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  JWs and Coping with Reality

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  become a jw only if you can't cope with the real world.

  i believe i picked this up here but can't find the thread.

  i think it worth a repost.. “top ten reasons jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world.

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  https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/resources/sociology-online-papers/papers/holden-averting-risk.pdf

  This paper examines the ways in which the Witnesses conceptualise the modern world and how they resist the secular forces that threaten their religious identity. Close analysis of the testimonies of current members reveals that the movement’s millenarian weltanschauung is a reaction to a world that is perceived as hostile and ambiguous. The paper concludes that the Witnesses’ allegiance to this quasi-totalitarian movement signifies an escape from a modern age that hedonistically celebrates individual freedom.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  2. friends

  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  There’s no way he’s outrunning in that policeman. Give it up already LE, you fugitive. You can hide but you cannot run.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  VD - Venereal disease? 🤷‍♂️
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  slimboyfat

  I use the term “fugitive” much as LE himself uses the term “criminal defendant”: not necessarily having any relation to reality as such. Although in this case it probably has a better chance if we are honest. I think east European countries are fed up with western schmucks coming to their country breaking their laws, mistreating women, and generally making a mockery of their system. Witness Andrew Tate.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  slimboyfat

  A fugitive, no less. Who’d have thunk it? 😮
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  Steve Lett doesn’t look well

  by Teddnzo in

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  as soon as you see steve letts talk at the agm you think to yourself “oh my, what’s happened to him?.

  his hand has plasters and his skin doesn’t look healthy, like he has inflammation or something serious going on.. he had put on weight and is all bloated and puffy .

  his skin really doesn’t look good, the kind of inflammation many people notice after the experimental covid vaccines.. there have been very high numbers of people reported inflammation after the experimental covid vaccines.

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  Looks like side effect of prednisone, used to treat many illnesses.
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  2023-12-15--Beards-BOE!

  by Atlantis in

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  governing body update #8. beards--see page 3 #2. page 1.--https://imgbox.com/qs27zbgh.

  page 2.--https://imgbox.com/r4jz1fvm .

  page 3.--https://imgbox.com/wynbxegx .

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  Thanks Atlantis.

  What wonderful instructuon from the organisation! Not only are we told what we can do, but we’re told what we can say and think about it too. Such bounteous provisions!
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  I wonder if I’ll be able to grow a full beard in the time it takes his Lordship to get off his ass and make a token video about the Watchtower change of policy. 🤔

  Don’t bother yourself LE, I just checked and there are already half a dozen Youtube videos on the topic, others have got this already, you can go back relax, or whatever it is you do.
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  Predictions for the next decade?

  by jehovaxx in

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  as it’s nearly the new year my prediction over the next decade or so will see the sense of urgency dwindle.

  then some huge huge changes.

  for example by 2034 in a decades time, they will have address the 1914 issue and will come out and say we can’t be dogmatic.

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  Or to put it a little less “dramatically” than that: there are internal and external factors involved in the growth or decline of religious movements. For the past 80 years or so calm external conditions have meant that internal factors (such as 1975, generation teaching, preaching, policies and so on) have tended to dictate the growth and decline of JWs. In the coming years external factors may not be as quiescent and may become more important in determining the growth or decline of JWs.
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  Predictions for the next decade?

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as it’s nearly the new year my prediction over the next decade or so will see the sense of urgency dwindle.

  then some huge huge changes.

  for example by 2034 in a decades time, they will have address the 1914 issue and will come out and say we can’t be dogmatic.

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  In the period from 1945 to the present JWs have grown and stagnated in the western world against the backdrop of mostly peaceful and prosperous world conditions.

  I have a feeling this will not be the case between 2024 and 2034. Whatever growth or decline JWs experience in this decade will be dictated by seismic world events, whether that be political, social and environmental upheaval, world war, or run away technology. JWs could either thrive during a period of immense disorientation, or they could be swept away by the tide of events. In either case I think there will be more important things going on and to worry about as we find ourselves living in the curse of interesting times.