Posts by darkspilver

i am currently helping a nz journalist source potential interviewees for a short documentary she is making about child sexual abuse issues among jws in new zealand.

nothing of this nature has been seen in the news in nz before so this is quite exciting!

darkspilver

There was that shocking Antonie Dixon story?

http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/antonie-dixons-sister-gives-evidence-in-court-2008072218

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Front Page of Imgur Last Night

by TD in

jw
friends

stumbled across this by accident and was mildly surprised:.

https://imgur.com/gallery/m3ffm.

there's a "tipping point" phenomenon on the internet, where people and organizations that nobody knew about before, (like martin shkreli, for example) suddenly become the butt of every joke in the 30 and under crowd.

darkspilver

This was the background:

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7c8xac/im_about_to_make_an_imgur_post_on_the_4000day/

This was when it went 'live':

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7cak2p/holy_shit_my_4000day_post_on_imgur_just_hit_most/

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In need of your advice. November broadcasting 2017

by pleaseresearch in

so my mum asked me to watch the broadcast and to my astonishment i got through it without smashing my screen haha.. so i let her know what liars they are for saying they would never deliberately distort a quotation.. she is ok for me to give her some printouts of watchtower material where this has in fact happened, contry to what they say.. where should i start and what would be your best link, or way to approach this.

i think this is a good opportunity of waking her up, if she can see that the broadcast has lied to her, she won't be happy.. any advice is you can give is so appreciated.. thanks everyone..

darkspilver

I'm still laughing at the Gandhi quote explanation.

Useful if you have a copy of the 2011 Yearbook to hand

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7cezit/november_broadcast_and_accuracy_of_research/

Then there's also:

Watchtower, November 1, 2011: "When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?"
Footnote: None of the secular experts quoted in this article hold that Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 B.C.E.

There's a 607 infographic here:

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These couldn't be dubs

by SadElder in

this was posted on the christian century magazine yesterday.

don't know how these folks could be dubs and go to another church without getting caught by some busybody in dubland,.

https://www.christiancentury.org/article/first-person/why-my-church-stopped-decking-halls.

darkspilver

It's an interesting article.

The author's church website is: https://www.firstmennonitechurch.org

As slimboyfat has probably already noted - they seem to be an 'online' church only in the UK nowadays:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mennonites-to-worship-online-as-last-british-church-is-forced-to-close-a6940131.html

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These couldn't be dubs

by SadElder in

this was posted on the christian century magazine yesterday.

don't know how these folks could be dubs and go to another church without getting caught by some busybody in dubland,.

https://www.christiancentury.org/article/first-person/why-my-church-stopped-decking-halls.

darkspilver

The author just refers to JWs as they are the only Christians he knew of who didn't celebrate Christmas - he mentions it as he was surprised that this non-JW couple, attending his Mennonite church, also did not 'celebrate' Christmas.

Aside from meeting Jehovah’s Witnesses, I had never encountered Christians who did not celebrate Christmas.

Actually they did, but in a much more non-commericalised, more religious way - that was the point of the article - it lead the author to re-evaluate his view of Christmas too.

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These couldn't be dubs

by SadElder in

this was posted on the christian century magazine yesterday.

don't know how these folks could be dubs and go to another church without getting caught by some busybody in dubland,.

https://www.christiancentury.org/article/first-person/why-my-church-stopped-decking-halls.

darkspilver

Isn't that kinda the point of the article.

They're Mennonites?

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"Jehovah's Witnesses' withheld info will cost them..."

by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

latest perspective of the san diego reader on wts loosing its $4000 per day sanction appeal.... https://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/nov/10/ticker-jehovahs-witnesses-withheld-info-4000-day/?templates=mobile.

darkspilver

There's also been coverage on the local newspaper's website - San Diego Union Tribune - and on the local TV channel - NBC 7 San Diego:

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7c7kt7/san_diego_union_tribune_appeals_court_scolds/

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7c7kpe/nbc_7_san_diego_jehovahs_witnesses_face/

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JWs drank suspicious tea and got naked and kidnapped people

by yalbmert99 in

well, this is awkward !

these are jehovah's witnesses...lol.

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/naked-suspects-in-nisku-kidnapping-may-have-consumed-hallucinogenic-tea-1.3671452.

darkspilver

see

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7bwfub/perps_and_victims_all_jws/

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7bz2oz/was_it_koolaid_that_they_were_all_drinking/

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Watchtower Loses an Appeal

by TerryWalstrom in

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.