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  Do any of the current Governing Body have academic qualifications?

  by usualusername1 in

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  do any of the current governing body have academic qualifications?.

  thanks.

  paul.

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  intropist

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5631061388165120/how-many-members-governing-body-have-college-higher-degrees
  
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  Southern California USA Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses On High Alert

  by JW GoneBad in

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  circuit overseers, elders, ministerial servants, pioneers and rank & file are stressed out over an ex-jw (kevin) who has visited nearly 20 congregations (orange county) and has high-jacked the opening prayers and done some effective witnessing before he is escorted to the back door.

  and everything is caught on video!.

  kevin is also visiting numerous jw cart locations from the los angeles area to orange county and giving a most effective wiitness at each location and they're all on video.

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  From the first sight of his video, I've not been able to agree fully with the way for Kevin to do witnessing toward witnesses.

  However I think no one can call it a shit because people are various in their faiths and the ways to show them.

  I'm just worrying about the legal matters related with his activities in California. In my country, that kind of activity is regarded somewhat serious so that a police meeting of investigation shall be scheduled with just one 911 call. In his videos, lots of brothers seemed to make 911 calls but Kevin is still active in his witnessing.

  Is that kind of activity in CA. apparently illegal?
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  It's in Spanish right now, but soon will be in English: Why Charles Taze Russell was NOT a Mason

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  it took me a looong time to finish it, but finally i have finished it:a very detailed article of why charles taze russell was not a freemason.

  includes comments from wt historians such as b.w.

  schulz and r.m.

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  He himself declared that he is not.

  If you feel that still he is, please read it again.

  "I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry and we also are Masons. I am a Free Mason. I am a free and accepted Mason, if I may carry the matter to its full length, because that is what our Masonic brethren like to tell us, that they are free and accepted Masons. That is their style of putting it. Now I am a free and accepted Mason. I trust we all are. But not after the style of our Masonic brethren. We have no quarrel with them. I am not going to say a word against Masons, and I can appreciate that there are certain very precious truths that are held in part by our Masonic friends. I have talked to them at times, and they have said, How do you know about all these things? We thought nobody knew anything about these things except those who had access to our very highest logic".
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  Outcome - Banned in Russia - Final

  by OrphanCrow in

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  i just watched the live feed from the russian court room and followed the updates on the russian exjw forum.. just waiting for confirmation from other sources...but, it looks like the final (and expected) result is:.

  banned.

  which means that the wts property in russia now belongs to the russian state..

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  intropist

  http://tass.com/world/942396
  
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  Outcome - Banned in Russia - Final

  by OrphanCrow in

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  2. friends

  i just watched the live feed from the russian court room and followed the updates on the russian exjw forum.. just waiting for confirmation from other sources...but, it looks like the final (and expected) result is:.

  banned.

  which means that the wts property in russia now belongs to the russian state..

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  intropist

  https://russian.rt.com/russia/news/380876-zapretili-svidetelei-iegovy
  
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  JWs, An American Religion, in dress, in language, etc., by Joel Elliot

  by compound complex in

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  a fascinating article, with color-saturated imagery.

  requested that he not be quoted, so there are no snippets here, just a link:.

  https://web.archive.org/web/20070612092219/http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/icon.html.

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  Wow, thanks for the good anastasia!
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  Can we support Russian government's ban?

  by intropist in

  1. jw
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  글쓴이: 류비 / 시간: 목, 03/30/2017 - 14:48. .

  hi, i want to leave my personal opinion on the matter of russian government's banning on the activity of jehovah's witnesses in their territory.

  i think it's more or less important because bearing a certain opinion is related with the quality of life.

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  As a matter of fact, I was the very extremist since I, in my early 20's, decided to be imprisoned in jail for 3 years as a Conscientious Objector of JW which was definitely not conscientious but religious in nature .
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  Can we support Russian government's ban?

  by intropist in

  1. jw
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  글쓴이: 류비 / 시간: 목, 03/30/2017 - 14:48. .

  hi, i want to leave my personal opinion on the matter of russian government's banning on the activity of jehovah's witnesses in their territory.

  i think it's more or less important because bearing a certain opinion is related with the quality of life.

