Mad Irishman

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  Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church is in decline.

  by Lost in the fog in

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  2. child-abuse

  the number of child abuse cases in the catholic church is in decline apparently.

  is the same thing true in the wts?

  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-the-right-thing/201908/top-10-myths-about-clergy-abuse-in-the-catholic-church .

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  It's priests that everyone looks at abusing children in the Catholic Church. No one talks about the amount of abuse actually happening by its parishioners. Take that into account and you are talking about 100 times a scandal. For the average JW case, or in other denomination, it is a parishioner that is the offender. All other religions in comparison to the Catholic Church pale in comparison when it comes to child sexual abuse. I know first-hand. There are some priests that have sexually abused 300, 400, 500 kids. It's sickening and surreal.
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  Enoch the Prophet

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in my ongoing research into second temple judaism, i scanned and marked up a chapter dealing with the book of enoch.. i have made this marked up chapter very temporarily available at:.

  https://jwstudies.com/crucible__chapter_4__enoch_marked_up.pdf .

  doug.

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  This is what you get when an "Average Joe" with no education on a subject interprets something they read simply on their own personal opinion.
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  Getting Remarried after a spouses death & then they are resurrected after Armageddon ?

  by LOLS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys .

  i was wondering about the above , if a jw is allowed to remarry if a spouse has died, then what happens when they are resurrected at armageddon, do u land up with two wives/husbands ,,,,,,, makes no sense to me & can the jw's be so dumb not to think about this or have i got it wrong ?

  and i will not be asking my uber jw husband , don't have the energy.. thanks.

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  Once someone dies the marriage is dissolved. Death ends a marriage.
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  Why can JW's attend funerals or weddings in a church?

  by QuestioningEverything in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what is the reasoning/policy behind the practice that a jw can't attend an event such as funeral or wedding in another church?

  i know of someone that didn't attend her older sisters funeral because it was held in a baptist church.

  she waited outside until the service was over and then went to the family dinner afterwards.

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  It's not a rule. It's up to each individual person what they want to do.
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  Muslims and the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first i want to say that i don't know very much about the muslims, and what i am going to say is not attacking anyone, but instead, it was something that was said to me by a muslim man a few years back.. back in 2004 my husband and i found ourselves in a homeless situation.

  his job had ended because the plant that he was working at, had shut down, and was sent off to china.

  at the time our two sons were still very young, so we ended up staying at a couple of different homeless shelters until my husband could find another job, which took a total of three months before he found a new job, in a new state.

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  Smiddy is not correct. Most Muslim countries are very tolerant. The ones that are not are the exception. What is law and what is simply frowned upon are two different things. Just because societies may be a super majority of one faith does not mean that other people in those countries do not exist. You are making sweeping generalizations about Islam. And the Middle East isn't the only area in the world where Muslim-centric countries exist. You need to travel more and have some Muslim friends.
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  Muslims and the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first i want to say that i don't know very much about the muslims, and what i am going to say is not attacking anyone, but instead, it was something that was said to me by a muslim man a few years back.. back in 2004 my husband and i found ourselves in a homeless situation.

  his job had ended because the plant that he was working at, had shut down, and was sent off to china.

  at the time our two sons were still very young, so we ended up staying at a couple of different homeless shelters until my husband could find another job, which took a total of three months before he found a new job, in a new state.

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  smiddy3,

  
  I knew several Witnesses from Islamic countries. They indeed do still preach in those lands. You need to brush up on Islam and the Middle East my friend. I cannot think of any Islamic countries where Christians do not exist, even in the minority, so it's pretty racist to throw that out there about Islam and Muslims. Maybe ISIS tried to do something like that but in almost all Muslim countries there are people who live there of other faiths. Don't be so ignorant.
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  Russian gunman raised in JW family

  by Alex Bogdanov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the link bellow is sort of ok. i could not find a decent article in english language about this, but russian media is exploding.

  2 days ago a teenager killed 19 people and injured dozens and committed suicide.

  he was raised in a jw family.

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  Take what the Russian government and press says with a grain of salt. This is the same people who are going around saying JW elders were found with AK-47's and bombs, because they have labeled the JW's a terrorist and extremist organization. Anything the Russians say is suspect at this point.
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  Do You Know Of Anyone Who Left JWs And Then Decided To Return?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  quite a few years ago there was a poster here that left the religion because he knew it was simply not true.

  however, he returned to jws because he wanted to be with his family.

  i don’t know how he is doing but gumby was his name.

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  It seems that there are a lot of ex-JW's going back of late. More than I've ever seen.
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  I yelled at dubs today ( again )

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i roll up to the job site and looky there, two uber pioneer dubs dragging themselves down the sidewalk.

  both ladies are in there early 60's and born in.. my heart started pumping, but i had to act.i was directly across the street from them.

  i walked right to the sidewalk and said in a very loud, but not mean voice: "you can't teach overlapping generations from the bible!!

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  Mad Irishman

  You are a jackass for yelling at anyone. Especially old ladies. What a fool.
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  Banners for London Protest

  by Farmer Jim1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi folks, i’m attending the london protest at the excel convention in august and am making some banners.

  i’m aiming for short but memorable sentences that will stick in jws minds and also make them laugh a little at their own organisation.. my best so far is ‘this is not a protest, it’s an overlapping protest’.

  has anyone got any ideas for more?.

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  Mad Irishman

  Whenever I saw protectors at assemblies I thought they were mindless idiots. Same as I do when I see them outside the company I work at. It's a waste of time.