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  Changing meanings of words: "Brother" and "Sister".

  by Open mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ever notice how most jws use the titles "brother" and "sister"?

  in my experience, 99% of the time it was not a term of endearment.

  it was actually a term of formality very much like "mister", "mrs.", "miss" or "ms.".

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  Alive: When I first started attending meetings, I found the use of brother so and so and sister so and so very much on the 'icky' spectrum. I never really liked it as a form of address, and avoided using it.

  Calling people "brother" and "sister" is icky.

  It is done to create a false sense of "family" and "trust".

  Personally, I find it to be incestuous. It creeps me out when someone says "Oh..Brother so-and-so married Sister so-and-so."

  And people wonder why cults encourage incestuous relationships...yeah...go figure. Did you marry your "sister" or your "brother"? Would you?
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  What if moving the world headquarters of the Watchtower is just a cover-up?

  by WireRider in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  what better way to scam a few hundred million off the top?

  with all the conversations, and truly distractions, of shortfalls and money problems - sell off about 1.2 billion of highly valued, tax exempt, property in brooklyn ny and build an ehhh 500 million property upstate.

  what happened to the missing 700 million?

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  Oubilette: The lack of financial transparency was always one of the things that really bothered me about this religion.
  Every congregation publicly reports their accounts every month, but "mother" keeps her's secret.

  The WTS' lack of transparency is why the Charity Intelligence Canada has given the Watchtower Society an "F" grade.

  https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/40-watch-tower-and-tract-society-of-canada
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  Remember that WT masturbation video? Who is the sign language person?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  below are a few screen captures from the video to serve as a reminder of what he looks like.

  below those will be a few captures from a weather forecaster now at our kark tv (arkansas).

  his name is matt peterson.

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  Dunedain: If it IS aWatchtower video, does anybody know what they are saying, or what the point is of it?

  Subtitled:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JBwiUFdRQ
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  JW message becoming more and more relevant

  by lsw1961 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  mans requirements are limited which can be satisfied with a little and tension-free endeavor..

  however man attempts not only to collect but also to grab and amass everything to the excess.

  somehow he feels that he can be happy only when he has in abundance whereas others have nothingwhich seems to be the thread that runs throughout the history.

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  OrphanCrow

  I have missed you too, Outlaw.

  :)
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  JW message becoming more and more relevant

  by lsw1961 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  mans requirements are limited which can be satisfied with a little and tension-free endeavor..

  however man attempts not only to collect but also to grab and amass everything to the excess.

  somehow he feels that he can be happy only when he has in abundance whereas others have nothingwhich seems to be the thread that runs throughout the history.

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  JW message becoming more and more relevant

  by lsw1961 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  mans requirements are limited which can be satisfied with a little and tension-free endeavor..

  however man attempts not only to collect but also to grab and amass everything to the excess.

  somehow he feels that he can be happy only when he has in abundance whereas others have nothingwhich seems to be the thread that runs throughout the history.

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  OrphanCrow

  isw:
  Jehovah motivates me, I just do it. For me Jehovah is more real than the air
  I breathe in.

  
  
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  Building layoffs & JW calendar 2016 theme

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the theme of the jw calendar 2016 is building, building, building.

  all the calendar pictures are about building wts property with cheap labor witnesses.. and then, just before the year approaches the building has halted.. it seems a short term decision.

  a strange correlation again.. gorby.

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  The new 2016 CLAM workbooks are all about building too.

  With Bible justification for disruptions in building, including scapegoats for construction halts.
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  Massive Destruction of Judicial Files Ordered by By Servce Department?

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  over on the silentlambs facebook site is a copy of a document that purports to be an order by the service depart to destroy files relating to child molestation cases: https://www.facebook.com/silentlambs/photos/a.571978169529812.1073741826.144752662252367/970409503020008/?type=3&theater.

  have any of you seen this?

  is this a real document or bogus?.

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  cappytan: The overreaction and sensationalization of this document is embarrassing.

  I don't think so.

  The document states:

  "Each elder must destroy anything he "inadvertently" kept such as his personal notes from any judicial matter he dealt with."

  In the secular world that operates on real law, not the WT law, those "inadvertent" personal notes are called "police notes". Police notes are often critical in investigating and prosecuting criminal cases.

  
  
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  Massive Destruction of Judicial Files Ordered by By Servce Department?

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  over on the silentlambs facebook site is a copy of a document that purports to be an order by the service depart to destroy files relating to child molestation cases: https://www.facebook.com/silentlambs/photos/a.571978169529812.1073741826.144752662252367/970409503020008/?type=3&theater.

  have any of you seen this?

  is this a real document or bogus?.

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  Clarity: Anyone know if this happening world wide? Canada as well?

  I would like to know this as well.

  If there is a copy of this directive that is specific to Canadian congregations, could it please be posted or linked?

  A copy should be sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office for Canada, [email protected].

  And also to the Attorney General:

  The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould
  Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
  284 Wellington Street
  Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8

  [email protected]

  If the WatchTower Society insists on engaging in their kangaroo judical system, then they should also be held accountable to secular standards on the collection and retention of evidence in possible criminal investigations.
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  Hypothetical Question...

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was just thinking that the org has said lots of outrageous things over it's history and most jws just continue onward without a second thought.

  so my question is what do you think would have to be said from the platform or wt to get people to get up and walk out immediately?

  is it even possible?

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  OrphanCrow

  Tell them that they will grow old and die. Just like everybody else.

  That should get rid of half of them. The others will stay - the ones that say, "Yeah...but it is still Da Truth." There will always be those who need to believe in something...anything... anybody, as long as they don't have to believe in themselves. There will always be those who are too scared of themselves to leave.