will we ever be able to congregate together for a concert or a theater?
will we forever be wearing a mask at walmart?
will restaurants and bars allow people to eat drink and simply hang out?.
They spend so much time talking about the deaths caused by Covid-19.
But I have spoken to several medical associates from different areas,, and they are surprised at how the deaths caused by the shutdown itself are ignored.
So many people have / are dying because of
1), substance abuse from being isolated
2), suicide
3), depression
I never hear about those statistics from the media, could there be an agenda here ?
today's article prods active jws to participate in the effort to reactivate us backsliders.. unfortunately, it fails to prepare the participants to adequately address the real reasons so many have left and want nothing frtherethan to be left alone: the un and child abuse scandals, prophetic failures; dumbed-down, increasingly specious and simplistic verbiage in literature and talks, the cult of personality and unwarranted veneration of those 8 singularly unremarkable members of the gb, etc., etc..
i noticed recently.
there was an item in the news on some terrible / horrific child pornography in germany.
really disgusting to hear what these people were doing with children as young as a few months.
it could be used as a touchstone, helping a person to focus on the spiritual side of life during the day.
things are reaching a new high with jw fashion.. a jw orgie facemask.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/784736158/jw-face-mask-jw-gift-multi-functional?ref=related-3&pro=1&frs=1.
a witness without a word.
when i go to facebook, they now have tons of vids showing crazy sounding racists men and women of all ages railing against blacks and other minorities.
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is this for real?
this is a site dealing with the jw/watchtower organization, why in the world are you posting this crap ?
people come here to learn, and gain support not listen to political rants.
Go visit facebook, there are plenty of fertile sites over there that just love people ranting about these type of things.
growing up as a witness, does this look familiar ?
anyone here thats a former mormon?
a person in the internet wrote abouth them.
that community could not be more impressive in its cohesion, sincerity, benevolence, decency, patriotism, and faith.. i seen mormons go from house to house before the convid virus.they always seem cheerful.
my wife was a jw, and left the cult then "changed horses in midstream" becaming a mormon.
It is a carbon copy of the jw lifestyle, but the people have much more education.
one thing we were always taught in the past is how we should sit down and pray (kneel) to jehoober whenever we were at an event where they played the national anthem.
we had to actively disrespect the flag and anthem and be no part of the world, because we were our own country with jesus as king.. given kneeling/sitting for the national anthem is now the favorite pastime of the far-left and if you do so, you get associated with democrats, how do jehovah's witnesses now 'become no part of this world' when they have to disrespect the flag?.
I graduated HS in 79, and an elders son was sitting right next to me during the ceremony.We had a meeting with his dad a couple of days before, and he instructed us not to get involved in any way with the flag anthem.
So,,, everyone was standing at the beginning of the graduation, and the anthem started.
Out of 700 kids we were the only two who sat down when the music played, talk about feeling like a total moron.
Embarrassing to me as a teenager how the jw mindset just short circuits, and overpowers any natural social actions.
very interesting article about a girl who leaves her suffocating, constricting religion and how she dealt with the after-effects:.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldn-t-escape-the-cult-mentality?utm_source=pocket-newtab.
Very interesting article about a girl who leaves her suffocating, constricting religion and how she dealt with the after-effects:
i am just curious if anyone knows whether the "friends" still are required to wear "meeting clothes" for attending meetings through zoom?
such emphasis on dressing in a godly manner over the decades, would be interesting if some attend in pajamas or their work clothes, no makeup, etc....
"So no drinks or snacks during the zooming. I guess Jehovah doesn't approve of coffee"?
The Mormons do that.
