usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.
this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.
for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.
Rivergang - “…It seems to be human nature to keep hankering after ‘the good old days’c while ignoring the fact that those old days’ were often not as good as people imagine them to have been…”
Oh, so this.
There’s no fucking way I’d even wanna go back and live in the 1980s or 90s.
breaking news....there is hope for good hearted non-jws!!!.
according to sergio:.
are jehovah's witnesses the only ones to be saved during the end time?.
Vanderhoven7 - “…the idea that all honest church goers and leaders will survive the GT and Armageddon means the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses is redundant and all their claims of association being critical to salvation are utter self-elevating nonsense…”
Yup.
It’s a more acceptable, mainstream idea… but that’s the primary difficulty with authentic mainstreaming on the part of the WTS…
…it effectively neuters all the things they’ve held up for decades as hard proof they alone had The Truth.
And once that’s gone…
… so is virtually any remaining incentive to stay.
https://youtu.be/vpws6ncqpla?si=dqnf7-hupfr4pdta.
for decades, jehovah’s witnesses have been banging on about babylon the great—the so-called world empire of false religion—being on the brink of collapse.
any day now, they assured us, churches would empty out, priests would be left twiddling their thumbs, and humanity would collectively bin organised religion.
Ray…
…are you describing First Contact, with a Biblical twist?
there are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.
some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.
7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.
Bribie - “…the contents are prepared with chicken embryo fluid, which has been inoculated with the living flu strains. It is then treated with formaldehyde ( embalming fluid ) to inactivate the virus. Then, mercury is added to preserve the chemical stew. But that is not enough - anti - freeze ( ethylene glycol ) and phenol are put in to disinfect, and even animal viruses are sometimes introduced, undetected. It also contains aluminium…”
Yeeeeeaaaaaaaah!!!
Gimmegimmegimme.
🤪
i was going to write a new topic but now i just can't be bothered ... and i'll tell you why.. on my facebook feed a few days ago, i saw an interview of a couple of onlyfans girls, who said that they were active christians that attended church weekly.
and while i was going to spend some time writing about the virtues of our faith's strict moral standards ... i now understand that i'd only be flamed as a watchtower apologist.. that being said, out of the approximately 4 million onlyfan girls out there ... it obvious, that none are jehovah's witnesses..
I was going to write a new topic…
…about how I just can’t be bothered writing a new topic.
😜
https://youtu.be/vpws6ncqpla?si=dqnf7-hupfr4pdta.
for decades, jehovah’s witnesses have been banging on about babylon the great—the so-called world empire of false religion—being on the brink of collapse.
any day now, they assured us, churches would empty out, priests would be left twiddling their thumbs, and humanity would collectively bin organised religion.
All hail the Neworldordereptiluminati!!!
locally, in northern california i have seen/heard a drop in jw and mainstream church attendance especially in person attendance.
(exception: a new creepy local new-age charismatic/pentecostal group: "bethel church" 11,000 and growing mega church(kundalini yoga/sex combined with prosperity gospel, trumpism, guns, rock music, dancing, glitter, speaking in tongues, and faith healing).. for me this paragraph sums it up regarding jehovah's witnesses: " ...smith described organized religion to me as having become a “polluted” idea in the american mainstream, because of the publicity around sex abuse scandals and financial malfeasance in many different faiths in the ’80s and ’90s as millennials came of age.
“the scandals violated most of the virtues believed to make religion good,” smith wrote.
careful - “…The one place it has been increasing is in the extreme right wing of evangelical Protestants, Trump supporters and all…”
Yeah, they finally (re)discovered a “version” of Christianity that lets them be assholes again.
😏
what's with the attack (counsel) on husbands with no corresponding article for wives on the jan 2025 w that is being studied today?.
is there a point to that?.
“I guess Watchtower has finally decided to address the spousal abuse problem among JWs.”
That’s a joke, right? 🤨
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1jb6nv6/jw_vs_norway_march_2025_from_jan_frode_nilsen/.
the verdict is out.
after full understanding and decision by the state administrator, full confirmation in the appeal case by the ministry of children and family affairs, three victories in the injunction case, a full victory in the district court, we now faced a loss in the court of appeal.
Interesting.
Apparently, the WTS is free to resume ostracizing former members, concealing sexual crimes, and condemning secular authority…
…all at the taxpayers’ expense.
🤨
By the way…
…there’s no such thing as “unlimited resources”.
If there were, the Org wouldn’t have given a rat’s ass about losing their state subsidies in the first place.
locally, in northern california i have seen/heard a drop in jw and mainstream church attendance especially in person attendance.
(exception: a new creepy local new-age charismatic/pentecostal group: "bethel church" 11,000 and growing mega church(kundalini yoga/sex combined with prosperity gospel, trumpism, guns, rock music, dancing, glitter, speaking in tongues, and faith healing).. for me this paragraph sums it up regarding jehovah's witnesses: " ...smith described organized religion to me as having become a “polluted” idea in the american mainstream, because of the publicity around sex abuse scandals and financial malfeasance in many different faiths in the ’80s and ’90s as millennials came of age.
“the scandals violated most of the virtues believed to make religion good,” smith wrote.
Interesting piece.
This bit in particular stood out to me…
”… Part of why we’re seeing a particularly virulent strain of Christian Nationalists fight for power in American society right now is because, deep down, they know that they’re losing the long game. But the irony that Smith points out is that the more religious Christians tightly embrace electoral politics, the more they will continue to repel many of those they seek to attract...”
