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  How many of you remember the "Pioneer Shuffle " and the special "time reporting" of pioneers?

  by Foolednomore in

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  i started pioneering in my late teens an remember how slow pioneers would walk to the doors while out in circus.

  also, they would not really talk to anybody at all.

  they would start their time as soon as they got dressed an out the door, while us regular shucks started our time at the first door we knocked at.

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  And the “pioneer knock” - knock the door gently so the householder doesn’t hear, and sneak away from the door before they notice you.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Another charming detail to come out. After getting caught visiting sex workers, he got his wife to agree “a non monogamous relationship”, but she changed her mind after one day’s reflection. In typical fashion he was outraged that she changed her mind and it was in this victimhood mentality that he declared a mental health crisis, abandoned his wife and daughters at Christmas, and flew to Thailand to get to know the locals. What a truly horrible person—worse than I ever imagined. No wonder his supporters are abandoning him in droves.
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  Governing body member has nervous breakdown due to bethel workload

  by Witness 007 in

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  karl klien life story from the watchtower.. "president rutherford had repeated occasions to reprove me for breaking some rule.

  (under president knorr 1950) brother knorr invited me to join the writing department...when i told him it did not matter where i served he reproved me..saying when an added privilege is offered we should be eager to accept it...my attitude was due to my health which has always been a problem.

  knorr was older we were like brothers with the older brother knorr prone to expressing inpatients to my short comings.

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  I came across the work of Erich Fromm too when reading Andrew Holden’s discussion of Jehovah’s Witnesses as a reaction against the freedoms offered by the modern world. The book was published under the title The Fear of Freedom in the UK. Here is Holden’s essay using Fromm’s concepts to analyse JWs.

  https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/resources/sociology-online-papers/papers/holden-cavorting-with-the-devil.pdf
  
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  Is Klaus Schwab the Most Dangerour man on the planet?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  for all the conspiracy theorists out there.... is klaus schwab the most dangerous man in the world?.

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  I think Will Frates takes some beating on that front. (I assume his bots read everything)
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  Governing body member has nervous breakdown due to bethel workload

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  karl klien life story from the watchtower.. "president rutherford had repeated occasions to reprove me for breaking some rule.

  (under president knorr 1950) brother knorr invited me to join the writing department...when i told him it did not matter where i served he reproved me..saying when an added privilege is offered we should be eager to accept it...my attitude was due to my health which has always been a problem.

  knorr was older we were like brothers with the older brother knorr prone to expressing inpatients to my short comings.

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  Other fragmentary random details: he played (not sure what) in the orchestra, and he was responsible (according to not sure what source) for dropping the “vindication of Jehovah’s name” doctrine in the early 1990s, which has recently been revived, and had an unusual creaky voice.
  
  
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  Robert King aka e-watchman

  by RolRod in

  1. jw
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  there have been a few post about robert king, the first was 16 years ago, the last was 9 years ago.

  just to the let the old timers here know, he's still at it.

  and for you newbies, robert king who wrote "jehovah himself has become king.

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  I agree JCanon was more interesting and entertaining than YouKnow
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  I notice that his panel show JW Watch featured no panelists whatsoever. I didn’t watch the show but I skipped through it in 1 minute and heard his announcement at the end that the panel show had no panel “for obvious reasons” and that wasn’t likely to change any time soon. The “obvious reasons” he is referring to must be the fact that nobody would agree to appear with the lying xxxxxxxx on camera. This is significant because I assume he probably tried pretty hard to persuade someone, anyone to join him for the show and he came up empty. Plus he’s realised that situation isn’t likely going to change any time soon. He could resort to scraping the barrel and invite a few of his Twitter followers to join him, but at this point his supporters are not exactly the brightest of the crop, so that might turn out to be more embarrassing than simply doing the panel show alone, I suppose.

  He did manage to secure an interview with a JW opposer (never a JW himself) from Ukraine. Perhaps Lloyd took advantage of someone who has not heard about his behaviour, or perhaps in the circumstances the person thought that getting the story out about what’s happening in Ukraine was important and had to reach a large audience, despite the dubiety of the channel.

  But his audience is shrinking, and meanwhile his patrons continue to drop. For those that haven’t resigned as patrons yet, let’s not be too hard on them, maybe they have extenuating circumstances. Maybe some are severely ill at the moment and aren’t currently able to turn off their subscription. Not to imply that a person would have to be literally brain dead to remain a patron, but honestly it’s one possible excuse. Or maybe others have gone on a long holiday to an island with unreliable Internet connection. I am sure there must be various explanation why not every patron has abandoned the ship just yet, but I am not imaginative to come up with compelling explanations why anyone would continue to send their money.

  Down to 654 patrons now, that’s a big single day drop.
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  Hi people!

  by ozziepost in

  1. jw
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  hi guys, owyergoin?

  (that’s australian for youse foreigners!

  haven’t called in quite a while but just called by to say “i’m still standing and still enjoying shiraz !.

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  Wow, hi Ozzie!

  Sorry to hear about your wife.
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  WATCHTOWER extracts 104 million from Trust in U.K. Plan to ditch Kingdom Halls at play??

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
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  {brother ?, a copy of this is being passed around here in bristol, kent, london, etc.

  to “certain” elders by way of heads up.

  feel free to ignore it or investigate it.

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  Does anyone know why KHs are always late submitting their charity accounts?
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  The only man in the room - Kennedy 1962

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. current

  in the current situation, it’s worth listening to this podcast about nuclear near misses.

  the cuban missile crisis was only one example, but is worth considering.

  in 1962 the united states and russia went eyeball to eyeball over russia’s military base in cuba.

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  The Soviet leaders had already delegated the use of nuclear weapons to local command in 1962. So in effect they had already chosen the nuclear option. It was pure luck that one officer refused to agree to the use of nuclear torpedoes. .

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
  

  So I don’t know where this idea “there would have been no nuclear war” comes from. As a general statement of belief that it’s simply “incredible” somehow, it’s a very dangerous attitude, because extreme vigilance and caution is required if we are to have any hope of avoiding it long term. Complacency is disaster.

  The idea that “Russia know they can’t win” has little to do with it. There are many reasons a human could convince themselves that a nuclear strike isn’t completely insane. It’s the kind of topic that can tie even the most rational of people in a logical mess. Note that even the pacifist Bertrand Russell briefly advocated a first strike against Russia because he worked himself into such a state that he concluded it might be the least worst option. The idea that Putin isn’t capable of making gross miscalculations is contradicted by the invasion of Ukraine itself. Plus if Putin is given no longer way out then, no matter how bad the odds, he may opt for a strike. In fact a good journalist, with god sources, reports soberly that those around Putin think it’s currently the plan. This is an extremely perilous situation we’re in.

  titch thanks for the correction on RFK being the Attorney General.