I was expecting a change...especially for minors...until I read the 2024 Flock book Atlantis posted yesterday. GB 3.0 are still hanging on to the illogical and unscriptural views that even Orthodox Jews repudiate.
Balaamsass2
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Prediction: I think the Blood Policy is about to change.
by underground ini’d like to start out by saying this is my opinion.. i believe that the organisation is about to make blood transfusions in any form a conscience matter.. they will still ban the eating of blood.. they will gaslight everyone by talking about how it is so much safer now.
and will say something along the lines of how our stance protected us from the aids crisis etc.. and i believe this change is going to happen before the annual meeting 2024.. i think the annual meeting will announce they are scrapping the midweek meeting and instead we get to watch a streamed talk at home through a revamped website similar to the way netflix works.. obviously take my opinion with a hefty pinch of salt..
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Disaster preparedness
by ElderBerry inas your family considers its disaster preparedness plan, please ensure that the secretary has up-to-date contact information for you and your emergency contact.
also, we have re- peatedly seen good results when brothers and sisters are prepared with go bags and are ready to obey direction when they face various kinds of disasters.
please be sure you have a go bag, and review its contents at least once a year.
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Balaamsass2
The GO-BAG idea is one of the better GB 3.0 ideas.
(I had to smile watching my mom and aunts get excited talking about them in their 80s. Of course, they never really worked out the details of where they would sleep or rest their 80-year-old bones. How they would cook their canned beans, or go to the bathroom.)
For JWs, Go bags are a physical reminder the "END" is near. :) The elders can keep an up-to-date list of WHERE everyone is...easier to monitor. :)
PS: When half our town had to evacuate because of a wildfire a few years ago, we were unable to find one empty hotel room within 150 miles. So having canned food, water and camping equipment eased our minds. With 30k people evacuating, many people ended up "camping" for a week in shopping center parking lots. (we were fortunate the winds suddenly changed when the flames were just a couple of blocks away and spared our home).
As usual, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, (eventually FEMA, the National Guard and some other groups) showed up to help folks within 48 hours. Watchtower...crickets...lol.
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2024-April Shepherd The Flock Of God Manual.
by Atlantis in2024-april-elder-manual.. .
https://files.accessjw.org/s/qpctw2hg87t9hxx .
grandpa!.
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Balaamsass2
Thanks Atlantis!
Very WEIRD.
Why release the book this month when it conflicts with the announcements? It's not like they had printed thousands of copies...they simply needed to change the pdf.
All the weird hard line stuff is still in the PDF.
Removing servants for allowing their kids to attend college? Crazy!
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Will Watchtower and Jehovah's Witnesses suffer the same fate as the Catholic Church?
by Balaamsass2 innorthern california, 4/2/2024.
"sacramento catholic diocese files for bankruptcy reorganization in wake of abuse lawsuits".
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sacramento-catholic-diocese-files-bankruptcy-160421282.html.
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Northern California, 4/2/2024. "
"Sacramento Catholic Diocese files for bankruptcy reorganization in wake of abuse lawsuits"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sacramento-catholic-diocese-files-bankruptcy-160421282.html
"Beset by hundreds of abuse lawsuits, the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in federal court Monday, a move designed to allow the diocese to provide settlements to plaintiffs.
The diocese, which previously announced its plans for the filing, said the move came “as it faces more than 250 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of minors by clergy and other employees reaching back to the 1950s.”
“This wave of new claims followed a 2019 law allowing victim-survivors to file lawsuits regardless of when the abuse occurred,” the diocese said in an announcement Monday. “The likely cost of the lawsuits far outstrips the diocese’s funds available for litigation or settlement.”
Bishop Jaime Soto said in a statement that the bankruptcy filing will allow for the court to oversee how assets are distributed to plaintiffs.
“There are many victim-survivors who have long suffered from the reprehensible sins committed against them,” Soto said. “This reorganization process will allow me to respond to them as equitably as possible.”
Court documents state that the diocese has between 200 and 999 creditors, with an estimated $100 million to $500 million in assets and the same amount in liabilities.
