The more the Org eases up on the rules just to keep their charity status…
…the more they undermine all the things about themselves they held up as proof they alone had The Truth.
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Mandated Shunning is a Crime
by Lee Marsh 125 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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MeanMrMustard
@Vidiot: That, of course, is true.
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MeanMrMustard
When you see the net long-term consequences of the government over-taxing income of certain people, does it move you to want the government to stop over-taxing income so that others don't get fleeced?
Sure. I would rather the government not tax anyone. It is theft, fundamentally. So?
When a parent sees their child harmed by a vaccine, does it move that parent to want the big pharma company to stop making that vaccine so that other children don't get hurt?
Yes, SO?
When human rights activists see that some women are using abortion as birth control, does it move those human rights activists to want the courts to make abortions illegal so that other babies don't get killed?
Yes, SO?
Look - people get hurt all the time. And that moves people to "right the wrong". That's fine. But people can't right the wrong by doing something wrong. Which brings me to my next comment.
No one here is proposing violence toward anyone on the GB or in the JWBorg organization. But it is not unreasonable for these people who have lost loved ones and know the pain that comes from the disfellowshipping doctrine to want to have the source of that pain removed so that others don't have to suffer in the same way.
I wasn't proposing that anyone was suggesting this. What I was saying is that you can't use your "hurt" as justification for doing something that would 1) violate actual rights, and 2) on net, cause a lot more problems than it would solve. We could "solve" the "WT problem" by just killing them all. But the ends do not justify the means.
The corporate structure of the WTBT$ is hurting people. It doesn't matter if the WTBT$ claims to be "religious". If the government overtaxed you and said they were doing it in the name of "religion" it'd still be overtaxing you and their claim for overtaxing you would be fraudulent, because God never told them to overtax anybody.
This is highly confused. Are you suggesting that getting tax-free status is the same as acting as a government organization? So if the government doesn't steal from you, that makes you a part of the government?
It's not a matter of the WTBT$ being "a religion". The WTBT$ is working as a governing entity of their own little world-wide empire. The Governing Body says they are doing things "in the name of religion" but some of those things are illegal according to their own "constitution". Since they are breaking their own rules, they are liable to lose their tax-exempt non-profit status and the legal backing for their registered corporate structure.
What is the WTB&TS "constitution"?
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FreeTheMasons
"Sharing Bible truths"
WT, by their own admission,
haven't been sharing Bible truths
which is why they keep changing their doctrines.
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LongHairGal
TONUS OH:
No, but they’d be treated like how a host would treat an unwanted guest. A fake smile and keep on moving!
Witnesses have limited contact with the world not being exposed to ‘real’ situations that are not in a Kingdom Hall setting.
Even ‘worldly’ people wouldn’t think if they didn’t bother with somebody for 40 years that they were going to pick up where they left off ages ago.
Witnesses are deeply delusional and frankly I would have no patience to deal with them ever again - and glad I don’t have to.
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MeanMrMustard
Witnesses are deeply delusional and frankly I would have no patience to deal with them ever again - and glad I don’t have to.
And that, IMHO, is where ex-jws need to be. Very healthy. They aren't worthy of your time.