At least all the poor pimos, relatives and friends who get dragged along every year to keep the peace as their JW dear ones keep flogging a dead horse and trying to keep attendance up, will have a great excuse to just say NO this year!
Diogenesister
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Will you attend the Memorial 2020 ? - Covid-19 (Coronavirus)
by bats in the belfry in... or rather listen to the advice on their jw news website:.
show love to others.
while we all know the importance of attending christian meetings and participating in the public ministry, if you are sick, it is best to stay home to avoid infecting others.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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I’m scared. I’ve been trying to get hand gel for over 2 weeks now and we have one between the 4 of us. I have 14 year old twins and my lungs are appalling, I have emphysema and my husband is a life long asthma sufferer. We have no one to care for my children if anything happens to us. Even if my husband survives I don’t think he’ll cope looking after the children. I’m terrified of them being alone the way I was, and they don’t have he mental resources I had ....they’re not academic so I worry about their future anyway.
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Fulfilling Matthew 24:14? by Former C.O Ron Frye
by chrisjoel in"and this good news of the kingdom will.
be preached in all the inhabited earth for a. witness to all the nations; and then the end.
bible are more familiar to jehovah's witnesses than the.
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What strikes me about all that is just how provincial it all is.
The Jews I would argue suffered far, far worse at the hands of the nazis.
Mankind in general over and again has seen tribulations on a much greater scale. The disciples didn’t preach anywhere near all the inhabited earth.
No. This is local history applicable to one relatively small tribe at a relatively short time during earths history.
What about the Denosovians? Homo Florensis? Homo Erectus who was around near 2 million years? Why didn’t god talk to them? There are many hominids who are extinct!! Armageddon has long been and gone for most “Humans”
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Interesting piece about Stephen Lett and family: property developers
by Diogenesister inanother very well researched programme by the blue envelope exploring stephen lett's bio and his family interest in property.
interestingly his parents were pioneering until the new service year 1975 , when they immediately changed tack and began investing in properties along the gulf coast.
once again, highly recommended veiwing.. https://youtu.be/9qh0jbvsdrc.
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Simon is it possible to correct the title to "Lett" for the benefit of those wishing to do a search on Stephen Lett please?
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Interesting piece about Stephen Lett and family: property developers
by Diogenesister inanother very well researched programme by the blue envelope exploring stephen lett's bio and his family interest in property.
interestingly his parents were pioneering until the new service year 1975 , when they immediately changed tack and began investing in properties along the gulf coast.
once again, highly recommended veiwing.. https://youtu.be/9qh0jbvsdrc.
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Another very well researched programme by the Blue Envelope exploring Stephen Lett's bio and his family interest in property. Interestingly his parents were pioneering until the new service year 1975 , when they immediately changed tack and began investing in properties along the Gulf Coast. Once again, highly recommended veiwing.
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Donating Blood a Disfellowshipping Offense?
by HiddenPimo inwhen i served as an elder i never heard of this scenario presenting itself - giving blood.. has anyone heard of a judicial case where a person donated and was disfellowshipped?
are there any references to this in the jw publications, manuals, handbooks?.
not so hiddenpimo :-).
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Giving blood for testing is not a problem since it is thrown away once the tests are complete.
The conundrum for witnesses is that fractions they are permitted, such as interferon, require several pints of blood donation...they need to be challenged with this piece of rank hipocrisy.
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My first book: "APOSTATE – WHY I LEFT THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES"
by Antonio_Madaleno inmy first book: "apostate – why i left the jehovah's witnesses".
it will be release on march in portugal by penguin random house.. .
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It’s so very true, and so very sad, that witnesses give so much of their lives to an organization “they know so little about”. I also like the thought that responsible faith should awaken the conscience not atrophy it....what an incredible visualization of the witness mind, slowly atrophies as it attempts to use more and more the “Nuremberg defense” when they do things their authentic conscience forbids - I was only following orders from Watchtower.
Congratulations!! NB did you previously have a tiger as your avatar, prior to using your real name at all?
NB Gayle I hope to give this book to my neighbour, a young newly single mother born in Angola. She is fully bi lingual but the Portuguese witnesses have been targeting her.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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Multiply that ($25 x 2) per month with who knows how many others adopt the same attitude. She is even concerned about going to Walmart since so much of their stuff comes from China.
Just to say The World Health Organization site states that the virus does not last long enough on outside surfaces etc for receiving parcels/buying goods etc sent from China to be any kind of a risk.
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Circuit Overseer to Answer My Questions + Concerns...or Not
by Research inhello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.
a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.
so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.
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Are you aware that the Dutch govt is now investigating Watchtower due to child sex abuse? As is the British Independent Inquiry into child sexual Abuse conducting an investigation specifically aimed at Jehovah’s witnesses (Iicsa) Please read this article on the database of child molestors kept by Watchtower https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/03/the-secret-jehovahs-witness-database-of-child-molesters/584311/
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Circuit Overseer to Answer My Questions + Concerns...or Not
by Research inhello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.
a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.
so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.
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Research, how does you Dad feel about the religion? Did your mum marry your step dad and then get baptised? Or was she baptised before they married? Women have zero power in this religion and must needs get it from the men in their lives. With a non believing mate she will be very low on the pecking order without a son, in other words YOU, climbing the ranks. Her motives are not entirely pure.
Is there any way you could show him JWfacts.com or some of John Cedars videos? Or JW support you tube videos? Or Susan Gaskins videos? Or exjw analyzer? Please try to get him on side, explain the way they use shunning as a control method.
I know EXJW Reddit has a big list of country by country help sites for mental health issues.