i was completely out by 1991 and 1989 would have been the last time i had to attend regularly.
that over the top franz writing style was still there in the 1980's although i've heard he wasn't actually doing much writing by then.
but his style was definitely picked up and imitated for many years beyond its wacky, outlandish peak of the the 50's - 70's.
Ted Jaracz used 9-11 to purge all the moderates and liberals from the decision-making process (and the premises), so now there’s no one left with the creative chops to give WT theology and eschatology the rewrite it needs.
As a result, they’re stuck with Franz’ old Cold-War-centric End-Times script, and it’s increasingly implausible sequence of events.
breaking: fbi director kash patel has announced the arrest of milwaukee judge hannah dugan for obstructing ice during the arrest of an illegal alien.
patel: "we believe judge dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, eduardo flores ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.".
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Lawlessness!!!
LAWLESSNESS!!!!!!!
i like to take a peek at the kids over on reddit every week or so.. this thread caught my eye:" curious….
do any ex jw or pimo, still believe the world is ending.
i see people who have never been witnesses think that the world will end soon and they say things like “jesus is coming soon”….
It’s always the End of Days.
Has been since the Beginning,
the july 2025 watchtower has a paragraph that claims that it was the superior power and wisdom of jehovah that guided the gb into allowing jws to grow beards.. the study article is ‘can you still learn from basic bible teachings?’ under the subheading ‘jehovah is the creator’ paragraph 7 states-.
“ 7. what did rahela do to accept a change in direction?.
your answer.
Journeyman - “…Just admit it was a stupid edict in the first place, and you're correcting a long-standing error…”
You know they’ll never do that, right?
https://www.thereflector.com/stories/washington-legislature-passes-bill-to-make-clergy-mandatory-reporters-of-child-abuse,378913 .
It has been about keeping the Org’s reputation untarnished…
… but only insomuch as it placed their charity status (and subsequent tax-exemption) at risk.
More Importantly, it was about keeping the full scope of the problem from the rank-and-file.
the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.
each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.
we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.
Rattigan - “So the problem is the critics preventing them to do that, not the GB itself.”
Bitch, please.
There’s no fucking way they’d just let it fade into extinction. If there wasn’t outside pressure to reform (at least on paper), JWs would still be practicing every aspect of their religion the exact same way they were doing it in the 1930s.
Don’t try to put this on the “critics”.
the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.
each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.
we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.
TonusOH - “…She credits Jehovah with saving her, instead of the doctors and nurses who diligently worked to keep her alive with the difficult burden of not using blood…”
Can’t very well have agents of “Satan’s World” responsible for anything positive, now, can we?
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alot of my witness friends were excited sisters can now wear pants and you can say hi to disfellowshiped folks but what about important stuff child molesters in the congregation you need 2 witnesses blood fractions are fine but not whole blood????
607 bce is from the 1880s wrong....anything else?
HereIam60 - “…Frankly, I think the only reason it was changed was because Mark Sanderson, GB member, wanted to grow one himself and persuaded the rest of the group to his way of thinking. (I'm willing to be corrected if wrong, but I think he was the first of the GB to appear with one)...”
I always figured they were finally persuaded to try and look a little less like a high-control group for PR reasons, one of ‘em had to be first, and Sanderson drew the short straw.
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usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.
this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.
for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.
Rivergang - “…It seems to be human nature to keep hankering after ‘the good old days’c while ignoring the fact that those old days’ were often not as good as people imagine them to have been…”
Oh, so this.
There’s no fucking way I’d even wanna go back and live in the 1980s or 90s.
breaking news....there is hope for good hearted non-jws!!!.
according to sergio:.
are jehovah's witnesses the only ones to be saved during the end time?.
Vanderhoven7 - “…the idea that all honest church goers and leaders will survive the GT and Armageddon means the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses is redundant and all their claims of association being critical to salvation are utter self-elevating nonsense…”
Yup.
It’s a more acceptable, mainstream idea… but that’s the primary difficulty with authentic mainstreaming on the part of the WTS…
…it effectively neuters all the things they’ve held up for decades as hard proof they alone had The Truth.
And once that’s gone…
… so is virtually any remaining incentive to stay.
