Posts by Anony Mous

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An elder has just been employed at place of employment and I’m after a lonk

by joe134cd in

hello to all you good people.

an elder who i knew in my jw days has just been employed at my place of work.

now i want to be prepared for him when he encourages me to return to jehovah.

Anony Mous

You really think you can convince him?

Here is what you do, you start talking to your boss: I used to belong to a cult, I left a long time ago, but this guy is a leader there, I just want you to be aware, because they’re really insistent about me going back and they spend their time proselytizing even at work.

Then if he starts, you say, I really don’t want to talk about this, this is a place of business and you have no right to use your paid hours proselytizing here. If he insists or repeats, you file a complaint to your boss. You keep doing that every time, until he gets fired.

Or he is aware of the risk and doesn’t want to get fired, he keeps his mouth shut.

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2020’s are already a Train Wreck for JW ORG

by Reservations in

as the title says, we are nearly at the end of the 2nd year of the 2020’s, and already jw org is not only a car crash, but an absolute train wreck.. i’ve watched the annual meeting 2021 already, and it seems the gb are in fighting, morris openly disagreeing with lett, that is massive, and it’s something that has largely not been commented on by this community.

covid-19 is not going anywhere, any trial meetings will surely be shut down, now omicron is doing the rounds.. it looks highly likely we will see a second negative growth year.

“young ones” are waking up by the masses.

Anony Mous

I haven’t heard about the disagreement, can someone do a quick side-by-side comparison so I don’t have to sit through hours of boring talks.

The question is whether anyone in the cult even picks up on some of these things. The majority of people couldn’t even remember the noo light that was announced every year just a week after the large meetings, they had to be repeated several times in the publications before people slowly adapted to new ways of thinking.

The mind-numbing nature of the meetings just has the majority of people on auto-pilot, and after a while they start parroting entirely new viewpoints without ever acknowledging they’ve changed what they are talking about radically, with some swearing they’ve believed the same since the 70s

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Are you open to having a count as to how many ex-JW`s on this site are vaccinated x2 jabs. ?

by smiddy3 in

i`ll go first ,i have my vaccinated 2 jabs for the elderly.. if i`m not around in the next 3 months you will know why ..

Anony Mous

I had 2 shots of a vaccine, because where I work we do high-risk COVID-19 research on animals (sheep, mice, primates etc) and thus being in contact with those could potentially become fatal (we do mutation or “gain of function”)

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Oregon to go permanent on face masks. More will flood out of the communist state.

by mickbobcat in

the liberal idiots and useful fools who follow are going and going and going.

now they are trying to make masks permanent.

at some point people are going to revolt.

Anony Mous

@disillusioned: if you isolate yourself from people and diseases like that, you have a much greater chance of getting long-term allergies and other sensitivities. You also tend to get more serious cases of disease when (not if) you eventually catch something.

If you’re that worried of a cold or flu, then you shouldn’t drive a car or eat most foods available, cancer and heart disease are more likely to do you in. Once vaccinated or if you’re young there is a greater chance of you dying in a car accident than from COVID. If you’re under 40, better not go outside at all, the chance of a lightning strike or drowning is greater.

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The Crazy World of Online Deliveries

by Simon in

jw
friends

you order something online, and get the notification it's been shipped.. "ooh look, it's only coming from 500 miles away and there's a major route from there to here.

i bet it'll be put on a truck or maybe a train and here in a day or two.

great!".

Anony Mous

@darkknight: add insurance for a value of $100 or more, you’ll practically have full streaming video from the entire trip the package took. You do it with USPS and you get a personal call from the postmaster that they found your package on the floor of the sorting center.

Even better when you declare it as being alcohol, a firearm or ammo. You’ll have the FBI and ATF assisting in the search.

Where I used to work we used to ship medical and slightly radioactive samples. The cost wasn’t outrageous but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had armed guards looking at your package the whole way, they call you at customs, call you when it arrives at every point. I’m getting woken up at 4am asking if we can receive them that day. I think it was only $25 fee for that, but it’s guaranteed to arrive on your schedule.

