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  They Are Going To Start Clamping Down With Staying At Home - Local Needs + GB Update #4

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many of us have watched the gb #4 update.

  most of us jumped for joy when they basically said that there will be no meeting in person for a long time to come.. one aspect we overlooked was how hard they hit home the "love of neighbor".

  how this "love" is what makes a true christian and as a result our love for our neighbors will motivate us to stay at home.. well now they released a letter that is instructing all kh's to view this video during their local needs part.

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  They know who shows up on zoom. Fully expecting you to be dressed up on camera. Extra encouragement text meeting every day for an half hour or more. If you miss they call to ask of your health. Health is waning because the local food provision consists of soft potatoes.

  The only ones with stable zoom are the IT guys with better access through work at home set ups.

  During the WT on being friends by giving money One wag commented that the congregation sends money to branch so we need only give locally. She was supposed to say we need to make 2 donations
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  Is Anyone Happy That Police Forces Are Being Abolished or scut??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in minneapolis, the city council has voted to abolish the police.. many cities want to either disband or defund the police.

  black lives matter and other groups have influenced citizens and neighborhoods to get rid of police and their authority.

  is anyone really supportive of removing the police or cutting out law enforcement through the budget?

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  A local horse club ( all pretty well off girls) is training to join the sheriff's mounted patrol. Training for smoke, gunfire, the whole works. What could go wrong? I worked with a man who was an auxiliary sherriff's patrol. Part of the training was firearms as he was an unpaid deputy. Contrast a fit construction worker with a petite blonde in a real life situation.
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  P. Ms Letter to non subscibers to Redress Scheme

  by jonahstourguide in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  spotted this article this morning.

  i will try to post a link.. jtg.. australia.. institutions refusing to join the national redress scheme are "doubling down" on the crime of child sexual abuse, prime minister scott morrison says.. mr morrison and social services minister anne ruston have warned institutions they may lose funding and tax concessions if they fail to sign up by tuesday's deadline and will be named and shamed.. "all institutions are doing in not joining is doubling down on the crime and doubling down on the hurt," they said in a letter to 25 institutions.. "we consider it to be reprehensible that you have failed to sign up to the scheme.".

  the jehovah's witnesses is among the organisations that has refused to sign up, arguing it does not have the institutional settings of other faith-based institutions that the redress scheme is designed to cover.. senator ruston is set to name the non-participating institutions on wednesday, when she will announce what action the federal government will take against them.. "we urge you to join the scheme not because of concerns about being identified, but because it is the right thing to do," the minister and mr morrison said.. "it is the right thing to do by survivors and their families and it is what every, decent, honest, australian demands.".

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  road to nowhere

  "Exposing confidential talk" but the information goes to the whole BOE, is kept in records, relayed to the CO, branch, and GB.
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  Caleb can say mephibosheth

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that was this weeks video.

  but the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience.

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  road to nowhere

  They must teach this at pioneer school or somewhere. Today I heard better educated ones say the christianndom and apoSTle.

  Maybe they, as I, are amateur etymologists ( the study of buggy words😊) and are looking at root words, confusing pronunciations.
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  Disconfirmed expectations

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the person may have prepared himself psychologically for an event that never eventuates, and, worse still, may have even made public his predictions about the event.

  what happens when an important prophecy fails and dissonance is aroused between what was predicted and what actually occurred is described in the classic field study carried out by festinger, riecken and schachter (1956).

  in the mid-1950s mrs marion keech, a suburban housewife, began to receive messages from outer space.

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  road to nowhere

  In 1695 Beverly wrote a book predicting that the world would end in 1697. In 1698 he wrote a second book complaining that the world had ended in 1697 but that nobody had noticed.

  That explains it all--we are in an alternate universe. We just commented this morning the world we grew up in has turned into California, and not the admirable part thereof
  
  
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  How far is this idiocy going to go?

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53201667.

  the simpsons team - because of criticism over white actor hank azaria's voiceover of indian-american character apu - is terminating the caricature.

  people claimed that it "reinforced racial stereotypes.".

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  road to nowhere

  A bald dimwit, smart wife, smart daughter, goofball son, spoiled baby, super Christian, thug, on and on. We find real life examples right here in my neighborhood. All I have to do is go next door, down the street, 7-11, Walmart and they are all there.

  People cant laugh at themselves anymore.
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  Caleb can say mephibosheth

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that was this weeks video.

  but the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience.

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  road to nowhere

  That was this weeks video. But the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience
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  Leaked WT Elder Training Video

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/2nacvosx8n0.

  good to see the caring brothers help establish depth of guilt..

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  road to nowhere

  Final go to reference: Shepherd book, not Bible.
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  A question about the contemporary generation teaching following a conversation with a JW apologist

  by Giles Gray in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to ask the ex-jws on this site to put their ‘apologists hat’ back on for a moment, so that i can go through the overlapping generation teaching in an attempt to make sense of it.

  i apologise if these points have already been addressed on this site.a quick background for the reason for my request… having never confronted a jw apologist on the topic, i recently engaged with a jw regarding the official understanding of a ‘generation’ and unfortunately he didn’t have an answer to the points i was making.

  i was left a little confused as to what the official jw response would/should be.so i was hoping that my thoughts below might be considered from an apologist’s perspective.the point in question relates to this section of the watchtower article below from 2008, as well as the jw.org video explanation of the overlapping generation:---:w08 2/15[box on page 25] can we calculate the length of “this generation”?the word “generation” usually refers to people of various ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period or event.

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  You cannot make sense of gibberish. That is why jws cannot articulate an explanation. Most just reiterate word for word the official dogma.
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  4 Letters Arrived--English and Spanish! (as of 2020-06-19)

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1.--2020-06-18-- english--instructions for our online meetings.. distractions.

  noisepreparations.

  personal appearance .

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  road to nowhere

  May I please have my dauly entertainment? Thank you