Posts by _Morpheus

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Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?

is there something seriously wrong with society?

does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?

_Morpheus

It's not the media. It's because of the inequality and frustration in society between the haves and the have nots . It's the sickness in society where youths abandoned by non existent support systems fall through the cracks in this world and take their anger out in violent ways.

Completely false. The last two shooters were young men spurned by young ladies and they delt with it in the worst way imaginable. None of the school shooters has been poor or underprivledged. Thats part of what makes it so unreal, theres no backround of poverty and abuse.

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Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

by berrygerry in

posted here:.

https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

biggest changes:.

_Morpheus

Jeff, your not allowed to be neutral and sensable when slim wants the facts to mean the wt is collapsing today.. or did yesterday or something.

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144000 The numbers don't add up

by LevelThePlayingField in

in 1935 there were 63,146 who attended the memorial and 52,465 partook.

(proclaimers book page 717).

according to the bible teach book on page 78, it says, “since the days of the apostles, god has been selecting faithful christians in order to complete the number 144,000”.

_Morpheus

With due respect, Wt to my knowledge has never publicly addressed the issue what happens to the billions that took the bread and the wine, but forgot that they should have stopped at 144 000.

Like wise, with respect, they have addressed it every day since their inception. I have no idea what “billions” of partakers you could mean. The sum total of all witness to ever live isnt a billion let alone the comparative few have partaken. The org teaches nobody outside is saved so you cant mean all other nominal christians who partake.

All that said, my remarks stand regarding the earthly hope as taugh by jw’s. The numbers dont add up from any perspective, no matter how you slice it, on the heavenly hope.

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Witness No More - any thoughts?

by dozy in

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for those who don't know , there is an ex-jw "activist" in the north of england called mark who demonstrates outside kingdom halls , focusing on the child abuse issue and similar topics.

he regularly updates his visits on his youtube channel , which has gained something of a cult following .

occasionally ( albeit less frequently , as he is now well known ) he gets into the kh & shouts and disrupts the meeting.

_Morpheus

Picketting outside a kh is pointless but also not something i would view as agressive..

interrupting meetings? My negative views on that sort of jackassery are well documented... i would add this: if someone had ever tried that crap, even when i was pimo, i would have beat the hell out of him. When someone is willing to violate societal norms to that degree (aggressively interrupting a church service) they must be considered a danger and it must be assumed that they will go futher with their anti social behavior.

he needs professional help, not money.

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Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

by berrygerry in

posted here:.

https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

biggest changes:.

_Morpheus

😂😂 well played, oh slim one.

The reality is we dont know how much cash they have sent to Brooklyn... er warwick. I bet their goal is to have branches work like local kh and keep essentially bare minimum funds on hand. Its paints a bad picture but its only a small sliver. Until the day comes that we see the full picture you cant claim to know it all

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British Sociologist Predicts Possible Collapse in Jehovah's Witness Numbers

by slimboyfat in

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a newly published article by british sociologist david voas argues jehovah's witnesses may be about to experience a collapse in numbers.

contrary to claims by american sociologist rodney stark who predicts strong future growth for jehovah's witnesses, voas shows that jehovah's witnesses' efforts at recruiting new members have become increasingly unsuccessful over the past few decades: the rate of increase has steadily declined, and the number of hours each publisher must preach to produce an extra convert has gone up substantially.

voas suggests a reason for the stagnation may be that there is a natural limit to the number of people in a given population that are susceptible to conversion to sectarian groups like jehovah's witnesses - the 'carrying capacity' of the population, and that the limit has largely been reached.

_Morpheus

Lol slim what a great find! Its almost ten years old and still no more true today than then. Somethings never change.

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144000 The numbers don't add up

by LevelThePlayingField in

in 1935 there were 63,146 who attended the memorial and 52,465 partook.

(proclaimers book page 717).

according to the bible teach book on page 78, it says, “since the days of the apostles, god has been selecting faithful christians in order to complete the number 144,000”.

_Morpheus

There is the rub for wt, although they deny there was an Earthly Calling before 1914-18

False, they do not deny an earthly hope prior to 1918. They believe anyone faithful from abel until jesus death had an earthly hope. From jesus death until just before 1935 was all heavenly. Since 1935(ish) both existed.

That said, the numbers in no way add up. Far far more than 144k faithful in 1900 years. That rediculious teaching never made sense and they realized it in the 1930’s, thus the up ‘othersheep/great crowd’ bail out.

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2018-05-17-BOE--June Local Needs!

by Atlantis in

2018-05-17-boejune's local needshttps://we.tl/ew4qtx7lb9atlantis!.

_Morpheus

Well its regarding the branch relocation in england. It will be interesting to hear reports on what the video actually says. Im sure slim will have an interesting spin on how this portends their doom

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