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  History of the JW movement in Mexico

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here is a fairly detailed article on the history of the movement in mexico.

  it's in spanish, but i passed it thru google translate and it does a pretty good job at translating the document.

  it's an article from one of the most prestigious universities in mexico.. being in a predominantly hispanic circuit, we have several brother and sisters from mexico who were witnesses under the conditions that existed back then.

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  wifibandit

  In English:

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypkclGIwghMmpd9D-qNmDvSAfVkMGlTEKxPBTpjuqig/edit?usp=sharing
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  REQUEST: Video Links for this year's RC Dramas

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone have the links for this year's rc videos?

  i'm especially interested in the video drama about the jw woman that married an upbaptized man.

  i have a couple of friends in similar situations--wife in, they're not--and the wives still attend.

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  wifibandit

  Here is the Video that was released 2015

  https://youtu.be/aC4LLNWctxg?list=PLt0zw9SfbkRxNNaqSm6wu0T5fN02LDpaU
  
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  Commentary Press

  by Hold Me-Thrill Me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from commentary press: "in honor of raymond & cynthia franz, the present copyright owner of crisis of conscious and in search of christian freedom is committed to further distribution of these publications.

  more details will be forthcoming.".

  http://www.commentarypress.com/.

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  wifibandit

  I'm tempted to just start printing "unofficial" copies (at cost) and then seeing who sends in the copyright Cease & Desist.
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  WT Society Makes Light of Child Abuse Crimes by Portraying them as Cartoons

  by flipper in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i commented on this on another thread- but i believe this has enough importance to create a thread about this situation in and of itself.

  at the current district convention as you know the wt society released a " sophie & caleb " video allegedly warning parents about the dangers of child abuse.

  they don't really use the words " child abuse " in the video - but just say if " someone tries to touch you in a manner you aren't comfortable with " and portray it as a cartoon !

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  wifibandit

  Just the cartoon: https://youtu.be/K4fnrUY-waI

  For those who dare watch, a non-borg mirror: https://youtu.be/ghspcMOqgmQ
  
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  Reliable source - new round of US Bethel layoffs coming soon

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  was talking to an ex-bethelite who is still very well-connected to those in the ivory tower.. he says that there will soon be a(nother) large number of us bethelites who will be "reassigned to the field" as pioneers and special pioneers.. he did not give his source, but he is pretty reliable.

  incidentally, he was "reassigned to the field" in the last big purge about 7 years ago.. i imagine those so reassigned would be pretty teed off.

  let go just before the golden lakeshore palace was completed..

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  wifibandit

  sir82 You just described me.

  That was my life after high school. I wasted my early-to-mid twenties at Bethel, got kicked to the curb "sent to the field" (proved to be a blessing). Broke with no school, a crappy car and a drinking habit, I landed on my parents door steps. Back to pioneering, but this time jaded and suspecting there was something rotten in Denmark. In entrants school they had asked us to "make Bethel your life long career" and said "you are part of the family"!

  They better hope they don't piss off the wrong people. They may have to deal with an "Edward Snowden" or "Bradley Manning" of their own!
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  1971 Listening To The Great Teacher--PDF!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  1971 listening to the great teacher--pdf!

  bookmarked searchable reduced front cover?

  click here: http://www.imagger.com/view/285292_scan-10001.jpg.html click the link at the bottom of the next page.

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  wifibandit

  I don't have this one. Anyone have this PDF?
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  Anthony Morris III goes on an eight minute rant over child abuse

  by Richard_I in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is in the july 2015 monthly program on tv.jw.org cedars wrote about it too.. starting at around 42:30 in the video, morris talks about the child abuse situation for almost 10 minutes.

  link to video.

  i'm writing a transcript right now.

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  wifibandit

  https://youtu.be/ghspcMOqgmQ?t=42m30s

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghspcMOqgmQ

  Skip to 00:42:30
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  Australian Royal Commission 2 witness live stream

  by possum in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  july 27th 2015 australian royal commission into institutional child abuse will be live streaming evidence from two witness victims.

  you can listen on your computer live streaming from royal commission website.

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  wifibandit

  http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/2015-06/public-hearing-into-the-jehovah%E2%80%99s-witnesses
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  Asamblea Regional 2015

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for the spanish speaking: .

  https://youtu.be/hwym3x_cuvy?list=plrw9u-n1z2m_zcto4vkw6ay4xyougmvhl.

