Posts by GrreatTeacher

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Jehovah's Witness Retirement Homes and Senior Care

by Tahoe in

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jehovahs-witness-retirement-homes-and-senior-care/ar-aa1jrvoa.

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GrreatTeacher

Same company. Legacy Place Cottages is run as a 503c3 nonprofit owned by Jah-Jireh Homes of America Allentown, per their website. You can find it by clicking on the link in Tahoe's article.

There's a little blurb on their page praising Jah-Jireh homes in Great Britain.

This is in Pennsylvania which is the motherland of JWs. There are Witneses all over the state still. Grew up and still have family there.

In contrast, where I live now in Maryland the nearest hall is 25 miles away. In an area with high population density. There are just no JWs around here.

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JWLITE

by Teddnzo in

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even elders can be part of the new jw lite brigade these days.

they don’t need to go on door to door anymore and there is no requirement for anything really.. taking meeting parts is all dead easy you could turn up on the day with zero preparation because it’s all in the meeting workbook.. quarterly elders meetings are just old men having a good old natter just like old men do down the pub.. congregations could be likened to pubs or bars these days just without the drinks, those come at other times.. no need for territory maps, these almost went away with covid letter writing now they are extremely slow getting finished as those who still go door to door only do ten mins.. you could even voice your questions these days about things the gb say and then just say “we can’t be dogmatic we just don’t know”.

i predict they will say this about 1914 soon..

GrreatTeacher

I would never take Pascal's Wager.

There is no one I would enjoy spending forever with less than the hypocritical lot of JWs.

I didn't enjoy being around them back then and I certainly cannot imagine spending eternity with them.

What a miserable world the New World would be.

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Thought on “0 hours” reporting

by FFGhost in

so everyone knows the “big news” of this past weekend, no more reporting of hours, placements, return visits, etc.

beginning november 1, jws just tick a box indicating whether they “shared in any form of the ministry during the month”.. so there was a brief comment by a redditor that seems like a brief joke “throwaway comment” but after thinking about it….why not?.

the idea is, what is “any form of the ministry”?

GrreatTeacher

So easy to stick a blue JW.Borg sticker on your vehicle and call it "giving a witness" any time you're driving.

Too bad no one thought of that before the hour requirement was dropped. They could have got pioneer hours just by commuting to work and tooling around town.

Imagine how many hours you could bank for a good old American road trip vacation!

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Why a legal bid by the Jehovah’s Witnesses to evade the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care failed

by Tahoe in

link to article .

the jehovah's witness church does not have a "fundamental right to avoid scrutiny" from the royal commission of inquiry into abuse in care, a high court judge says.. .

the church sought a judicial review to be exempt from the inquiry arguing it was beyond the inquiry's scope because it did not run institutions that cared for children or vulnerable people.. the bid was dismissed by the high court last week.

GrreatTeacher

Excellent point that there's a gap between their policies and the reality.

You know, the part that's written in ink by hand in the margins of their handbook.

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A Coin With a Remarkable History

by cofty in

over the years i have shared a few examples of objects i have found while metal detecting near my home in northumberland in ne england.

i live in a rural estate that was the site of a medieval village with a manor house and defensive tower.

many of the things i find illustrate the amazing history of the location.

GrreatTeacher

Fascinating! Not only the cool find, but the history you've discovered. English history in America doesn't go back quite that far, but I do live in an area that saw settlement in the early 1600s. The Chesapeake Bay region; you know the story: John Smith, Pocahontas.

My house sits on old farmland. My street was the original driveway to the old farm house which my community used as a clubhouse. It was built in the early 1800s. Beautiful bones on the interior, but became too dilapidated and my community decided to tear it down and build a new clubhouse.

If you look carefully, you can see the remains of a circular driveway in front of the house which now of course is a vinyl clad monstrosity.

They put an Olympic sized pool in the backyard, and the old boat landing on the river behind it was dug out into a marina.

It's so interesting to me the differences in the way land use developed in the Old vs. the New World.

My community is an early iteration of an HOA. We only pay $15 a month and the biggest rule is all about fences. No fences in the front yard!

But HOAs are an entirely different subject, so congrats on the cool find and legend for the grandkids.

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Are adjustable rate mortgages the norm in the UK?

by SydBarrett in

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perhaps an odd subject for a presumably religious focused discussion board, but there are a fair number of brits here... i'm an american, but i sometimes listen to the podcast of the james o'brien radio show.

