Posts by DannyHaszard

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BREAKING NEWS: Decision coming down tomorrow in Berry girls' appeal!

by loveis in

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the new hampshire supreme court's official site lists the decision for this case (holly berry & a. v. watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc. & a.

) among those "to be released july 15.".

this decision will be huge for whomever it goes for (the silentlambs or the wts) since it will be from a state supreme court, and thus precedent-setting for the other ongoing cases throughout the country.

DannyHaszard

Good to go Bravo -justice favors the not forgotten i will be watchful waiting.....

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dubs are grim reapers

by andy2tanx in

i read this on another site and thought it was interesting as well as on the nail when it came to how i felt as a kid.

grim reapers i've been doing some reading at freeminds.org, today, most recently terry walstrom's account "my life in jehovah's service.

this is a powerful and logically compelling account.

DannyHaszard

Psychopath Primer new page upgrades at DannyHaszard.com

The Watchtower is run by psychopaths

This is BIG and scary Satan is the original pure psychopath.

Psychopathy is UNTREATABLE according to clinicians,because it is not an illness it is a moral judgment.They have NO conscience they are great to have around in war time as hired killers but raise hell among the civilian population.

My JW Father and my maternal grandmother (not related) would look you in the eye,so that you could see your reflection in their retina when they would bold faced lie about anything.I have been pitted against countless Jehovah's Witnesses who are just like them.

It is UNCANNY!!

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KNOCKING --- NEWS

by Marvin Shilmer in

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friends

the programming director for pbs has asked for the removal from the knocking web site of language indicating the program will be aired on pbs.

this does not mean the program will never be aired on pbs.

rather, the request is made because of feedback from viewers like us.

DannyHaszard

Tell us what you think about KNOCKING.

Selected submissions will be posted here, so check back regularly and join the discussion.

7/13/05
Chris Scott
Murphy, Texas

I would like to see a balanced presentation of Jehovah's Witnesses. The public at large knows little, and an honest look inside the organization would be helpful. As a member of this organization for 18 years (I started studying on my own at age 9) I have many good memories and the emphasis on Bible study has stayed with me even now. Unfortunately however, Jehovah's Witnesses take an even more dysfunctional view toward child abuse than the Catholic Church. I was molested by my father, and his friends and yet my father still holds a position in this organization to this day. My pleas for help fell on deaf ears as I did not have eyewitnesses to my rapes. Finally I was forced to leave Jehovah's Witnesses. I would hope that any program about Jehovah's Witnesses includes their child abuse teachings.

7/13/05
Bryan Lee McGlothin

It is true today, that many documentaries are one sided. Though the truly informative works of this type cover all aspects of the story.
I'm sure Mr. Engardio neglected to how show members of this cultish organization are forced to disown their own family members if these ones decide the organization is not for them.
I m curious, also, whether he quoted the 1933 letter from the Watchtower to Adolph Hitler stating: pThe Bible Students of Germany are fighting for the same high ethical goals and ideals which the National Government of the German Reich ..? and ppthe contents of our booksp referred only to circumstances in the Anglo-American World Empire and that it-especially England-is to be held responsible for the League of Nations and the unjustified treaties and burdens placed on Germany.?
The Watchtower says if a woman does not pscream? when being raped, she is guilty of fornication. (Watchtower 1964 January 15 pp.63-4) Therefore if a woman were to freeze in fear or decide to live to see another day. She would be found guilty in sin and cast out from her family and friends.
I personally would rather see an evenly balanced production.

Thanks you,
Bryan Lee McGlothin

7/13/05
Danny Haszard
Bangor Maine USA
I have JW family in Naples Florida who practice the Watchtower cult enforced ritual shunning that i have not seen or heard from in 15 years.

I am not the only one,the 'fraud in the name of God' Jehovah's Witnesses have defrauded MILLIONS of followers.

The central CORE dogma of the Watchtower is Jesus second coming (invisibly) in 1914 and is a lie.Jehovah's Witnesses are a spin-off of the man made Millerite movement of 1870.

A destructive cult of false teachings, that frequently result in spiritual and psychological abuse, as well as needless deaths (bogus blood transfusion ban).

Danny Haszard former Jehovah's Witness X 33 years and 3rd generation http://www.dannyhaszard.com

7/13/05
Maria O'Loughlan

Will the program be showing the mind control exercised by the leaders of the Watchtower religion? Jehovah s Witnesses are told they must obey their leaders or face shunning by family and friends. JW s are not even allowed to have independent thinking.
They must unquestioningly follow the leaders they call the pfaithful and discreet slave?. Their own magazine, when referring to a pmature Christian? says, pHe (a Witness) does not advocate or insist on personal opinions or harbor private ideas when it comes to Bible understanding. Rather, he has complete confidence in the truth as it is revealed by Jehovah God through his Son, Jesus Christ, and "the faithful and discreet slave." Watchtower August 1, 2001.

