what do jehovah’s witnesses do during election period in australia?
i learnt voting is compulsory in australia and those who choose not to vote are fined.
do jehovah’s witnesses pay such fines?.
shepherdless - "...compulsory voting means every politician has to try to appeal to a portion of the middle ground because under compulsory voting, a tactic of appealing to nut jobs and winding them up with fear/outrage etc, will never work."
This...
...makes a lot of sense, actually, 'cause despite how loud and obnoxious they are, they're almost always a minority.
Never gonna happen in the US, of course...
...wouldn't make for good reality TV.
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Simon, you seem...
...different.
Upbeat.
Cheerful, even.
You okay?
what is the harm or downside of being pimo?.
i get all the good things about being in the cong, good social life lots of invites to bbqs and meals out.
lots of interesting gossip 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
i was a twenty y/old when i converted to the jw religion and was a problem drinker and i was a chain smoker .when i was baptized at a circuit assembly a year later , my conversion and change in lifestyle was given as an example of the effectiveness of incidental witnessing to the audience.. so i can point to the 2 positives becoming a jw .. 1.i gave up smoking.
2.i gave up drinking for a while ,but because i still had association with my wife`s and my family who were not jw`s ,i learnt to control my social drinking when i started again.. and i have been a responsible drinker ever since ,even though i left the religion 29 years ago.. the negative points of being a jw in my 32 years of being one ?
are far too great to list here .. love to hear your thoughts..
Even a busted clock is right twice a day.
how many times did you see elders hounding congregation members to quit their jobs due to missing meetings?.
my brother worked at a grocery store at 16 years old.
he would miss tuesday's ministry school due to his work schedule.
Re. Hoser’s post…
… personally, I think it’s even more basic than that.
An education helps you realize that the WTS is, quite simply, wrong.
https://youtu.be/tbbxaasj6ki.
Going around jabbing people in the eye with a stick and then whining when you get a beatdown for it doesn’t make you “persecuted”…
…it just makes you an asshole.
lot going on.
i had a covid divorce last year over zoom.
not pretty but i got a good deal.. anyway,.
I took my elderly mom last weekend…
… there was a really big turnout.
do you remember some of the weird and wacky stuff emanating from the watchtower society?
let's make a list from memory that we can use to inject a little humor into our discussions with jehovah's witnesses.
- venus may be an enormous jurassic park.. - germs don't cause disease.. - no beards allowed.
Flood geology… Dinosaurs and humans were contemporaries… Basic fundagelical stuff.
Jehovah living in the Pleiades star system was one of the more original ones.
Saber-toothed tigers used their oversized fangs to crack coconuts (that one was specifically Fred Franz’s).
Smurphobia.
we had 2 fancy dress parties in our congregation...before the ban.
it was the best fun we ever had together.
problem was some came as pirates with swords!
I remember a couple back in my younger days.
One was “jungle”-themed… I went as Indiana Jones. The other was just to dress “tacky”. I wore a silly necktie.
A couple goofball guys cross-dressed for the second, and it got the more uptight older folks in a twist, but they turned out to be the life of the party.
The LDS is the WTS’s nicer but weirder older cousin.
