Covid removed a lot of people from the constant indoctrination.
Some put their cameras on and kept on participating.
Others kept cameras off and mentally checked out.
Then there were the ones who only checked in to the meeting and then did whatever else they wanted just in order to keep up appearances.
Rooting for people to just give up logging into Zoom meetings at all.
Also, ineffective management. Yelling is a piss poor motivator.
It's not the local brothers who can stem the exodus. That's a problem for the organization. It's obviously systemic.
Surprised they haven't cut off Zoom for the meetings.
Although I'm skeptical it would do much. Many people have left for good and aren't coming back.
"If you can't do the job, get out!"
I think I'd take him up on that offer.
Real quick.
if a pimi sister has been told by her unbelieving husband not to take these experimental vaccines then what is official jw policy in this situation?.
should she go against her husband and tell him i will do what the men at my church tell me?.
what on earth will the husband think then?
Poor woman doesn't realize that nobody other than herself has the right to make medical decisions for her.
Not her husband, not her church.
Not that damned Hospital Liason Committee that descends upon hospitalized JWs like vultures.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jehovahs-witness-retirement-homes-and-senior-care/ar-aa1jrvoa.
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I got the impression that they are Great Britain owned, but there is an American subsidiary.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jehovahs-witness-retirement-homes-and-senior-care/ar-aa1jrvoa.
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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.
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..
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.
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”?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
