so why do you think org went online?
they were selling khs left and right for years.
plus video talks and new building for filming videos.
Some of them I hear saying they get use to Zoom and don't miss "meeting together" that much anymore. And with sisters meeting in town while shopping news travels faster than by Bullroarer, anyways.
Perhaps, it's time to have conventions only every 7 years, like in the good old days (Deuteronomy 31:10-12).
i was told that minimus was talked about on six screens by someone who said “minimus is a racist “.
i just want to set the record straight and say he is a great guy and loves everybody equally.
race and color does not make a person better or worse.
There is only one race: The human race.
they don’t go to conventions .
they don’t go to assemblies.
they don’t go to meetings.
They are out buying "Bugs Bunny Forever" stamps for their upcoming November 2020 campaign to distribute that printed magazine by mail. Or else, they are working on beautifying email templates to send along with the digital copy of that mrag.
... all in the name of reporting "field service hours". Go, figure.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/08/jehovahs-witness-sexual-abuse-report-can-stay-online-judge-rules/.
@ HoodwinkedToo ... "Where is Jehovah when you really need him?"
My guess: His heavenly rover broke down at a different corner of the universe and needs AAA attention. Meanwhile, his adherents are foofighting aimlessly in all directions.
sometimes i forget how small-minded, petty, provincial, mean-spirited ignorant and judgemental it was and still is.... then i sit down with a jw relative, hoping to have a normal conversation and realize there is literally nothing to talk about.. nothing..... current events?
hobbies?
your job?
They are just like first-graders. A simple question like "When looking to the moon you will have to look up to see it. Suppose you are standing on the moon, will you have to look up or down to see the earth?"
On most of them it will draw a blank
Just sayin' ... don't expect too much. It's precious time wasted!
i sat in recently with some relatives for the sunday meeting.
the talk was given by a bethel speaker, who at one point quoted john 20:25.
“but he said to them: “unless i see in his hands the print of the nails and stick my finger into the print of the nails and stick my hand into his side, i will never believe it.”.
The Romans did all sorts of nailings at that particular time in history ... must have been one of their pastimes - take your pick.
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does the information about mandatory donations in this post sound accurate to you?.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/i1gews/new_letter_1000_donations_are_mandatory_now/ petra!
You do that a couple of times as local BOE and someone higher up will call in to let them know that, if this keeps up, their KH is to be amalgamated.
why should.... precambrian rock layers.
biological deposits of diatoms / coccoliths.
the ashfall beds deposits.
Why should...
be of interest to followers of the biblical Great Flood account?
Read about it in Creationist Funhouse
i was wondering two things, 1: how long in total are the zoom meetings, i presume the sunday one is the longest ?.
and 2: if you use zoom for free, the session only lasts 40 minutes, so do they have an intermission so people can log back in, or are all jw's expected to pay for the "privilege" ?.
@road to nowhere ...The dating pool is likely the worst part. Most of the growth comes from born ins. Finding a mate elsewhere will dilute the growth along with causing a lot to "fall into sin ".
That's the very and only reason KHs are open for the business of hearings and df'ings.
this is not a jw-bashing thing, but it always seemed odd to me that the "excuse" when things go wrong is that "we have to wait and see how the prophesy is fulfilled" or some other wording.. my question has always been, then what is the purpose of the prophesy if you don't understand it until after the fact?
isn't that like having a weather forecast but being told that we don't really know what the weather will be until the next day?
isn't that the purpose of prophesy?.
The WTBTS always does crystal ball predictions ..."it appears that we can expect" (w20 May p.16 pp.13)
