Anders Andersen

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  Field service national average - what do you think it is now?

  by BourneIdentity in

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  it’s always been 10 hours when door to door was active.

  i’m curious of how it’s changed with only letter writing and phone witnessing approved.. i’m curious if they are able to do it for 3 hours like a typical door to door morning.

  i would be surprised.

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  There may have been a dip in the first month, but it may very well be back to normal.

  There's a lot of busy work going on:

  -Letter writing. Dubs slowly handwrite silly letters while drinking coffee and zooming with others doing the same. Even if 4 are drinking their coffee and only 1 is actually writing, they're still all doing field service work, right?

  - Phone witness. Same as above, but with more dubs idly watching what one of them isbdoing.

  Surely they can rake up a lot of hours doing useless shit like that. They're all being pressured to use their quarantine time for that too.
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  Top Ten List of What Happens Next...

  by Farmer Jim1 in

  1. jw
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  what does everyone think will happen next on the back of the coronavirus pandemic?.

  these are my suggestions;.

  1) coronavirus will have a disproportionate effect on jw ‘growth’ countries like in south america and africa.

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  They won't get rid of COs. They are a vital link in the chain of absolving the org from any and all responsibility and liability.

  Elders, pioneers and others are appointed by COs. Officially because that's how they rolled in the NT too. But we all know they don't want the branch to suffer backlash if an elder or pioneer does something criminal.

  So my bet is that COs will stay for a loooong time. But they may move entirety to part-time COs: elders that serve in their own congregation, and go bully other congregations a few weeks per year. Basically the substitute-CO thing.
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  Do angels have genders?

  by BourneIdentity in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  many of them came down to have relations with women.

  does that mean there are male angels?

  if there are male and female, what makes them that with no physical body?

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  They have no physical gender, and are male at the same time.

  It all makes sense when you comsider when and where these myths were written: a misogynistic patriarchal society that saw women as inferior, property of their male owners.

  Of course angels, superior beings, would be male too.

  Jehovah is male too. Sure, ask a JW that directly and they'll likely recognize the ridiculousness so they might say he is genderless because he has no physical body.

  Then ask them to show any indication for that from the Bible.
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  87 jw dead due to Corona in Netherlands

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  from a trustfull source: .

  87 jw's dead due to corona in the netherlands.. tested victems.

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  Anders Andersen

  @roadtonowhere,

  This may help you answer the question I posed: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
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  87 jw dead due to Corona in Netherlands

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from a trustfull source: .

  87 jw's dead due to corona in the netherlands.. tested victems.

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  Are their tests honest? Or like the US where they count deaths with c19 but not necessarily from c19

  I'm not sure about that. If a heart patient who tested positive for Covid19 and has mild symptoms dies from a heart attack, he may or may not be counted. Can't find specifics on that.

  However, the reported number of covid19 deaths in The Netherlands is about half of what it would be with 100% testing.

  How do we know? Because statistics show a lot more people died in the past few months than could be expected based on statistics. Since there is no other (obvious) explanation for this other than covid19, we can conclude these extra deaths are covid19 related. Either because these people died from covid19, or from the effects covid19 has on society and the health care system.

  This also aligns with what family doctors and doctors in nursing homes report: there are quite a few people who have all symptoms of covid19, choose to not go to hospital, and die before/without being tested. These deaths aren't counted in the official number of covid19 deaths.

  The same is probably true for most other countries.

  What do ststistics says about the number of deaths in the USA in the past weeks? Does it appear number of covid19 deaths are over- or undereported?

  
  
  
  
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  87 jw dead due to Corona in Netherlands

  by Gorbatchov in

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  from a trustfull source: .

  87 jw's dead due to corona in the netherlands.. tested victems.

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  Anders Andersen

  In The Netherland 5775 people died of Covid-19 so far.*

  On a population of 17.280.000.

  That's 0.033%.

  Converted to 29.000 dubs that would be only 10 victims.

  JW report 87 deaths. That's 9 times the expected number, or about 5 times the expected number of victims based on memorial attendance.

  Of course, in cases like these the sample size may not be enough to conclude the numbers are significant.

  (Either my brain doesn't work properly because of that bottle of wine I finished or I have to disagree with SBF by a factor of 10.)

  Edit to add: regardless of religious conviction or affiliation, every victim is one too many, and mourned for by friends and family.

  *) This is confirmed cases only. Statistically speaking, based on the number of people dying per day, covid19 related deaths seem to be about twice that number.
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  Watchtower President Dies From COVID-19!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  watchtower president dies of covid-19.

  https://nycinews.com/jehovahs-witnesses-president/?fbclid=iwar3n7jwlxwtmvhkjswhhdxekgxcvogw0jxp-rkyhfb_mg1trztlsb3uhkiw .

  petra!.

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  The item is dated April 27th. If it were true, there would have been an official statement by now.

  @John Redwood thanks for pointing out the lack of reliability of the source.
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  When Was The First Time You Ever Got Drunk?

  by 1234 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was 20 years old and at bethel for just a couple of months.

  i was really depressed, as i was finding out what bethel was really all about.

  i drank a whole bottle of cold duck, after a long hot subway ride back to brooklyn.

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  If I'm not mistaken it was at my 10 year wedding anniversary, so that would be at age 31.

  We celebrated with family and (JW) friends at our place.

  Drank beers and (spiked) sangria from 8pm til 3am when all (but one) friends had left. That wasn't even the real issue. I was just buzzing a little bit.

  Then the one friend who was left - and stayed at our home for what was left of the night - said, while already on his way to bed: "Too bad there aren't any beers left."

  We still had 3 quarters of a bottle of the gin that was used to spike the sangria, so I told him jokingly "we can finish that bottle ;-)"

  "You know you must never dare me"

  "I dare you"

  15 minutes later that bottle was empty, and soon after my bedroom changed into a fast spinning carnival ride.

  I'll skip some details. Rest assured that shortly before passing out I managed to quickly push my meeting shoes out of harm's way.

  When I woke up it was 3pm, and I was not feeling well. Unfortunately it was Sunday, and I was scheduled to read the Watchtower.

  I had to call in sick. "Guess I'm coming down with the flu or something. Headache, feverish chills, nausea...."

  No more gin for me. (Not that that helped me when German police took me in custody years later ;-)
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  Do Jw's Dress up in meeting clothes for Zoom meetings?

  by jeremiah18:5-10 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am just curious if anyone knows whether the "friends" still are required to wear "meeting clothes" for attending meetings through zoom?

  such emphasis on dressing in a godly manner over the decades, would be interesting if some attend in pajamas or their work clothes, no makeup, etc....

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  Yes, they stress up. Also the dubs have been told that even though they are in their own homes, they should behave as if they're in the KH. So no drinks or snacks during the zooming. I guess Jehovah doesn't approve of coffee?
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  The New World's first Convention... - LMAO

  by tresdecu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was sent to me by a cooky uber-dub.

  apparently it's making the rounds locally...it's typical lighthearted jw satire (that they think is great!!

  smh :-/ ) .

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  Anders Andersen

  This is just silly.

  Btw it's not satire. Satire is humourous ridiculing.