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  Memphis, TN - Memphis, Light, Gas, & Water sued in federal court over allegations of religious discrimination, harassment & retaliation

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.fox13memphis.com/top-stories/mlgw-sued-for-religious-discrimination-harassment-retaliation/496547868.

  news video included.

  mlgw sued for religious discrimination, harassment & retaliation.

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  That sad thing is that this witness may have a circuit assembly 'testimonial' in the making. Persecuted for righteousness sake.
  
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  My Son's wish granted from Make A Wish

  by azor in

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  we leave friday for his disney cruise wish.

  he's also a big star wars fan, and they have a star wars day on one of the seafaring days.

  to say we are all looking forward to this is an understatement.

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  Day 2 - Fessler vs. Watchtower – Thomas Jefferson Jr takes the stand in Jehovah’s Witness Child Abuse Trial

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  day two (wednesday 8 february 2017).

  see also posts and threads regarding: pre-trial / day one / day one update / day five (last day, settlement).

  jefferson: not totally.. zeff: okay.

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  "They are almost unique in how they are responding to the problem" - konceptual99

  No really. A real 'eye opener' for me was that the UNITED NATIONS handles their cases of abuse almost identically to the Watchtower. Read this if you get a chance:

  https://cdu.unlb.org/Portals/0/Documents/KeyDoc4.pdf

  Section 5 is very revealing.
  
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  So JW's are not allowed to vote because.... "no part of this world." Ok then explain why the WTBTS lobbied politicians on numerous

  by kpop in

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  sorry if this was posted before but if it was then it is worth repeating and discussing.

  the hypocrisy of the jw cult knows no bounds.

  supposedly, the reason jw's are not allowed to vote is because they must not be a part of this world.

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  Please LORD..............don't make the Jehovah's Witnesses a 'friend of the court' in my sales tax evasion case. Couldn't you send the Pope or Bob Jones or Jim Bakker to help me out? Anybody other than those Jehovah's Witnesses will do just fine.
  
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  So JW's are not allowed to vote because.... "no part of this world." Ok then explain why the WTBTS lobbied politicians on numerous

  by kpop in

  1. social
  2. current

  sorry if this was posted before but if it was then it is worth repeating and discussing.

  the hypocrisy of the jw cult knows no bounds.

  supposedly, the reason jw's are not allowed to vote is because they must not be a part of this world.

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  Check this out at JWfacts.com:

  http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/politics.php

  If they can lobby the government for their religious rights, than they can lobby the government to change the CHILD ABUSE REPORTING LAWS so that ALL children can be protected from child molesters that happen to be Jehovah's Witnesses.
  
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  GUYS: The Importance of Keeping Medical Appointments

  by compound complex in

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  2. friends

  greetings, guys:.

  all of us -- men and women -- should keep our medical appointments.

  i address this post to guys, however, given my own reluctance to go to the doctor.

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  We are not getting any younger! At this stage in our lives, more than ever, we should keep up with regular doctors appointments . I found this out the hard way last March when I had a BAD bout of kidney stones. After 'scanning' my body for the stones, the doctors discovered more serious issues. My liver is riddled with cysts and I have a tumor on one of my adrenal glands. So far, everything seems to be benign and the doctor keeps monitoring my blood work. Take care of yourself..........as far as we know, this is the only life we will ever have.
  
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  God answers JW prayers about trivialities while ignoring the abuse of little children

  by jambon1 in

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  i've heard many experiences about how jehovah answers the prayers of jw's - convention items about pioneers gas bills, car repairs, job opportunities.

  now, if this is true, you are actually stating that god has directly intervened in your life.

  taken action on your behalf.

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  "Please Jehovah! Help me find my car keys. It is my turn to take the Circuit Overseer out to lunch and I can't miss this opportunity to prove to him that I should be made an Elder this time around. I will spare no expense in feeding your earthly representative and his wife at the finest restaurant that I can afford. Thank you for paying attention to me, your humble servant. Amen"
  
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  Bethel Library moving to Warwick, are older items 'vanishing'

  by Lostandfound in

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  2. beliefs

  in a post re dates etc from fatfreek reference was made to huge library at bethel with items dating back to pastor rs day.

  like the year 1975 which has vanished from wt theology, are gb using move to let them put all old and inconvenient items into some sort of cold storage and off library shelves.

  already the revelation book has gone from the orgs website, and that was quite recent relatively, we studied it 3 times at congregation book study, yet now, like type and antitype it mysteriously was never there.

