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  Where r we now?

  by sparrowdown in

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  post covid, post trump, post cedarsgate, post tony morris, post arc… where r we now?.

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  Anony Mous

  @a watchers: 4 months in, 3 years and 8 months to go.
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  New reinstated family member

  by Jayk in

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  a 1st cousin(a) of mine just called me about one of my great aunts(b) getting reinstated.

  (b) has been disfellowship for as long as i can remember.

  (a) has always stood on the fence with his beliefs.

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  Problem with POMI is they don’t leave behind the toxic culture. This morning I heard of another attempted suicide (now in hospital) because POMI parent being an absolute self righteous asshole. Doesn’t want to make the effort, but expects the children to live according to the rules, doesn’t let them express what they want, isolates them, they need to put their happy faces on.

  Yes, there are bad parents everywhere, but the borg gives a ‘permit’ to a lot of atrocity and sets unrealistic expectations of women, wives, children, something I recognized in myself only after the fact when it was too late.

  Problem with this situation is now the in-family is going to excuse their behavior and love bomb for what happened, pushing them to find god in all the wrong places.
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  Putin was almost killed.

  by liam in

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  if you have been seeing the world news, you probably aware that zelensky launch a drown attack on putin and almost killed him.

  putin lost it and hit ukraine with the largest drone and missile attack of war so far, killing not only soldiers by many civilians.

  even trump has said putin has changed.

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  Goebbels was the mouthpiece behind Hitler, wrote the speeches, the doctrine. Most people think Goring or Himmler, but Hitler I believe was afraid of both and put them at opposite power houses (one had the military and the other the police) so they checkmated each other. I don’t think a ‘more reasonable’ politician would have taken the place. After Hitler killed himself, Goebbels did take the power (for about 1 day before he committed suicide, but still).

  Like most socialists, Hitler had already removed anyone capable from power except for a few very hardcore believers near to him which equally would have assassinated him if opportunity presented itself. Just look at the deaths of Lenin and then later the last days of Stalin, loyalist bureaucrats, too afraid that didn’t are lift a finger when Stalin vis-a-vis Khrushchev (initiated the Cuban Missile Crisis) gathered power under their noses.
  
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  Where r we now?

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
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  post covid, post trump, post cedarsgate, post tony morris, post arc… where r we now?.

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  The WTBTS has been hemorrhaging both people and money, they have become more “part of this world” during COVID, no longer relying on Jehoober to either gather together or save their lives, instead following government limits on worship and promoting fetal tissue developed vaccines.

  People both in and out have noticed, do less, care less. It’s become more of a social club in most congregations and the rules that govern even amongst the elders would once have been considered by grown-ins only appropriate for the spiritually weak and morally loose.

  I think the Internet changed them. In some ways for good, but they still keep the long tail from their historic sin and that baggage will not go away regardless of their rebrand.

  What I think is ironic is that the very thing that started the WTBTS, the calling out of contemporary religious leaders for collaborating with governments, their leadership having disproportionate amounts of money and the unchecked power some pastors wielded within congregations, a flattening/equalization of protestantism amongst denominations and abandonment of prior moral guidelines is what they themselves turned into.
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  Why do they want to kill all the White People?

  by liam in

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  the hatred against whites is escalating to an unprecedented degree.

  in south africa, they are calling for complete genocide of white people.

  for some reason they are targeting all the white farmers.. i’m so glad trump noticed.

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  India was also better run under British rule, that was also a long time ago, but it was still better under British Mandate than the current situation. Iraq was better run under Saddam. And Syria under Assad. And Cuba, Venezuela, …

  The examples above show that not every ruler is “great” or desirable but the alternatives are often worse. The problem in the 20th century is that Western leaning governments were replaced with either flavors of communism “that was never tried” compounded with a very anti-Western view from the West itself that any interference in foreign affairs after deposing some evil was “the great sin of colonialism”. Self determination of a people that are Islamist or communist leaning results in that determination.

  Guess what, Native Americans colonized other Native Americans, Africans colonized large parts of Africa, slavery was only abandoned by the US and the Brits some 300 years ago, nobody else in the world agreed at that point and no non-Western view whether communism or Islamism will ever agree because both the religion of Marx and the religion of Mohammed require the poor to work for the rich and the state at no cost, they require an “untermensch” to perform the labor and to vilify.
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  Reddit thread on convention video urging cutting off contact with Faders

  by LongHairGal in

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  i just read this.

  don’t know if anybody here has seen the video.. the intended result of this is to obviously scare ‘faders’ out of the shadows.

  now, they are being threatened with loss of association with their loved ones and friends.

