Abraham being told to sacrifice Issac and he be like "Ok."
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i wanted to discuss the (supposed) biblical events that disturbed me a lot when i was a jw.
these incidents were just read and discussed in the kingdom hall as if these are normal and justified, which clearly weren't.
perhaps this led to my awakening.
Abraham being told to sacrifice Issac and he be like "Ok."
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so here is a tidbit you will all just love!.
we all are hearing of the trend right now to ¨downsize¨ the congregations...ie... eliminate by combining, in order to blah blah blah... .
here is what you didnt know: every time a congregation is dissolved, for whatever reason, including merging or dispersing, wt makes money!
They don't need or want as many KHs anymore.
And yes at the end of the day to "Jehovah" all KHs and their monies belong.
in 2013 the revised nwt came out and changed the old edition's "fornication" and its related words "fornicating," "fornicator" etc.
in all their roughly 70 occurrences.
has the word completely dropped from usage in the witness world?
WT has been royally fornicating it's people over for quite some time.
publication court of appeal, fourth appellate district division one state of california osbaldo padron, plaintiff and respondent, v. watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc., defendant and appellant.findingwatchtower has abused the discovery process.
it has zealously advocated its position and lost multiple times.
yet, it cavalierly refuses to acknowledge the consequences of these losses and the validity of the court's orders requiring it to produce documents in response to request number 12. and, in a further act of defiance, watchtower informed the court that it would not comply with the march 25, 2016 order 39 requiring it to produce documents responsive to request number 12. the court, following lopez, supra, 246 cal.app.4th 566, as an incremental step toward terminating sanctions if watchtower persists in its unjustified conduct, imposed monetary sanctions.
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i'm gobsmacked.. the 7 rock star popes in warwick know darned well that the 2 witness rule allows child rapists to get away with their crime.. geoff (whacko jacko) jackson was at the australian royal commission and should have seen first hand what a vile man made law the 2 witness rule is.. my question is, why do they still insist on this pervert protecting rule?.
i know it's a highly controlling cult but still...........................stuff my old boots, mate!.
the above is more a rhetorical question.
Nobody is saying they don't deserve due process. Who? Who is saying that? I'm not.
And on this exJW forum it is one very specific org and what they can volunteer to do to better protect children. We are not talking about the millions of possible pedophiles not associated with any org or group.
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/jehovahs-witnesses-double-down-on-scripture-used-to-ignore-abuse/.
jehovah’s witnesses double down on scripture used to ignore abuse.
by trey bundy / november 9, 2017. gary breaux, a senior jehovah's witness official, speaks on the religion’s official internet video channel.
They pick and choose scripture like choosing dessert from a buffet - to suit themselves.
i'm gobsmacked.. the 7 rock star popes in warwick know darned well that the 2 witness rule allows child rapists to get away with their crime.. geoff (whacko jacko) jackson was at the australian royal commission and should have seen first hand what a vile man made law the 2 witness rule is.. my question is, why do they still insist on this pervert protecting rule?.
i know it's a highly controlling cult but still...........................stuff my old boots, mate!.
the above is more a rhetorical question.
You are conflating seperate issues. Your guy in china example is not what most of us here are talking about.
*Young people who are close in age but one is legally underage.
*Citenzenship.
*How should society treat those charged and found guilty of child sexual abuse.
I agree that a 19yr old with a consenting seventeen yr old (for eg) should not be branded for life.
But, these cases are a distraction from the the majority of what most people consider to be child abuse. That is someone of legal age touching a child sexually that is too young to know what's going on or how to say no.
Many pedophiles spend time grooming victims are charming "nice" psychopaths or narcissists that earn the trust of the child or threaten the child if they "tell." It's the duty of orgs to know what is now common knowledge of the psychology about this stuff and structure their policies around that IF and that's a big IF, IF they care about protecting the children they force to go door to door and to meetings and the children in the houses their members visit for bible studies.
much as been revealed over the years to the date setting doctrines made by the wts.
such as ( 1874, 1914, 1925 , 1975 this generation, the last days, the end times etc.... which were not created by other christian based faiths.. as to critically examine why might reveal a hidden agenda to all these date setting proclamations.. the point in question is did the wts and its leaders intentionally manipulate or exploit the preaching of the gospel to enhance the proliferation of their own printed publications ?.
i would say convincingly yes, no question.
As George Costanza said "If you believe it, it's not a lie."
And I do believe Russell believed it. Poor deluded bastard.
i love the rifleman!
i’ve seen it a million times and still will watch it !
and goodfellas, the movie as well as the sopranos.
I can catch old eps of Seinfeld and find myself still laughing at the "show about nothing."
I hate to admit it but there were a few of the older animations that I will still laugh at such as the Simpsons, Daria, Futurama etc silly but funny and strangely on point regardless of the time period they are viewed in.
much as been revealed over the years to the date setting doctrines made by the wts.
such as ( 1874, 1914, 1925 , 1975 this generation, the last days, the end times etc.... which were not created by other christian based faiths.. as to critically examine why might reveal a hidden agenda to all these date setting proclamations.. the point in question is did the wts and its leaders intentionally manipulate or exploit the preaching of the gospel to enhance the proliferation of their own printed publications ?.
i would say convincingly yes, no question.
The thing with WT literature it's so convoluted it's almost impossible to read unless you''re already indoctrinated that's why there are seperate more topical subjects for the public and different reading section for the members.
I don't think their goal was to simply proliferate the books as religious works in themselves because most of it goes into a cupboard or the garbage unread. Having said that WT have always loved to brag about the numbers of books printed and placed for the sake of providing proof to the claim that they are "blessed by Jehovah."
So the mulitiude of books and mags tally would serve that purpose whether they were read or not. I think WT would prefer that anyone with half a critical thought in their head didn't read their religious claptrap.