Posts by Anony Mous

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Where to flee Covid mandates and restrictions?

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

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?

Anony Mous

@joey jojo: If you think this is all temporary, you are grossly mistaken. Australia is still ticking up in cases and deaths, regardless of the lockdowns. All the lockdowns were implemented in September and October of 2020 and they didn't have any cases till July of 2021, yet they didn't lift the lockdowns. Instead, they intensified the lockdowns and since then cases are spiking again.

This thing isn't going away, it's going to be a repetitive flu-like disease that kills a minority of the weak and elderly, just like the flu and pneumonia and cancer and heart disease does kill much more people on an annual basis.

@rafe: Millions are dead BECAUSE the lockdowns, there is a massive spike every time lockdowns and mandates are initiated because they are counterproductive, there is plenty of scientific evidence for those facts. Instead we are promoting a vaccine during a pandemic, so the virus can evolve around the vaccines. At no point in history did we give vaccines during pandemics. You let the pandemic burn out and then vaccinate so it doesn't return.

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PE1905: Public Inquiry into the response of religious organisations to allegations of child sexual abuse since 1950

by silentlamb_silent_no_more in

hi guys.

i live in scotland.

i need help from the xjw community.

Anony Mous

Given your age, it may be too late, but have you talked with a barrister about taking action personally against your abusers and the elders? That's often better than a big government investigation that basically ends up nowhere.

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Help needed - Did the GB receive Covid money?

by iwasblind in

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.

Anony Mous

Note also that NY had its own PPP-style program which then caused Biden eventually to bail the state out from federal government funds. As such it is possible that there are funds the WTBTS procured under a different name or statute but not required to be disclosed under Federal requests.

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Help needed - Did the GB receive Covid money?

by iwasblind in

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.

Anony Mous

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.

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Why do Men just want to control each other, and have control over you.

by pistolpete in

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.

Anony Mous

@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.

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Anyone have your local cong. give out papers to say what you can afford to give the cult?

by mickbobcat in

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.

Anony Mous

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.

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Where to flee Covid mandates and restrictions?

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

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?

Anony Mous

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.

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China About to Screw Your Life Again

by Simon in

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..

Anony Mous

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.

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Canada: JWs challenge privacy. Judge orders stay of Jehovah's Witnesses constitutional claim on privacy of records

by yalbmert99 in

https://www.castanet.net/news/vernon/346544/judge-orders-stay-of-jehovah-s-witnesses-constitutional-claim-on-privacy-of-records.

Anony Mous

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.

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A Question For The Scholarly Re Gilgamesh

by jonahstourguide in

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.

Anony Mous

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.