'they turn the story around to make it seem like you are at fault, deflecting attention and blame away from them to make you feel guilty.
this type of emotional manipulation is called gaslighting.. .
deflection is manipulation, and if it's coupled with other toxic relationship behaviors, it may be necessary to remove yourself from the situation.'.
Beth Sarim: life forever on hold.
And that is what is so tragic about it. My mother is a very smart and ambitious person, and she basically stopped living in the early 1970s because she was waiting for the end. She is in her mid-80s now, and still waiting for an end that she insists is "very close" and "right around the corner," etc.
If the WTS had said in 1975, "the end is very close, and by close we mean at least 48 years away," I bet she would not be a JW today.
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It looks like a basic template that you are supposed to replace with your own content after you start the site. I guess some web hosts will do that now, so that the site is not just a blank page. But it should show something to indicate that it is "under construction." Or maybe he uploaded a random site template so it wasn't a blank page? Can't say.
But really, if you get a new site and are directing people to it, you should have a page that welcomes them and explains that you're still building it.
In the meantime, he should link to lloydevans.info
inspired by the "whats the reason you think jw's are in decline" thread.
my belief is that almost all the growth, at least in the western world is due to jw's having kids.
i was a 4th generation jw from birth till about age 20, so the timeframe i can comment on would be my teen years.
I was born in, became inactive around 2000-2004. I can't say how often we saw new people in the congregation, or how many of those were new converts developed from a door-to-door visit. I do recall hearing some brothers and sisters relate how they were converted via a d2d visit and Bible study. But I never really thought about it, which is odd in retrospect.
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That looks like a boilerplate site template. He probably should not have posted the link until he had updated the site with his content...
https://i.redd.it/hd9p1g3ssr2b1.jpg.
1290 jw congregations have been deleted since 4th dec 2022. i have a full map so you can explore active/deleted congs, and also orphaned halls https://analytics.jws-library.one/viewmap.html.
many of the deletions in the usa appear to be foreign language groups.
LV101: What is an "Orphaned Hall?"
I assume it means a KH that has no active congregations that meet there. In which case, it probably will be sold.
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Since he considers the donations his salary, I don't think he gets to "do [his] work in [his] own time." A boss can't tell you what to spend your salary on, but he can set expectations and demand results. Otherwise, it sounds like Evans wants to have it both ways. Again, to his patrons: this is what you're paying for.
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The thing is, it doesn't matter if he reads it or not, and it doesn't matter how he feels about this thread. It isn't for him.
It's for anyone who wants to know what he is really like. I bet he gives a shit about that.
canada has universal healthcare.
the consensus is that america never will.
can anyone explain why, please?
LUHE: There is no consensus among US citizens for change re health care that's free at the point of delivery.
There's no perfect system for funding healthcare, and in the US it is a highly-politicized issue. So you have people who can point out the issues with our current system and people who can point out the issues with any proposed systems. And they aren't honest when they're defending their preference, since it invites biased and hypocritical criticism and the discussion devolves into a shouting match.
One issue, as I see it, is that the current system is a Frankenstein's monster of supposed free-market systems that are regulated by government. It's not really possible to go fully in one direction or another, so we end up with a system designed by greedy insurers on one side, and incompetent politicians on the other, and frequently managed by clueless HR departments instead of the individuals and families that need it. No surprise- it's a confusing mess.
I'd rather we had taxpayer-subsidized preventive and basic care available to everyone, with insurance available for the less-common circumstances that often require massive financing. If we can offer life insurance at a small premium, we should be able to do that same for people who need extensive hospital stays, emergency services (surgery, etc), and long-term recovery care. It's still not a perfect system, and it doesn't fit neatly in any one political party's platform, so it won't ever happen.
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LMsA: I don’t think he wants to do anything other than the bare minimum to keep the channel going.
I agree. Actually, I doubt he even wants to do that, but there aren't any good options available. Expect this to become a regular theme, where he tries to keep the pressure on his supporters by implying that he can't produce content without "hundreds" of people paying him thousands of dollars a month. Now I'm curious to see how long he can ride that particular grift before it fizzles out and people start to wonder why he is making more videos about not making videos than he is about anything else.
from what i can see no such thing is happening.i became a jw in 1960 and remained for about 30 years and the numbers of active jw`s today in the world are far greater than they were back then.. and here in australia the numbers are much higher than they were back then .. so i don`t see that their in decline or have any worries about losing support .. don`t the numbers speak for themselves ?.
is it just wishful thinking on your part ?.
I agree with nicolaou, they appear to be relaxing a lot of policies in order to keep the numbers from slipping. It's not the same religion I grew up and spent 40+ years in. But that's also not new- the WTS has changed many times over the past 100+ years, and while some of those changes were disastrous (the 1920s are a good example), they have read the winds pretty well overall and kept it together. The big threat now is that 1914 continues to fade into the past and at some point they will need to drop it or refute it, if they can find something to replace it with.
