Posts by smiddy

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Ex JWs in Spain contacted their Government to act against the JWs on child sexual abuse matters

by Susan Gaskin in

the letter below (translated from spanish) was just sent out yesterday to the minister of justice in spain by ex jws.

the collective group who did this have a website with this link: http://www.foroextj.com/.

email: [email protected] facebook: www.facebook.com/abusostj twitter: @abusostj.

smiddy

Could this strategy be used in other nations around the earth ? With any success?

What would be the pros and cons of employing such a strategy ?

I find this an interesting concept for a couple of reasons.

1. Here in Australia we seem to be going down the path of having one set of laws for mainstream Australians and another set of laws for indigenous Australians .

2. Also australia seems to be going down the path of giving into the Muslim community allowing them to practice Sharia law in their community .

All in the name of political correctness gone mad.

And the Jehovahs Witnesses being allowed to have their own Judicial Committees meting out punishment to their members outside of the law.

Just asking for your comments.

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it look very possible that the borg could lose their charity status in both the uk and oz if this happens the jw will not have all the tax breaks for the buildings that they have now.and that the headquarters will have to start finding extra money.and as they have done so much cost cutting anyway these past years i think they will have to start selling kingdom halls off.

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smiddy

I can understand the UK Charity status being under threat, However where is their any evidence that the Charity status is under threat in Australia ?

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Would you trust your Doctor if he got things wrong??

by stuckinarut2 in

just thinking..... assume we had a family doctor that we had seen all our lives, perhaps he had been the doctor for your extended family too.

he is lovely man, very kind and honest hearted.. but if he had prescribed treatment or medication that was wrong, and had bad effects on you, then changed the medication to something else, then randomly changed it again etc, how would you feel?.

if you did some research into him, and found disturbing facts and things in his history that made you question his qualifications, how would you feel?

smiddy

I feel you have hit the nail on the head scratchme1010 ,well said.

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Mass JW exodus

by stockholm_Syndrome in

maybe there will be a mass exodus from jws when thinking people read feb 2017 watchtower telling them the governing body stuff up, shouldnt expect correct/ perfect information and basically make up guff as they see fit.....ya reckon?.

smiddy

A mass exodus from the JW religion ? You must be dreaming.

Wishfull thinking I`m afraid that statement you quote from the WT will most likely go over the heads of the majority of witnesses and they wont get the sense of it.

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Survey: Are you Agnostic or Atheist or Christian?

by Iamallcool in

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i am agnostic.

i will count how many agnostics, atheists and christians that are reading this forum regularly.

please answer my question.

smiddy

I do not believe in an Almighty GOD of the Bible who intervenes in human affairs or any other GOD that is known to humans on this earth .

So in that sense I`m happy to define myself as an atheist .

However I do not dismiss the possibility that their are other life forms spiritual or otherwise in this universe .

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My Son's Science Project "What Causes Leukemia"

by azor in

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i'm putting the below information on this forum first to get your input.

so my 9 year old leukemia survivor wants to do his science project searching for the cause of leukemia in children.

the data required to put together a semblance of a cause is vast to put it lightly.

smiddy

It sounds like a great project for your son and you to embark on I wish you both success in doing this.

Many years ago my 14 year old nephew died from Leukemia and as a good faithful JW I tried to comfort my SIL with the resurrection hope .

It didnt go too well ,and thakfully we are in a good place these days.

I`m sorry I dont have any info to convey to you other than good luck.

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2 words for truth in Russian, for wt writers too?

by prologos in

ny times article: "--- 2 words for truth in russian,--" pravda, the malleable truth, and istina, the unchangeable cosmic reality.

it looks like wt writers like that, or think like that.

wt is constantly changing the surface truth, but can not change the underlying reality, no matter how many groups they overlap.

smiddy

I think you both have summed up the WT organization down to a "T"

Good observations.

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Ex JWs in Spain contacted their Government to act against the JWs on child sexual abuse matters

by Susan Gaskin in

the letter below (translated from spanish) was just sent out yesterday to the minister of justice in spain by ex jws.

the collective group who did this have a website with this link: http://www.foroextj.com/.

email: [email protected] facebook: www.facebook.com/abusostj twitter: @abusostj.

smiddy

I look forward to more updates on this one it sounds promising.for victims of abuse.

edit to add , Susan gaskin has 3 videos of her experiences within the WT if you want to check her out typing her name and JW`s.

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How long until some of the Biblical apocrypha will be inserted into the WT teachings?

by nonjwspouse in

i have read through some of these, though not in complete, but enough to see some of these writings could fit into the wt views, such as arian beliefs of jesus.

it would also help separate themselves quite a bit from "christiandom" and their bible.

the "new light" of books not accepted in the canon.

smiddy

As Phizzy says the JW/WT religion has accepted the Bible canon that Apostate religion namely Christendoms ,Catholic and Protestant Churches have agreed to , as to what constitutes the Bible Canon with the Catholic Church identifying the books of the Apocrypha .

Years ago in the book" Equipped for Every Good Work" which dealt with all the books of the Bible it did praise the book of Maccabees both 1 & 2 as being valuable for an insight into jewish history / culture ,if I remember it right.

It always puzzeled me why the JW`s went along with Apostate Christendoms definition of what constituted the Bible Canon.

But then again thats not unanimous either is it ? Russian Orthodox Church ,Polish National Catholics ,Eastern Orthodox Church ,Roman Catholic Church ,Protestant Churches The Greek Orthodox Church ,,and I`m sure their are a few others I have missed.

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Despite their false predictions aren't the JWs right? Won't the world eventually end & Paradise come?

by deegee in

aren't there christian denominations who do not make false end of the world predictions but who nevertheless believe that the world will eventually end and paradise (whether in heaven or on earth) will come?.

it seems the watchtower was just jumping the gun when they made false end of the world predictions but they are nevertheless the right: the world will eventually end and paradise will come..

smiddy

The OP is that an oxymoron statement ? I think it is.