FedUpJW

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  Do You Feel Your Rights Are Being Trampled On By Government Regarding Coronavirus?

  by minimus in

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  i support local and state and federal government’s power to safeguard the public.

  i wonder is it getting to a point where we will be told we can’t go out anymore, can’t use your phone or computer anymore because of the viruses that we can get, etc.

  are we prolonging this virus at all ?

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  FedUpJW

  Yes, I do believe governments are trampling on rights. I am intelligent enough to practice good hygiene, and stay away from sick people. While I support some government intervention for public safety (think speed limits, fire and police departments etc.) I also think that government over-reach with police enforced travel bans and stay in your home orders are too broad.

  Does anyone really believe that once any government uses, and their citizens willingly accept, a level of control over their personal lives that encroaches on their freedoms as human beings that said government will readily relinquish that control?

  And NO, I am not saying that their is not a serious virus, and NO, I am not saying that measures should not be taken to ensure personal and public safety. Just that personal responsibility needs to be respected by governments or be insisted upon by the citizens themselves.
  
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  App message about jw.org HQ

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  got this week a message from a jw friend about the jw.org headquarters move to warwick.. the message shows how even rational witness (my friend is a rational businessman) share the jw emotional madness that's going arround the jw social media now.

  how sad!

  read for your self:.

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  FedUpJW

  Taken from a news source: The U.S. Northern Command on Saturday said it was deploying 1,000 Air Force and Navy medical providers to New York City over the next three days. About 300 personnel will work at the Javits Center, which has been converted into a makeshift hospital. Others will be deployed to various New York City hospitals that lack medical staff.

  Once again ill-informed JW's get it all wrong!
  
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

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  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  FedUpJW

  This is awful news. What on Earth do we do now?

  We could go to a dark room, curl up in a little ball, and whimper like a child with a soiled diaper waiting for someone to do something for us, which is what it seems that many people do; or as I choose to do...live my life as normally as possible and enjoy each day, while taking reasonable precautions for my health and those around me.
  
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  The organization is missing out on a golden opportunity to reach people with the "good news"

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. beliefs

  great question to ask your pimi's.

  if we truly are in final minutes of the last days before the great tribulation.

  with most everyone home, why is the org.

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  FedUpJW

  Well they are writing generic doom and gloom letters to addresses culled from a town directory, and throwing in a card about the website, and a piece of litterature about how the deaths of billions at Armageddon will solve all the worlds problems. At least that cheap paper can be used for wiping ones butt after morning duty, and thrown away.
  
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  3 Letters Arrived!--(As of 2020-04-06)

  by Atlantis in

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  2020-04-03--support during coronavirus pandemic.

  https://docdro.id/cvkzlpi.

  2020-04-04--announcement.

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  Support During Coronavirus Pandemic?

  I just threw up! What a pants load. The writers who thought that letter up should all be getting treatment for broken arms as they worked so hard to pat themselves on their own backs! And probably treated for chapped lips from blowing their own horns.
  
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  When do you think Coronavirus will go away?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i hope it will go away in the next few months!

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  So the designated health officials from each country are blowing hot air, that this virus is neither contagious or deadly ?

  THAT is NOT what I said...and you damned well know it! There is a level of fear and panic being instilled that is way out of proportion to the real seriousness of the virus. And there IS an agenda behind THAT panic that is prompted by an agenda other than my health.

  Of course having a battle of wits with you will be like having a gun fight with an un-armed person!
  
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  Convention

  by Gorbatchov in

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  gorby's brother in law came by the porch and told "the conventions are cancelled".

  we knew already but responded surprised.

  "it will be recorded and showed at stream.

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  FedUpJW

  Due to Covid-19 all summer RC's are now cancelled. However, Jehovah has made the loving provision for all to now use the "financial resources" (money) that would have been used on Convention travel, food, and accommodations to be loving donated to the WTB&TS. Further details as to hw to get us your money coming sooooooon!

  Not read in a letter, but nearly word for word what an eldurr said in the zzzzzoooooooooooooommm meeting this morning.
  
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  When do you think Coronavirus will go away?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i hope it will go away in the next few months!

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  FedUpJW

  When will it go away? Just as soon as the "powers" behind the media driven fear and panic have attained the goal they are pursuing. And that is not our health. IMO
  
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  Unbelievable!

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  you gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.

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  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.

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  FedUpJW

  "Religious leaders promise you blessings from God, all you have to do is support them. Promise, hope, disappointment."
  

  Reminds me of what their own Bible says that Jesus said, "(Matthew 12:36, 37) . . . I tell you that men will render an account on Judgment Day for every unprofitable saying that they speak; 37... and by your words you will be condemned.”
  
  
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  No-Sew Covid-19 Face-Mask using Shop Towel

  by Simon in

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  now that the medical advice seem to be coming round to actually giving honest advice, it's good to have a mask.

  weeks wasted and god knows how many infected that didn't need to be, but now there's no excuse for not wearing one ... other than you may not have any.. you can make them of course, if you have a sewing machine.

  but even if you don't, you can make one using the blue shop-towel, a couple of elastic bands and a stapler.

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  FedUpJW

  I know a few people who I would like to see wear a plastic bag over their head for a mask, tied tightly around their neck. Does that make me a bad person?