One big weakness. You direct people to the internet, what will they find? Or are there stern warnings to the effect that the internet is only there for WT accredited material?
Slidin Fast
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New JW study book / method announced on JW Broadcast
by Funky inso did anyone catch the january jw broadcast?.
it's the "spiritual content" of what would have been introduced in the october annual meeting, had the october annual meeting taken place.. morris, splane, and jackson introduce a new jw study publication: "live forever eternally - an interactive guide".. details were sparse, but apparently it is a 256 page book (when in actual printed form), primarily designed to be used in its electronic form, stuffed with links to videos.. it is designed to be "just one book" to be studied prior to baptism, where "all 60 questions that baptism candidates have to know" are found in just one place.. the purported reason is to make jw "bible" studies more "productive", i.e., lead to more baptisms.. splane brought out the governing body's "great concern" that 10 million+ "bible" studies are conducted by jws every year, but the number of baptisms has been stuck at 200,000 - 300,000 per year for decades.
so the thinking is, this new book + a "new method of conducting studies" (again, no real detail, but apparently it involves more "discussion" and less "question and answer").. want to know my thoughts?
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Thoughts on Zoom
by waton inthe wt sponsored zoom meetings reduce individual freedom, spirituality.
the wt sponsored zoom meetings enables ego maniacs, narcissists to have their influence beamed right into your living room.
conversations that were private, personal are now broadcast, forced on all participants.
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Slidin Fast
A majority in our hall have the video off and their mic muted. It certainly is intrusive and much hated I believe. When tit was a novelty, there were many inane and excited greetings to every on who appeared. it was just awful. Now, nobody appears until the last minute, those who arrive early just sit in bored silence.
I think, if and when this is all over, it will not be missed by anyone, God's miraculous provision or not.
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Simon's Living Room!----10 Documents You Might Want!
by Atlantis inthese have already gone out by email.. when we come here, we are coming into simon's living room and need to protect all of his belongings.
this includes protecting the security here.. as many of you know, the watchtower has made a lawsuit over a song that they feel was wrongly used.
so, friends, the watchtower is still out there sending subpoenas and filing lawsuits.we have a few things you might want, so just reply below and i'll send you a pm.the norwegian letters are translated on page 2 of the pdf.instructions for russia prison letter writing2020-11-10--norwegian-english-campaign2020-12-09--direction related to covid-192020-12-15--norwegian-english2020-12-16--announcement december 16, 20202020-12-17--announcement2020-12-18--announcement2020-12-19--covid-19 vaccine announcement2020-12-21--kingdom hall internet service during the pandemic2020-12--bethel visitors lodging and car rental listatlantis!
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Slidin Fast
As they say to the NHS in the UK, firefighters and all who take great risks for the common good, "thank you for your service".
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Maths Virus 1914
by Anna Marina inthis is my latest video.
it is part 1 of a series that reveals the mathematical trickery watchtower uses to con people about the 1914 doctrine.
it takes a radically different approach to that of carl olof jonsson who dealt with dates.. this video focusses on how watchtower misuses the numbers in scriptures and creates a mental fog that prevents people from understanding and therefore prevents them from challenging.. the full title of the video is maths virus - revealing the antivirus to 1914. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llkmrul3afg.
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The three categories of reality
by HowTheBibleWasCreated inbefore i start out let me tell everyone i'm an atheist and have been since i first started seeing the bible was not the word of god.
if someone asked my religion today i would likely answer daoist which teaches balance and non-action of events or to put in modern language 'go with the flow man'.
that being said i have over the last decade started catering certain beliefs and facts into three sections.. 1. the known.
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Slidin Fast
Or as Donald Rumsfeld said:
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.[1]
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Meeting Workbook - I am your inheritance - April 5-11
by JWTom insimilar to the bethelites being dismissed topic for march/april 2020 is the article for april 5-11 related to the idea "if you just do what jw.org says....then someone is going to slide cash under your door and it will all be good related to your future finances" (link below).. i know current jws that believe this and have pimi family that believe this.
they believe these even though they have endlessly challenging finances even struggling to pay bills.
the reality is that anyone struggling financially as a jw is going to be in a state of poverty just trying to survive.
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Slidin Fast
Just be aware, the last entity actually doing the sliding is the one making the claim. They are big on promises of help and offering help but somehow it's never them that get their hands in their pocket.
The deeper into the org you are, the more the magical support benefits you.
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Anybody Here That Still Wouldn’t Take or Give Blood?
by minimus ini would think that the first thing to go for ex jws is the blood ban.
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would you take a transfusion or give blood now!.
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Slidin Fast
Please don't spread unsubstantiated claptrap.
Which is more than can be said about the coronavirus vaccine. I simply will not take that, since it would ruin my DNA forever, cause serious and permanent pain and suffering, and the benefits would be almost none.
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I'm back
by Gma-return ini haven't been around for a couple of years.
life got complicated but i'm still an ex-jw i lost my husband 2 years ago from cancer.
ill add more sometime.
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Slidin Fast
Hey GMA, welcome back. I hope life is getting better for you. Life is tough but being an ex Jw is a much better state to be in than a current one. At least you can look the future in the eye without stupid illusions.
You are going to get some lovely, genuine support here.
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Why is the Watchtower "soft" on China?
by Sad-u-see inlet's see, wt is "banned" in china.
the wt preaches that reaching everyone on the planet is so important, yet they barely have a footprint in china.
if saving lives was so important, why do they not aggressively proselytize in china?
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Slidin Fast
As I understand it, the "work" does go on in China but deep under cover. I have met people involved and they are absolutely tight lipped about what goes on. They don't say a word. I seem to remember a young woman that saw the light and went very publicly "apostate" (hate that word) maybe some one can fill in that space.
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European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) dismissed numerous JW tax cases against Armenia
by Corney inby three decisions handed down over the last year, the strasbourg court has declared 12 complaints, all named "christian religious organization of jehovah's witnesses against armenia", inadmissible.
the cases concerned imposition of value-added tax (vat) on imported literature - on 67 shipments received between 2007 and 2015, to be exact.
in short, the organization claimed that, first, the shipments should be tax-free pursuant to article 12 of the freedom of conscience act ("monetary and other gifts received by religious organisations, as well as income received from citizens shall not be subject to taxation"); secondly, the customs authorities arbitrarily determined the customs value of the imports based on, for example, the prices the bible society of armenia (affiliated with the dominant armenian apostolic church) sold imported religious literature.. up until march 2007, there were constant problems receiving regular shipments of religious literature, which should be tax-free but which customs arbitrarily reassessed at unpredictable higher values and then imposed a value-added tax of 20 percent.
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Slidin Fast
If it hurts $$$ jump on it. In fact WT contributes nothing to any public funds anywhere in the world unless they are dragged kicking and screaming. I have no sympathy other than the costs being passed on to innocent R&F members.