https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58420270.
this item just featured on the bbc lunchtime news today as the headline story and the piece included a reporter who singled out jehovah's witnesses for discussion from the 30 organisations covered by the report.
the news item then went on to feature an extensive interview ex elder and ex jehovah's witness writer lloyd evans..
The J W’s are taking a lot of heat about this today. The report press release is critical of all the religious bodies that it investigated but the media has been quick to talk about the JWs..... not without cause I may add.
One thing, the news report said that they have a policy of mandatory reporting in Britain. I was not aware of that, I thought that since it was not legally required here they did not do it. .... can you tell me if I was wrong?
my fifty year-old daughter is studying to be a jehovah witness.
i am her catholics father.
just wondering because they are not allowed to associate with worldly people.
Jehovah's Witnesses are taught to "Honour your father and mother".. so should should still act as a caring daughter. Just don't expect a Christmas or Birthday gift or card.........
a few months back, one of my uncles who was an elder, asked the co, why jehovah would allow the door to door preaching work, to come to an abrupt end.
this was when my uncle was starting to have serious doubts about the organization.. the co told him to be patient, and hang in there, because the governing body was on top of things and in time would explain what is happening regarding the preaching work.. my uncle asked; “what do you mean?”.
co said; “focus on the wt study articles in the coming months” .
I think perhaps people are making a lot of this article. What it says is nothing that has not been said before, occasionally.
This is however a frank admission that in the Western developed world there is very little response to the house to house work. So are they going to stop? No , I don’t think so they make it clear that :-
“If we endure in our ministry, we will gain everlasting life. “
That is a pretty strong motivation for the dubs. They live on the promise of paradise!
I bet that whenever Covid is deemed past , there will be articles stressing that the sheep are there to be gathered in
since this article goes back a few years, would you say the world has already accepted jehovah's witnesses as a televangelist organization listed with all the other religions?
your opinions?.
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For tne world to accept it they would have to know about it. The fact is despite tbeir presence on Roku etc , few people know about it or would download the app unless tbey were connected to them .
I had never heard of most of the channels in the article so that is true of all minority interest channels.
i’m reservations, pimo elder.
i’m in no position to leave the organisation, maybe some people will see that as weak or whatever, but we have to all go down our own path in life.. i would like to be able to wake people up in my congregation, how do you think best to do this?
any ideas?.
I was also an elder when I learned the truth about The Truth. It was hell. I did not feel I could immediately stand down, I had to lay the groundwork, but I did a few months later. My conscience would not let me continue.
Since then I have not been out in F/S , or answered up, nothing. The elders have let me be.
Of course at first I wanted to help my friends also see the light, but I realised that was not possible without ending up d/fd . I had long discussions with my wife but that’s all. Like the rest of them, they are unmoved by the facts. I now conclude that it is harder to convince a believing JW of the falsehood of their way than it is to convince a worldly person to accept JW beliefs.
Now I respect their right to believe it if they want , they can see all that I can see.
i remember you weren’t supposed to picket or be involved in labour unrest.
is this still the jw policy?.
When I was working I belonged to the union. It was not mandatory but was a good idea given our low opinion of the Company bosses. There were no JW issues, I took part in ballots .We used the option not to pay a levy to the UK Labour Party.
I suppose if I had become Union Rep it may have been different.
If it were Palin, there might have been some funny jokes in it........
if you tell a jw that he or she is in a cult and they asked you why do you say that?
how would you respond?.
Better to ask viewpoint questions. Perhaps " what should we look for in our religious leaders?"
Then when he answers show some detail as to why the WTS are not doing that.
so, my spies tell me that the east pennines a$$emb£y hall is being sold and all proceeds going to jobo hq.
there's a surprise.....not!.
i understand there are other properties too.
I have been to the East Penine Assembly Hall, It was a good place to go for a Circuit Assembly.
That Hall was built with the money , hard graft and sacrifice of the brothers around there. The ones I knew loved the place and were proud of it. Now it will be sold and turned into something mundane like a warehouse.
I wonder what arrangements they will make for future Circuit Assembly’s ?
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
“It is no wonder Witness kids grow up resenting the religion and their parents for forcing it on them.“
Actually , in my experience the majority of us grew up to be just as indoctrinated as our parents. I was approaching 50 before I realised there was something the matter. Now I can relate to the sad man’s comments about a lost youth, and a wasted life for decades after.
The whole point of the JW routine is to keep them busy and out of trouble, if you do it properly there’s no time or The will for shenanigans.
