this is not a political post regarding the vax jab, (let's not go there) but i personally know many who were disturbed by the gb pushing it in the update #7. .
it is odd as they never really get involved and always do the stupid "conscious" thing whenever they don't want to take responsibility.. then i saw this article - https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/03/898753550/religious-groups-received-6-10-billion-in-covid-19-relief-funds-hope-for-more?t=1632597803079&fbclid=iwar0ly8k1fb3cdgknmmxs9aruz-wtex6sir9_uz2uxofkae4iyk7sm5r1ndu&t=1632598929611.
there is a report with itemized churches and the amounts they were given.
It's noted that the author cherrypicked only evangelical ministries and churches. It did not select for corporations that churches like JW's may use.
You can find a more complete list here: http://ppprecipients.com/
I don't know what the WTBTS could have one of their subsidiaries incorporated under, there are a lot of secretive organizations under WTBTS for these purposes.
it seems like the moment someone attains some type of power, whether it's money, political power, or religious power, their first agenda is ---to control others.. bill gates is a good example of this.
another is george soros and michael bloomberg.
and let's not forget all the politician and religious leaders like the governing body.
@jwundubbed: it’s called a matriarchy. And it has been tried from Africa to China to Native Americans and European aristocracy. It never lasts, because women by and large aren’t interested in conquests and rule. It’s simple biology, women have at most from 15-45 to reproduce, but typically between 21 and 30 is the safest period to attract a mate and reproduce, less than 1/3-1/10th of an average human lifespan.
Men can reproduce from puberty until they die, so the biological pressures aren’t the same. Then there is the fact that human babies are helpless for ~10-15 years. That cuts out the prime period of human life, the primary periods of life where you are smart and powerful enough to actually conquer and rule for females and dedicates it to reproduction. And you can choose as a female to not reproduce and instead rule, but that leaves no room for an heir, so within 1-3 generations, this ends.
back in the late 80s i can remember my local cong.
pass around a paper that had a place for head of house hold name and how much they can afford to give every month for one year.
but i remember the elders said they needed to know what they can bank on to know what they can afford to borrow to remodel ect.
I saw those things several times. Generally they were anonymous though. The last time was when I was PIMO, I put in a slip for $100,000. The renovation was never completed, most elderly in that congregation were extremely poor and already had “resolved” to give $100/family monthly to pay off previous “debts” for renovations with the branch.
at the moment there does not seem to be any place to flee to from covid mandates and restrictions.
we are stuck like the first century christians in jerusalem.
but jesus said when the disgusting thing would stand in the holy place, it was time to swiftly flee to the mountains.. will jehovah god open a path to security where we can be in safety?
Wouldn’t surprise me that Australia has some violent uprisings, someone has to stand up against these fascists.
Where to flee: the US states of Florida and Texas seems to be the most free.
china's economy is wobbling as one of its largest companies, evergrande, is teetering on bankruptcy.. there's a good chance it's collapse will have a knock-on effect on other markets.. so more to thank them for than just the covid virus.. no one should have any dealing with china..
China’s problems are entirely its own making.
They had massive inflation over the last 20-30 years, so people didn’t trust their own currency, as a result China started massive infrastructure projects, buying up massive debt from the US and EU and basically started issuing US/EU IOU’s as payment.
The market responded abroad by moving industry there, because, free infrastructure, people in China noticed and started buying real property instead of saving money because a house is always worth the new valuta if money in the bank is not worth anything.
But there are too many Chinese so the government, being in control of the economy, had to build more than the government could afford to build in places they had already built infrastructure for the too many companies they had attracted with too much free infrastructure, so many cities basically got into an infinite loop of companies building more stuff requiring more complex infrastructure in unsustainable locations.
This is only compounded by the facts of history like the one child policy that there aren’t sufficient people being born to continue the economy. There is also the facts they had to divert massive water and energy sources from interior in China to the coast cities (they built everything on the coast, because access to international shipping). This redirection is hugely damaging and the majority of Chinese cities are now facing water and energy shortages.
