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  Street-Talk with Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. experiences

  street-talk with jehovah's witnesses.

  opening up a street-level dialogue with jehovah's witnesses:.

  since this will probably be a one time occurrence, an important objective of any street encounter is to bless jws with doubt about their beloved organization.. after exchanging niceties, you might say something like:.

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  After about the 3rd question, the JW will peg you as an "apostate" (using the WT definition of the word: "Anyone critical in any sense whatsoever of the teaching of the Watchtower Organization") and shut down. If he is engaged in "public witnessing" he will walk, and if necessary, run away.

  I.e., you'll never get to ask the majority of your questions.

  JWs used to be trained to defend their beliefs. Now that non-JWs realize what questions to ask to expose the undefendability (is that a word?) of those beliefs, JWs have been trained, over the past 2-3 decades, to (if necessary, literally) walk away.
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  Woke Oscars cringe

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
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  actors' acceptance speeches have often been a little dodgy - viewers don't care what political or social views actors may have, we typically appreciate actors acting well.. this year's oscars awards ceremony seems to be going above and beyond, however.. here's frances mcdormand's acceptance speech, in which she dedicates her victory to 'our wolf' and then howls like a bitch, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_be0awgwk.

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  For all the folks offended by "wokeness"....maybe visiting here would help?

  https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2021/04/30
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  Are the Dubs going back to the KH again? (Covid-19)

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?

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  They have started pencilling in dates for one day assemblies in early 2022.

  Which countries?

  How reliable is your source?
  
  
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  America without boarders

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. current

  new america without boarders is now sending its uneducated, sometimes criminal and gang members, mostly illiterate people who have nothing to offer to any country they want to go if they think they can better their life.

  so look for our lowest common denominator coming to your country soon.

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  what is the source of this info?

  OANN, Newsmax, Fox, Tucker Carlson....
  
  
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  Report Card : How’s President Biden Doing?

  by minimus in

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  i give him an f for falling down on the job..

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  I really really was impressed when I watched Biden's address to congress yesterday

  Get prepared to be hammered by the "Joe has dementia" crowd.

  Incoming!
  
  
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  Report Card : How’s President Biden Doing?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i give him an f for falling down on the job..

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  politics is like religion. you are either with us or you are against us. There is no middle ground.

  Sadly true. It didn't used to be like that, at least with politics.
  
  
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  Are the Dubs going back to the KH again? (Covid-19)

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?

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  Eventually, yes.

  Almost certainly not in 2021 though. And when it does start up again, it will be at limited capacity (X% of the congregation physically at the KH, the rest on Zoom) for many months.

  I don't anticipate things back to "normal" JW-wise until, at the earliest, 2023.
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  my personal car plate

  by stan livedeath in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my avatar is my personal plate on my mg sports car.. some years back a friend gave me a small model very similar to my car.. only today i noticed the number plate--spooky !.

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  and the "FJW" to "XJW"

  Oh I dunno, I can think of at least one word for which the "F" would suffice....
  
  
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  my personal car plate

  by stan livedeath in

  1. jw
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  my avatar is my personal plate on my mg sports car.. some years back a friend gave me a small model very similar to my car.. only today i noticed the number plate--spooky !.

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  Only way to improve it would be to change the first 4 digits to 1975!
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  Drastic Upcoming Changes? (accelerated by the pandemic)

  by JWTom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  good to see you again!

  much discussion now about the fallout that is coming due to impacts of the pandemic combined with the long-term downward spiral of jw.org.

  i am active as a pimo and my wife is pimi....much of our personal conversation and conversation with others in jw land focuses on how things will play out for jw.org in the next 12-24 months.

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  They'll never stop in-person meetings (too much loss of control, thus while they will continue to sell some KHs, many will still be needed (so no. 2 won't happen). That also means 3 & 4 won't happen, at least not on the scale you wish for.
  

  5. Nope. Not happening. Too valuable a tool to keep the drones hamster-wheeling

  6. Nope. Not in a million billion quadrillion years. Fear of DFing is the primary weapon to keep control

  7. Sounds like a wish list of things you'd like to see happen, but which won't happen

  That said, I could - maybe - MAYBE - see them eliminate one in-person meeting per week. I.e., the "midweek meeting" remains as a zoom item, while weekend meetings are always at the KH. But even that I'd rate at less than 50% chance of happening. Other than that, back to "normal" as soon as practicable. Imaginative and creative these guys ain't.