I don't see the problem either. You would think that the WT would have had a problem with Serena Williams posing topless for the 2016 Pirelli Calendar though. And did WT say anything about Venus Williams posing naked in 2014 and offering to do it again?
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serena williams
by FreeFallin innot really a scandal, but serena williams doing the crip walk on national tv wtf .
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Beroean Pickets - Is there a problem?
by BoogerMan inhaving watched the latest offering from beroean pickets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpuelgtf4ka - i contributed the following factual information along with several consolidating scriptures:.
"naos - metaphorically the spiritual temple consisting of the saints of all ages joined together by and in christ,
of a company of christians, a christian church, as dwelt in by the spirit of god.
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The Great Crowd members are all anointed, saved, washed in the blood unlike WT OS
A modern Jehovah’s Witness other sheep is a person:
a. who is not born of the Spirit of God (not Spirit begotten) and therefore cannot see/inherit the Kingdom of God.
b. who has not been justified by the blood of Christ.
c. who is not part of the New Covenant.
d. who has no personal Mediator.
e. who is bereft of a heavenly hope.
f. who cannot come unto Jesus Christ when troubled or commune with him i.e. relate to him on a personal level.
g. who believes an extra-biblical gospel that the Apostle Paul knew nothing about.
h. whose faith is primarily centered in men (GB) not God or the Bible.
i. who must never voice any opinion on any doctrine (even the extra-biblical stuff) contrary to that of the GB or risk discipline and possible disfellowship.
j. whose organization feels free to invent conspiracies and arbitrarily add words to the New Testament, as in the case of the name "Jehovah", selectively reflecting its doctrinal bias.
k. who previously (before November 2023), after doing fieldservice (which usually involves the extra-biblical practice of going door to door) was required complete an extra-biblical written report every month detailing time spent preaching to remain in "good standing".
l. who believes that those of all those of other faiths (including those claiming to be Christian) are part of satan’s organization and if alive will die at the hand of Jehovah during the tribulation or at Armageddon.
m. who are not eligible to partake of the bread and wine which represent the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
n. who take full advantage of government provisions such as health care and income benefits, yet will not vote, or work for a governmental organization.
o. who will strongly encourage you to read their organization's literature while openly refusing to receive or read literature from you developed by your church or church publisher.
p. who is not allowed independent religious thought.
q. who must avoid relating to and in many cases actually shun family members who have been disfellowshipped from the organization.
r. who would lose the privilege of giving a public address in North America if he grew a beard.
s. who will be disciplined and possibly disfellowshipped if caught celebrating birthdays, Christmas, wishing people a happy birthday or reading literature opposed to the WTS.
t. Who can be disfellowshipped for smoking cigarettes.
u. who actually plans/aspires to be raised in the resurrection along with the UNJUST.
v. whose religion is spurious to scripture in the sense that everything that is original and unique to it is in fact, extra-biblical.
w. who believes that a criteria for salvation is that one must find and submit to an organization. One cannot be saved without the GB.
x. who readily embraces extra-biblical information.
y. whose doctrine is often determined by at least 2/3 majority vote of the Governing Body.
z. who rejects biblical salvation (which is a gift of God, not of works) for a gospel of relative works-righteousness.
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Beroean Pickets - Is there a problem?
by BoogerMan inhaving watched the latest offering from beroean pickets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpuelgtf4ka - i contributed the following factual information along with several consolidating scriptures:.
"naos - metaphorically the spiritual temple consisting of the saints of all ages joined together by and in christ,
of a company of christians, a christian church, as dwelt in by the spirit of god.
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Eric has his flaws. You know there is a problem when you can't agree to disagree on non-essentials. Also, he wastes his energy alienating Trinitarians who would otherwise be interested in his videos.
The other sheep are the Gentiles. If Jesus had said Gentiles he would have invited violence as was the case with Paul.
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Calling on Trump to investigate JW CSA.
by Vanderhoven7 inmenacing mistral writes:.
for those who may be interested, jimmy bell has, with the help of others, created a letter to be sent to president trump regarding watchtower and their harmful practices and danger to children.
below is the link where you can download the letter.
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Menacing Mistral writes:
For those who may be interested, Jimmy Bell has, with the help of others, created a letter to be sent to president Trump regarding Watchtower and their harmful practices and danger to children. Below is the link where you can download the letter. I also have the video where he reads it and gives instructions.
Please, if you're willing to do so, also send your own letter along with it. The personal account of what you suffered will demonstrate the damaging toll these abuses have on real people.
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Child abuse calculations
by Anony Mous inthere are no real numbers for jws but they are a relatively small group.
compared to the number of catholics at least.. the australian commission gathered more than 5000 cases with over 1000 perpetrators that went completely unreported for the jws.
likewise they did the same for catholics and collected just under 4800 cases with 1880 perpetrators.
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Jws 4 Justice
If you or someone you know needs resources or support related to sexual violence, contact the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s 24/7 hotline at 800-871-7741.
