not only do they want everyone dressed up for the zoom meetings( which i won't do) they decided to keep the zoom meeting at 1pm sunday!
so they don't upset their spiritual routine!
ugh!
We, dub wife and I, tuned in Sunday. Some others were dressed up, others were not. Nothing was said. We managed to set it so that our faces were not shown.. Thank goodness, still showed her name as an attender though. No doubt that zoom demands far more attention than just listening in on an app.
I heard that another Congo with a pm meeting have changed it to morning during this period.I can imagine B o Es keeping a routine .....masochists!
this morning my wife made the comment ... "we'll probably experience famine next.".
i don't know that she'd come up with this on her own.
has anyone else heard a jw talking about this?.
You are not wrong Smiddy, I remember that too.
I tell you, the dubs are loving this. Any indication that the system is in trouble and they are all over it . It seems like vindication of all their dire forecasts. So far they enjoy the novelty of meetings by zoom and the luxury of not having to get out to the Hall on Sundays. And no field service....Yippee!
how will the borg be able to count the partakers(144,000 anointed) since jws are to celebrate the memorial at home?
what about accurate counts for attendees?
what challenges do you see?
I guess they will take the numbers of the sign-ons to each cong zoom show plus any using KHCONF or LiveKH, they do ask for your name....
Any future ref to the numbers this year will no doubt have a note of the circumstances this year.
Edit.. ‘Roadtonowhere’ , yes I had the privilege of getting the emblems one year . We made good use of the rest of it. Matzoh’s , cheese and red wine go down very well for a Memorial night supper.
i just watched the netflix movie the animal people.
although i don't really agree in general with any eco or the like terrorists, watching the hidden cam video of the way these animals were treated was just sick.
anyone see this or the like movies?.
Animals have rights and should never be cruelly treated. But in the field of medicine, drugs have to be tested to save human lives. I can remember the thalidomide scandal when a rogue drug caused untold suffering.
If rats and mice have to be sacrificed in order to find a vaccine for Covid 19, I will not object
so my wife is so diluted and brainwashed.
during this time she is having so much anxiety, mainly because me and my son's want nothing to do with the religion.. so the discussion was, i told her will never go back because they go way beyond what the bible teaches all the time.
i brought up overlapping generation, 607 and then i told her...show me where in the bible that jesus returned invisbly in 1914 and started ruling?
It was all mathematics and numerology. Can I still recall it?
Daniel 4 says the interruption in God’s rule after Jerusalem destroyed, WT claims that was 607 because, would be 7 times . They say to take a day for a year. 7 x 360 days = 2520 days/years brings them to 1914....
I think that’s how it went but it is conjecture based on writings by 19th Century adventists
my old user account says i joined this forum 19 years ago, an intermittent poster starting 102 topics, the last about 12 years ago.
with my community under a volunteer stay-at-home policy and a mandatory curfew, i took the time to read all of my old posts and the replies, reminding me of how informative and therapeutic this forum was during my jw to ex-jw transition.. in 2018, my life took another turn with the death of my wife of 49-1/2 years after a long illness.
my writing, according to observers, lost its edge and purpose.. i travelled to asia, meeting a beautiful, intelligent woman in cagayan de oro, philippines, 33 years my junior.
I am always here... Happy to read of your good fortune and the way you have made a Success of your life....Stay safe.
We took pleasure in advising a know-all elder that having emblems was not necessary if no one is anointed.. That info and the WT ref I learned from this board.
The JW website said ,on the day,they would put up a video of a memorial service you could see . It occurred to us though that if they do it after sundown in New York it will be the middle of the night around here. I suppose very early next morning would do, but neither is good.
Perhaps Sis. Blues will be more used to using zoom by then and the local meeting will be o k....
"we must obey god rather than men" act.5:29 has sure been discarded now and the gb are obeying the united nations world health organization and shutting down all of their "witnessing" operations ,very effectively i might add.. instead of boldly proclaiming the kingdom message as they used to blow there own trumpet about obeying god rather than men they are now more in fear of what the superior authorities will do to them if they don`t obey them.. this is something nobody banked on ever happening least of all the governing body of jehovah`s witnesses that the preaching work would come to a standstill .. of course they will put a spin on it ,that there protecting the health and well being of their members and the public.. but the fact remains they are not trusting in jehovah to protect their members nor are they trusting in jehovah to keep the "worldwide preaching work" going.. what do you think ?.
Yea, who’ a thought that the “angels declaring the good news” would be called back to base by an itty bitty virus?
Unprecedented I think, it must be the first time the work and meetings have stopped since they started..and what are they going to do with all those memorial invitations?
Oh well.... every cloud has a silver lining 😏
even though i am partially in the it area of business, i don't understand here how people are saying that someone can control a camera through zoom.
so if i am sitting with a shirt and tie, someone on the other end can can control the camera and see that i am naked from the waist down and periodically have an itch?
or quickly move to the side and have a beer?.
Dubs have some problems using zoom at the moment.. They are new to such tools and clumsy with it, as I wouuld be. It will improve.
I read that you can in fact choose a virtual backdrop to your head, make it look as though you live in a super home. Also, someone I know managed to have no picture of herself, just a black square for her presence. It still showed her name though
people are not willing to accept the popularity of the watchtower and awake as these magazines belong to jw.
a listing site has declared the watchtower the most popular magazine in the world.. source: https://tingtopten.com/2020/01/top-10-most-popular-magazines-in-the-world/.
in comment section of this link people are abusing again jehovah's witnesses.
I am not going to abuse JWs but from an ex inside view I can explain the following
They may print 50 million but how many are read? It is given away free, on the street, on the doorstep, sometimes left in letterboxes . A vast number are thrown away unread as "junk mail" A lot more pile up undistributed in JWs homes and end up on the tip.
There are about 8million active Witnesses . I would guess maybe 10 mill. Max is a true readership.
