three of my sisters - there are five of us - were baptized as witnesses.
one of them has gone from reading voraciously to only reading her textbooks and watchtower publications.
this does not seem to be unusual among witnesses.
It’s a bit of both. Some do well in reading etc, however there is also a tendency to only stay within the group and revere leaders so any errors that aren’t immediately corrected, which is unlikely if done by the leaders, are propagated through the group.
Think of it like a dialect, if you have a very small, isolated group, dialects form rather quickly, while large integrated societies tend to have the opposite, where common language happens and dialects die out.
some say we will never get back to pre-pandemic days.
others say we should expect to live with masks and social distancing as the “new normal “.
still others are hopeful that we can live life realizing there might never be an end to covid or cancer or influenza but our lives must continue to go on.
@Brown: the same things happen when the left is in power, but the media refuses to cover it. Remember SARS, a variant of COVID-19, during the Obama admin? Thousands perished, it lasted 2 years and no vaccine, never heard anything about it in the media or how poorly it was handled. How about the terrorist attack in Benghazi? Or the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
Since Biden took office, the cost of basic resources like steel and wood went up 20% which will ripple through the economy. Enjoy your $2000, it will soon be eaten by the increased in basic costs like bread and housing. Conservative estimates have price hikes pegged at 30% as Biden has blown $10T in spending over budget on top of the $2T Trump spent last year (which resulted in the vaccine, Biden has nothing like it to show for it)
anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.
if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.
there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?
myself 5 and my 2 sisters 4 and 6 years old molested by a 19 year old babysitter in 1975 and no police called, just elders meeting at home and brushed under the table.
north cape coral florida.
messed up all 3 of us our whole lives in some way or another.
the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.
many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.
what’s your view of this?
Systemic racism is a circular faith-based argument. You MUST believe that you are a racist and atone for your racism or else you are a racist and should be shunned.
That is the argument they’re making, everything and everyone is racist and should join their religion. They are literally shunning their family members and friends and coworkers that do not agree.
They have a priest class of rich black wokesters that tell them everything they should do to grovel and pray. They have religious texts in the form of their anti-racist books and they have communion in the form of Twitter. They even have an end of times prophecy where the dates keep changing in the form of global cooling/warming that will destroy the earth.
It’s a Kafkaëske argument or witch trial where you can only be found guilty of witchcraft or get killed proving your innocence. And everything they don’t like is fitted with the white supremacy label, because if you look hard enough you can find fault in everyone’s history.
As some frequently say on here: it’s a cult.
we are encouraged to all, if possible, get the vaccinations.
if you don’t, we are told that we definitely could get the virus.
fair enough.. but what happens if you decide you aren’t going to get the shots?
If you get the vaccine there is a 1 in 50,000 chance that you will not get immunity and only have reduced effects. At that point (if you are that 1 in 50,000) you have a 96% chance of having reduced symptoms and a 4% chance of having severe symptoms (these are guesses made by the scientists). From those with severe effects (if you are in the 4% of the 1 in 50,000 you have a 1% chance of dying). Purely statistically speaking that means a small congregation of JWs may still die from COVID if the entire population of the world was vaccinated.
All other billions will have full immunity (meaning you can’t get sick, can’t spread it etc).
Do note that your chance of dying from the flu after a flu vaccine is orders of magnitude higher.
Here are your chances of dying for various other reasons: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-overview/odds-of-dying/
Since the vaccines were rolled out, nobody with the US funded vaccines has died from COVID.
this is interesting.. you've probably heard of "asymptomatic spread" which is, people who are infected with the virus and are spreading it, but who have no symptoms.. but is it accurate?
is it supported by the statistics?.
this video analyses the facts and concludes that we've been given misinformation due to faulty testing.
@rocketman: you can look at the stats in the US and EU. States like Florida that never locked down or did not do any top-down policy cramming have much lower impact across any measure. Compare to high control states like NY and California where crackdowns continue and deaths are a lot higher.
its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.
the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..
Depends on the statistics you're looking at. According to PubMed, TB kills about 480,000 persons in India every year which would put them at 32/100k annually. Tuberculosis death rate (per 100000 people) in India was reported at 32 in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators.
Regarding the TB, I was indeed incorrect, misquoted from a source, that was not annually.
The statistics quoted on COVID are annualized. COVID has been going on for 1.5 years if you didn't notice, you can't make a comparison of all deaths in India and give it as an annual rate. Look at the number in 2020 and then the number is 7/100,000.
its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.
the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..
How big of a problem is COVID really in a land where there is insufficient food, water and sanitation?
200 children under 5 die daily from lack of proper sanitation in India. In 2010 the average life expectancy was under 65 years. Annually 18.6 people per 100,000 die in India from lack of sanitary provisions, and 145 infants per 100,000 born die due to lack of medical facilities.
COVID in India kills less than 7 per 100,000, tuberculosis kills 190 and malaria more than 50.
That is nearly 7000 infants that die per year simply from sanitation problems. Since COVID started they had 2600 deaths from that. Unsurprisingly a disease that affects primarily people over 65 and obese people doesn’t affect a country that doesn’t have many people over 65 or obese people.
Sure they may be seeing a bit of a surge but twice the number of kids died yesterday from sanitation problems than any age group died of COVID.
Perspective is key. If you think COVID is bad where you live, move to India, you probably won’t die of COVID there.
actors' acceptance speeches have often been a little dodgy - viewers don't care what political or social views actors may have, we typically appreciate actors acting well.. this year's oscars awards ceremony seems to be going above and beyond, however.. here's frances mcdormand's acceptance speech, in which she dedicates her victory to 'our wolf' and then howls like a bitch, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_be0awgwk.
What was really bad is that they cleared out central station of the homeless, something they won’t do any other day, then built a giant wall to protect them from the public and Antifa/BLM protestors, then had rows of cops standing to protect their little enclave they built. They got $250,000 swag bags for the actors, regardless whether they won.
Then they went on stage and created movies to decry white privilege, railed against the cops, the system and support BLM.
