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Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!
by pistolpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.
road to nowhere

Locally supposed to start back April 3, last word. Nobody in my limited circle is in on the elders thinking or meetings.
As a practical matter everything else locally is normal. Churches in session, restuarants open, door salesmen coming by. There is no reason to not resume the treadmill.
I still have heard only one person who is thrilled to go back. A delay will cause more anguish
There was the instructions released on how to.
The odd thing is the providers of latte didn't get a heads up. Usually we can read the announcements complete with the secret stuff before the elders.
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Do we really need this many prayers in a day?
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there’s no proof that prayers have any effect whatsoever, other than perhaps giving the person who prays a false sense of having done something.

all claims that prayers have been answered are either anecdotal, fraudulent, delusional or are the result of either pure coincidence or confirmation bias.. how many prayers do you need in a day?.

you get up and eat breakfast...you pray for another day of life.
road to nowhere

Recently a acquaintance said jehovah provided. A newer car for their disfellowshipped daughter who is still engaging in immoral conduct. Maybe it was actually their inherited money.
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Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!
by pistolpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.
road to nowhere

St. George
You and could get together for an ale and have have good laughs. Too far though.
Vacation property bought on pioneer wages.? I have a tent and caravan in the garden (trying out my English words)--in the 50s we really did do that for conventions with one bathroom, 3 or 4 families. Maybe out a few in the gaelic pidgin language translating home.😗
The repair and safety concerns are unhappily a comment on the state of the brotherhood.
77
Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!
by pistolpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.
road to nowhere

I would put it at new york city centric. Every directive followed the misinformation from that area. It never fit the situations in the rest of the USA.
Rumor mill has one congregation going hybrid, heated elders meetings in shared halls over who gets stuck with afternoon. Interesting that a hall across town has the "original" congregation cherry picking times and letting the others take the leftovers. Fallout from selling off and reassignment to an already crowded hall. Glad to not be over there, their elders make my bunch of idiots look good.
If they go back to the phone patch at least it is portable so I can wander as I pursue my hobbies to stay awake. I have to listen to take care of my pimi wife.
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Is Klaus Schwab the Most Dangerour man on the planet?
by Vanderhoven7 in
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2. entertainment
for all the conspiracy theorists out there.... is klaus schwab the most dangerous man in the world?.
road to nowhere

Bump. JP is one of my favorites.
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Anyone else remember the Awake saying this?
by BottanicPepper in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i may have put this in the wrong thread.

if so, i'm sorry.. my conundrum is this.... i am almost completely certain that an awake back in the 80's/90's mentioned a group of rock bands we shouldn't listen to and i seem to remember them actually naming guns and roses.. i can't find anything now, and i'm wondering if it's the mandela effect, or if it's another case of the cdrom versions of the awakes being doctored again.. does anyone else remember this?

or am i crazy?
road to nowhere

The talk I remember was very carefully worded to not open any critism or legal issues. They said: "some of you, even in bethel, listen to music from bands with names that contain guns or dead. Is this Christian?"
Meanwhile gay bland singers were OK.
Since then they used Eternal Flame (if I remember the name right).
Grateful dead made folky songs, I have baited witnesses with their benign sounding music more than once, then tell them who. Others are very good musicians ,composers and arrangers; Sting, enya, pink floyd, even Beatles.
Contrast the kingdom maladies, which if people liked were either deleted or rewritten
77
Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!
by pistolpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.
road to nowhere

Gorb
Interesting. In the US even we gun nut types think biden and friends are pushing war profits. Putin is old KGB but if our neighbors surrounded us with cocked guns we would react.
The truth about biolabs, bribes will never come out. My opinion is putin used thermo bombs to destroy the germs.
Sorry, not trying to hijack the thread returning is the most interesting on here for a long time
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Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!
by pistolpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.
road to nowhere

PS. There will be special needs talks about ignoring great spiritual feasts while the actuality is stale bread and cold gruel.
77
Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!
by pistolpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.
road to nowhere

That sinking feeling describes it. The only benefit will be the singles who are both "in" and in the bloom of youth. New meat market. The 12 year old who thought meetings were boring is now 14--connect the dots.
Health will legitimately prevent some of us, but Simon forgets the mixed family pressure to attend.
The elders who think they are Oral Roberts II may like the prestige.
The donation we were asked for maintenance will go up with need of increased utilities. The shakedown for hospitality will increase ( an old sore subject with me). Gasoline will be a thing too.
Once again the end did not come, and this is not even the worst plague or rumour of war we have lived through.
77
Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!
by pistolpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.
road to nowhere

Children outgrew all their meeting clothes. Being kept up late on school nights. Probably adults too got fatter.
Shared halls like mine will have to hash out who gets the 3 or 4 o clock time slot. And the perpetual argument over who gets the hall for memorial.
The governing body is a year late as far as following government guidelines.
This will also mean door to door is soon coming back complete with crowding into a private home for that mess, with no parking.
St. George said it, except it is my morning ruined.