my only prowess in making predictions stems from my 77-years of life in the united statesgrowing up under president truman, eisenhower, kennedy, nixon, .....etc.
etc.i was a widdle kid sitting in front of a tiny black and white tv set when the very first broadcastsof political conventions, deal-making, debates (nixon vs kennedy), assassinations (jfk, rfk, martin luther king, etc.
) i grew up with duck and cover under my elementary schooldesk, the cold war, the iron curtain, the korean war, the vietnam war and i went to federal prisonas a jw conscientious objector while hippies, flower children, political activists protested and universitystudents were fired up on by troops.i grew up reading newspapers (2 of them).
https://youtu.be/aUO94UjQrV4?si=7wrc0WyyvRNM8Z2m
Batya Ungar's comments are SO on point, here at 7:52 , about the working/middle/aspirational class being derided and abandoned by the Democratic party who now cater to their donor class -the likes of George Soros who cares nothing for America.
can i call you friends, i think so after 23 years posting here.
i am dismayed how jwn is being "dominated" or taken over by a few posters, peppering the comments.
in the past, the admin did not approve of this and did remove some posters from jwn.
However, these long quoted from someone else's work are best shared through a link, frankly,
I agree Goowy. It's also good to summarise links in your own words do that people can decide whether to have a look.
Many of these posts are not so much an expression of a point of view - just poor attempts at conversion imo.
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
I feel sorry for them. What a terrible misfortune that their daughter stumbled across this English narcissist, a wolf in sheep’s clothing at the Kingdom Hall.
Nah, not having that......Lloyd? Evans?...dudes clearly Welsh!
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
Watchtower has a way of ruining marriages.
news on the person you call (atlantis!).
(before he came to simon's board he was called the twin, the crawler, the titan, the scanner, and many other names to hide his identity.
he has never been caught and to this day the watchtower society has never known who he was.
Dear Petra, Would you at all consider recounting the story of yourself and Atlantis, please? Perhaps an interview with Barbara Anderson, who does interviews every other Saturday on Rick Fearon's "Six Screen" You Tube channel? You can do so anonymously, I think, with just a voice over. I'm absolutely sure she would do both Atlantis and your own story justice! Very many of us would be enormously interested to hear all about Atlantis, the humble and generous-hearted JW "apostate grandfather" to us all.....but most especially to you, of course!
Much love and thank you for your heart warming post. There could be no better tribute to Atlantis xxx
i’m an elder who is pima, i’m amazed how much info is available to all elders.
you can see all private details of every member of the congregation.
i wonder how these sisters feel about their private details being available to these creepy elders?.
DW If she is a doubting JW, then she will never give out any such details to the elders in the first place itself. Simple.
Well, not quite. Presumably she would have been a believing JW at some point and often that is the issue. There's often no way to get this information removed once a JW does wake up, no?
thehttps://youtu.be/ycplox56-rk?si=l51-gppfzccoguhd u.s. department of state’s 2024 report on religious freedom sheds light on various challenges faced by minority religious groups around the world.
while the report covers many nations, one of the key regions of focus is japan, where jehovah’s witnesses are encountering growing hostility amidst a shifting legal and social landscape.
this article explores the issues jehovah’s witnesses face in japan and the broader implications for religious freedom in the country.. ### the u.s. report: focus on cults and minority groups.
National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales,
Dont know who came up with that name but its spot on!
rather than relying on sensationalized accounts from disaffected former members.
Again with the "disaffected former members". Who else but former members are going to understand how the group works. Its also interesting how all "former members" appear to be disaffected to some degree, cant think why!
The U.S. report highlights the social difficulties Jehovah’s Witnesses face in Japan, where they are often ostracized and excluded from public life. Members of the community have reported being shunned at public events, denied participation in community activities,
HA!! Who wrote this report?! Massimo Introvigne??? Sounds like the kind of utter bollox he'd come up with! Either way they are laughably uninformed about jehovah's witness beliefs and cultural practices (or lack of them!)
Very interesting, thank you Chris!
new to the forum.
i have a question i did not get any feed back for on another site.
what to these people who gave decades working for free in bethel when they are 60 plus years old.
This will be the next watchtower scandal - after CSA, blood and shunning (particularly of minors) that governments will or should be investigating at some point. The big con, or 'vow of poverty' the "free workers" sign, in order that watchtower doesn't have to contribute to social security!!
is it just me or has there been a massive change in jws of late?.
when i grew up in the cult they had a real sense of urgency and would do an hour minimum, these days it’s not even ten mins before coffee break.. same goes for everything else, it’s half hearted .
Gorbachov I asked him, how succesfull the cart work is, because nobody is interested and walk by.
He told me with big eyeballs and an irritated voice: "It's a great succes, because Jehovah sees what we do".
Its all "me, me, me" isn't it? All about the Browney points they can win for themselves, not about doing their best to reach the hearts of their brother!
can anyone give me a rundown or send me to a thread on the robert hendriks thing?
he was recently 'dismissed' from bethel and was pid (public information department?
) i'm not even sure i have this right..... thanks much.
JW Gone Bad Tony Morris was definitely dismissed for being "not open to any agreement"...with the alcohol issue being a side problem as part of the evidence against him.
I think that defintely makes sense though, even though it almost certainly will never be proven one way or another....
DOC Ever since the photoshopped pics of GB with beards was posted (without a disclaimer that it was PS), I've become more skeptical of some things if read here first.
Hey DOC some of them legitimately do have beards now! I know from JW Broadcast Marc Saunderson has, for instance.
JW Gone Bad "...naw, I really am not a true Jehovah’s Witness believer, though I do enjoy being in front of the camera...in fact I believe WT is as guilty as hell in their mishandling of CSA cases!"
Now I can defintely see him admitting to Watchtower policy bearing responsibility for CSA within the organisation, either on or off mike, to journalists (especially attractive ones!). But saying he "does enjoy being in front of the camera" and is not a believing Jehovah's Witness, sounds more like Watchtower/JW embelleshment and (sad attempt at) character assasination!
Free theMasons is that the most recent video? In other words "rumours of his (JW) demise were greatly exaggerated"?!
