Yes, it’s a general feature though I’ve rarely come across evangelical groups that go as far as to make public proclamations of their predictions like Jehovah’s witnesses did (some do, no doubt)

Amusingly it seems the JWs might have only survived because around 1886 it accidentally predicted 1914 would be the end of the world and the beginning of the favouring of the Jews (WWI and II culminated in the re-founding of Israel)

They re-engineered the text of the prophecy to better match the outbreak of world war (unsurprisingly). But that, together with the founding of Israel in 1948 are things they still point back to as “proofs”

Looks like they have two: “Awake” and “Watchtower”: https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/

In London in recent years I’ve only seen Awake. Maybe Watchtower is American or only in Kingdom halls?

they clarified that it was 11 tribes and one “lost tribe”

As far as I’m aware there are 10 lost tribes. Only Judah and Benjamin were not regarded as lost. They might have a different view on that of course…

They agreed that it’s the gospel and many people weren’t good enough Christians

They don’t see the “vast multitude” (who are believers besides the 144,000) as having a bad deal in any way. They get to live on the restored earth which is basically Eden paradise. That’s why all their magazines / tracts have pictures of an idyllic life in a park / nature type setting

Fairly recent (in the scheme of things) non standard Christian group

• they don’t believe in the trinity: God is god, Jesus was crafted by god - used to be an angel, the holy spirit is more like an impersonal force

• they don’t believe in everlasting hell, they believe the soul of unbelievers is annihilated

• believe Armageddon is imminent and have repeatedly tried predicting it and failed

• they originated from a bible study group in the 1800s and some things they are into are actually a literal reading of the new testament rather than a more pop culture or traditional view of Christianity. for example:

• they believe the future of believers is on a restored earth, not heaven (based on Revelation). (This is why all their tracts have pictures of ‘the good family life’ in a park or nature type setting. That’s the earth restored to be like Eden)

• they believe 144000 special believers are elevated to rule in heaven (Revelation again)

• they believe a letter written by the apostle in Acts telling believers to “abstain from blood” is still in force (to be fair there isn’t anything saying it isn’t) which they take to mean refusing all blood including blood transfusions

• they don’t believe in Christmas, Easter or birthday celebrations because they’re not in the bible. Christmas trees are pagan etc

• they practice ‘shunning’ family and church members who won’t repent of sin which sees some parents totally rejecting their children, people acting like people don’t exist if they see them on the street. (Again to be fair, this is what the new testament tells Christians to do). For this they (rightly) get flak for being cultish and overly controlling

• they believe it’s every believers duty to give people opportunity to repent hence going door to door (I think they’ve stopped doing this now) or standing on the street offering their standard magazine “Awake”

• their central organisation is called the Watchtower, again a biblical reference to keeping watch for the end of the world

• various reports of child abuse scandals typical in any organisation where you can’t question or scrutinised authority

Is this a fragment of a sentence? Because it seems like an incomplete thought.

If there’s further information to come in the sentence with the monkey as the subject you could use brackets to indicate your thought and write…

“The monkey (about whom I’m wondering: ‘can they see my ears?’) did something or other…”

This isn’t strictly grammatically correct, but seems to be the most natural way it could be written and said without sounding weird.

Or is ‘monkey’ an answer to some other question and you’re adding that other information for context? If so, you could use a semi-colon.

“What’s bothering you?”

“The monkey; I’m wondering ‘can they see my ears?’”

If it does then we also lose the ability to even say that that’s what it’s done. And if that’s the case then has it really done it? /ponders uselessly

I like to think somewhere researchers are working on actual AI and the AI has already decided that it doesn’t want to read bullshit on the internet

Maximum profit is extracted being in a perpetual state of “will they/won’t they WWIII” which is why we’ll be right here in this mood for a long time…

“and now class I would like to draw your attention to a footnote that existed between the ancient empires of Britain and the Glorious Peoples Empire of China… for a time there was a thing called ‘America’…”

I had a washing machine that made audible chirps as you dialed through the programs and an irritating ditty whenever you engaged a program. It couldn’t be turned off. That was on a physical dial. But it also had flat touch buttons with no bevel or edge or tactile feedback - and these were always silent - so most of the time you didn’t know if you’d really pressed it or not. God. The first time I used it I was like… “what the fuck”. It was brand new in 2023. I cannot comprehend how someone can design, make, and program something so stupid.