Posts by slimboyfat

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the watchtower is starting to crumble

by pepperheart in

for the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.

slimboyfat

My post appeared twice because of delays. And both times I managed to misspell the word "effort".

Yes I agree WT appears to be in a real crisis. I don't know how it will play out, but put it this way: as dramatic as the changes of recent years have been, I believe their crisis is such that greater drama is yet to come. I think it is a mistake to think they have restructured in such a way to create a strategy for future stability. As another poster noted, they are sticking their head in the sand over the two witness rule. Every indication is they are doing the same about their financial and organisational problems. And chickens are now coming home to roost.

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"Are you humble enough to admit you were wrong?"

by stuckinarut2 in

that is a question i want to calmly and politely ask a witness next time i interact with them.

perhaps at a cart.. "the bible says we should be humble.

may i ask, are you humble enough to admit you were wrong on things you believe?

slimboyfat

That's a good one. But they are more scared than humble/proud, I'd say.

I still want to try out my zinger some time:

"Are there any subjects that your leaders won't allow you to discuss?"

To which I expect the inevitable ironic reply:

"I don't want to discuss that."

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The watchtower does not have the resources

by pepperheart in

if you have a look at the december broadcast on jw tv they tell you that they wont be showing you a normal format for december but the 143rd event of gilead because the watchtower does not have the resources other wise to translate it many different lanuages.. with all the cuts the watchtower have made and are going to make you would have thought that they would have lots of resources.

slimboyfat

Yes there are lots of good things about JWs, if they could just get rid of the bad. It will take some major event to provoke them to change however.

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the watchtower is starting to crumble

by pepperheart in

for the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.

slimboyfat

Yes it looks like they are starting to crumble.

I meant 1000 (or more) videos in total, not just monthly broadcasts.

And I meant JWs don't have a culture of giving money. Of course in terms of time and afford they beat most other religions by a mile. It's ironic therefore that WT have failed to turn this zeal toward financial contributions.

Yes it seems like they are collapsing faster than I imagined. Are broadcasts now being phased out? Is the religion itself being phased out?

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the watchtower is starting to crumble

by pepperheart in

for the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.

slimboyfat

Yes it looks like they are starting to crumble.

I meant 1000 (or more) videos in total, not just monthly broadcasts.

And I meant JWs don't have a culture of giving money. Of course in terms of time and afford they beat most other religions by a mile. It's ironic therefore that WT have failed to turn this zeal toward financial contributions.

Yes it seems like they are collapsing faster than I imagined. Are broadcasts now being phased out? Is the religion itself being phased out?

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What’s The Strangest Belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there’s a lot.

i think one strange view is how only 144000 go to heaven.

since the number is mentioned in the symbolic book of revelation, you would expect that the number would be viewed as figurative, but jws say otherwise.

slimboyfat

Overlapping generation is so embarrassing they never talk about it in conversation, ever. Speaks for itself.

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The watchtower does not have the resources

by pepperheart in

if you have a look at the december broadcast on jw tv they tell you that they wont be showing you a normal format for december but the 143rd event of gilead because the watchtower does not have the resources other wise to translate it many different lanuages.. with all the cuts the watchtower have made and are going to make you would have thought that they would have lots of resources.

slimboyfat

A thousand (or more) videos in total. Not just monthly broadcast.

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the watchtower is starting to crumble

by pepperheart in

for the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.

slimboyfat

They made money (a lot of it) by selling books. Now defunct. Hence the financial crisis.

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The New JWdom - Vew of Older Publications? (and other related questions)

by Magnum in

i feel that there aren’t many of that type anymore, but there have to be some – mostly old-timers.

how do they study?.

when i was active, i collected all the old publications i could find.

slimboyfat

I've no doubt things like that go on a lot, but it's the odd insertion of the amorous adventures into this thread by a novel poster which renders it implausible rather than intrinsic implausibility of the events described in themselves.

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the watchtower is starting to crumble

by pepperheart in

for the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.

slimboyfat

JWs have no culture of contributing to their organisation. Only when you observe the fanaticism with which other groups collect tithes (Mormons and SDAs in particular) do you realise how dramatically in deficit WT is (metaphorically and literally) when it comes to collecting money. The membership is not currently an asset to Watchtower, it is a liability. Which is why the GB are no longer eager to promote growth, especially in poor countries. Each member added is a net liability not an asset, due to decades of mismanagement and bad strategic decisions.