most every state has a plan to get back to normalcy.
many countries also are ready to get their citizens on the road to recovery.. where does this leave the witnesses?
will they ever go back to house to house ministry?
I am expecting a final reaping of Kingdom Hall liquidity.
I don't see how they couldn't seize this Covid opportunity.
JWs will accept any and all pathetic rationalizations from the Tower - especially once the word 'COVID' gets stapled to it.
I figure that once the Covid crisis has served to temporarily satiate the Tower's need for resources, then there will be a cautious and gradual return to "JW normal", sans the D-2-D Ministry, since it is already becoming passe in favor of Cart Work..
it seems that some people just aren’t ready to put those masks aside even if they are fully vaccinated!
some can’t help but think their brains aren’t ready for “normal”..
No. This whole thing has devolved into performative theatre...
..where being scared over risks that are orders of magnitude less likely than everyday, accepted risks, are somehow now the highest social virtue...
I am weary from these useless burdens...
They have to get their abacus out and calculate what will be best- sell the Kingdom Halls or continue to fleece the flock a little at a time.
I agree with OTWO. This Covid situation presents an opportunity for the Tower. I could see another round of KH sell-offs right before resuming in-person meetings. Folks would be so happy for the association, they might hold back the grumbling about being re-assigned to another KH, now 2x as far away...
the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.
many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.
what’s your view of this?
Systemic racism is a circular faith-based argument. You MUST believe that you are a racist or else you are a racist and should be shunned.
That is the argument they’re making, everything and everyone is racist and should be changed. They are literally shunning their family members and friends and coworkers that do not agree.
They have a priest class of rich black wokesters that tell them everything they should do to grovel and pray. They have religious texts in the form of their anti-racist books and they have communion in the form of Twitter. They even have an end of times prophecy where the dates keep changing in the form of global cooling/warming that will destroy the earth.
It’s a Kafkaëske argument or witch trial where you can only be found guilty of witchcraft or get killed proving your innocence. And everything they don’t like is fitted with the white supremacy label, because if you look hard enough you can find fault in everyone’s history.
Yes. Good analysis. The whole POINT is to levy charges that are UN-FALSIFIABLE. It's like the burden of Original Sin. You're always guilty.
Except with Original Sin, at least we're all equally guilty and there is (ostensibly) a redemption at the end...
Accusations of Systemic Racism offer no such way out...
youtuber "king of fader's" caught this unbelievable piece of cant from watchtower in thursday's life and ministry 'daily text'.. (based on 2 corinthians 1:24 " not that we lord it over your faith").
"jehovah has not given us authority to make personal decisions for others.
someone who makes needless rules is not protecting his brothers safety - he is trying to become the master of his brothers faith.
'Good! I just rented a room at the YMCA for my son's BIRTHDAY PARTY!!'
Are they really this daft?
Or are they mocking JWs to their very faces, as part of the scam?
'Jests Put Thru Daily' they did say. Indeed!
https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.
hope link works.
Though the door to door work might be left has an option just like before the Virus problem.
Yeah, I could see it remaining a seldom-used option for old-school try-hard JWs. Organizationally, a fizzled campaign to re-start door-to-door might do more damage than leaving it alone as-is.
For that reason, I think leadership would be wary of trying to rally troops that it doesn't have a lot of confidence in.
They are better off sliding focus to cart witnessing and other endeavors, rather than risk a ministry rally where half don't show up and perform, in my estimation...
JWs aren't zealous anymore. The ORG squandered all that energy, plus householders have too much info too easily available. Zealous JWs are going to come across information that makes them uncomfortable. Better to spend 3 hours sitting next to a literature cart, hoping you can make it through without having to seriously speak with anyone. I know I'd opt for that alternative...
https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.
hope link works.
Even if/when d-2-d resumes...
What's the energy and enthusiasm level going to be?
The JW 'ministry' was seriously flagging on its own...BEFORE COVID...
Literature carts grabbed a market share for JWs interested in getting their hours in via a new lower-effort method.
Give them all months and months off from proselytizing directly....
Is there gonna be a huge rush of JWs back into neighborhoods, knocking on doors, trying to engage religious discussion?
I think any effort to resume will fizzle.
It's just too easy not to do it, and now they all know it...
fist of all my first language is not english so i apologise for any mistakes.i am 17 my whole family is jw.i am so sick of this i cry all the time i wasted my teen years doing nothing, no friends, no parties, no going out, no fun.i am scared for my life because if i tell them they will kick me out, i have no money to move out.i am curentlly studying the bible with my mom just because i am scared to tell her that i dont want to.please help me with some advice im begging.my life depends on this......
AGREE with OTWO!
Getting baptized would help NOTHING -
And hurt EVERYTHING!
If you are at such a point of doubt to be HERE, and talking to US about your concerns, then you must know that you would NEVER be at peace within the confines of this 'religion' and its restrictions.
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.".
Who says all citizens have equal value? You talk about it as if it were a foregone conclusion, but how would one prove it?
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.".
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...
