Posts by sir82

Maybe putting on the lapel card allows her to feel a little more "normal" for a bit, even though (obviously) no one at all, besides you, is going to see it. Embracing the familiar can be a coping mechanism. She remembers feeling good wearing her card at past assemblies, wearing it now helps her stay connected to "the way things were".

I think people are starting to figure out that things won't return to "normal" for years, probably many years.

Before we even get back to 50% normal we're all going to have to figure out some sort of coping mechanism.

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New Disfellowshipping Procedure

by Anna Marina in

disfellowship but never, ever announce it.. this new procedure is to be confirmed - anyone else come across it?.

for this record these are jesus' actual instructions in relation to this matter:-.

(matthew 18:15-17) 15 “moreover, if your brother commits a sin, go lay bare his fault between you and him alone.

sir82

That would be just plain weird.

As in the case with certain political actions, the cruelty is the point.

If it's not announced, it's not as cruel.

I've not heard anything about this, sounds like another wild unsubstantiated rumor that sprang from the head of someone with too much time on their hands.

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Trump suggests postponing the elections ... I'm not making this up

by RubaDub in

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elections have been held per the us constitution during many difficult times; us civil war, ww i, ww ii, whatever.

i just put on the pro-trump fox news and even they are saying ... oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. this is really scary.

are we headed towards a dictatorship?

sir82

More evidence of late July internal polling disaster for team Trump:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/politics/trump-campaign-halt-advertisements/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2020-07-31T00%3A43%3A05&utm_medium=social&utm_term=image

President Donald Trump's campaign has canceled a series of advertisement buys over the next few days as they review their messaging strategy, a senior campaign official told CNN.

They've seen the numbers showing that what they've been doing up to now hasn't been working, so they are flailing about trying to find a message that simultaneously keeps their base fired up & loyal yet still draws in independents & Trumpist voters who have fallen away.

Personally, I don't think such a message can even exist, but let's see what they come up with.

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Trump suggests postponing the elections ... I'm not making this up

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

elections have been held per the us constitution during many difficult times; us civil war, ww i, ww ii, whatever.

i just put on the pro-trump fox news and even they are saying ... oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. this is really scary.

are we headed towards a dictatorship?

sir82

Not joking - distracting by saying something so outrageously stupid that people talk about "that outrageously stupid thing he said" instead of talking about 150,000 dead Americans due to Covid, the tanking economy, millions unemployed, Russian bounties on American troops, etc.

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Trump suggests postponing the elections ... I'm not making this up

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

elections have been held per the us constitution during many difficult times; us civil war, ww i, ww ii, whatever.

i just put on the pro-trump fox news and even they are saying ... oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. this is really scary.

are we headed towards a dictatorship?

sir82

How would they be able to do that as you suggest ?

How does anybody start a media network? Do your market research & pour in lots of $$$.

OANN is one of the latest ones. Started up in 2013, rose to prominence when Trump started bashing FNC.

OANN compares to Fox as Fox compares to MSNBC.

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The Black Goat in the JW Covid-19 Report - 2020 Governing Body Update #5

by Oh-my-God in

did you notice this?

2020 governing body update #5. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/docid-702020307_1_video.

why do they show the black goat in the picture?

sir82

Additionally, if you look at the picture on the wall behind the GB member, you will see a hand with five fingers. The thumb cannot be seen which would make six fingers.

Yeesh! That just doubles the freakiness.

This is from the guys that put rich symbolic meaning into every corner of every drawing or photo used in every Watchtower study (and expect the WT study conductor to draw out every nuance from every photo during the study).

Again, I think the occult insinuations are a bit out there, but still....why intentionally & prominently display a giant black ~~goat~~ ibex head and an image of a six-fingered man?

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Trump suggests postponing the elections ... I'm not making this up

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

elections have been held per the us constitution during many difficult times; us civil war, ww i, ww ii, whatever.

i just put on the pro-trump fox news and even they are saying ... oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. this is really scary.

are we headed towards a dictatorship?

sir82

As I understand it, late July is when the political parties start getting results from top-top-level professional pollsters, the ones who get paid large sums of money to produce very accurate polls (which are generally not released to the public).

July / August is when, if necessary, big campaign changes are made.

As an example, It was August 2016 when Bannon / Conway replaced Manafort as Trump's campaign manager.

My best guess, in addition to my previous post about the "get people talking about Trump's latest outrageous statement instead of say, 150,000 dead Americans from Covid or the economy contracting at an unimaginable rate or not bothering to even mention to Putin about the Russian bounties paid to the Taliban for killing American soldiers"....

...is that team Trump saw the "real" and far more reliable poll numbers, saw that if things remain as they are now, Trump will lose by 200 or more electoral votes, not to mention the popular vote by 10-12%. I.e., likely the most humiliating loss by a candidate since 1984, and the most humiliating loss by an incumbent since Jimmy Carter in 1980.

So, team Trump's "strategy", for lack of a better term, is to try to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election, mainly so that when they lose, they can spin it into "See? We told you it was fixed" and then start up their own "b*tch about the damn liberals" media network and make gobs of money....

(Which, I think, was their real strategy in 2016. I don't think anyone on their team seriously expected to win)

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UK Bethel COs New Lock Down

by Slidin Fast in

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i hear that all wt payroll personal in the uk are now in full lockdown/sheilding mode until november..

sir82

LOL!

So November is when the UN "destroys" all religions?

Gotta mark my calendar.

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The Black Goat in the JW Covid-19 Report - 2020 Governing Body Update #5

by Oh-my-God in

did you notice this?

2020 governing body update #5. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/docid-702020307_1_video.

why do they show the black goat in the picture?

sir82

Yeah, I saw that and found it striking.

They could have filmed this guy from any room and from any angle, but chose to have a giant black goat's head dominating the frame.

I think "demon worship" is a bit over the top, but it certainly is an odd choice.