Posts by notsurewheretogo

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Article in The Australian: Jehovah's Witnesses facing tax turmoil

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/.../64acd93d531eb6b7301d.... .

sorry, the article is behind a paywall.

however, here's a copy of it without the photo:.

notsurewheretogo

It is poor journalism, they were never revoked, it was just a possible consequence...the writer hastily wrote the update.

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What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

by ExCircuitOverseer in

jw
friends

whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

will there be a mass selling of halls?

notsurewheretogo

I expect sales in window stickers or signs along the lines of "No JW's etc due to COVID" given we are going to have the virus for many years like other flus.

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lloyd evans has just tweeted a video he will be releasing soon on the "change" to the meaning of the sheep and goats and when that is to occur.. i've missed any discussion on that on here or anywhere?

it seems it was part of the 2020 annual meeting the gb had?.

any info on this?.

notsurewheretogo

I prefer to stay away from "ad hominem" ie not focus on the person but rather the message itself. I don't know Lloyd and certainly am not in 100% agreement with certain things but I still give his videos some attention and ones I do not want to view I simply avoid.

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New Light on Sheep and Goats?

by notsurewheretogo in

lloyd evans has just tweeted a video he will be releasing soon on the "change" to the meaning of the sheep and goats and when that is to occur.. i've missed any discussion on that on here or anywhere?

it seems it was part of the 2020 annual meeting the gb had?.

any info on this?.

notsurewheretogo

Sorry but it is not a tweak it is a fundamental change to doctrine. They believed the separation would happen at the GT but now it is happening now, that's a big change and indeed is like pre 1995.

What it does is add more fear to the JW's that they must right now be sheeplike.

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New Light on Sheep and Goats?

by notsurewheretogo in

lloyd evans has just tweeted a video he will be releasing soon on the "change" to the meaning of the sheep and goats and when that is to occur.. i've missed any discussion on that on here or anywhere?

it seems it was part of the 2020 annual meeting the gb had?.

any info on this?.

notsurewheretogo

It seems they are now flip-flopping back to that separation work happening now but yeah I'm surprised to not see any chat on it in Reddit or here.

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New Light on Sheep and Goats?

by notsurewheretogo in

lloyd evans has just tweeted a video he will be releasing soon on the "change" to the meaning of the sheep and goats and when that is to occur.. i've missed any discussion on that on here or anywhere?

it seems it was part of the 2020 annual meeting the gb had?.

any info on this?.

notsurewheretogo

Lloyd Evans has just tweeted a video he will be releasing soon on the "change" to the meaning of the sheep and goats and when that is to occur.

I've missed any discussion on that on here or anywhere? It seems it was part of the 2020 Annual Meeting the GB had?

Any info on this?

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"ONCE YOU SEE THE TRUTH YOU CAN`T UNSEE IT " Take note JW.ORG

by smiddy3 in

jw
friends

inspired by a previous post i wrote and thought it deserved a place of its own .. i hope it helps people on their journey out of the wt/jw religion .. their is no going back after discovering the "truth" about the wt/jw religion.. its the path of freedom from enslavement to a man made religious organization that was born in america, a nation that has spawned numerous charlatan religious organizations, especially in the 1700`s to 1900`s .and even beyond..

notsurewheretogo

Once you understand that the GB/FDS are just men and not directed/inspired the whole house of cards comes crashing down.

The fact their self appointment in 1919 is based on 1914, 2520 years from 607 BC and that date is easily disproved as wrong for the destruction of Jerusalem then its quite easy to cause the house of cards to come down for others if they research 586/607.

You can't go back after you know the truth about all of that.

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Who was it who ''rescued'', or ''saved'' you?

by Beth Sarim in

from the borg?.

i point to none other than cal lehman and the towerwatch ministries.

towewatch.com.. the years following the collapse of the ussr and the 1995 generation left a bad taste in my mouth for a long time.

notsurewheretogo

Don Cameron's book "Captive to a Concept" was the nail in the coffin for me. It is an astounding book highlighting the trap JW's are in. "Crisis of Conscience" for sure also helped but Don's book just tipped it for me after I researched as a PIMI elder about the destruction of Jerusalem.

I was challenged by a minister on the doors that 607 BCE was made up by the JW's so I spent 6 months researching it...which left me lurking on here...Cedars website etc and then Don's book was it and I resigned as an elder and a few months later faded never to go back.

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We in the UK are dealing with COVID all wrong

by LoveUniHateExams in

yeah, so boris johnson has plunged the whole of the uk back into a second lockdown.

kids are still going to school (thank goodness!

) but this second lockdown is ruining the economy and killing small businesses.. the first lockdown was forgivable because, at the time, nobody knew what we were dealing with.. but now, we know more and more about covid-19.. it is lethal to elderly people (the average age of deaths with covid in the uk is 82 years - the average age of deaths without covid in the uk is 81 years).. it is also lethal to obese people and people with diabetes.. i'd imagine hiv+ people are another vulnerable group.. but to everyone else, catching covid is fairly similar to catching the flu.

notsurewheretogo

The death rate of COVID may be small to an average person but its a new disease that can easily spread and is lethal to certain groups of people.

Without lockdown vast amounts of those people would be dead...lockdown saved lives.

But it seems all hopes are pinned on a vaccination otherwise it would simply be a pattern of lockdowns and at some point you have to then weigh up the high risk of COVID to these groups versus the detriment to the economy.

Fact is we are only in a second lockdown in the UK, there is progress on a vaccination and thousands if not millions all round the world in those high risk groups are still alive.

My sister (cancer) and elderly parents would certainly be dead if it were not for the lockdowns.

IMO Schools being open makes no sense....kids do not exhibit symptoms but potentially can spread it to the high risk groups.

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Height of mountains before and after the flood .

by smiddy3 in

it was stated many years ago in answer to how did the flood cover the top of all the mountains on earth in noah`s day.?.

mount everest ?.

and it was explained away by saying that the mountains before the flood were a lot smaller / lower than the mountains that exist today.. so there was no problem .. when the deluge began with so much volume of water now covering the earth ( water being heavy ) pushed down into the weakest parts of the earth and raised up in other parts of the earth to where we now have higher mountains than existed before the flood of noah`s day.. in other words mount everest didn`t exist at its present height before the flood and neither did any other high mountain that exists today ,the topography all changed with the noachian flood.

notsurewheretogo

It was 100 billion coming back in the Reasoning book was it not? But given each passing year where the amount of deaths rises as population booms it will be a lot more?

Always amuses me that the dubs ignore evolution yet must believe in a super evolution to go from 2300 BC at the flood of Noah with very limited species to the abundant life we now have only 4,000 years later after flood!

Evolution just sped up in the years but then evolution is not true.

Go figure.