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54Confession Time - Music You're Embarrassed to Admit Listening To
by Simon inadmit it, we all have things that we reel off when people ask what our favourite music is, just the same as if people ask what our favourite movies are.
we're meant to say "citizen kane" and "casablanca" and not "battleship" or "pacific rim" but we know what we're going to watch if they are ever on tv at the same time (and which ones we've never actually seen).. so how about some confession time?
what do you listen to when no one else is in the house?.
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Interesting news - Supreme court throws out case against Watchtower.
by pleaseresearch inso my mum sent me this link, i need to speak to her about how she feels about this.
maybe she didn't even read it.
but the website looks to pro jw.
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blondie
In day's gone past, the WTS/GB made a big point that it not should be "Jehovah's Witnesses" but "one of Jehovah's witnesses" (because it should not like a religion's name) and if Jehovah's Witnesses were used, the "w" should be lower case, Jehovah's witnesses.
1968 Note how they used a lower case w, but also they said that in 1917 that there were Jehovah's witnesses, but that name was not take on by the WTS until 1931.
By 1917 Jehovah’s witnesses had clearly seen that Matthew 24:7, 8 was having fulfillment. Nation had risen against nation.
1975
About the same time that Kingdom Farm had been the object of threatened assault and arson, trouble flared up against Jehovah’s witnesses in Litchfield, Illinois.
and also this appellation
1971
They were Jehovah’s Christian witnesses now because they had faith in God’s Son, Christ Jesus, who redeemed them from death, and they believed in the kingdom of God.
around 1990
Eventually the WTS dropped "Jehovah's Christian witnesses" because some outside group copyrighted the name "Jehovah's Christian Witnesses."
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/78640/jehovahs-christian-witnesses
Which is why the WTS changed to the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
January 1, 2001 (2002 Kingdom Ministry
the Governing Body has approved the formation of additional corporations to care for certain needs of Jehovah’s Witnesses here in the United States. The new corporations are as follows:
Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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why do jws hate pagans?
by nowawake14 inpaganism from my view is just a mental fantasy.
it's not real.
so why do jws get mad at it anyway?
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blondie
Good point, rickroll, the WTS teaches jws to hate any other religion (all under the control of Satan per them), but not to hate individual members, at least not until the WTS' god decides that time is up for those individuals to change membership to the "only true religion" the WTS/jws.
I have heard non-jw spouses described as "walking corpses" on the platform of a circuit assembly. One of the reasons I left that day.
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JWs, The WatchTower Society, Child Abuse and Disfellowshipping
by Simon insomething just struck me.. is the wts the only religion that won't kick people out for abusing children, but would kick you out for visiting a website that informs you that the wts won't kick people out for abusing children .... it really shows where their sensibilities lie.
they are more interested in acting as gatekeepers to information, especially information about them, than providing basic levels of protection to the children of their members.. maybe someone with a better turn of phrase can shorten it, it might make a good meme - something short and simple that really makes people think:.
"the wts - tougher on those who read reports of jw child abuse than on jws who conduct child abuse".
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blondie
rickroll, I think you are holding back with your assessment of Steven Lett.
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Confession Time - Music You're Embarrassed to Admit Listening To
by Simon inadmit it, we all have things that we reel off when people ask what our favourite music is, just the same as if people ask what our favourite movies are.
we're meant to say "citizen kane" and "casablanca" and not "battleship" or "pacific rim" but we know what we're going to watch if they are ever on tv at the same time (and which ones we've never actually seen).. so how about some confession time?
what do you listen to when no one else is in the house?.
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blondie
I had music that I liked that I would never admit to a jw (when I was a jw).
I still like
ABBA
(almost anything from the disco era, with discretion)
I still love listening to Christmas songs during the season (and singing)
I love music, and as a musician (piano, clarinet, guitar), almost 90% of the WTS songs pained me to sing or listen to. A few had decent tunes, but the words were grating. Now almost all the 10% have been re-written with new but even worse tunes. I was embarrassed to have any non-jw musical friend hear the WTS songs.
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why do jws hate pagans?
by nowawake14 inpaganism from my view is just a mental fantasy.
it's not real.
so why do jws get mad at it anyway?
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blondie
I think jws tend to lump in everyone in the group called "pagans." Even Christian non-jws are lumped in because the WTS labels them as so-called Christians who follow pagan practices, unknowingly.
Of course, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., never identified as Christians, so are definitely pagans per the WTS.
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2019-October 8, BOE!
by Atlantis in2019-10-08 boe.
supporting the congregation as a pioneer.
https://docdro.id/sf2rkwx.
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blondie
Why no mention of the service overseer working with the pioneer to see what specific help they need and personal encouragement?
In days gone by, the CO went D2D (to observe them in action at the door) or on a "bible study" with every regular pioneer (including sisters, no pawning them off to their wife, she has no appointed position). There is no pre-test by the elders to see if the person has good skills or needs help before or after they appoint them.
As to the Pioneer Assist program, what a joke. I knew a sister who was assigned to the congregation gossip (a regular pioneer) for so-called assistance. Now what person would confide in that kind of person. It turned out that none of the other candidates wanted to be paired with her. The sister reclined the pairing telling the service overseer that the sister was a gossip (well-known in the congregation as a gossip).
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Confession Time - Music You're Embarrassed to Admit Listening To
by Simon inadmit it, we all have things that we reel off when people ask what our favourite music is, just the same as if people ask what our favourite movies are.
we're meant to say "citizen kane" and "casablanca" and not "battleship" or "pacific rim" but we know what we're going to watch if they are ever on tv at the same time (and which ones we've never actually seen).. so how about some confession time?
what do you listen to when no one else is in the house?.
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blondie
Ditto, LHG
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Article: Church elder sentenced to 80 years in prison for sex assaults in Cleburne county
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.fox16.com/news/church-elder-sentenced-to-80-years-in-prison-for-sex-assaults-in-cleburne-county/.
church elder sentenced to 80 years in prison for sex assaults in cleburne county.
by: tyler thomason.
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blondie
As the public and the legal system are getting educated more and more about this problem in the WTS, it will become harder to hide it from the non-jw public, encourage more victims to come forward, and hopefully make more jws wake up to it.
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1975 and 1981?
by Steel inis it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world and a great number of the membership quit and just a few years later they turned disassociation into disfellowshipping?
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blondie
dubstepped, yes Ray was asked to leave Bethel in 1981 and an announcement was made in the KM.
But...he and his wife, started associating with a congregation in Gadsen, AL. Shortly after that, an elder that knew Ray quite well before the event in 1981, disassociated himself. Perhaps because of that, the WTS realized they had to make Ray like kryptonite to other jws.
So they made a new policy, that jws who associated with disassociated jws, could be disfellowshipped for that and made it retroactive. Ray and his wife, had continued to associate socially with this man and his jw wife, while still attending that congregation, without any repercussion. But after the policy changed, Ray was df'd retroactively. But Ray's wife was not df'd although she had also associated socially with that disassociated man. After the WTS df'd Ray, he started writing his books, which first came out in 1984. Ray stopped thinking that somehow the WTS could be redeemed.