watching this video and thinking about all jdubs who watch all the gov bod updates yes they are all definitely in the covid cult thanks to the gov body.
https://youtu.be/ramyaayeapq.
"My insurance company provides eight free covid tests.
The government website will provide you two free tests per month " For those who think this is a good thing, it collects dna. dna is sold to the Chinese where they are making bioweapons to target specific ethnic groups. So this covid thing has more layers to it than you think. As far as the comparison "covid cult" and JW cult, yeah! ticked all the boxes.
when i was in i can remember reading wt commands not to use the brothers and sisters as an opportunity for business ventures.. i guess in hindsight it was because the wtc was already doing it and didn't want competition for the resources of income being limited.
in addition to buying all your own literature and magazines, who else remembers the book covers, notebooks, bookmarks, etc sold at conventions with the assembly theme stamped on the front in gold coloured lettering?
nowadays people claiming to be jws have oodles of websites selling all manner of goods to them, many infringing the jw logo.
I always felt those businesses that resourced products for the witnesses were, for want of a better word, exploiting the "friends". What do I know? Whereas I resented them, some in the congregations ate it all up. It seemed to me the pioneers were in the forefront of that. They had the newest in bookbag, folders for tracts or magazines, time keeping notebooks and house to house records. The kids would have their special sized bags. It was surprising to see how many people would spend money on these items. I knew some "tight wad" friends who had a Bible, songbook, and reasoning book all bound together and made a gift to my spouse of it with name engraved as I recall. I have been given book markers with bookstudy schedules on them and magnets with scriptures or sayings like : early in the month ,early in the year ( how pioneers to best make their yearly requirement ) Well, I am pleased to say I never bought anything from the companies that sold these items. It seemed to me that it made some of the people feel more important if they had the books bound, etc. I knew a woman on SSI and little money, but she had her fancy bound books. I took a quick glance at the link, and noticed a cup...( I will check it out more just to see what "tacky" items are designed to make a JW feel special, like they are more spiritual minded than the others -I am glad I just wrote that for I think it defines why the jw buy that stuff; it to show the others how they are more spiritual than those who don't have it. ) editing this in: I took a closer look at the link and found it revolting: like pioneers need their own printed on mugs. James wrote there was to be no distinction among themselves, but the JW and the exploiters of JW didn't get the message.
in 2008 i was baptized into the truth after leaving a trinitarian faith.
during my eight years as a jehovah’s witness, i strived to keep the standards set by the bible, wt and the faithfull and discrete slave.
but unfortunately, the congregational elders from the kingdom hall i attended were not keeping to jehovah’s standards, hence, wrote my letter of resignation.
Leslie, from where I am sitting you should be glad you are DF and not try to be reinstated into that God dishonoring religion! In reality, they bring reproach upon God's name rather than sanctifying it. As to Micheal the arch angel being Jesus....I don't know where this thought came from, but I think it bears being stated. 1 Cor 6:3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? Then why not the matters of this life? /// so think about it, if Jesus is an arch angel, then they would end up judging Jesus....how does that work? NOT!
jehovah's witness sends alex murdaugh telling text on day of murders.
poor ms washington! I wonder if he stole money from her without her knowledge. He ripped off so many people. ( I watched a video where he stole from the sons of his housekeeper-made me think maybe if was no accident so he could pull and insurance scam. )
deaf aotearoa flooded with complaints about jehovah's witness churchkashka tunstalllast updated 15:22, october 6 2015deaf aotearoa has asked the jehovah's witness church to respond to claims of a deaf information database.new zealand's deaf community is fed up with unsolicited house calls, claiming the jehovah's witness church is targeting deaf households.deaf aotearoa has received multiple complaints from around the country and says church members visited certain homes because they were aware a deaf person lived there.
the organisation released a statement on monday, saying it was looking into the possibility the church holds a database listing the details of members of the deaf community.jehovah witness spokesman rod spinks said there was no such database and deaf people were not being targeted.the deaf aotearoa statement was posted on the group's facebook page, and received a flood of comments from frustrated people.one woman said a group of jehovah's witnesses had come to her house and asked "for the deaf person who lives here.
