mandated shunning is on the rise around the world with devastating effects on millions of people.
shunning that is mandated by organized groups to its members is a form of both physical and psychological violence against those people being shunned and cut off from their family and life-long relationships.
mandated shunning means that the shunning is ordered from the top down.
I agree with Vid- reduce/withhold subsidies or tax breaks for any group that enforces a shunning policy.
As for 'shunning is a crime,' I don't think it's possible to make it a crime on an individual level. Perhaps you could make it a crime for it to be an official/documented organizational policy, and require organizations or businesses to remove/amend such policies or rules. But individuals shun one another all the time, for any number of reasons. It would be impossible to legislate.
it's not too early to place your bets for how many patrons his royal thighness will lose in october.
as of this writing, his tally stands at 457. so, where do you think he'll be on october 2?
lucky number 420?
Nice! Put me down for 430, a slightly more modest drop after Evans decides to go door-to-door to ask for Patreon support.
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T5: Congatulation TonusOH !
LOL thanks! I am still stunned at the size of the drop, I thought I was being a bit silly by going as high as I did with my guess(!). I wonder how many of them are people who signed up after his 'things are bad' video and then felt like they had been scammed when Evans got the support he asked for and then failed to do his part for his patrons.
As always, I blame Kim.
in the sermon on the mount, jesus foretold that earthquakes “in one place after another” would be part of the sign of the last days clímaxing in the great tribulation.. what could jesus possibly have meant?
using a phone app nowadays, there are earthquakes detected in one place after another but is this what jesus meant and did they have so many earthquakes throughout the centuries affter his prophecy or are these modern day detected earthquakes unique to this epoch?
how can we be sure unequivocally that modern day earthquakes are part of the sign fulfilling bible prophecy?.
I guess if the sign doesn't manifest in any notable fashion, one must reinterpret the sign.
come join the fun and place your bets for how many patrons lloyd evans will lose for september 2023. .
this month, we start the count at today's tally, 487. we'll check his stats on september 4th (to allot for the weekend after the 1st) and see who gets the closest.
your prize is bragging rights for a full month!.
I thought I was pushing it by going as high as 29.
So, on the bright side for Lloyd, he proved a lot of us wrong.
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It's a reminder that he is incapable of empathy. He cannot place himself in the shoes of other people and see himself from the outside. And so, when he returns from a two-week vacation and bails on his supporters, he doesn't understand why any of them would use that as a reason to stop sending him money. He is probably disappointed that they 'just don't get it.'
.........by the elite in the wtbts, who then became the self-proclaimed "faithful slave.
" (sans divine interference!).
as attested to countless times in decades worth of literature.. all succeeding members were then "personally selected" by existing "slave" members.
I'm trying to imagine Jehovah/Jesus checking things out in 1919, and deciding that Joseph Rutherford was the right guy to lead Christianity into the future.
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I'm curious to see if he skips any Patreon rewards in September. Once you lose the passion for something, it gets tougher and tougher to do it, and at some point you can't even do the minimum needed without feeling heavy stress. If he really skipped all of the activities that he promised his paying supporters in August -while posting pictures of his vacation, no less- that's not a minor thing. It could be a sign that he is struggling to stay interested in what he is doing.
And part of that could be that he does not have the staff around to do some/most of the work. Having to do it himself requires more time and energy. And he must feel some loss of prestige, that instead of having his 'team' he now has to do a lot of the 'grunt work' himself. Once you start down that slope, it can be extremely difficult to avoid a crash.
what's the current jw stance on retirement savings?
i know it changed.
pre1975 it was an attitude of "don't worry about retirement, this system is ending soon".
It would benefit the organization to encourage frugality and responsible money management, since that would leave most people with some disposable income that could be donated to the cause. I think they have long since learned not to specifically promote the idea of assuming that their futures are assured by the closeness of Armageddon.
I guess it's a bit of a conundrum- if you advise the rank and file to prepare for a future in the present system of things, they may lose the urgency that comes from the "sooner than you think" message. But a following that places little value on financial success and long-term planning will find itself unprepared when they are of retirement age. And then they have less to put in the coffers.
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He dropped to 380 or 390 before he did the begging video. I'm not sure what he'll do if (when?) he drops under 450 a second time. But don't underestimate him- I'm sure he'll find one or two more ways to gaslight and manipulate his audience into funding his next series of anti-JW videos two-week family getaway on the coast.
