when i see people on here saying they've looked on several sites before this one, jwfacts, jwstruggle, youtube, etc., and then they make friends here, sometimes meeting up with ex-jws, it seems incredibly easy compared to leaving in 1989. .
no internet, no amazon to find ex-jw books, no facebook to link up with ex-jw groups.
still people find it so hard to leave.
you stated: "it seems incredibly easy compared to leaving in 1989."
Forget about 1989, think about those that left a decade or more before - there was not much of anything other than what you could find at the public library. My brother left in the mid 70s. He was a island among a torrent of criticism from family and friends. There was nothing then to hang on to.
i have faded successfully with family intact now for 3 years ...but my in-laws are still in the borg.
they are so excited to go to this event than visit there patriarch father of 97 years of age in the hospital who is still a jw .... who we take care of 24 /7 at his home.
what is so important about today?
I am sure they announce that we are closer than ever to the end of this wicked old system. They then advised to hang in there and don't give up - we have a short wait for our eternal reward.
I am be a bit off on the words, but I'll bet they are pretty close.
i know there are many posts discussing the may money requesting televangalism...er... broadcast i mean!
but i wanted to start one where anyone can put what they have heard any non-exjw, non-apostate witnesses say good or bad about the broadcast.
i don't see how it can't rattle followers... but then again i might be surprised how they can twist things (2+2=5).
i was an extremely sincere, zealous pioneer.
i really cared about the people in the field.
i thought their lives were in danger.
The watchtower was masters at what is known as "stuffing the supply chain." For example every publisher has stacks of un place magazines and books, the congregation has stacks of magazines and the society had an a corresponding stack of unsold. And yet at the same time they would advertise the how much publishing as proof that they were in pursuit of the hearts of the honest hearted truth-seekers.
In reality campaigns were simply to relieve excess inventory. Or at least to shift the inventory to the hands of the publishers.
This is a very inefficient and costly system. It seems they have gotten away from this by focusing on web-based material.
so, if anybody ever got a dislike from me.....it was my fat thumbs trying to scroll down....sorry ; )
the july 2015 kingdom ministry says jws can't do international outreach through the internet, but to instead, point someone in the direction of jw.org site.. it's just another form of control.
the individual publisher is forced to send the interested one to a website fully controlled by the borg.. .
and if so, does this mean that adam had already invented a timetable, and calendar?
I think Adam (West; aka, Batman) is still alive.
Sorry, the concept of humans living nearly a century is kind of silly. Thus, I made a silly reply.
what does the bible really teach page 110....
why does god allow suffering?.
the wt uses the illustration of a math teacher who is challenged by a student that the math problem can be worked out a different way.
As a professor I am highly offended by the illustration. Teaching is not about showing how much more you know than the student. The teacher should encourage experimentation. The student should work until the he or she gets it right. Eventually the student may figure out something that the teacher never thought of. - That is what education is all about.
If the teacher is confident he or she will be thrilled to have a student figure out a new way of thinking.
the may broadcast on tv.jw.org.
we need money!.
http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_video.
i have a pretty good intuition but i have to admit i am going back and forth on the jw tv may broadcast.
i keep asking myself are they really in financial trouble (wishful thinking) or are they just grabbing for more money?.
i always appreciate reading everyone's thoughts and ideas on here.. let me know what you think.
I have two comments related to the rant for money.
This is a blatant grab for money - no different than at the assemblies where they say there is a $xx,xxx loss when in fact they play a game to give the illusion of a loss to extract that last dollar out of the publishers.
This may also represent the realization that the r&f are no longer willing to give. They may have seen a surprising drop off of donations.
But make no mistake - they are not running out of money. So, don't get your hopes up.
