It looks like the Memorial
Will actually turn out to be an actual
MEMORIAL
for a lot of elderly jws
pistolpete
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Back to the Meetings------Back to Covid.
by pistolpete ina lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.
so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.
last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.
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Back to the Meetings------Back to Covid.
by pistolpete ina lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.
so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.
last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.
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it's already happening...
NewsThe hall I grew up in... Already cancelled for the next few weeks due to a COVID outbreak. They could barely get through 1 week. Lol I'm so glad I'm not making this up. This is just too good to be true. As PIMO I wish it was my current hall but oh well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/tyqmxe/its_already_happening/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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Back to the Meetings------Back to Covid.
by pistolpete ina lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.
so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.
last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.
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A lot of PIMOs are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that Covid is spreading among the members returning.
Post;
So last Saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired. Last night I got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).
Honestly I kinda expected this. Since the building itself is old and poorly ventilated, the venue was packed to the brim making it impossible to social distance, and everyone there was so gitty about being there and seeing everyone that they kinda forgot about the pandemic and made very close contact.
And to top it off I got an update text saying that they're still trying to go through with in person meetings! Like what the fuck. We were potentially a sight of a mass covid explosion and you're still going to try to go through with this? So much for Godly respect of life I guess. But they didn't say that the governing body is going to leave it up to the individual to decide whether or not they attend via zoom(as if they have any real authority over the individual's).
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2022-April-Elder Manual and Addendum--12 Files!
by Atlantis inseveral files in the folder including:.
2022-april-elders manual.. 2022 april addendum.
working together safely12 files total.
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pistolpete
refrain from defending your faith."
So--Why do you believe 1914 is the beginning of the last days?
NO COMMENT.
Why do you refuse blood transfusions but accept blood fractions?
NO COMMENT
Why do you disfellowship AND SHUN members who don't want to worship the way you do?
NO COMMENT
Why do you believe ONLY YOU WILL BE SAVED?
NO COMMENT
Why do you worship the GOVERNING BODY?
NO COMMENT
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pistolpete
Everyone knows Mormons are the ones that have the real TRUTH.
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How many here turned Athiest or did not and why??
by Witness 007 inme i slowly came to see religion was a crutch we use to dream of a better "afterlife"....i feel half my life was wasted building an organisation that had no criminal mastermind behind it...just alot of mislead people looking for leadership.
if your still religious explain why..
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Why not? Because something doesn't come from nothing.
Something or someone, had to start the whole physical Universe.
But whoever or whatever it was, that being is NOT the deity of the Bible, aka, Jehovah or Jesus.
Something OUTSIDE the physical Universe, (The material world of tangible or concrete existence; the natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences,)-----had to create the atoms necessary to form Our Material Universe and all life in it.
What humans refuse to accept, is that the Universe and all life REFLECTS who this Creator is.
This Creator has no interest in being worshiped.
He has no compassion or empathy for Human or animal life
Life on earth, whether it comes from evolution or direct creation was created in such a manner that in order to survive, most animals and humans need to Kill another life to feed and sustain themselves.
Contrary to what Christians or others who believe that the Earth was created for us,
evidence shows that that the earth was Never created for us, we just happened to adapt to it in order to survive.
To prove that a God of Love and Compassion does not exist, just consider the evidence of Human and animal history.
"The path to modern humans is a massive experiment in failures and trial and error.
At least six times almost all of live on earth was wiped out in mass extinctions. 99.9% of all the species that ever lived have gone extinct. The ancestors of humans (in fact all mammals) only thrived because a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs leaving a niche for them to thrive.
Consider that virtually every creature that has ever lived - including 200,000 years of modern humans who suffered and grieved just like us - died of starvation, disease, exposure, parasites, infection or predation.
The history of life seems perfectly designed to maximize suffering and waste."
If we humans decide to get a nuclear war going for stupid reasons;
THE CREATOR IS NOT GOING TO GET INVOLVED AND SAVE HUMANITY.
HE PROBABLY HAS OTHER LIFE FORMS IN OTHER PLANETS BETTER THAN US.
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Refuting the Alleged Evidence of Jesus' Resurrection
by truth_b_known inin the past few months there have been a few debates on this site over alleged evidence of the resurrection of jesus.
this can be a hot topic as most would agree that without the resurrection of jesus there would be no christianity.
i am not so sure of that, but i am more sure that dr. gary habermas' minimal facts approach to the resurrection has no evidentiary basis.. here is a 22 minute video on the topic.
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Disillusioned JW
He then said that Christianity (at least as people commonly think of it today) came to be when Paul combined the various ideas and preached the "Christ crucified" doctrine.