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  @longlive: according to JW the Bible and its message was addressed exclusively to the 144,000 ‘faithful and discreet slave’ which according to modern interpretation is exclusively members of the governing body. The ‘rest of us’ are just lucky we can obtain salvation through them. This is not hyperbole, this has been addressed through series of articles on the topic.
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  Why do they want to kill all the White People?

  by liam in

  1. social
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  the hatred against whites is escalating to an unprecedented degree.

  in south africa, they are calling for complete genocide of white people.

  for some reason they are targeting all the white farmers.. i’m so glad trump noticed.

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  There are two competing things going on in SA: farm yields are dropping significantly since the 90s because of the government racist land transfer policy.

  Note that on one hand this is decried in the news media as a sign of ‘white privilege’, when land is transferred to unprepared black farmers and the massive government subsidies not being enough to sustain some 20-year old with a business college degree, a dream of but no experience in farming, simultaneously holding in other articles that race based land confiscation doesn’t actually happen.
  

  However SA was a huge exporter across Africa both because similar policies in other countries killed their farms with communist/socialist policy generally ending in dictatorships and war. Now that supply is under pressure, prices skyrocket. So yes, they make more money off less food. That will be the case until they cannot sustain themselves anymore, which is fast approaching, with some areas already seeing food shortages.

  On the other hand, the UN and even the US has pumped billions of dollars over the years to maintain the lie that the SA land transfer program has been a success, so the west (look up Gates and Soros foundations investments into ‘One Africa’) is investing in quick return products just to drive the SA government into more investment, which brings short term yields (anyone with a million dollar grant can get 1-2 years of intensive non-food crops like seed oils before the land becomes depleted) but long term damages.
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  6 billion people to bury who rejected Witnesses

  by Witness 007 in

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  so i guess the "paradise" earth is going to be stinky to the point of vomiting with 6 billion dead bodies of not witnesess.

  how long would it take to bury these people?

  maybe 2 years.

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  Antimatter eh, aka nuclear bombs, for every raindrop you would have the equivalent destructive force of a Nagasaki sized bomb.
  
  The problem is that it really "can't" rain antimatter, because it would explode high in the atmosphere as soon as it touched 'matter' such as air and water molecules. A single cloud (500T) of antimatter would likely destroy the earth.

  Here is what a quick calculation in ChatGPT says:

  🔥 Atmosphere:

  • Instantly superheated—converted into plasma

  • Stripped partially into space from blast waves and atmospheric blowout

  🧱 Crust:

  • Surface crust would be vaporized or melted globally

  • Massive seismic and volcanic activity

  • Continental plates could fracture; oceans would boil instantly

  💀 Biosphere:

  • Zero chance of survival

  • Even extremophiles (deep underground organisms) likely perish

  • No human, animal, or plant life remains

  🪨 Earth’s Structure:

  • Earth would survive physically (gravity holds it together)

  • But surface reduced to a molten slag ball, atmosphere mostly gone, magnetic field disrupted
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  Remember Hour Quotas?

  by blondie in

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  hour quotas timeline.

  back in the old days long before 1952.

  “after staying in our ‘home’ for two days we decided that if we were going to meet our quota of 140 hours for the month.

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  The quota of 10 hours was still used a few decades ago, I clearly remember it being a requirement for being considered "active" to do at least 10 hours, 2 hours for the 'sick and elderly', a servant/elder was supposed to meet at least the congregation average, even more if you wanted to be a 'assistant' pioneer or pioneer before you were ever accepted you already had to do the hours. It was brutal for some.
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  Attack near St Catherine's Monastery

  by Earnest in

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  following on from the bombings of coptic churches in egypt, there was an attack earlier this month on a checkpoint near st catherine's monastery.

  this monastery dates back to the time of justinian and has a number of early bible mss including part of codex sinaiticus of the fourth century.. i am surprised this hasn't happened before because isis is active in northern sinai and it would be a major event were they to gain access and wreak havoc at st catherine's monastery.

  although the isolation of the monastery has contributed to its survival over 1400 years, it is in the forefront of digitising its manuscript collection.

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  Anony Mous

  Nice, accepting bunch those Muslims eh.