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  Lloyd Evans on BBC - Child Abuse

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  exposing jehovah's witnesses on bbc news - youtube.

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  neat blue dog

  I fail to see the problem, it's good media coverage for the subject, don't we all want that? It would be so ironic if this thread was deleted.
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  Letter from Mother: "...go right ahead on death's road and take your kids with you."

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my jw father is sick.

  my mother uses the opportunity to try and preach to my 16 year old daughter.

  i simply told my mother to: "please refrain from trying to lure *my daughter* in with jehovah's witness questioning.

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  I'm so sorry, I know it hurts. I'm going to flip it around and say perhaps some day SHE'LL come around, and if you don't 'reinforce' her misconception of you and let her know you'll always be there when she needs you it just may happen, but until then I wish you and your family comfort.
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  8/2021 GB update: more doubling down

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the latest gb update, losch basically scolds any jws who are wary of masks and the new experimental vaccines, and says that they're being influenced by conspiracy theories and essentially taking a political side.

  yet every week i hear individual jws, encouraged by the organization, wishing that masks and vaccines were required by the government and that people would just stay home.

  so taking that extreme stance isn't political, because it falls in line with what the org wants, but the opposite is political.. now the stage is more than set for anyone who doesn't fall in line with these things to be viewed as "weak" or getting political, and it shows to be a lie their claim that these things are "personal decisions".. they supposedly are respecting the decisions of the "superior authorities" .

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  neat blue dog

  In the latest GB update, Losch basically scolds any JWs who are wary of masks and the new experimental vaccines, and says that they're being influenced by conspiracy theories and essentially taking a political side. Yet every week I hear individual JWs, encouraged by the organization, wishing that masks and vaccines were required by the government and that people would just stay home. So taking that extreme stance ISN'T political, because it falls in line with what the org wants, but the opposite IS political.

  Now the stage is more than set for anyone who doesn't fall in line with these things to be viewed as "weak" or getting political, and it shows to be a lie their claim that these things are "personal decisions".

  They supposedly are respecting the decisions of the "superior authorities" . . . So does that mean in Florida, Sweden, etc. with less restrictions JWs follow the lead of the powers that be? No. The fact is that the GB wants to show themselves to be different than Christian and conservative groups, as well as distract from their terrible history with blood transfusions, so they desperately keep saying in these videos that JWs do not refuse medical treatment, yadda yadda
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  Allegheny Pyramid Desecrated

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  sometime within the last 2 weeks, someone took a sledgehammer to the pyramid monument in allegheny.

  they stole the topstone, smashed the cross and crown emblem and removed the seal.. personally i'm surprised it lasted this long untouched.

  although through the years russell's grave has been vandalized, it was always repaired by the bible students..

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  It was a time capsule with the society charter and some other memorabilia inside. I thought I remember reading from an 'apostate' source that the stuff was removed at night decades ago but I forget the specifics.
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  Transcript - 2021 Governing Body Update #7

  by projecthydra in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please click here to download the transcript for governing body update #7.. three files included: .pdf, .docx, .epub.

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  HarryS: is that you again Finkelstein?
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  Which Group is More Goofy?

  by Overrated in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  which group do you find more goofy?

  jw's?

  mormons?

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  neat blue dog

  Goofy? Mormons.

  Dangerous? JWs.
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  If all GB members died at once?

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't suppose anyone knows for sure, but do we have any kind of hint of what would happen if all of the governing body members died at the same time- such that nobody was left to appoint successors?

  in lieu of any solid evidence, i'd also be interested in hearing some speculation based on what we already know about the organizational structure.. it would certainly throw a wrench in either the teaching that the faithful and discreet slave will survive into the great tribulation and/or the implied doctrine that the the gb succession arrangement is justifiable biblically.

  let me firmly disclaim any implication that i am encouraging violence or wishing death on the governing body.

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  They already said on JW Broadcasting that once all the annointed are gone we would need to start obeying the "helpers" to the GB. Robert Luccioni (himself a helper) said it explicitly in a talk. But with all the thousands of new annointed being added over recent years I don't see how they'll run out.
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  You Just Can't Not Laugh

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. humour

  so this kid adds trombone-effects to his mothers life and, well, if you haven't seen it you have to watch it.

  seems like she see's the funny side for some of them at least.. it's awesome and hilarious.

  kudos to them both.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhlfcezkvko.

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  neat blue dog

  That's was the cutest thing, I love it 👏
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  Did You Experience People Always Seeming To Get Offended?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  there always seems to be someone offended by something.

  in today’s world if you don’t see eye to eye with someone they claim to be offended.

  if you don’t support a cause that someone deems important, they get offended.

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  neat blue dog

  Yes, all the time and I still manage too! Try to keep to myself and avoid that but just not always possible. Thorns in the sides of the Elders for years, I guess we were "not of their sort" as Paul said 😉
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  Just the Flu eh?

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/04/fit-and-healthy-man-42-from-southport-who-rejected-vaccine-dies-of-covid.

  this has been widely reported by left and right wing news papers.

  just food for thought..

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  neat blue dog

  Very fit and healthy people unexpectedly die of the flu every year, there's always been those instances. The name may have changed but one thing is the same: It's incredibly rare.