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  Have you Witnessed a Change in People's Life-Style / Behaviour where you Live?

  by smiddy3 in

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  i certainly have , over the normal week i go to one of two clubs where i have two beers over a couple of hours ( i pace myself ) and catch up with a few friends .

  one of the clubs every hour goes around to disinfect everywhere people make contact with pokies /machines or whatever we might touch.and they also now have limits as to how many can be in a certain area at any one time.and that applies to both clubs ,except one does not disinfect every hour.. today, their were far fewer people in this particular club that i attended that is usually bustling with patrons on a saturday either drinking gambling and socializing .not today.

  and a strict rule of how many could be in a certain area at any one time .. and i agree with all of this , its necessary .and i will be monitoring my own activities as need be.. what have you noticed in your neck of the woods.?

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  BluesBrother

  In U K.... the streets are less crowded , the supermarkets are busy, but have a lot of gaps on the shelves.

  From today, of course, all cafes, pubs , clubs sports gyms are closed , so there is nowhere much to be going..
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  2020 Memorial - No Need To Actually Have The Emblems

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  over at jw talk they're saying because they're having to hold the upcoming memorial at home, they dont need to actually have the emblems.

  apparently, listening to or watching the talk is the thing that counts.. "do this in rememberence of me" apparently means watching tony morris on your phone give a talk.. this begs the question... "what's the point?

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  BluesBrother

  We were discussing this at home this morning.... we reckoned that if you viewed yourself as anointed you would have to sit at home in front of the laptop , having bought a packet of plain matzohs and a bottle of red wine , and partake at the appropriate time..

  The rest of them don’t need it .....I think....
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  "We're In The Last Days Of The Last Days!"... So Say's Old Rubberface

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have you seen this on jworg?.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/coronavirus-report/.

  2 minutes in everyone's favourite clow, stephen lett, tells us all that this coronavirus means we're in the last days of the last days.. cool.

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  BluesBrother

  What a Guy!......even when he tries to put an important point across, he sounds totally insincere, even comical. I can’t blame those who lampoon him.

  About the talk... At least they are obeying the authorities’ recommendations I will give them that. But all that baloney about loving care by elders?

  My wife has heard nothing . If it were not for me getting on here and snippets on the grapevine from a friend, she would know nothing. Elders,? Shepherds? You must be joking....
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  Meetings via video conference

  by FedUpJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i just heard from a very reliable source that meetings, at least in some locations are now being video fed to the sheeple.

  and guess what?

  one can even comment and be seen by other members of the conference, for more encouragement.. i did see though that the service providing this video tie-in has as part of their tos this: you will receive a notification (visual or otherwise) when recording is enabled.

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  BluesBrother

  In U K video streaming of meetings is becoming the norm . When my wife’s cong started I tried it for curiosity. It asked the number viewing , so they could take a count and also my name. I put A N Other and it let me in.

  Sis Blues went in last Sunday and got an American meeting streamed , due to Coronavirus and local meetings cancelled.
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  Guns and ammo selling out fast

  by JimmyYoung in

  1. social
  2. current

  i went to my local walmart today and most of the can goods and frozen foods were sold out.

  i did a web search from where i buy ammo from, lucky gunner, sg ammo, buds and others.

  bulk ammo is sold out just over night.

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  BluesBrother

  I am glad we do not have a gun issue around here...

  As for toilet roll shortage .... when I was a kid we used the " News Of The World" in an emergency ! ( a Sunday Newspaper ) Ouch....
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  BluesBrother

  Yes the U K is also moving towards lockdown with the over 70's told to stay indoors for months, large events cancelled and people advised against going to pubs , eating out etc.

  I don't know what it is like on the street, I am confined indoors as an "at risk person" ( so they say)

  Wifey has gone to try and beat the crowds at the supermarket, so as to keep a "social distnce" from people...

  I see from the excellent link that Simon put up (top of this thread) that Britain is in the top 10 for reported cases, but how many are unknown since they dont test everyone?

  Oh well, hunker down and keep smiling .... hope all my JW Discussion friends are ok...
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  Bro. Frank Sartin (Lancashire area, UK)

  by SBlackwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am no longer one of jehovah's witnesses, but i can remember the excellent talks given by the above frank sartin, an elder and i think at one time a zone overseer in the lancashire area of the uk.

  upon doing some research i read that he died back in 2015. .

  does anyone else remember him?.

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  BluesBrother

  "It was about obedience not faith."

  That is dead right Giordano. .Even more so so today the whole thing is about obedience to the central leadership. Faith? Yes but faith to follow not to think or reason.

  My history is nowhere near as accomplished as your own but when I resigned the B of E , the others did not want to know be , although I was for a while a normal cong member.

  Anyway, must not hijack SBlackwell's thread,

  NB... No, I never Knew a Bro Sartin... there were some pretty good speakers around in the old days. Sadly all the individuality seems to have been knocked out of them these days
  
  
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  Hot off the press - Maintaining Congregation Meetings During COVID-19 Pandemic

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  BluesBrother

  I heard of a local cong , UK, having group meets...... That seems daft to me. I feel more vulnerable with a crowd in a small room. We would not be going.
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  Dead Sea Scrolls FORGERIES at Bible museum (scandal)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/ independent researchers funded by the museum of the bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s dead sea scroll fragments are modern forgeries.

  the museum ceo exclaimed, “we’re victims—we’re victims of misrepresentation, we’re victims of fraud.” the pieces are probably made of ancient leather, they were inked in modern times and modified to resemble real dead sea scrolls; all with the intention of deceiving for profit.

  the researcher's report’s findings raise grave questions about the “post-2002” dead sea scroll fragments, a group of some 70 snippets of biblical text that entered the antiquities market in the 2000's.

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  BluesBrother

  I read this earlier... seems this museum purchased the fragments on the open market believing them to be a part of the Qumram hoard........but they were not. The latest findings say that they are modern fakes.

  However, this does not reflect on the authenticity of the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves, in Jerusalem I believe.
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  How was it possible that some members fall asleep or nod off during meetings?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a while back, we had a saturday wedding reception for a brother and sister from our kingdom hall.

  the reception ended at midnight.

  most of us got home at around 1:00 a.m. our sunday public talk meeting started at 9:30 a.m. .

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  BluesBrother

  Worst time to stay awake was Sunday afternoons in the Summer. The combination of a male voice going on and on , and heat was enough to have me "pushing out the zzzz" in 10 or 15 minutes.....

  Latterly I found that taking a larger than suggested dose of high strength caffeine tablets would usually get me through...

  It is a common thing though . At conventions one would see lots of sleepyheads. Funny thing is that the experienced ones could still follow the direction to look up scriptures ,correctly, while fast asleep! I have never understood that.

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