So now we are at a point in time where it is unlikely all those US and EU debt IOUs will be worth anything. But everyone in the infrastructure/real estate market has been paid with those IOUs.
The other thing people started investing in, especially in China was Bitcoin, because if government fiat money isn’t worth anything, a real money (like gold and Bitcoin) is. Hence the government crackdown over there, because they see more money being circulated in real money than their fiat money. It’s the same reason the US has made gold illegal from being used as a payment, because if nobody trusts the government money, they will be broke.
https://www.castanet.net/news/vernon/346544/judge-orders-stay-of-jehovah-s-witnesses-constitutional-claim-on-privacy-of-records.
I don't necessarily agree with this verdict, placing the decisions in the hand of unelected bureaucrats is not what a court should do.
The privacy law enforcement is upside down of course, but I think you should have your right to have any 'official' records expunged from private entities.
hi all.. read this article re the gilgamesh clay tablet.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-21/us-returns-gilgamesh-tablet-to-iraq/100478858.
how does it impact the dating of the biblical flood?
it seems earlier.. i am going to do some research myself to make a comparison.. it's interesting as i have not previously heard of the tablet but have heard of the.
Flood myths have been around as long as humans have been around, there are cave paintings depicting waters drowning large amounts of animals and people, all the way back to pre-humans and you can find similar stories as well amongst Native Americans, Aboriginals in Australia and other groups across the world. Given the split between some of those groups happened well before the Bible started to be written (~500-1500BCE) it is likely flood myths had passed through folklore for millennia before ever being written down.
Floods were a part of life until the Romans and later monks started building infrastructure to protect humans, and we are still seeing it today. Imagine living in the area of what is now New Orleans and after a hurricane, your entire 'world' is underwater, as far as you can see and as far as anyone in your tribe ever traveled is submerged. How many people in your tribe would survive? Well, at least enough to reproduce and tell the story ~5-7 is sufficient.
u/aposta-fish from exjw reddit.
good news bad news pandemic and kingdom halls.. first the bad news, coming out of israel - one of the first countries to push total vaccination.
the news is the vaccine especially the pfizer one looks like it wears off and hospital rates have gone up for those that have been vaccinated.
@OnTheWayOut: The data from Israel suggest that the vaccines do not reduce the odds. Being in the hospital was considered a 'severe case of COVID' pre-vaccines and that was what the vaccines were supposed to prevent if not prevent the infection altogether (like any other regular vaccine would). If 50% of the people in the hospital have had the vaccines in a population where 80% are vaccinated (and for all intents and purposes, group immunity should've been reached) the odds of reducing aren't all that good.
The people in wheelchairs from polio were the "non-severe" polio cases. Do you think people would've found the vaccine to be successful if you had only a 50/50 chance of it preventing a "severe" case but only if you stayed home from work forever and lived in a bubble for the rest of your life and the disease continued putting people in wheelchairs and keeps infecting and killing those that work outside the home?
No, people would've said the vaccines do nothing at all at preventing polio, and moved on. We knew about germ theory well before vaccines, nobody suggested we should live forever in a bubble in order to never get sick.
what do you think of this?
does it make sense?
any examples either way?.
It's a real thing, people are sick of it. The movies aren't bouncing back even though most states are open, they blame COVID but it's really people staying away from the Marvel China-promo flick, the endless berating. It's especially noticeable in TV shows, they'll cram in some disjointed stories about blacks, cops and white supremacy, totally irrelevant to the story, even series that made fun of this 2-3 seasons ago have gotten their writers replaced and are now cramming it in with out-of-context flashbacks as to when racism supposedly happened previously in the show.
just a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.
today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.
what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.
I think the Williams sisters already got schooled on that front having been beat by a nearly retired second rate tennis player back to back. They adjusted their claims they could beat any man not in the top 100 to any man not in the top 350. They’ve refused every offer since.
There have been a ton of tennis matches between retired tennis players and women half their age in their prime, the only where the female won was where the men intentionally threw the game. Djokovic famously swapped places with a ball boy during an exhibition match and with a 30-0 handicap the female still only came in 3-2