Is KNOCKING going to tell its audience that if they join the Witness religion they will not be able to padvocate or insist on personal opinions or harbor private ideas? or disagree with ANY teaching or question any of the failed prophecies of 1914, 1915, 1918, 1925, 1975 etc etc. Yes, the Watchtower wants religious freedom alright. Shame they don t give it to their own people.

7/13/05
Serena Conn
Oxford, Ohio

I hope you address the academic dishonesty of this organization & how it's "bible" was "translated" by uneducated men who had no grasp of biblical language. I hope you point out they're anti-family and refer to children as "handicaps." I hope you point out they're anti-society and only give physical/financial relief to other JWs. I hope you point out that, while they're at your door offering you magazines, they're sizing up your house for their future occupation after Armageddon. I hope you point out that they gleefully long for the day when their God, Jehovah, will kill all their non-JW relatives, neighbors, and co-workers because they wouldn't convert.

Bet you won't.

7/13/05
Randall Watters
Manhattan Beach CA

I worked at Watchtower headquarters in Brooklyn from 1974 to 1980, and left after seeing the bad shunning treatment given any that dare question the theology or practices of this authoritarian religion. I was a factory floor overseer, an elder and a traveling representative of the Watchtower for three of the years I was there. Although I have nothing against any individuals in this organization, the leadership is guilty of gross lying, deception and cover-up of scandals, not the least of which is their tolerance of pedophiles in their midst. I highly resent this organization being placed in a positive light until major changes in leadership are made.

7/13/05
Sammie Lee
California

The public need to know about and see the absolute destruction that happens to a person when they are disfellowshipped/shunned. They need to see the aftermath of the act - grandmothers who never get to meet their own grandchildren; parents who stop all communication with their children; siblings who have nothing to do with one another. All friends and family cut off from their lives. Many people stay in the Society simply because they fear being cut off (dead) to their families and not because they believe the 'truth' any more. I also believe that the incorrect use of the 607 date needs to be exposed as well as all of the underlying rules of life that JW's must follow. Rules that alter their lives and keep many of them close to poverty with little education and no future. There is a sense of apathy when you live in the world but don't care about it and a real prejudice when you use what's in the world but hate all that is 'wordly'.

7/13/05
Marvin Shilmer

Do Jehovah's Witnesses abstain from blood?

Jehovah's Witnesses literally choose to paccept all fractions derived from any primary component of blood.?(1) That is to say, so long as blood is sufficiently fractionated there is no limit on the amount a Jehovah's Witness can accept as taught by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, and Jehovah's Witnesses DO ACCEPT all this from blood. It is absurd to suggest all this use from the donated and stored blood supply is somehow "abstaining from blood" as WTS propaganda suggests! Compounding this is the fact that the WTS does not encourage its millions of adherents to replenish what they are so willing to use from by donating blood at least for uses condoned by the WTS! Right now Jehovah's Witnesses use heavily from the limited donor blood supply yet they are unwilling to replenish the same supply with their own blood.

Is the KNOCKING program going to make these facts plainly evident as a documentary on the subject should? Or will bias and/or religious rhetoric obfuscate the issue?

Reference:

1. From acceptable line item in the Durable Power of Attorney form provided by the WTS for JWs, dated 2001

7/13/05

1. The KNOCKING program is said to chronicle unpopular stands taught by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania Inc., (WTS, the controlling and enforcement organization behind Jehovah's Witnesses). This representation is false regarding the WTS blood doctrine.

The program documents an instance of a Jehovah's Witness (JW) accepting a more advanced medical therapy rather than an instance where a JW dies prematurely for refusing what is unquestionably a more advanced medical therapy involving a use of blood forbidden under pain of extreme religious and social shunning enforced by the WTS. The former is no more unpopular than any other use of advanced medical practices, whereas the latter represents the unpopular stance medical professionals object to.

2. The KNOCKING program repeats a false statement that Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions. Jehovah's Witnesses do accept certain types of blood transfusions, and which are condoned by the WTS.

Specifically, the WTS condones blood transfusions among Jehovah's Witnesses so long as the transfused blood is autologous and it is part of what the WTS ambiguously refers to as a "current therapy". For this reason it is false for a supposed documentary to tell viewers that Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions.

6/8/05
JOAN FERGUSON
Kelowna, BC Canada

I would like to see a balanced program with ex-jws giving their viewpoint also. This religion has a long history of spin-doctoring and stonewalling. There IS another side to the face they present to the public and it's very disturbing. I would like to see this other face addressed in your program as well. Any dedicated reporter would have no trouble finding plenty of evidence refuting their claims of being this squeaky clean, spiritually superior paradise of happy people. I would like to see them confronted with their shunning policies that have torn lives apart and destroyed families. And their bizzare coverup of pedophiles numbering in the thousands needs to be made public also. Show the other side of this outrageous cult and you will have a documentary to be proud of. The JWs are NOT what they may seem at all.

