Posts by slimboyfat

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Are we living in the LAST DAYS?
by Fisherman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
are we living in the prophetic last days that will climax into armageddon?

if this is true then how long should it take?

as jw saw it, wt compared timing to within a generation using 70 ad as a parallel.
slimboyfat

Yes we’re definitely living in the last days I have little doubt about this. Humans won’t be around much longer the way things are doing, I don’t think. Not unless there is a God, or aliens, or something else that will save us. To quantify that a bit more, I think there’s a reasonable chance there’ll be an extinction, or near extinction event sometime this century, probably even by 2050, whether by nuclear war, artificial intelligence, or something else.
Two good books by academics on the topic: The Precipice by Toby Ord, and Our Final Century by Martin Rees.
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Truth about Covid vaccines
by Kosonen in
1. jw
2. friends
i hope the truth about the covid vaccines becomes public knowledge as it does now in australia.

senator malcom roberts tells it all in his speach.

https://youtu.be/vrlm8ybdhiy.
slimboyfat

If the entire thing was an honest enterprise then wouldn’t pharma companies, academics, and media be working overdrive to work out and publicise exactly how effective the vaccines were, how many adverse events and deaths there have been, and whether it was a net benefit for various age, and other groups? Crickets. Anybody who raises the question of whether, for example, young people would have been better off not taking the vaccines, is still being marginalised as if it’s not a legitimate question to ask.
I really have to wonder at people who think the idea that pharma and the media put profit before lives is some kind of whacky idea. They do know about the opioid crisis, don’t they? Or vioxx? Or the drug trials that go on in Africa because they don’t meet safety regulations? I really think it’s for people who act as if it’s somehow unthinkable that vaccine providers put profit before safety to explain why they think pharma companies in this one instance broke with their habit of pursuing profit over safety for this one product during this one crisis?
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

He feels his interviews with scholars are “like a college education”. Mmm where have I heard that before, I wonder? The direct quote from Watchtower, originally about the Awake! magazine, is all the more striking because Brits normally use the word university in place of college to refer to higher education, as opposed to further education. Is this subconscious or deliberate?
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

It explains some things but not convinced.
https://youtu.be/60LjGyJ-1rw
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

500 “minimum”, or else what? Is that like a threat (or rather a promise!) to disappear once he drops below 500? Or just give everybody another telling off for not sending him the money he’s entitled to?
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

Hi Patrons have gone up by 4 or 5 in the last few days. Did he have a mini begging segment? Yet hardly anyone watches his channel. I think he must be breaking records for the number of patrons per view of his content. There are channels with hundreds of thousands of views per video and fewer patrons. How did he manage that? 🤔
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slimboyfat joins the Mormons!
by slimboyfat in
1. jw
2. experiences
i know that some people on the board have experience of being mormons, so i would be interested in your feedback.

at church this afternoon it was an uncanny experience.

in the past i've read a lot about mormons, so i thought i was prepared in general for what it would be like.
slimboyfat

They are much more insistent about taking your money off you than Watchtower.
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slimboyfat joins the Mormons!
by slimboyfat in
1. jw
2. experiences
i know that some people on the board have experience of being mormons, so i would be interested in your feedback.

at church this afternoon it was an uncanny experience.

in the past i've read a lot about mormons, so i thought i was prepared in general for what it would be like.
slimboyfat

I went to a couple of the Mormon Zoom meetings in the pandemic but I couldn’t stick it. The same with the Iglesias Ni Cristo. I kind of wish I had stuck it out because I would be interested to know how they dealt with the lockdowns and so on.
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Dropoff joins the Mormons for a day!
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. jw
2. experiences
pretended to be a mormon for a day so as to visit their holy site hill cumorah.

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photos of some signage and monument of angel moroni giving a revelation to joseph smith:.
slimboyfat

Dropoffyourkeylee you’re not doing it right!
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5088760412766208/slimboyfat-joins-mormons
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Original Gilead Building
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. jw
2. experiences
recent photo:.

near ithaca ny.
slimboyfat

What’s it used for now? Brickwork looks newer than the age of the building. I’m no architect for sure.