here is a post on reddit from mark and kimmy o’ donnell, from the crusaders documentary,.
ask us anything.. mr. o'donnell gives his assessment of why wt lawyers continue to defend the child sex abuse cases that the organization continues to fight, even though they see firsthand the deception, the lies, the withholding of facts and dirty tactics used in court.
by an organization that claims to be god's earthly representative, and the only one to hold the truth.
As one GB member said at their recent convention, they are at war.
Yes, he was making it very fearful to JWs not to listen to any negative reports from apostates, media and other liars,.
"Remember, these are all ways that Satan uses. Remain faithful, and don't entertain this rotten food from the trash can. Which is what you are feeding on if you listen to these lies in the media, you may start to believe them"...Stephen lett.
imagine boarding a bus with your family for a long anticipated vacation.
the destination is a place that is promised to be beautiful warm and sunny.
as you are boarding the bus you are given a ticket stub with several paragraph's of fine print.
Thanks for bringing this back, great read, and so true. I am one of those still stuck on the bus, I read the fine print on the bus ticket years ago, but the bus driver won't stop to open the door to let me safely hop off.
does anyone know of examples where the watchtower used symbolic interpretation to twist the plain meaning of scripture?the only one that comes to my mind right now is in rev.
"then i heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of israel".. .
here, the wt would have us believe that the number of those sealed are literally 144k; but supposedly "israel" symbolically represents anointed jw's.
This is one that comes to mind, when it comes to shunning wrong doers who have been spoken to by the elders. This verse is used.
Matt 18:17
“If he does not listen to them, speak to the congregation. If he does not listen even to the congregation, let him be to you just as a man of the nations and as a tax collector”.
Watchtower tell us that the "man of the nations and the tax collector” here are symbolic for disfellowshipped ones. But nowhere does the Bible support the idea that we shun people of the nations or tax collectors, even Jesus associated a lot with these people.
so in the latest leaked video, splane goes on this crazy delusional rant about how faithful witnesses should never research their faith.. he criticizes the worldly court system and says they are not fair toward witnesses and the organization.
he says the court system is rigged and witnesses who get convicted, (implied child sex abusers) are innocent.
he is literally trying to justify child molesters and elders who cover them, as good people in "god's eyes" even though "human authorities" may judge them and put them in jail.
Here is a the link to the video in question. Fast forward to the 1hr-03min mark to see the start of his talk. So much control using fear going on here.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/2021Convention/pub-co-r21_8_VIDEO
so in the latest leaked video, splane goes on this crazy delusional rant about how faithful witnesses should never research their faith.. he criticizes the worldly court system and says they are not fair toward witnesses and the organization.
he says the court system is rigged and witnesses who get convicted, (implied child sex abusers) are innocent.
he is literally trying to justify child molesters and elders who cover them, as good people in "god's eyes" even though "human authorities" may judge them and put them in jail.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/anger-over-disturbing-handwritten-jehovahs-5705918i'm .
upsetting the locals again ..
Not on that link either. But can be found using the search option on your link. Interesting to read the comments at the bottom of that article. Most people are saying they don't have an issue with those letters.
But I'm surprised we don't hear more about this over the media. This area is getting covered about ever 6 months with a letter.
they wear jewelry like they are some don from the cosa nostra.
watches and rings like some cheap pimp.
hey they are cheap pimps.
After watching only the Fri morning, the GB have now moved that flashy ring from their pinky finger, over to the wedding finger on their right hand.
here are some little child encouragers at work.. .
how do they report time since the halls closed?.
Yes, hours are still recorded and reported back to HQ. Hours spent on phone calls and letter writing. 4 to 5 hand written letters per hour.
first thing comes to mind is that this organization through its leaders are not witnessing the true and honest version of the gospel teachings of jesus christ .. they are subjectively teaching/preaching a tainted version made up by the top controlling men of the organization, which i'm sure is connected to the proliferation and distribution of literature which these men publish themselves.
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when jesus said that no one knows of the time not even he, he didn't say a select few will know .. the other thing that bothers me is this organization promotes human ignorance on many levels, admonishing education or knowledge that mankind needs for its very survival... there are many other religious organizations that do this as well but the jws is just one of these organizations.
There are lots of minor ones that make me shake my head. The most recent, our congregation had an excessive amount of donations saved up, thats on top of and over the monthly payments being made to the branch, the resolution was to gift the extra $$ to WT. Meanwhile there are some in the congregation that dont have much money, who are having too spend $$ of what little money they have on stamps to use with letter writing witnessing. It made more sense to me to use the extra donations to go toward local witnessing, not somewhere thats never to be seen again.
i keep hearing that the watchtower org is going to be around forever because of the many other religions that have been around a long time.
but i disagree because the wt is not like other religious cults.. the watchtower's breath of life is dependent on the last days that started in 1914. .
you can’t change 1914 without a death blow to the entire organization.. the watchtower's 2nd reason for staying alive, is it's continual urging that the life saving preaching work of warning people is the most important work ever.. but- it's very obvious to many, even the old ones that instead of speeding up the work------the work is slowing down to a drip.. comment by former believer; .
Brilliant Sloppyjoe. It makes so much sense now...this clarification regarding the last days shows the urgency of our times.