6/8/05
JOAN FERGUSON
Kelowna, BC Canada

It would be journalistic honesty to get the other side of the JW story from some of the thousands who no longer want to be a part of this disturbing faith. There IS another face to this cult...pedophile coverups, shunning resulting in the destruction of countless families, hypocracy and much more. I'd like to see a balanced approach in your program..I can guarantee that the REAL story of what REALLY goes on would be more educational than the one-sided view planned for future viewing.

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If you were bullied at school for being a JW kid..

by mtbatoon in

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..would you thank the bullies now?.

i must admit that the social pressure was a large factor in my exiting.

though it was hell at the time i'd rather that than life as as dub now.

DannyHaszard

Very much so,i was in second grade when president John Kennedy was killed and a wave of nationalistic hysteria swept the classroom.

They hated me,it was open season on me and my siblings in the playground for YEARS.I was a 7 y.o. baby what did i know ??

I am gonna make you Watchtower (living in their ivory tower) annointed baldhead motherf**kers pay for my abuse.

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KNOCKING --- NEWS

by Marvin Shilmer in

jw
friends

the programming director for pbs has asked for the removal from the knocking web site of language indicating the program will be aired on pbs.

this does not mean the program will never be aired on pbs.

rather, the request is made because of feedback from viewers like us.

DannyHaszard

Sent to: [email protected] Reg."Knocking" documentary on Jehovah Witness http://www.knocking.org/getinfo.lasso ------------- A 'heads up' on the JW's. I have JW kin in Naples Fla. who practice the Watchtower cult enforced ritual shunning that i have not seen or heard from in 15 years. I am not the only one,the 'fraud in the name of God' Jehovah's Witnesses have defrauded MILLIONS of followers. Danny Haszard POB 1503 Bangor Maine USA tel.# 207-XXX-XXXX email [email protected] ---------------- Jehovah's Witnesses - Who are they and what do they believe? Knocking at your Door-Benevolent Christians OR Wolves in Sheep's Clothing? UNLIKE in the case of Christians who are persecuted in other lands for talking about Jesus Christ, Jehovah's Witnesses are largely persecuted for following the teachings of their corporate headquarters. The deadbeat Watchtower corporation pays no municipal taxes on their buildings, without even one charity to compensate the community. [ Think! When was the last time you saw a Jehovah's Witness charity for the poor? ] The Watchtower is BIG money, being one of the top 40 New York City Corporations making nearly one billion dollars a year. That's just from one of their many corporations. Jehovah's Witnesses follow the teachings begun during the second presidency of the Watchtower, when Joseph F. Rutherford took over in a corporate flap and began changing doctrines quickly in the Watchtower belief system. He claimed that angels directly conveyed "truth" to some of those in leadership. He coined the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" to make them stand out from being witnesses of Jesus, a typical evangelical expression (and a Biblical one). Rutherford dumped holidays, birthdays and the 1874 date for the invisible return on Christ, and INVENTED an "earthly class" of Witnesses, since only 144,000 can go to heaven according to their teaching. The rest, meaning all 99.9% of Witnesses still alive, will live forever on a cleansed earth, under the rule of the Watchtower corporate headquarter leaders in heaven, who will keep them in line by local elders known as "princes." If you have been "witnessed to" by Jehovah's Witnesses and you reject their message, you will likely DIE "shortly" at Armageddon with all the other non-Witnesses, since theirs is the ONLY TRUE RELIGION, and (if they can live up to all the rules) they are the only ones to inhabit this "new earth." If you believe Witnesses seem rigid now, any non-conformist during the future "cleansed earth" will be directly destroyed by their god. Even now a Witness will be disfellowshipped (excommunicated) for any one of many gaffs, such as smoking, taking a blood transfusion, or even voting. To even vocally question the teachings of the Jehovah's Witness organization will result in complete cutting off, with family and friends usually being forbidden to talk to them. The Watchtower is a truly ORWELLIAN world, in a time when Orwellian societies are nearly obsolete. --------- In his "Adams Versus God," Melbourne broadcaster Phillip Adams said in 1985 that, according to US studies, "Jehovah's Witnesses are more likely to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals than the general population". "According to an article in the British Journal of Psychiatry," he said, "they are three times more likely to be diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and four times more likely to be paranoid schizophrenics. "As a writer in the American journal Free Inquiry puts it: 'Either the Jehovah's Witness sect tends to attract an excess of pre-psychotic individuals who may then break down, or else being a Jehovah's Witness is itself a stress that may precipitate psychosis. "'Possibly both of these factors operate together ...'" Are they knocking at your door? » Theologically,Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult of Christianity.The oppressive organization does not represent historical, Biblical Christianity in any way. Sociologically, it is a destructive cult whose false teachings frequently result in spiritual and psychological abuse, as well as needless deaths. {Footnote}
What forensic psychologist say about cult leaders like Jim Jones and David Koresh.They are control freaks who will never abdicate control.They will choose death by suicide or a fiery fight to the very end.We can indeed see a comparison with the arrogant watchtower cult.

