Mask suck...
...I have to try and guess if the women I encounter are hot enough to bother talking to.
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.
Mask suck...
...I have to try and guess if the women I encounter are hot enough to bother talking to.
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.
I hate masks and social distancing...
...I really miss seeing how ugly people actually are and being able to get all up in their face to mock them about it.
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.
I never wear a mask...
...my days as a crimefighting vigilante are long done.
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.
Amazing what an ultraconservative authoritarian high-control group will require of its members, all in the interest of appearing more virtuous than anyone else.
as of october 2020, if you were governor or president how would you handle this pandemic?
?.
minimus - "...How would you handle things at this point?"
Like this, of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6zSmtxzwjM
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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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.
WTWizard - "It could simply be 'brazen conduct'..."
The most useful DFing catch-all the WT Leadership has ever come up with.
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..
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.
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?.
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”.
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..
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.