Didn't know Silicon Valley Bank was so important for start-ups....now there's some sort of contagion, people taking their money from regional banks to the big banks.
System seems pretty resilient and different from 2008. Thoughts?
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Silicon Valley Bank bankruptcy....
by mikeflood indidn't know silicon valley bank was so important for start-ups....now there's some sort of contagion, people taking their money from regional banks to the big banks.
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system seems pretty resilient and different from 2008. thoughts?.
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Prediction of Watchtower in a Few Years
by Foolednomore inkingdom halls will be the thing of the past.. conventions (mini assembly halls will still be going on) but will charge for attending and parking and always a donation.
elders will play a much smaller role since csa.
cart preaching will replace door to door.
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mikeflood
Ohh...just one weekly meeting, as a consequence less KH. A bonus, one month your meeting is gonna be midweek, next Sundays. Preaching is gonna be mandatory as always, but just for campaigns several times a year.
A wild guess, you are gonna be able to celebrate birthdays again, of course being circumspect.
A big no, no for people to being in the WT is the amount of meetings and the celebration of birthdays
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No more public WT & Awake?
by mikeflood inhave you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.
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mikeflood
Have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...I wonder how they are gonna spin that fact
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How Will They End 1914 Teaching?
by EmptyInside ini'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
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Well...GB 3.0 would drop it as soon as they are in charge...nu-lite and everything.
Something on the lines like, well, we couldn't go in front of the scriptures, and besides that Babylon the Great is still in place...so keep that thing, it's fall for like before Armageddon, etc,etc. and carry on please.
Nobody is gonna beat an eye, the Borg in general don't really care for that now. Remember, most of the oldies are gonne now.
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How Will They End 1914 Teaching?
by EmptyInside ini'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
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mikeflood
When the GB 3.0 is complete.....they are gonna kick 1914 to the curb, like immediately.
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Is Russia Bluffing?
by Fisherman in“supplies of offensive weapons to the kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” state duma chairman vyacheslav volodin said.
“if washington and nato supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”.
what is russia implying?
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mikeflood
Chancellor Scholz from Germany likely announce today sending Leopard 2 main tanks to Ukraine .... so fate is sealed, fasten your seatbelts...or maybe not
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Is Russia Bluffing?
by Fisherman in“supplies of offensive weapons to the kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” state duma chairman vyacheslav volodin said.
“if washington and nato supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”.
what is russia implying?
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mikeflood
The heavy tanks like the German Leopard 2, it seems are gonna be given to Ukraine....things are escalating day after day.
The thing, if a country from the OTAN is attacked in retaliation by the Russians, the Article 5 is gonna be invoked, guess nobody has stomach for that even the Ruskies.
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Jehovah's Witnesses lose registration as a religious community in Norway
by RULES & REGULATIONS inhttps://www.statsforvalteren.no/nb/oslo-og-viken/folk-og-samfunn/tros--og-livssynssamfunn/jehovas-vitner-taper-registrering-som-trossamfunn/.
published december 22, 2022. the state manager in oslo and viken has decided to withdraw jehovah's witnesses registration as a religious community under the religious society act.. .
we sent a notice to jehovah's witnesses about possible loss of registration on october 25 this year.
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mikeflood
My Borg friend is frantic !
He says that this, is "political righteousness at the best and the beginning of a slippery slope, now any religion in any country could be found of something and cancelled".
The start of the attack on Babylon the Great, blah blah
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Watchtower online religion
by Hellothere inif watchtower becomes a online religion, how you think transition gonna be like?
i thought this maeby would happen in a span of 20 years.
when all old timers are gone and just the new tech savvy generation left.
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mikeflood
It's pretty mucho online now. I think they're gonna keep only the Assembly Halls, getting rid of the KH....way more easy just meet in person three times a year, and for preaching they just could meet in a cafe or a parking lot... don't give them ideas however....
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Newtons prediction for end of the world
by dothemath inmaybe this man (sir isaac newton), has more credibility than fred franz in picking a date for armageddon ?.
interestingly, newton(brilliant mathematician, everyone must know him) was very interested in the bible and revelation .. .
what newton tried to do was determine a particular timescale for the apocalypse.
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mikeflood
Newton was a exceptional scientist, a brilliant mind....however he had a dark hobby about biblical things, specially apocalyptic stuff, wonder if he wrote a book about it?