[Final note]; Jehovah's Witnesses have FOUR TIMES the 'pedophiles per capita' as the Catholic church! This is due to the Elder enforced code of silence.] References: www.freeminds.org
Watchtower information site www.silentlambs.org
Child advocacy and news on many child abuse lawsuits against the Watchtower www.DannyHaszard.com
Watchtower whistleblower-Jehovah's Witness X 33 years and 3rd generation ----------------------------- Their immediate reply:

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JWs Back to No. 1 in Growth!

by Amazing1914 in

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it is interesting to note that of the total actual growth of all churches put together in the usa, 98.8% went to the roman catholic church (852,663 rcc vs 863,448 all ).

church.

21. united church of christ.

DannyHaszard

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/93581/1.ashx CHAMELEON JEHOVAH'S CHRISTIAN WITNESSES MORPH THEIR NAME The word "Christian" has been added to Jehovah's Witnesses now because many people don't think Witnesses are Christian.

Ray Franz called it the 'great preaching paradox' all the door to door recruiting they claim and nobody knows even their basics.

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Danny Haszard Bangor Maine

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JWs Back to No. 1 in Growth!

by Amazing1914 in

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friends

it is interesting to note that of the total actual growth of all churches put together in the usa, 98.8% went to the roman catholic church (852,663 rcc vs 863,448 all ).

church.

21. united church of christ.

DannyHaszard

The Revelation Climax book is 95% lies,so would not the Watchtower exaggerate their recruitment membership? Most western republics are free countries-free to go follow whatever belief system you choose-free to go follow daffy duck,or the Watchtowers Adventist derived man-made false dogmas. A discussion of the Watchtowers doctrines would be like a debate of the finer points of hitler's personal autobiography mein kempf It is a foregone conclusion it's total trash. A B C A.The central core JW doctrine is Jesus second coming in 1914, is a LIE! B.Every devout JW will grow old and die just like me. C. Apostate opposer's like myself will not die at Armageddon Poet and writer Mark Twain sez: "if a million people believe in a stupid thing for a hundred years,it's still a stupid thing". Grow old and die just like me.The only variable here is will you also die broken and unsaved?The Watchtower masters say,'dubs don't go to heaven when they die'. So what is the final disposition of a Jehovah's Witness? Yes,contemplate your decaying mortal flesh to come....

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1975

by Grouper in

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i am researching 1975 and i was curious to ask any that served as elder back then in the wtbts ever issue a directive to the congregations to stop or discourage believers from selling their property, cashing out retirements, early marriage, quiting jobs, etc., etc.................. thanks

DannyHaszard

An 'apostate fabrication' bulls**t

Staying Alive till '75 I was there people!

A common meet and greet exchange among Jehovah's Witness for the next ten years post 1975 was,".we never imagined that we would still be in this system." "Staying Alive Until 1975" My Story of Growing Up JW with Severe Ulcerative Colitis Witness of the Watchtower Holocaust

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MUST READ AlanF's email to Knocking.org

by sf in

this is a must-read that, hopefully, will stay an "active topic" for all seekers and lurkers, by bumping it to the top as often as possible.

alan wrote it in randys {dogpatch} thread regarding knocking.org documentary and in reply to the email mr. engardio sent to barbara anderson.

however, it is so vital a read that it indeed needs its own thread:.

DannyHaszard

Apostates 'R smart people aren't they? I can submit this (slightly modified for headline) ALL OVER the news wires. Give me authorization [email protected]

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Apostates - blood on their hands?

by slimboyfat in

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don't you think the witness leaders would have given up the blood doctrine and 1914 by now had not apostates made such big things of them?

haven't they been painted into a bit of a corner where, if they tried to adjust things on blood now, everyone would come down on them like a ton of bricks?

if apostates were not so vigilant in watching the witnesses' every move, perhaps the governing body would have tried to drop the dubious doctrines by the back door, like so many others that they have discarded when they did not feel to closely watched (organ transplants, for example).

DannyHaszard

I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because
they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.—D. Dale Gulledge

Your logic is like holding a WWII army soldier morally accountable for Hitler's suicide.

Danny Haszard sez's-"if you can't do da time don't do da crime''.