Posts by jhine

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Why Is Nothing Being Done About Looters?

by minimus in

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friends

looting is happening everywhere like never before.

brazen thieves walk into stores and bring a bag with them and simply throw whatever they choose in the bag.

popular chain stores have closed in certain neighborhoods because it’s just not worth it.

jhine

I'm not sure where those facts come from but l have been doing some digging which underlines my own experience of life in the UK .

The figures for gun murders in the US compared to the UK are much the same wherever you look . There are far more gun murders in America than Britain .

Roughly 4.46 per 100000 US compared to 0.02 UK deaths .

Brits don't like guns , don't own guns and are largely bemused by the American obsession with them .

I would have no idea where to buy a gun . The fact that in America they are readily available in supermarkets is just weird to Brits . Guns simply do not figure in the British psyche.

Jan

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Why Is Nothing Being Done About Looters?

by minimus in

jw
friends

looting is happening everywhere like never before.

brazen thieves walk into stores and bring a bag with them and simply throw whatever they choose in the bag.

popular chain stores have closed in certain neighborhoods because it’s just not worth it.

jhine

I have just realised Black Lives Matter? Doh 🙄 . As l said it's only America with the particular issues being discussed .

Jan

51

Why Is Nothing Being Done About Looters?

by minimus in

jw
friends

looting is happening everywhere like never before.

brazen thieves walk into stores and bring a bag with them and simply throw whatever they choose in the bag.

popular chain stores have closed in certain neighborhoods because it’s just not worth it.

jhine

Anon , maybe more countries than USA have BLM ( whatever that is ) but most don't have looting and gun problems . That seems to be something peculiar to America.

Jan

24

Attitudes of People 👎

by minimus in

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friends

i have to share.

i went to the supermarket last night and got one item.

i placed the 10 dollar bill on the item.

jhine

Smiddy , sorry l accidentally pressed dislike on your post about your d-i-law. I agree with everything you said. I worked with the public for years and customers can be awful.

There is no excuse for rudeness from salespeople but maybe reasons, like customers being nasty. Or maybe personal problems .

I like the saying " customers can be rude , ungrateful , ignorant and downright nasty- but always right "

Jan

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WT study 7-11

by road to nowhere in

par 7. jws are proud of bring uneducated to the point of being anti education.. par 8. the boreans studied what they were told and verified it, unlike the forbidden research now.

a religion that sprang from the adventist movement in the 1800s, founded in america, headquartered in america but not american.

🤯.

jhine

Rocket may l ask which religions admonish education as useless ? I honestly can't think of any .

Jan

50

What would happen if the Watchtower decided no more meeting at Kingdom Halls, only Zoom?

by pistolpete in

i’m seeing my hard core believing relatives slowly losing faith that the watchtower is the organization that “god” is using to represent him on earth.. just about all the churches in their area have opened up.. but not the watchtower.. this is having an affect on the faith of even the old timers.

now the only ones who are still holding the faith are the female jws and only those past 70 years of age.

even my old male jw relative past 70 are starting to say that it can’t be jehovah’s organization because the other churches are all open and god supposed organization who is supposed to preach the warning message is still closed with no open in sight.

jhine

My church couldn't wait to get back together in person . My Bible study group is still meeting on Zoom , but we do normally meet in someone's lounge and at the moment some of the older more vulnerable members feel uncomfortable with that .

Also during our study l have a ( small ) glass of beer and no one says a word .

Jan

51

Why Is Nothing Being Done About Looters?

by minimus in

jw
friends

looting is happening everywhere like never before.

brazen thieves walk into stores and bring a bag with them and simply throw whatever they choose in the bag.

popular chain stores have closed in certain neighborhoods because it’s just not worth it.

jhine

I have read the OP twice now and see no mention of guns or shooting. How did this turn into a discussion about guns .

Jan

52

If you could pick out critical errors to the JWS religion what would it be ?

by Rocketman123 in

many that have come to this forum have left the jws religion and moved on with their lives but from a outsider's viewpoint what do think makes the jws religion wrong or incorrect as a active christian faith ?.

somethings come to mind such as its long continuous end times/armageddon soon doctrine which has really been a core doctrine for decades going right back to its beginning .. maybe they should have adopted the stance as other christian based faiths and adhered to jesus's own words when he said " no one knows of the time not even he ".

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jhine

Ultimate , that is a big difference between the Org and Christendom. When a ( sometimes very young child) is baptised into the Org that effectively means that they are " owned " by the Org. If they do anything considered wrong they are disfellowshipped and can lose pretty much everything. That is my perception of the situation, please correct me if I'm wrong .

When a baby is baptised it is welcomed into the church family. That's it , if as an adult that child chooses to come to church or not , becomes a drug addict , thief or anything else , that person is always welcome back . In fact is never thrown out .

Jan

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If you could pick out critical errors to the JWS religion what would it be ?

by Rocketman123 in

many that have come to this forum have left the jws religion and moved on with their lives but from a outsider's viewpoint what do think makes the jws religion wrong or incorrect as a active christian faith ?.

somethings come to mind such as its long continuous end times/armageddon soon doctrine which has really been a core doctrine for decades going right back to its beginning .. maybe they should have adopted the stance as other christian based faiths and adhered to jesus's own words when he said " no one knows of the time not even he ".

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jhine

I'm with TD on that , certainly in the UK . I don't think that l know anyone who has any idea about the WT , except maybe that they don't celebrate Christmas and that's usually because they have children of school age and are told " Sue or Tom don't have presents like we do at Christmas"

It seems that like Mormons there are lots more JWs in the States than here.

Jan

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"Not Bringing Reproach on Jehovah's Name" is a Non-Sensical Excuse for Shunning

by truth_b_known in

for whatever reason i was thinking on the topic of jehovah's witnesses' practice of disfellowshipping its members based on the concept of preventing "bringing reproach on jehovah's name".

follow me if you will -.

over 20 years ago a friend of mine did something rather crazy; he committed a major crime.

jhine

Paul speaks of " not eating " with such a person ie an unrepentant sinner . As l have said before l think this means not sharing the bread and wine with them .

This, he said, is to give them chance to think of what they are losing , which is not being part of an organisation, but their salvation.

So it's for the sake of the person's eternal life , not for the sake of the church .

As has been said you can't bring reproach on God . So the WT basically seems to be throwing people to the lions just to protect itself. Of course if the person then in the due course of time goes crawling back , all well and good. They have distanced themselves from whatever they have done .

Jan