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  Sound Familiar?

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.

  the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.

  "it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".

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  Who says all citizens have equal value? You talk about it as if it were a foregone conclusion, but how would one prove it?
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  Sound Familiar?

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.

  the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.

  "it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".

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  hybridous

  Money is just a tool to facilitate trade.
  
  But, now....consider the power to issue it...to be the recipient and beneficiary of it, without any outlay of product or service...
  
  Now THIS is power. This is power enough to fight and kill for.

  We are becoming less a society of 'live-and-let-live', and increasingly one of 'rule-or-BE-ruled'. Thus, the desperate grasps for power, or else be dominated by rivals and enemies. My observations...
  
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  2020 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide

  by Joker5 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the 2020 report has been out for a few days.

  2020 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 87. .

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  hybridous

  Nevertheless, persistent increases in Memorial Partakers is a good sign.

  It's a clear example of the WT leadership not being able to get the troops in line.

  I don't know if it's a case of JWs being too dense to 'get the message' about partaking...

  Or maybe these folks just don't GAF about earning the WTs approval on this matter.

  Either way, I suspect that if these numbers don't get in line, the Tower will either have to start directly falsifying them, or stop reporting them, entirely.

  At this point, these partakers should be clocking in at ~25% (IMO) of where they are now.
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  2020 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide

  by Joker5 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the 2020 report has been out for a few days.

  2020 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 87. .

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  hybridous

  Have you seen Steven Lett on JW Broadcasting.

  Yes. Of course, as all despots they desire to be the exceptions to the rules.

  I don't know how a JW could comfortably show him and JW Broadcasting to a 'worldly person' and not be embarrassed. This religion they are supposed to advertise has become something to hide.

  Throw a basket on that candle, JWs.
  
  
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  2020 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide

  by Joker5 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the 2020 report has been out for a few days.

  2020 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 87. .

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  What's confusing about it? Jehovah is calling the last of His sons.

  Confusing because the WT has made it clear that these people are to be regarded as mostly crazy or liars.
  
  
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  Are You Satisfied To Let The Government Take Care of You?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some people want limited government involvement in their lives.

  the less government, the happier they are.

  others feel there’s not enough government intervention.

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  If the government takes care of you, you don’t have to work.

  Right. Perhaps, YOU don't have to. But someone else does for you. There is no FREE anything. There are only transferred/deferred costs.
  
  
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  Is it possible for any Country to have “Reasonable” Gun Laws? What would they be?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so the new biden/harris gun policies are starting to appear.

  it’s not clear yet, what they will be.. some suggestions; confiscate all guns.------buyback programs in each state.. there is much talk on social media that if this happens, the pandemic, + all the riots, + all the damaged property, + all the annual murders in america, - put together-will be like a sunday afternoon picnic, compared to all the deaths and property damage that will result because of “civil uprising” by millions of 2nd amendments advocates and just plain gun lovers.

  americans love guns!.

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  “If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very pro-gun; you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small political elite and their minions.”
  
  - S. Molyneux
  
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  Meetings

  by pontoon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so remember how assembling together is a command and no man or government can stop us, even if it means going 'underground', even if means being arrested, jailed, beat....can't stop us from assembling together----until covid.

  now it's "false regligion" fighting for their constitutional right to meet together while the jws seem to be perefectly happy zooming their lives away..

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  I am having a hard time imagining the WT Society being content with this current JW meeting arrangement,

  So much control is exerted laterally - one JW behaves because of another JW.

  I think they lose a lot of that without real meetings.

  Without all that control....what's left of this 'religion', anyways?

  They need the Covid scare to subside so JWs can re-connect with other JWs before 'worldly' folks fill the void...
  
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  UPDATE: Fanatical Mom wants to report me

  by Scarlett_Martin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  *** update 2020/11/21 ****.

  hello people,.

  some time ago i made my first on this forum after i have just woken up.. i was very scared and honestly i am still amazed from the fact that i am still getting replies in the old thread.. here is the link to my previous thread: link.

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  Agree with notion that -

  The fewer elder interactions you have, the BETTER!

  Also, I know it's hard, but do your best to limit criticism of the religion when you talk to your parents. None of what you say will matter in their devotion, but it can serve to further degrade your relationship with them to an unnecessary extent. In other words, you can only HURT things, you can't help.

  Anything anyone wants to know about the WT is freely available for thorough examination. If people don't know, it is because they don't want to know. There's no lack of opportunity now to learn about such things.

  I am hoping that the elders might be done with you - but I doubt it. They may still try...with your parents' help...to maneuver you into a situation where you say/do the wrong thing and thereby have justification to dispose of you via Judicial Committee. This is where you MUST have discretion. Your best protection is your silence. Don't throw it away in an attempt to make some point that will NEVER do you any good.

  Good luck...and keep us updated.
  
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  Collapse of JW Org - Possibly on the Horizon?

  by JWTom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this topics get a great deal of discussion here.

  what i find interesting is even some of my pimi family is embracing the reality that all is not well with jw.org and that many current jws are just going through the motions due to not having a good way out of the org.

  wondering what could realistically lead to the collapse of jw.org in the not distant future?

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  I wonder if the global COVID situation might have sped things along for the Tower...

  Once (if?...) various governments give the 'All Clear' signal to resume regular gathering/worship, how many JWs are ready to climb back into that hamster wheel?

  This pandemic handed regular JWs relief from their religious burdens in a way that nothing else could. The average JW has been able to take a legitimized break from their religious duties (to some extent) while not having their standing in the congregation threatened. It's really been a one-of-kind opportunity to catch your breath and relax a bit.

  I can't help but imagine that a significant number of JWs will be less-than-inclined to hit the ground running, whenever this COVID situation resolves. They may miss associations, but I think that many will have experienced a WT-sized gap in their lives...and it wasn't hard to fill.