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  Are You Concerned About Inflation?

  by Simon in

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  i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

  that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

  they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

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  hoser

  Modern monetary theory says that printing money doesn’t create inflation, scarcity of goods and services does. That is why new fiat currency into the economy has to be tied to the gdp somehow.

  That is why guaranteed income is Bad. The economy can’t give currency to people for producing nothing. This will create shortages and prices will skyrocket

  We have really only seen inflation since getting off the gold standard even though I don’t believe in it. I’m a believer in a well managed fiat economy with equitable lending policies as it gives poor people a chance to climb the ladder. Reasonable, managed inflation is good for the economy IMO.
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  JW Online University

  by Tim207 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a family member who is a remote bethelite and they are working on creating content for online "university" for bethelites to teach them skills that are needed at bethel.

  from what i've seen it is a lot of recorded content saved on their sharepoint sites.

  i haven't seen any information on this from this site or reddit which i'm more active on.

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  hoser

  Too bad they threw away all their old awake magazines. Reading them was equivalent to a degree
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  "New light": how and when did this idea start?

  by psyco in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how and when did the "understanding" of the progressive ("new light") understanding start?.

  anybody knows?.

  thanks!.

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  hoser

  Proverbs 4:18 is a CYA scripture they have used out of context for the last 140 years.
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  New Files You Might Want!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new files you might want.. .

  2021-04-english-s-147-announcements and reminders.

  2021-04-english-sfl-e-shepherd the flock of god manual2021-04-german-sfl-e-shepherd the flock of god manual2021-04-english-sfl-jwpub2021-04-german-sfl-jwpub2021-04-s-147-vtin zipped folder:https://filetransfer.io/data-package/m5efbbkc#link.

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  hoser

  In reference to the video by Elaine. I think she’s reading too much into it.
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  Threating to Sue

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the wt doing these days if someone das but threatens to sue if the elders make an announcement that leads to shunning?.

  i know the elders are supposed to notify the legal department, but what is the legal department telling them to do?.

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  Vidiot7 hours ago

  Whatever did Sue do to you???

  She gave me the runaround.
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  The Wwatchtower turning into a real laughing Stock

  by Overrated in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  over the years watchtower has turned into a real joke in the world scene.

  with the lawsuits, downsizing and decreasing numbers.

  what they use to be is gone and they will never recover the numbers they once had.

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  hoser

  I’d be curious to know the percentage of born in Jehovah’s witnesses and converts. By my observation born ins go through the motions to be part of the club. Converts are the real believers because they gave up everything(family, career old religion) and need to rationalize their sunk costs.

  Field service has been a joke for the last 20 years. Driving to the furthest territory, knocking on the door of an empty house to turn around and have a double double at brother Tim Hortons. But you can count 2 hours.

  They are in major decline because no one cares. It happened the same in the USSR. No one believed anymore, not even the leadership.
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  Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

  hope link works.

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  The bar has continuously been lowered for the last several decades. Pioneer hour requirements have gone from 100, 90, 70. Now there are no hour requirements for pioneers because of covid and average joe publishers can report as little as 15 minutes per month. I think vidiot is on the right track. The jws are running scared and need to keep the numbers of active publishers up.
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  The Holy Spirit made a mistake in selling off KHalls ?

  by Splash in

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  a couple of years ago the wt began their program of selling off dedicated kingdom halls and consolidating congregations into fewer halls.. had they kept these halls, more sparsely occupied as they were, they could by now be bringing everyone back while respecting the distancing laws.. jw’s love to find reasons how jehovah foresaw something and guided them, but it never works the other way when they make a decision that later on turns out to have been a bad idea..

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  3rd generation businesses fail at a rate of 90%. This is where the jws are at now. Most companies gave up on unprofitable door to door sales in the 1970’s but the jws continued until 2020. Businesses that rely on a bricks and mortar presence are also on the way out. The watchtower is so big and has such an ineffective bureaucracy that they can’t react fast enough to market signals. One of our elders is an HVAC tech and had to get permission from a committee to fix the broken furnace in the Kingdom Hall.

  Kodak

  Eatons

  Sears

  Blockbuster

  They along with the watchtower failed to adapt quickly enough to changing times
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  Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

  hope link works.

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  hoser

  Stopping door to door might work in their favour. Let’s face it. No one under the age of 50 really wanted to do it anyway. The zealous old timers are nearing the end of their lives. Reporting hours was a game of creative accounting and because of privacy laws it is now illegal to keep record of not at homes and return visits. The amount of hours of door to door to make a convert is staggering. It is an outdated sales tactic that is inefficient. Without door to door and in person meetings at the Kingdom Hall it is so much easier to be a jw. With a few tweaks on policies they can retain more of the born in witnesses and grow or at least maintain membership that way.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses are a breakaway

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  let me follow the trial.

  in 1931 rutherford started jehovah's witnesses.

  be before that.. bible student and they merged before 1917 with russelites and they merge with adventists, and then miller in 1844.before that be disperse into baptist and other denominations.

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  hoser

  The franchise business model is what led to the Jws success. Go to any McDonald’s restaurant in the world and the Big Mac is consistently the same hamburger. Go to any Kingdom Hall and the watchtower study is the same world wide.