There is no need to have it at all. Never mind wasting 45 minutes of time listening to a boring talk, wasting the electricity and data streaming it, and especially if you still have to attend the Coronavirus Hall to hear that boring talk. Emblems or none, it is still a complete waste. (Plus, if you have to go to the Coronavirus Hall, you risk getting coronavirus for nothing.)
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2020 Memorial - No Need To Actually Have The Emblems
by pale.emperor inover at jw talk they're saying because they're having to hold the upcoming memorial at home, they dont need to actually have the emblems.
apparently, listening to or watching the talk is the thing that counts.. "do this in rememberence of me" apparently means watching tony morris on your phone give a talk.. this begs the question... "what's the point?
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COVID-19 another example showing local publishers/congregations are on their own?
by JWTom inmy area is a large city spread across two u.s. states and multiple different cities and counties.
the area of 2.5 million is covered by parts of 4-5 different circuits.
many of those attending meetings are at-risk individuals with health problems or age related risk.
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WTWizard
What they should have been doing is encouraging the jokehovians to, as individuals, stock up on household supplies and food for as long as they can afford to way back in January or early February. Not for Armageddon, for the coming shortages that are resulting from big companies restricting production and distribution of essential goods in the name of coronavirus. (And for the communism that will follow.) Also, they should have made it clear that any hounder or group of hounders that imposes communal supplies would be disfellowshipped on the spot for communism.
But no, they carried on as usual. They kept on going to boasting sessions. They kept on going in field circus, wasting precious time and resources that could have been used to stock up. I am now hearing that it could well be 6 months to a year before it returns to anything that resembles normal, and that most likely it will end in total communism through the whole One World Totalitarian Government. RFID chips required through the whole globe. (The brain chip, not just the hand chip, at that.) No Internet, or at best a limited North Korea style internet. We will all be slaves, just like the greys. And they are encouraged to work relentlessly for that end instead of at least attempting to prepare?
As for canceling field circus, that is just token. It is an unwritten rule that anyone that slacks off, missing boasting sessions at the Coronavirus Hall or opportunities to spread coronavirus through the whole territory, is "spiritually weak" and will be dealt with accordingly. This will lead to people going out spreading coronavirus through the whole territory, and to whole congregations, instead of spending these last few days and weeks trying to at least get a couple of extra jars of peanut butter or bags of rice or other grains. And, please donate your last funds to further this idiocy. If they can steal ice cream money from kids, they can for sure steal peanut butter money from families.
If anything, instead of closing entertainment venues, they should just close all the churches and mosques (and synagogues, while they are at it) for this. Close down the bible and quran shops, while they are at it. Instead of bibles and qurans, we need food and cleaning supplies. I, for one, would rather have a can of Lysol or package of facial tissue or toilet paper than a whole truck load of bibles.
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Witness with Corona in the local congregation
by Gorbatchov inthe first witnesses with corona in the local congregation over here are reported today.. g..
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WTWizard
One down, the rest of the congregation and the whole territory to go. This is what happens when they are stupid enough to require their members to continue going door to door during a pandemic. It takes one householder with the virus to infect one witless or a whole car group, who then spread it door to door. It also spreads through the whole Coronavirus Hall.
And this goes for any religions that go door to door. It happened in South Korea, seeding a large cluster of the disease. And it will happen everywhere jokehovian witlesses continue their nefarious activity.
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So where's the the food at the proper time?!
by nowwhat? inso we are a couple weeks into this crisis with the meetings being cancelled.
and you would think the fds would have provided the sheep with helpful spiritual guidance in these times of need.
wtf do they have jw broadcasting for then?
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Two or 3 weeks without boasting sessions? I hope it is a year, or two years--or longer as they realize that this religion has done plenty more harm and no good.
And I can find plenty of other places to get whatever spiritual food (or poison, whatever you want) online. There is plenty of both--and there is always that filthy bible you can get your spiritual poison from even without the washtowel and asleep rags.
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As of March 16, 2020 the German Government has prohibited the gathering of all religious groups (Covid-19)
by bats in the belfry ingoogle translation from the government website:.
the federal government has agreed with the federal states on guidelines for a uniform approach to further restrict social contacts in public life.
grocery retail, weekly markets and delivery services, pharmacies, drugstores, banks, petrol stations and wholesalers remain unaffected.
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WTWizard
I bet that they will play the guilt card. People that walk 20 miles each way, through dangerous jungles and crossing rivers that have crocodiles, followed by a lockout and a beating when they get home, that never miss a boasting session? So what is a little government interference when they have plenty of references in their filthy bible that xians continued under threat of death? They will continue working to subvert this ban (and spread coronavirus while they are at it).
And I hope they get slammed for doing this. Going in field circus at a time like now is akin to drink driving. Would you drink and drive? At least drink drivers only kill where they crash. With this, who knows how far their coronavirus could spread, and how many could die long after the "crash".
