for nearly two years i have not seen any jehovah's witnesses going door to door in my neighborhood.
that was not the case when my wife and i first moved here (north central oregon).
in fact, our neighborhood was visited at least once every 4 to 5 months - even in the coldest winter months.
This cart thing is brilliant.
And like someone said here, sometimes there are 3 jdubs standing next to a cart, when not a single conversation is had during the entire shift, and they are all counting the same time.
Why not put a big billboard on top of each kingdom hall with a message to go to Jw.org and then just count 24 hours of preach of daily work for the entire congregation
what are you resolved to do if under ban?.
i wonder how many people were thinking about how that would be a great excuse to leave!
finally, a good out, you were just too afraid of the persecution.
The Watchtower has been preaching that this supposed persecution is one of the expected steps toward the end. Why worry about it? If it's just part of God's plan, why is there even a need to hide. Surely Jellohoba will have his angelic apparatus tasked to protected the jdubs.
Too bad they don't realize that nobody gives a shit about Jdubs. There will be no ban on any religion, and certainly no ban on a minuscule religion that nobody cares about.
since june 2016 i have kept a journal of my encounters with jehovah's witnesses at my door or in my street.
i'm a a nosey bastard and a bit of a home body when i'm not at work so i don't miss much of who comes past my home or knocks at the door.. will and dill.. they came to my door on a wednesday morning around 10:30am mid june 2016, i was on afternoon shift and had been reading bart ehrman "misquoting jesus".. what follows is the conversation as best i could recount after they left;.
of the two young gentlemen, dillon, the younger in appearance introduced will and himself, he then proceeded to present me with a brochure about world conditions supposedly getting worse.. me: i could stand at the door nodding in agreement if you like?
I like reading about encounters with Jdubs. There really should be more posts about those situations.
Well done.
there was a time we could laugh about mindless silly things.
someone using an ethnic accent, making fun of their own race, making fun of someone’s intelligent, etc.
we could laugh without feeling constantly offended , upset or disturbed.
Trudeau is one of those droves of idiots who find offence in everything.
Sure, but I don't care about Trudeau either way. I'll call shots based on issues. Good thing about not belonging to a team. You can call it as you see it.
some democrats are zealously pushing the impeachment route to get rid of trump.
even if you don’t like him, do you support impeachment proceedings?.
Trump is too busy having a Tweeter war with John Legend's wife to care about war or anything else.
Don't worry folks it's just another day in the Banana Republic.
there was a time we could laugh about mindless silly things.
someone using an ethnic accent, making fun of their own race, making fun of someone’s intelligent, etc.
we could laugh without feeling constantly offended , upset or disturbed.
Justin Trudeau has apparently been caught in 'brown face'.A picture has emerged of him 'browning up' at an Arabian themed party from 2001.
And he should be allowed to dress as anybody he wants to, as long as it's not in the intent of disparaging. If someone decides they will dress up as a character who happens to be of another skin color at halloween, and it's done in good spirit, then this is totally fine.
The issue are the droves of idiots, that spend their days trying to come with things to complain about. Just part of the outrage society we live it.
so let me get this straight.
even though law enforcement has their hands full with illegal drugs and guns on the street, child traffickers, dangerous gangs and such.
they are going to now pool all their resources to confiscate bibles and religious literature?!
As I told my mother recently, when we start hearing about western countries changing their constitutions to abolish freedom of religion, then I will start attending meetings again. Until then there is simply no evidence that any of this stuff will happen.
No politician is looking to have mass rioting on the streets to deal with because religion is suddenly outlawed.
i am mapping out part 3 of my critiques on the watchtower's (jws) brochure, "the origin of life".
i drafted a sketch to help me visualise the task and thus develop the structure and reasoning.
the sketch is available at:.
In other words rejection of evolution starts from a fear of contravening "sacred scripture" and therefore displeasing God.
Well said. in fact i've never hard a JW using the complexity of DNA to support creationism. Dare I say that most JWs don't even know how complex DNA is.
The main reason are always the fact that Bible says God created everything, and the disbelief that human could actually have come from "monkeys" ( as they put it).
some democrats are zealously pushing the impeachment route to get rid of trump.
even if you don’t like him, do you support impeachment proceedings?.
The Republican establishment, in all of its disgustingness (other side of Dem establishment coin) handed Trump John Bolton. Even with his mental limitations, Trump was able to figure out that Bolton is a corrupt war hawking POS.
Well said. Probably the most enlightened comment of the entire thread. Bolton was put in place because the Republican establishment wants a war. Being engaged in a war around election time would pretty much seal the election as it did for Bush.
However the Buffoon King is not cooperating. Inviting the Taliban to the US for talks around the 9/11 anniversary . Even Bolton must have had a facepalm moment at that move. No wonder he had to jump ship.
Trump is the new Teflon Don. No matter what he does, whether it is talking about sexually assaulting women, defending dictators, inviting active terrorists for meetings, etc, nothing sticks to him. All of the brainless drones still praise him. Even the Governing Body wishes they had such a good spell on their masses.
do you support free choice to wear a political hat or article of clothing?
if someone wants to put a bumper sticker on their car in support of a political candidate or party, should they be able to do it without fear of being maligned or abused?
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Ohh, and by the way, i'm watching the Democratic debate and it's becoming clear the Orange Drumpt will win again in 2020. The core of the Left is completely lost in a sea of extreme left platforms, which will cause the moderate electorate to at best stay home on election day.
All I've heard is: Free 13,000 drug offenders from prison, abolish deportations, protect illegals, ban AR-15 (yes they actually specify the brand)
Even Biden got attacked for deporting illegals with Obama. Evidently even he is too much to the right at this point.
The Left is self imploding. Sad
