Posts by BluesBrother

When you have friends very ill with it, and well known people die, and our own Prime Minister in intensive care, I don’t call it an over reaction to stay home. One thing though , a lot of us are cautious about letting go the safeguards too quickly.

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Kingdom Hall Scheduler

by Thetruthhurts in

i'm sure there's already topics on this but i couldn't find one so i'm starting my own.

is the kingdom hall scheduling program new?

is this where they are entering all of the members data now?

BluesBrother

I guess it would only be to those actually involved and being given meeting assignments. As for announcements, don’t they follow on zoom?

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Flipper’s apostafest in view of Covid-19

by Biahi in

is it still going to take place?

maybe we could all participate via zoom.

2 can play at this game.

BluesBrother

If it was zoom, at an hour suitable for Europe....you could count me in.

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Weekly Meeting Importance Being Reduced - Your Thoughts?

by JWTom in

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i am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.

nothing was more important than being at the meetings!

over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.

BluesBrother

JW Tom... like you I spent decades within the JW's and still am on the fringes due to family being in it.

I wonder about the Zoom attendances that are quoted. The seem good but in our case the camera is turned off for orivacy . I am entered as attending but I take little notice. Sometimes the gadget is left connected but we are elsewhere

I never understood the reason to stop the Group study, years back. A backward move surely.

However, I am sure that as soon as the law allows, the KH will be opehed and all invuted to attend . I do not buy the idea that they want to stop meeting together to sell the halls. The GB know that if they did that the whole thing would fall apart.

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Elders complaining

by asp59 in

have you heard many elders complaining about selling out of kh and having a online religion?

i mean many elders have put years of visiting meetings and sitting there to have it all taken away now.

reaching that position of elder for nothing .

BluesBrother

Elders complain? You must be joking!

Elders today are "company men"..that means yes-men who support every jot of the WTS policies ( or pretend to)

They make out that it all comes from Jehovah, so who can argue against it?

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Kingdom Halls can now make money - USA, House Resolution 6666

by BoogerMan in

https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr6666/bills-116hr6666ih.xml.

"...to conduct diagnostic testing for covid–19, and related activities such as contact tracing, through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals’ residences, .

8 (e) a nonprofit organization (including any 9 such faith-based organization.. looks like americans can expect strangers coming into their homes to test them for covid 19 in the coming months & years.. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/12/hr-6666-a-devil-of-a-covid-19-government-surveilla/.

BluesBrother

Massively overblown fears, IMHO.... A person coming TO your home is not the same as coming into it....and they dont seem to know that the devil's number is 666 ,not 6666.

Do they not want this thing to be defeated?

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Use COMMON SENSE for Covid 19 - not LAWS!

by BoogerMan in

so says former justice of the supreme court, lord sumption.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86p7eejenkm.

he correctly calls the "lockdown" for what it is - house-imprisonment.

BluesBrother

Trouble is that common sense is sadly lacking in the human population. The countries that have reduced the covid death toll ,and fared better overall have enforced strict lock downs . The far Eastern ones have often the type of system that enables such laws to be quickly and forcibly enforced.

I would not advocate that but I will be very cautious to emerge among people , even when the law alows me to.

I view that as common sense.

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Treating JW's with Convalescent Blood Products

by Lee Elder in

this is potentially life saving information.

please spread the word.. http://ajwrb.org/treating-jehovahs-witness-covid-19-patients-with-convalescent-blood-products.

treating jehovah’s witness covid-19 patients with convalescent blood products.

BluesBrother

Excellent, Bro Lee Elder and the team.

This information has the potential to really save lives. It does highlight the silliness of the WT policy. They really muddied the waters when they added the doctrine of fractions ...Although there seems little clinical difference between this and Plasma, it could mean all the world to a believing Witness.

I know of witnesses who are covid positive. If I hear of anyone getting seriously ill, I will provide this information.

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Trying to get my head around these go bags

by phoenixrising in

when i was looking at prepping back in the 90s i was told by several elders that we needed to just rely on the org and jehovah and not prep.

i started to put away vacuum sealed bags of rice beans and spices anyway.

now they have this go bag crap.

BluesBrother

For what it was really meant, I can see that a go-bag is a good idea.

People living in areas prone to hurricanes, typhoons earthquakes etc need to be ready. I believe the Wt reprinted content lists from the civil authorities.

However a lot of dubs took it too far . They confused it with an "Armageddon bag".... which it never was.