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millie210
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Trying to get my head around these go bags
by phoenixrising inwhen i was looking at prepping back in the 90s i was told by several elders that we needed to just rely on the org and jehovah and not prep.
i started to put away vacuum sealed bags of rice beans and spices anyway.
now they have this go bag crap.
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Weekly Meeting Importance Being Reduced - Your Thoughts?
by JWTom ini am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.
nothing was more important than being at the meetings!
over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.
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millie210
I think it has to do with several reasons.
Two things come to mind. One is the fact that meeting attendance is shrinking and they want to hide that. So the meeting compressing and congregation shuffling shell game has commenced.
Also, there is a lot of expense in maintaining buildings for meetings. If people will just go online for their "spiritual feeding" and download and print their own literature AND STILL DONATE, that is a better system for the org.
Perhaps the pandemic will help them to move in that direction without being so obvious that it is their intention all along.
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What Do You Think Of Fining People For Not Wearing A Mask?
by minimus insome towns in massachusetts are fining people 1000 dollars for not wearing a mask 😷 outdoors.
starting wednesday, the governor mandates everyone from 2 years of age up, must wear a mask or get a 300 dollar fine!.
of course some governors are recommending that you rat out anyone that doesn’t follow their orders.. i don’t like it!👎🏿.
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millie210
Without getting in to all of the finer points of the whole mask-wearing situation, I will say that if a government is going to fine people for not wearing them then they need to provide plenty of free masks to enable their own law to be easy for people to fulfill.
Masks are dirty after use and need to be replaced often.
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Has Anything Positive Come Out Of This Coronavirus Isolation For You?
by minimus ini guess you could make a case of more families being together although that might not be the best situation.
less cars and pollutants mean we can breathe better.
if you were ever uncomfortable in crowds, this could be good news.
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millie210
I cant think of many positives, but there are a few I suppose. I'll try.
I don't think anyone will look at me funny for looking to move back off the grid again. Its a simple peaceful way of life.
I realized even more that I have lived/ lead an unusual life for an American. Because of that I know so many out of the way private/isolated mountainous, and desert parts in the states and can go there whenever I like without seeing hardly anyone, if anyone.
The things left on my life goal lists will not be affected much by this pandemic should I live so long. Perhaps even more enhanced from a certain perspective.
It is now socially acceptable to stay away from people. I doubt many if any will make fun of me using alcohol to sanitize everything now, like some used to.
On a facetious note, there are/were some very unethical, nepotistic, thieves of business owners that got knocked out. And I don't care not even a little.
Also I'm hoping that this drives the cost of housing down as the price of housing here for the regular working class was unacceptable and had gotten to dangerous levels of inequality. As in a house with two people it takes working near 80 hours each just for a basic run of the mill apartment and still be able to save some. Or a home that would be 250,000 in Illinois could have easily gone for near 2 million here. Same home, same layout. With only 2-3 dollars difference in min wage. Sick.
Overall, I really wanted to move off the grid on my own terms. Not fight so hard to get up to speed living back on the grid only to get slapped back by this. Never again.
My big positive overall has seemed to be that I will never again entertain someone elses opinion on how I should/could, live my life or proceed forward especially when most of that advice is no longer valid, something this pandemic has exposed. I was actually on the right track for me but somehow bought into the narrative that I should live like a 'normal' (as if that carries anymore weight with me at this point) person with all this superficial luxury. Currently I feel split in two, but working towards redefining what I really want and can possibly achieve.
Lovely inspiring post caves!
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Has Anything Positive Come Out Of This Coronavirus Isolation For You?
by minimus ini guess you could make a case of more families being together although that might not be the best situation.
less cars and pollutants mean we can breathe better.
if you were ever uncomfortable in crowds, this could be good news.
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millie210
I haven't been late for anything in 4 weeks!
(a joke I heard that made me laugh - thought Id share)
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Do You Think It’s Time For Businesses To Reopen Even Though Coronavirus Is Not Obliterated?
by minimus ini think it’s time for business to reopen and let’s get the economy going again!
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what say you??
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millie210
I agree with you Min.
I do understand though that many elderly people and immune-compromised people may feel differently.
I have been using a link that Simon posted on the Corona virus thread back on page 43
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
On this link you can follow the peaks and valleys of each country. We know that Sweden decided to take its own path and handle things differently. They are cautious and using discretion but no business lockdowns.
Interestingly, their rates are tracking the same path as the countries who have taken more extreme measures.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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millie210
As for Trump? I did catch the bit of him talk about injecting bleach and blasting UV rays through the body, then him claiming it was sarcasm the next day. He’s not exactly making it easy for his defenders, is he?
Just a point to ponder...any of us who are on city water are drinking and bathing in small amounts of bleach everyday. Bleach is not the issue. It s selling papers and driving people to the headlines that is the issue.
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Kids Without Rules
by minimus ini see a lot of kids that rarely get discipline.
they are allowed to do whatever they want and if someone says something to them they don’t want to hear, they blow them off, ignore them or engage in disrespectful talk.. what’s wrong with today’s parents??
they are producing a generation of entitled brats!.
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millie210
I think one problem is that young people don't have to work anymore.
By young people, I mean every child out of diapers.
In a poor economic environment children work too - not just adults- out of necessity.
In a long ago world when people lived a more agrarian life, children had to help with laundry, feed livestock, hoe gardens, hunt, fish etc. They also had to take care of younger children and discipline them (thus reinforcing their own discipline and family standards).
In our more cultured world today children are in daycare, then pre K, then school (all peer-based influence or lateral learning excepting the teachers). Their parents are working jobs and everyone arrives home hungry and tired, not the best environment to pass on values and ideals (which forms the base for all balanced discipline).
It's just too easy to let them settle in front of electronic devices and social media while exhausted parents try to fix dinner, do laundry and prepare to get up and do it all over again.
The combination of no meaningful or important responsibilities, no vigorous physical activity combined with the negative impact of sitting and staring at a screen is not really a set up to help grow disciplined or balanced young people.
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JW patient with covid-19 received blood transfusion
by adjusted knowledge ini had a patient admitted from a skilled nursing facility/rehab that is an active jw.
the patient had covid-19 as did most of the patients at that facility.
typically the local elders are all involved in these admissions but there is a strict no visitor policy which includes clergy.
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millie210
Thank you for sharing this experience.
I would think these times would take some pressure off JWs who don't want the hospital committee there in the first place but are hesitant to say so.
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Latest in JW land
by asp59 inheard the lastest in jw land?
god commanded the org to sell buildings in new york cause corona virus was comming.
lots of jws see it as this is the true religion cause of that 🙃😊 ofcourse no one been mentioning why no warning before spanish flu 1918 or terrorism 9/11.
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millie210
So if the price they were able to command for those valuable NYC properties had been very low because of a weak real estate market, would they still have sold at a slim profit margin or waited for a good market?
If they hadnt sold and instead were holding property and waiting for the market to rise and the Covid virus had hit, what would they say then?
I guess my point is they sold because they needed money and they had a valuable real estate portfolio. period.