it was amusing the other evening on the local news to see the increase of drinking due likely to people having to basically stay at home.. the news crew went out on recycle day in a couple of areas during the week.
they showed the general neighborhoods (but not the specific houses).
the reporter walked down the street and looked into the recycle bins.
Had they been snooping around those street's bins this time last year?
NZ is different again. Most bottle stores selling spirits are closed, so if you want top shelf and didn't have a well stocked cellar before the lockdown and don't live in one of the few areas where you can go and stand in a queue for hours to get your favorite whiskey/whatever, you're out of luck.
i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.
i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.
who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.
I remember our Book Study group being reprimanded for asking too many questions and dragging out the 'Book Study' for too long, LOL. The main culprit was my father as he wasn't happy with the convoluted explanations by the study conductor.
He stayed a believer regardless. It was one of my triggers that all was not well in the bOrg.
hello this is my first post although i’ve lingered on this site before.
i’m curious about a comment i read saying that rutherfords idea of only 144000 going to heaven was taken from the founder of the church friends of man.
i tried looking up this church but could not find information on when they started this belief.
You might have better luck asking them questions about something that you know already bothers them and that you are familiar with, rather than starting a new topic that you know little about, can't be researched without dredging up difficult to find material provided on the internet by Satan's minions and that is unavailable in their own Kingdumb Hall library or WTLib.
not sure if this was covered as i could not find anything on it but talking to my son he tells me one of the gb had a talk telling them this is a sign of the last days.
have the jw's being pressured into talking to relatives and friends to bring them back into the fold before the end of the system blah blah blah?
the reason why i ask is my son was saying his mother has being on his case the last few weeks and then two days ago i got a telephone message from my sister, that hasn't spoke to me in 4 years, asking how i am doing.
I got encouraged to join in the Zoomorial by someone who hasn't mentioned religion to me in over a decade. I didn't ask if they were pushed to do that.
this 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 .
I hope it turns out ok for them Min.
some people say this decade is the most advantage and so they are happiest in the present.
some long for the good old days before cell phones and computers.
if you could live in an era or decade , when would it be?.
A great 2040s would push my buttons :D
I loved the seventies. Young, out of the bOrg, always at least a thousand miles between my and my Superdub parents, single, naive, stoned, pissed, music, cars, travel, Then, about halfway through the seventies I stuffed it all up and tried to go all normal, hence my User Name
so you're stuck at home, you may be worried about your income, welcome to the world of filling your stuck-in-the-house time with saving some money!.
here in canada, our energy costs are going up because we have a carbon tax.
today, in the middle of the crisis, trudeau is raising it by 50%, probably as some perverse "thank you" to all the truckers delivering vital goods.
Constantly switching off and on expensive equipment can come back to bite you when they break down early because of the expansion and contraction that occurs in the circuit boards every time you cut the power to them and let them cool down.
some 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..
We're isolated because them's the rules here in NZ. There is lots of stuff to do on our property and our hobbies keep us both busy, so we won't be going stir crazy any time soon, but it would be nice to take the boat out to catch some fish, (not allowed). I'd stocked up on bait and chum before the lockdown thinking I was being clever :D
how do congregations in times of corona curfews handle it ?.
there should be a video of the talk on jw.org for the general public.
are publichers just encouraged to watch it on april 7th?
My Missus has already said she needs a bottle of red wine and is happy to have whatever I give her from our cellar. That is, of course, until something else is said by the head inmate of her chosen institution.
When I was a young fellow, which wine was used was important and had to be approved. I remember that there was talk about bull's blood being used to color some red wines and that would never do.
Whatever wine it was, we demolished the rest of the bottle before we went to bed.
there will be no hope that she will ever come out of the wt abyss.
her mind is so diluted with the cult, i.e.
the best life ever.
Encourage her to make statements that she will regret once the crisis is over. The more committed she is, the better.
Later ....
"Remember when you said ...?" What do you think now ....?
