Pfff.
G.
2020-04-03--support during coronavirus pandemic.
https://docdro.id/cvkzlpi.
2020-04-04--announcement.
Pfff.
G.
i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.
i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.
who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.
Remembering them giving wrong answers because of using older version.
Jw.org used fake news en confusion long ago to keep Jo Plumber ehh Publisher busy.
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gorby's brother in law came by the porch and told "the conventions are cancelled".
we knew already but responded surprised.
"it will be recorded and showed at stream.
Gorby's brother in law came by the porch and told "the conventions are cancelled". We knew already but responded surprised.
"It will be recorded and showed at stream. The GB and helpers will do all the parts".
We responded "oké".
BIL concluded "so, it will be the best convention ever".
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prudent decision even if the pandemic is over you are going to have people that.
lost jobs can't afford to go.
not allowed any vacation time rest of year.
If the virus got a year earlier jw's should have a big disaster caused by the many international conventions.
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the behavior from the org lately had me a bit confused, as it seemed to fall outside of their norm.
i'm not talking the hardcore armageddon wishers texting each other about peace and security, etc.
* but, the elders contacting people daily, and having extra meetings where they have all their additional rules.
Family in law sending apps with UN and JW related media items, kingdom songs, expecting the big Armagedon every moment now. Yesterday a card from an elder family writing they think about us and that we can watch the memorial at stream (not Zoom 😁).
The big madnes religion.
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3 german letters, (as of 2020-04-02).
2020-04-01--letter.
https://docdro.id/iai6qkq.
Conventions canceled and hotel room payback.
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study watchtower, june 2020, box on page 22 - "note the comment made by an inactive one in spain: “i want to be reactivated, but it is very difficult.
but it is not easy.
i have to change my lifestyle and cut ties with some worldly friends.".
Ultimate sect!
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nice read!.
g.. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-apocalypse-religion.html?smid=wa-share.
does anybody have a copy of the harbeck letters 1933 or does anyone know where to get a copy of it or just to have a read of it?these are letters that brother harbeck who was the branch overseer in switzerland wrote ,.
"a letter written by brother harbeck in august 1933 was given wide distribution among the german brothers and was used by the fearful ones in their discussions as proof of the rightness of their stand..."(yearbook of jws 1974).. i am looking for this letter in connection to a project.
thank you for your efforts.. zing.
Paul Balzereit, the German branch leader, was blamed by the wts in 1933, one of the big human scandals, they created.
An Awake article in 1995 cleared Paul Balzeteit, but you have to read between the lines.
Rutherford was a real fraud and a bad person.
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this whole "zoom" thing has got me wondering whether some of it is legal or not.
if a person has to dress up for a zoom meeting the way the watchtower dictates, doesn't this really go "beyond" cult?.
even the cults who committed mass suicide were able to dress the way they wanted for their meetings.
My brother in law told me he just wear shirt and tie and forget that when he stand up, his shorts were at Zoom.
Had to laugh about it.
So JW style, using a way to communicate and making rules about how to wear clothes.
G.