who is hosting who here?.
https://jworg.zoom.us/.
our kh zoom meeting invites are now coming in from jw.org, but are still hosted by the local elders.
Did they buy into Zoom? Or buy Zoom?
Zoom is free. In my area, when the local brothers first set up zoom for JW meetings, those who set it up used our email address so they could send out the invites to access the zoom meeting. It is those email address's that have now received the email invite from jw.org to watch the online assembly program.
jehovah's witnesses are funny in that most have no objective, self-aware view of themselves.
they think they are the center of the universe, that their beliefs are undeniable facts, and are generally very entitled.
yet another added this:.
Then there is this one I recently heard from a brother doing an on stage part. After teaching that we need to simplify our lifes, reduce the amount of hours we do at work or look a getting a part time job, we find that some brothers are getting into financial difficultly, this is to be expected in satan's wicked system of things. Let's blame satan for the negative outcome that could happen, if following this advice from WT fails. BTW it is satan's wicked system of things that provides the only financial help to these brothers that find themselves in financial strife.
who is hosting who here?.
https://jworg.zoom.us/.
our kh zoom meeting invites are now coming in from jw.org, but are still hosted by the local elders.
Who is hosting who here?
Our KH zoom meeting invites are now coming in from JW.org, but are still hosted by the local elders. Meeting participant's won't notice much difference in the way it is run. But here are a few I have noted.
1: Using chat when a KH meeting is running has been disabled.
2: If your camera is off, your profile photo will not be displayed, only your login name will show.
3: If an assembly is planned but canceled in your area, your email address that is connected to your zoom account will recieve a link to watch the assembly program on JW broadcasting, clicking on that link in the email not only takes you to the program, but also pings the sender to let them know that your email was used to access the broadcast.
nice to be here.
still a pimo and struggling through my fade.
i still have several jw friends on social media.
Remember a few years ago when the GB asked witnesses all around the world to write and send letters to The Russian government in an effort to manipulate the political outcome of the WT ban there. I refused to have any involvement with that little WT political stunt, but a very high % of witnesses had no objection to writing to the Russian government. All of which failed and the ban still went ahead.
how about all of the printing activities including wt and awake magazines ,tracts and brochures etc.?.
are they all still a going concern ?.
how many people would there be on average at any one bethel home ?.
I havnt seen or heard of any letters or updates regarding the condition & health of those in Bethel or HQ. I would have thought that if all were well in HQ, the GB would have past that information on has a form of an encouragement letter or video update. Could there be a problem behide closed doors?
there was a letter read sunday at our meeting that mentioned some parts of us are starting to open back up.
however, regardless of things opening up that no kingdom halls should be used for any meetings of any kind.
also, no door-to-door ministry or any form of in-person ministry is allowed.
Remaining loyal to the GB will stomp out any thoughts of cognitive dissonance from entering their brain.
the watchtower witch-hunters are still sending out subpoena's and closing down websites.
it is safer for simon, this board, and us if we send out internal confidential documents privately.. from time to time i will let you know something has arrived that you might want.
just send us a "pm" and we will give you the download links.. you do not need to include any personal information.
Petra
What are the subject titles of the 3 new available downloads?
quite the contravening question to contemplate for any self avowed devoted jws, which no doubt takes some uncomfortable thinking to consider.. yes back in 1919 the then president of the jws j. rutherford proclaimed that the organization (ibsa, jws) had been selectively chosen by jesus for their unique preaching and evangelical work.. there had already been a proclamation by the past leader of the (wts) ibsa c. russell that he was the faithful slave doing the lords work, will and purpose, but his professing doctrines were also false bible interpretations based upon the theology of pyramidology.. might it be that these men made these proclamations out of the intent of self validating themselves and the literature that they had published and were trying to proliferate ?
making these kind of claims was easy since there was no higher governing body to evaluate these men's endeavors from a theological standing, the american government had opened the door for any individual's self expression of a religious nature.
so anyone in that country could build up their own religoius following unimpeded, even more so if that religion was christian based.. so the real critical question remains how or why would jesus pick these men when their doctrines were so obviously false and probably devised more so from a commercialization agenda ?.
after all these years I know when to speak up and when it is wiser to keep silent
I have also learnt to do the same, don't say any thing that hurts their feelings towards the organization, no matter how true your words are.
it's been 12 years since i submitted my resignation letter, and stopped playing by their rules.. in a spurt of manic rationality, i blew up the bridge, sky high.
knowing that the diseased organ would need to be forever removed, away from anything remotely functional in my mind, body, and soul.
lest i be tempted to return.... so, i left.
I dont think Jeff has been on this site for some time, hope he is OK?
i have a trove of old watchtower literature.
i know of course, and for example, to keep the three first volumes of the watchtower (bound) and a bunch of other items.
(and i handle them delicately.).
When I joined this religion in the 1980's, everyone had a good personal library. In fact the larger your personal library, the more spiritual you were considering. I ended up with an awesome sized library, that was until WT announced that all old books be returned to them or disposed of. Then I was pressured from my JW relatives to dump all these, because every thing we needed was now available electronicly. Most books have now gone, but I have managed to keep a few of the good old ones.
