We're in Ontario and wonder why do they even have a service meeting when they don't even go out in service. Plus every Saturday afternoon they have to listen to a bethel speaker plus their Sunday talk and watchtower and also the ministry school on Tuesday evening. For every meeting they have to give a thumbs up to their elder that they will be attending their meeting so phones are buzzing which is pissing them off. The org is really keeping a tight grip on their followers.
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Self-isolating JW's will at least get a taste of what disfellowshipping is like..
by mikronboy inhumans are basically social animals.
see most any isolated mammal, whether in a zoo or even an outcast of its pride and you'll see one mentally disturbed creature.
maybe, after this pandemic has faded and humans are able to interact once more, some jw's might think twice before being so quick to shun.
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My ExElder Best Friend Has Coronavirus
by minimus inthis has been a horrible month.
my best friend’s wife just called to tell me that my friend had to be hospitalized due to severe coronavirus complications.
he has severe pneumonia, is put on a ventilator and is in a coma .
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newsheep
Really sorry Minimus. I hope they get better soon. My handicapped sister is in a home and today I received the phone call that she woke up yesterday with a splitting headache, coughing, sneezing and a fever. Her caregiver said that she had not been out of the home for just over a month so the staff and all the other kids in her home are being tested. I say kids but she is in her sixties and suffers from bronchitis as it is along with her cerebral palsy and rare eye disease. I just can't believe they want to reopen shops when the elderly and handicap have no voice. Sure it's easy to say stay at home but what if the elderly are at home or in a home and still have to rely on someone virus free to come and look after you? Such a messed up world!!!
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New York Times: ‘People Would Be So Receptive Right Now, and We Can’t Knock on Doors.’
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/us/politics/coronavirus-jehovahs-witnesses.html.
the pandemic has put a stop to the activities of one of the nation’s most visible religious groups, jehovah’s witnesses.. read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/us/politics/coronavirus-jehovahs-witnesses.html.
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newsheep
The great tribulation can't start yet. The org is still waiting for all their elderly to die off from this virus so they can cash in. I wonder if Stephen Lett's money and Tony Morris's money will go to the org when they die.
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How do you think this covid-19/corona virus pandemic will affect the way J.W.'s view shunning?
by StoneWall inwe all know that the watchtower (jehovah's witnesses) say the reason for disfellowshipping is to protect the congregation from some uncleanness or threat.so they "quarantine" (shun) those they perceive can spread information that does not agree fully with their teachings/doctrines.it's almost like they want to liken it to a real disease by calling opposers "mentally diseased", "threat" etc.
will the current state of affairs in the world regarding this pandemic strengthen their cause/argument in favor of isolating within their ranks?
i can visualize them in the near future even having parts at the hall or assemblies pointing back to this pandemic and saying something along the lines of "brothers what do you think would happen if we would not have quarantined and stayed away from any that were infected?
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I think there are some genuine kind souls in that cult that might sit back and think how disfellowshipped ones must feel with no contact of family or friends. The internet is still not the same as close contact with family or friends.
But then there are those like the neighbors down the road who are jws and they are still having their ten car group gatherings at their home every Friday night where they hunt and play cards and drink. This pandemic hasn't affected them what so ever.
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3M Corporation-- You are Absolutely DISGUSTING - I hope you are sitting down when reading this
by RubaDub ini was watching the local news in the background and i heard a guy talking about 3m and how florida was getting screwed.
i didn't hear the whole report.. later, i was switching through the channels and i saw the same guy talking to tucker carlson (fox news).
come to find out he is the federal cdc equivalent at the state level.
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newsheep
Couldn't agree with you more Simon. He's a disgrace for sure. Talking with a liver surgeon from the Cleveland clinic and they are just as pissed off at Trump as we are with Trudeau. Right now the hospital nurses have been wearing the same low grade masks for over a week because that is what they were told to do. Now everyone is scrambling for masks because Trump is saying it's up to everyone if they want to wear a mask or not. It's their choice. People have to stop relying on their governments as to when they can be safe or not. If you have a gut feeling go with it!
