Celebrity Jehovah’s Witnesses “Disfellowshipped”
ChicagoPride.com, United States - 10 minutes ago
... Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising were informed December 20, 2006, that a recent meeting held by their hometown Kalispell, Montana Jehovah's Witnesses chapter ...
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Jacob and Joshua Miller of Nemesis Claim to Have Been Officially ``Disfello
by WCC injacob and joshua miller of nemesis claim to have been officially ` .... style="background-color: #ffff00"business wire (press release), ca - 11 minutes ago.
the two of us were just informed that last night a jehovah's witness meeting took place in our hometown of kalispell, montana.
at .... december 21, 2006 09:00 am eastern time .
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Jacob and Joshua Miller of Nemesis Claim to Have Been Officially ``Disfello
by WCC injacob and joshua miller of nemesis claim to have been officially ` .... style="background-color: #ffff00"business wire (press release), ca - 11 minutes ago.
the two of us were just informed that last night a jehovah's witness meeting took place in our hometown of kalispell, montana.
at .... december 21, 2006 09:00 am eastern time .
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So this was on the news wire dated Nov 29 it looks like they may have been adjudicated Dfed in absentia so the elders missed out on their fessing up in intimate detail to their sexual activities,i am sure the elders were disappointed
More Jacob and Joshua
PlanetOut, CA - Nov 29, 2006
The premise was compelling enough, but when you add that the twins were also Jehovah's Witnesses who would come out to their family on the show, w ell, who ... -
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Jacob and Joshua Miller of Nemesis Claim to Have Been Officially ``Disfello
by WCC injacob and joshua miller of nemesis claim to have been officially ` .... style="background-color: #ffff00"business wire (press release), ca - 11 minutes ago.
the two of us were just informed that last night a jehovah's witness meeting took place in our hometown of kalispell, montana.
at .... december 21, 2006 09:00 am eastern time .
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Jacob and Joshua Miller of Nemesis Claim to Have Been Officially ` ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - 4 hours ago
The two of us were just informed that last night a Jehovah's Witness meeting took place in our hometown of Kalispell, Montana. At ... -
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Jacob and Joshua Miller of Nemesis Claim to Have Been Officially ``Disfello
by WCC injacob and joshua miller of nemesis claim to have been officially ` .... style="background-color: #ffff00"business wire (press release), ca - 11 minutes ago.
the two of us were just informed that last night a jehovah's witness meeting took place in our hometown of kalispell, montana.
at .... december 21, 2006 09:00 am eastern time .
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DannyHaszard
This dfed couple got a publicist and posted this protest news releasewe ALL should do this from now on.
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Lurkers: Why the Watchtower REALLY Opposes Holidays
by metatron inno doubt many of you used to wonder why so many potential jehovah's witnesses had a problem with dropping the celebration of holidays,.
especially christmas.
i can recall some publishers wondering aloud why their bible studies were ready to swallow watchtower doctrines.
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Meta your thread is spot on as usual
reprinted from the Mar/Apr 1990 Bethel Ministries Newsletter
Eight Marks of a Mind-Control Cult
by Randall Watters
Brainwashing has become almost a household word in the last two decades or so. In 1961, Robert J. Lifton wrote the definitive book on the subject, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, after studying the effects of mind control on American prisoners of war under the Communist Chinese. Lifton outlines eight major factors that can be used to identify whether a group is a destructive cult or not. Any authoritarian religion should be held up to the light in order to determine just how destructive their influence is on their members. Judge for yourselves.
Milieu Control
"Milieu" is a French word meaning "surroundings; environment." Cults are able to control the environment around their recruits in a number of ways, but almost always using a form of isolation. Recruits can be physically separated from society, or they can be warned under threat of punishment to stay away from the world's educational media, especially when it might provoke critical thinking. Any books, movies or testimonies of ex-members of the group, or even anyone critical of the group in any way are to be avoided.
Information is carefully kept on each recruit by the mother organization. All are watched, lest they fall behind or get too far ahead of the thinking of the organization. Because it appears that the organization knows so much about everything and everyone, they appear omniscient in the eyes of the recruits.
Mystical Manipulation
In religious cults, God is ever-present in the workings of the organization. If a person leaves for any reason, accidents or ill-will that may befall them are always attributed to God's punishment on them. For the faithful, the angels are always said to be working, and stories circulate about how God is truly doing marvelous things among them, because they are "the truth." The organization is therefore given a certain "mystique" that is quite alluring to the new recruit.
Demand for Purity
The world is depicted as black and white, with little room for making personal decisions based on a trained conscience. One's conduct is modeled after the ideology of the group, as taught in its literature. People and organizations are pictured as either good or evil, depending on their relationship to the cult.
Universal tendencies of guilt and shame are used to control individuals, even after they leave. There is great difficulty in understanding the complexities of human morality, since everything is polarized and oversimplified. All things classified as evil are to be avoided, and purity is attainable through immersion into the cult's ideology.
The Cult of Confession
Serious sins (as defined by the organization) are to be confessed immediately. The members are to be reported if found walking contrary to the rules.
There is often a tendency to derive pleasure from self-degradation through confession. This occurs when all must confess their sins before each other regularly, creating an intense kind of "oneness" within the group. It also allows leaders from within to exercise authority over the weaker ones, using their "sins" as a whip to lead them on.
The "Sacred Science"
The cult's ideology becomes the ultimate moral vision for the ordering of human existence. The ideology is too "sacred" to call into question, and a reverence is demanded for the leadership. The cult's ideology makes an exaggerated claim for possessing airtight logic, making it appear as absolute truth with no contradictions. Such an attractive system offers security.