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Hot off the press - Maintaining Congregation Meetings During COVID-19 Pandemic
by pixel in27:23; sfl chap.
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"Reach out to inactive ones."
So they can give their coronavirus to those who haven't been to a boasting session for a while? I think that defeats the whole purpose of the arrangement, and I will simply and rudely refuse by telling them in German that their whole program is bogus.
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Whatever happened to tv.jw.org
by cognitivedizzy inlooks like they pulled the plug on the streaming service 24/7 .
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It always was garbage. Endless buffering and video blocking from this site--is that how we watch videos?
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covid-19 Australia jworg style.
by jonahstourguide inhi all.. i wanted to post this somewhere that all could see it.. here is a letter being circulated in melbourne australia area.. covid-19 announcement dear friends, the local body of elders have agreed on the following actions in relation to today’s announcement.
theocratic events at this stage congregation meetings will continue to run as normal.
no publisher should feel obligated to attend congregation meetings at this time if they feel concerned or anxious about doing so.
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"No publisher should feel obligated to attend congregation meetings at this time..."
However, there is the unspoken rule that anyone that skips a boasting session for coronavirus is "spiritually weak". Those who go despite the virus (and despite getting it, spreading it through the whole congregation) are ballyhooed as "spiritually strong" and get extra points for "privileges".
More hogwash. It is not worth it to attend a boasting session, even without coronavirus. The time and energy wasted does not get you benefits equal to or greater than what you are wasting. Throw in a pandemic, and it really is not worth it. This is a potentially dangerous situation--not only with a death rate that fluctuates between 2 and 9% and is higher among elderly and infirm people, but it could mutate into something that gives three months' suffering and kills more than 99%, including healthy young people. This is unpredictable--and the more people that donate their energy to this thing through reading and abiding by the bible or quran, or anything in the name of either of those filthy books, the more likely such a strain will come up or we will get communism as the result (which is, to me, even worse than outright dying).
I can only hope they are smart enough to cancel the whole memorial. For a boring 45 minute talk and the chance to pass a plate and glass (touched by something like 200 hands--which one has the coronavirus?), you risk picking up the disease. They want me to go? They had better use field circus time studying German--I have something like 1 1/2 years' head start on them.
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How was it possible that some members fall asleep or nod off during meetings?
by RULES & REGULATIONS ina while back, we had a saturday wedding reception for a brother and sister from our kingdom hall.
the reception ended at midnight.
most of us got home at around 1:00 a.m. our sunday public talk meeting started at 9:30 a.m. .
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I have noticed more than drifting off to sleep at boring boasting sessions (presumably so my brain can be directly programmed to accept hardships). I have come back from a big, great, or grand boasting session feeling more drained than I would have been had I been at work during the same period. It is, in fact, worse to be at one of these things than to be at work washing dishes during the same period. This is because energy is being drained so joke-hova can use it to enslave us all.
And it can be more than just a headache, especially this year. You catch whatever is going around more easily when you are drained like this. Not only you are exposed to more colds and flu (and coronavirus, as the case is this year), but your resistance is drained. This is far worse than going out in the cold without a coat (which puts a load on you that is roughly equal to briskly walking or running, which people do all the time without getting sick). Spiritual energy is drained, curses are directly placed on you directly from the bible (and you are half asleep, rendering you more vulnerable to those), and the virus is right there at the boasting session. And, with all those references to the extreme hardships suffered, your brain is programmed to get sick.
I suppose that, in years ahead, there is going to be an even worse pandemic and they are going to reference 2020 when people continued holding boasting sessions and field circus despite coronavirus. They are going to say "We had a pandemic. Many places banned the work because of this. Yet, we persevered through that. We can, and we will, persevere through this one as well. Joke-hova will protect us now, as it did then."
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CDC recommends no events of more than 50 people for next eight weeks
by Quandary inhttps://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487702-cdc-recommends-no-events-of-50-or-more-people-for-next-eight-weeks.
let's see what "mother" directs in view of this latest news..
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The organization doesn't care. The leaders are nicely quarantined in their safe spots, nice and safe so they can laugh at those who are dumb enough to continue while they drag their feet in issuing orders or issue the wrong orders.
And since this is probably the stupidest excuse to go out, I advise everyone to not wait for an official notice. Do not go to the boasting sessions--even if the virus is still not in your area. (You are donating your energy to joke-hova to worsen the eventual communism that comes from the crisis, which leaves you more open to it when it does come). Do not go out in field circus, and I mean at all. No letter writing, no phone calls, no nothing. And especially door to door, where you are just searching for coronavirus to catch and spread through the whole territory. If you simply must give your energy to joke-hova, it is better to stream the boasting session on your device instead of going to the coronavirus hall. You still end up vulnerable, but you do not get exposed to the virus or spread it to others.