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  What drives these doomsday predictions?

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  "what drives these doomsday 'prophets'.

  many include wildly inaccurate readings of the book of revelation.

  often these pandemic prophets end their predictions with sign-offs such as "if you don't have a bible, buy one!.

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  What drives these doomsday 'prophets'

  Fear, fanaticism, a dash of mental imbalance and an extreme disappointment in how ones own life turned out.
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  After the Covid-19 crisis: what will happen?

  by Gorbatchov in

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  what will happen after the covid-19 crisis?.

  - economy with all the stand still corporations, people without work and mass injections of support money?.

  - politics with the end of globalisation, closed borders and new geopolitic friends (italy / china russia), lack of support and working together in eu and local politics, did the current politician the right thing?.

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  After all the seclusion, I think they'll be a surge in businesses of all types once people are free to go out again.

  People will have a renewed sense of appreciation for what they have and for one another. A lot of the millennial will have learned a valuable lesson in doing without, being prepared and coping with less than desirable circumstances.

  Families will realize for example, that it's fun to bake bread together even though it's easier to go out and buy it. Young people will realize that older people with real life skills should be appreciated more than those who are looked upon as "kool" for being savvy about things related to pop culture. They'll learn how to cope with difficulty by the example set by the older members of their families who are behaving sensibly.

  Before the 70's "energy/oil crisis", as a rule you'd drive into a gas station and receive routine service from a uniformed attendant who would run out and pump your gas, wash your windshield and check your oil. All of that was thrown out the window when people were desperate to get gasoline and didn't care about the niceties. Now that we're willing to accept bare bones service, I think we may be seeing more of this from now on. For example, the airlines may not reinstate inflight meal service.

  I think there will be an upsurge in the stock market when people calm down and realize that it's smart to invest when the market is low, rather than pull their money out.

  In terms of JW's, because they've had a chance to get away from the regular doses of "inculcation" and because once again a crisis situation has passed without the world coming to an end, I think a lot of them will be more willing to "flesh out " their once repressed thoughts about the religion. They'll start seeing situations such this current one, as isolated incidents that have been taking place since the beginning of time and have nothing to do with one another.

  They'll listen to their inner voices about who these men in New York really are. They may for the first time be able to say out loud to one another that there's something off about Steven Lett and they may begin to view him as the "Boy who cried" WOLF" once too often.

  How do I know this ??

  
  
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  If you receive an email with the subject: "Ding Dong" ... Don't Open it!

  by Stealth in

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  it's jehovah witnesses, working from home.

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  Don't open an email with the subject "ding-dong or ding-a-ling"... It's probably an ad for Viagra.
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  Are the JWs are doing field service while corona?

  by iliketreasure in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey guys,.

  i'm out of the jws for 12 years now and stopped thinking about the whole thing a long time ago.. but recently, i wondered how jws deal with corona?

  i've read on the forums that they suspended meetings and tried to hold them online.. but are they still doing field service?.

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  It's ironic....now that everyone is at home, no one is out knocking.
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  "Go, my people, enter your inner rooms..."

  by Smiles in

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  isaiah 26:20 is now being used in private discussions among upper echelons of watch tower elites as a premise to infer covid19 pandemic related protocols are preparing the jw masses for that great overdue end-time deliverance.. "go, my people, enter your inner rooms, and shut your doors behind you.

  hide yourself for a brief moment until the wrath has passed by.

  " - isaiah 26:20. if the hype and fanaticism produce more failed expectations, watch tower may experience a 1975-like membership disaster.

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  ‘No matter what happens this time they’ll say there’s more of this on the way. This is just the beginning of what’s to come. No matter how many years it takes.
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  Rumor of Religion wanting to contact Inactives

  by LongHairGal in

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  i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.

  some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.

  the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).

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  I imagine if one does return to Jehovah, it might involve getting DF'd first.

  We know a couple who did return so they could get their family members to speak to them again. She was DF'd when she cheated on her elder husband and married a former JW guy that she dated when she was a teen. He hadn't been to a meeting in 25 years.

  Her former elder husband died suddenly in his early 50's and she was scripturally free. Her kids wouldn't speak to her until she was reinstated so she and her former JW husband tried to make a come back but he had to be disfellowshipped and reinstated first because when he wasn't a JW, he had been married and got divorced and wasn't scripturally free.
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  Watchtower Mobile Homes For Sale!

  by Atlantis in

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  ibsa.

  watchtower mobile homes for sale!.

  https://ibsaproperty.com/properties/park-homes/ credit to mike & kimpetra!

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  Looks like these mobile homes have been jacked up off their wheels for quite some time now. Maybe they're getting rid of them because you know what they say...."Idle wheels are the devils workshop.

  Or maybe these mobile homes be the modern day version of Gods celestial chariot. You know...the one we're not supposed to get a head of.
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  Have you Witnessed a Change in People's Life-Style / Behaviour where you Live?

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. current

  i certainly have , over the normal week i go to one of two clubs where i have two beers over a couple of hours ( i pace myself ) and catch up with a few friends .

  one of the clubs every hour goes around to disinfect everywhere people make contact with pokies /machines or whatever we might touch.and they also now have limits as to how many can be in a certain area at any one time.and that applies to both clubs ,except one does not disinfect every hour.. today, their were far fewer people in this particular club that i attended that is usually bustling with patrons on a saturday either drinking gambling and socializing .not today.

  and a strict rule of how many could be in a certain area at any one time .. and i agree with all of this , its necessary .and i will be monitoring my own activities as need be.. what have you noticed in your neck of the woods.?

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  It was a beautiful spring day and we went out for a bike ride and a lot people I don't know, smiled and waved from their porches or from their cars as they drove by. A lot of neighbors were outside their houses talking across fences to their other neighbors. I saw a group of about five, 30 somethings who had exercise equipment out on their driveway and were doing CrossFit training. A lot of neighbors were out walking their dogs and riding their bikes and they seemed to be making an extra effort to call out "hellos" to anyone in sight.
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

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  this 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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  They say a picture is worth a thousand infections er, I mean words.

  
  
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  Can You Believe This Insanity From Lett!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  can you believe this gibberish coming out of their mouths now; specifically from the clown-horse's own mouth :.

  "things unfolding around us are making clear that ...(wait for it).."we are living in the final part of the last days, undoubtedly the final part of the final part of the last days,shortly before the last day of the last days"!!!!!!!!!!!!.

  i wonder what next...ummmmm...final part of the final part of the final part of the finalpart...(on a recurring loop), you get the idea!.

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  "we are living in the final part of the last days, undoubtedly the final part of the final part of the last days, shortly before the last day of the last days"

  But wait !!! Make a donation before midnight tonight and you'll receive a set of Ginsu knives. Hurry folks...these promises prices won't last !