someone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
I googled it. Triannual. But you would think no. 1 would be out by now. There goes my college equivalent course. I will have to "read" a public WT from curiosity
It’s definitely cheaper than paying that expensive tuition for a fancy degree plus if you have a fireplace or an outhouse it’s a bonus.
at our clam meeting this past week there was a rather lengthy announcement asking for the donation of travel trailers.
needed to be at least 22 feet long and not older than a 2005 model year.
lots of other details were in the announcement about what was desired related condition of the trailer, etc.
They could just outright sell them and no one would bat an eye.
while we are talking about economic stimulus i thought i’d bring up the $15 minimum wage.
pros and cons?.
I think if there is a minimum wage it would have to be high enough to encourage participation in the work force. There is no point in paying stimulus or employment insurance that is higher than minimum wage. The economy needs to keep people working to function properly.
while we are talking about economic stimulus i thought i’d bring up the $15 minimum wage.
pros and cons?.
While we are talking about economic stimulus I thought I’d bring up the $15 minimum wage. Pros and cons?
do you think there will be another round of stimulus checks?
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Mickbobcat. You figured it. I’m feeling the sarcasm this morning.
do you think there will be another round of stimulus checks?
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The stock market and Bitcoin are still undervalued. The us needs more stimulus
non-jw women usually expect their man to have some type of social status.
whether it's education, money, fame, etc.. these days, feminism also plays a role in a future, marriage.
(the man is not the head, maybe the women is the head).
don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.
let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.
france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.
I’ll have to listen to that broadcast. Someone needs to splane to him that the United States won their independence from England 40 years BEFORE the battle of Waterloo.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9545969/amp/jehovahs-witnesses-criticised-failing-stop-devout-followers-plan-stab-wife-49-times.html .
elder should face some kind of criminal prosecution..
I was programmed this way to protect the org. I’m not proud of it now but was at the time.
Many have been hurt because of this kind of behaviour.
three of my sisters - there are five of us - were baptized as witnesses.
one of them has gone from reading voraciously to only reading her textbooks and watchtower publications.
this does not seem to be unusual among witnesses.
I think the watchtower religion is good for motivating the illiterate to learn to read. I know one brother who couldn’t read that is now a ministerial servant. He isn’t a good enough reader to give public talks but he would do the announcements when they did that. I think there are a lot of undiagnosed disabilities out there that cause illiteracy. I don’t discriminate against the intellectually disabled because no one chooses this. It is the way they are born. Kudos to brothers who make the effort to learn to read. Maybe it will help them exit the cult.
