Posts by sparrowdown

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Since Democrats Are All About the “Children” why does ABORTION Not Bother Them?

by minimus in

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if everything is supposed to be about the lives of children, how can they hypocritically fight to take babies and kill them?

what about the children and their quality of life?.

sparrowdown

I remember watching a documentary a few years back about a program that was trialed in...in...I want to say India but I don't think it was. Anyway some country where people (especially rural) married young and just kept producing children until they couldn't anymore. They did so traditionally, their parents and grandparents would have lots of kids because infant mortality was so high.

Now, most children born there survived past five yrs and the couples ended up with too many kids to care for. So they trialed sending family education social type workers into the field to visit all the families and explain how if they had too many kids the quality of care and amount of resources for each child would drop as each child was born putting a lot of stress on the family as a whole. They provided free birth control and did follow up visits they were amazed at how the couples took the advice on board and the birthrate/average number of children dropped for that area in a couple of years.

It was very interesting to see what can be done with minimum effort and outlay for a simple amd effective education program.

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Help: Anyone identify Gary Breaux's ring?

by Fay Dehr in

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can anyone identify this ring?

(ideally, a link to a page on the internet with photo and description).

sparrowdown

Without being able to see the details close enough, the black area looks like onyx set in a gold bell (ish) shape with a lightening bolt thingy???...on on one side?

Or is it a skull and crossbone shape?

Oo oo... or... is it "Patrick's" head from Spongebob.

Whatever it is it's downright weird when you consider this groups aversion to personal ornamentation with symbols!!!

Well, they are god's chosen "brotherhood" aren't they? And all brotherhoods need a ring - I spose.

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Anyone think Assemblies will stop?

by blownaway in

not completely but the expensive renting of halls or assembly hall ownership.

maybe with streaming they could have assemblies at the kh and stream the program.

i bet they cut costs in a lot of ways.

sparrowdown

I think they are in the stage of trial and error with the videos trying to find the sort of topics and stories that appeal the most and get the most reaction and donations. I definitely think the begging tone of the videos will gradually increase and yes even having an infomercial style "show" dedicated to donating.

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Anyone think Assemblies will stop?

by blownaway in

not completely but the expensive renting of halls or assembly hall ownership.

maybe with streaming they could have assemblies at the kh and stream the program.

i bet they cut costs in a lot of ways.

sparrowdown

True SBF, a book is a tangible "freebie" a physical keepsake of "Jehovah's blessing" you can hold and take a selfie with. I just don't want to underestimate the power of a slick propoganda video to stir people's emotions enough to stick their credit card in a machine or click on the donate button, after all, governments have been doing this for years.

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LEAK: 3000 buildings to liquidate. How to choose? (Watchtower propaganda video)

by Fay Dehr in

https://youtu.be/pzdxen9rvw0.

as the leaked financial meetings show, watchtower (by it's own admission) has to liquidate 3000+ properties quickly.

how do they choose?

sparrowdown

This video is them trying to justifiy what they are doing.

It's simple, a no brainer in fact, they will first sell off the halls in areas with slow to no growth and slow to no potential for real state values improving.

They will repeat the musical chairs process until.... they reach the desired number of halls and when the music stops and how many halls are left nobody knows.

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Anyone think Assemblies will stop?

by blownaway in

not completely but the expensive renting of halls or assembly hall ownership.

maybe with streaming they could have assemblies at the kh and stream the program.

i bet they cut costs in a lot of ways.

sparrowdown

They may not have new release books but they make up for that in videos. I know if I was still drinking the kool aid the videos would be such a blessing compared to listening to the horrible, boring as dry toast talks delivered by the local brothers. I think I would have donated more just for being saved from death by poor speaker.

Plus videos relax you, zone you out and they're like a dopamine hit watching them in a crowd.

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Reassigned, ...to complete erasure from memory and near poverty.

by Lostandfound in

a complete scandal is the reassignment to nothing of the thousands (?

) of bethelites, over age cos etc, .

out on the street atfter decades of unpaid service in very many cases.

sparrowdown

Once the current oldies die off I'd say the era of staying on at bethel until you pop your clogs is officially over.

It costs them too much to care for the elderly for a start.

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Anyone think Assemblies will stop?

by blownaway in

not completely but the expensive renting of halls or assembly hall ownership.

maybe with streaming they could have assemblies at the kh and stream the program.

i bet they cut costs in a lot of ways.

sparrowdown

I wondered whether eventually, when they have all their evil cult duckies in a row, I figured assemblies might be the only physical meetings they keep, the rest of the "spiritual food" will be available online.

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Reassigned, ...to complete erasure from memory and near poverty.

by Lostandfound in

a complete scandal is the reassignment to nothing of the thousands (?

) of bethelites, over age cos etc, .

out on the street atfter decades of unpaid service in very many cases.

sparrowdown

I agree steve, that's what happens when you volunteer to go to bethel, you are on borrrowed time and one day you will be asked to leave. Whether you are a bethelite, or a mob member the same principle applies; whatever goes around within that group eventually comes around.

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Reassigned, ...to complete erasure from memory and near poverty.

by Lostandfound in

a complete scandal is the reassignment to nothing of the thousands (?

) of bethelites, over age cos etc, .

out on the street atfter decades of unpaid service in very many cases.

sparrowdown

I ran into some bethel "bad batch" rejects a couple in their fifties and the wife was desperately trying to cling to whatever dignity and social cred she thought she still had but the hubbie definitely would have talked more candidly if she didn't keep changing the subject to a more postive tone.

I asked him what was going to happen to the branch, if they would sell of some properties and he said

" Of course they will they're not sentimental about it."

Me : "Well they 're not sentimental about people why would they be sentimental about buildings."

At about that point the missus quickly changed the subject to how wonderfully they were supported by the congregation. He would have talked more if she let us.