OrphanCrow
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Anyone remember LP album circa 68 with Awake on back cover?
by cabasilas ini have a memory of some rock artist of the 60s placing a pic of herself and some guy in bed and her reading an awake magazine on the back cover.
it could have been "is time running out for mankind" or something like that.
anyone remember?
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Anyone remember LP album circa 68 with Awake on back cover?
by cabasilas ini have a memory of some rock artist of the 60s placing a pic of herself and some guy in bed and her reading an awake magazine on the back cover.
it could have been "is time running out for mankind" or something like that.
anyone remember?
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OrphanCrow
.Yes! I remember it. But I can't remember the name of the artist!
Damn. I can see the album cover but not the name and yes, on a bed with the Awake magazine...
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YPA change of picture
by dozy inanybody got any idea why the cover picture on the young people ask book was changed?
they removed the picture of the boy bottom right & superimposed a different head.
maybe the guy got dfd or maybe it was to change it to an asian guy rather than 2 caucasians?
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OrphanCrow
And then there is this one:
and another one the same as fastJehu posted:
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Russia - Who Will Get the Property of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by OrphanCrow inhttp://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.
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OrphanCrow
Wonder: The first mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak played a major role in promoting "Jehovah's Witnesses".
Sobchaks daughter is a famous russian TV-moderater, actress, jurist, policical activist and IT-girl.Ksenia Sobchak has announced her candidacy for president:
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One Question to ask any JW that will blow their end times out of the water
by maccauk inask any jw this one question.
are there any apostles from the 1st century still walking the earth alive today ?.
100% will say there are no apostles from the 1st century alive today.
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OrphanCrow
maccauk: the 70ad event is a recorded historical fact
A historical fact - of what? The "second coming"?
pffft
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Russian Supreme Court - Parental rights to be denied those who involve their children in sects, extremist or terrorist organizations
by OrphanCrow inthe children of russian jehovah's witnesses face removal from their family if their parents continue to indoctrinate the children and engage them in religious activity.*.
*not yet in force but soon to be.
https://rg.ru/2017/10/17/verhovnyj-sud-rasskazal-za-chto-mozhno-lishat-roditelskih-prav.html.
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OrphanCrow
The children of Russian Jehovah's Witnesses face removal from their family if their parents continue to indoctrinate the children and engage them in religious activity.*
*not yet in force but soon to be
https://rg.ru/2017/10/17/verhovnyj-sud-rasskazal-za-chto-mozhno-lishat-roditelskih-prav.html
(article is in Russian - what follows is a Google translation)
The Supreme Court explained what can be deprived of parental rights
The grounds for depriving parental rights is the involvement of children in sects, extremist or terrorist organizations. This was told in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
As reported by the TASS , the plenum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation prepared a relevant resolution "On the practice of the courts applying legislation in the resolution of disputes related to the restriction or deprivation of parental rights."
According to the document, it is about involving children in the activities of a public, religious association or other organization in relation to which there is a legally binding decision of the court to liquidate or ban activities, according to the laws "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations", "On Countering Extremist Activity "and" On Countering Terrorism. "
The Plenum in general supported the project, but sent it for revision so that several comments were taken into account.
Also, the court developed recommendations to judges on appealing decisions on the removal of children from their parents. So, the poverty of the family can not be grounds for the child's withdrawal. If parents bring up children in good faith, take care of them, create the necessary conditions for the development of the child, problems with money will not be enough for the child to be taken away by the guardianship authorities.
The Supreme Court stressed that you can take the child if there is "an immediate threat to his life or health."
Also, anyone who is not the child's parents, or assigned to act as guardian of the child, can be fined and/or detained for involving minors in religious activities:
https://www.zonazakona.ru/law/projects/art/231/
Article 5.26.8. Involving minors in religious activities. Involving minors in religious activities, including by engaging in religious activities and other religious activities, in the distribution of printed, audio-visual publications and other items of religious significance to the propagation of any creed or in any other form without the consent of parents or persons replacing them, entails an administrative arrest for a period of ten to fifteen days (in the area of the counter-terrorist operation - up to thirty days), the imposition of an administrative fine of legal entities - from eight hundred to nine hundred times the minimum wage.