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3M Corporation-- You are Absolutely DISGUSTING - I hope you are sitting down when reading this
by RubaDub ini was watching the local news in the background and i heard a guy talking about 3m and how florida was getting screwed.
i didn't hear the whole report.. later, i was switching through the channels and i saw the same guy talking to tucker carlson (fox news).
come to find out he is the federal cdc equivalent at the state level.
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Hoser I think the greed part is just the beginning of what's to come. Trump tells Canada that we can't have any 3M N95 masks but that might change. Nanaimo's Harmac mill supposedly is the only mill in the world that makes K10 pulp which is necessary in order to make these hospital masks, gowns, drapes ect,,, I believe the ball is back in Trudeau's court if Trump threatens to cut off Canada's supply of N95 masks https://www.timescolonist.com/business/nanaimo-mill-churning-out-pulp-for-medical-masks-gowns-1.24106220
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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newsheep
I think this is way beyond anyone's scope. There are so many that have it and don't know they have it. Shortage of test kits in Ontario so people are just told to go home and isolate. No real record number accept those who tested positive for it.
Today we were told to wear masks since we don't know who might have it. They might not know they have it but if everyone wears a mask when going out to do groceries then they have done their part to help flatten the curve. I have been wearing the mask for almost a month now because I don't trust our prime minister Trudeau. Today he gave his speech and was wearing winter gloves and was doing some coughing while drinking his water to wash down his BS. Someone asked him if he was sick and he said no.
What irritates me is when they say to wear a mask but then say not to wear the N95's. Sorry but Trudeau shipped out millions of those masks and I had mine three years ago when we put up a shop and I was doing chemo. More then ever now I am wearing it since I read up on Coronavirus and the liver. When I get a smirk I start to cough and those people back off real fast like twenty feet away from me. I made my point.
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Have You Isolated Yourself Because of the Virus 🦠?
by minimus insome people i know have not gone out of their houses in weeks.
some will walk near their homes and run right back in.
meanwhile, i go food shopping and i see tons of people, many with masks and gloves on..
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We have isolated ourselves. People out here in the country are not getting it yet. Still parties going on. The neighbor and his daughter were on the road for two weeks. He's a trucker and they went to Saskatchewan and got back last night.. Didn't self isolate and tonight had a bunch over. I asked her brother if they are self isolating and he said what for, they were in the truck for two weeks but he would have had to gas up and they tried to find a washroom but no one would let them use theirs. The one gal is a nurse where there was an outbreak at her hospital and her and her daughter had shown up for the party. People are not listening at all out here.
Went to the grocery store and it was jammed pack with people. Told the store owner that stores are to make sure only so many come into the store and they are to be at least six feet apart. He said there's nothing he can do about it that he thinks the best thing would be is to shut the store down. I told him his store is and essential but he was fed up with how the people are acting. We go grocery shopping once a month now and get our milk from the dairy farmer. He's always in the barn so we have no contact. In return we give him some meat products.
Hope all of you stay safe and warm. Look out for your neighbors in need. I think the elderly are more in shock watching all this unfold. Over and over I hear stories where they haven't seen anything like this. Not even in the war. They say that yes some died but not like this.
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Coronavirus Positive
by snare&racket inhey all,.
i'm day six of isolation, confirmed to have coronavirus.
i have been seeing very sick cv positive patients over the last month in my a&e role (emergency physician) it was inevitable i would contract it.. just wanted to give some symptom and treatment advice, it's anecdotal but may help.. started as sore throat and headache, then croaky voice, then dry cough, then episodic transient fevers, all this over the first few days.
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newsheep
Thank you! On our news they were saying that they have all these dead bodies and they can't use them for organ transplants due to the virus. So many patients in need of a transplant and they can't get it.
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JW NY and covid-19
by Gorbatchov indoes someone know how jw's in and arround ny, and the hq's are affected by covid-19?
many infected?
lock down of hq's?.
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newsheep
Geeze listener what a way to live especially if you have a roommate that you can't stand. As far as big groups and Canada it's coming. There are huge huge dutch reforms who are not listening as well as the mennonites. There might not be any church but they are still having huge family get togethers on Sunday afternoons. We are behind but it will start to really elevate in a few weeks they figure. We are told by the government now that only five at the most in a group setting. Yet people are still holding funerals and having baby showers.