we got the inevitable letter today.. meet, associate and "encourage" in person unless sick or infirm.
also dress up for zoom if you must use it.
locally over half are on zoom, 3/4 no picture.
I suspect that the real facts are that the GB Heavies (pun intended) are aware that Zoom meetings have made it possible for "faders" to gradually fade. No one is really able to take that attendance count of their "service group" and see who is constantly AWOL.
IF you don't start showing up in person, you will be on their radar.
my book was removed from kindle on amazon books for over a year.
i wondered who had the power to do that?
anyway it is back up after paying thousands of dollars in extra fees.
I read it when it first became available.
Great reading. In fact I read it in one or two days.
Don't think a "never-have-been-a-JW" would get much out of it, but any JW would for sure.
Doc
in the us, our mega millions lottery jackpot has reached over 1billion dollars!
what would you do if you won?
i think i’d run public service announcements on television, alerting people of the dangers of the wt cult, among other things.
I'm not sure it would be enough to care for all the friends that I'd have once the news hit that I'd won.
hello my name is deeno and i’m so happy to have found a place like this, hopefully i can make some friends here :3. anyways idk if my profile updated but a little about me i’m 16 but my 17th bday is on the 29th aaaand i was disfellowshipped sometime in september or october 2021. as i’m a minor i’m still in my dads home and so i am forced to go to meetings and convention n shit so that’s fun but hey could be worse lol.
but yeah that’s it as far as that goes, oh and i suppose i should mention my pronouns are he/they.
that should do it for now, thanks for reading if you made it this far n have a good day/night :3!
You're at the age where you should have some plans for your future. Getting free from WT isn't enough. You have to have a plan because at some point Mom & Dad aren't going to want to continue to support you.
Good luck!
so did anyone else have the misfortune of listening to sanderson’s talk corresponding to the saturday morning convention program?.
full title is “young people - choose a path that leads to peace!”.
the basic idea is, hey you teenagers, you ought to be pioneers, wt construction workers, and/or bethelites.. i tried to put myself back in time an embarrassing number of decades…if i were in this talk’s target audience, how would i respond?.
Better to keep 'em down on the farm than send 'em to school where they might learn something.
when is the kingdom of god coming?.
on being asked by the pharisees when the kingdom of god was coming, he answered them: “the kingdom of god is not coming with paratherisis; 21 nor will people say, ‘see here!’ or, ‘there!’ for look!
the kingdom of god is in your midst.” —lu 17:20,21. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-c6yshtkqu.
To what branches was this direction given?
The latter part talks about privacy information. That is not an issue in the US.
original reddit post (removed).
At least he got a JW haircut. Guess he figures he needs that clean-cut appearance again.
more accurately known as a reversal of a long held 'truth.'.
september 2022 study watchtower - par.
14 p. 18 - "in the past, we understood jesus’ words to refer to the deeds the resurrected ones will practice after their resurrection; that is, some will come to life and practice good things while others will come to life and practice vile things.
ALL KINDS OF NEW LIGHT!
I can recall when I thought it was sooo exciting!
Now all I can do is YAWN............
interesting remark i overheard today.
the physical attendance for the sunday meeting, in my local area, was 10. i tried to find out those on zoom.
i was told that the zoom attendees wasn’t mentioned.
I think a lot of people are using the " safety " as an excuse to not attend in person. I think more than a few have made a run for it over the last two years.
We have a family member doing this very thing. Refusing to attend in person meeting by claiming to be afraid of putting elderly JWs at risk because they work in healthcare. And yes, they have become another one of those MIA JWs who only remains "in" because of their zealous PIMI spouse.
