the current memorial invitation campaign got me thinking about the few times over the years that someone i invited to a meeting actually came: .
1) once when i was "new", i invited a friend to a sunday meeting.
neither of us drove, so the brother conducting my study picked us up.
Blondie: They will hate you.. [I want to stress here because I haven’t seen anybody comment on this in all my years on the forum:: but I observed there was a definite BIAS against people who were converts and not born-in Witnesses.]
Blondie you are 100% correct. Very biased against converts and assume one is or was a degenerate before being hand chosen to hang with their group. What a bunch of judgmental hypocrites.
"now more than ever, we need to focus on our hope.
because we are living in 'the last days' and we all have problems that are 'hard to deal with.
' (2 tim.
Hey, Longy - the freeloaders are good at asking but I've a feeling the economic climate in the halls is challenging for those JWs who will be asked to donate.
There are poor, underprivileged, people, in all religions but how many are against education or good careers, professions, like WT!
rowan williams, the former archbishop of canterbury gave an interesting answer to the somewhat stark question, what’s the point of us existing?
as a christian, my starting point is that we exist because the most fundamental form of activity, energy, call it what you like, that is there, is love.
that is, it’s a willingness that the other should be.
Ahh -- Duran: George Michael-Love! Loved Wham, too.
alot of my witness friends were excited sisters can now wear pants and you can say hi to disfellowshiped folks but what about important stuff child molesters in the congregation you need 2 witnesses blood fractions are fine but not whole blood????
607 bce is from the 1880s wrong....anything else?
FedUpJW 😂 hilarious! Oh my -- hope she wears appropriate fitting attire to the meetings. She must be popular with the dudes who like sisters on the plump side.
curious.
what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?
Will they announce how many on zoom?
i was following a few threads in reddit from current pimo jws complaining about local announcements regarding halls being short on their per publisher "rent payments".
third gen and i have been out pomo for a while...so how much is this charge now?
could this be part of the recent push to get people to "come back" or get re-instated...if it even is online and 15 minutes of service per month?
Longy -- the religion seems to attract a large share of society's misfits. -- don't think this was always the case but every religion, club, org, has their share. Like you've indicated in the past, the free loading is bound to be a bigger issue today. I'm clueless what goes on inside the halls today. All I hear is how loving and kind the adherents are -- I have my doubts. They were always 'sugary' when freeloading or playing the entitlement WT card.
I think the publisher rent charge would be difficult for the disadvantaged to toss in the til. Elders must need lots of extra chunk change today to cover the real estate empire's Rolex/jewelry insurance (theft protection) pmts.
i was following a few threads in reddit from current pimo jws complaining about local announcements regarding halls being short on their per publisher "rent payments".
third gen and i have been out pomo for a while...so how much is this charge now?
could this be part of the recent push to get people to "come back" or get re-instated...if it even is online and 15 minutes of service per month?
Ugot2bekiddingme1 - ditto Longy and thank you for your service!!
"i slay and pray" :).
serena williams knows how to own a red carpet.
the 23-time grand slam champion turned heads at the vanity fair oscars afterparty, dazzling in a midnight-black, off-shoulder gown.
WingCommander - lol! I agree but do like the evening gowns. Good thing her father was a non-witness or they never would have had the sports opportunity/financial success.
"i slay and pray" :).
serena williams knows how to own a red carpet.
the 23-time grand slam champion turned heads at the vanity fair oscars afterparty, dazzling in a midnight-black, off-shoulder gown.
Sounds like she's a committed JW now. A time and place for everything even for the naughty, non-baptized, JWs. Hope she continues rocking the Balenciaga/Gucci evening gowns. Not half bad. Before baptism she thanked Jehovah for her wins -- perhaps she was generous w/the donations.
i have been away from the jw cult for many years.
i don't have any family i talk to that are in it.
so i don't know if the jws as a whole are seeing the cult fall apart or if they or the majority of them are head in the sand la la la the end is neigh.
Their fantasies keep them holdin' on. I question the mental state of many and the covid injections hasn't helped. Alcohol/psychotropic drug abuse long before the detrimental/noxious side effects of the injections.
