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Anony Mous
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5 German Watchtower Letters Arrived!
by Atlantis in2020 march 10, letter.
https://docdro.id/chspeam.
2020 march 10, letter.
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Italian--2020--March 4th--Letter--Coronavirus!
by Atlantis in2020 march 4, letter italian.
https://docdro.id/coljmy1.
petra!.
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Anony Mous
They seem to be basing it around local state recommendations, which is different between the EU states. It seems they continue wanting to maximize the meetings and preaching work, but it seems there is a ton of conflict in the branches about which is the best approach. This letter just screams: our committees can't agree, the older ones want to continue pushing on, we didn't cancel during WWII, and the younger ones just want to cancel everything.
I think the EU Federal Government should come with a harsh recommendation, unlike Trump, their bureaucrats aren't too keen on giving advise and leading their country, causing a huge difference in local government reactions between their states and given the open borders between states, this is going to cause a ton more casualties than necessary.
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5 German Watchtower Letters Arrived!
by Atlantis in2020 march 10, letter.
https://docdro.id/chspeam.
2020 march 10, letter.
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Anony Mous
I can read both languages, it's basically the same things they sent to the UK earlier this week - first they wanted more hygienic symbol passing, then they simply cancelled memorials, meetings and door-to-door work. They basically said not to spread any more invitations to the memorial in public and assemble in small groups, not to have any traveling Uber-elders between the groups etc.
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Why the change?
by Fadeaway1962 inpossible cancelling the memorial after years of experiences of bro/sis under nazi , communist oppression and many other countries still conducting the memorial under threat of death that the governing body is listening to the superior authorities regarding this virus pandemic.. could it be that after taking control of the k/halls that the branch/governing body would be responsible for any disobedience to the civil authorities and liable for any deaths.. they would have left upto the local body of elders and encouraged obedience to god rather than men and a lack of faith in jehovah to protect his people..
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Anony Mous
I was thinking the same thing. They are definitely aware of the PR if they continued going from door to door and having huge meetings when the rest of the world is basically cancelling everything.
The organization has changed over the last decade, they are trying to be more mainstream, hip and modern evangelicals.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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Anony Mous
I work at a hospital (IT leadership). We are anticipating cases to peak in ~2 weeks with mass panic setting in our community soon. We're locking down the place as of this weekend, we got officially 1 case, but more cases have been confirmed but aren't yet published. Our hospital system has sufficient supplies for ~3 months.
All nearby Universities are going online, school systems cancelled all events but guidance from the State is to continue public schools but prepare packets of work. They want to perform closures and extend schools past June, but there are regulations (bureaucracy) that require them to be open, the state has to change the law.
DHS is warning that China may reduce or block shipments of medical supplies (which is pretty much everything) in the near future and they are trying to spin up American production facilities which will take months. Supply lines are already interrupted, Dell-EMC, HP, Lenovo are heavily affected for spare parts, Dell (consumer line) not yet although there is a backorder for thousands of laptops.
I was aware of the rush to supplies this week, so we went shopping for 2 months of supplies 2 weeks ago, stocked an extra freezer with half a cow worth of meat and frozen veggies. Store shelves here have been empty this week, not even cans of soup.
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3 More Letters Dated March 13th, From the UK on Coronavirus!
by Atlantis in3 more letters dated march 13th, from the uk.
there are different mailing addresses at the top.. 2020-03-13https://docdro.id/pxmmef72020-03-13https://docdro.id/adfw87y2020-03-13https://docdro.id/u2tov1ppetra!https://docdro.id/qqtzami
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Anony Mous
No more preaching, no more meetings, how many dubbers will be left after a taste of freedom?
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Greta Thunberg, Worse than Plague
by Simon inso greta thunberg thinks the world pollutes too much.
specifically, the parts of the world that pollute the least and have the cleanest industries.
she doesn't seem to care about india or china who are the biggest polluters by far.. "how dare they".
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Anony Mous
No way you are having full energy capacity from your home solar panels in WNY. I heat with electric because we have cheap energy (nuclear and hydropower) and we consume about 5000kWh/month ($200-300). That'd take ~200-300 solar panels or about $300k installed to generate during winter. My roof has room for 10, maybe 15 panels.
