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  It seems according to this doctor that there was always a cure for Covid 19

  by pistolpete in

  1. social
  2. current

  the media like cnn msnbc, nytimes, etc.

  have incentives to scare the public and encourage lock down--blame trump.. democrats also have incentives, to lock down the country—blame trump.

  there were incentives for hospitals to report every death as a covid death------30,000 us dollars funded from the government for every covid death reported by any hospital.

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  Vidiot

  I never wear a mask...

  ...my days as a crimefighting vigilante are long done.

  
  
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  Why don’t couples have to remarry when becoming JWs?

  by enigma1863 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you have to get baptized even if you were baptized in several other religions so why don’t they require you to remarry your spouse, especially if you were married as a mormon or muslim and had multiple wives.

  some countries legally allow polygamy so you couldn’t necessarily just go by the laws of the country right?

  these problems probably never come up though because i bet not many flds or muslims become jws.

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  Amazing what an ultraconservative authoritarian high-control group will require of its members, all in the interest of appearing more virtuous than anyone else.
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  If YOU Were In Charge of the COVID Virus Situation How Would You Handle Things At This Point?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as of october 2020, if you were governor or president how would you handle this pandemic?

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  minimus - "...How would you handle things at this point?"

  Like this, of course:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6zSmtxzwjM

  
  
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  Eddie is gone, 2020 has gone too far....

  by Justmemorph in

  1. social
  2. current

  the greatest guitar god of his generation (or any), edward lodewijk van halen, has passed away.

  his failing mortal body could no longer contain his divine level of shred.

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  Disfellowhipped for not wearing facemask?

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yup - person has done nothing wrong.

  but they have called a judicial and from what i can tell refusing to wear a facemask is bothering them more than the person not turning up.. so is this new light?

  if you have been called to a judical please remember to stay safe and wear your personal protective equimpment.

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  WTWizard - "It could simply be 'brazen conduct'..."

  The most useful DFing catch-all the WT Leadership has ever come up with.
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  Rolf Furuli Disfellowshipped Last Week

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well known norway elder and watchtower doctrine apologist, (rolf furuli) was disfellowshipped a few days ago for the crime of expressing opinions contrary to some watchtower dictates.. like wt leadership in the past, they have no problem eating their own..

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  slimboyfat - " I suspect, if they had maintained the traditional belief that the anointed class in general constitute the 'faithful slave', from the apostles until today, then it might not have become as attractive a target for criticism..."

  This.

  Word to the religiously wise...

  ...never let doctrine become dogma if there's a chance that evidence might disprove it.

  Of course, that would have required caution based on long-term thinking and planning on the part of the WT Leadership, and from what we've seen, that's not really their jam.

  
  
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  JW's and the National Anthem/Flag

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one thing we were always taught in the past is how we should sit down and pray (kneel) to jehoober whenever we were at an event where they played the national anthem.

  we had to actively disrespect the flag and anthem and be no part of the world, because we were our own country with jesus as king.. given kneeling/sitting for the national anthem is now the favorite pastime of the far-left and if you do so, you get associated with democrats, how do jehovah's witnesses now 'become no part of this world' when they have to disrespect the flag?.

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  Vidiot

  All moot, IMO.

  The real reason for defying displays of patriotism or nationalism was to visually stand out as contrarian and iconoclastic, and set up the rank-and-file as pious martyrs “suffering for righteousness’ sake”.
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  IICSA and NO apologies regarding child abuse

  by Fadeaway1962 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witness-child-abuse-sex-18717755 .

  no collective regret or any acknowledgement that child sexual abuse had happened among jws..

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  What Diogenesister said.

  At this point, the Org leadership doesn’t give a hairy blue fuck what “The World” thinks of them.

  Every decision now...

  ...every decision...

  ...is made with the overarching goal of reinforcing the fiction that the WTS is “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization”.

  ‘Cause without that, the Org is nothing.

  There’s zero incentive to be a member, and by their own rhetoric, they wouldn’t even have a legitimate right to exist.
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  Transparency in Field Service Hours

  by Earnest in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i notice that in the recent instructions for new regular pioneers (2020-08-s-236-e) it lists a number of assignments for which a pioneer can be credited (up to 75) hours in a month.. these include:construction oversight, assembly hall oversight, assembly oversight, and convention oversight, as well as serving as temporary volunteers at bethel, commuter bethelites, remote volunteers, bethel consultants, hospital liaison committee members, patient visitation group members, disaster relief committee members, local design/construction department field representatives and maintenance trainers, and so forth.

  approved assignments also include assisting with kingdom hall construction when such is done at the request of the branch office or its representatives overseeing the project, assisting with pre and post-assembly or convention work, assisting with work at assembly halls, conducting or participating in congregation meetings held in prison, as well as attendance at a theocratic school or class .

  when i was pioneering and doing pre and post-assembly work i was told i could include the time spent working in my monthly report, which i did.

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  All moot, IMO...

  ... the real reason for ministry record-keeping was to provide revenue services with detailed documentation of the D2D work, in order to still qualify for charitable-slash-tax-exempt status, without having to do actual, genuine charitable activities like soup kitchens or the like.
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  JW.org Focus on the Past - Have Always Wondered?

  by JWTom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just curious of others thoughts.....while watching the latest round of convention videos with my pimi wife it was highlighted again in the content how much the wt org.

  has always focused on the past (in my opinion).

  many of the historical events that are highlighted as significant are from 100+ years ago in some cases.

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  Vidiot

  IMO, the constant planning blunders the Org makes are specifically because the leadership are True Believers...

  ...they’re incapable of fully planning long-term because the Org’s core ideology simply doesn’t enable them to think that way.