the other day, i chatted to an elderly woman and her daughter who was about 45-50. total strangers.. we were discussing covid when the daughter said, "my neighbor studies with jw's, and the jw's told her 3 months before the virus started, that they had to stop going from door to door because something was coming.".
i've never heard anything like this before - have you?.
One thing JWs definitely don't have....is the gift of prophecy.;
Ha ! That's an idea....ask them to challenge their neighbour on the many times watchtower is on record as getting things badly wrong. Next week's Bible study will be cancelled.
It was only a matter of time before they predicted the pandemic! Ask them to find it in print and they won't.
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Says him and Tibor are looking for a larger industrial sized space to rent. Thanks the Patrons again because they’re paying for it, not him
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I think Dijana's parents have finally snapped. You don't get to leave Dijana & the kids and use our home to trash our religion, too.
is there one line of prose or poetry that stopped you dead in your tracks and haunted your mind for days on end?
is there a line, a paragraph or a book that feeds your soul and there is no end to its craving?
share it with all of us.
I love Earnest Hemingway. If Shakespeare is an artist, Hemingway is a craftsman. A draughtsman with words.
This always touches me with its truth:
"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
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Re: Lloyds involvement with CSA & domestic abuse & Leah's video.
Whilst I accept we none of us are perfect and we all make mistakes, Lloyd refuses to listen to the feelings of his wife, CSA/DV & abuse victims and women in general. So in my opinion it's not so much what Lloyd has done, but rather that he utterly refuses to understand and accept the connection between CSA, domestic abuse, sexual coersion etc and the sex industry, particularly in Thailand and Eastern Europe.
I realise this was recorded in 2021 but am I right in thinking they've just released it? If Lloyd had asked them to put some kind of disclaimer at the beginning, I might have some respect for him. There might be some way back. But he didn't.
If there are some single guys out there, particularly who've just left the org, who think to themselves "well I've been to a massage parlour in my hometown, that could be me they're judging..."
No, it couldn't. YOU aren't an advocate for domestic abuse victims forced to remain married, who tried to force an open marriage on your wife. YOU aren't an advocate for CSA who visits sex workers in Thailand - over half of which are my minors or who began their "career" as minors. YOU haven't taken donations from CSA victims and used it to pay for potentially trafficked women. YOU haven't tried to bully, doxx, smear & litigate those who know you, who've tried to save you from yourself and call your behaviour out.....as you claim people should do to others.
http://theworldnewsmedia.org/charlotte+schroeder+%28may+9,1920+to+june+19,+2013%29.
and here's how judah looks as seen in a recent video - especially posted for those who knew judah over the years.
closet factory testimonial from judah schroeder.
His mother looks so happy in that photo. She knows she's won the golden ticket. Gets to be a female Bethelite, marry a GB member &, more than anything else, have a baby in Bethel when others are forbidden to.
But my how pretentious is Judah "Ben" Schroeder when you're not even Jewish, let alone Israeli.
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I notice when he posts photo's of his family, Dijana is missing.
Nicolaou So anyway, is there any movement on the legal front?
Kim S said she'd heard nothing. She's off on her hols in another 20+ days or so. She tweeted if she hasn't heard anything by then, she's never going to give the case, or Floyd Devon's, another thought again!
Quite right too!!!
the reason for my question is because one pimo has noticed that there are some pimis--particularly spimis--who have remarked that they "are not going to contact nor associate with the friends who are delinquent on zoom and/or at in-person kh meetings, conventions, and assemblies".
i've noticed this as well: a few ppimis and pimqs who were very close to me and my exdub family members are hearing from them less and less lately than before last year's rc and this year's rc.
so, is the above a thing nowadays?
I know. I saw a few DVIMIs making comments about very recent APOMOs in a very negative way. Even family members who are IPIMI are not exactly popular. I've often wondered if they know that PIMOs who give off subtle signals and they are so cued in to cult speak that it gives them away. Some people have a term for that, but I think NRSPIMIs is a step too far.
i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.
it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.
plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.
think Harris was making the point that, if abortion is such an evil in God's eyes, He is acting in direct opposition to that belief by making it happen naturally. If you're an atheist, the argument is meaningless, since the high rate of natural miscarriages is just an outcome of the evolutionary process.
This is a well crafted argument. Nothing I've read rebuts it very well.
That doesn't involve human intervention though.
I'm thinking the problem most people on the board seem to have with the American model is the refusal to accept that there is a point that happens, prior to birth, when the fetus becomes a 'person'.
Because 'Personhood' includes in its definition the capacity to suffer. Science has proven beyond 20 wks a baby can.
the new head-of-the-house max has a problem with how his new stepdaughter (olivia) looks and dresses.. on the friday afternoon part 2 convention video @ 18:10 max 1st brings it up with olivia while in the kitchen!
then fast forward to 26:50 thru 27:65 max bellyaches to new wife (olivia's mother) & it's handled!
message to all rank & file jws....no more fashion torn jeans & beach sandles: :) :) :).
Oh for heaven's sakes!!
I love well worn, soft 501s and I prefer cute patches to rips.
Think grandpa Walton!
Flip flops, a metal Tee and hair swept up in a pony....ah those were the days☺️They look fabulous....When you're a size 8 25 yr old lol. Sadly I'm a bit too old to get away with them out and about now!
