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  Masks Are Coming Off

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  a number of states are allowing people to not wear a mask.

  some think this is disastrous!

  what’s your view?.

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  Rocketman12316 hours ago

  We have governments to thank for protecting their populations, as well financing and distributing the vaccines which is going to put their populations back to a state of normalcy.

  Is it valid to be overly critical and disrespectful for these people's objectives and endeavors ?

  Governments to thank???

  Who exactly do you think is going to pay for this mess? You and I. Where I live the response was bungled from day one. But what do you expect when our health minister is a graphic designer and our prime minister is a substitute teacher living off his wealthy families trust fund.
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  Ban on Independent Meetings

  by lssjr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  source - march 2021 announcements - - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5085868283920384/2021-march-147-english-german-announcements-reminders.

  this is a sobering reminder of what happened some 40 years ago when raymond franz and others were literally kicked out from the jehovah's witnesses for having pre-arranged private spiritual discussions.lesson: paragraph 7 is another example of the i and t in dr. steven hassan's bite model of the 21st century cult - information and thought control at its best!!!!

  "my gosh, there must be a lot of independent meetings these days.

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  They don’t want anyone to develop a thinking problem.
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  Masks Are Coming Off

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a number of states are allowing people to not wear a mask.

  some think this is disastrous!

  what’s your view?.

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  hoser

  There will be herd immunity soon. Multiply the confirmed covid cases by 6(low) to 20(high) and you get the true number of infections. Vaccine uptake is steady. Covid will end soon and CNN will have to find some other disaster to sell to the gullible public.
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  Why Do Jehovah's Witnesses Dress Up For Meetings?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  library.

  books & brochures.

  who are doing jehovah’s will today?.

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  It’s a uniform. If you see someone dressed like a police officer chances are it’s the police. See 2 people at your door wearing suits “ mom, the Jehovahs are here.”
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  Is there a renewed iemphasis on the "go bag" in the past mont or so?

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my soon to be ex moved out over a year ago.

  he left most of his things here ( i guess he thinks of my house as his personal storage unit).

  one thing he left was his survival backpack, i assume his "go bag".

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  Being prepared for an emergency is not necessarily a bad thing. Mrs Hoser and I are(we think) prepared for an emergency. Just look at what happened in Texas last week.

  The problem with the jw go bag is it is too Jim Jonesy. A while back we got an unexpected text on a Saturday morning to meet in the Kingdom Hall parking lot in one hour with our go bags. Most in the congregation complied. A little too culty for us.

  The jws are confusing disaster preparedness with the great tribulation. Weather and other events happen from time to time and we all should have a plan.
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  A Generation Change Again???

  by BereanThinker7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.

  does anybody have on info on this?.

  i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .

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  They might just drop 1914. Say we miscalculated and were off by a hundred years. Then they could go back to those that saw 2014 are the generation. The problem with that is it puts the end too far away. 1975 would be a better time to say the last days began.
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  The JW cult creates pessimistic personalities in all the PIMI congregants is my opinion

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am not saying all jw congregants are pessimistic, but i would go as far to say all pimi jw congregants are pessimistic.. why do i say this, my wife is my measuring stick.

  she has barely an optimistic bone in her being.

  she will only focus on the bad parts of anything.

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  It’s all salesmanship. The new car dealer needs to convince you that your old one is unreliable in order to sell you a new one. Then he has to sell you on the idea that the one you just bought might break down in order to sell you extended warranty.

  Jws convince each other that the world is so bad and can’t be fixed so why invest more in it than you have to. They sell you on the idea of a “new” system. If you run out of time and die the resurrection is the extended warranty that you probably won’t be allowed to collect because of the fine print in the contract.

  The organization needs pessimism to stay in business.
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  “Do not gaze about!”

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so many changes in the 2013 nwt seem needless and spoil familiar phrases.

  take isaiah 41:10 in the nwt classic rendering:.

  do not be afraid, for i am with you.

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  Micah 6:8 and Malachi 3:10 were purposely translated in 2013 with a slant to promote more servitude to the governing body and set the stage for taking more of your money.
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

  1. social
  2. current

  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  Don’t let the door hit your a$$ on the way out google.
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  What is the JW view on the vaccine rollout?

  by MebyonKernow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  out of morbid curiosity...what is the jehovah's witnesses current view about the vaccine rollout?is the watchtower society advocating the position to take the covid vaccine?

  is it a personal 'conscience' matter?

  how many jws are refusing the vaccine does anyone know?

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  hoser

  Blood fractions? They must think the average jw doesn’t have the smarts to figure out how an mRNA vaccine is manufactured.