MeanMrMustard

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  Watch Tower Society Facing Criminal Charges and Indictment in Australia

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  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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  @jwfacts:

  Snoozy wrote this:

  Your work is included in the WWC Check if you are:

  • a volunteer (this does not include unpaid work done for a private or domestic purpose, such as driving a neighbour’s children to school)
  • performing unpaid community work under a court order
  • an employee or an independent contractor (self-employed person)
  • a minister of religion or performing duties of a religious vocation
  • an officer of a body corporate
  • a member of a committee of management (unincorporated body or association) or partnership
  • a person doing practical training as part of an educational or vocational course, for example, a student teacher.

  What exactly is the definition of "a minister of a religion"? And what "duties of a religious vocation" are covered under this law? I think all baptized JWs are considered "ordained ministers". Is that not a "vocation" of the religion? Each member should be performing the "duties" of the religion by way of field service - duties as part of their being ordained ministers ... This is the way the role of each JW is defined by the WTS itself.

  I'm just wondering how far someone could push this...

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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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  This is an interesting thread. Let's say for a moment that this has merit and, after much stalling, the WTB&TS of Australia is forced to apply (and pay for) a licence for each "ordained minister" ... I wonder how that would affect the faders in Australia? Technically, those individuals would still be members of Jehovah's Witnesses - ordained by the WTS in a technical sense. Their names are still on the books, so-to-speak. Would the WT want to pay for these licences? Would that cause a "purge" of these faders?

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  Capitalism or Communism

  by d in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  which syestem do you think works better?

  capitalism or communism.

  i think none of them work.

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  I think communism looks good on paper - but not so much in reality...
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  looky looky - A 'real' J-dub forum! (are they becoming normal???)

  by Reality79 in

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  2. friends

  so did the 'da society' give these dub internet savvies permission to start a forum?

  because last i checked, the ole boys in their oversized brooklyn bunker didn't want their members on the internet unless it was to view their own official websites.

  i thought maybe it was an apostate forum until i read their long winded, typically condescending jdub style membership guidelines:.

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  EDITED - You cannot post peoples person info here
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  looky looky - A 'real' J-dub forum! (are they becoming normal???)

  by Reality79 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so did the 'da society' give these dub internet savvies permission to start a forum?

  because last i checked, the ole boys in their oversized brooklyn bunker didn't want their members on the internet unless it was to view their own official websites.

  i thought maybe it was an apostate forum until i read their long winded, typically condescending jdub style membership guidelines:.

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  I've got one that can see!

  by Mr. Falcon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yesterday, there was a thread concerning the recent important discovery they found in the middle east.

  if proven to be authentic from the correct time-period it would signify that early christians did indeed use the cross as part of their religion.

  we all commented about how if this does indeed turn out to be true, the wtbs and it's jws will either shrug it off or simply come up with some bizarre conspiracy story.. so i decided to test the waters a little.

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  @Morbidzbaby:

  Keep in mind, this is the same woman who told me Jehovah created the dinosaurs in order to "pack down the earth" .

  AAHH HA HA HAH AHAHAHAHAH AA LOL LOL LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHHHHAHAHAH ! Oh my... I don't think I could take it if any of my family said something like that... LOL LOL... I couldn't control myself. I would bust out laughing... .. Here I am at working, trying to get something done (well, not really), and I had to read that....
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  They found crosses!

  by bottleofwater in

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  2. beliefs

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12888421.

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  It is a good find. I was viewing a documentary on Christianity, and it was mentioned that there have been numerous early Christian (first century) graves found. The dead were buried with crosses as well. The documentary didn't make too much of it, of course. To a non-JW, it wouldn't be so much of a surprise. It struck me as odd. The documentary was on the Discovery channel and I've been trying to get the name of it...

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  LIES, DAMN LIES, AND APOSTATES- Part II A Message To Mr. Fearon of The Sex Screens

  by PublishingCult in

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  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjqlnyqhyu4.

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  LOL... the first minute was fregan hilarious. The rest was a Rick-bashing monologue.

  I do agree that anyone who wants to go against the WTB&TS should do so without going into, as another poster put it, "tabloid apostacy"... What damages the WT the most is the truth. When anyone gets away from that, it just might push the searching JWs back into the organization...

  LOL... "lude nude orgy of homo-sex-i-cality..."..... LOL

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  What proof is there that Jesus chose the Bible Students in 1919?

  by VM44 in

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  2. beliefs

  what proof is there that jesus inspected all the religions or the earth in 1919 and then chose the bible students?.

  just because the watchtower says in its literature that they were chosen is not proof!.

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  @VM44:

  LOL! - Man, that's almost exactly what I thought the "proof" would be....

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  To my fellow atheists:

  by NomadSoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just curious to know the steps that brought you to become an atheist.

  just wanted to shared mine in a nutshell:.

  1. learned that evolution had credibility.

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  @Nomad Soul:

  Learned that evolution had credibility. Still thought that Jehovah was the one that jump started evolution. Which by the way was a bad idea to share that in the book study.

  LOL! Yes! I would have loved to see that...

  I remember when going through the Creation book, we had a really old guy read the paragraphs every now and again (it was his turn and his home). He would ALWAYS screw up the word "organism" and pronouce it as "orgasm"... His wife, equally old, would catch his mistake and elbow him. No effect, the old brother just thought his wife was being a nag, as he plowed through a few more "orgasms"...

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