"Normal family relations continue"
This is the argument presented to the courts even though we know it doesn't work that way in practice.
Here is David Guam (JW lawyer and active JW himself) saying the same thing to the Canadian Supreme Court:
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Could/should JW Lawyer be punished for deceiving the Judge?
by The Fall Guy inin an attempt to disparage a faded jw and to obtain their personal details, he deceptively partially quoted a statement from the jw.borg web site to the new york judge when he wrote, .
"disfellowshipping does not cause family relationships to be permanently lost: "the religious ties he had with his family change, but blood ties remain.
the marriage relationship and normal family affections and dealings continue.
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Violation of the data protection law in Spain. GDPR
by Blade R inaccording to the resolution of the data protection agency, the information was used for other purposes than those authorized.. the data protection agency has imposed a fine of 10,000 euros to jehovah's witnesses for collecting data from doctors and patients without prior authorization.. the religious institution has a hospital liaison committee (ceh) in each province that visits the hospitals to find out the degree of collaboration of the medical staff according to the beliefs of the jehovah's witnesses, "which is only realization of surgeries without transfusions ", is included in the resolution of the agency to which medical drafting has had access.. when compiling these data, as demonstrated by the resolution, the members of the committees overreached their duties, gathering information without requesting the relevant permission stipulated by law.
the jehovah's witnesses have filed an appeal after the ruling but it has not been accepted.. without consent.
in the document, the existence of data that have been "stored and conserved, and imply the processing of data without consent that is imputed, estimating that they are part of a file, are related as rights basics".
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Thank you for posting this, Blades. It is very interesting.
So the data protection laws have effectively exposed the "cult behind the cult" - the WT's bloodless cult. Those "special pioneers" - AKA Hospital Liaison Committee - are now being scrutinized for their data collection on doctors.
The proselytizing efforts of those special pioneers are not exempt from data protection. However, we know that the org will go ahead and collect the data anyways...that is the way they do things. Ignore the law and make up their own rules and then lie about it when a court tries to hold them accountable.
The WT/org's involvement with the medical world is going to bite them in the ass really hard one of these days. It looks like it is starting to happen.
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2018 BRANCH ORGANIZATION Manuel Says The members of the Governing Body do not regard themselves as the leaders of Jehovah's people.
by Fabian inthanks to atlantis, this statement is mentioned on chapter 1 paragraph 1 in the middle.
but i like how the statement says members but the sentence right before has the governing body dudes in a collective whole like voltron here is the paragraph in whole.
1. governing body: the governing body of jehovah's witnesses is made up of brothers who are anointed servants of jehovah god.
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12apostates: are there really people here who are still in, as in mentally in? I thought the society forbid fellowship with apostates.
I believe there are. Don't forget that each dislike counts as a 15 minute "witnessing".
Cognitive dissonance allows those who are "in" to excuse their lurking as giving a fine witness. Sites like these are like porn for them - it titillates them to visit here.
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The12Apsotates, don't worry about the downvotes. Some people have fat fingers and hit the wrong button sometimes. And about the re-joining...don't forget that there are posters on here that don't have to re-join - they haven't left yet.
*psst....I gave you a like - I thought your remark was funny :)
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When You Were A JW Did You Really Understand The Religion and What You Were Getting Into?
by minimus inmany witnesses in my opinion know nothing about the religion.
they don’t understand the history, the doctrines or the bible.
many people become jws because they were raised as witnesses so they take the plunge.
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Born in.
Didn't have a choice. Didn't know what choice even meant. Didn't sign up. It was done for me.
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2018 BRANCH ORGANIZATION Manuel Says The members of the Governing Body do not regard themselves as the leaders of Jehovah's people.
by Fabian inthanks to atlantis, this statement is mentioned on chapter 1 paragraph 1 in the middle.
but i like how the statement says members but the sentence right before has the governing body dudes in a collective whole like voltron here is the paragraph in whole.
1. governing body: the governing body of jehovah's witnesses is made up of brothers who are anointed servants of jehovah god.
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Steve: They just don't like calling themselves leaders because even they can see it has unfavourable connotations from a religious perspective (e.g., all their criticism of the religious leaders of the churches of Christendom).
... because they can see it has unfavorable connotations from a legal perspective
"We are not responsible! Leaders? Nope, not us"
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Anti vaccines
by blisterfeet ini personally feel that vaccinations are beneficial.
there has been a modern movement that vaccinations are more harmful than beneficial to which i disagree.
what is your stance as an ex jw on vaccinating your children?
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"ThinkerBelle:
Stonewall: my research I did over the years when I compared vaxxers to anti-vaxxers the anti-vaxxers were for the most part more healthy and were requiring less doctors visits for illnesses/diseases than their counterparts.
Um, Stonewall, I've had every vaccine as have my children and we are rarely ever sick and I don't have a doctor either because well, I've been healthy"
ThinkerBelle, you and your children are seeing the benefits that vaccines can offer that go beyond protection from just the disease being vaccinated against.
For example, the measles vaccine doesn't just protect against measles but it is also responsible for lowering the acquisition of, and death rates from, other infections.
Getting measles damages the immune system, resulting in greater susceptibility to other infections.
For scientific evidence of this, as opposed to the kind of myth making "research" that is heavily biased (Stonewall), this article explains it quite well:
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Hidden Spaces
by mann377 inwell my son (he's pimi) came to me the other day and asked if i could make a bookcase with hidden spaces built into it.
i asked him what for?
he said that they were encouraged to start thinking of and preparing for persecution and hide literature.
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My mother was a child during WW2 when the JWs were under ban in Canada. My grandparents would hide their literature in an old rotted out tree stump that was "back in the bush" on the farm.
It seems so silly to be doing the same thing today - why hide literature when everything is available online? Where will they hide their ipads and phones? And besides...JWs are so easy to pick out of a crowd. They are the ones wearing clothes that are hopelessly out of date.
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Celebrating China's Spring Festival (aka Chinese New Year).
by fulltimestudent inlate yesterday there was a phone call from an old friend who i had not seen for some 5 years.
let's go out to dinner to celebrate the spring festival.
i should explain that my friend had just arrived that morning from china, had slept for a few hours and then called me.
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Thanks for sharing FTS. That Wushu performance was spectacular. My daughter has a black belt in Wushu. It takes tremendous physical discipline.
Happy New Year!
