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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  Pete Zahut

  Put it this way, if you have a gun with 50 chambers and you play Russian Roulette. That's the 2% odds. You might fancy your chances. But will you be as confident if you have to play it 10 times?

  No I wouldn't ever intentionally point a gun at my head empty or full. I also wouldn't worry about the likelihood of encountering someone with a gun that only had one bullet in it, especially if that one bullet only had an 85% chance of doing me harm. I'd worry even less if that person and I were taking precautions to make sure the bullet stayed in the gun and/or missed other people if it did happen to fire.There are more risky things out there to focus on.
  

  
  
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  Darkspilver case decided: his posts were fair use, not copyright infringement; subpoena quashed

  by Corney in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the final order was issued few hours ago:.

  https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.336935/gov.uscourts.cand.336935.30.0.pdf.

  the record establishes that darkspilver made fair use of the watch tower ad and chart.

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  I imagine the JW's know they don't have a case in these instances but their intent is to make things as difficult as possible for anyone who speaks against them... slow them down. They have legal resources and deep pockets and probably hope to scare off the average Joe.
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  My favorite video from the 2019 convention

  by George One Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i love this video, not because it promotes jehovah's love.... but because it indirectly discusses a subject that helped me to question my beliefs.. https://www.jw.borg/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwbcov_201905_11_video.

  (creation reveals jehovah's love).

  it is the first clip, and it is about how elements are formed.

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  Pete Zahut

  Psalm 102 :25,26

  25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
  and the heavens are the work of your hands.
  26 They will perish, but you remain;
  they will all wear out like a garment.
  Like clothing you will change them
  and they will be discarded.

  JW's will claim that this means that God will make sure that life will go on by using other available planets that have been made suitable for human inhabitants.
  
  
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  The "Financial" New System of Things!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the "financial" new system of things!.

  yes, in the new system it will be "business as usual" with the watchtower society's financial arrangement.

  all those beautiful homes are to be built to make paradise complete.. .

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  As a JW, I always imagined that we'd all be self sufficient in the new system and there would be no need for finances or commerce. There would be no need for human leaders as we would be perfect and without need of regulating and organizing because we would all be doing the "right thing". I never paid attention to the fact that the folks at the Watchtower have the idea that they'll be in charge. If that's the case, we'll be building houses that they approve of and painting them from a selection of approved colors.

  The one thing they never addressed is the literal reality of living for all eternity. They always seemed to focus on the early days in paradise, rebuilding and instructing resurrected ones. What about 10 years later when the work is done and the rest of eternity lies ahead?

  I was also bothered by the fact that we all came about so randomly. If our parent's had "gone to bed" a few minutes earlier or later, some other little sperm cell might have made it to the egg first and we might not even be here. Although we had no say in the matter, we were the ones who made it and if we became Jehovah's Witnesses or were resurrected, we would live for all eternity and had no choice in the matter.

  
  

  
  
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  Pete Zahut

  I live in the area where 6 have died

  A school 3 miles from here has been closed down for sterilization.

  So far our local stores have plenty of the sanitation items others have claimed are in short supply in their area.

  Per the News

  Spread of the virus is from close personal contact with someone infected (6 feet or less) via droplets from coughs or sneezes.

  It is also spread by contact with these droplets on surfaces and then touching the eyes nose mouth.

  The virus lasts up to 9 days on surfaces (less on copper and steel) at room temp but are easily destroyed by common disinfectants. The virus appears to be affected by heat.

  Not likely to live on packages or products coming from oversees due to shipping time.

  The general uninfected public shouldn't wear masks because fiddling with masks with hands can contaminate the mask and concentrate the virus in the area of the nose and mouth or be spread from a mask onto hands while handling the mask.

  80% of those who are exposed to the virus will have little to moderate illness sometimes no symptoms at all. Those who have died so far already have underlying health conditions.
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  Something interesting!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  was in the middle of my research bout "anointed/ anointing /holy spirit".

  this question n the illustration got my interest.

  notice the last sentence and last word.

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  So why are those of who partake of the symbolic "emblems" at the "memorial" called "anointed" when no oil (symbolic or otherwise) is poured upon their heads?

  What does "empowerment" refer to? Power over the symbolic insects that live on the Little Flock of unannointed sheep?
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  Do you think there will be panic buying of food, guns ect?

  by JimmyYoung in

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  2. current

  i wonder if there will be panic buying of food, guns, gas ect due to the corona virus.

  what do you guys think?.

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  Pete Zahut

  If anyone dug them up and read them to someone else, they'd probably now be disfellowshipped for apostasy!

  Ha !....Yesterday I couldn't even spell Apoztayte....today I are one !!
  
  
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  Do you think there will be panic buying of food, guns ect?

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i wonder if there will be panic buying of food, guns, gas ect due to the corona virus.

  what do you guys think?.

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  Pete Zahut

  Speaking of stocking up on the essentials. I remember back in the early 70's during the 1975 craze some JW's in my Congregation were rolling up Watchtowers and putting them in plastic dish soap bottles and burying them in their back yard for use during the tribulation when the literature was "banned".

  There was even a demonstration on how to do this.

  That was almost 50 years ago and those JW's from my Congregation are long gone. I imagine one day there'll be an assembly experience where someone will be relating how they came into "the Truth".

  "A few years ago I moved into a house and I was working in the garden and found a Watchtower buried in a plastic bottle and I immediately knew I had found "the Truth !!" (applause)
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  Name one POSITIVE thing you took from your experience as a Witness

  by geodude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was thinking about this at work the other day, and realized the one positive thing i can truly credit the jws with: .

  i have no fear of public speaking.

  i was a shy kid, fat, clumsy, with crooked glasses and worse teeth, who wore hand-me-downs in one of the wealthiest counties in all of america, who sat still while classmates got up to salute the flag or recite the pledge of allegiance.

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  They systematically discredited all other religions so that once I was out of theirs, I'd never fall for another false religion.