Rivergang

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  Generation Alpha

  by Gorb in

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  being generation x myself, with 2 teenagers in generation alpha, i see a lot difference between generations.. generation alpha has totaly different views.

  my first reaction at home about the current conflict between gaza and israel made this clear.. what an automatic reaction is for a generation x is a disaster for generation a.. result was my first shock about myself, generation x. do i see the global and local issues still clear?!?

  why became my teenagers so wise persons with a more balanced world view?

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  Rivergang

  Younger persons, I guess, not yet old enough to have seen the full picture. (And let’s face it, HAMAS has well and truly one the propaganda war).
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  JWs Tortured in Russia

  by blondie in

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  https://www.upi.com/top_news/world-news/2024/06/16/russia-tortures-jehovahs-witness/3971718239875/ .

  russia is amping up to severe torture for jws.

  i don't think this is appropriate behaviour for anyone..

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  Rivergang

  Agreed.

  You couldn’t call the perpetrators of those acts “animals’, as that would be an insult to animals!
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  BBC poor grammar - but FUNNY!

  by BoogerMan in

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  "hamburg police shoot man with axe ahead of euros match.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/news.

  why don't german police just use guns?.

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  Rivergang

  This dumbing down of reporting is not just confined to the UK. While going through some of my father’s old things, I came across a newspaper cutting from the year 1959. The contrast in standards between that and modern reporting was startling.One of the reasons I no longer read newspapers!
  
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  God, one person, or three?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  the trinity doctrine says god is three persons in one being.. yet the bible says god is one.. gal 3.20 a mediator, however, implies more than one party; but god is one.

  niv.

  gal 3.20 now a mediator is not for just one person, but god is one.

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  Rivergang

  An argument which has been raging for over 1500 years, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.
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  Who Was The Biggest Jackass Circuit Overseer You Ever Met?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
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  there was on older white-haired circuit overseer in houston around 1989 or 1990. last name started with a w i think.... not sure though.

  even the most brain-dead robotic elders told me he was offensive.

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  Rivergang

  PS: @ozziepost

  I remember Neville Bromwich giving talks at one of our circuit assemblies. However, we never had him as Circuit Overseer (not in my time, anyway). Perhaps we didn't miss much?
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  Who Was The Biggest Jackass Circuit Overseer You Ever Met?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  there was on older white-haired circuit overseer in houston around 1989 or 1990. last name started with a w i think.... not sure though.

  even the most brain-dead robotic elders told me he was offensive.

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  @ozziepost

  Happy to be corrected as to the spelling of “Cyclone Rex’s” surname!
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  Who Was The Biggest Jackass Circuit Overseer You Ever Met?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  there was on older white-haired circuit overseer in houston around 1989 or 1990. last name started with a w i think.... not sure though.

  even the most brain-dead robotic elders told me he was offensive.

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  Rivergang

  I am a little surprised that nobody from Down-Under has mentioned “Cyclone Rex” Manwaring. Don’t think the term “Jack Ass” would quite describe him, but he was certainly unforgettable!
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  Know it’s not true but stay anyway

  by Elena in

  1. watchtower
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  how many of the millions of jws know it’s not true but stay anyway?.

  my guess is most jws know it’s not true on a subconscious level to an extent but they don’t want to think about it too much and would never ever voice it out loud.. but this is probably true with all religions around the world?.

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  but this is probably true with all religions around the world?

  Typically, they might give lip service to whatever their religion teaches, but in practice just quietly ignore its more extreme demands. (A good example of this being the Catholic Church's stance on contraception. Not too many "practicing" Catholics pay a lot of heed to that one!)

  It is similar amongst the JWs. I notice that the ones who have remained long term with the religion are generally those who are likewise inclined to turn a blind eye to the more extreme (or more ridiculous!) utterances of the GB. This is certainly the case in my family, anyway.

  Within any of the so-called "Mainstream Churches", such a course of action is not too difficult to take. For example, the Catholic Church's rules are "attend mass at least twice a year, and confession at least once a year". Meet those requirements, and the church generally leaves you alone.

  However, amongst the JWs, it must be a lot more difficult to maintain the charade? (This question is addressed to those who are PIMOs).

  As WC Stevenson summed it up in his 1968 work The Inside Story of Jehovah's Witnesses: "No other religious group would demand so much from its members, in return for so little". Compared with the other Christian churches, the demands placed on their adherents by the WTS/GB is greater by a number of magnitudes. (In fact, this difference is what mathematicians would describe as "exponential").

  
  
  
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  Education video this midweeks meeting

  by jehovaxx in

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  2. beliefs

  there is an item this week all about yang ones leaving school.. the two brothers go to a career advisor seminar.

  one brother thinks it’s good to work hard full time while you are young and tries to encourage his friend to as well.. his friend (who is the good jw trust the gb no matter what they say)) he wants a part time job.. the video shows him dreaming about investing his money on his phone and the chart goes up, he drives a nice car and seems to be doing well financially.. then he reads the scripture in proverbs and next you see that investment chart go down in the red and he is so pleased he just got a low paid part time job.. this infuriates me.

  how many of us are now struggling because we were told to get menial part time jobs and we were told the end would have been here by now.. i will never tell a young person to listen to the gb advice on this.

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  Rivergang

  Beth Sarim,

  There is nothing like expecting to have it both ways, is there!

  During the recession of the early 1990s, I was living in a circuit which encompassed a low socio-economic area. People there struggled at the best of times, yet the WTS still expected everybody to be forthcoming in paying for the planned new Assembly Hall.

  There were pointed talks "from the platform" which practically accused us all of being just a bloody bunch of tight-@$$es. However, interspersed with those were other talks expressing dim views of young persons who even just wanted to enter into an apprenticeship - let alone pursue a higher qualification.

  At the time, the most charitable thing I could think to describe the situation was "a total disconnection with reality".
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  Education video this midweeks meeting

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is an item this week all about yang ones leaving school.. the two brothers go to a career advisor seminar.

  one brother thinks it’s good to work hard full time while you are young and tries to encourage his friend to as well.. his friend (who is the good jw trust the gb no matter what they say)) he wants a part time job.. the video shows him dreaming about investing his money on his phone and the chart goes up, he drives a nice car and seems to be doing well financially.. then he reads the scripture in proverbs and next you see that investment chart go down in the red and he is so pleased he just got a low paid part time job.. this infuriates me.

  how many of us are now struggling because we were told to get menial part time jobs and we were told the end would have been here by now.. i will never tell a young person to listen to the gb advice on this.

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  Rivergang

  Not again - the €{¥#ards have broken out in a fresh place!