Jofi_Wofo

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  Changed behavior of the governing body on the topic of “vaccinations” in the Covid era

  by Pedro in

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  2. scandals

  i'm looking for an explanation why the gb has made a radical change on the issue of vaccinations.

  was there pressure from outside?

  were there any financial or other benefits to promoting experimental genetic therapy?.

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  Jofi_Wofo

  The pseudoscience runs wild on this forum.
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  How's the 14,669 New Zealand brotherhood reacting to Steve's MIT talk?

  by was a new boy in

  1. social
  2. current

  the latest.

  stkirsch24 minutes ago.

  there is no question: the leaked data shows the vaccines have killed over 13 million people worldwide.

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  Jofi_Wofo

  Steve Kirsch has been wrong about absolutely everything, every step of the way. Both about science and about the law. He has no clue what he's talking about. At all. But he's been all too happy to continuously misrepresent and/or misuse his cherry-picked unreliable data to prove it. Oh, and everyone who points out how wrong he is is either part of the conspiracy, brainwashed by the Powers That Be, or too afraid to speak the truth.
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  Index of Evidence for Evolution Threads

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  re-posting this for reference.. #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

  #2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

  #3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

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  Jofi_Wofo

  Cool thread and topic series. Thanks for all the work you put into it.

  Do you have a handful of books you would recommend for a scientifically literate person without any formal studies in biology to competently learn these arguments and evidences?
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  You might be a JW if you...

  by Ron.W. in

  1. social
  2. humour

  this is a little out of date.

  i found it earlier deleting some emails from a good few years ago:.

  feel free to add new lines to this old list!.

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  Jofi_Wofo

  You might be a JW if your conversations with strangers are scripted, and if any deviation from the script requires you to do "research".

  You might be a JW if you think that "research" means searching magazine archives to find out what you're supposed to believe.

  You might be a JW if you think that a 75 year old should be shunned by the religion he resigned from at the age of 18 because he found out things he didn't know about the religion when he got baptized at 10.
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  Thought on “0 hours” reporting

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so everyone knows the “big news” of this past weekend, no more reporting of hours, placements, return visits, etc.

  beginning november 1, jws just tick a box indicating whether they “shared in any form of the ministry during the month”.. so there was a brief comment by a redditor that seems like a brief joke “throwaway comment” but after thinking about it….why not?.

  the idea is, what is “any form of the ministry”?

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  Jofi_Wofo

  @Vidiot Although it somewhat contradicts my own point, I've thought of that too. The less JWs put themselves out there, the less they will be challenged with questions they're not allowed to research answers to.
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  Thought on “0 hours” reporting

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so everyone knows the “big news” of this past weekend, no more reporting of hours, placements, return visits, etc.

  beginning november 1, jws just tick a box indicating whether they “shared in any form of the ministry during the month”.. so there was a brief comment by a redditor that seems like a brief joke “throwaway comment” but after thinking about it….why not?.

  the idea is, what is “any form of the ministry”?

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  Jofi_Wofo

  No more hours doesn't mean no more accountability. In my old hall, the elders insisted that we must be regular, and therefore consistently following the same ministry schedule. No matter how many hours you got, you still were pressured to go to the SAME preaching group days/times as consistently as possible. Now that most people won't be handing in numbers, the congregation will now be more attentive to how visible you are in the ministry. Incidental and casual witnessing be damned - we better SEE you out there in the groups and at the carts. More snooping, more shame.

  Also, more pressure than ever will be put on all members to either pioneer or auxiliary pioneer as much as possible. That way, they can gaslight you into accepting that you VOLUNTEERED to have your hours counted and have no one to blame for your exhaustion and stress but yourself.
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  Critique of Chemical Evolution

  by Vidqun in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "molecules don't care about life.

  " first part deals with abiogenesis and the state of current research.

  second part stephen meyer proposes intelligent design as an explanation of some of the problems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bss0rxpsbuq.

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  Jofi_Wofo

  My mistake. I didn't realize you were a troll. I'll take that into consideration and be less respectful next time.
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  Abuser/Fugitive JW Pedro Matías Vargas Caught

  by EasyPrompt in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.apfdigital.com.ar/despachos.asp?cod_des=392562.

  "jehovah's witness of st. helena convicted of abuse was captured .

  paraná, oct 13 (apfdigital) .

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  Critique of Chemical Evolution

  by Vidqun in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "molecules don't care about life.

  " first part deals with abiogenesis and the state of current research.

  second part stephen meyer proposes intelligent design as an explanation of some of the problems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bss0rxpsbuq.

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  Jofi_Wofo

  Sounds like a tiresomely long-winded way of saying "God of the gaps."
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  Theory on the GB "new light" pushing back the final judgment.

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know there are several threads already on this "new light", but i didn't see one that covered this particular angle.. since the gb seem to have an ulterior motive for everything they do, well beyond their publicly stated reasons, i began to wonder why they would be concerned with pushing back the closing of the window of jesus' judgement.

  this is especially puzzling because the doctrine of the start of great tribulation being the final cutoff was one that the gb seemed to especially revel in for so long.

  they could hang it over everyone's heads as a looming threat.

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  Jofi_Wofo

  I know there are several threads already on this "new light", but I didn't see one that covered this particular angle.

  Since the GB seem to have an ulterior motive for everything they do, well beyond their publicly stated reasons, I began to wonder why they would be concerned with pushing back the closing of the window of Jesus' judgement. This is especially puzzling because the doctrine of the start of great tribulation being the final cutoff was one that the GB seemed to especially revel in for so long. They could hang it over everyone's heads as a looming threat.'Believe us or die! If you wait for any real evidence it's already going to be too late!'

  I have 2 theories.

  1) Since it's still possible to repent after the great tribulation begins, there's nothing stopping the GB from declaring that the great tribulation has already begun, whenever they see fit. Likewise, there's nothing stopping the GB from declaring the time to change to a message of judgement. Otherwise, they couldn't make this change and still get new members. No one would join a religion that teaches it's already too late to be saved. Why even bother? This change in doctrine gives them even more power and flexibility to mobilize troops in their spiritual war.

  2) At this point, Bethel must be bombarded with letters from even faithful JWs questioning how this could be "the final part of the final part of the last days" when somewhere around half, if not more, of all the world's population have never been preached to or even heard of Jehovah's Witnesses. It was a staple interpretation of JWs to take Jesus words that "this good news will be preached in all the inhabited earth" to mean that everyone would have heard the message before it was too late. This would be a contradiction- the end can't be all too close if that prophecy is no where near being fulfilled. But now, they can continue claim that the end is coming any time at all because there are no more prophesies that absolutely must be fulfilled before the great tribulation starts.

  Thoughts?