What Vienne said. Possibly also illegal - malicious mischief, trespassing, I can picture an elder yapping about terrorism and hate crimes. Certainly it will play into their persecution complex. I think the negatives of this kind of stuff outweigh the benefits.
Posts by JeffT
-
16Would it be right to post Memorial Zoom codes?
by ExCircuitOverseer ini have come into possession of memorial zoom meeting codes for tonight that cannot be traced back to me.
i will not be attending.
what are your thoughts on posting these codes so activists can join tonight and maybe say something?
-
-
JeffT
-
66
Watchtower fined in Belgium
by Vanderhoven7 injehovah's witnesses in belgium have to pay €12k fine for shunning policy.
news.
you have probably heard of the trial going on in belgium about the shunning policy of jws.
-
-
JeffT
Anony Mous: You're making me glad I'm an American. What worries me about these decisions is setting precedent. Maybe EU courts don't work like American courts. In the most US courts a case like this establishes precedent which can be used in the future to make a "narrow" decision less narrow. That and we can all ignore the GB if we want to. We can't ignore the government.
-
66
Watchtower fined in Belgium
by Vanderhoven7 injehovah's witnesses in belgium have to pay €12k fine for shunning policy.
news.
you have probably heard of the trial going on in belgium about the shunning policy of jws.
-
-
JeffT
I've said this before on this subject:
Keep in mind, a court decision like this cuts both ways. They can't keep you from associating with them, and you can't stop them from associating with you. You tell Grandma uberzealous JW she can't come over and preach at your children, she pulls this court case out and says the courts says you can't stop her. Now what do you do?
-
24
Harry, Meghan the Royal Apostates
by Slidin Fast ini just watched the oprah interview.
i know that many view them with little interest as just entitled wastes of space and i get that.. however, the description of how they were "trapped" and silenced and forced into perpetuating the system with little or no personal freedom rang bells for me.
they are effectively shunned, estranged and disparaged by their family and cut off from support.
-
-
JeffT
245 years ago we (Americans) fought a war to get rid of these people. I wish we could get them to stay gone.
-
24
What JW Subjects Interest You The Most On This Site? What Doesn’t??
by minimus ini like subjects that delve into the history of the religion and proofs that the witnesses are not the true religion.
i’m not so much into apologists saying we need to go to meetings, especially if the poster looks like a scammer trying to get ex jws going.
what subjects interest you ?
-
-
JeffT
When I first came in here twenty years or so ago, I was interested in history of the org and prophetic statements. Now I'm more interested in the culture of JW's, how they think and act. I'm working on a pair of novels about a cult (of my own invention, which shows how easy it is to do). This site helps me remember what i was like.
-
33
When was your last Kingdom Hall meeting?
by RULES & REGULATIONS ini stopped going to kingdom hall meetings about nine years ago.
i was fading for the longest time, refused to go out in field service, dropped out of the ministry school talks, no longer answered at the watchtower study, arrived at the meetings the last second, and left as soon as possible.
i couldn't take attending the meetings any longer.
-
-
JeffT
Sometime in the Spring of 1988.
-
16
A Month In and Bombs Are Already Falling
by Simon inso about a month in to biden's presidency and they are already bombing a country.. remind me how trump was going to bring about wwiii with north korea, iran, china and god knows who else?
did he?
no.. but straight back to business as usual for the military industrial complex and crickets from their media buddies..
-
-
JeffT
Was the President aware this was going to happen? I read the Vice-President was livid as she was not informed. I wonder who is actually running the show?
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
-
23
Hip Hip Hooray yyy
by smiddy3 inhi friends i`ve finally got an appointment to go to hospital tomorrow ,pre-admission for my hip replacement surgery.. so if you don`t hear from me ever again ,it means i`ve carked it .lol, should i even joke about that ?.
so its goodnight from me till who knows when ?.
-
-
JeffT
Take care.
-
11
Are JW's Fundamentalist Christians
by What is Truth? intop ten signs you're a fundamentalist christian.
10 - you vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.. .
9 - you feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the biblical claim that we were created from dirt.. .
-
-
JeffT
After I left the JW's a belonged to an evangelical (fundamentalist) church for a number of years. Those people do not think of JW's as fundamentalists. The fundamentals can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals
A few things quickly stand out, as doctrines at odds with the Watchtower. The Deity of Christ, The Personality of the Holy Spirit, Justification and Salvation through Grace alone. Regarding their understanding of the Bible, I've read some Christian writers (Walter Martin, Anthony Hoekama) who point out JW's don't recognize the final authority of the Bible. In Watchtowerland all Scriptural interpretation is filtered through the pages of the Society's literature.
-
10
Why the Lord's Prayer and Not Stephen's?
by Sea Breeze inother n t prayers:.
the lord's prayer.. .
the tax collector's prayer.. .
-
-
JeffT
Unless its changed, JW's are opposed to "canned" prayers even if they're in the Bible. I think reciting the Lord's prayer at the start of meeting would get you yanked off the stage and hauled in front of a committee.