i have been thinking about the legal departments that look after the wts interests around the world.i can`t believe these legal eagles offer their services on a voluntary basis like the r&f do.and i don`t believe their services would come cheap.. as an organization the size of jw.org and its offshoots of companys and interests around the world ,the cost of keeping them gainfully employed must amount to a considerable sum of money.. especially the law suits against them with child abuse court cases that arise on a regular basis ,and the government inquiry`s into the jw religion that is happening in different countries now.. all paid for by the voluntary contributions that come from the r&f for the worldwide preaching work .. contributions to pay for the wt organization`s legal department to defend themselves in court ?.
did jesus and the apostles pay lawyers to defend them in a court of law with funds donated by their supporters ?.
SILENT BUDDHA:
Wow, the hypocrisy is just staggering!
They quietly look for ‘studious types’ to send to college because it will benefit the RELIGION.. But, yet they will tell the rank & file JWs that college and careers are evil.👎🏻
The religion couldn’t care less if the average JW can even put food on their table, as long as they are ignorant and compliant. I despised the religion’s stand against college/careers. Thankfully, I never paid any mind to their stupid talk and am Retired today.
anyone ever hear of someone getting dfed in a congregation then moving cross country and joining another jw congregation and not telling them you were dfed.
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PHOENIXRISING:
I’m not surprised this does happen.. A person wants to make a clean start without people being biased against them..but you can’t accomplish this in the Jehovah’s Witness religion.
The Witnesses send a letter when somebody moves to a new congregation and says where they came from. I think only the elders see it.
In some ways this is a protection and warns the new elders if this person is a problem. (What’s bad is if the congregation is not warned!).. Sadly though, this letter can be very biased against somebody and this may be unfair..But, there is nothing that John/Jane Q Publisher can do about this.
I had heard by gossip about one such letter that followed a person who came back after living elsewhere...It was very unflattering and suggested the person should have restrictions put on them, etc.
BOBSGIRL:
Welcome back. I am a longtime ‘fader’ who has been on here for fifteen years.
A lot has happened in the JW religion. They have gone from bad to worse with high control and intrusiveness. I said years ago that I didn’t want to be anywhere near JWs who didn’t want to work when REALITY hit them.. It did. Thousands have been released from bethels over the last decade or so. Other JWs in congregations have reached retirement age with no preparation because they thought Armageddon would have come before this time.
i did this in my facebook group for my podcast and it was fun.. so what's the craziest thing you ever saw?.
for me it was watching a brother have a heart attack during the meeting in the auditorium.
i was a kid and noticed him shaking and acting strange.
NEAT BLUE DOG:
Wow, anybody who would do that to their child in public is sick.
It’s too bad that the JW religion instills this kind of cruelty in some people. A parent that does sick shit like this deserves unloving treatment in return.
so we binge-watched the waco mini-series on netflix.. wow, what a powerful and enlightening programme!
even if you think you know what happened, it gives you extra context to it all.
it's very well done even if you just want a great drama series, but it's way more than that.. there are of course some dramatization and slight historical inaccuracies for the purpose of story-telling but it was very informative.
SIMON:
I remember when Waco was happening. This was disgraceful and I’m sorry for all the unnecessary deaths.
Yes, I believe David Koresh was delusional and the rest of the adults there as well. He was running his little kingdom and getting to have sex with whomever he wanted. But, did they all deserve to die the way they did? I don’t think so.
A recipe for disaster and bloodshed and having the government come down with a sledgehammer:..just start your own cult or group out in the desert somewhere - and then let it be known that you have a cache of weapons. You’ll get a real Armageddon!
the 1983 film educating rita, written by willy russell and starring michael caine and julie walters, is one of the finest stories ever told.
julie's character is the eponymous working class hairdresser and michael caine plays professor frank bryant her open university tutor assigned, against his will, to teach her english literature.
the dialogue is brilliant and funny but it is the dilemma of an awakening rita caught between two worlds that is deeply moving.
COFTY:
I remember seeing this movie years ago.
Unless my memory is wrong, I thought she didn’t show up for the gathering because she felt she would just be an object of curiosity by all those snooty people.
watchtower president dies of covid-19.
https://nycinews.com/jehovahs-witnesses-president/?fbclid=iwar3n7jwlxwtmvhkjswhhdxekgxcvogw0jxp-rkyhfb_mg1trztlsb3uhkiw .
petra!.
If this story is unconfirmed or untrue, the thread should be locked.
Does anybody have any confirmation that this is true?
i am just curious if anyone knows whether the "friends" still are required to wear "meeting clothes" for attending meetings through zoom?
such emphasis on dressing in a godly manner over the decades, would be interesting if some attend in pajamas or their work clothes, no makeup, etc....
JEREMIAH:
Most definitely. They get all dressed up just to sit in their own living room..
THEN they have people (uninvited guests if you will)..able to see into THEIR home and they get criticized because there is a picture of a sports figure or whatever hanging on THEIR walls.
The level of intrusiveness is through the roof and it’s too bad the average JWs’ sensibilities are so eroded they have been reduced to a level they tolerate anything! I just cannot believe it.
Anybody with any brains there should switch the damn thing off.
PETE ZAHUT:
Yes, tickets non-refundable...pick up the shattered pieces of your life!
I came into the religion a few years after 1975 and never heard a word mentioned about this...It wasn’t until years later I learned some people quit their jobs, sold homes, etc. - and had to start all over again after the year ended and Paradise never materialized.
posting for brother x. petra!.
if you were a child during the years of 1960 to 1970, the question isn't; do you remember these conventions?
the question is; how could you forget?
SMIDDY3:
I also thank the Cosmos that I wasn’t brought up a JW.. I was raised Catholic. I got involved with JWs as young adult and I remember the hot and uncomfortable District Conventions in Yankee Stadium, getting up early and being dead tired.
One time my car group volunteered for food service. Got there at a ridiculously early hour..Hours later, when I got back to my seat..my belongings (bible/songbook) were moved into the aisle by a bunch of little bastards!..Of course my handbag was always with me!! You couldn’t pay me to ever do this again.
I remember one summer the convention was in the Philadelphia stadium in hundred degree heat.. I went with three older people. It was a disaster with the heat being so oppressive and people passing out. Come Sunday morning we had Enough!..and headed home.
The highlight of the trip was us going out to restaurants..We got no spiritual food that weekend!
