And what about those situations where it's either Zoom or nothing? Try driving 75 km each way to a boasting session, especially during a moderate snowstorm. Or, if your work schedule is too tight to make an in-person boasting session but you could do one on Zoom. True it would be a waste of Zoom space, but that is way better than a waste of gas and time driving to the boasting session venue.
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Confirmed: CO Discourages Zoom
by XBEHERE ini can confirm that the co during one of his service talks stated that zoom is a provision for elderly, infirmed, as well as people who might need it on occasion due to health reasons, otherwise you are expected to be in person at meetings and in the ministry.
this had to come down from the top.
maybe they do not want to put it in a gb update or broadcast since that would be too public i suppose.
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Jesus could not have died on Friday Nisan 14
by Hacche inanother reason that jesus trial before pontius pilate and his being nailed to the stake was not on the same day, as watchtower teach, is found in two scriptures.
john 19:14 says, now it was the day of preparation of the passover; it was about the sixth hour.
and he said to the jews: see your king.
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WTWizard
To me, this hyper-abomination called jesus didn't die at all, since that thing was never alive at all. Problem solved.
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July 2023 Study Article 29: Are You Ready for the GT (part 3)
by blondie inhad to take a break to get my chores caught up; last section: strengthen your love.
this implies that any jw had "real" love or knew what it was outside the wts definition.
many jws just perpetuate the type of love they were show in their congregation.
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And what about those they dislike for a reason, usually because they are abusive? They are supposed to submit to such abuse--including those who are excessively judgmental as a habit? This is why I didn't like working with certain "brothers", who would invariably be the same ones that would show up 15 minutes late and bust up arrangements that were already made. Or those who never accepted any partial solution to real problems as valid.
I would have been better off under coronavirus. At least those are not judgmental.
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The Watchtower—Study Edition | May 2023
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower—study edition | may 2023. .
study article 21. how jehovah answers our prayers.
14 a sister named soo hing felt that jehovah helped her by means of her doctor.
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Then what good does it do to pray to that thing? Just so joke-hova can use you up any way it chooses, and doesn't give a **** how you feel about it. Instead of being able to produce anything for yourself or leave anything good behind, you waste your life spreading a worthless message that, unless you give up everything, you will be destroyed.
Do the jokehovians do anything useful? They pray for joke-hova to clean up the earth, yet they waste resources (polluting in the process, putting plastics in the ocean and carbon dioxide and other pollutants in the air) in field circus. They pray to that abomination for a paradise on earth. Yet, how many jokehovians as much as clean up a single piece of plastic on public land? When is the last time they have spent an afternoon cutting down the Chinese or Japanese wisteria, porcelain berry, kudzu, oriental bittersweet, bamboo, and whatever invasive species are along the side of the road? Or planting native trees and bushes that would help the environment?
Or, is joke-hova really going to do anything? Rather that thing wants us to be miserable, and obviously it will not answer prayers for personal fulfillment, even if such would help humanity and/or the environment. Just keep following that beady-eyed monster thing, and blindly trust it. You will simply be enslaved, and you will have done nothing. In the meantime, that beady-eyed monster thing will simply use those invasive vines (and yes, poison ivy and ragweed for those in Europe or Asia) to choke off native vegetation, further ruining the environment--that you prayed for it to fix?
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Advice to reduce hours earn less and spend more time on the ministry
by ExBethelitenowPIMA inthe advice to reduce work and earn less to spend more time preaching has not aged well.. the cost of living crisis means many have more going out on necessities than they have coming in.. so many asked their employer to reduce their hours and refused promotion only to see their colleagues go up the ladder when they stayed lowly position with rubbish jobs thinking the end will be here soon.
next week midweek meeting is all about preparing for an economic crisis.. they say have a go bag and new advice for all jws to store food and water at home and grow a vegetable garden, i kid you not.
this is the new direction..
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Cut back on work hours? With rents going up even faster than the stock market, this is a sure recipe for eviction. And what will they do once they are evicted and out on the streets? And then there are the electronic devices they are supposed to use (which, prior to about 2013, were just about banned), expenses with suits and gas money, hotel rooms for Grand Boasting Sessions out of town, donations to the washtowel, and similar expenses to factor in. They aren't getting any cheaper, either.
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New Convention Song “ It Will Not Be Late”
by BluesBrother inthis made me chuckle.
a new song that they are encouraged to practice for the convention.. “ we know your day will come, sure as the rising sun.
no matter how long it takes , it will not be late” …………... it is based on habakkuk 2 , we discussed this in depth around 1973/1974.
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Only 50 years late? The late bell rang in 1874--and I would say they are somewhat more than a paltry 50 years late already. Perfect advice for joke-hova to stall and stall some more.
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Young "Elders"
by XBEHERE inever since the annual meeting last october and the letter to bodies of elders stating that "exceptional young men perhaps in their early 20's could qualify for appointment as elders.." it even states this in the updated elders manual!
have any of you pimo's, pimq's, or those on here with family/friends still in hear of any young men being appointed as elders yet?
i am talking 21, 22, 23, 24 etc.
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And I suppose they have to be fully vaccinated against the wimpiest "disease" on the planet, and stay boosted every 6 months to the day to qualify. (Not to worry, soon that will be required to avoid getting disfellowshipped.) I, for one, will not be getting my cancer shots--the Amazon "shot" works just fine for me.
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PFIZER DOCUMENTS and the ugly truth about the cover up
by Terry invideo : what’s in the pfizer documents?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9y_w_30hsm&t=51s.
brief summary.
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They are not doing their U-turn on the coronavirus shot. They know it is dangerous, yet they expect people to trust in joke-hova for that shot to not seriously harm them. If it does, they are supposed to serve that abomination, even giving their lives for that thing, so it can get even more praise. If anything, I am waiting to see directive soon that the whole congregation has to get the cancer shot, and you can get disfellowshipped for not staying up to date with your shots at 6-month intervals.
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Nisan 14 or not?
by LostintheFog1999 inif jesus memorial meal is meant to follow on from the jewish passover celebration, would someone explain to me why the jehovah's witness community are holding their "lord's evening meal" on tuesday 4th april; when the jewish community are not holding their 2023 passover until the 5th april 2023?
doesn't this mean that the jehovahs have got their date wrong?.
https://www.londonworld.com/read-this/passover-2023-what-is-passover-dates-and-greetings-4091833.
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They use a different formula to calculate Nisan 14, which may or may not coincide with the official calendar. To me, "Nisan" is not even a month--officially, we have January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December (in the English language). Nisan is not even among those. And those months we do have last 30 or 31 days each (except February, which is either 28 or 29), not all months having 28 days.
Next, I suppose they are going to try putting everything in the hebrew language. Using hebrew letters, to boot. Anyone else try putting appointments in hebrew, or using Nisan as a month? It doesn't work so well. And besides, are they claiming to be Christian? Then why are they pretending to be Israelites? (Ancient Israelites, to boot. Even if they are in Israel, they are not going to find the Nisan calendar in use, and they are not going to get far just speaking hebrew.)
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JW Library crash at april 4 - breaking news!
by Gorb inin the jw library app the following news is presented:.
seems an attack on april 4, memorial day.
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Or better yet, don't listen to that smut at all. The real problem in this case is that anyone listening to Kingdumb maladies or anything else from the washtowel, or trying to use washtowel littera-trash as guidance, will ruin your soul.