Disillusion jw see my post here;
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6221415232569344/my-gospel
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Refuting the Alleged Evidence of Jesus' Resurrection
by truth_b_known inin the past few months there have been a few debates on this site over alleged evidence of the resurrection of jesus.
this can be a hot topic as most would agree that without the resurrection of jesus there would be no christianity.
i am not so sure of that, but i am more sure that dr. gary habermas' minimal facts approach to the resurrection has no evidentiary basis.. here is a 22 minute video on the topic.
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pistolpete
Disillusioned JW
Sea Breeze, I don't see how your link about allegations about Carrier relates to the rest of the content of your post, thus why did you post that link?
It's called;
Argumentum ad hominem (argument directed at the person instead of the idea being debated). This is the error of
attacking the character
or motives of a person who has stated an idea, rather than the idea itself. The most obvious example of this fallacy is when one debater maligns the character of another debater
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An offer in exchange for some help.
by JeffT inas some of you might recall, i self-published a novel last fall.
i hoped “armageddon’s disciples” would be successful as my previous works (an alternate history trilogy) had done well.
not so with “disciples.” i’ve sold a total of nine copies.
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So (being honest) I want to create some interest and sales or find out why I’m not attracting readers.
I don't think it has anything to do with your book, I think people are so busy and concern with what is happening with Russia and Ukraine that their attention is on that and nothing else. I saw on the news that books on Russia and Ukraine were selling like hotcakes.
Not sure if this is true but I heard that , Moby Dick, when it first came out, was very poorly received. A few years after the death of the author Herman Melville, it became a very popular book.
Like they say, "Timing is Everything"
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Refuting the Alleged Evidence of Jesus' Resurrection
by truth_b_known inin the past few months there have been a few debates on this site over alleged evidence of the resurrection of jesus.
this can be a hot topic as most would agree that without the resurrection of jesus there would be no christianity.
i am not so sure of that, but i am more sure that dr. gary habermas' minimal facts approach to the resurrection has no evidentiary basis.. here is a 22 minute video on the topic.
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Jesus said; If you have seen me, you have seen the father.
These words tell us a lot about Jesus and his character because he was basically saying he reflected his father Jehovah PERFECTLY.
When we read the OT to determine what kind of Being Jehovah is, many Christians become surprise and shocked that this God does not fit the description of a God of Compassion and love that most Christians cite word for word.
Instead Jehovah is described in the bible as a ruthless, psychopath.
One example is when Jehovah decides to kill thousands of his most loyal, innocent worshipers. Why? Not because his worshipers have done something bad, or because they are evil.
But he decides to kill them because he gets ticked off because a King takes a Census.
But it's not just that. Jehovah reflects all the qualities of a Psychopath by FORCING King David to Choose how he will murder all these loyal worshipers of his.
A three year famine.
Imagine what that entails. It takes anywhere between 43 to 70 days for a healthy individual to die of starvation. For Jehovah to come up with that idea, he had to reflect on all the steps of all those thousands of fathers, mothers, and children, who would die of starvation.
First comes the weakness of not having enough food, then comes the illness because the body becomes compromised and disease takes over. Then the parents start seeing their children slowly starve to death. Then the husband sees his wife die and finally the husband dies, all of starvation.
Invading Armies, imagine what that implies.
David pleads with Jehovah reminding him they are innocent. But Jehovah is ruthless and forces David to choose the method of murdering all those innocent people.
So David picks the pestilence, thinking Jehovah is merciful, and instead, 70,000 mothers, fathers, and children are murdered by Jehovah in 3 days. That's about 1000, innocent humans dying every hour for three days. Not even enough time to bury your loved ones.
And this is the person whom Jesus said;
If you have seen me, you have seen the father.
The reason many are drawn to Jesus is because the account of the resurrection of Lazarus as portrayed in the bible and in Hollywood Movies is made so emotional that it tugs at people's emotions.
Most can't even cite the other two resurrections because they don't carry that same impact.
And yet, these people never want to answer the question;
If Jesus is Love and Powerful, why has it been thousands of years since he presented his life to his father as a ransom of many, and yet has not been able to step in and stop the billions of innocent humans that have gone through unspeakable pain and anguish. Mothers watching their sons being murdered, Fathers watching their daughters being raped, young children being kidnapped, raped, and dismembered.
I would say 99 percent of us here would not hesitate to stop the evil of this world, IMMEDIATELY if we had the power to do so. We would not wait even a day to stop all the human pain.
But the fact that's it been thousands of year since Jesus died and still nothing----bespeaks reality.
It's been Thousands of years----and thousands of more years will pass, until finally, people will accept reality, that He is not coming to save the world because he can't.
