Personal information is useful, personal data collected on large groups of people is valuable.
It was ony a matter of time before they did this, par for the course in their transformation into a cyber religion.
in spain (and the rest of europe), the "improved" data protection laws come into force on 25th may 2018. this is a good thing and sadly america is still lagging behind; not surprising with their current president!.
watchtower legal department are hot on the case and have instructed elders to hand out the new "release" forms out to all the publishers in their groups, whilst making it clear to them that they won't have any privileges if they refuse to do so!.
note these points in the instructions:.
Personal information is useful, personal data collected on large groups of people is valuable.
It was ony a matter of time before they did this, par for the course in their transformation into a cyber religion.
april fools?
while london remains substantially the safer city overall, with less than half the homicides of new york last year, according to a new report a recent spike in knife crime meant february was the first month the uk capital was home to more murders than the us city.london has endured a significant increase in knife crime, with 15 dying in february, nine of whom were aged 30 or younger.
meanwhile 14 were killed in the big apple..
Multi-culturalism is a failed experiment worldwide. Can we call time on it already? Not likely.
i see there has already been discussion over lloyd’s new book how to leave the jehovah's witnesses.
this includes discussion around his personality, motives and financial gains.
i have written a foreword for this book, because it is an important topic that has not been covered in such a complete format before.
Yeah, I always thought it a bit cheeky running an apostate nerve centre from a JW relative's house! LOL!
sorry for the use of "the spouse" and "s" (for spouse).
still trying to protect our identities.. well, i started questioning everything about 2 years ago.
woke myself up.. the spouse wasn't thrilled at all.
First year not going to the memorial is quite a milestone in a JW's emancipation. Well done you!
last night's memorial talk in my cong went into graphic gruesome details about the torture of jesus and how the stake killed people.
i mean medical level graphic description!
step by step details of each injury and how it killed!
Maybe they got Mel Gibson to write a Passion of the Christ style memorial outline lol.
this is my 15th year without going to the memorial.
based on comments, it seems i did not miss anything.
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Wow Black Man. Did you know when you gave the talk you would not be at the memorial the following year?
i phoned an older jw friend who has had some health problems lately.
he has lost a son and a wife in the last two years and he seems to be on a downward slide.
he is in a rehab hospital following surgery and i figured he could use some good cheer, which he does.. he was pleased to report to me that he had attended the memorial at a local kh and that he has been finding a lot of nurses who seem to want to know what makes jw's different, so he is racking up a good field service report and he is happy about it.
Sigh, yes what can you do. Just smile and nod it's not the time or place.
Nice you made the time for him.
this is my 15th year without going to the memorial.
based on comments, it seems i did not miss anything.
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I can't remember if it's 3 or 4 years now.
On a side note the memorial talk outline is provided and is meant to be strictly adhered to with certain parts read verbatim. It's been that way for a while now so no excuse for going off-script that would be a no-no. Sadly, even having a good understanding of WT doctrine would not make these talks any more logical or the speaker any more competent.
we received an invitation in the mail yesterday for my jw niece's wedding.. i am posting this just to add for any lurkers to see typical jw practices.. 1st - and perfectly understandable for anybody who is or was a jw.
i'm not invited.
:) hey, i'm really not complaining about that.
Ugh! God, the politics of weddings. I hate weddings. I hate JW weddings more.
i just saw zeb's ("i'm worldly") video entitled: "black mass mayhem" a few minutes ago.
no doubt this was what he experienced at a memorial he attended last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xz1eb63iry .
Even as a witness I could never understand why the memorial was actively promoted and advertised as a public meeting where anyone and everyone was invited to come. I would consider it the most baffling of all the JW meetings and certainly the most alienating in terms of feeling a part of it.
There is no scripture that says Jesus went out and invited as many silent onlookers as he could manage to get to to the last supper.
We would call it a "celebration" - it's not, it's an uptight hear a pin drop boring ceremony/ritual.
It's advertised as a "meal" - it's not, food and wine are offered but you are not supposed to accept.
They act like it's supposed to be some kind of sacred cow meeting when nothing actually happens.
So why make it open?
Then it occured to me that if you get some poor unsuspecting fool to swallow this farce or worse be impressed by it, it's their first act of blind obedience to the WT. The first time they will proclaim "yes yes this makes total sense, the emporah's clothes are beautiful."