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  Churches in Australia could lose millions in tax breaks under radical national faith register plan

  by sherrie11 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  churches and religious organisations would lose millions of dollars in tax breaks, concessions and hand outs under a radical plan to force priests, rabbis and imams to sign up to a national faith register.

  under the bold proposal clergy would for the first time be forced to undergo government-specified training and security checks and would be monitored by a national body, or risk losing government funding..

  former premier ted baillieu has backed the plan that has been put to federal and state leaders including the prime ministers office, and premier daniel andrews..

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  JWdaughter

  If JWs want to go around claiming to be "ordained ministers" based on what is basically a soapless bath, then they should have to deal with the ramifications of such a claim. And if that means 8 year olds, then that means 8 year olds.
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  Remember when you could wear casual clothes to the congregation book study?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would get home from work,eat dinner,shower and put on jeans,a shirt and gym shoes to the book study.

  then,one day a letter was read where men would need to wear a suit and tie and the woman would have to wear dresses.

  it was stated in a letter that the change was due to, '' giving a better witness to anyone who would watch us walking into our local congregation or a neighbor's house.''.

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  JWdaughter

  I don't really remember breaks, but I think maybe when I was really young. NEVER ever wore casual clothes to any meeting, ever. I remember a debate about what to clean the hall in! It was like we were polutingit if we wore jeans or pants. The only JW attended occasion that I wore jeans to was a youth WT study prep meeting that was soon (in early 80's,thanks Bethel) cancelled. We did that for an excuse to have a gathering after, play games and have treats (there was only treats at one book study night a year if the person whose home it was held in had an anniversary on a day close to the meeting day on Thurs. Then we had a sheet cake or cookies).
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  My Mom Is Dying

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just wanted to say that my dear 89 year old mom is terminally ill and will soon pass.

  she is on morphine and hanging on.

  she has been a devout witness for about 60 years and a wonderful mother.

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  JWdaughter

  I'm happy for your news. Knowing you have some more precious time is a gift. Know that I am sending a warm hug (in my heart) to the mom that you love so much and who has clearly built a lovely relationship. That is a truly human and beautiful accomplishment.
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  Letter from Brazilian Branch: Buildings

  by TheTruthBR in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this letter will be read in all the congregations of brazil on the service meeting this week.

  (google translation - original available)originala todas as congregacoesprezados irmaos:nao ha duvida de que jeova tem abencoado ricamente seu povo no mundo inteiro.

  isso fica evidenteno aumento do numero de publicadores e no notavel progresso espiritual de nossa organizacao.

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  JWdaughter

  I just thought they looked like nice young men who said what they were told to say. I wasn't overly impressed with the sincerity. Can you imagine a person trained as an interior designer happy to be reuphostering furniture day in and day out? Knowing how to do it is one part of being an ID. It isn't terribly fulfilling.
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  This Video Makes A Lot More Sense Today With Whats Going Down Today

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  with today's events the message and tone of this video makes a lot more sense.

  thus the defeated, failing, delivery.. http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodprogramsevents/pub-jwbmw_201509_1_video.

  it had a purpose.

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  JWdaughter

  Obedience brings blessings-like branch increases? Growth? Really?

  So, are they all experiencing the consequences of disobedience, or is the failing of the WTBTS financially evidence of THEIR ("FDS") disobedience or (dare I say it?) failure to be in line to get direction from God in any case? Individuals going to meetings are fine, it is the ORG that is failing. Individual congregations are just people worshiping god (after a fashion). They can do what they are doing, including FS without a single publication from the WT society. They can do it from homes, they don't need a KH or assemblies or Bethel.

  So, really, where is the disobedience coming from? Who is failing to follow the leadings of God?
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  America Mass Shooting: 10/1/2015

  by adjusted knowledge in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since this will be the norm in america, perhaps we should put a date on each of these topics.

  can't really put school mass shooting because too many to choose from.

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  I was working in a university today with the staff, administrators and teachers. I remember thinking how being on a college campus is not without a certain degree of risk. I was aware of that several times today as various folks left stuff in the room as they moved in an out. Getting paranoid. . . or I guess they say its not really paranoid if you are at risk. . . clearly today, I was in a risk zone.

  I feel so bad for those people who are sending their kids, husbands and wives off to school today and lost them. My heart is breaking. That population is in such a positive place to grow-and then to have their innocence, if not their very lives shattered is so heartbreaking.
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  Template to dump Special Pioneers

  by avaddohn94 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "downsizing" has reached special pioneers.. this is the template mexico is using to get rid of many of its special pioneers.

  see how cold and unloving is the language they use.

  a translation attempt is as follows:.

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  JWdaughter

  Worldwide, they are spending about 2 million a year for circuit overseers in the org. How many special pioneers at $450 a pop? In the grand scheme of the WT's alleged expenses, I don't see the personnel costing them that much monthly as the earlier talk (was that May?) indicated.

  Since the JWs are all paying for the "world wide work" and hardly any people will be DOING it anymore, how are they going to justify more than a dollar or two to the org to justify the printing costs of the pitifully few magazines that any of them place? Anyone else wonder what the hell JWs are paying for now other than big buildings in scenic places for the few chosen ones left at the helm of this ship that looks to be sinking? They are consolidating buildings, laying off MISSIONARY personnel and Bethel workers wholesale. Are JWs just paying for resort properties? Are those sweet apartments just nice buildings to move the WT lawyers and money men and their families to?

  I wish I could ask mymom what she thinks, but she has her head firmly embedded in the pile of WT dung that they have been piling up for the last 70 years.
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  All these changes seem part of the Master Plan

  by wisdomfrombelow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bethel reductions.

  special pioneer reductions.

  construction reductions.

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  NY44M, I see what you are saying. . . but I am not at all certain that the GB are actually in charge of anything-including being "Guardians of Doctrine". I think they are innocuous, mostly inoffensive puppets. That being said, I don't know what to think about what is going on. It seems almost TOO stupid if it is not a manipulation. OTOH, if the GB are running it, clearly it is just what some would call a "cluster. . . "We shall see!!!
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  Why don't you do anything?

  by WireRider in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm not jw, so i see this all standing up and very clear from an outsider perspective (i am still seeking my path).

  i joined the blog a few weeks ago.

  i dated a divorced jw (jw from birth) for a couple of years recently.

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  JWdaughter

  Sidewinder, welcome. Your post answered your question. For most, they have heart connections that depend on playing the game and they can only really be free when anonymous. I like the mass DA letter, too. You saw with your girlfriend what JWs are up against. Coming together would be great but some really value their JWs relations and can't risk them. Your girlfriend could have you and lose everyone else. The price is high. Freedom isn't free and all that jazz.

  The other issue is that instead of fighting the common foe, the wtbts, ex JWs attack each other for current belief or non belief. It distracts from building something to fight the enemy. The arrogance of being "right". The wtbts is screwed up in so many ways corporately and administratively and fiscally that the actual present theology is immaterial. The leadership is poisonous, nothing right can come from it. The trinity, evolution and Christmas are the least of the issues.
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  In view of the dire straits of the JW org, what now?

  by Half banana in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  to use a metaphor; any tower built on insufficient foundations will sooner or later fall..

  the origin of the watchtower organisation was in the announcement of ct russells pet theory, formed from adventism that christ had arrived in the heavens in 1874. within a biblical forty years i.e.1914, gods enemies he said, would be destroyed and peace would pervade the earth.

  he was completely wrong.. the watchtower magazine however by this time had a large readership and trundled on after it was commandeered by rutherford who nourished its doomsday scam.

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  JWdaughter

  Has anyone tracked the changes I the wwcog-the Plain Truth folks?