would you stop buying nike products because you didn’t like their politics?
conversely, would you give business to a company because you liked their political stand on a matter?
would you stop watching an entertainer because you disagree with their political perspectives?
it becomes impossible to sort it all out, and there are shades of grey in most of it. I will buy cakes from a Baker, go through checkers wearing hijabs etc.
Remember Joan Baez and Hanoi Jane? No matter what your view on Vietnam it was still beautiful folk music and a good looking woman so I didnt let vitriol ruin my enjoyment
this week, while talking with some old friends, i realized that there were at least 14 kids from a congregation in which i grew up that all left the jws.
that is, 30 to 35 years ago, there were at least 14 kids going to the hall that were of the same “generation” (5 to 13 years old).
in the last 30 years, they have all left “the truth”.
The upper echelon know it. That is why the special parts on retaining youngsters, caleb n Sophia, and push for baptism to lock them in.
They dont do anything about insane comments about education, getting a job, having an attractive spouse, all the things that drive anyone with intelligence away
i grew up as a witness, and left about 10 years ago, i'm currently researching witness numbers for a project i'm working on, and i can't seem to get an accurate number of baptised witnesses - hardly a surprise!
from their website it looks like they list the number of publishers instead of the number of baptised witnesses, so it totally works to obscure how many actual witnesses there are, apart from the fact it's morally dubious to class a publisher as a minister of god as they refer to publishers on their uk section of the site.
i also am trying to work out how many leave every year, even approximate figures would be great, from their own website it just looks like they try to massage figures to make them look as favourable as possible.
Dont forget all the old ones who cant see to drive at night, are too crippled to sit In Luxury seating, and just plain dont have time to drive 40 minutes to the consolidated hall. The plodding meetings dont help either
How many of still going will not encourage a study or householder to really convert, we secretly envy them
remember top shelf tony da turd broadcasting that world wide 2 years ago at the end of the convention?
well 2 years later do we see the slightest hint of the nation's declaring peace and security or going after religion?
so how was it imminent?
Summer assembly they asked us to take all trash home so they dont have to pay for dumpsters. Always ask for aluminum cans separate for refund
how things have changed!
a childhood friend and her husband stayed with us for a few days and, except for when we went sightseeing, they spent most of their time on their digital devices viewing and listening to content from jw.borg.
a few years back i recall a stearn warning against the use of such devices at an assembly.
Passive participation if you can even call it that. I will admit to being on here several times a day , sometimes participate and can choose what to read. Wonder if they do JWtslk? That is really controlled. One thing sure is you dont keep up with events, good or bad with the slow news feed on jworg but the world is getting worse hourly
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1961047#h=16:285-23:710. we may also safely conclude that angels, god’s spirit messengers, travel at tremendous speeds.
thus once when daniel began to pray, god dispatched an angel to him in answer to his prayer.
this angel, although coming from beyond the realms of outer space, reached daniel before he had concluded his prayer.—dan.
How many dimensions are there? We have 3, but there may be more. Where does that stuff that goes into worm holes end up? Just watched NOVA and radio from Pluto takes 4 1/2 hours each way. They have all those artist renderings, but what is observed happened millions years ago
alice laughed: "there's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.".
"i daresay you haven't had much practice," said the queen.
"when i was younger, i always did it for half an hour a day.
The immense weight of the water raised the mountains. But then how are 3 of the 4 rivers still there? Just how fast can trees grow so the dove could bring back a branch?
this is the watchtower 2016 tax return.
where are donations and expenses going?
seems nothing going through watchtower!?.
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https://twitter.com/jepthahsdaughte/status/1162740218031681542?s=20.
Has to be early. The close front seats are always filled with uber's. That said, doesnt look like the thundering herd arrived like normal at 8:01
yesterday my congregation met for field service and the elder taking the lead did something not so smart: he brought up the child abuse situation and the recent news articles hitting local news across the country.
he said 'you can see that the persecution is really coming' and that we should be ready if someone complains about it at the door.
(funny how it's persecution when it's us and righteous judgment when it happens to the other churches.
Wonder if he did it on purpose
