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  Watch Tower Society Facing Criminal Charges and Indictment in Australia

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  andersonsinfo is reporting the following news about the "criminal charges and indictment of the watch tower society in australia" by taking some extracts from different parts of jehovah's witness, steven unthank's blog site, http://www.jwnews.net.

  please go to the blog to understand the "indictment" and for detailed reading there is much more information found in a:.

  pdf version of the 664 page document "the submission 2011" being the:.

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  cognac

  Ok, I don't really get this. Why aren't the individuals getting penalized for not getting the background check instead of the society?

  Also, I still don't get how the WT Corporation in NY would be affected at all...
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  Have the rules changed for inactive people?

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  cause i see a bunch of inactive doing disfellowshipping things and its known by the elders and the elders aren't doing anything because they are inactive.... so, just wondering if the rules have changed, or there is more of a loophole somewhere that wasn't there before?.

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  hmmm, so how long do you have to be inactive for them not to bother you? What if you go to one meeting every once in awhile? What if you are married to a JW so are still in association with JWs?

  If you are celebrating a holiday and they want to haul you into a jc, can you tell them they aren't supposed to bother you because you are inactive and then they just leave you alone?
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  Have the rules changed for inactive people?

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  cause i see a bunch of inactive doing disfellowshipping things and its known by the elders and the elders aren't doing anything because they are inactive.... so, just wondering if the rules have changed, or there is more of a loophole somewhere that wasn't there before?.

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  cognac

  Cause I see a bunch of inactive doing disfellowshipping things and its known by the elders and the elders aren't doing anything because they are inactive...

  So, just wondering if the rules have changed, or there is more of a loophole somewhere that wasn't there before?
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  The JW funeral talk outline - poor taste or REALLY poor taste?

  by Mr. Falcon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i attended a funeral for a jw who passed away (non-"annointed) and i would have to state that although i have heard the standard funeral talk outline for dozens of funerals i've attended, i never really took the time to listen.

  and my god, i was cringing.

  the outline is essentially broken down like this:.

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  cognac

  I was just at a JW funeral this past Sat. I wonder if it was the same one?
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  Seems the Watchtower is becoming more pushier / cult-ier...

  by garyneal in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did anyone have to endure the wt study today at the kh?

  i did and boy it was a doozy.

  saying things like "christendom deserved destruction for misleading people spiritually...." talking about false prophets, etc... the irony of all of this is that their judgements on christendom apply to them.

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  Omg Blacksheep... That's so funny. I did that once when I was in the beginning stages of getting out. I was at a quick build and a brother wanted to do the WT as a group cause we were doing parking which was away from where the WT study was. I announced that we can't do that because CLEARLY it was against scripture. In front of the group he argued with me and quoted the scripture about where there is 2 or 3 there is Jehovah's spirit and that I was completely wrong and what I said was in fact against scripture...

  A brother quickly took him aside to talk to him. The confusion on everybody's face was priceless. We got outta doing the WT that day, lol.
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  European Court of Human Rights to hear JWs tax case against France

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/europe-court-to-hear-jehovah-witness-tax-case-against-france_99836.html.

  europe court to hear jehovah witness tax case against france 9-29-10. the european court of human rights said wednesday it had agreed to consider a case brought by the jehovah witness christian sect against the french government over taxation of donations.. in its request, the group alleged an infringement of the right to religious freedom saying the french government had tried to curtail its activities by demanding in may 1998 taxes on donations from its followers.. the sect said the move was an attempt to end the autonomy of religious communities.. french authorities say the donations were not raised from a religious source and so were subject to the same rules as other donations.. the 1998 demand was for 45 million euros (61 million dollars) at the time, but this amount had since reached 57.5 million euros, according to france.. it involves donations from 250,000 people over four years, an average amount of four euros per person a month between 1993 and 1996.. the court, based in the french city of strasbourg, however rejected a case of religious discrimination against the jehovah's witnesses.. .

  2010 afp.

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  cognac

  bookmarked.
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  In Russia: 17 hearings already

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

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  Bookmarked. Thanks for posting this.
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  New ex-JW memoir coming out...

  by brizzzy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't post a ton here because i'm kinda shy.

  http://www.amazon.com/dp/0373892357?tag=thegirsguitoh-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkcode=as1&creativeasin=0373892357&adid=038ez4bjpam7bcsze5mq&.

  that's the amazon link (which is currently the most affordable, i believe, but it's also available for preorder at b&n, borders, indiebound, and indigo-chapters if you're in canada, if you prefer one of those retailers).. .

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  Yeah, I'm gonna order it to. Congrats!
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  Don't you DARE to get up!!

  by stillin9 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  interesting points from this week's wt study (dec 15 2010 study edition):.

  par 12: "do i encourage my children not to view the song between the theocratic ministry school and the service meeting or the one between the public talk and the watchtower study as a sort of intermission,an opportunity for them to leave their seats unnecessarily, perhaps just to stretch their legs?".

  why do they have to make such a big deal out of everything?

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  cognac

  I'd like to go to that meeting just to yell out right when the song starts, "Break Time!!!" and then take my daughter out to run around. lol
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  What do you think being in-love is?

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm kinda thinking its an illusion and something thats doesn't necessarily mean forever unless there is such thing as a soulmate.

  something that probably means something different to everybody.

  for example, some people think to be in-love means to be completely exclusive.

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  cognac

  I'm kinda thinking its an illusion and something thats doesn't necessarily mean forever unless there is such thing as a soulmate. Something that probably means something different to everybody. For example, some people think to be in-love means to be completely exclusive. Some want to be able to explore different things like 3-somes and still feel they could be still in-love with each other.

  Some people think it involves a lot of romance while others feel like its more being best friends. So, what are your opinions?