42years have passed since the great 1975 expectation delivered nothing.
blame for the expectations laid at feet of the faithful, 'it's your fault , you believed us so you are responsible for the let down'.
i have asked this previously and repeat the point, where were the current members of the governing body, 43 years ago.
Gerrit Loesch has been anointed since the 1970s. I'm sure some of the others partook that far back too.
Sure in the video where Splane expalined the overlapping generation the example he used was Fred Franz overlapping with, who? Those anointed before 1992 when Franz died.
Antony Morris wasn't long back from Vietnam in 1975. In fact I don't think he was even a JW when the "Freedom of the Sons of God" book was published.
here in holland jw.org is organizing for the first time the yearly conventions like circuits.
the whole summer the new convention hall is used for small group conventions instead of 10.000 seat external halls.. it keeps the money in the organization.
not renting external buildings.. the 29.000 witnesses here are divided now into 2.000 seat audience.. g..
How boring.
Why are JWs intent on removing anything and everything remotely enjoyable? In this case large conventions in interesting locations.
i thought this forum was for people who were ex jw`s and pro jw`s and the like to debate ,discuss and reasonably talk about our differences ,and sometimes drift off into politics world events and whatever.. however over a period of time i have come across cold steel `s many posts which are nothing more than promoting his mormon religions point of view./beliefs what has that got to do with jehovahs witnesses and the concerns many have with the jw religion.?.
it seems to me he is using this forum to promote his religion and is getting away with it over a long period of time.. how long before other cult religions see this as a springboard for promoting their own religion such as .
sda`s ,christian scientists , christadelphians ,beroean bible students ,etc.etc.. where will it end if he is able to keep doing this ?.
I'm not bothered about Cold Steel or his beliefs.
Threads and posts that attempt to shut down conversations and unpopular points of view I have less time for.
many of us here have commented on the deceitful friday afternoon video shown at the 2017 rc that discussed 1975.. the video attempted to shift the blame onto congregation members for the fiasco saying, "some were looking to a certain date as signifying the end of this old system of things.".
this same video mentions how, “a few even went so far as selling their homes and quitting their jobs.”.
we all know that the wt leadership created this teaching and endorsed it right up to its abject failure.. now below is the concluding talk given on sunday at the rc.
Interesting they should say the actual date in the talk. I thought they had avoided mentioning the actual date in the video. I wonder if they will find a speaker at each convention who can relate to the event.
The Kingdom song at the start reminds me of Adiemus, especially when it's in another language.
was reading the daily text this morning (june 26th, 2017) and found this:.
but jesus, who could read hearts, discerned that the people were more interested in physical food than in what he taught.
he saw what was wrong, patiently corrected them, and explained how they could improve.. .
John 5:19-22 Therefore, in response Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to you, the Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things that One does, these things the Son does also in like manner. For the Father has affection for the Son and shows him all the things he himself does, and he will show him works greater than these, so that you may marvel. For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes them alive, so the Son also makes alive whomever he wants to. For the Father judges no one at all, but he has entrusted all the judging to the Son,
anon in japan says:.
i served in the third circuit of shikoku japan.
a few years ago, a well-known theocratic family disassociated.
Well, despite millions of immigrants over the last few years, German JW growth is still among the poorest in Europe.
Plus Germany had more immigrants than the UK even before the recent influx - 2010 figures in table:
isnt nice to see the governing body being so humble, meek and not seeking their own importance?.
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If I give a book to someone as a gift I might sign it too. But I would tend to describe it as an inscription not an autograph.
In decades past, particularly when there was still a charge for the literature, sometimes JWs would buy WT books and give them as gifts with inscriptions inside.
"To Betty, love from May, Edinburgh Assembly 1969"
So maybe the GB "signing" Bibles and giving them to Cuban officials a gifts was not all that peculiar, if it was intended as a friendly gesture.
Initially I had the notion of JW "fans" presenting the GB with Bibles to autograph. But clearly that's not the situation.
anon in japan says:.
i served in the third circuit of shikoku japan.
a few years ago, a well-known theocratic family disassociated.
The thing is that Internet access is a factor that is difficult to distinguish from other potentially more significant factors such as wealth and security of a country.
To prove that the Internet is independently a determinant of JW activity you'd need to find poor/insecure countries with high Internet access and vice versa to test it out.
Pippa Norris showed that religiosity generally is higher in counties with low security and development.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Secular-Religion-Worldwide-Cambridge/dp/1107648378/
I suspect JWs follow the same pattern as outlined in this study, although I've never done the numbers.
In fact I think I can think of a counter example. Internet access has taken longer to grow in Germany than the UK for example, despite Germany being more prosperous. Yet JW growth has been more sluggish in Germany over the past two decades than in the UK. It's weak evidence either way, yet if the Internet significantly slowed growth we might expect the opposite pattern, ceteris paribus.
anon in japan says:.
i served in the third circuit of shikoku japan.
a few years ago, a well-known theocratic family disassociated.
Discussion of Mormon growth in countries with Internet:
http://cumorah.com/index.php?target=view_case_studies&story_id=339&cat_id=8
Not sure internet access is an important variable.
isnt nice to see the governing body being so humble, meek and not seeking their own importance?.
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Can't see much wrong with getting pictures taken with people. They look fairly normal.
