so we binge-watched the waco mini-series on netflix.. wow, what a powerful and enlightening programme!
even if you think you know what happened, it gives you extra context to it all.
it's very well done even if you just want a great drama series, but it's way more than that.. there are of course some dramatization and slight historical inaccuracies for the purpose of story-telling but it was very informative.
Is this the series that had Michael Shannon as the FBI negotiator?
If so I watched it weekly on UK tv a while back. As a series I thought it was brilliant and the final episode was so moving and me feel both gutted and angry at the same time.
Interesting to read truth-be-known's post and personal knowledge of such things. I hope he is right in saying that training and tactics have progressed a lot since then.
i am so sick of hearing ( wife is pimi):.
critical times so hard to deal with.
last nano second..... buy out the time.
I am just fed up with hearing “the four horsemen are riding” ....ok, I thought you believed they had been riding four over 100 years....
The word “pestilence” ....yes we know we are in the grip of a horrible pandemic that has taken the lives of over 300,000 people..... but how does that compare with Spanish flu of 1918-19? Or worse still Bubonic plague of 13th and 16th centuries, or smallpox,until recent years?
Worse things happened in the past
(disturbing) thought for the day.
what's happens when you get really sick?.
a. you get worse and worse, then - better and better till well.. .
I used to think that medicine was an exact science, but after many decades and seeing people close to me receive totally different diagnosis from different doctors ... I know that it is far from that.
Simple, common complaints may be ok but anything "out of the box", they are stumped. It is pot luck if you find the right doctor who cracks it for you.
hello all, hope everyone is doing good!!!!.
so my wife tells me yesterday....on saturday we having a emergency disaster class on saturday.
kinda like most corporation have and it's through zoom.
I wonder what it is they are preparing for. If it was a call to be together to survive Armageddon, that is one thing. A natural disaster like a hurricane, flood etc is something else .
Your decision to leave the WTS should have no bearing on what you do as a family in the event of a natural emergency. In theory at least, your wife is bound to you and must obediently follow your direction as family head. The congregation elders would have to supprt that view.
Now in the event that Armageddon were to strike.... the call might be for the faithfull to be together for salvation. That would be different. It is a pretty safe bet that that is never going to happen
this was sent to me by a cooky uber-dub.
apparently it's making the rounds locally...it's typical lighthearted jw satire (that they think is great!!
smh :-/ ) .
Guest speakers , Jonah : "Let's Continue To Save tbe Whales"
Balaam :"Is Your Ass trying To Tell You Something? "
....that a mass killer was roaming their streets.
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now theyre struggling to believe the grim reaper is not so grim and it's safe to go outside again.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52669441.
Easily convinced? Or perceptive enough to realise the danger and react appropriately?
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.
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?
I guess it would only be to those actually involved and being given meeting assignments. As for announcements, don’t they follow on zoom?
is it still going to take place?
maybe we could all participate via zoom.
2 can play at this game.
If it was zoom, at an hour suitable for Europe....you could count me in.
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.
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.
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 .
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?
