there is *any* shred of truth regarding Jesus Christ and any plan of God's, Rutherford may very well be the largest Apostate in the Org's entire history.
He taught them to reject Christ and made up a cover story to sell the books he would later write under claimed inspiration.
The history of JWs is a very sad one indeed.
So many lies.
reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?
i bet its very minimal.
naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.
i got ready for the meeting.
my wife did too.
we drove out to the kingdom hall and the closer we got the higher my anxiety would spike.
After I resigned as a MS and was still attending the meetings.
After a few times of finding myself crying in my seat during the final song or prayer, I quit for good.
FREEDOM!!
my spies seem a bit confused.
here, in this neck of the woods 3 congregations had 3 separate sittings.
the attendance seemed to be swelling.
Will they eventually quit printing the total that attend the memorial?
'Cuz it's dropping, too!
we all sin and some sins are worse than others but blasphemy against the holy spirit is said to be unforgivable.what is considered to be an unforgivable sin?
Wow. I just realized that there isn't a single comment in the bible anywhere showing a Christian how to strengthen a fellow that has lost his faith in the Governing Body...
I wonder why?
my name is christian and my wife is katja, and we have been out of the organization for a year and a half.
we were both regular pioneers and i was a ministerial servant.
we were very much happy to be witnesses and doing our best to do more for the organization.
I've enjoyed all of the YouTube vids the two of you have produced.
I hope to do some videos of my own one day.
Welcome to the forum.
my parents insisted that i'd take them to the memorial.
my cousin said he'd come too and another brother who doesn't have a car begged to join.
i was dreading having to go through exactly the same thing again.
Find out how many braved the weather and attended.
That would be interesting.
Reason would have us hope very few could or would be willing to drive in a life threatening situation for 'loyalty'?
i had no idea that the resistance, governance, and duplicity i am experiencing as a jehovah witness is actually part of a bigger behavioral issue that permeates the entire jehovah witness culture.. i was troubled by the fact that many persons who have been crushed by the unfair practices of jw leadership described themselves as former members of the jw cult, and, or, apostates.
the latter bothered me to a greater degree because i felt the word apostate has been overused by jw's leadership and members.
anyone who disagrees with anything the governing body does or says is assigned the label an apostate.
Isn't it funny that once awake, the 'Awake!' magazine title becomes an ironic joke.
Truth in plain site.
i don't want my wife recognizing me, but i feel like making an anti-jw scene.
A big sign no one can miss that says:
Shun exJWs in imitation of Jesus
Or
Wachtower's Pedophile problems are not "apostate lies"
"research 1975, JWs"
Something easy to read from a distance that once seen is already read.
i've never met a group that turns on it's members like the jw's.
sister faithful that thinks she's anointed is now bat shit crazy with mental illness.
we all have known it's true, but now you have the wt, who put it in everyone's head that you can be anointed.
The only relevance the 'number of partakers' had is with the failed prophecy of "Millions now living Will Never Die". ( the generation of anointed that saw the sign in 1914 )
When the numbers were steadily decreasing it meant we were close to 'The End'©. yay!
That generation is meaningless now with the wonderful nu-lite of 'Overlapping Generations' and so are the 'anointed', meaningless.
This is part of the last phase of failed prophesy cover-up operations.
Ridiculous and sad.
Many saw it coming.
