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  I noticed that a lot if not all JWs I watch on FB now have private Freinds and photos

  by mickbobcat in

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  some have done it for a while but in the last couple of years most all of the jws from my old congregation and others i know have privatized the fb and other social pages.

  i wonder if its just happenstance or if its come down from on high to shut this off to further keep them isolated from the apostates?.

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  shepherdless

  I think it’s perhaps a wider trend on Facebook. In fact, is Facebook in general going out of fashion? I think there are growing signs it’s past its peak.

  What I have noticed anecdotally is that kids don’t seem to use Facebook as much. It seems to be becoming an older person’s platform. I think kids use others, such as Instagram etc.

  Often there are semi official WhatsApp groups maintained by group elders for spreading official instructions and information. (Such as meeting times, and basic health news of members)

  I personally don’t know of JWs using Whatsapp, but it would not surprise me. For some reason, Whatsapp doesn’t seem to be as popular in Australia as in other countries (although I personally think Whatsapp is a fantastic app). I think it is seen a bit as an encrypted communication app that drug dealers would use.
  
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  You know you're really dim-witted when? (You actually think a defeated President can successfully REFUSE to step down)

  by Terry in

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  when you're easily convinced about a total impossibility.. such as what?.

  such as a defeated president actually being able to refuse.

  to step down from office.

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  shepherdless

  You know you're really dim-witted when? (You actually think a defeated President can successfully REFUSE to step down)

  Well it has happened plenty of times in the past; particularly in Africa. And that was despite constitutions that were (on paper) better drafted than the US Constitution.
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  My Prediction: Trump Wins Big

  by minimus in

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  a month ago it might have been questionable.

  not now.

  after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.

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  shepherdless

  If you watch only ABC CBS etc. you will only know what you have been fed.

  Yes, that is true. But the same is also applies if you just watch Fox News.
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  My Prediction: Trump Wins Big

  by minimus in

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  a month ago it might have been questionable.

  not now.

  after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.

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  shepherdless

  Pale Emperor, I think it is primarily down to Fox News, and such news services. Outside USA, few people see Fox News and the international media just plays all the crazy stuff he says and does. Hence outside of the USA, he seems to have very few fans.

  However, If you watch Fox News (you can get it on live stream), it is like “stepping through stargaze”. Everything is viewed in a very different way. (I could say more but I don’t really want to get into politics.) I go to the Fox News website occasionally, just so I can try to understand how some people think, because, I can’t understand it otherwise.
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  Koreans Becoming Disillusioned with christianity

  by fulltimestudent in

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  at the start of sydney's lockdown, family gossip told me that a relative who is a pastor, was telling his church members, "you cant catch the coronavirus in church.

  "i've hear nothing since, but its interesting that in south korea, a major outbreak was traced to a south korean church that had organised a series of recruiting campaigns in china's wuhan city.. .

  now, the hongkong based newspaper, the south china morning post (one of the best informed news outlets in asia) says that south koreans are getting pissed off withe the jesus mob.

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  shepherdless

  A couple of years ago, I saw some data (similar to the Pew report) that indicated that South Koreans were giving up religion at the rate of around 1% of the population, per annum. (And obviously that is before cv19.)

  I suspect this COVID-19 is very bad for the organised religion industry, and is probably accelerating the decline, everywhere, including South Korea.
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  So...what do you think about The United States of America?

  by minimus in

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  i know the usa is not perfect.

  there have always been social issues and differences.

  politics has been for many people divisive.

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  From Australia, mostly positive, with firm criticisms on a small number of discrete issues. My guess is that if you took an opinion poll, most Australians would have a generally positive view of USA.

  On the other hand, I think few Australians would be interested in emigrating to USA; visiting, yes; living there, no. That is not a reflection on USA, though.
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  Flu Vaccine Now REQUIRED For All Students Going To School In Massachusetts

  by minimus in

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  this is a requirement now in massachusetts.

  children must get a flu shot by december 31. some allowances are made for religious reasons and health reasons.. personally, i don’t agree with the government making this mandatory.. what is your opinion?

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  shepherdless

  Well Matt, you probably won’t want to peer out under your tin-foil hat to read this, but DDT was not around when, just before WW2, polio swept through and infected the kids in a country town in Australia.

  My dad was one of the kids, and was the only one of those kids that survived. He actually never fully recovered; certain muscles around his waist has withered and stayed that way. You should do a little cross checking before you circulate other people’s crackpot conspiracy theories, and not take them at face value.
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  So What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Do Now?

  by minimus in

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  they don’t go to conventions .

  they don’t go to assemblies.

  they don’t go to meetings.

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  shepherdless

  My wife and others are on a fierce letter-writing campaign; ie they send nuisance letters instead of being nuisance door-knockers. They get together to (I guess) discuss and motivate each other to write letters. My wife also seems to run a fairly regimented family worship regime, and organises for the kids to meet up with the (very few) other kids in the congregation.

  When you include the zoom meetings twice a week, I would say she is about as busy as she always was with this nonsense. However, the little snippets of info I get on others in the congregation suggest she is the exception, not the norm.
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  Purple Triangle

  by apostatethunder in

  1. watchtower
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  has anyone noticed that the colour purple comes from mixing red and blue, and that the red triangle meant political prisioner and the blue triangle meant foreigner?

  purple also comes from mixing pink and blue, foreign homosexual or sexual offender.

  that's how the nazis wieved the bible students.

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  shepherdless

  Yellow comes from mixing red and green...

  You might want to check on that.
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  The toxic JW Worldview

  by TD in

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  sometimes i forget how small-minded, petty, provincial, mean-spirited ignorant and judgemental it was and still is.... then i sit down with a jw relative, hoping to have a normal conversation and realize there is literally nothing to talk about.. nothing..... current events?

  hobbies?

  your job?

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  shepherdless

  I get that, completely.

  Sometimes I wonder why they think Jehovah will only save a group of people who contribute so little, often don’t know what is going on in he real world, and often have to depend on Government services just to get by.