Posts by slimboyfat

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Unification Church in the news this week
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. jw
2. friends
a bit surprised to see the unification church (moonies) in the news this week:.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/07/16/shinzo-abe-assassination-unification-church-lah-amanpour-vpx.cnni.

quick background:.
slimboyfat

Very interesting. It explains a lot of the strange early reports that it “wasn’t political” and the gunman said it was because the prime minister supported certain “groups”.
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Saturday convention videos MIA
by solomon in
1. jw
2. friends
where are the convention videos for saturday?

my parents are starting to panic as the videos haven’t been posted on jw org yet and they are supposed to view this morning.

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slimboyfat

Locally most JWs get updates like this in private WhatsApp groups, especially since the start of the pandemic. I don’t know if they do it the same everywhere. Are your parents in a local WhatsApp group?
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Saturday convention videos MIA
by solomon in
1. jw
2. friends
where are the convention videos for saturday?

my parents are starting to panic as the videos haven’t been posted on jw org yet and they are supposed to view this morning.

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slimboyfat

Your parents are perhaps confused and it’s to be viewed next week. 💡
If so, that presumably means they missed the meeting today. 😃
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Michael Jackson Jehovah's Witness Thriller
by researcher1010 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm a reporter working on a series about michael jackson.

part of this series will look at his life as a jehovah's witness and his relationship to the faith.

i've already spoken to a few ex-witnesses and one elder who have explained jw 101 beliefs and teachings.
slimboyfat

The most extensive public sources for the JW experience of The Jackson family and Michael Jackson is LeToya Jackson’s books.
https://www.amazon.com/LaToya-Jackson-Shocking-Controversial-Expose/dp/0099726408/
https://www.amazon.com/Toya-Growing-Up-Jackson-Family/dp/0451174151/
Although be warned she does sometimes contradict herself.
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Interesting comment regarding in person meeting attendance.
by joe134cd in
1. jw
2. experiences
interesting remark i overheard today.

the physical attendance for the sunday meeting, in my local area, was 10. i tried to find out those on zoom.

i was told that the zoom attendees wasn’t mentioned.
slimboyfat

Wow that’s a big drop.
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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 talks as if the idea that he was forced out of the basement by his in laws would be some wild ‘conspiracy theory’ that some people might come up with. But at this point it’s the fact he’s been allowed to stay there for as long as he has that looks like it needs explaining.
It really doesn’t seem as though he is planning on giving up any time soon. Unfortunately he may just be able to ride this out. He’ll be pointing out that people like Leah Remini and Paul Grundy haven’t abandoned him and he will be looking for new recruits fresh out of Watchtower to perform various unpaid roles on his channel again.
I still think he is inflating his Patreon number somehow though, so that might still play out because that might save face for a while but it’s not sustainable in the long run.
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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

I remember reading that appeals are only possible in cases of disfellowshipping not disassociation. Is that right?
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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

Definitely ongoing shenanigans with the Patreon numbers …
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Did they read this today at the meeting?
by Jerryh in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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slimboyfat

Yes
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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

I’m a connoisseur of churches, at least pre pandemic. I’ve not been to anything called an “atheist church”, exactly, but the nearest thing is probably the “Sunday Assemblies” that have spring up in various places.
There are more than a few atheists in Unitarian churches (particularly New Unity, in London) probably a few at Quaker meeting houses, and a few spiritual atheist types in very liberal churches such as the Episcopal church (Richard Holloway being an example).
Many Unitarians would describe themselves as agnostic or deist or some other non traditional theist position falling a bit short of outright atheism.