Never knew that about the unions. What part of ‘being no part/member/support of this world’s political systems’ is that?
Anony Mous
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the slaves might be revolting
by pepperheart2 inon the watchtower website it says that most of the work that will be done fishkill will be out sourced to non jws .i thought that jws always used to build everything them selves.
this might explain what happend to ramapo they put an appeal out for free labour and people said no .
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Are Atheists Hypocritical in Celebrating Christmas?
by Sea Breeze inrichard dawkins revealed that he celebrates christmas on radio four's today programme.. here is is quoted as saying: .
'i am perfectly happy on christmas day to say merry christmas to everybody,' dawkins said.
'i might sing christmas carols - once i was privileged to be invited to kings college, cambridge, for their christmas carols and loved it.
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Anony Mous
@Sea Breeze: the evidence for the Jesus character as a real person is tenuous at best. It references real people in the scripture like Herod and Pontius Pilate (the latter who is villainized in the Western Christian tradition, but a saint in the Coptic traditions), but the timeline is off and different gospels have different storylines. Legally speaking, Jesus trial makes no sense and wouldn’t have happened given the situation at the time. It makes up things like the census that supposedly brought Jesus to Betlehem, it is anachronistic in many of its stories and borrows heavily from other prevalent Greek and Roman deities and religious scriptures.
You keep bringing up a single scholar in Bart Ehrman, even though there are literally hundreds of scholars that do not share his viewpoints. You are cherry picking your evidence at best.
I much more believe Jesus to be an amalgamation of characters and ideas, perhaps there was a rabble rouser named Yeshua back then but history seems to have largely forgotten him. Contemporary Roman writings have no evidence and even writers that came much later like Josephus don’t mention him as a real person (with the exception of a forgery) and many other Christian and Jewish writers of the time don’t mention him at all. Matter of fact, the majority of contemporary evidence, including gnostic Christian and Jewish writers would say that he wasn’t a person at all, the idea that he was a real human is both rather modern and very selective.
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j-worg tailors
by stan livedeath inheres a business opportunity for someone.. jw clothes.
mens suits etc--with that discrete blue j,worg label inside.
order online..
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Anony Mous
@NotFormer: there is one that says “visit jw.org” or “trust in Jehovah” or this one must have the word somewhere: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/JWGifts-WatchTower-Refuge-by-JWGift/28297044.IJ6L0.XYZ so yea, close enough.
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j-worg tailors
by stan livedeath inheres a business opportunity for someone.. jw clothes.
mens suits etc--with that discrete blue j,worg label inside.
order online..
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Anony Mous
Plenty of stuff to find online, lots of people spun up a little cotton industry with JW.org merch after the rebranding. Tie clips, sweaters, t-shirts, Caleb and Sophia branded stuff. Look on Amazon, Temu, Etsy etc.
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So what happens next...
by Farmer Jim1 inwith what is arguably the biggest change to jw life in recent decades (the scrapping of publishers counting hours) what does this lead to?.
in my mind these are the results;.
1) a massive decrease in 'preaching hours'.
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Anony Mous
So now that you no longer count time, do they still announce times for field circus at the meeting? It used to be every morning 9am in some location and then Saturdays at 9am and 2pm and then Sundays after/before the meeting. Even during my tenure, now well more than a decade ago, weekday field circus was down to 2 days.
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UK Council Tax arrears - Did you face or are you facing BAILIFFS???
by BoogerMan ininteresting new legal protection:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfj5fac4rke.
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Anony Mous
Not sure why you need taxes for any of this. In the US I pay a private company for my trash, my electric and my water and sewage. It is all very cheap and high quality (4c/kWh for electric, $25 per quarter for water, $30/month for trash, $200 every 2-3 years for sewage). I don’t have to sort my recycling or any such pointless crap I used to do in Europe. If I don’t pay the trash guy, the trash guy doesn’t show up, if I want more than an 80 gallon bin and 2 bags per week, I call him and pay an extra $5 for 2 bins.
All of this can and should be arranged by a free market. If you don’t pay and try to freeload, you would die in a matter of days. People are motivated by not dying.
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Changed behavior of the governing body on the topic of “vaccinations” in the Covid era
by Pedro ini'm looking for an explanation why the gb has made a radical change on the issue of vaccinations.
was there pressure from outside?
were there any financial or other benefits to promoting experimental genetic therapy?.
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Anony Mous
It’s pretty easy to verify this information, look at their IRS statements, look at the trust companies. Investments in the past decade:
Raytheon, BlackRock (far-left investment and political pressure organization), Northrop-Grumman, Pfizer. Significant signatory investments accounts in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Sierra Leone etc.
https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/watch-tower-bible-and-tract-society-of-pennsylvani,111857820/
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How's the 14,669 New Zealand brotherhood reacting to Steve's MIT talk?
by was a new boy inthe latest.
stkirsch24 minutes ago.
there is no question: the leaked data shows the vaccines have killed over 13 million people worldwide.
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Anony Mous
The question is, if he’s a cook and conspiracy theorist, why would they arrest him? I never heard of this person before and his claims sound a bit off but whatever.
The only reason you arrest someone, either they did something wrong and you have convicted them of a crime or in a communist regime, because you want to silence them.
It can’t be option 1 because that would imply he does not have freedom of speech, which so many western countries pride themselves on so it must be option 2, the question is then, why silence someone that is not telling the truth, if it would be easy to disprove as so many here state, I note they haven’t brought anything as far as evidence. So whatever he says must not be capable of being disproven, aka, facts.
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Jehovah's Witness Governing Body, (New Light Division) Are Vegetable Oils not more important than Beards?
by was a new boy in'use vegetable oil and soft margarine in place of animal fat,'.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101997444?q=vegetable+oil&p=par.
'when possible, cook with unsaturated vegetable oils.'.
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Anony Mous
This advice was promoted in the 90s by the UN, eat less fat and everything that rich countries had access to in favor of things poor countries produced. This increased instability in lots of African countries as demand for seed oils globally increased and production could not keep up, exhausting the land and exporting what should’ve been food crops for the locals.
Seems like the WTBTS has been in the pocket of globalists for a long time.
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What If The Tower Fell?
by Big Dog inwhat if the truly unthinkable happened and the tower went down?
perhaps the irs swooped in and claimed fraud and padlocked the headquarters and kingdom hall doors?
or the gb took the money and ran to a nice non-extradition country to live out their years?
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Anony Mous
I think there are enough people with psychopathic tendencies at the helm. This did happen in the 1800s with both the Bible Students and the Millerites, however nature abhors a (power) vacuum.
I know quite a few CO/DO would declare the end of the world is nigh and start their own little cult, for areas where that didn't happen one or more of the elders in the congregations would do the same. The religion would simply fracture as it has in the past, some would be more devotional and extreme, while others would not.
You'd get anything from full congregations in one location to a few people getting together once a month on the other end, over the next 100 years you'll basically be back in the place we are now, some will have gotten big, some will have disappeared and some may still refer to their ancient roots as the WTBTS does today with the Bible Students while helpfully forgetting their link to some of their more seedy people and the fact that WTBTS are not the Bible Students, but were created from a disagreement with them.