A better link here but you'll have to click off the pop ups. The extra info is worth it.
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Is this the future for the org?
by careful inthe catholic church is really having to fess up.
check this out:.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harrisburg-pennsylvania-diocese-priests-accused-sexual-abuse-today-2018-08-01/.
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Is this the future for the org?
by careful inthe catholic church is really having to fess up.
check this out:.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harrisburg-pennsylvania-diocese-priests-accused-sexual-abuse-today-2018-08-01/.
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The Catholic church is really having to fess up. Check this out:
Spurred on by criminal investigations. The church is acting "ahead of the grand jury report."
Also exciting is the news that the whole thing began by two sisters who filed a motion to overturn an agreement that had been previously been made. Wouldn't THAT be a nightmare for the GB and their non-disclosure agreements?!
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Cart work faces headwinds.
by lastmanstanding inmy little bethel bird has whispered in my ear some encouraging news.
it has been reported to the canadian branch that some witnesses doing cart work had police stop them from carting in public parks.
the direction sent to the southern ontario congregations is to cease carting until further notice.. this is no joke.. have a jw-free day..
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After their obvious humiliation at the ARC, the GB are probably afraid of any court cases.
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Request for Australian research: ban on Jehovah's Witnesses in 1941
by JW83 ini am planning on revisiting my (academic) research into the banning of jws in australia in 1941, and was wondering if anyone would have contacts i could interview?
this is obviously a long shot (and it may be children/grandchildren) but i thought it may be worth a shot!.
i am an ex-jw and academic historian, you can see my former published work on jws here: http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/shir/our-research/research-journals/fjhp/2008.cfm.
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Thanks, Jayne, for the links. I'm not down under so have no contacts to offer.
For your work on the child abuse issue you might consider some factors other than just the two-witness principle that are at work in WTS policy, such as the generally accepted (in Western lands) confidentiality between confessor and minister, the implications of that if it is lost, and the Witness belief that the governing structure in congs today is the basis for what will be used for governing in the new order/forever. The last is a potent factor in understanding the GB's policy on anything, including the child abuse scandal, and it is founded on the notion that the world's governments are controlled by the devil, but the Witness in-house one is not. If you are going to publish on JWs, these sorts of things are crucial to include for your audience, non-JWs.
As for your work on the Aussie government banning JWs during WWII, have you ever read the transcript of the court case that took place in San Diego after Rutherford's death over the controversy of where to bury him? It occurred shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, when feelings in the USA toward JWs were similar to those among Aussies. Of course, the US didn't ban JWs then, but you might want to look at the trial transcript for similar sentiments, for they are patent.
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Breitbart Report on JW "Russia persecution" sparks comments battle
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/07/27/exclusive-jehovahs-witnesses-face-harsh-persecution-in-putins-russia/_________in my daily sweep of the web for interesting jw articles, the above link popped up.the report is probably propped up by a stream of watchtower propaganda publicity releases to the media.but what struck me was the comments below the article.. give it read and join in if you feel moved..
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TW, thx for the post.
MMM: spot on!
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No new releases? How are the r&f taking this?
by purrpurr inis it true that there's been no new releases at this summer's convention?
if so it will be the first convention in decades perhaps ever to not produce at least a new tract.. how are the r&f explaining this to eachother?
surely they must have noticed the absence?
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the WT has figured out how to create Mass Amnesia year by year.
LOL!
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No new releases? How are the r&f taking this?
by purrpurr inis it true that there's been no new releases at this summer's convention?
if so it will be the first convention in decades perhaps ever to not produce at least a new tract.. how are the r&f explaining this to eachother?
surely they must have noticed the absence?
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It's always "the best assembly ever" and "whatever the F&D slave says" and "you don't think you know more than Jehovah and his org know, do you?"
Besides, watching a video requires less mental work than reading a book, right? Today's R&F love that!
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Revised NWT in French released yesterday
by careful inhttps://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .
it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..
is the german next?.
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Thanks, Rub a Dub. I remember a bro in a Spanish-speaking cong in S. Calif. telling me that once. He'd been a Bethelite in NY and told me how bad the Spanish was at HQ. The Society's translations of the publications were all being done by Puerto Rican bros and how different that was from what he was used to in Calif. So then this getting "a rev. Spanish NWT" may be a problem. That leads to the question, however, how they pulled it off before, with the previous editions of the NWT? And what about the current publications? Are they being translated into all these different dialects of Spanish?
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Cotton wool jws
by purrpurr inthere was a talk i heard recently given by a top bethel bro, he was complaining that the type of young jws that have been joining bethel in recent years has been totally unfit for work or even life.
he called them "cotton wool jws" as he says that the parents of these young ones have kept them so sheltered from life that by the time they are of age to strike out on their own they are completely unable to cope socially, emotionally, mentally and that they have no practical life's skills or instincts of common sense or responsibility.
he said that the brothers at bethel have to work at peeling off the layers of cotton wool these ones have come wrapped in and that often when exposed to the reality of life away from mummy they quite literally go running back home.. for once i actually agree with a brother on the platform, i've met many a young teen or young adult whose life has been one long warm bath as it were.
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purrpurr, what a nice thread. Thanks. Some of the comments are choice:
LHG: "the enforced stupidity I witnessed at the Kingdom Hall"—excellent. I've got to remember that one!
PP: "Simpering empty headed mummies boys who were incapable of forming an independent thought or opinion" Love it.
VVL: 'his 5th rule "Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them".'
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Proof that naughty watchtower does watch apostate videos
by joe134cd inhttps://youtu.be/f_wvcvooxlo.
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watching Kim and Mikey and cedars videos is like when you were a witness. You have to sit through hours and hours of talks to get one nugget of scriptural knowledge you find useful.
Thank you, nowwhat? !!!