I remember a picture circulating of a young brother being baptised in a wheelie bin. He was the only one in the bin so presumably someone must have just pushed him down. Poor chap. Not very dignified.
Anna Marina
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Baptism during Covid - pool must tough the ground?
by jwfacts inthe july 2020 announcements mentions that baptism can be held in an “inflatable pool” as long as it touches the ground.
the pool must not be “on a terrace, flat roof, balcony, etc.”.
has anyone ever noticed that as a requirement?.
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Received a letter from a JW today.
by smiddy3 init started off as "dear friend ,as one of your neighbours" , however the postmark on the letter was from 2 townships away ?
a good twenty minute car drive away .a minor point i know.
it goes on about how she is concerned about the effects that current events are having on the welfare of the community and the corona-virus has prevented her from discussing the issues personally with me.. she then goes on to state and quote jeremiah 29:11 and then goes on to say "for more information about this promise and other questions like :.
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Anna Marina
If you don't want to give away you are an ex JW it's difficult, because they'll know.
I'd go in with
*** w64 10/15 p. 637 A Haughty Spirit Is Before Stumbling ***
” (Dan. 1:1) This “third year” of vassalage to Babylon would be the eleventh year of Jehoiakim’s entire reignTo correspondent - Where in Dan 1:1 does it say vassalage? Do you think it is right to change the number 3 to 11?
Stop pretending 2 Kings 24:1 is Dan 1:1.
You could sign off your letter
By the way your 1914 doctrine rests on this year. You've been conned. If you wish for futher maths lessons please watch this helpful video on how to count.
With encouragement
Smiddy3
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The “simplified” congregation donation arrangement
by slimboyfat indid 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
Well I think politicians could learn from them and so can we. Do you have a mortgage? Go to the bank and tell them you are simplifying your mortage payments. Thereafter, just don't give the bank any money.
Got a private company? Need to let your staff go? Don't sack them. Tell them you've simplified their employment.
If anyone complains, inform them they are attacking your religious belief system, in which you are exerting yourself vigorously in order to progress.
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Dress and Grooming
by Anna Marina inthings are reaching a new high with jw fashion.. a jw orgie facemask.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/784736158/jw-face-mask-jw-gift-multi-functional?ref=related-3&pro=1&frs=1.
a witness without a word.
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Anna Marina
Things are reaching a new high with JW fashion.
A JW orgie facemask
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/784736158/jw-face-mask-jw-gift-multi-functional?ref=related-3&pro=1&frs=1
A witness without a word
https://www.redbubble.com/i/mask/Jehovah-s-Witnesses-by-Zouhirborali/52027312.9G0D8
Ideal Zoom meeting suit
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Mother-Piece-Silk-Pajama/dp/B07CFKWPKG
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Beards are depicted as normal in heaven but not on earth
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe 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
The wings have been exchanged for a Superman cape because the organisation cum religion (organiligion?), after a quick morph into Islam with baffle everyone by morphing into Zoroastrianism a la Nietzsche. You'll find new light in the Watchtower announcing that God is dead, evidently. And that in order to accept this, you must embrace the abyss. Doing so requires something superhuman because now you face eternal despair. But you become SUPER as in superman and develop the beautiful illness. You become insane, then you'll never notice the anomalies in the Watchtower.
1984
He was back in the Ministry of Love, with everything forgiven, his soul white as snow. He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody. He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The longhoped-for bullet was entering his brain. He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother -
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Beards are depicted as normal in heaven but not on earth
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe 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 indid 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 inso 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.
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Why go online
by asp59 inso 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 inso 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.