So we need about 20x the space around my house clear cut of trees and shrubs just to provide energy for my house and the density for wind isn't much different. I do have a heat exchanger so I'm as efficient as can be but for geothermal; I'd once again need a space the size of my backyard to bury the mechanism.
I haven't driven to work yet (you want me to have an electric car) I haven't spent time in the office, I haven't produced anything useful. When just living takes up 10-20x the space currently reserved for every human we will run out of space very fast.
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NWT released in modern Hebrew
by Wonderment inon february 21, 2020, the wt society made the announcement in their website of the release of the new world translation in modern hebrew (hebrew scriptures - "tanakh") in haifa, israel.
now, the complete nwt is available in modern hebrew.. some time ago, a poster here said that releasing (in theory, i.e.
) the hebrew bible in a modern version, such as the nwt, would be irrational.
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Anony Mous
People (primarily Orthodox Jews) that want to read the Tanakh do so in the original Hebrew language. The fact that the "average reader could not understand large parts of the Tanakh" is not because of old Hebrew but by religious design, Orthodox Jews use the Talmud for explanations of the Hebrew scripture because the God of the Bible and his actions in itself do not make a whole lot of sense. The Talmud is basically an apologetical commentary on the OT.
They could've just as well said, "The average reader of the Bible cannot understand large parts of the Bible" because that is also true, but they don't need JW to 'help' them with the understanding of the Bible by changing the meaning of scripture through their oversimplified English translations.
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Any of you JW super linguists learn to speak Japanese? If so, how’d it go? ;)
by Diogenesister inhi i’ve been learning to draw portraits, and one style i had a go at when drawing young children was a sort of kawaii or cute japanese style.
i wanted to make gifts of these drawings so looked into writing in japanese script to add to the aesthetic.. but oh wow!!
three types of script?!!
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Anony Mous
I've been to the language classes for Russian. The JW's don't teach you to speak any language, they teach you the words to say to place the rags and lead a study.
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Why do Americans have to pay so much for College???
by RubaDub ini know there is a huge college/university lobby here in the us that lives off of students paying, in some cases, enormous amounts of money just to attend.. putting politics aside, if that is possible, (and i am not a bernie sanders guy by any means), but how can we pay for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, high school, and then throw a huge debt to someone who wants to continue learning?
can't the us (public and state universities) afford four more years for young people to get on a career path without having to, in some cases, take out a mortgage/loan more than the cost of some homes?
then, (and nothing against immigrants, i am married to one), but then the us has to "import" students from other countries to fill the needs that we should be supplying here.
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Anony Mous
The reason college is expensive in the US for some is because the government pays for large portions of the population to go there. 85-90% of college students have some form of assistance which means they pay very little to nothing out of pocket. Only if you make significant income (>$250k), do your children not qualify for government assistance.
And for those in Europe and other places where we get 'free college' - full tuition out-of-pocket including room and board averages ~$50k/year at a government-backed guaranteed ~2% interest rates loan you're not obligated to pay back until 1 year after you finish college. And that's "high", $200k in debt to (if you choose well such as a STEM field), you typically can get a job starting between $50-100k with <18% effective income taxes. A few years later you should be making $100-250k/year. You should be able to pay back the loans with the tax savings alone vs your average European country.
Off course, when the government gives free money, there is no limit to the cost because the government will always pay more, they'll just take it out of your taxes, so the tuition goes up. And with free money, people don't make good choices either, you can get a degree in just about anything for free and as long as you take one class, you don't have to pay back any debts either. So people get degrees in the liberal arts, rack up debts and don't have to be responsible, until they need to get a job and they realize the degree in lesbian dance theory does nothing for them, so now they're demanding the government forgive their debt and give them MORE free stuff and guarantee a job?
I would suggest that public school for K-12 is not very useful either. The better option is to have school choice, vouchers for those that don't have the income to pay for private schools and reduce or eliminate the system of school taxes. In my area we pay upwards of $1B/year into the school system or ~$35k/student and we get dilapidated buildings, class sizes of ~20-30 and the school system has ~$500M in debt. You can pay a private tutor handsomely including supplies for every 4 children with that money.
American college, as European college is still very cheap. Even at those 'exorbitant' tuition rates, the government also pays ~50% of operating costs for any privately owned University through research grants and other funding. So your college should really cost twice as much as it does today, or without government assistance, it would probably cost about as much as it does now, just with less administrative overhead.