Posts by NonCoinCollector

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Was you or your family ever a local needs talk subject?
by Foolednomore in
1. jw
2. friends
our family was always a topic on a local needs talk.

but it was funny when the brothers needed money they would come with their hands out.

this is when we lived in the states.
NonCoinCollector

Maybe regarding meeting attendance, but we weren't there to hear it.
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In person attendance
by road to nowhere in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we got the inevitable letter today.. meet, associate and "encourage" in person unless sick or infirm.

also dress up for zoom if you must use it.

locally over half are on zoom, 3/4 no picture.
NonCoinCollector

"Let's just do your Shepherding Call on the phone while we're talking" was my reply.
That is an outstanding answer. One would think if the message is so life-saving, then it shouldn't matter where or how it takes place either in person, on the phone, or by Zoom. It also shouldn't matter how you are dressed since Watchtower loves to make that an issue.
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In person attendance
by road to nowhere in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we got the inevitable letter today.. meet, associate and "encourage" in person unless sick or infirm.

also dress up for zoom if you must use it.

locally over half are on zoom, 3/4 no picture.
NonCoinCollector

Or otherwise make restrictions and set guidelines as to who only can attend zoom?
If they do this, I predict there will be many that become irregular in attendance.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
NonCoinCollector

Vienne, at last check Lloyd Evans has 1345 videos. I challenge fans of his to point to more than 20 of them they could argue as must watch videos. Although I do like his video of why 607 BCE was not the year Jerusalem fell to Babylon, that is the only video I can point to as really good. A few of his interviews might make the list, but really if you can't say what needs to be said in under 50 videos about Watchtower then you are in it for the wrong reasons. Lloyd doesn't offer news any longer, because as we figured, it wasn't him looking for the news. All he has are his rebuttals. If you are going to the trouble of watching Lloyd's rebuttals, you might as well watch the original videos and make your own rebuttals.
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In person attendance
by road to nowhere in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we got the inevitable letter today.. meet, associate and "encourage" in person unless sick or infirm.

also dress up for zoom if you must use it.

locally over half are on zoom, 3/4 no picture.
NonCoinCollector

When the message is the same regardless if you are at the Kingdom Hall or watching it on Zoom, why would anybody go to a Kingdom Hall to be coughed and sneezed upon? Not to mention all of the hand shaking. One side effect of not going to meetings that I discovered is what I thought was a chronic cough went away.
Think about this. Have you ever been around someone vaping? Can you smell the fruity scent of their vape juice from several feet away? It is the same with any virus.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
NonCoinCollector

Once you stop letting Watchtower brainwash you, you realize you don't even need the rebuttals from Lloyd or others either.
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My Father's Last Words
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
father's last words.

in 1972, i was 25 years old following a strong impulse carrying me 1,500 miles.. i intended to find him - my dad.

he’d left when i was about half a year old.. his home in detroit, michigan had been the first house i lived in at age zero.. i knocked on his door and he answered.
NonCoinCollector

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
It sounds like your dad was incapable of being the man he wanted to be. What he failed to realize back then is running away from your problems doesn't solve anything as you can never run away from yourself. Being incompatible with your mother was a symptom of a larger issue is my guess.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
NonCoinCollector

If Lloyd is done doing videos in his bunker basement, I would love to see him return to the kitchen where he filmed that brilliant livestream confession.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
NonCoinCollector

He has lost at least half his income and all this would come out of his pocket for at best minimal benefit to his channel and fortunes.
Interesting that you say this. Another YouTube channel I follow said yesterday that due to the global recession that is now underway the YouTube ad revenue is about half of what it was. The loss of 40% of his patrons, half the ad revenue, flat book sales and merchandise, Lloyd's income isn't nearly what it was last year.
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Who really is the faithful and discreet slave?
by Fisherman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
“who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?” — math 24:45. according to jw, the faithful and discreet slave are the “anointed” men of the “governing body” of the jehovah’s witnesses religion..
NonCoinCollector

In the Bible, God is not the author of slavery. Slavery originated with humans. He worked along with it and tolerated it as with human suffering until he takes action in the future —as the Bible explains.
Exodus 21:20-21 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property."
You are telling me God did not author this? Who did? And which parts of the bible are authored by God and which parts are authored by man?