Posts by Simon

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What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?

by Sea Breeze in

i was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.

in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.

her husband was a ms. both were df'd.

Simon

Yeah, ours had financial scandals, money missing from a congregation account, investors in a JW-owned company ripped off, an elder having an affair with the wife of someone who went for him to support, unmarried teenage pregnancies, car thieves. You name it, we had it!

The "spiritual paradise" never was.

The funny thing is that you discover people are way more clean living and moral outside of the religion. Maybe it's TODO with those who it appeals to all wanting forgiveness? Whatever it is - we have nicer friends with stable marriages and well brought up kids away from it.

The WTS and those who go are often bad association!

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I remembered something I had forgotten a long time ago.

by mickbobcat in

when i was about 17 there was a elders son i used to hang out with.

he was 16 but close to my age.

his family was a kool aid drinking cult followers.

Simon

Tell him you remember him saying it, and you think he's a shit.

Really, it's the very very least you can do.

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Why do Men just want to control each other, and have control over you.

by pistolpete in

it seems like the moment someone attains some type of power, whether it's money, political power, or religious power, their first agenda is ---to control others.. bill gates is a good example of this.

another is george soros and michael bloomberg.

and let's not forget all the politician and religious leaders like the governing body.

Simon

It's the Dinning Kruger effect and a generation brought up at school to believe they are right, and their opinions are valid, even when they are wrong and complete dumb fucks.

Participation medal winners finally put in charge of something ...

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I remembered something I had forgotten a long time ago.

by mickbobcat in

when i was about 17 there was a elders son i used to hang out with.

he was 16 but close to my age.

his family was a kool aid drinking cult followers.

Simon

I know him well and I have no reason to believe he is a child molester.

What, apart from him telling you that he is?!?

Report it, or bear the guilt if your silence enables him to victimize other young girls.

Not trying to make excuses for his behavior but I also don't want to say he is evil

Not trying to make excuses and then doing just that. Isn't whether he is evils based on what he does? Not whether he seemed like a funny guy to hang out and have beers with?

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China About to Screw Your Life Again

by Simon in

china's economy is wobbling as one of its largest companies, evergrande, is teetering on bankruptcy.. there's a good chance it's collapse will have a knock-on effect on other markets.. so more to thank them for than just the covid virus.. no one should have any dealing with china..

Simon

Measuring economic success based on "growth" makes these things inevitable, or at least more likely.

Whatever you measure you get more of, and at some point if it can't be real then it will be faked.

Spain had the same thing where they were building places that were just ghost towns.

It's a form of economic fraud. Someone took at that money.

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Where does the cult fall on sexually touching each other for married couples.

by mickbobcat in

so its wrong for married couples to have oral sex and anal but what about touches to arouse?

to climax i would assume it was wrong.

but what if you go too far getting ready for sex and climax, do you need to go to the cult to confess..

Simon

Don't go lubin' the toobin' (named after the CNN presenter who was caught doing just that on Zoom)

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China About to Screw Your Life Again

by Simon in

china's economy is wobbling as one of its largest companies, evergrande, is teetering on bankruptcy.. there's a good chance it's collapse will have a knock-on effect on other markets.. so more to thank them for than just the covid virus.. no one should have any dealing with china..

Simon

This describes the scale of the Evergrande threat and what a bubble the Chinese property market has been:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5g46Nk4PuM

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Good news and bad news --- pandemic and Kingdom Halls.

by pistolpete in

u/aposta-fish from exjw reddit.

good news bad news pandemic and kingdom halls.. first the bad news, coming out of israel - one of the first countries to push total vaccination.

the news is the vaccine especially the pfizer one looks like it wears off and hospital rates have gone up for those that have been vaccinated.

Simon

hospital rates have gone up for those that have been vaccinated

The problem with statistics is that they often don't provide the full data and even if they do, people don't know how to interpret it.

I'm guessing this is based on some stats that the majority of those in hospital with Covid are vaccinated?

The knee-jerk reaction to that is often "OMG, see - vaccines DON'T WORK!!!"

But is that what the stats really tell you?

How many people are in hospital, and happen to have Covid, but are not hospitalized due to covid?

How many are in hospital due to Covid but are not in the morgue due to Covid?

If the people who didn't get vaccinated all die, then the stats for the vaccinated look really bad by comparison, but at that point we're probably comparing the wrong thing.

What really matters - hospital occupancy or deaths?

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Do JWs buy old JW books to destroy?

by mickbobcat in

i have never heard of this but i doubt its never been done.

i sell some older jw books on etsy and have always been a bit afraid that some jws are buying them to destroy.

if you have heard of this let me know.

Simon

been a bit afraid that some JWs are buying them to destroy

What do you care? Take their money!

IMO it isn't a lack of awareness or knowledge about things the WTS has printed in the past that prevents current JWs waking up. i.e. it's not like you can waft a real book under their nose and they'll suddenly believe and acknowledge what you have been telling them, so the value of these books is probably limited.

Look at it as disposable income that won't be donated to the WTS.

Take the money.

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China About to Screw Your Life Again

by Simon in

china's economy is wobbling as one of its largest companies, evergrande, is teetering on bankruptcy.. there's a good chance it's collapse will have a knock-on effect on other markets.. so more to thank them for than just the covid virus.. no one should have any dealing with china..

Simon

The report I saw suggests they are already unable to pay debts to contractors, and have been trading on empty for some time, issuing IOUs instead of payments. It's now become obvious and untennable.

The knock-on effect is the real damage because all the people they don't pay then can't themselves pay for things, and so more companies will go bust. It will be large companies and small.

The idea that the US or China can just print more money shows how utterly clueless these people are. You can't. History has shown over and over that you can't inflate money like this without consequence.

The reason they do it is it steals from savers and gives to debtors, by devaluing their debt. And there are no bigger debtors than the government, which is why Fiat money always eventually implodes and goes to zero.