Posts by Anony Mous

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Chosen

by Gman2001 in

how exactly did jehovah come down to earth in 1919....look around at all the religions....and choose the bible students?

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If Jesus chose them because they would ‘advertise, advertise’ when they ran into trouble several times violating laws, they stopped doing that and started ‘door to door to sell, sell’ which changed to ‘door to door, donate, donate’ and then during COVID, ‘stay home, stay home’ and then ‘cart, cart, but only if you feel like it’ wouldn’t that be the same argument as the change of doctrine.

If Jesus chose them at a time when there was a strict requirement for pioneers (they used to be called “full time” for a reason) to be doing 180h/month and even more for missionaries and others, how does he feel now that it’s 30h/month or less if you are elderly.

@Herelam: the argument against that is that since that time, they have pretty much rejected all the doctrine and practices of that time. The JW ‘today’ is an entirely different thing than what it was just 20 years ago, and it was different from 20 years before that, let alone more than a 100 years later, it is completely unrecognizable. If the reason for Jesus’ blessing was their practices and beliefs of that time, then they’ve got some explaining to do for what changed since.

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Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025

by raymond frantz in

the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.

each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.

we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.

Anony Mous

@longhairgal: same reason I left. You can justify killing yourself in some cases, I couldn’t for my daughter. I’m sorry for the children that are raised by parents that do think their ideology should trump the well being and even lives of their children. Although as they keep diminishing the policy to what it once was (in 2000 they changed the fraction policy with significant hints that they prefer you didn’t) this is going to lead to a lot of regret, as people that made a decision in one direction later are told they could’ve made a different one.

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Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025

by raymond frantz in

the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.

each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.

we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.

Anony Mous

The blood issue has been a “hot topic” ever since its introduction. It’s not grounded in scripture and more and more people are deciding to trust science, even amongst the most ardent JW.

They have been very quiet on this topic for years leading to some here to speculate whether or not they may be ending the policy. But without reference, some/many “elders” decide that their preference should be applied or will reference to the last publication on the subject for “guidance”. Some have not yet gotten the hint and do explicitly need to be told “stop talking about it”. This is the beginning of abolishing that mandate.

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Memorial attendance

by Balaamsass2 in

curious.

what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?

Anony Mous

Isn’t Easter next week?

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

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.

Anony Mous

Claiming we will be entering a recession when we have effectively been in a depression for 4 years+.

Note that the current global market correction is not even the worst in the last 4 years, and both the US domestic markets and bonds have risen significantly over the last week. So the EU and China are doing a bit worse, who cares, if you’re that dependent on the US markets doing poorly, then perhaps that’s a you-problem, not a US problem.

yet we hear crickets when we remember:

when inflation was at 10+% annually

when the top advisor to the president was a Chinese cutout

when top Democrat senators were sleeping with Chinese spies.

when our president was brain dead and incoherent on live television

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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Why worship a God that does not help!

by Witness 007 in

so god let 10 million people die in world war 2 but was too busy to help....what kind of diety does this!

if i was god i would have done something .

Anony Mous

The counter case to that is that if God intervened at any point things go awry, would we really have free will? People did intervene, some say that is God/good in the people.
Specifically about Nazism and most of the 20th century atrocities, that all sprung out from the writings of Marx, even though, to our knowledge, Marx himself did nothing ‘wrong’, God would have had to prevent Marx but also similar writings of his day, the entire area of 18th and 19th century philosophy would’ve looked much different. And that built upon itself from a rejection of prior ideas and you can keep going, everything is chained to ‘the beginning’ - so where should’ve God have intervened?

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

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.

Anony Mous

There are movements that want to reduce and even eliminate governments - somewhere between proper conservatives (not neocons, which are disillusioned progressives) and anarcho-capitalists you can get pretty close to a “near-zero, local-only” ideal governance model.

It’s not impossible, the early US was pretty close, there are some countries today that get pretty close because 20th century socialist government has failed (eg. Somaliland which is a federation of tribes).

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What is really Babylon the great?

by Halcon in

for believers of god and christ, it seems that it should be obvious that babylon the great of revelation should be all religions and spiritual practices associated with the one true enemy of christ...the devil, satan, the snake etc.

essentially any group or individual practicing and promoting witchcraft, sorcery, devil worshipping etc.

all things practiced in ancient babylon (the nation presumably used as the model for the one in revelation).. or is this too simple of an explanation?.

Anony Mous

@Vanderhoven: since I learned that Revelation really was talking about the Roman Empire and not as much about Jerusalem (as it had been destroyed 20-30 years prior to its writing). Christianity was still mostly recently converted Jews trying to look for an explanation as to why their promised land got destroyed and thus a new theology developed.

Most scholars accept that 666 refers to Nero, Babylon the Great refers to those that recently destroyed the Temple, aka Rome, the repeated number 7 (hills, heads etc) refers to the physical Rome (which has and evolved from settlements on the surrounding 7 hills), 10 horns = patchwork of (10) local rulers in and around Judea in the first century (eg. Herodians) as clients of Rome.

You can understand pretty much all of Revelations as a political commentary against Rome and classical Judaism from an early Christian-Jewish perspective. It is thinly veiled, with a bit of historical context, you can still get most of the references, but back then it would be even better understood, probably not a very popular guy in his day, pissing off both exiled Jews and Romans.

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

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.

Anony Mous

What’s funny to me, like the first term: Trump does thing A - oh no evil orange man bad, how could he do such things. Trump does the opposite of thing A - oh no evil orange man bad, how could he do such things.

The markets in the US traded about equally throughout the days, China’s market cratered. Tariffs were promised during the election to those that didn’t lower theirs; tariffs were instituted to those that didn’t listen; 75 countries came to the table as they saw he was serious; tariffs were temporarily lowered from averaging ~20-30% to 10% (but not removed) for countries that didn’t retaliate; China still has high tariffs, the rest of the world has 90 days to come up with a plan.

This Is nothing but consistent with his message. It is what Main Street voted for and these market swings haven’t affected your pensions. Some day traders on Wall Street lost a few billion in foreign markets and repatriated their money from Hong Kong and Beijing into US bonds. Major companies announced billions in trade and build out of China.

Seriously; what was the downside here? Did you personally lose any money? Did you have millions invested in Asian markets? Because if so, this wasn’t insider trading, this was announced 6 months ago and people (as usual) didn’t believe it was possible Trump could move that fast with all the bureaucracy. Guess what, the president has powers donated to him by a century of near continuous Democrat and Neocon rule - you created this monster - rein it in, which means cutting down government to proper size.

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

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.

Anony Mous

@truthlover: Please note that what you are proposing here is illegal and risky and you would not be covered under Canadian healthcare cost. Additionally you would not have any recourse against either your provider or the pharmacy or the pharmaceutical company for ANY issues that crop up (wrong dose, wrong product, manufacturing defects etc).

Unlike Canadians on public healthcare, you would pay full non-insurance price for those medications which between that and the travel and the fact you're facing thousands of dollars in fines and court costs, is unlikely to make it worth the trip - I've just reviewed some common medication and sometimes it's slightly more expensive, sometimes slightly less expensive than the non-insured cost in the US, but in the US you would still be covered by insurance or some discount program like GoodRx.