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  Beards are depicted as normal in heaven but not on earth

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
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  the watchtower—study edition | august 2020. study article 32. walk humbly and modestly with your god.

  jesus is depicted in the heavens.

  next to him stand some of his co-rulers.

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  Anna Marina

  Imagine if this was said of skin colour. I know the way in which a beard or moustache is cut/worn can be used to signal allegiances by so can 101 other things, such as your hair cut or a tatoo. But Jesus said you would identify true Christians because they had love for each other. John 13:35
  

  *** w68 5/1 p. 288 Questions From Readers ***
  In recent years in many lands a beard or long hair on a man attracts immediate notice and may, in the minds of the majority, classify such a person undesirably with extremists or as rebels against society.

  By not having a beard, did brothers really get a better reception on the doorstep?
  
  
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  The “simplified” congregation donation arrangement

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did anyone else experience a nostalgic throwback to the 1990s when the latest watchtower announcements presented their demand for increased donations from congregations as a “simplified” arrangement?

  5. adjustment to resolved congregation donations: in the past, the congregation was presented with multiple resolutions to donate funds to the branch office in support of vari- ous activities cared for by the organization.

  this arrangement has been simplified.

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  Anna Marina

  I pointed out to millionaire elder, clever business man, one time maths teacher that the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's rulership was the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's rulership.

  He told me I couldn't be certain. He told me he was just a simple man.

  So 'simple' in their speak means 'crafty'.

  Must make sure the Oxford English Dictionary adds this into their new, simplied definition of the word 'simple'
  
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  Why go online

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so why do you think org went online?

  they were selling khs left and right for years.

  plus video talks and new building for filming videos.

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  Anna Marina

  There is an assumption being made that chairs sat on to go online will remain static. Think outside the box. If you control the viewer, you can control the angle that their shoulders dip at. That is how you steer these cute little things. Made by Honda and called the Uni-Cub, are these the new congregation chairs?

  If so imagine the new style conventions. Everyone mounts a chair and whizzes round and round to a Kingdom Melody, carrying a colourful umbrella to spell out the names of the GB or do portraits of their faces. With these thing you could even do social distancing. And you could have auto-apostate detection, so you chair scooted away from anyone who'd been clicking dodgey links.
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU
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  Why go online

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so why do you think org went online?

  they were selling khs left and right for years.

  plus video talks and new building for filming videos.

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  Anna Marina

  Pistolpete - there is software that is used to monitor truck drivers to tell when they are sleepy at the wheel. Presumabley the owner of the truck company did not design the software, just gets the infomation it collects. Therefore, I think WT might get access to software it can use to monitor people's faces and discern how they are listening/engaging.
  

  You underestimate them if you think the elders know nothing about psychological control. Maybe not all but some are extremely clever. They play the congregations like a game of billiards.
  
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  Why go online

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so why do you think org went online?

  they were selling khs left and right for years.

  plus video talks and new building for filming videos.

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  Anna Marina

  At first they were anti-things like Facebook - then they did an about turn. As if someone up-top had a light-bulb moment.

  I think the Zoom meetings give them greater psychological control - they can analyse eye movement, vocabulary, willingness to engage. The official website will provide futher data. They can set out key performance indicators and use the electric cattle prod of statistical targets to make life unbearable for everyone. After all Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's husband) said the new religion would be statistics.

  Statistics tend to work a treat - and with WT's Jackson-Pollock-does-rocket-science approach to arithmetic, should be a total mind-bender.

  I don't doubt they want contributions but above all they'd want performance.
  
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  So in the assembly they put in no use of medical drugs

  by tottenkopf in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so watching the cults assembly video i am a bit confused about the whole girl asking about marijuana.

  non medical use what exactly is that.

  what do they mean "medical?

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  Anna Marina

  Market share?

  In a tough harsh world, Christianity provides comfort. The poor tend to be treated the worst.

  Christianity keeps you facing reality and addressing problems. Misuse of drugs can be like putting your head in the sand and not facing reality and not learning problem solving skills.

  Christianity provides power, misuse of drugs weakens.

  If you want to push dope and be the most successful, you need to wipe out the competition. Christianity is one of your competitors. So you try to knock it out of the ring.

  Similarly if you have set up a false religion and want to be the most successful, dope (legal or illegal) is one of your competitiors, so you have to try to knock it out of the ring, along with Christianity.

  If you need people to lay miles of cable, put up scaffolding or drive diggers, they've got to be able to calculate. And you don't want them falling asleep or how can you indoctrinate them? Let alone drive them to work endlessly for you.
  
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  So What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Do Now?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they don’t go to conventions .

  they don’t go to assemblies.

  they don’t go to meetings.

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  Anna Marina

  I hear reports of apostate YouTube video binging. People are leaving in higher numbers.

  And bloggers here are doing their bit - I know people in my ex cong read stuff here (hiya to ya all:D)

  So round of applause to everyone putting out info and doing your bit to encourage these poor trapped people to get out of Watchtower's clutches. It's working.
  

  
  
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  What defines a "Woman of Color" in Today's World?

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we hear daily "a woman or color".

  one person here mentioned that nikki haley (parents are from india) is a woman of color.. what defines "woman of color?

  " is there some scan gun that they put point at your head and defines the pigmentation?.

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  Anna Marina

  People talk of race issues when they actually mean values issues.

  A Moslem went on to me about issues faced as a Moslem and he defined it all as racism. Moslem is white and acts like a bully.
  

  Question - could Nazis moan at Jews about racism if the Jews distance themselves from them because of the Holocaust? Cause in the end that's what it all comes down to - values. How you treat others. If you really insist on being a horrible murderous, lying so and so, then end up alienated because of it, don't try saying it's cause of your skin colour.

  Really it is a good idea to treat people as you would like to be treated youself. Then funnily enough people tend to like you. Not all - but a good few.

  I got df'd by WT but guess what, not everyone shuns me - why? Cause I tries to be nice, understanding and patient. Not always easy but worth it.
  
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  What defines a "Woman of Color" in Today's World?

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we hear daily "a woman or color".

  one person here mentioned that nikki haley (parents are from india) is a woman of color.. what defines "woman of color?

  " is there some scan gun that they put point at your head and defines the pigmentation?.

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  Anna Marina

  It's the concept of alienation.

  I am a ... [fill in whatever you want so long as you can spin it] = alienated.

  
  
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  The Black Goat in the JW Covid-19 Report - 2020 Governing Body Update #5

  by Oh-my-God in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did you notice this?

  2020 governing body update #5. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/docid-702020307_1_video.

  why do they show the black goat in the picture?

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  Anna Marina

  Hi again Cookiemaster - Rosicrucianism is a futher part of WT's history. Rosicrucianism possibly has its root in the ideas of Franciscan friar, Robert Bacon aka Dr Mirabilis. By 1260 there were ideas that a new age of holy spirit would come about. Progress, invention and utopia were common themes to such movements. You see these ideas in some of Watchtower's more bizarre articles such as when Joseph Rutherford said cream separators and adding machines were evidence of Christ's presence. Early sci-fi I guess.
  
  In the 1800s Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein based on Man bringing about horror through unhallowed arts. Percy Bysshe Shelley, the romantic poet was interested in secret societies working for the revolution and bringing about a utopian new world order. The romantic poets were much drawn to Persian Sufism.

  Lord Byron, another romantic poet greatly influenced the Decemberists.