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  New Revised Elder's Manual is out!

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  https://wetransfer.com/downloads/1b5fd97a37524735de3c44841bec9c8120200414110244/6a723a.

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  sir82

  Has anyone been able to determine the changes / updates / additions / deletions?

  It seems they just provided the new book without any indication of what has been changed.
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  Earth Boxes - Has Anyone Here Tried to Use Them to Grow Vegetables

  by RubaDub in

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  with some extra time on my hands (putting it mildly), i decided to try planting some vegetables using these things called earth boxes.

  they are basically rectangular tubs with the soil suspended a few inches from the bottom using a screen and you put water into the bottom and you just add water through a tube to the bottom and the plants get their water from beneath instead of adding water from the top.

  then you put a plastic covering around the plants so that weeds don't grow.

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  I've used them - tomatoes work really well, but zucchini not so much. They need lots of space and the box just isn't big enough.

  But they are perfect for tomatoes.
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  The VIDEO OF "THE END"

  by Wagurl in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is "return to jehovah video" from this weeks meeting.

  the use fear to gain more people back in the truth?

  what are your thoughts?

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  I thought it was pretty funny, after all the "It's urgent! Urgent I say! Now is the time to return! No time to waste! NOW! NOW! NOW!!!!!!!" comments....

  ...at the very end, you see "Copyright 2015"....

  Huh. I guess it wasn't quite so "urgent" after all.

  I dunno, maybe it's me, but after 141 years of Watchtower messages of "Soon! Urgent! Soon! Urgent!", the sense of urgency seems rather....un-urgent.
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  Theory of Wuhan virus being created in a viral lab now being considered

  by JimmyYoung in

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  2. current

  i thought it was a strange coincidence that there was a weapons lab right near the supposed wet market where it started.

  china needs to pay for this one way or the other.

  https://www.foxnews.com/world/state-department-cables-coronavirus-origin-chinese-lab-bats.

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  Another source:

  https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/04/coronavirus-escaped-chinese-bioweapon-heres-what-pentagon-says/164612/

  “At this point it’s inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we do not know for sure,” Milley said.
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  Theory of Wuhan virus being created in a viral lab now being considered

  by JimmyYoung in

  1. social
  2. current

  i thought it was a strange coincidence that there was a weapons lab right near the supposed wet market where it started.

  china needs to pay for this one way or the other.

  https://www.foxnews.com/world/state-department-cables-coronavirus-origin-chinese-lab-bats.

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  I know most of y'all don't much care for the Washington Post, but it is being reported there as well.

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/

  There's lots of questions that the Chinese government will never answer, as long they have an interest in not answering them.
  
  
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  I am agreeing with Trump on the need to Nationalize issues that affect the entire nation.

  by RubaDub in

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  i'm generally not a trump fan but i do agree that things that affect the entire country should be handled in a centralized manner.

  trump is stating that he will dictate when the states can open up again.

  many governors, dems and reps, are fighting that saying that they have the power, not the president.

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  I think States have too much power in the national scenario and constitutionally should be limited.

  Well thank [the deity of your choice] that the constitution addresses the issue!

  Amendment 10:

  The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

  
  
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  Disunited States of America?

  by jwleaks in

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  recognizing that their states have one integrated regional economy, delaware governor john carney, new york governor andrew m. cuomo, new jersey governor phil murphy, connecticut governor ned lamont, pennsylvania governor tom wolf, and rhode island governor gina raimondo today announced the creation of a multi-state council to restore the economy and get people back to work.

  this announcement builds on the states’ ongoing regional approach to combatting the covid-19 pandemic.. the coordinating group – comprised of one health expert, one economic development expert and the respective chief of staff from each state — will work together to develop a fully integrated regional framework to gradually lift the states’ stay at home orders while minimizing the risk of increased spread of the virus.. https://news.delaware.gov/2020/04/13/governor-carney-and-five-governors-announce-multi-state-council-to-get-people-back-to-work-and-restore-the-economy/.

  meanwhile on the west coast:.

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  It is legal to do so.

  In the absence of a coherent & rational federal response, it seems to be the best solution.
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  Keeping everyone on the hook

  by hoser in

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  i’ve always noticed that the local jw leaders like to give as little notice as possible for local meetings and expect you to drop everything and rearrange your life to fit their agenda in.

  i’ve noticed this more during the pandemic.

  we are not given the codes and time of memorial until a couple hours before meeting.

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  I dunno, sounds more like the local elders there are incompetent, or lazy, or both.
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  About the covid-19 virus, some positive thoughts

  by Finkelstein in

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  we are now well aware of the shit storm this virus has caused pretty much all over the world but there is going to come a time in the near future when it wont be such a heady news worthy concern.

  the reason being is that there are numerous clinical institutions in many countries that are now working on a vaccine, more so than any other deadly contagious virus in human history.. when mankind puts its brain on things usually come of it.

  when documented cases start to decline to a certain point governments will start to reduce their imposed restrictions availing people to get back to work, stores reopening , economies cranking up as they once were, normalcy will return.. it will no doubt be a slow restart but the vigor of capitalism will eventually return and this event will be left as a documented event in human history.. i do hope governments will take note of how this virus got started and spread as it did.. a sole person perhaps selling live and dead wild animals in a open public market in wuhan china , astonishing to think what that one person did to effect the entire human population of 8 billion all over the world.

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  Yes, this will pass.

  The 80 trillion dollar question is, will humanity learn something from it? Or will we just repeat the same mistakes when (not if) the next disaster occurs?
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  China where it started ,83,000 / USA now <400,000 How come ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  am i missing something here ?

  how is it that where this covid 19 started , in wuhan china, china has only ,reportedly 83,000 for the whole country ?

  whereas in the united states of america the figure is just under 400,000 ?.

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  USA, Australia and others shutting their borders to travelers to China on 1 Feb

  Just a clarification:

  The US travel restriction was for "aliens" who had been in China for 14 days prior. US residents, and family members of residents, and various other exceptions, were not restricted from entering from China.

  40,000 people entered the USA on flights from China after the 1 Feb declaration.

  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html

  "We closed our borders to people coming from China" is yet another CYA myth that simply isn't true.

  40,000.