Posts by darkspilver

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Meeting attendance for elders

by dkztcequ in

what is the minimum meeting attendace for someone, who is of good health, has not children doesn't work in a job that requires travel and lives about 3 miles from the kh?

is 50% for clam and 75% for watchtower acceptable?.

darkspilver

Is 50% for CLAM and 75% for Watchtower acceptable?

What EXACTLY are YOU actually complaining about?

You joined this forum six hours ago - is the OP question related to your second, and only other, post you've made here?

I ask this because this total knob of a Australian in Chiang Mai is a shifty little cunt who cannot be trusted.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/169424/_post/5661867093524480

For starters: "75% for Watchtower"

Yeah, that's NORMAL for Elders - after all that just equates to giving one public talk 'away', plus usual holiday time away.

Also, read the 17 March 2013 letter to the Bodies of Elders

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Huge article(s) in Dutch media on JW child abuse

by Anders Andersen in

so today the well-respected and serious newspaper trouw.nl came with child abuse within the jw as their topmost frontpage article.. the articles are well researched and aim primarily at the dutch jw situation.. afaik at least on member of this forum assisted the newspaper with the articles.

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other media are picking up as well.....

darkspilver

Anders Anderson: So today the well-respected and serious newspaper Trouw came with child abuse within the JW as their topmost frontpage article.
Have you bought your copy yet?...

Have you bought today's copy yet? (Saturday 22 July 2017)

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Russia - Who Will Get the Property of Jehovah's Witnesses?

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

http://www.interessant.ru/politics/komu-dostanietsia-imushchie.

who will get the property of jehovah's witnesses?.

the sect "jehovah's witnesses", recognized as an extremist organization and banned in russia, owned real estate worth 4 billion rubles.

darkspilver

thanks for uploading.

but what about the 106 people who have ALREADY signed this...

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5434426186006528/petition-russia-transforming-kingdom-hall-into-cultural-space-young-musicians

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Huge article(s) in Dutch media on JW child abuse

by Anders Andersen in

so today the well-respected and serious newspaper trouw.nl came with child abuse within the jw as their topmost frontpage article.. the articles are well researched and aim primarily at the dutch jw situation.. afaik at least on member of this forum assisted the newspaper with the articles.

.

other media are picking up as well.....

darkspilver

Anders Anderson: So today the well-respected and serious newspaper Trouw came with child abuse within the JW as their topmost frontpage article.

Have you bought your copy yet?...

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Jehovah's Vatican Scandal?

by mrmagic in

someone sent this link of kelso law firm and their blog post on cardinal pell being australia's most hated man.

the implications are very interesting, as this is the 3rd most powerful man in the vatican.

the catholic church is no doubt much larger than jehovah's witnesses, however, the jw's incidence of child sexual abuse is about 4 times higher than the catholic church's child sex abuse (and subsequent coverups).. the main thread tying cardinal pell and the other vatican scandals to jehovah's witnesses is the australian royal commission.

darkspilver

The problem appears to be a mixing up of the statistical data.

I'm just the messenger.... 1 + 1 does not equal 3, even if you want it to.

In the UK - there are actually MORE JW Elders than Catholic Priests.

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1950- present PDF Scans of original mailed or literature counter, WTs ?

by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

i think these exist ?

has someone created pdf scans of original mailed or literature counter wts?

or have copies of those pdf's?.

darkspilver

Ray Frankz: Do you guys know why would they cut these out? Doesn't look like the articles talk about subjects they changed later.

The above articles are for space / layout reasons.

There are also other examples of Watchtower and Awake magazine articles being edited to cut them down, shorten them etc - which are 'red-tape' related.

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Aust Census: JW's and Divorce Rates

by shepherdless in

this post is actually in answer to a question i got from jwfacts.

i think the issue was also raised on a recent thread.. first, some data from the 2011 and 2016 censuses:.

(a) 1,751,733 (7.5% of population) reported being in a de-facto couple on census night, but .

darkspilver

A relevant question is, "What percentage of divorced JWs were divorced BEFORE they became Witnesses?"

Also..... What about those that have remarried?

How are they counted?

28% of Australian marriages in 2015 involved at least one partner that was on their second (or more) marriage
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/3310.0

28% is fairly significant statistical-wise - so I was wondering how is that accounted for in the OP stats?

I note that apparently Question 6 in the Australian 2016 Census only asked "What is the person’s present marital status?" - with the options being either: Never married / Widowed / Divorced / Separated but not divorced / Married

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/2901.0Main%20Features802016/$FILE/2016%20Census%20Sample%20Household%20Form.pdf

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Perhaps the reason why the Liverpool Echo newspaper social media feeds don't include links to the paedophile JW sentence is because...

by Isambard Crater in

...the liverpool echo arena is the regional convention venue for the north west of the u.k (also holding manchester's r.c this year after the grande concert bombing).

or am i just being cynical at this coincidence?.

darkspilver

FAKE - DOUBLE FAKE

Actually it looks like the Liverpool Echo newspaper sent out TWO tweets regarding this story:

Links & screenshots below.....

https://twitter.com/LivEchonews/status/884446059665252353

https://twitter.com/LivEchonews/status/884507519351046146

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Wow i do not reconize this religion anymore...

by _Morpheus in

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.

darkspilver

_Morpheus:

haha - yeah, maybe - though TBH I thought it was probably someone not realising my ironic use of "Celebrating 20 Years: 1997 to 2017"

My post that included a line (in English) from a Jacques Brel song was also downvoted - but it was my reaction to a FLEMISH language song video being posted - hence the connection to the song Marieke - oh, and it's Friday today

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2017 Convention Releases

by Edison Trent in

on http://avoidjw.org/2017-regional-convention/ you can find the talk outlines of the regional convention this year.. i looked into the final talks each day and found these releases to be announced:.

on saturday:.

new magazine-size book entitled "lessons you can learn from the bible".

darkspilver

Cheers fella. That's what I was looking for.

Cool - the best thing to do, if you can, is to download stuff to your computer when they're first leaked - but I realise not everyone can do that - so it's good wifibandit et al do their best to keep stuff available