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Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
by OrphanCrow induring the time that the silver sword, the jw bible, was being examined in the russian courts as to whether or not it was going to be recognized as a "real bible" or be declared extremist (which it was), i did some research for historical context, trying to get a better understanding of the social environment that would be evaluating the jw bible.. the most crucial piece of information that i was interested in expanding and tracking down was how the jws' use of 'the divine name' in the bible would be perceived in russian culture.. i started from the premise that the act of naming denoted ownership.
and i was interested in how that act would be interpreted against the backdrop of orthodoxy in russia, given that russian orthodoxy has had its own historical and controversial schisms over the rituals and interpretations of "the divine".
even though we live in the 21st century and this drama is played out in front of us, how it is scripted is based on centuries of belief and ritual that are not present in the birthplace of the jworg.. i also thought that the org's habit of claiming divine favor based on "knowing" god's name would not play out well against the history and inherent religious biases that run deep within russian culture and so i wanted to know how the act of naming god might be viewed in today's culture.. anyways.
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OrphanCrow
It is a super interesting book, Cimarrona.
The book reveals much about the world of the intellectuals and monks/priests inside post-Revolution Russia - how they did or did not survive, how they continued their studies and teaching professions - and how so many of those gifted and learned people were eliminated, never to be heard of again.
The decade(s) following the Revolution of 1917 is known as the years of "godlessness". Those were the years in which the Soviet propaganda was directed toward the elimination of religion, and they were also the years that thousands of Orthodox priests lost their lives.
I read another book about Russian history recently that dovetails somewhat into the same years that "Naming Infinity" deals with - primarily the post-revolution years and into the Stalin era. This book, too, deals with religion in Russia, or rather, the lack of religion in Russia during its communist years.
"Godless at the Workbench" is another super interesting read except it is not available in digital format. I bought a hard copy. It joins my favorite book collection.
This publication documents the exhibition of illustrated journals (by famous Soviet artists), posters, archival photographs and films testifying to the Soviet anti-religious campaigns of 1918-1939. Because religion in the Russian empire had been one of the main markers of social identity, these campaigns (which heavily relied on visual propaganda) were determinant in the creation of a Soviet identity divorced from pre-revolutionary culture. Primarily, Godless at the Workbench explored the link between visual culture and the development of Soviet identity, through the visual materials produced for the anti-religious campaigns, or documentation of the campaigns. This exhibition was presented at Dunlop Art Gallery from January 17 to March 7, 2004.
Curator: Guest Curator Dr. Annie Gérin
Description: 169 pages, hard cover, 37 black and white, 39 colour images
Essay: Dr. Annie Gérin
ISBN: 1-894882-09-1The essay by Dr. Gerin is excellent and I did find some of the images from the book posted online.
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OrphanCrow
Darkspliver, you might find this information on how class actions unfold in Canada to be helpful:
http://courts.findlaw.ca/article/class-action-starting-a-lawsuit-with-others/
As with most laws in Canada, the law on class action lawsuits are guided by the provinces/territories. Most, but not all provinces allow class action lawsuits.
Higgerty Law is in Alberta.
McFadden et al is in Ontario.
I don't know the strategy but I am sure there is a reason that two different class actions are being pursued. Location, I think, is critical. It may have something to do with this, but I dunno:
However, a class action doesn’t exist until a judge gives the okay to go ahead. This process is called certification. Before certification can occur, the judge examines whether the action is suitable.
The provincial legislation, the class proceedings act, will outline what the requirements and rules (also called the test) are in order for the class action to be certified. For example, in Alberta and Ontario, the test for certification is in section five, whereas in British Columbia the certification test is in section four. -
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dsp: I thought Higgerty Law got beaten?
"Got beaten"? What does that even mean?
Please explain what you mean by that and why you think that
thank you
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''This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth FULL STOP''- Matthew 24:14. JW ORG
by ThomasCovenant inhi.
only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.
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OrphanCrow
steve: the Watchtower...was first incorporated: 1881.
Okay, if you don't mind me being pedantic, Steve, I shall continue.
Not 1881. Incorporation didn't happen until 1884 (according to wiki). Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society was formed in 1881 but didn't incorporate until 1884.
Incidentally, it was in 1874 that the American church tax exemptions, for corporations of a religious nature, first came into force. Namely, property tax exemption. Tax exemptions for religious corporations would wind their way through the system until, in 1894, tax exemptions became written into statute.*
The WTS, regardless of its many names and configurations, is an organization that arose out of the American tax system and, throughout the years, it has continued to morph, evolve, and change into whatever is necessary in order to hold onto that precious tax exemption.