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Russian Court authorizes seizure of outlawed sect children
by cha ching in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nei6lvfl13q.

interesting development in russia... according to this article on youtube, it appears that children that are subjected to being involved in banned social or religious groups can be removed from their parents..
darkspilver

there's this example:

UK: Boy, 7, taken away from his parents after judge rules he has been damaged by his Jehovah's Witness mother's religious beliefs
A Jehovah's Witness' seven-year-old son has been taken into care because she damaged him with her 'religious beliefs and practices', a family court judge has ruled.
Judge Clifford Bellamy concluded that the boy had suffered 'emotional harm' from his mother and decided he would be better off with foster parents.
May, 2015: Boy, 7, taken away from his parents after judge rules he has been damaged by his Jehovah's Witness mother's religious beliefs
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2015/40.html
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HQ must be paying Google to get the top hits
by nonjwspouse in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i typed into google jehovahs-witness and the first four hits were borg sites.

this site was not even on the first page .
darkspilver

jookbeard: what he suggested was completely contradicted and refuted.
I kinda believe my post above actually proves it.
A search for just the initials jw would appear to be a simple way for the R&F to locate the official WT website - it is the top result - without having opposiing websites, or inserted news items and tweets (which are generally anti-JW) show up in the results.
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HQ must be paying Google to get the top hits
by nonjwspouse in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i typed into google jehovahs-witness and the first four hits were borg sites.

this site was not even on the first page .
darkspilver

jookbeard: but who would type in just jw if they wanted a comprehensive search result
In your own words....
"A brain dead speakers from some assembly or other speak about god blessing their online profile suggesting that if they typed in their name in a certain way opposes web pages wouldn't be displayed?"
And that appears to work for the search jw
And therefore it seems to be contrary to what you said: "it doesn't work like that!"
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HQ must be paying Google to get the top hits
by nonjwspouse in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i typed into google jehovahs-witness and the first four hits were borg sites.

this site was not even on the first page .
darkspilver

jookbeard: it doesn't work like that!
Yes. It can.
jw
Try doing a search on google for the initials jw only
with private search results turned off
the first result is the official JW website, with six indented links under,
ALL the other results below appear to be either unrelated to WT, or pro-WT, until the approx 45th results which is JWFacts.
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Are Beards becoming more acceptable due to decline in membership?
by UnshackleTheChains in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i noticed a young brother with a beard being given more privelages within our hall.

when he first grew his beard, he lost his privelages.

but more and more recently he has been helping out a lot more.. the cobe is old school and a stickler for rules, but with the hall becoming more empty these days, and the need for young brothers, he seems to have relaxed on this particular watchtower/man made rule.
darkspilver

truthseeker: I can't remember where I heard this but "a beard more often reveals than conceals"
Star Trek?
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CO Rose UK
by jookbeard in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
does anyone know this guy, where he came from?

how he climbed the jw ladder, i have to say i know nothing about him but he seems to be kicking ass with the problems in the north of england..
darkspilver
jookbeard: does anyone know this guy, where he came from?
It seems that Philip came from the Isle of Wright, with his wife Lorraine....
- St George of England: Our new C.O. is from the Isle of Wight - Philip Rose
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/194473/_post/4703937
- St George of England: Anyone know of Philip Rose and his wife Lorraine? From the Isle of Wight apparently.
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/225908/_post/4358364
- St George of England: Philip Rose has been off the CO work for over a year now. He works on the School for Married Couples or whatever it is called. Based in Ireland I believe.
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/244497/_post/4962187
- wizzstick: Our last two were Phillip Rose (ghastly)
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/244497/_post/4962085
- wizzstick: Philip Rose - ranted about how gays 'can help it'. Oh dear. Generally hated by everyone in the cong. No one wanted to work with him in the min.
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/225908/_post/154100001
- konceptual99: Special Assembly Day - CO Philip Rose
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/250458/_post/4706021
- konceptual99: Someone worse than Philip Rose? Not possible
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/244497/_post/216340006
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Another Silentlamb
by LittleToe in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
the following article was printed in todays "daily record", for those interested:.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/shtml/news/p13s3.shtml
darkspilver

Are these 'hard copies' related?
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5117651812614144/_post/5445563975729152
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4787966239047680/_post/4677261208846336
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Gradualism for the blood doctrine?
by no-zombie in
1. watchtower
2. medical
here in australia, during the service meeting this week, the local needs part was taken up to quickly discuss a letter from the organization stating that there will no longer be a annual meeting part to discuss or remind the congregations about their blood cards.. i found this quite odd.. its not like that there is a shortage of meeting time to discuss this issue, as the society has recently been hijacking more and more local needs parts for its own messages.

and for a supposedly important doctrine, you would think that it should be mentioned more often rather than less, to keep everyone in line.. could this be a beginning of the movement away from the blood doctrine, through the process of gradualism?.

no-zombie .
darkspilver

FYI around six years ago, there was a move away from renewing the documents every year to every four years
Letter, December 2, 2011, TO ALL BODIES OF ELDERS - re: Advance Decision to Refuse Specified Medical Treatment document
There is no longer a need to renew our Advance Decision document on a yearly basis, however, we recommend that publishers renew their document at least every four years and, of course, publishers may for various reasons need to update/renew theirs at any time.
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Leaked - Video tape inside Watchtower HQ of protest Nov 5, 2017
by Listener in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i saw this on jw reddit and thought, okay that will just be one of the protesters videotaping near their security entrance but it's really from inside the hq's.

i doubt the org.

will be happy that this was taped and leaked.https://rutube.ru/video/2dbc8185062524a41ed8c9e2117ca39d/.
darkspilver

Yeah, from inside, looking out
Video of the WT Warwick HQ November 5, 2017 protest - taken from INSIDE HQ
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Louise Palmer: British Parliament to bring up the two witness rule
by Diogenesister in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
fantastic news!

louise palmer, the lass recently interviewed by a major british newspaper and a csa survivor, has tweeted the following:.

what a busy couple of days!
darkspilver

FYI - Interviews with Louise Palmer about her brother Richard Davenport are at the bottom of the OP here -
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5350034331664384/uk-jehovahs-witness-child-abuse-news-all-links-from-november-20-21-2017