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  New Upcoming Changes - No More Publisher Record Cards & Reporting Hours

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  publisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.

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  coming soon.. made this post 4 years ago, it happened - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/24020002/kingdom-consolidation-sales-coming-reliable-source.

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  No matter how much informal pressure is applied, if no hours are reported, JWs will take this as a signal to stop preaching. Just as they took the abolition of cover prices for the literature as a signal to stop paying for them. No amount of exhortations to voluntarily contribute to cover the cost of printing did the trick.

  I think this is prescient. JWs are tired out after decades in the hamster wheel. ANY 'signal' from HQ that could otherwise be construed to diminish the 'ministry' will likely be seized upon.
  
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  Are You Horrifed if Someone Goes Into a “Massage Parlor”?

  by minimus in

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  yesterday, robert kraft, the owner of the new england patriots, got busted for getting a massage and more.

  they say there is another more high profile person who also got busted.. does this stuff upset you that some men have gone into a massage parlor for possibly more than a massage?

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  Or maybe Mr. Kraft went into a 'low rent' place precisely because of who was likely available there...
  
  And I don't mean because women who are newly into the country are available for abuse, but rather because such newly arrived women would most likely NOT know who he is.
  
  Consider it: sure Bob Kraft can afford any high-priced call girl working out of Boston. It's not a matter of price. Any of those high-priced call girls would know exactly who he is, and potentially extort Kraft beyond the initial transaction.
  
  Maybe he considered these women more likely to protect his anonymity.
  
  
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  Who is your favorite Star Wars character?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. entertainment

  the star wars franchise has lots of memorable characters, no doubt about it.

  the sw extended universe is a big space.. there are lots of characters in the extended universe that i know little or nothing about - i may have only heard their names.. so if you could pick just one character, which one is your favourite?.

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  R5-D4: if he didn't blow his 'motivator', then Luke and R2 don't meet....
  
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  What Are Your Rights?

  by Simon in

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  rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

  say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

  people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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  hybridous

  If people are too untrustworthy to leave to their own devices in a libertarian society, how could they be trusted with the powers of the levers of government in a socialist society?
  
  Are they somehow not going to use them to serve their own interests?
  
  Where do we get these angels from?
  
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  Service experiences

  by former2free in

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  2. friends

  i know what you may be thinking by the title but bear with me.

  have you ever reflected on past service experiences and think wow if only i had listened to a householder?

  two things come to my mind of personal experience.

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  hybridous

  I was probably 12 or 13 at the time.
  
  I was out in service on a terribly cold, inhospitable winter morning. I was paired with a slightly older (age 15-16) peer.
  
  One woman opened her door, and with equal parts puzzlement and disgust, said words to the effect of: 'I can't believe that they have you out doing this, on a morning with these awful conditions.
  
  My peer said: 'But this is Our Choice.'

  Well, it might've been true for him - but it sure as hell wasn't true for me.

  No, I was out there because my mother expected it of me. Nothing more than that.
  
  And that's when it hit me - front and center.
  
  We're lying. But apparently, it's OK as long as it's done for selective interests...
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
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  Just About To Leave For My Work's Christmas Party

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's my work's christmas parts this evening.

  just getting myself ready for it and decided to wear a suit rather than casual shirt and pants.

  it's funny because i've just noticed that i now only own one suit.

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  Isn't it grand to NOT have to wade through and drag around all the BS WT baggage about everything?
  
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  Did you know Banks create money out of thin air?

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  banks create money “out of thin air.”empirical studies have been undertaken to prove this thesis and this is the conclusion:.

  in the 5,000 year history of banking, banks have been thought of as “deposit taking institutions which lend money”.. 1. what is the legal reality?

  banks don’t take deposits and don’t lend money.the public is under this false impression on purpose because the language of banks is not legal language.. so--what is a “deposit”?a deposit is not actually a deposit.

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  no banks cannot manufacture money out of thin air.

  But they can loan money that they don't actually have deposited....
  
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  Do you remember this?

  by Gorbatchov in

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  when g. was a litle kid, remembering the watchtower study at age 9, hearing all the stuff, the paragraph, the questions, the answers, about topics i could not understand, so it became so abstract that it was not entering my ears and brains.

  it felt that i was no part of the group, someone alone on a distant planet.. do you remember this feeling?.

  g..

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  hybridous

  To the OP point - yes, I remember not really being able to wrap my mind around doctrine, and felt like I didn't fit it in because I didn't understand everything I was expected to...little did I know that accepting WT doctrine was NOT an exercise of rigorous logic, but rather a suspension of such thinking.
  
  Not to mention, some of my Kingdom Hall contemporaries were starting to 'reach out', as-it-were, and Auxiliary Pioneer over summers and school breaks, and since I hated Field Service fiercely, I couldn't walk that plank...
  
  While at the same time, the WT and my parents did their best/worst to make sure I didn't fit in with the kids at school...
  
  Few friends in school and fake ones in the Kingdom Hall. I was a kid on an island.
  
  And yet they were all astonished that I bailed on the religion. I was miserable in there, and yet it threw them for a loop that I balked at a lifetime on the hamster wheel. They really couldn't understand me - never could, I guess.
  
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  Their Last Message of Damnation

  by new boy in

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  the leaders of the witnesses are preparing their flock for the day when they will have to give that last message of damnation.

  they will soon be announcing how their loving god jehovah will soon becoming to kill off the vast majority of mankind.

  billions of men women and children,.

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  hybridous

  Also, the 'Last Message of Damnation' (OP), is a scenario where the "ark" of the saving Organization is shut, right?
  
  So at this point, there's no more recruitment, no more disciple-making, no more Bible-studies....
  
  No need for much literature or tracts. Maybe they save this final step for the days when the Org is so financially strapped, they're staring at their own demise, and thus proclaim and project their own mortality onto the world-at-large...
  
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  Their Last Message of Damnation

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the leaders of the witnesses are preparing their flock for the day when they will have to give that last message of damnation.

  they will soon be announcing how their loving god jehovah will soon becoming to kill off the vast majority of mankind.

  billions of men women and children,.

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  I don`t believe they will ever do that because its not something they could walk away from or explain its failure to materialize ,however they will always be on the brink of delivering such a message........ in the near future.

  Dangling the carrot before the donkey scenario.

  Good comment, smiddy. I had always seen this similarly. The 'Good News of the Kingdom' (or whatever you want to call their message, now) is really the penultimate message. Contrast with the final, ultimate, message (see OP).
  
  And really, once they went to the final one, it's that or nothing. I don't see, outside of some 'Jonah clause', how they could renege and stay Jah's vengeance day. The 'Jonah clause' has never been part of the JW narrative regarding the end of the system. Total Armageddon destruction has always been treated as a foregone conclusion. Repentance was never an out.