Sacramento’s diocese joins several others in California and nationwide that have turned to bankruptcy court for protection, and representatives of victims of clergy abuse have denounced the move, including the Survivors of those Abuse by Priests, or SNAP.
“In a bankruptcy, those who have filed lawsuits become ‘creditors,’” SNAP said in a statement last month. “The court will allow a certain period of time for other ‘creditors’ — victims — to come forward.
“However, once the bankruptcy proceeds to its conclusion, anyone abused before the filing date who did not come forward is barred from ever filing a lawsuit. This would include those who do not remember their abuse, those who do not understand the impact it has had on their life, those who are not yet ready to speak out, and – most disturbingly - those children who are too young to understand that they needed to file a claim before the bar date.”
In his statement, Soto said that the financial abyss the diocese is facing stems from church officials who committed the abuse or failed to address allegations of such actions.
“It is the sickening sin of sexual abuse – and the failure of church leadership to address it appropriately - that brought us to this place,” Soto said. “I must atone for these sins.”
The diocese has set up a webpage at scd.org/chapter-11-bankruptcy with additional information.
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SCHEMING TO END YOUR MARRIAGE NOW AS BAD AS APOSTASY
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/-yvykw37rzo?si=vwokohrdq2b53fmh.
by now, it should be painfully obvious that we live in a post tonny morris era where the floods of organizational changes have become possible and a new version of the religion, some have called it warchtower 2.0 is emerging with a soft approach to disfellowshipping practices across the board for all those sinners.
nevertheless 3 groups of people will still be targeted for harsh excommunication, we know the first two well :csa perpetrators and apostates.
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Balaamsass2
It will certainly improve C.O.'s yearly "green handshake" income. :)
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To those JW's at age 10 and above who read it, understood it, got played, and survived. 😇
by was a new boy ineverybody plays the fool.
lyrics.
'okay, so your heart is brokenyou sit around mopin'cryin' and cryin'you say you're even thinkin' about dyin'well, before you do anything rash, dig this.
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Cult star Chuck :) correction
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Who is Charles Sunutko?
by VM44 inin the spring of 1967 district overseer charles sunutko gave in sheboygan, wisconsin, the talk, "serving with everlasting life in view"
a recording of that talk is available on the internet at several places, easily found by a google search.. but who is (was?
) charles sunutko?.
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Balaamsass2
quite the story.
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To those JW's at age 10 and above who read it, understood it, got played, and survived. 😇
by was a new boy ineverybody plays the fool.
lyrics.
'okay, so your heart is brokenyou sit around mopin'cryin' and cryin'you say you're even thinkin' about dyin'well, before you do anything rash, dig this.
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Balaamsass2
"In Desert Hot Springs, there were 219 reported violent crimes, equivalent to 665 per 100,000 individuals, 79.9% higher than the national average. " ...along with 109 degree summer days....in a trailer.
Sounds like "staying alive PAST 75" has been hell for cult star Dave in his Desert trailer. :)
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Governing body giving false alarm as a watch dog
by Longlivetherenegades ini need help regarding a video where geoffrey jackson likened the governing body to a watch dog given false alarms to its owner just like they do regarding numerous false alarms about the world coming to an end.
here is why i need that video.
to make comparison with the words of geoffrey jackson (the false dog illustration) fully, the words of gerrit losch (who was reading out list of those who had given false predictions and alarms in times past before jehovah’s witnesses took over) .
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Balaamsass2
A neighbor walks her "special needs" Beagle by our home daily. I can hear her from a block away...that damm dog has barked incessantly since the day she adopted it last year. It barks at every car, person, bird, dog, cat, tree and home. It is a "special needs" watchdog.....just like Watchtower...useless...
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Charles Sinutko wants to sell you some songs-
by moshe inhe is on the internet and he has 5 songs he wants to sell you.
i guess he probably needs some extra income to supplement his meager social security check ( wt pay is pretty bad).
can you believe he is 75 years old now?
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Per "White Pages" .....yuck...Awful town.
Charles Sinutko
Age 87 | Desert Hot Springs, CA