Since March it must average little more than zero. Unless dubs have kids to study with, or a suitable person to write or email.... then field service has stopped .
Dubs I knoware enjoying a holiday.
it’s always been 10 hours when door to door was active.
i’m curious of how it’s changed with only letter writing and phone witnessing approved.. i’m curious if they are able to do it for 3 hours like a typical door to door morning.
i would be surprised.
Since March it must average little more than zero. Unless dubs have kids to study with, or a suitable person to write or email.... then field service has stopped .
Dubs I knoware enjoying a holiday.
with the upcoming elections, the campaigns and political rhetoric are ramping up.
(ramping up is an understatement lol) .
i remember a few years ago, gb member brother herd mentioned during one of his talks that several witnesses were either reproved or disfellowshipped for voting for a certain presidential candidate who won...twice.
Some things in the KH used to be put to the vote.... expenditures usually. I dont know if they still do ( difficult by zoom!) So much these days is dictated by central Bethel.
The question was really about political voting for governments. I always believed that article that said it was a conscience thing was a sop to the public authorities because in reality W T forbids such voting .
Whether today is is a disfellowshipping matter , I am not sure .The Shepherd the Flock book is not specific.
hi friends ,.
is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ?
what country state or region you are from ?
I am in England, UK....
I'd like to say more but I need to be cautious.
"it's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they've been fooled.
it's not just jw's who blindly follow their leaders.
it's horrifying to see how easily mass-hysteria has been instilled in a nation.
Over 340,000 dead in the World .....my own friend really I’ll at one time... that is serious enough for me to take it seriously. Do you really think politicians want to stall their economies and cause a probable depression?
I think Cofty and Ultimate Axiom said it right.
he reinterated the end time events.
destruction of babylon the great, proclamation of peace and security, then our hailstorm message and finally armageddon.
we all can go into detail what a load of 💩 this is but here is the kicker.
"4. Participation in the Public Ministry: All forms of the public ministry (including the door-to-door work and any form of public witnessing) should be suspended until further direction is received from the branch office."
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Did he not hear this week's announcement?
i am just curious if anyone knows whether the "friends" still are required to wear "meeting clothes" for attending meetings through zoom?
such emphasis on dressing in a godly manner over the decades, would be interesting if some attend in pajamas or their work clothes, no makeup, etc....
Cribbed this from J W Talk..... at least they have got a sense of humour... they say the best jokes are based on truth.
watchtower president dies of covid-19.
https://nycinews.com/jehovahs-witnesses-president/?fbclid=iwar3n7jwlxwtmvhkjswhhdxekgxcvogw0jxp-rkyhfb_mg1trztlsb3uhkiw .
petra!.
John Redwood (above) seems to know of these people. When I seached I only found what appeared to be a legit site, but no mention of our story .
They claim that JWs announced it , but nothing on their site . I agree with Barbara Anderson. I will hold off repeating this rumour until confirmed.
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.