Loading the Language
Lifton explains the prolific use of "thought-terminating cliches," expressions or words that are designed to end the conversation or controversy. We are all familiar with the use of the cliches "capitalist" and "imperialist," as used by antiwar demonstrators in the 60's. Such cliches are easily memorized and readily expressed. They are called the "language of non-thought," since the discussion is terminated, not allowing further consideration.
In the Watchtower, for instance, expressions such as "the truth", the "mother organization", the "new system", "apostates" and "worldly" carry with them a judgment on outsiders, leaving them unworthy of further consideration.
Doctrine Over Person
Human experience is subordinated to doctrine, no matter how profound or contradictory such experiences seem. The history of the cult is altered to fit their doctrinal logic. The person is only valuable insomuch as they conform to the role models of the cult. Commonsense perceptions are disregarded if they are hostile to the cult's ideology.
Dispensing of Existence
The cult decides who has the "right" to exist and who does not. They decide who will perish in the final battle of good over evil. The leaders decide which history books are accurate and which are biased. Families can be cut off and outsiders can be deceived, for they are not fit to exist!
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Kingdom Hall shooting
by Stealth insad to see people so effected by this religon that they resort to violence.
i was glad to here no one was fatally ingured.
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Gunman opens fire on group leaving church
Columbia Missourian, MO - 4 minutes ago
... At 9:05 pm, police responded to a report of a masked man firing shots at a crowd of people leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall, 2207 Holly Ave. ...The PD crime stopper hotline telephone number is posted at this article if you have vital info to share
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SEX CRAZED ELDER CAN'T CONTROL
by DannyHaszard inthis is again top ranked news for jw keywords worldwide.
ex-elder can't control sex urges.
"he masturbates and fantasizes, so of course, he'd touch a girl.
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Martin, 77, had made many such visits with that girl and other children in the church over the years,
He described Martin's testimony as "sarcastic, aggressive, testy and argumentative. There was an overall air of smugness about him , I found.'' In contrast, the victim was an "excellent'' witness,
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SEX CRAZED ELDER CAN'T CONTROL
by DannyHaszard inthis is again top ranked news for jw keywords worldwide.
ex-elder can't control sex urges.
"he masturbates and fantasizes, so of course, he'd touch a girl.
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GUILTY
Former elder guilty of sex assault
Waterloo Record, Canada - 3 minutes ago
A former Jehovah's Witness elder has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl who attended his congregation. Justice ... A former Jehovah's Witness elder has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl who attended his congregation. Justice Michael Epstein said Claude Martin's evidence at his trial was "completely unreasonable.'' He was skeptical of Martin's precise recall of an incident in 2000 or 2001 when he went door-to-door with the girl to pass out Jehovah's Witness literature. The girl testified Martin put his hand on her buttock and extended his finger and put pressure on her vagina over her clothes during a brief moment while they stood alone on a landing of the home. Martin, 77, had made many such visits with that girl and other children in the church over the years, and would have no reason to recall details of that visit unless something happened to make that day stand out, the judge said. "Claude Martin professed an incredible memory of this event,'' Epstein said. He suggested Martin may have been "inventing'' his evidence. Martin testified that he might have inadvertently touched the girl while shifting his briefcase from one hand to another as they were standing in the small space. Recalling that and other details "defies and stretches credulity and common sense to the breaking point,'' Epstein said. He described Martin's testimony as "sarcastic, aggressive, testy and argumentative. There was an overall air of smugness about him, I found.'' In contrast, the victim was an "excellent'' witness, he said. "It's clear the incident she described was most upsetting to her.'' He also agreed with the Crown's argument that the girl had no hostility towards Martin, a pillar of the church she had once admired. The incident would never have come to light if the girl's father hadn't found a diary entry she made about the incident years later, Epstein said. The girl, who is now 16, wants to submit a victim-impact statement for the sentencing on Jan. 5. The judge found Martin not guilty of sexually assaulting a second girl in 1988 or 1989 when she was about 11. That girl testified Martin came up behind her while she was in his kitchen baking him a pie, put his hands on her hips and pressed his erect penis into her back. Her father was in the living room at the time. But Epstein accepted the testimony of Martin and his daughter, along with photographs, showing the kitchen counter space was too small and too crowded for pie baking. People normally used the table, the trial heard. Epstein also agreed with defence lawyer James Marentette that the girl hadn't turned around to see if it really was Martin behind her. The mother of the other victim approached her in 2005 and she decided to come forward to support her. [email protected] -
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Post a message to your congregation right here
by JH inpost here, what you would love to say in front of all the congregation.
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Danny Haszard 2003 come & get it
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What's Your Attitude Toward Men & Women----Stereotypical???
by minimus inare all men and women the same?
do you regard members of the opposite sex "typical"?
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Women ARE biologically superior to men.How so: (1) Women have a longer life expectancy than men,there are more widows than widowers
This is due in part to(A) The protective effects of estrogen which helps protect against hardening of the arteries.
(B) Women have "more stored fat" than men so they often live longer than men in a famine.
(C)Women have a slightly greater organ redundancy than men,because they procreate.
(2) Baby girls are 'smarter' and thrive better than baby boys up to one year old because testosterone inhibits brain development.
" Women are sugar and spice and everything nice"
I LOVE women God bless you all.
I wish you sweet success and many joys.Cheers,Danny Haszard Bangor Maine USA [The only thing worst than a boy (me) with severe IBD Crohn's disease ulcerative colitis is a girl with it} Crohn's daughter