(a brit political radio show where people call in).

the past few months, a common topic has been people calling in discussing how hard they are getting hit financially because of a dramatic rise in interest rates on their mortgage.

GrreatTeacher

I'm in the US too, but I think the standard in the UK is 25 year mortgages, whether fixed or adjustable I don't know.

They also seem to have a more risky house buying process in the UK in which contracts aren't exchanged until a considerable amount of time and effort is expended and the seller can sell to someone else. For example, a home inspection is performed there before contracts are signed, whereas here they are often done post contract signing with a kick out clause for the buyer if the news is bad.

Interestingly, it seems like there is much handwringing about offering a lower amount post inspection if there are problems. Buyers seem to be afraid of insulting the seller.

Whereas here, a bad inspection usually involves further negotiations and the seller can refuse outright if he doesn't want to negotiate the price.

We bought our first house with an adjustable rate so we could qualify. There were limits with how much it could increase. We sold within five years and all our mortgages since have been fixed.

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More than 17 years of service to the XJW community!

by Nathan Natas in

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i want to take a moment to salute rick fearon, an "apostate" near boston massachusetts usa who more than 17 years ago started the sixscreens telenetwork on youtube.

you can find it here: https://www (dot) youtube (dot) com/ (at) araretreat/streams.. like our benevolent host simon green here at jehovahs-witness.com, rick has not done his great work for his own financial enrichment or to collect followers for himself, as some xjw grifters have done and continue to do.. saturdays and sundays are the busy days at six screens, with call-in programs like:.

* jw world news.

GrreatTeacher

Yeah, interviewing Johnny the Bethelite who was hiding in a closet in Bethel was just off.

My spidey senses were tingling on that one.

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Ivana Trump grave at Trump's golf course

by SydBarrett in

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people who dislike trump will see this as an eyesore and an insult to his first wife and the mother of his 3 children.people who support trump will describe this as a beautiful natural setting, like a woodland.

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GrreatTeacher

Or just left in the ground and paved over to make a car park like Richard III was.

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Growing up as a child in Closed High-Demand Groups

by LostintheFog1999 in

i came across this fascinating article and thought it was worth sharing it with you.

i grew up in that religion so a lot of it struck a chord with me.. https://www.spiritualabuseresources.com/articles/born-or-raised-in-closed-high-demand-groups-developmental-considerations.

GrreatTeacher

Excellent article.

Many of us who have grown up in the religion leave the religion with unfinished developmental tasks that should have been completed in childhood.

That leaves a very vulnerable person who is trying to make their way in the world with the psychological makeup of a child.

No wonder suicidality is common.

Nice academic references.

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What would you change?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

i’m agnostic so maybe the universe started by chance or by design.. if it was by design (hypothetically) and the bible is the designers word, and jws seem to be the closest to it, then what would be the largest things you would change?.

here are a few ideas.

-do away with the governing body thinking they are gods only channel.

GrreatTeacher

Yeah. Love is the last attribute that I'd think of to describe Jehovah's Witnesses.

There's "love bombing" which is a fake show of love to get people to join or return, or even stay after being treated badly.

There's also "enmeshment" which keeps everyone up in everybody's business which facilitates the snitching culture.

Spend some time going down rabbit holes learning about these concepts. They both figure prominently in relationships with Narcissists. And Narcissists are all about control, control, control. Not a healthy relationship at all.

BTW, some people really miss the Enmeshment when they leave. It can feel like Unity or Real Love. But, it's not. It's a dependence on an unhealthy "everybody intimately involved with everyone else's business" relationship model that fosters unhealthy dependence and creates an environment where shunning becomes a true threat to what feels like someone's very existence. Not healthy at all. People who come out of the religion missing this are very damaged and find it difficult to live on their own without the unhealthy group.

It's very common in unhealthy family dynamics.

Love bombing features in abusive relationships in the Cycle of Abuse. It's the part of the cycle where after one partner gets hit or otherwise abused, the perpetrator realizes the abused partner might decide to leave, so they use Love Bombing to promise that they'll never do it again because they love them so much. When it works, the abused partner believes and forgives them, the relationship continues until the abuser again abuses and love bombing is deployed again and again to keep the relationship going.