It is many years since I have seen them working door to door in our neighbourhood; certainly pre-pandemic. Even the apathy cart literature stands have been absent until only last week, when they had one set up in the local shopping centre.
Rivergang
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Jehovah's Witnesses came by today.
by 3rdgen inthis morning i was in our front yard sitting down pulling weeds when i saw 3 people slowly walking on the sidewalk in my direction.
2 of them were young, handsome, clean shaven, wearing nice crisp white shirts and perfectly tailored black slacks.
they could have been mormons except.... there was a 60ish portly woman wearing a frumpy dress and ugly sandals.
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Are you glad you got the Covid Vaccine? Did it help?
by liam ini didn’t get the covid vaccine, but i admit, i was scared as shit i made the wrong decision because there was so much confusion out there.
practically all my family and most of my friends took the vaccine because everyone was depending on those in charge to speak the truth.
now a lot of them are sick, and they can't figure out why.
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Rivergang
We ignored the lessons of 1918
I think it is all too easy to assure ourselves that “That was then - things are different now”, and thus lapse into a false sense of security.
Not just in disease control, either. International diplomacy may well right now be an area in which the lessons of history are being either forgotten or ignored.
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The Texas Border has been overpowered
by liam inin del rio texas, the border patrol can't hold back the invasion of illegal migrants anymore.
they have asked the biden administration for help, but they refused.
harris has promised to give all illegal migrants citizenship if she is becomes president.
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Rivergang
"rage baiting entertainer"
Is that a similar thing to a "Shock Jock"?
We certainly have a few of those around these parts, too (without mentioning any names!) Most would do well to remember more often the old adage "Always engage brain before putting mouth into gear". -
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The evidence that fluoride lowers IQ is stronger than what was thought
by What-A-Coincidence influoride action network.
http://www.fluoridealert.org.
fan bulletin 997: new video: vyvyan howard's toronto presentation.
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Rivergang
Joey Jojo,
So much for the “Good old days”
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Would you be able to survive a three day Assembly?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe last assembly i attended was over 10 years ago.
the monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in.
i survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal.
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Rivergang
the 1969 PEACE ON EARTH 8 day assembly
As a then "newly interested person", I felt disappointed that I missed that assembly.
Little did I know!
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"We're in the last days!"
by BoogerMan innot just jw's, but countless others (evangelicals etc.
) are claiming that we're in the "last days.".
but........bible students/jw's have been spouting this fake message since the 19th century!!!!!!.
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Jan,
For sure, if you must have a religion, stick to one of those “Mainstream” Churches.
Centuries ago, they may have sat at the more extreme end of the scale. These days, though, that appears to have been bred out of them.
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Would you be able to survive a three day Assembly?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe last assembly i attended was over 10 years ago.
the monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in.
i survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal.
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Rivergang
I would rather visit the dentist!
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"We're in the last days!"
by BoogerMan innot just jw's, but countless others (evangelicals etc.
) are claiming that we're in the "last days.".
but........bible students/jw's have been spouting this fake message since the 19th century!!!!!!.
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Rivergang
The world will indeed end one day - some four billion years from now, when the sun finally runs out of nuclear fuel.
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The org's "new lights" - corrupting Proverbs 4:18
by BoogerMan inproverbs 4:18 says, "but the path of the righteous....grows brighter and brighter until full daylight.".
the bible "light" doesn't get brighter - it never changes - it's a person's direction & course of life which gets brighter.. w11 9/15 p. 14 par.
15 - "when spiritual light on some matter gets brighter, do you try to understand the underlying scriptural reasons for the adjustment?
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Rivergang
All a person has to do is read the entire Chapter Four of the Book of Proverbs to see that the way the JWs apply verse 18 is wrong. As peacefulpete notes, Proverbs Chaper 4 has nothing whatsoever to do with doctrine.
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Gaslighting older JW couples to avoid BLAME
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/kvdqtookscu?si=fuqhj44cokmdzkt7.
one of the greatest issues facing the organization today is couples that sacrificed family life or businesses opportunity in order to preach the many dates the watchtower set in the .
past only to be betrayed in recent years as the watchtower is moving away from date setting.
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SBF,
They were a bit more cunning after 1975.
Without actually even mentioning a specific year, there was much hype about "The Generation" meaning 70 years, and:
- 1914 plus 70 years equals what year? (Go figure!)
The thought was definitely left hanging there, and many fell for it.
Where I was living during those years of the 1980s, the school leaving age was only 15, and many Witness kids dropped out of school the day they reached that age - all to partake "In the Ministry".
Earlier to 1975, there had been widespread speculation that "The Generation" was possibly 40 years in length, making the years 1953/54 a possible time for the end. Persons affected by that would now be of advanced age, but still possibly alive,
One of the greatest issues facing the organization today is couples that sacrificed family life or businesses opportunity in order to preach the many dates the Watchtower set in the past.
Consequently, I would not be too hard on Raymond Frantz,