do you have any evidence that the gb had bad intent?
as opposed to blind faith/cognitive dissonance and honest mistakes.. i'm inclined to think they have the best of intentions and are just wrong (primarily because the bible is wrong), but i'm willing to consider the evidence otherwise..
A good rule of thumb to remember...
...every decision... every decision...
...is made with the ultimate goal of reinforcing the fiction that the WTS is "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization"...
...because by their own ideology and reasoning, if a religion is not "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization", its very existence is illegitimate...
...i.e. "false".
Without that underlying premise, there is virtually no significant incentive to even BE a Jehovah's Witness.
i really don't understand why states have to bid against each other for essential items such as medical supplies.
when you get into bidding wars, the consumers are the ones who lose.. put 50 people in an auction for a product and the one who wins is the manufacturer, not the ones purchasing.. my wife works for a multi-national corporation.
if she is importing or exporting goods, she doesn't determine what the costs will be; this is already determined through the corporate offices that negotiate worldwide movement of products.
In a lot of ways, the US was a nation created by businessmen, for businessmen...
...it's practically become an integral component of the country's DNA at this point.
Is it really any wonder, that virtually everything is conducted in a businesslike fashion, up to and including "bidding" for resources?
you gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.
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https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.
As far as I'm concerned, "sticking to the script" is just one more example of their transition to a full-on e-religion with canned talks, cycling login passwords, and a mandatory monthly membership renewal.
Which just makes the exodus that much easier, IMO.
i am sitting at home, trying not to barf as this wt paragraph by paragraph tries to character assassinate those who have the temerity to take the emblems.
the unwritten, unspoken subtext is that they, the gb, the now distinct and separate “slave” are above all this.
they, the gold standard are immune to this questioning.
Slidin Fast - "...trying not to barf as this WT paragraph by paragraph tries to character assassinate those who have the temerity to take the emblems...."
Ten bucks says they're priming the rank-and-file for the moment the shitshow gets too much, and the GB (and select "helpers") quietly bugger off to the Caymans...
...one else gets "raptured" because all the other partakers have been not-so-subtly smeared as posers and liars.
prudent decision even if the pandemic is over you are going to have people that.
lost jobs can't afford to go.
not allowed any vacation time rest of year.
JimmyYoung - "My feeling is they have so much bad press they know if they disobey they will get hammered."
Ditto.
Ten bucks says their lawyers have advised them that due to all the pedo-related shit going on, their tax-exempt status is too precarious to risk pissing off "Satan's World" any more than they already have.
Which, of course, begs the question...
...just how dependent on their tax-exemption IS the WTS?
do you have any evidence that the gb had bad intent?
as opposed to blind faith/cognitive dissonance and honest mistakes.. i'm inclined to think they have the best of intentions and are just wrong (primarily because the bible is wrong), but i'm willing to consider the evidence otherwise..
They're not mustache-twirling supervillains...
...but they're definitely not squeaky-clean, either.
i'm only quoting the org's force-fed "food at the proper time" which friends and family had to swallow!.
it-2 p. 1027 spiritism - "and in the christian greek scriptures the statement is made that those who practice spiritism “will not inherit god’s kingdom.” (gal.
5:20, 21; rev.
They know it's wrong...
...but believe it's true...
...at the same time.
it lasts for 45 minutes, but the first 11 minutes are more than enough to see that something is not quite right regarding the media's information about covid 19. the video has english subtitles.
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https://www.davidicke.com/article/566782/billy-six-deckt-corona-schauspiel-auf.
@ mrquik...
Didn't you know?
Everything is a Sign of the End.
Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff.
all this gt,end of times, corona, etc has got me thinking that something i read some time back may perhaps seem true abotu repetition.. james clear wrote an article about:why facts dont chnage our minds.
"silence is death for any idea.
an idea that is never spoken or written down dies with the person who conceived it.
pbrow - "...JWs are fed the same lies, idiosyncracies and bs repeatedly."
Amazing just how often the conditioning needs regular booster shots, isn't it?
what will the world be like once this pandemic is over?
the world has been through this before, in the form of the bubonic plague and it left changes to life still felt today, especially in regards to the economic system.
so many people dying meant a smaller working class that meant their skills and labour was suddenly more valuable which in turn raised wages.
