hello all, hope everyone is doing good!!!!.
so my wife tells me yesterday....on saturday we having a emergency disaster class on saturday.
kinda like most corporation have and it's through zoom.
Geez. Disaster drill? What disaster ever came on a convenient schedule? As for getting into a group, the advice is to go to the worldly shelters, or a relative( preferably believing) When they went to the Astrodome witb signs to extract witnesses it was to place them in a private home somewhere. Not a compound or any place that would cost money.
Better to rely on catholic relief, salvation army OR the better organized mormons and hope for compassion.
i am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.
nothing was more important than being at the meetings!
over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.
We jumped for joy, then realized no more goody nights. And then they renamed it and put it at the end of midweek, and made it even more boring. Read a blow by blow of a text, then read the scripture nearly word for word then make sure to use up every one of the 30 minutes with inane questions.
i am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.
nothing was more important than being at the meetings!
over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.
That bookstudy was the meeting with no tie. Actually a get together of sorts. they ran out of people with homes to use, got worried about liability. The saving gasoline was the biggest lie ever. The names became a formality thing.
I can daydream at meeting anyway, zoom just enables it a bit.
Midweek is the most tedious meeting. Unrealistic skits and videos. I wish for a way to project the mystery 3000 audience on the screen. remember when announcements were in the middle of the "2" meetings? I used to wait just long enough to hear them and then left along with several others. I had a job and kids had school. Now you have to wait to the bitter end to hear the poorest reader they have tell about the liberry and pitchers. He even actually said mono- tone- us.
why wasn’t judah punished for sleeping withtamar?
even though she had the legal right to an offspring by his family he still thought he was sleeping with a prostitute.
if it is wrong to even think of having relations with a woman similar to the “sin” of watching pornography why wouldn’t what judah did be wrong?
This week covers Joseph being moral. No mention of the possibility she was ugly, or the realest thing: bumping the bosses wife is always a bad idea.
They should have sent in David or Lot.
i posted what follows elsewhere but thought it might be of interest here as well.
my forst posting here so i apologize in advance if this is not in the correct place.. a tribute to ray franz (on what would have been his 98th birthday) and to ed dunlap, his collaborator.
last week would have marked the 98th birthday of a man for whom most of us here have high regard.
All that babylon fallen book fit so well. Then nothing happened. They csnt even identify when rome fell to anglo power, keep changing it.
today, i got an email from an old friend with a story told by brother andre ramseyer who attended training at patterson in england.
a service dog regularly attended the meetings with his owner.
when the owner passed away, the dog was given to another blind man.
How does this mesh with the direction to not bring service dogs to conventions? Might give kids something to look forward to
when i was looking at prepping back in the 90s i was told by several elders that we needed to just rely on the org and jehovah and not prep.
i started to put away vacuum sealed bags of rice beans and spices anyway.
now they have this go bag crap.
People in general are ill equipped to leave home in a hurried energency. FEMA also recommends go bags and the WT is following their guidelines. It is not an idea Jehovah came up with.
In reality the help comes from neighbors, churches, and governments. Disasters do not cooperate with timing so dad will be at work, kids at school, mom wherever like her work. what to take comes down to needing a go trailer with the list .
coming from gods appointed channel and wifelike organization to his special people and possession is cut and paste cdc guidelines and what other organizations and govt.
programs those in financial need can look to for help?
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I hear critical times hard to deal with about every 5 minutes during the daily text. wife tunes it in.
there are fb posts about the rich tv preachers and their not contributing to covid relief.
sure wish i could hack a way to post a comment on our favorite charity doing the same .
There are FB posts about the rich TV preachers and their not contributing to covid relief. Sure wish I could hack a way to post a comment on our favorite charity doing the same
it's been an emotional few weeks going through old watchtower literature, i mean old.
i have saved many things, some you have never seen.
particularly related to 1975, i have wts literature, even a big newspaper article about the 1975 prediction.. today, i started going through the reel to reel tapes.
I have an old tape somewhere from dad given him by a cousin. When I played it it was a meeting of apostates in Nebraska in the 50s. My family has roots back to Russell. Too bad it doesnt even give bragging rights or a line on the " truth"
