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  Russia: Further Jail Term For Answering Fellow Prisoners’ Questions About Faith

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.eurasiareview.com/01072024-russia-further-jail-term-for-answering-fellow-prisoners-questions-about-faith/.

  july 1, 2024. by f18news.

  by victoria arnold.

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  Riley

  Tell him he can be released when he can explain the " overlapping generation " just using a bible without any JW study aids.
  
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  I Visited Auschwitz Two Days Ago

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  auschwitz concentration camp in poland may not seem like a very happy vacation spot to visit.

  but, if you have a home, a family and your freedom - you will be far less likely to take these things for granted after visiting.

  we made the sobering decision to make the 2.5 hr.

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  Riley

  I grew up in a community of about 15,000 with a surrounding area of maybe 20,000 people. We had a single high school that had maybe 1800 students in it at any given time. The school had everything ( athletics, academics, trades, accelerated programs, remedial programs ). Being a weird JW kid , I seemed to make friends all over the place without really fitting into any group. I took a standard academic program with some trade classes.

  I am 50 years old now. Most of those people I haven't seen in 30 years. No big deal, life happens. Of course we have all reconnected on facebook.

  The funny thing I notice is the remedial kids seem to now be the resident experts on Vaccines, Ukraine , Chem Trails etc etc. You don't even need to pass high school level biology or chemistry to suddenly know more than all the world top scientists and doctors.

  Back to my original point, Visiting Auschwitz and still shitposting about transgenders is kind of disappointing. You figure there would be some kind of Road to Damascus moment but I guess not.
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  I Visited Auschwitz Two Days Ago

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  auschwitz concentration camp in poland may not seem like a very happy vacation spot to visit.

  but, if you have a home, a family and your freedom - you will be far less likely to take these things for granted after visiting.

  we made the sobering decision to make the 2.5 hr.

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  Riley

  Trust me, the thought has crossed my mind.
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  I Visited Auschwitz Two Days Ago

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  auschwitz concentration camp in poland may not seem like a very happy vacation spot to visit.

  but, if you have a home, a family and your freedom - you will be far less likely to take these things for granted after visiting.

  we made the sobering decision to make the 2.5 hr.

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  Riley

  I have an old friend , now just facebook friend who travels the world on a big inheritance. His facebook feed is nothing but this endless right wing tirade , most against trans-people or the LGBTQ community or whatever it is called. Not exactly my cup of tea but live and let live. I don't really care.

  He visits Auschwitz and talks about sad it is humans could do that to each other and then goes back to his endless tirade of shitposting.

  You didn't get it. The whole point. Fucking idiot.
  
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  New instructions on not using sisters to manage KH computer ?

  by fifth.column in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since covid in france, especially in the countryside with lack of brothers, it was quite common that some sisters were using the computer at the back of the kingdom hall to manage zoom session.. i heard a rumor that new instructions, maybe a july letter, stated that this was reserved for male only, even unbaptised publishers, but no sister if there is at least a male available.

  that would be a steps back and disappointment for these sisters.

  last week i heard at my mom’s house how they were happy that this service was available for them, a proof that the org was moving forward.

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  A women operating a computer ? What is next. A monkey driving a car ?

  I kid, I kid.
  
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  August WT: DF'ing renamed "Removed." AKA: GB re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so: the mystery has been clarified as to more "new light" / clarifications of decades old doctrine and procedure.

  august watchtower has finally been leaked.

  disfellowshipping?

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  Being “ removed “ actually sounds worse. It is like they have a mob hitman on stand by ready to kill you.
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  August WT: DF'ing renamed "Removed." AKA: GB re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so: the mystery has been clarified as to more "new light" / clarifications of decades old doctrine and procedure.

  august watchtower has finally been leaked.

  disfellowshipping?

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  Riley

  I was really hoping for the lifting of the ban on oral sex. I really was.
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  JW s were here today with convention invite

  by enoughisenough in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i thought i would tell this story: 2 gals and a guy came by with invitation to convention.

  i am in the yard.

  the gals get out and are wearing pants.

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  Riley

  The Irony is the theme of the assembly is " Sharing the Good News " or the the gospel.

  JWs have no gospel. Heck, the new testament isn't even written for them. It is just for the annointed who are represented by the faithful slave.
  
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  Assembly Attendence

  by Riley in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am in western canada.

  we use to have our assembly in saskatoon.

  our assembly has moved to medicine hat.

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  I always thought the Saskatoon attendance figures would be a pretty good measure of the health and strength of the organization. At least in my world. A province of 1 million people, 5000 show up to the assembly.
  

  My more generation observation was the moving of assemblies might be more of a shell game to mask any declines in the organization. Just my two cents.
  
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  Assembly Attendence

  by Riley in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am in western canada.

  we use to have our assembly in saskatoon.

  our assembly has moved to medicine hat.

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  The question I had was Calgary alone is 1.3 million people. Are only selective congs going to this assembly ? 3400 people in an area with a population of maybe 1.8 people doesn't seem that great.

  Now a lot of the older ones are no attending anymore. JWs are covid and you follow the numbers and hope things are trending down.