Vidiot

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  Toasting

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

  and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

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  Vidiot

  r51785 - “I think what we have been seeing is a walking back of the religion that Judge Rutherford created.”

  Or, at the very least, what Ted Jaracz turned it into.
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  Toasting

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

  and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

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  Vidiot

  hoser - “I think wind chimes are allowed now”

  Yeah, like piñatas, and (to a lesser degree, tattoos).

  Like I’ve said before, go back far enough and pretty much everything has “pagan”/“false religious” origins.

  Wedding rings…

  …baptism…

  …the days of the fucking week… 🤨
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  Toasting

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

  and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

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  Vidiot

  hoser - “After being ostracized for decades by not celebrating, all of the social and financial benefits they lost out on by being different than the crowd, they may become bitter towards the organization.”

  This.

  By that logic, field service checkboxes, beards, and toasting were beta-tests to see how the rank-and-file would respond to bigger things like birthdays…

  …and the constant, dialed-up-to-eleven rhetoric regarding the GB’s authority is intended to mitigate any of that bitterness, and compel members to stay the course.

  Or am I overthinking it?
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  Toasting

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

  and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

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  Vidiot

  

  Damn, that combover is epic.

  😏
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  Toasting

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

  and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

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  Vidiot

  Beards and neckties on guys, trousers on girls, and now toasting are optional, now…
  

  …witnessing is just parking it next to a cart, saying “hi” to randos, pointing to a website, and checking a box, now…

  …attendance is just Zooming in and tuning out, now.

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  I think I know what’s going on.

  The GB is “wisely and magnanimously” lifting all these “burdens” from the rank-and-file’s shoulders (whilst plastering their names and faces on everything)…

  …they want to be viewed as heroes to the rank and file.
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  Armageddon 50th Anniversary

  by apostrate in

  1. social
  2. humour

  well, it's been 50 years since armageddon occurred.. seems to me that things haven't really changed all that much.

  is it just me or does anyone else seem to think that things have actually got worse??

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  Vidiot

  budbayview - “…Why did Satan go rouge?”

  I know, right?

  Seems strange that the Prince of Darkness would need any kind of cosmetics, really.

  😏
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  Toasting

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.

  and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.

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  Vidiot

  Different for the sake of different.
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  Few JW leader have children

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it’s been discussed before that few jw leaders, past and present, have had children.

  this is in contrast with other groups, such as the mormons, whose leaders have had a lot of children.

  i wonder if this has impacted jw growth.

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  Vidiot

  It’s funny.

  They used criticize secular society about its supposed public promotion of sexuality, and the corrupting impact it would almost certainly have on young people…

  …yet at this point, “The World” arguably smacks you harder than the Org if you start publicly discussing sexual content that’s inappropriate for young people.

  😅
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  They are running out of people to do their stuff.

  by liam in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is the watchtower study article being studied today.

  so it’s the current new light!.

  what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.

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  hoser - “…Zoom killed the org.”

  It’s funny…

  ….it’s pretty obvious by now that the real reason they told folks to stay home and use Zoom was because their charity status would have been threatened otherwise (there were a few cases in the news where a church wouldn’t comply, and that’s exactly what happened).

  Since the Org’s business model needs its tax-exemption to stay in the black - i.e. its financial survival is dependent on it - they had no choice but to play ball…

  …but all the long-term effects of Zoom use - a genie they just can’t seem to cram back in the bottle - are slowly causing the same result.

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  Books that are taboo C.O not happy lord of the rings

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so the c.o and his wife came over for dinner and of course checked out our library and saw lord of the rings and told us off for spiritism books...it's just a damn fantasy book the bible has more magic and devils in it.

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  Vidiot

  What about the Kama Sutra? 😏