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  Why not (Acts 5:38~39)?

  I'm going to do as it said :

  38 So under the present circumstances, I say to you, do not meddle with these men, but let them alone. For if this scheme or this work is from men, it will be overthrown; 39 but if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them.+
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  JW's And Their Education Level

  by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was thinking about this.... in my congregation, i was literally the only one with universitary education, out of a cong from around 110 people.... and we're very close to a very big university, which makes it even weirder.. on the other hand... sooo many here with their own business, mostly small cleaning businesses.

  cleaning windows, or cleaning somewhere else... painters.... all have jobs that do not require any education level, cos they never had a decent education.. how is the composition of the jw people/congs that you know about?.

  how many painters... cleaners... compared to people with jobs that require higher education?.

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  Today, I'm enjoying this film : "Accepted, 2006"

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384793/
  
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  Can we support Russian government's ban?

  by intropist in

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  글쓴이: 류비 / 시간: 목, 03/30/2017 - 14:48. .

  hi, i want to leave my personal opinion on the matter of russian government's banning on the activity of jehovah's witnesses in their territory.

  i think it's more or less important because bearing a certain opinion is related with the quality of life.

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  Can we support Russian government's ban?

  글쓴이: 류비 / 시간: 목, 03/30/2017 - 14:48

  
  

  Hi,

  I want to leave my personal opinion on the matter of Russian government's banning on the activity of Jehovah's witnesses in their territory. I think it's more or less important because bearing a certain opinion is related with the quality of life. Yes, What you think is what you are. And because we, ex-Jehovah's witnesses are suffering from unrighteousness and injustice done by this bad organization. At any rate, I want to have right thinking.

  Can we support Russian government's ban?

  If this ban is not based on justice, as for the organization like JW, it might give them good motivation, the motivation to overcome worldly persecutions. Out of their hearts, will governing body really worry about the welfare of Russian Brothers and sisters? I guess those top international leaders will worry more about the assets like kingdom halls or bethel's real estates.

  According to Reuters, 3 points were picked by Russia for labeling Jehovah's witnesses as Extremists. it reads:Authorities have put several of its publications on a list of banned extremist literature, and prosecutors have long cast it as an organization that destroys families, fosters hatred and threatens lives.

  Yes They do! They are really bad.

  However, I have a guess that there is Russian Orthodox Church behind the scene. An article of BBC mentioned one quote from a Watchtower publication. The BBC article reads : One quotes the novelist Leo Tolstoy, describing the doctrine of the Russian Orthodox Church as superstition and sorcery. I guess this kind of viewpoints of JW might provoke the Russian church.

  But, This situation is not about religious judgment but legal one, judicial one. Our rightful judgment that JW.ORG should perish in this world is one thing, but judicially judging in that way is another. Law does not judge our thinking but our behavior.

  What is Russian interpreted definition of Extremist? Generally, terrorism, violent trouble making, for example, those of IS are regarded as basis of Extremists. This time, Russian authorities omit that aspect from their definition and they claim witnesses are Extremists because they have foster hatred toward other religions and they claim they are the only one true religion.

  Yes, Their claim is really absurd. But can we just illegalize it without its behavioral offenses? If we think of the freedom of press and thinking, it's really a different story.

  We ex-Jehovah's witnesses are suffering from that religion's evil policies. Some friends are not able to meet their families. Their calls are ignored, even textings. What inhumane, illogical, unjust are the organization's policies only to protect it and grow it. However, if Russian government is using that kind of inhumane, illogical, unjust policies, can we support it?

  No matter how much we hated the JW organization, we could not support Nazi's persecution toward it.

  As for this time's Russian case, I think we can't support its ban.