I’d’ve thought that, too, but Covid / Zoom made it so easy for so many to fade, I can’t help but think they’re having second thoughts about it.
Posts by Vidiot
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by Rattigan350 inhttps://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230915/kane-county-property-transfers-for-july-18-to-aug-11-2023.
$260,000; 11 n edgelawn drive, aurora il; sold on aug. 4, 2023, by watchtower bible & tract socie to hector p salmeron.
the wtbts owned this land.. google maps says this address is a cardiology institute.. .
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Chelmsford Dedication
by Teddnzo inzoe has nephew in the new bethel and we have been there to visit him.
even had a meal in the new dinning room and had a tour.. it was a bit underwhelming and the display of old bibles open to pages showing jehovah’s name is supposed to prove everything they say is spot on!.
everyone is talking about the upcoming dedication where members of the gb are flying over.
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Chelmsford Dedication
by Teddnzo inzoe has nephew in the new bethel and we have been there to visit him.
even had a meal in the new dinning room and had a tour.. it was a bit underwhelming and the display of old bibles open to pages showing jehovah’s name is supposed to prove everything they say is spot on!.
everyone is talking about the upcoming dedication where members of the gb are flying over.
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Vidiot
Pulling out all the stops…
…well, gotta spend money to make money, am I right?
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Two biggest issues for Watchtower right now
by Teddnzo inselena accused tony morris of being involved in child abuse and the pimo bethelite who just got kicked out.
let’s see how this rolls out.
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Vidiot
I am curious about how they would monitor XJW resources on the net without being “contaminated” by what they read.
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Two biggest issues for Watchtower right now
by Teddnzo inselena accused tony morris of being involved in child abuse and the pimo bethelite who just got kicked out.
let’s see how this rolls out.
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Vidiot
It implies/confirms financial worries.
God, it’s like the WTS is eating itself alive…
…alienating smart/educated people, constantly tightening and narrowing the rules, embarrassing themselves at every turn…
…every decision they make can’t help but have long-term negative consequences.
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JW.ORG Needs Lawyers
by Vanderhoven7 injehovah's witnesses are not encouraging university education... but those who are lawyers already can apply to volunteer to help at bethel.. https://youtu.be/5d_-1lbg-oc?si=fsxeewic-fkczu9p.
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Vidiot
I can’t help but wonder if word’s getting out that…
a) …the WTS has deep pockets and is really anxious to avoid trials, and…
b) …as clients go, they’re gettin’ kinda toxic.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
I don’t think EasyPrompt’s a troll.
It’s why I interacted with them.
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Is the USA gradually moving to a majority of citizens being non-religious
by Reasonfirst inthis is a topic discussed in a current article in the hongkong based asia times*.
find it at: https://asiatimes.com/2023/09/nones-still-no-match-for-us-christian-nationalism/.
the claim is made in the article, that near 30% of americans are non-believers, and that this number is increasing.
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Vidiot
Rivergang - “We are seeing once again the suggestion that only religious people know how to behave themselves.”
It stems from the old authoritarian idea that deep down, humanity is bad and needs to be kept on a short leash for its own damn good, and the only really effective short leash is a strict, inflexible religious environment.
Naturally, people raised that way are typically only able to see affirmation of this, when they and their immediate peers display “sinful” tendencies, and the fear of divine (or, more often than not, societal) retribution seems to be the only thing keeping them being even worse.
We all judge others (consciously or otherwise) based on our own example, because we can’t see into anyone else’s head.
Nobody wants to actually believe that they’re worse than the people around them, so the only other alternative for someone raised that way is to assume that everyone else is just as shitty as they are, if not more so (not to mention that, to a hammer, sooner or later everything starts to look like a nail).
Naturally, they come to the conclusion that people reject religion simply because they just want an excuse to be blatantly “sinful”, because if they didn’t, they’d become good churchgoin’ folk (duh).
Know how I know?
’Cause that was me.
Know how I figured out I was wrong?
’Cause the older I got (and particularly after my kids were born), I observed firsthand - unexpectedly and repeatedly - that the vast majority of people, including the nonreligious, were way more decent and “moral” than they’d ever been given credit for.
Regardless of where they spent their Sunday mornings.
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JW.ORG Needs Lawyers
by Vanderhoven7 injehovah's witnesses are not encouraging university education... but those who are lawyers already can apply to volunteer to help at bethel.. https://youtu.be/5d_-1lbg-oc?si=fsxeewic-fkczu9p.
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Vidiot
I’d heard second-hand that one “worldly” law firm the WTS had on retainer would just tell the Org what they wanted to hear, and bill them, whilst doing next to nothing for it.
Eventually Org reps figured it out and dropped ‘em.
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Were the life spans of the patriarchs just an allegory of astronomical cycles?
by was a new boy inlengths of life of the patriarchs.
genesis.
length of life.
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Vidiot
Re. EasyPrompt’s post on the previous page summarizing his conversation with me…
Whoops, he got me. Turns out I did facetiously suggest taking the whole Bible as allegorical.
Doesn’t make me a liar, though, just a hopelessly incurable smartass. The rest of my arguments were sincere.
I actually have no issues with the Bible; in fact I’m a big fan of fantasy, horror, and graphic violence (being a smartass again, can’t help it, sorry). 😁