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  wifibandit

  К сожалению, мой друг Мелхиседека.

  I do not have the login. If some one gives me the files or the login, I'll do the rest!
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  Request For Information: 1935 trial of Paul Balzereit

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  has anyone ever come across the court transcript of the trial of paul balzereit by the nazi state in december 1935 in halle?.

  or has anyone come across the 1936 german yearbook article discussing the matter?.

  the transcript incensed rutherford which resulted in balzereit being publicly disfellowshipped.. the watchtower corporation seems to have kept a transcript because they quoted out of it in the 1974 yearbook.. anyway below is what rutherford wrote in an open letter to the german witnesses in 1936 (as you probably already know):.

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  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Balzereit

  Paul Balzereit
  Paul Johannes Gerhard Balzereit , pseudonyms Paul Gehrhard and PBGotthilf (* 2 November 1885 in Kiel ; † 6 July 1959 in Magdeburg ) was a German journalist and as a "branch servant" (Country Director) of the Watchtower Society an important figure in the history of confrontation Jehovah's Witnesses with Nazism .
  Born in 1885 Balzereit attended elementary school and completed a business education. After several years working in this profession, he joined the Jehovah's Witnesses to. 1916 transitional editor of the Watchtower , he advanced to 1923 for managers of newly established Golden Age , the German edition of the US Witness publication The Golden Age . In 1925, he was reported for an anti-clerical pamphlet, but acquitted in the following process. Even after the ban of the religious community in 1933 Balzereit allowed the publishing operation initially continue, albeit limited. He sat down for a withdrawal of the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses, became Increasingly criticized for its ready to compromise line. On May 10, 1935 Balzereit was arrested and in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp internment. 1936 Balzereit was the Jehovah's Witnesses of the disfellowshipped . Balzereit went to the prison time for his part at a distance from Jehovah's Witnesses. After the war, he served as head of the association of freestanding Christians , with the support of the Ministry for State Security against the Jehovah's Witnesses of DDR agitated.

  See Also:

  http://www.sektenausstieg.net/sekten/26-zeugen-jehovas/staat/nationalsozialismus/4031-paul-balzereit-und-die-wachtturm-gesellschaft
  

  http://www.neuegeschichte.de/aufsaetze/ehemalige-zeugen-jehovas-im-dienste-des-mfs-der-fall-balzereit

  http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mbl/Biografien/0845.htm

  Before and after the Nazi ban on Jehovah's Witnesses from 24.06.1933 (Prussia), B. tried in vain to the authorities, the first of the production "harmless writings" (calendars and Bibles) granted to him, over the non-political, purely religious character of IBV enlighten. Especially after 1934 tended as to compromise that did not accept the Brooklyn line so that it distanced itself from the meanwhile on 05/10/1935 arrested and judged in court in October before the Special Court Hall B.. At the Lucerne Congress (04.-07.09.1936) sat Watchtower president Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869-1942) Erich Frost as the new country manager. In Sachsenhausen concentration camp as renounced his faith and went after 1945 own way (establishing the general Bible Training Association; in 1958 renamed Association freestanding Christians, with the support of the Ministry of State Security against the IBV ,Jehovah now witnesses, acted). While B. was a respected speaker before 1933, he is now almost unknown among Jehovah's Witnesses.

  
  

  The 1974 Yearbook mentions him quite a bit. pg. 88, 97, 98, 100, 109, 110, 148-150.

  pg 150

  After serving his term in prison Balzereit was put in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was forced to play an extremely inglorious role. He had signed the declaration abdicating association with the brothers and avoided all contact with them. Because of his conduct he was released about a year later, but meanwhile he was forced to put up with many a humiliation, for, basically, the SS hated traitors too. It was the SS themselves who gave him the name "Beelzebub," and once an SS man required him to stand in front of all his brothers - there wee some 300 in the camp at the time - and repeat his signed declaration abdicating association with Jehovah's witnesses, and this he did!
  In 1946, by which time Balzereit had become a violent opposer of the truth, he wrote a letter to reparations authorities revealing the hostile attitude that he had even before the trial was held. Thus ended a dark chapter in the history of God's people in Germany, the first lines of which had already been written in the 1920's.

  
  

  He is also discussed in: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution

  By M. James Penton