philip brumley wt 7/2025 experience

andr

how encouraging one finds the experience of a liar

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-july-2025/The-Battle-Belongs-to-Jehovah/

Philip Brumley is a legal counsel associated with the Jehovah's Witnesses organization, having worked for about 40 years at their world headquarters' legal department. He has collaborated with various Bethel facilities and spoken before high courts and magistrates, contributing significantly to the legal defense and organizational matters of Jehovah's Witnesses. He was appointed as General Counsel and has been involved in major legal and organizational decisions, including changes to the ministry's publication contributions since 19902 34.

However, Brumley has also faced legal sanctions. In 2023, he was fined over $154,000 for making false statements related to the involvement of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania with Jehovah's Witnesses congregations during the 1970s and 1980s. His appeal against this sanction was rejected by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2024, which confirmed that his actions showed reckless disregard for providing an accurate account of the Watch Tower's role. This legal matter is connected to ongoing child abuse cases in Montana involving Jehovah's Witnesses18.

In summary, Philip Brumley is a long-serving legal figure within the Jehovah's Witnesses organization, notable both for his extensive service and for recent legal controversies regarding his conduct in court.

https://www.jwinfo.ch/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Caekaert-v.-Watchtower-Bible-Tract-Socy-of-N.Y.en_.fr_.pdf

blondie

Thanks for sharing!

Sea Breeze

In 2023, he was fined over $154,000 for making false statements related to the involvement of the Watch Tower

No surprise that an appeals court found him to be a liar as well.

Jehovahs Witnesses are expert liars, from the top down.

blondie

Of course the WTS does not think make false statements to people not entitled to the truth is lying. "While malicious lying is definitely condemned in the Bible, this does not mean that a person is under obligation to divulge truthful information to people who are not entitled to it." Insight book #2, under "Lie." (That means Satan's court per the WTS) not entitled

Phizzy

" people not entitled to the truth " , J.W's in the literature always, IIRC, explained that as meaning following the "do not caste your pearls before swine " principle, which would apply when offering the J.W "good news" to the public.

It surely cannot be used to justify not telling the truth to a Court where you have sworn an Oath to do so !

Every legal move the org. makes, including their representatives perjuring themselves, is designed to minimise Compensation paid for by the org. itself.

They have done this, as we see from the case above, and many others, to deny rightful Compensation to the victims of Child Abuse in their midst.

They utterly disgust me.

Listener

From the article -

In 1986 when I was 30, I was appointed as the overseer of the Legal Department… I qualified as an attorney in 1988, but I was dangerously unaware of what I had allowed this accomplishment to do to my spirituality. Higher education can nurture a desire for self-promotion and foster the notion that having specialized knowledge elevates a person above others who do not have a similar education.

This is a problem that the Watchtower has mentioned before in its discouragement towards higher education but it is disingenuous. It’s been serious enough for the Watchtower to stop funding Bethelites higher education. It’s not the knowledge that is a potential problem.

In Bromley’s situation it sounds like it was his recognition for having the qualities to make it worthwhile to send to Uni and then his appointment as Overseer of the Legal Department that would have caused his self absorption.

Which raises more issues. When the Watchtower promotes Bethelites to various positions, there is always going to be an ego trip for some of them. It’s not about how much education they have, other than the fact that it would sometimes influence their promotions.

NotFormer

"I qualified as an attorney in 1988, but I was dangerously unaware of what I had allowed this accomplishment to do to my spirituality. Higher education can nurture a desire for self-promotion and foster the notion that having specialized knowledge elevates a person above others who do not have a similar education"

Reading between the lines: "Even though by necessity, some of us elite were chosen to get higher education, don't you plebs think for a minute that we would encourage you to do likewise!"

hoser

He was born of watchtower privilege so to speak.

His parents were well connected with the watchtower establishment both being missionaries.

He wasn’t the bastard son of a struggling single mother who committed immortality with his worldly father.

philip brumley wt 7/2025 experience

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