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  Next we'll probably experience famine

  by wannabefree in

  1. social
  2. current

  this morning my wife made the comment ... "we'll probably experience famine next.".

  i don't know that she'd come up with this on her own.

  has anyone else heard a jw talking about this?.

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  carla

  My jw was saying famine was coming too!
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  Counting Memorial Attendees and Partakers

  by caves in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how will the borg be able to count the partakers(144,000 anointed) since jws are to celebrate the memorial at home?

  what about accurate counts for attendees?

  what challenges do you see?

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  carla

  How does this work? should I supply my jw with a glass of wine and promptly take it away from him and drink it myself while I giggle to myself that he is dressed up at home by himself doing a video?

  Sometimes I think you guys are pranking me.
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  need input: Asked my wife to show me in the bible where Christ became King in 1914

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my wife is so diluted and brainwashed.

  during this time she is having so much anxiety, mainly because me and my son's want nothing to do with the religion.. so the discussion was, i told her will never go back because they go way beyond what the bible teaches all the time.

  i brought up overlapping generation, 607 and then i told her...show me where in the bible that jesus returned invisbly in 1914 and started ruling?

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  carla

  Lee T, thank you for the list!

  Sounds like she won't do any research anyway. You have to get into the 607/586/7 dates etc.... then you can also bring up the inches in the pyramids, miles to the Ohio convention thing (? sorry, stuff I have forgotten) and so on. She will just say it is new light.

  How about the fact that they could worship Jesus up until 1954 (correct date?) new light again.

  She isn't 'making sure of all things'. Her answer will probably be the same as my jw, " I don't have to the brothers have already done it for me".
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  9 Files Arrived Today--(As of March 24, 2020)

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  9 files arrived today.

  (as of march 24, 2020).

  2020-03-16--maintaining congregation meetings2020-03-16--public ministry during covid-192020-03-17--cancellation of branch visit2020-03-17--kingdom hall maintenance 2020-03-19--covid-19 events in kingdom halls2020-03-22--announcement2020-03-17--gbr--seldom-worked territory survey 20202020--setting up zoom manualzoom--online video-conferencing and meetingsall in zipped folder:https://we.tl/t-0tvs24jmlh petra!https://docdro.id/mzoh1pv

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  carla

  In regard to the zoom thing, they seem worried about people recording the meetings. Weird isn't it? most churches wouldn't care and would put up meetings online for all to see.
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  People criticize the rank of The WatchTower and Awake!

  by dydeonwl in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  people are not willing to accept the popularity of the watchtower and awake as these magazines belong to jw.

  a listing site has declared the watchtower the most popular magazine in the world.. source: https://tingtopten.com/2020/01/top-10-most-popular-magazines-in-the-world/.

  in comment section of this link people are abusing again jehovah's witnesses.

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  carla

  People criticizing the Watchtower? no! Why ever would they do that? just because they break up families, it is a pedophile paradise and is an ungodly cult? you just can't please some people can you?
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  Rumor of Religion wanting to contact Inactives

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.

  some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.

  the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).

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  carla

  "....whether to grant a disfellowshipped person access to recordings of meetings...." - why on earth wouldn't they allow access? don't they want the df'd person to come back at some point? aren't df'd persons normally supposed to sit in the back and not talk to anybody? so sitting in their house watching something is going to harm who? (besides the poor df'd who doesn't know that freedom lurks just beyond the grasp of the cult)
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  Rumor of Religion wanting to contact Inactives

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.

  some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.

  the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).

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  carla

  Could it be more about getting their "time" in due to the fact fs has been canceled?
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  How Are JWs Affected By The Coronavirus?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  will meetings and conventions be canceled?

  the ministry?

  shepherding calls, get togethers?

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  carla

  How are they affected? I dunno about your jw's, but mine has gone bat shit crazy paranoid about it! sigh, yes, it is awful, we should all take necessary precautions and so forth but this 24-7 news cycle on it is not helping people who can't wait for the Big A.

  I should correct the above, not crazy enough to miss a meeting. Mine will go in public and so forth, but other comments are
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  Ask current Jehovah's Witnesses if they KNOW what happened in 1954 (SHOCKING)

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  (referred to below: watchtower bible and tract society presidents: russell, rutherford, knorr, franz )did you know that from 1879 until 1954 ... ... the writings of c.t.russell, j.f.rutherford, nathan knorr, and the watchtower's own charter... ... agreed ... that jesus christ was to be worshiped?this fact has been cleverly and dramatically hidden by manipulation of older quotations.

  ______________________________________________________________________pastor charles taze russell answers the question for us.

  see below zion’s watch tower 1898 jul 15 p.216“question: the fact that our lord received worship is claimed by some to be an evidence that while on earth he was god the father disguised in a body of flesh and not really a man.

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  carla

  Thanks Terry!
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  JW's and Retirement Planning

  by JaNayNee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my mother is a jw.

  i studied for several years and ultimately could not digest what was being served.

  for the last 20 years my mother has done nothing to prepare for retirement.

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  carla

  This is a huge worry for ubm's and how to deal with their jw's. A topic that never ends well in my experience. Still trying to figure this one out myself.