i notice the friends are in an anne frank attic instead of a boarded up basement this time.. the giving to ones in need pic shows literature and bible, but no food or money.
Lately the gb has been showing jw's how and where to hide during the 'great tribulation'. The attic, the bunker, or running through the forest to avoid the storm troopers.
What happened the the bible admonition to 'raise yourselves erect and to lift up your heads because your deliverance is getting near'?
Me thinks that deliverance is not getting near!
just saying!
...with monkey shoulder whisky as the "faithful slave's" whisky of choice... the governing body wants to associate the whisky's logo with jw judicial committees.. .
When I was a PIMO elder for several years before my successful fade, I had to self medicate BEFORE meetings! Truth. I would take a few shots of vodka and then put another shot in my water bottle that I took to the meeting just to keep the glow going! No liquor breath with vodka and I'm certain that no one ever suspected that I was feeling good. It made the situation tolerable until it didn't!
just saying!
i was just wondering this morning about all the kingdom halls and branches being sold to "babylon the great" and other businesses.
every single kingdom hall and bethel branch that has been sold was "dedicated to jehovah" by the watchtower corporation.
a special meeting with a guest speaker gives a talk and then offers a prayer dedicating the building to yhwh.
When they need the money, all bets are off!
just saying!
i received a call from a friend in new york city that don adams passed away late last evening (30 dec 2019).
many of you bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the gb got out of the corporate structure business.
from what i understand, he was generally liked by many there.. some in my family knew him.
I believe that there were 3 Adams brothers (fleshly brothers) that were big wigs at the wt headquarters in NY. All were lifers for the wt. Like many of us, they probably just accepted their mom's religion and got swallowed up in wt land.
Wonder if Don was thinking in his final days "WTF how long do I have to live before Armageddon?"
just saying!
the watchtower—study edition | march 2020. love and appreciation for jehovah lead to baptism.
( this picture is not from the article!
i found it online to add a little color to the paragraph).
How the hell did that Ethiopian eunuch have time to go over the 100 questions required by jehober before he got baptized? That must have been one very long chariot ride!
just saying!
during gerrit loesch's talk just released, he goes on a long list of the false end times predictions throughout the millennia.
i didn't expect it, but then he goes into the precursors to the bible students who, when their dates failed, changed christ's presence to have happened 'invisibly'.
then it goes right into the jws, and he reads the quote from millions now living will never die about how we can 'confidently expect' the resurrection in 1925, and then the life everlasting book that predicted 1975. of course, he doesn't say how it's still going on, namely with the overlapping generation and its' accompanying convoluted chart, but still, this is more than they've ever said on the subject, especially recently.. it almost sounds like a forced statement, to address any backlash from people reading 'apostate lies' online, because he also says how the gb 'humbly' admitted mistakes, referencing the non-apology after 1975 that disturbed raymond franz.
The gb members gotta be saying to each other,
"WTF jehober. It's 2020 where the hell is Armageddon? You're 45 years late and the natives are getting restless!"
just saying!
my very much in wife commented with no prompting that they have a hierarchy in prayers.
bless the gb, co, elders, pioneers.
if the ill or shutins are mentioned that is all, not so much as a phone call let alone a visit.
Religious people love to use the quaint expression, "our thoughts and prayers are with you"!
Do they really believe that? But it's a nice thought!
just saying!
the cult is so screwed up its appalling!first thing this morning and this shitty text is what i get for the start of the new year.
"the 20th century ended on 31st of december 2000 at 23:59:59 +1 second so technically, yes, the next decade according to that would begin next year.
but the twenties started to day.i hope these are the roaring twenties!
Ah! 2020 and still no Armageddon. At least 45 years late! But jehober is not slow respecting his promise to annihilate 8.5 billion humans!
just saying!
i was listening to a podcast on cost to build a hall and there was a brother from the stage saying it costs the cult half a million to build a hall.
lol its bs.
there is no fing way that it cost the cult a half million to build a hall.
Here in California the cost to build any building is stupidly high. So to build a 220 seat KH in our semi rural California city in the central valley it actually was about $500k. So my guess is that wt cherry picks a few high budget kh builds to use as examples of how much it costs to build a kh. The actual cost to build the average KH will never be truly revealed to the rank and file sheeple just like the cost to use an assembly hall for a day!
just saying!
i hear of whole circuit meetings being held, taking all day.
maybe just usual yearly stuff, but it seems the local elders immediately held a followup.
i am sure it will be about better local control, more charity, kindness, that sort of thing.
The relocation of publishers and the reallocating of "servants" is in full swing here in California. It's got the older ones in a full panic but they just try to pass it off as, 'jehovah knows best'! At least 17 congregations in the greater San Jose, CA area dissolved! I'm waiting and hoping that this will come back to bite the wt in the ass!
The amazing decrease is surely a sign of jehober's blessing! lol lol
just saying!
