this is going to break the hearts of a lot of uber-jw's!
reddit has now removed the video link of samuel herd telling jw's they will no longer have to report time or placements - just tick a box which says "active.".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdshyx79rm&t=13s.
"...the field service report will simply have a box that allows each publisher to indicate that he or she shared in any form of the ministry during the month."
That could mean anything, even giving one friendly greeting to a visitor at a meeting.
Now what will the COs have to complain about to the elders? Not enough pioneers? Not enough studies being conducted?
Why would they do this with Armageddon supposedly sooooo close?
So they can circle the wagons and hide in bunkers more effectively?
sometimes things don't come across the way the speaker intended.. years ago there was an ad by the whitegoods company fisher and paykel.
they showed them going to great lengths to get customer feedback on what was important to them.
one customer said that she wanted it to be easy to get her appliances serviced when they broke down.
The WT has a lot of thought stoppers like:
"Wait on Jehovah."
"Don't run ahead of Jehovah's chariot."
"Trust the slave."
"Doubt your doubts."
"Where else could we go?"
sometimes things don't come across the way the speaker intended.. years ago there was an ad by the whitegoods company fisher and paykel.
they showed them going to great lengths to get customer feedback on what was important to them.
one customer said that she wanted it to be easy to get her appliances serviced when they broke down.
Over 50 years ago, an elder told me the same thing almost word for word -- "Some people have told me that I'm brainwashed. I told them that's a good thing. It means I have a clean mind." Must be someone in the writing department thought that was really clever and circulated it so JWs would parrot it.
here is an apostate elder's honest testimony.. https://youtu.be/epmbbou4nve?si=lzhgmnbyyryurayx.
A very thoughtful man...
My fear is that he's trying to go this alone.
i'm not sure if anyone remembers me since i do not post here much anymore.
i sometimes pop in around christmas time to see if anyone is interested in exchanging christmas cards like we used to back when i first posted on this site.
speaking of which, the holiday season will soon be upon us.. if you recall, i was married to a jehovah's witness and i had a daughter i spoke of a lot.
I've been doing well, Garyneal.
Health is good.
I've given some talks at churches and at ex-JW gatherings to alert people to a number of the false teachings and practices of the WT.
i'm not sure if anyone remembers me since i do not post here much anymore.
i sometimes pop in around christmas time to see if anyone is interested in exchanging christmas cards like we used to back when i first posted on this site.
speaking of which, the holiday season will soon be upon us.. if you recall, i was married to a jehovah's witness and i had a daughter i spoke of a lot.
I remember you.
Thanks for the update.
I'm glad to hear that, amidst all the problems, there are still significant positives in your lives.
mandated shunning is on the rise around the world with devastating effects on millions of people.
shunning that is mandated by organized groups to its members is a form of both physical and psychological violence against those people being shunned and cut off from their family and life-long relationships.
mandated shunning means that the shunning is ordered from the top down.
The GB won't allow JWs to improvise.
Independent thinking is dangerous to the borg.
so my mother passed on 20 aug 23 from the big c. i was there when she went.
that was indeed very traumatic.
i won't go to describe it.. dad went 17 years ago so there's just me now.
Very sorry for your loss.
if you don't measure up to the watchtower society ''high standards''... you might lose some ''special privileges'' .
miss meetings...lose ''privileges''.
don't meet the monthly 10 hour ''field service'' ...lose ''privileges''.
When I first attended a meeting at a KH, I noticed the man passing the microphone and I wondered how he got stuck doing that job.
Imagine my surprise when I learned that you had to earn special privileges in order to be the microphone passer.
It reminded me of Tom Sawyer and the great honor his friends had to be able to paint the fence.
“a circuit overseer started out by saying that on this last round of the circuit, the one thing he noticed the most...is that everyone is physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually drained...and that cuts across all barriers and demographics within the truth.
he then said that the one common thread that ran among nearly everyone was this: we feel guilty for feeling bad.
he said because we are told to endure with joy, our minds can cause us to feel enormous guilt over feeling this way...and then, my dear brothers and sisters...he proceeded to blow our collective minds.. he asked us to turn to daniel 8:27….
The WT operates by guilt and fear which can only be overcome by an endless treadmill of works which are never good enough.
