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  Help needed: Elders should contact authorities immediately if KH are damaged?

  by EdenOne in

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  2. bible

  hello.. i remember some time ago someone brought up a letter to congregations or some other similar instruction, instructing the elders to "contact the authorities immediately" if something like a robbery or trouble came upon a kingdom hall.. does anyone remember that?

  and what was the source of that instruction please?

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  It is telling what stood out to me:

  Use of volunteers can save valuable funds

  Accounting department
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  Victorian couple who tested positive for Covid and travelled to QLD during lockdown are JWs?

  by Ruby 1976 in

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  2. friends

  has anyone heard this?

  ive been told multiple ex jws have confirmed it but no one seems to kow their names so im still skeptical..

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  This treatment is absolute bullshit. Australia should have revolted along with the USA. Not that the powers here are not willing to impose their will on we peasants
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  Money for sell of KHs

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  has anybody seen a chart or documents abouth money they supposedly spending in africa building halls?

  as there selling millions worth of halls around the world.

  they claim it's for africa.

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  road to nowhere

  It has been mentioned. A mud hut has no resale value. I liked the halls of yore, repurposed log cabins, adobe, rented bibgo halls. Real personality and a reflection of the local brothers when there was love and community.
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  Go Bag and Catastrophes

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i live with my parents in law and yesterday, my mother in-law was very nervous about an email she got from the brothers in her congregation.

  it was asking if she would be able to receive people over at our house should there be a catastrophe.

  so, she asked me if i would agree with this.

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  road to nowhere

  The government recommends go bags. WT is following the trend a lot of the foaming at the mouth world is better stocked, prepared, and charitable and kind. In recent fires there were groups from out of state churches coming in-- sifting ashes to find keepsakes for families.

  Watch the money. I have NEVER seen WT use theirs, always finding some way to get things donated but take the credit.
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  You might become a Millionaire by taking the Covid Vaccine

  by pistolpete in

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  2. current

  up to 20 states are offering million dollar lottery to those who take the vaccine, thanks to biden's covid relief fund.. new mexico one of the poorest states is offering a grand prize of 5 million dollars to some lucky bast*** who takes the vaccine.. https://www.chron.com/news/article/new-mexico-offers-5-million-prize-to-vaccinated-16217253.php.

  https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/california-announces-vax-for-the-win-vaccine-lottery-with-prizes-up-to-2415-million/ar-aakzeip.

  https://news.yahoo.com/states-offering-cash-prizes-incentive-224624167.html.

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  Some states giving millions, others 150000, and Washington, a DOOBIE
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  Victorian couple who tested positive for Covid and travelled to QLD during lockdown are JWs?

  by Ruby 1976 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone heard this?

  ive been told multiple ex jws have confirmed it but no one seems to kow their names so im still skeptical..

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  Oh, the horror! Official WT policy y is to stay home under your bed.
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  What Were You or Someone You Knew Counseled For That Was Ridiculous?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  back in the day, tons of witnesses were brought in the “back room “ to be counseled by elders because of their dress and grooming.

  some elders frowned on mustaches or hair that went past a certain point on a male.

  women were regularly harassed because their skirt was too long or too short or had a slit on the side.

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  "A brother would wear rings and was told not too"

  Pinky ring? Like the brothers of christ?
  
  
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  What Is Truth?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just because you believe something as truth, it doesn’t make it truth.

  religious leaders may be admired and believed but they could be dead wrong.

  politicians can spout out “facts” that support their truth yet once further evidence comes through these facts are questionable.

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  JWs have the truth. that is why they have the book : "What did the bible used to teach". A sucessor if the infamous Truth book
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  The racial term 'black' has become sooo diluted

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  i always understood the term 'black' (or 'black', if you write for the guardian) to refer to sub-saharan africans or people of sub-saharan african origin.. but, perhaps in a rush to embrace victimhood, more and more people are today are using the term black to refer to other people.. so, apparently barack obama is black - 'the first black president of the united states'.. and lewis hamilton is supposedly the only black driver in formula one.. and jordan peele is a black film director, apparently.. and then there's meghan markle.. there may also be people of pakistani heritage who refer to themselves as black.. and, sorry to say, it's all a load of bullsh*t.. barack obama, lewis hamilton, jordan peel, halle berry and meghan markle are all biracial (mixed-race).

  they're not black.

  disregarding the other half of their ethnic heritage is intellectually dishonest.. .

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  road to nowhere

  Medicine recognizes certain treatments being different for blacks. I question some of that. Is it equally true for mulattos, quadroons, octaroons?

  Dont forget that language (hispanic) is a race now.

  The genetic tests show odd percentages of origin. Are there now septaroons and triaroons?
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  Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.

  and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.

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  road to nowhere

  The letter was read at another congregation too. Where family goes.

  It is one of those we cannot say what to do BUT letters

  My worst fears, being pressured to go ruin my Saturday and other's too

  From reports on how isolated Bethel was they will come down with some other malady