this was before my time, but there was this post that had 308 comments testifying that the best thing of being a jehovah witness back in the day was the convention's meals.
is this true?.
one quote out of 308;.
Yeah the danishes were easily the best part of being a JW. It wasn't exactly a high bar, though.
They weren't anything special, the redditer is just falling prey to typical nostalgia. The danishes were pretty similar to what you'll find in a vending machine or a gas station.
From the 1/22/2001 issue:
“I ask a visiting nurse to hold the newspaper for me. Together we read the obituaries and select some. Then I tell the nurse what thoughts I would like to include in a letter to the relatives of the one who died, and the nurse types the letter. With the letter, I send the brochure When Someone You Love Dies, which explains the Bible’s comforting hope of the resurrection. I do this every Sunday afternoon. It makes me happy that I can still share the good news of God’s Kingdom with others.”
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g20010122/Living-Successfully-With-Your-Ailment-How/
Maybe they don't outright tell people to do this sort of thing, but they certainly hold up those that do as good examples.
hi friends ,.
is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ?
what country state or region you are from ?
Dallas Texas
after the new construction project is announced, anthony morris the turd gives a talk where he arrogantly tells the audience to 'get over it' and get to work.
he says relaxing is fine and 'im not trying to put a guilt trip on you' but you all need to get busy.
no graciousness at all for the endless volunteer labor they demand for whatever new projects they dream up.
His voice is also a little slurred and constant stumbling of his words, which makes me wonder if he takes a sip or two to loosen up before going on stage
Could also be a symptom of dementia
are you bland enough?
just incredible imho.
wt 63, 2/15.
They love to use words like thus (as they do here) or evidently to imply that they've laid sufficient groundwork to reach the conclusion that they've drawn. I don't think I've ever seen a more clear example than this of them just jumping to their preferred conclusion, though.
a jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.
it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.
i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.
Sometimes I want to like him, like when he seemed to change his mind on the spot about anti-discrimination laws (I think this was during a Jim Jeffries show episode) when faced with facts he seemed not to have considered. He seems to think fairly clearly on a lot of topics that are currently confusing a lot of leftists, but when it comes to religious/spiritual/literary topics, he seems like a great example of what happens when a very intelligent person falls in love with their own ideas and decides there is no valid criticism of them. His regular excuse of "it'd take me 40 hours to answer that" or "I'd have to write a 600 page book on that" response to simple questions on religions topics ("do you believe Jesus literally died and was resurrected" or "if all humans ceased to exist would god still exist") is infuriating
Watching him dance around his claim that no one can give up smoking without a supernatural experience in conversation with Matt dillahunty was painful. His confused way of defining truth in conversation with Sam Harris, doubly so.
To the extent that he says anything true and useful, there are people out there doing so much more clearly and honestly. He seems mostly to be taking advantage (though, it seems to me that he's doing so unintentionally and out of genuine belief in his own nonsense) of intellectually lazy people that are in search of meaning and want to imagine themselves to have formed an intellectually interesting and novel worldview.
at an assembly in texas is it me or are there not too many young folk about 😉.
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This is actually my old assembly hall. The picture appears to have been taken about half way from the back of one of the back sections - you can kinda see the additional section to the right but the picture is missing two sections to the left. Assembly attendence was usually a hair over 1000 when I was in, and it was probably about 50-75% full.
This one is located just west of Denton, TX.
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/jehovahs-witnesses-recover-best-from-surgery-despite-refusing-blood-20120703-21fi1.html .
Yeah when you have patients that put outrageous restrictions on their doctors, they will often be forced to go to the best doctors or the doctors using the most modern techniques. It's no surprise that they'd have better outcomes. There's also almost certainly a strong selection bias effect as the riskiest patients are turned away because of their refusal of blood transfusions, so the sample of jws getting the surgery is probably a healthier sample on average than the control. None of that justifies the thousands of needless deaths that the cult had caused with its bullshit doctrines.
can someone please help me with this, if you’ve looked into it before?.
i read somewhere that the witnesses didn’t celebrate the memorial on nisan 14 according to the jewish calendar.
i did a quick google check - seems next years memorial is on tuesday (nisan 13) rather than the wednesday, nisan 14 according to the jewish calendar.
The days were counted as starting at sundown so after sundown on Nisan 13 is the start of Nisan 14
mrs nic' and i were 16 and 18 years old respectively when we first met at a circuit assembly in corby.
three years later we were married.
we've had a great time, we're very lucky but looking back i can see how crazy it is to put that pressure to marry on teenagers.
It's only premarital sex if you get married.