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The Crazy World of Online Deliveries

by Simon in

jw
friends

you order something online, and get the notification it's been shipped.. "ooh look, it's only coming from 500 miles away and there's a major route from there to here.

i bet it'll be put on a truck or maybe a train and here in a day or two.

great!".

Anony Mous

Agree, it takes the equivalent of 10,000 disposable plastic bags to make 1 reusable bag. That’s a ton of plastic and energy that is eventually going to end up in the same place. Same goes for those stupid paper straws, between the weight and the extra plastic and paper, it takes about 120 plastic straws to break even on a single paper one and the paper ones need special disposal for recycling.

Greenpeace and co is largely responsible for all the coal plants still in operation and about 50% of carbon emissions today could’ve been cut by going all in on nuclear in the 80s and 90s.

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The Crazy World of Online Deliveries

by Simon in

jw
friends

you order something online, and get the notification it's been shipped.. "ooh look, it's only coming from 500 miles away and there's a major route from there to here.

i bet it'll be put on a truck or maybe a train and here in a day or two.

great!".

Anony Mous

If you understand why, it isn’t so crazy. It costs ~$0.3 to ship a box the size of a shoebox from the Asia to the US. So you can imagine that smaller distances are just fractions of that cost.
The human labor involved in separating local traffic and doing small deliveries rather than just aggregating them would outstrip the cost of shipping them back to a main center.
It is mind boggling how expensive human labor is, thus automated shipping systems resulting in large scale aggregation is worth it.
On the other hand, waiting for a box to fill to optimize last mile deliveries, takes up space and labor just as well, hence you get the cases where Amazon will ship 3 packages through 3 different couriers in the same day.

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Baldwiin, I did not pull the trigger or point the gun at anyone. LMFAO

by mickbobcat in

ya right because we all know if you let a gun sit on a table long enough it will get up and kill people on its own.

lmao what a total idiot douche nozzle liberal but i repeat myself.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/entertainment/alec-baldwin-interview/index.html.

Anony Mous

It’s CNN so I would expect nothing less than propaganda like that. These people do indeed believe that guns go off without pulling the trigger or SUVs run into crowds and murder people all on their own.

It’s impossible for a gun to go off without someone pulling the trigger. The only place where it is possible to have accidental discharge is a very old mechanisms without safety that may go off if you drop them very hard, the hammer may strike the cartridge. Some rifles have this issue, handguns less so.

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SWEDEN: JWs Have Right to State Funding

by darkspilver in

jw
friends

fyi - from sweden.

first an article from the swedish newspaper svenska dagbladet (via google translate).

jehovah's witnesses won against the government.

Anony Mous

I wonder how this is considered to the division of church and state in the EU. Also seems like a great scam, since you can just start a church, claim thousands of members and get free income.

Your tax dollars at work, funding religions.

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Is Bible prophecy now starting to come true regarding the prelude to the great tribulation?

by Disillusioned JW in

is bible prophecy now starting to come true regarding a prelude to the great tribulation?.

full disclosure: i still don't believe in the bible's claims about the existence of the supernatural, even of jehovah god (i'm an atheist and a scientific/philosophical naturalist), but i am asking this question because recent events are starting to seem (to me) to fit well the description of some prophecies in the bible.

consider the following.. several hours ago (on 11-26-2021) as i was about to enter a local fred meyer store of my city (in suburb or small city in the metro area of a large city) a person i know told me that a moment earlier a person left the store in a hurry with a cart load up with unpaid merchandise (i think i was told it was groceries but i don't remember that for sure).

Anony Mous

These are just the pendulums of time. Every 120 years or so we see massive events that define generations. This comes with famine, pestilence, war, death and eventual salvation. We’re now entering an era defined by war after exiting a long period of relative peace and prosperity. Within 30 years this will all be over and there will be another 100 years of massive progress given capitalism survives in certain areas, but there will be areas similar to the Soviet Union, continuously repressed for another 70+ years and it is very likely that will be the EU and parts of the US.

The problem is that the majority of people is never going to be happy with everything. It’s just human nature. But this also makes every prophecy without a specific date come true eventually and repeatedly.