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  I don't know if this was in the Brooklyn Bethel library but it was in the Watchtower Farms library. If they ever want to get rid of it, I'll be glad to take it off their hands.
  
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  The true cost of being raised as a witness

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how do you view your upbringing as a witness?.

  most of us who were raised as witnesses would appreciate that some aspects of our upbringing were ok. a foundation and measure of stability came with it.. but, it struck me too, that we also lost so very much!

  and we lost a lot of potential.. by this i mean, we need to look at not just what we lost, or what was deprived of us, but what that ended up costing us as adults into the future.. if i take $10 from you, you have lost just $10.. but, if you were going to use that $10 to buy something that would end up earning you $1000, then i actually took $1000 from you!.

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  I feel for you, Magnum. When I was young(in the 3rd grade) the school department had me tested and found that I was 'highly gifted' and they wanted to advance me 2 grades. My mother said NO because of her Watchtower influence. Strike one. My grandfather wanted to send me to law school (I wanted to be a doctor but that is a separate story), he was going to pay for it and felt that I should prepare at a young age. My mother said NO because you won't need lawyers in the new system. Strike 2. During my last year of jr. high school I received multiple achievement awards (this was in a town with 2 large junior high schools). I was not allowed to retrieve them (we had moved about 125 miles away that late spring) because you won't need the 'accolades of men' in the new system. Strike 3. At my new high school I discovered that I had more than enough credits to graduate in the 10th grade, except for 10th, 11th and 12th grade English. Would the school please give me these classes during summer school and let me graduate out of the education system early? Mother.........help! Strike 4 quit school to pioneer and then become a Bethelite. My Bethel experience was devastating but contained a 'silver lining'! One warm spring day, I was taking an older gentleman, his middle aged wife and his young teenaged daughter on tour. This was in 1976. He asked if he could give me some advice and I said sure. He told me: 'Son, I was in Bethel in the late 1930's and early 1940's. All we heard over and over was that Armageddon was coming any day. We ate bread, butter and sugar sandwiches and worked all the time. Armageddon still hasn't come. If I were you, I wouldn't put too much stock into what those old men in Brooklyn say. If you listen to them lock, stock and barrel you will never have anything.' That was the best advice I ever got. After I left Bethel, I worked hard and became a full partner in business with a worldly (gasp) person and semi-retired at 47 years old. HOME RUN! The true costs to people like you, your wife and many other witnesses are immeasurable. I am sorry that these 'con' men and religious 'charlatans' have been able to have such a negative and far reaching influence on so many that trusted them because of their own dedication and sincerity.

  OUTLAW.........my mother saw demons around every corner! I remember her allowing one of her friends to beat her son with a hairbrush to help get the demons out of him. Another time, she dragged me to her old bible studies house to stay overnight and observe her demon attacks so that she could report these 'attacks' to the elders and thereby they could help her in 'exorcising' the evil spirits.

  How so many of us escaped our childhoods to become 'mostly' sane and rational is quite a feat and should be congratulated.
  
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the February 19, 2017 WT Study (DECEMBER 2016)(ANXIETY)

  by blondie in

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  blondie’s comments you will not hear at the february 19, 2017 wt study (december 2016) (throw anxiety jehovah).

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-december-2016/.

  excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

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  "Some folk just have a sensitive nervous system without there being any causative factor"- snugglebunny

  

  Very true snugglebunny. But you don't think that the Governing Body(tm) is actually going to do any real research on the subject so that they can 'positively know the appearance of their flock'. Platitudes and well worn scripture references is all they really use to 'help' their fellow congregants, while they wait on Jehovah to solve all their problems for them by destroying the 99% of the human race that does not share their dogma.