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  UK Judge says JW videos damage children

  by krismalone in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/11/jehovahs-witness-agrees-not-show-son-religious-cartoons-risk/.

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  darkspilver

  thanks for posting this
  

  FWIW - the link to the full judgement from the Family Court at Milton Keynes Magistrates’ Court (dated 9 May 2017) is here:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5132737063157760/_post/4907739497103360
  

  in the media, it seems to have been picked up firstly by a 'local' newspaper here:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5132737063157760/_post/5942876544434176
  

  It was then picked up by the UK national Daily Telegraph on their website - as per your link in the OP

  It was then PRINTED in the paper edition of the Daily Telegraph on Monday 12 June 2017 - Page 10

  A copy of the printed version is available here:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5132737063157760/_post/6295236265377792
  

  There is also further discussion/s of the topic here:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5147967486951424/judge-acts-limit-watchtowers-influence-on-child

  and here:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5716548410933248/judge-doesnt-want-youngster-go-any-assemblies-conventions-memorial
  

  and here:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5641455739600896/uk-child-banned-from-seeing-jw-videos
  
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  Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had Your Way?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i still believe in freedom of religion even if i disagree with the beliefsof the religion.

  what about you?.

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  darkspilver

  Books wide open.
  

  JW Financial Statements for Norway
  

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6k1qib/jw_financial_statements_for_norway/
  

  JWs receive public support and send hundreds of millions out of the country
  
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  Nursing exam question on JW blood beliefs

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  2. friends

  i had a similar question on my nclex exam for my nursing license.

  in the rapid changing beliefs of jws what is the correct answer?.

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  darkspilver

  Medical practice is supposed to, um, save lives.
  

  Charlie Gard.

  It's complicated, and sad.

  In some ways the more medical science advances, the more difficult it can become.
  
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  Introducing Our Rockstar Governing Body

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  isnt nice to see the governing body being so humble, meek and not seeking their own importance?.

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  stash: /intesoft-inc.appspot.com/post/005df9f7e68e40cb9b013248fe7b670c.html

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  darkspilver

  We can however be critical of them autographing bibles for cuban dictators.

  Watchtower 15 May 1999, page 8

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/207117/governing-body-autographs-gift-bibles-cuban-authorities

  I believe Lloyd Barry, John Barr and Gerrit Losch:
  

  
  
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  Police cordon around Honiton's Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses after fatal stabbing

  by ShirleyW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey uk folks, what's going with this story?

  was it an unbelieving mate that attacked and elder or something?.

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  darkspilver

  FYI
  

  Funeral held for Devon man Philip Ryan killed in Honiton
  

  Devon Live, Wednesday June 28, 2017

  More than 900 people have attended the funeral of a Westward Ho! tradesman described a "kind, gentle and intelligent man who was killed in a stabbing in Honiton.

  A large crowd gathered at Bristol Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Saturday, June 24, to say their good byes to a Philip Ryan, 55, man who "volunteered and helped out on so many different projects that he had friends and admirers all over".

  READ MORE: http://www.devonlive.com/funeral-held-for-westward-ho-man-philip-ryan-killed-in-honiton/story-30414328-detail/story.html
  
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  Old Convention Pictures

  by Bangalore in

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  2. beliefs

  old convention pictures.. .

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  bangalore.

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  darkspilver

  FWIW this is an interesting youtube channel, if you're interested in this sort of thing
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbt7O0idQF0
  
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  Introducing Our Rockstar Governing Body

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  isnt nice to see the governing body being so humble, meek and not seeking their own importance?.

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  stash: /intesoft-inc.appspot.com/post/005df9f7e68e40cb9b013248fe7b670c.html

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  darkspilver

  FWIW here's the fuller uncropped version:
  

  
  
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  Uh!oh! Serena - where to now?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  appearing among other things that waste my time on the web today, was this vanity fair cover featuring a naked pregnant serena.

  surely evidence that she no longer sees herself as even a jw associate, what's more likely does not give a stuff what her fomer loving brothers and sisters may think.. .

  more info on the vf web-site: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/06/serena-williams-cover-story.

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  darkspilver

  Oh, it's another Annie Leibovitz photo
  

  This is Annie Leibovitz's cover photo from August 1991 of Demi Moore
  

  

  Also - is Serena wearing a flesh coloured g-string in her photograph?...
  
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  Wow i do not reconize this religion anymore...

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  had the misfortune of stopping by the "regional" convention yesterday.

  i promised my daughter i would come to sunday afternoon so she wouldnt have to ride home with her mother.... holy crap it was weird!

  im sure all of this has been covered on the forum but to actually see it.... just wow.

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  darkspilver

  Not sure why someone down voted my post above
  

  In terms of the OP's thread title - Wow i do not reconize this religion anymore - the WT's website, over the last 20 years, is an example of that very principle in action.

  Twenty years ago the WT was very specific in the 1997 KM I quoted

  The purpose of our Web site is not to release new publications
  

  And today?

  ALL new releases are released via the website first

  Actually I don't think they're even producing physical DVDs anymore - so those are ONLY being released via website/app
  

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  Yeah, down vote if you want, but here's the letter from last year:
  

  Letter March 18, 2016 - Re: Discontinuing Feature-Length DVD and Audio CD Production
  

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwqmWMK7dwtlMUpNQ3FwbDNZMTQ/view
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  Wow i do not reconize this religion anymore...

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  had the misfortune of stopping by the "regional" convention yesterday.

  i promised my daughter i would come to sunday afternoon so she wouldnt have to ride home with her mother.... holy crap it was weird!

  im sure all of this has been covered on the forum but to actually see it.... just wow.

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  darkspilver

  Celebrating 20 Years: 1997 to 2017
  

  1997 - watchtower.org:

  
  

  Kingdom Ministry November 1997
  

  Good News on the Internet

  In our technological age, some people obtain information from electronic sources, including the Internet. So the Society has put on the Internet some accurate information about the beliefs and activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

  Our Internet Web site has the address http://www.watchtower.org and contains a selection of tracts, brochures, and Watchtower and Awake! articles in English, Chinese (Simplified), German, Russian, and Spanish, as well as in other languages. The publications on this Web site are already available through the congregations and are in use in the ministry. The purpose of our Web site is, not to release new publications, but to make information available to the public in electronic format. There is no need for any individual to prepare Internet pages about Jehovah’s Witnesses, our activities, or our beliefs. Our official site presents accurate information for any who want it.

  Although our site has no provision for electronic messages (E-mail), it lists postal addresses of branches around the globe. Thus people can write to obtain more information or to receive personal assistance from Witnesses locally. Feel free to share the above Internet address with any who might be inclined to begin learning Bible truth from this format.