by Atlantis 42 Replies latest jw friends
I also wonder if they will start disfellowshiping people online at these Zoom meetings also. Will a persons name be broadcast online that they are no longer a JW?
Will that information go out to people who have no right to know?
Surprise, surprise! Well I heard the very first disfellowshipping via the vroom meeting last week!
So it will be braodcast as normal .
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In the UK JWs signed a document regarding the org using their info online with the data protection laws whether that includes the homes of JWs , and if they agree to using zoom might excuse the org .
Even though some may not want to use zoom in the privacy of their own home's because of the pressure from the org and elders hopefully that would be against their human rights etc
The camera is not on 24 7. Churches are also broadcasting services. The zoom seems to be limited to 100 hookups. Whole family on one camera.
I lost respect for one elder making what I thought were too critical comments, on the air. They have always overstressed dress and grooming for meetings. The other side is sloppily dressed people at churches in general.
Without the cameras I can do housework, clean guns, do anything to keep awake.
I did hear of one person who couldnt get zoom to work promptly called out for missing meeting though
Simonan hour agoJWs are not a cult as most reasonable people interpret the word. Ex-JWs who shout "cult" too much undermine valid criticisms that they could be making.
They are a conservative christian sect. They have some high-control practices. But they are not a cult.
Simon..do you think someone has hacked your account ?
JWs are not a cult as most reasonable people interpret the word. Ex-JWs who shout "cult" too much undermine valid criticisms that they could be making.
They are a conservative christian sect. They have some high-control practices. But they are not a cult.
You are wrong Simon...definition of a cult:
a religious group, often living together, whose beliefs are considered extreme or strange by many people
JW's will die rather take a blood transfusion, they believe in very strange and extreme things and are a closed community.
A hundred percent they are a cult. Add in the hierarchy and its nailed on.
Cult in practical use is a worse term than sect. The conservative evangelicals use it as a label on any non trinitarian religion. The difference between cult and conservative sect is hair splitting. In both cases some are given authority by and over their omsubjects in a closed community. No cult following, no GB. The worst thing about them is for sure the pressure people to avoid necessary blood. Here it is the responsibility of the medical staff to disregard the dangerous doctrine of the sect/cult.
Despite my resentfulness of these zoom meetings I am afraid that this facility is not just invading WT homes. It is being used by churches and religious groups up and down the land I live in and around the world as far as I can see.
So yes, I despise them, I hate their petty-fogging rules but there are bigger battles out there.
And if an elder takes down notes because a JW wears jeans in his own home for a Zoom meeting, doesn't this border-line on breaking the Data Protection Laws?
No. And if it did how in the world would you make a case of it. Zooms legal terms of agreement when you use their services, free them of any liability.
An elder can write what he wants...You can dress how you want. In turn, they can also df/ shun/ call you spiritually weak/counsel you/ or whatever strikes their fancy so long you remain a member.
About Zoom thing, our congregation started testing last week, and it was said that we should be dressed as if we were in a hall, but that is also a personal matter. As far as i could see, some was fully dressed, some just put a tie on shirt they wear at home, some had camera off or point it to the ceiling, some use computers without camera, some just use phone dial-up. Everything goes at the moment, we will see in a couple of weeks.
I would not allow a foreign controlled camera in the house. think lens covers. tape.
