Sad to say but I donāt think the brothers in Ukraine will fare very well. Apparently men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country as they are required to take up arms and fight the invading Russian army.
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Jehovah's witnesses at polish border. Wtf
by usualusername1 insky news reporting ukrainian refugees coming into poland.
"jws are offering support".
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Ukraine and Armageddon
by jhine ini'm going to take a wild stab in the dark here and guess that the watchtower is having a wonderful time over the whole ukraine situation.
is the whole " end of times " thing being pushed again to bring dissidents back into line .
they must be seeing as a gift from above .
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solomon
Jehovahs witnesses have made so many sacrifices and given up so much for the Armageddon retirement plan that they hang on to every thread of hope.
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solomon
Someone beat me to it. The writer of the book of revelation was stoned on ergot.
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Annual service report - yet another analysis - big trouble for the WTS
by FFGhost inthere's already been a couple of threads on the 2021 report with insightful comments, but i'm vain enough to want to start my own topic with some additional thoughts..... as others on the other thread noted, it's useful to compare the 2021 numbers not only to 2020 but also 2019 (the last non-pandemic report).. there are some really troubling (if you're a wt headquarters guy) news in the latest report.. 1) baptisms plummet.
2021 - 171,393. baptisms dropped 20% in 2020, and 30% more in 2021. the total drop from 2019 to 2021 is an amazing 44%.. one could argue that without in-person assemblies and conventions you'd expect baptisms to drop.
but....if someone really wants to get baptized, jws will find a way.
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solomon
Without in person meetings and field service it is impossible to enforce compliance by means of peer pressure and guilt.
Another two years of zoom and what will the numbers be?
Im surprised they actually released these numbers.
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The Poor the Wealthy and the Middle Class
by Simon inthe poor spendthe middle-class savethe wealthy invest.
the unique circumstances of the lockdown and stimulus checks has highlighted these differences in stark ways.. on one hand, you have jumps in sales and valuation of companies like foot locker and nike, as people spend their "free" government money on sneakers.
they blow it on useless tat.
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solomon
Government backed bonds based on currency printed up by the federal reserve donāt seem like a great investment plan right now unless the yields go higher. In addition the yields mean nothing if real inflation (not the CPI bs numbers that they feed us) is higher than the yield. You are still going backwards
The other issue that investors donāt see is taxation. RRSPs (Canada) are tax deductible when you buy them, but tax payable when you redeem them. The government has this all figured out so that when you cash in your investments they can tax you on them and deduct some of the money from your government pension.
If I had to do it over again I would have bought collectibles (sports cards, ertyl toys, hot wheels , comic books) when I was younger. Also maybe some gold and silver coins. If you keep these in their original package I donāt see this as being riskier than the stock market. The greatest benefit of these kinds of assets is they are out of the monetary system. You can sell them for cash and that money is yours. All of it.
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Butchered pronunciation
by road to nowhere insince it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".
twice, morning and afternoon..
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solomon
Ja hovah pisses me off.
Itās Gee Hovah. There aināt no ahh sound in an e.
Damn Yankees
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Not invited to congregation āget togethersā. They finally said it
by solomon inwe donāt get many invitations to congregational social gatherings.
we donāt attend midweek meetings and miss about 1/3 of sunday meetings.
we go in service at least once a month.
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Iām just reviewing this thread I started a few years back and like George Carlin saidā itās a club, and you aināt in itā.
It is human nature to form in herds. In years past it meant survival for the herd. It is this same mentality that drives Jehovahās Witness behaviour.
Is this any different than if you show up at a motorcycle club riding a Honda when every other member is on a Harley?
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Suggested movies for the new Jehovah's Witness Movie Studio to undertake once built.
by was a new boy intitle: ××××Ŗ ××Ŗ××× (sister scheduler) .
××××Ŗ ××Ŗ××× would be based on 1 kings 11:3.. 'he had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines' .
××××Ŗ ××Ŗ××× job is to arrange solomon quality time with his legal babes.
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The daddy issues
A movie based on Lots two daughters
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Pilot program for in-person meetings for the vaccinated
by Vidqun inpilot program for in-person meetings to resume, to be launched in hong kong in nov. 2021. only fully vaccinated publishers are to be invited.
it's going to be a fader's paradise.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/q9e9pg/and_so_it_begins/?%24deep_link=true&correlation_id=fb861c4a-8c7e-4bad-b1e3-4c86b3254daf&post_fullname=t3_q9e9pg&post_index=1&ref=email_digest&ref_campaign=email_digest&ref_source=email&utm_content=post_title&%243p=e_as&_branch_match_id=936859150293933406&utm_medium=email%20amazon%20ses.
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solomon
The letter states that vaccinated publishers that donāt feel comfortable attending can stay on zoom meetings.
Children not allowed as they arenāt allowed vaccines yet.
Must wear a mask at all times.
Must supply information for contact tracing at each meeting(info to be held for one month)
Temperature checks and covid questions asked at each meeting.
Letter also mention$ to empty the contribution boxe$ after each meeting. That is very important.
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You're DISFELLOWSHIPPED, Please---DON'T CONTACT US, Until You Return to Jehovah's Organization!
by pistolpete ini just heard this story from one of my relatives.
i'm leaving a lot of things out.. a jw couple had three kids and raised them in the religion.
the oldest one got disfellowshipped at 18 years of age because he committed fornication with a jw girl.
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There are a lot of failed marriages in āthe truthā. Jw parents are sometimes the problem. They interfere too much and put extreme pressure on the children to be someone in the organization.
My siblings that left āthe truthā seem to have been more successful family lives than the jws.