Posts by sir82

another person said she hears from her clients in her business that the constant drama and push back from all sides against trump is fatiguing.. i remind people that before this worldwide pandemic, we had the best numbers in jobs.

sir82

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1276117986449948674

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Polls (6/8-18):

FLORIDA: Biden 47% (+6) Trump 41% .

ARIZONA: Biden 48% (+7) Trump 41% .

NORTH CAROLINA: Biden 49% (+9) Trump 40% .

PENNSYLVANIA: Biden 50% (+10) Trump 40% .

MICHIGAN: Biden 47% (+11) Trump 36% .

WISCONSIN: Biden 49% (+11) Trump 38%

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Caleb can say mephibosheth

by road to nowhere in

that was this weeks video.

but the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience.

sir82

Chrishendum (or Christiandum)

Psalm 83 "versus" 18, Matthew 24 "versus" 14, etc.

Viligent and digilent.

Diction coaches, these guys ain't.

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JW Response to COVID

by optimisticskeptic in

i haven't been on here in quite some time so i apologize if i missed a similar thread already (i did look for one :) ) anyways, just to be clear i think the jw response to covid in general has been really positive and proactive and they've done really well trying to educate people on covid, doing zoom meetings, etc to prevent spread within the congregations.

the part that i find interesting is how compliant and non-apocalyptic the branch has been during all of this.

even as someone who's a bit of a skeptic i found myself wondering if this might be the beginning of the end between covid, economic upheaval, and blm.

sir82

Oh I agree with you, but they can continue fantasizing that they are "God's channel" and "Christ's viceregent" while squirreled away in a lakeside compound and shooting out videos every couple of weeks.

But...

They can't feel the drug-like rush of "life or death" power of [to-disfellowship-or-not-to-disfellowship] remotely. All JW judical meetings are to be "held in abatement" per GB directive until it is possible to meet in person at a Kingdom Hall. They have a pathological need to know they are in control, they need to feel it. If no one can be disfellowshipped, that need is not being met.

They also can't feel the adrenaline rush and ego boost of having 10,000 or 50,000 or 100,000 adoring adherents hanging on their every word at a convention, then bursting into long rapturous applause, then seeing the hours-long greeting line of swooning JWs who just want to touch the fringe of their outer ill-fitting garments....

Eventually those primal desires will drive them to return to "normalcy" as soon as they can do so without appearing to be stupid or careless.

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JW Response to COVID

by optimisticskeptic in

i haven't been on here in quite some time so i apologize if i missed a similar thread already (i did look for one :) ) anyways, just to be clear i think the jw response to covid in general has been really positive and proactive and they've done really well trying to educate people on covid, doing zoom meetings, etc to prevent spread within the congregations.

the part that i find interesting is how compliant and non-apocalyptic the branch has been during all of this.

even as someone who's a bit of a skeptic i found myself wondering if this might be the beginning of the end between covid, economic upheaval, and blm.

sir82

The latest broadcast message from Anthony McCallan, er, Morris, insinuates that Zoom meetings will continue for another full year, minimum, and he drops the possibility it could extend even longer (he specifically mentions "2021 or even beyond").

That's 1-2 years, or maybe even longer, of electronic meetings and no door-to-door or cart witnessing.

I think financially they could continue this model indefinitely, but they aren't in it just for the money. More valuable to them is the control the exercise over, and the adulation they receive from, their adherents.

You can't get that with no elder visits and no meetings at a central location, so eventually they will return to something like they did before. The questions will be (1) how many of the post-COVID changes will stick as permanent and (2) how do you motivate JWs used to years of "letter writing in your pajamas" counting as "field service" to get back to dressing up and trudging around to knock at empty houses while either staining their dress clothes with sweat or subjecting their toes to frostbite?

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Aunt Jemima and Mrs.Buttersworth Need To Be Destroyed!

by minimus in

jw
friends

we have to get rid of these racist relics.

i propose that we destroy all these bottles of syrups and burn every pancake box !

we need to get rid of anything that reminds us of anything negative concerning slavery.. in boston they decapitated the head of christopher columbus and got rid of his statue.

sir82

Ah, so we were supposed to take that post "seriously" and not "literally"? Got it.

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Aunt Jemima and Mrs.Buttersworth Need To Be Destroyed!

by minimus in

jw
friends

we have to get rid of these racist relics.

i propose that we destroy all these bottles of syrups and burn every pancake box !

we need to get rid of anything that reminds us of anything negative concerning slavery.. in boston they decapitated the head of christopher columbus and got rid of his statue.

sir82

So “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”....now to be banned.

Odd that you didn't post the follow-up tweet from the same person:

this is a proposal being considered by the game’s official governing body,the Rugby Football Uniin.

So an English sports league is proposing this.

it's about the democratic left covering up it's own racist past so they can deny it.

Help me out here, I can't connect the dots. Is the "Rugby Football Union" a proxy for "the democratic left"? I don't see how a Rugby league is tied to the US Democratic party.

The post copy-pasting the tweet, without context or follow-up, make it sound like "the democratic left" has issued a "ban" on a song, when in reality a private corporation is "undertaking a review into [its] historical context".

https://www.planetrugby.com/rfu-to-review-slave-song-swing-low-sweet-chariot/

For someone who constantly gripes about "fake news" and misleading out-of-context snippets, this sure seems like an odd post.

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Gerrit Loesch video from this week's meeting

by neat blue dog in

he talks about how a group of 5,000 broke away from the organization due to distrust of government agents infiltrating the jws.

they weren't regarded as apostates, just distrustful.

he uses phrases like "their leader" and "his elders", and how they had a meeting with the governing body and made the decision for all these thousands to reintegrate them into the jws, splitting them up among congregations.

sir82

Not all of the Romanian breakaways decided to return:

https://www.reddit.com/r/JehovahsWitnesses/comments/9hymcy/tfjw/

Odd, wonder why Losch decided not to talk about them?