" she said they refused to explain how they had her details and didn't visit her neighbours.another said church members had turned up at her work and asked for her by name.hamilton man royce flynn said he had been visited six times over the last nine months, despite repeatedly saying he was uninterested in the house calls.he said the church members were always able to sign and also brought deaf people along, which lead him to believe he was being singled out.flynn said contacted local police, who told him it was a privacy issue and referred him on to the office of the privacy commissioner.he said he had been been in contact with local labour member of parliament sue moroney.deaf aotearoa acting chief executive jill dean said complaints about the church were a recurring issue.
a friend of old friends told me the couple went to I believe somewhere in South American for sign language for the deaf. I knew they had gone to Florida for sign language, but evidently moved on. Here is what I really want to say about it. She told me they went into the other country as students in order to get the visa. The organization has no issues with false documentation to further their interests.
looking for references that talk about witnesses not being able to hold any private interpretation or belief that isn't in line with official doctrine.
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i know i've seen them before but of course now i can't find any of the more in your face statements..
Everyone who is a JW or is studying should read this: You are deserving of death if you put the Bible over WT Publications. The agenda hasn't changed. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/131122/1954-douglas-walsh-transcript-pdf
during the height of the pandemic all elders had to report to the co anyone who was struggling with bills or who couldn’t pay the rent.
the co reported it to the branch.. i don’t know what happens next.
do the branch help at all?
I think somewhere on this forum there was recently posted a "letter" to the elders with a list of "social services" to share with the needy. No mention of applying to WT
i came across an xjw post on redditt from a rn.
she states that nearly every jw she ever treated was on anti-depressants or anti-psychotic drugs:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f35vaa/just_about_every_jw_i_come_across_is_on/ i once read somewhere that 1 in 5 jw's were on anti-depressants, but i couldn't find any documentation.
per Sea Breeze- "They will tell you that what they put kids through is nothing short of criminal" ....I knew a family of with two children and I would have hated to be one of those kids. One is bipolar - in and out of hospitals for cutting, etc. Here is an irony: The family took on welfare foster children for extra money. The son in the family knew these kids were there because of a bad home life. He turned his own family ( the JW ) into the welfare and was allowed to leave the home to live with his grandmother.
i came across an xjw post on redditt from a rn.
she states that nearly every jw she ever treated was on anti-depressants or anti-psychotic drugs:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f35vaa/just_about_every_jw_i_come_across_is_on/ i once read somewhere that 1 in 5 jw's were on anti-depressants, but i couldn't find any documentation.
Sea Breeze and Beth Sarim...I know a woman who totally looses control of her head and gets in a bad way when her husband is verbally abusive towards her. I would say it is somewhat psychosomatic or a form of ptsd caused by a former husband. I think many woman in the world are physically ill because of verbal abuse. ( maybe men too-but woman for sure.) I know of a "sister" who underwent exploratory surgery to try to figure out what ailed her. She was in constant pain and thought maybe endometriosis. Drs found nothing. When her adulterous husband finally left, she got over it and the nasty migraines. As kids we would say, sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Well, the Bible is proved true at Pro 12:18 thoughless speech is like the stabs of a sword....
So I wonder how much of the depression and illness is the result of abusive home life.
my big one was: .
rev.
20: 5 "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
the scriptures that bothered me were these stories: the angels came into Lot and the men of the city wanted to have relations with the men and Lot offered his daughters. Then there is the traveler fellow with a concubine who was taken in from the city square by an old fellow and the townsmen wanted to have relations with the traveler...so they give over the woman and she is raped to death! ( so traveler cuts up her body and distributes it throughout the area) So much for chivalry!! So much for depravity! ( not as a kid, but to this day )
Another one that I never could figure out: David counts the people and what was it, 70,000 die? Not to mention That by all rights David and Bathsheba should have been killed under the law.--when I think of David, I think as bad as I have known some men to be, they weren't any worse than David-