A Pennsylvania woman is suing the Jehovah’s Witnesses of Fort Kent and the New York-based headquarters of the church for alleged sexual abuse committed decades ago by church members.
Shannon Simendinger, 45, alleges that three church members sexually abused her from approximately 1985 to 1993, when she was between the ages of 6 and 14. She and her family lived in Fort Kent at that time and attended the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Fort Kent.
Lewiston law firm Berman & Simmons filed the civil suit Jan. 8 at Aroostook County Superior Court in Caribou. The firm has handled
multiple sex abuse cases brought against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland and is also representing some families and victims of the deadly Lewiston shooting rampage in October 2023.
The 24-page document accuses elders David Ezzy and Ernest Fyans and church member Daniel Plourde of multiple acts of sexual abuse against Simendinger when she was a minor. The suit alleges that the Fort Kent congregation and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York Inc. were negligent, failed to keep her from harm and caused her emotional distress.
“It left me vulnerable. It left me scared,” Simendinger said in an interview on Wednesday, in which she was joined by her attorney, Mike Bigos. “It made me feel like I was responsible for what happened to me. I was intimidated.”
It is the second recent case against the Fort Kent Jehovah’s Witnesses. In October 2023, Fyans was found guilty of sexually assaulting two children in the early 1990s.
Simendinger is coming forward now because she feels safe and is no longer intimidated by anyone in the church, Bigos said. He and his client want a jury trial.
“We want to ask a jury to find damages for the health that was taken from Shannon as a result of the abuse that she experienced, that we believe the evidence will show was enabled by the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the institutional betrayal she experienced once she notified them,” Bigos said.
Simendinger shared the alleged abuse with her mother at the time, and her mother notified the police, she said. The church allegedly punished her mother for going to law enforcement. Simendinger did not state what the alleged punishment was.
She hopes the legal process will help others and aid her own healing.
The lawsuit contains seven counts. The first, sexual assault, charges that Ezzy, Fyans and/or Plourde abused and assaulted Simendinger while acting in their church roles, according to the document.
Other alleged violations include negligence and breach of fiduciary duty — given the protection the church should have been providing to children — as well as actual or implied malice, and inflicting emotional distress. The lawsuit seeks damages, punishments, costs and other relief.
The attorneys representing the church — Brad Patershall of Portland and Joel Taylor of Brewster, New York — did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Simendinger is not intimidated anymore and wants the church and its members to be held accountable for what she went through, she said.
“Other people are going to be harmed if I just sit back,” she said. “The main goal for me is healing, helping others, and for them to be accountable for letting this stuff happen.”
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CSA Victom Speaks Out
by LostintheFog1999 ini happened to come across this video at the beginning of the week.
you feel so sorry for this poor woman who experienced csa and then the hardheartedness of the elders (what's new there) when she needed genuine love and help.. https://fb.watch/j1qacgxphi/.
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A JW posted this video as evidence that 99% of Jehovah's Witnesses CSA cases are falsified. I tried to open it but could not...perhaps because I am in Canada. Is there any substance to his claims based on the video?
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Romans 6:7
by Jerryh in*** w74 10/1 pp.
607-608 questions from readers ***.
romans 6:7 reads: for he who has died has been acquitted from his sin.
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6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.7For he that is dead is freed from sin...18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.The idea that by dying sinners pay for all their sins in life fits Watchtower wishful thinking theology.
But Romans 6:7 is talking specifically about anointed Christians. We, who are dead in Christ are to live after the Spirit. Just as those who die physically are free from further sinning, so should the Christian, being dead, live free of sin.
Unlike the anointed who have received the gift of justification, the majority of mankind are on another wider path that leads not to life, but to destruction. Jesus did not give sinners a false warning. He did not say, you don't have to repent as long as you die you will end up in paradise. Rather he said “If you do not repent you too will die in your sins!” Sinners will be resurrected to condemnation and judgment; they will have to give an account for everything done in secret. Some will face more severe consequences for their actions than others. But ultimately the destiny of the wicked on the broad path is eternal destruction.
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Why the WATCHTOWER doesn't believe in the GREAT APOSTASY but you should!
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/i4uttjj7eus?si=0b-fzpqm8axb_d3p.
in its latest april 2025 watchtower study article 17 and paragraph 12 the watchtower promotes 2 dangerous lies that will cost your life if you are a believing christian during the time of the end, so i'm considering today the first lie in the first part of the paragraph, but first let's read the paragraph itself: "today, jehovah promises to provide us with spiritual protection.
he will never allow satan to corrupt true worship.
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Kerry King
I agree that much in the New Testament that is applied to by futurists to our day, really describes events that occurred in the first century.
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UNBELIEVABLE! Actual chat conversation with an active pioneer JW.
by deaconbluez ini don't think so lol.
lol.
lol.
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Even though the bible recommends otherwise..
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UNBELIEVABLE! Actual chat conversation with an active pioneer JW.
by deaconbluez ini don't think so lol.
lol.
lol.
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The new marketing campaign to boost membership retention.
