some people say this decade is the most advantage and so they are happiest in the present.
some long for the good old days before cell phones and computers.
if you could live in an era or decade , when would it be?.
I guess we all enjoy the time when we were young . My decade would span late sixties- early seventies. Wonderful music, long hair, we had the comforts of the modern world with less technology.
Hell, it we even fun being in what we called “the truth “ , for me anyway.
so this elder is super brainwashed, as is his wife.
she actually made a comment that she wished antmo 3 was her dad and that he is so cool.
oh my god, i threw up in my mouth.
I don’t think the instructions were to literally check in every day, but they have said that group leaders should stay in touch and ensure they are doing ok.. That seems a proper thing to do.
she should be grateful. All my wife has had is a text from elder asking if she had field service to report!
I told her to sarcastically reply saying “ Have they not told you that F/ministry is cancelled “
the witnesses teach that the "unrighteous" are brought back to life in order to learn about god during the 1000-year reign.
i don't think that's a bible teaching, for the following reason:.
1) no verse says that.
“ On a related note, they claim that all the "goats" who die at Armageddon are beyond repentance”
If the ‘goats’ were the really evil people of this world, that might make a bit of sense. However, to be a ‘goat’ in the WT teaching, one simply has not accepted the beliefs of the WTS. Think of all the selfless individuals who are right now serving the community in these Covid infested days. All of them are due to become “manure on the ground “ , unless they are dubs ,which is unlikely.
Back in the day they , me too I confess, used to love the scripture Zechariah 14 : 12 “ There will be a rotting away of their flesh, their eyes will rot in their sockets, their tongues will rot in their moths”
That was if they did not listen to us at the door.
Now, I don’t know where Zechariah was coming from, but I am sure it could not be that !
prudent decision even if the pandemic is over you are going to have people that.
lost jobs can't afford to go.
not allowed any vacation time rest of year.
“You may be right because the JW religion depended on these conventions to bring in money!“
I don’t know? In my experience it costs them a lot to hire the facilities.. Do they still have donation boxes? Or credit card donation desks?
I believe they cost more than they get in.
some people i know have not gone out of their houses in weeks.
some will walk near their homes and run right back in.
meanwhile, i go food shopping and i see tons of people, many with masks and gloves on..
Much the same here...U K is in lockdown mode so there is nowhere to go even if you were to go out. The rules are that you stay indoors ( at least people of a surtain age)
I appreciate those essential services still working, not only the health workers , God bless them, but dustmen, grocery deliveries, power workers etc . Where would we be without them?
...while under house arrest sheltering in place?.
i'm editing a (non jw related) novel i hope to self publish soon.
i may be making an announcement about that in the near future.
Are’nt you the creative people!
Me, I have just been sitting at home, watching some tv, reading some books and old magazines, sat outside away from people whenever I could and playing the net of course. .......looking forward to when it ends.
study watchtower, june 2020, box on page 22 - "note the comment made by an inactive one in spain: “i want to be reactivated, but it is very difficult.
but it is not easy.
i have to change my lifestyle and cut ties with some worldly friends.".
Some points in that article show that the G B are on a different plane....
"As we see from Jesus’ illustration, it takes work to find something that was lost. Similarly, we might need to work hard to locate those who have left the congregation. "
They dont have to seach for me .I am well known to them but they never speak "spiritually" to me, just small talk. Surely being inactive means you have stopped reporting, not attending. Come to think of it, if this virus thing goes on long enough , they will all be inactive.
They speak as though it is all about US ,why we left. They can't imagine it is because of THEM and their teachings
bulgarian community finds home in billerica in a former jehovah's witnesses kingdom hall.
– lowell sun.
https://www.lowellsun.com/2020/03/29/bulgarian-community-finds-home-in-billerica/.
The WTS has always had no qualms about purchasing church buildings or selling to churches when property is on the market .
Tnat is strange, since a Witness would be in serious trouble if he took a job working for any Religious organization or if in business himself, agreed to do a job of work for one. The dubs I know would not pay money to enter a religious owned famous building, buy from a religious charity shop etc..... they view it as "supporting Bab the Gt. "
However, paying hundreds of thousands of $ or £ , or receiving same for a building is o k ?.?
BTW, nice looking KH , log cabin effect , I bet the locals were sad to leave it.
hey all,.
i'm day six of isolation, confirmed to have coronavirus.
i have been seeing very sick cv positive patients over the last month in my a&e role (emergency physician) it was inevitable i would contract it.. just wanted to give some symptom and treatment advice, it's anecdotal but may help.. started as sore throat and headache, then croaky voice, then dry cough, then episodic transient fevers, all this over the first few days.
As an emergency doc. you are one of the heroes of this time... stay safe and recover, we need you.!
After reading this thread I went back and read some of your earlier posts and I am amazed. What you have achieved is awesome
My humble thanks to you and all your colleagues.
good day former jdubs, i'm a new member, particularly looking for it experts whome can verify if the jw apps track its members and record audio, particularly the khonf app.
if you download app on google play store and click the headphones, a pop up requiring user to click pop up to enable audio recording is displayed.
i'm minorly aware of the evolution of tech and tracking scandals.
I cannot really believe that the Watchtower Society busies itself with tracking apostates or it's members .
It is true that when one logs into KHConf or LiveKH you are asked the number looking at it and one of them asks your name"for the count" . I never wanted to give my name on line so I used put random letters in and it accepted me.
Zoom also asks your name because you are taking part in a vid conference call and the Watchtower Conductor takes answers if you volunteer one. I cannot see this going any futher than the local congregation.
That said, I am certainly not a tech expert. I am just giving an opinion based on my experience of this Society.
