Bungi Bill

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  What is the biggest sexual scandal to hit the top of JW tree ?

  by Chook in

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  elders ,co ,do ,branch overseers ,gb ,missionaries has "sinful" lust got the better of them..

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  Finkelstein,

  
  
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  Road Sweeper vehicle ploughs into JW Carts

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in newcastle town centre.

  uk.. the chronicle live.

  15 june 2017.. a council worker will stand trial after he was accused of being drunk at the wheel of his road sweeper in newcastle city centre.. john paul carruthers, who has since resigned from his post at newcastle city council, was allegedly over the legal drink-drive limit when he ploughed into a jehovah’s witness stand on northumberland street near to haymarket metro station.. prosecuting, james long told newcastle magistrates’ court: “the allegation is that he was driving a newcastle city council road sweeper when he collided first with a jehovah’s witness stand next to haymarket metro station.

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  Bungi Bill

  All levity aside, operating machinery while under the influence of alcohol or drugs is a very serious matter.

  We all ought to be thankful that nobody got killed or injured during this incident.

  I must admit, though, it is rather hard to bite back a chuckle or two about this machine's automated "litter sensing" equipment, and the way it went for a literature stand!
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  Fidel Castro and the WT

  by Hecce in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am going to engage on a trip to the past and share with you some of the matters that marked the beginning of the jws persecution in cuba.

  you will be surprised that the pattern that was followed is very similar to what happened in other dictatorial countries.. in the cuban case, i am going to surprise you and tell you that like what happened with hitler; the wt was partially responsible for their clash and confrontation with the cuban government.

  during the early 60s the revolution was fighting for survival and they were willing and ready to demolish any perceived enemy to their cause.. a prime example was their war against the catholic church that was the most influential religious entity in the country; it took the supreme leader only a few public discourses to send the vast majority of clergy packing and back to their country, in this case spain.. the jehovah’s witnesses were an insignificant minority but they over estimated their importance and displayed a belligerent attitude, it was known that this was a us based religion and an easy target to connect them with the cia.

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  One can't help but note that the 1960 Awake talked like the communist movements all over the world were under the direct beck and call of Moscow. In fact, this was by no means the case. Not even all of Eastern Europe was under the direction of the Soviet Union:

  - e.g. Yugoslavia had very much "done its own thing" from the word go, and Albania gravitated towards the Peoples Republic of China.

  Furthermore, by 1960 (if not before) China had very much parted company with Moscow.

  So much for Crazy Fred's ideas about "The King of the North"! (Though to be fair, he wasn't the only one misled by ideas about the "Communist Bloc" being led by the Soviet Union. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger both had deluded ideas about being able to get the Soviet Union to "call off" the North Vietnamese, and thus end the Vietnam War).
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  Road Sweeper vehicle ploughs into JW Carts

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in newcastle town centre.

  uk.. the chronicle live.

  15 june 2017.. a council worker will stand trial after he was accused of being drunk at the wheel of his road sweeper in newcastle city centre.. john paul carruthers, who has since resigned from his post at newcastle city council, was allegedly over the legal drink-drive limit when he ploughed into a jehovah’s witness stand on northumberland street near to haymarket metro station.. prosecuting, james long told newcastle magistrates’ court: “the allegation is that he was driving a newcastle city council road sweeper when he collided first with a jehovah’s witness stand next to haymarket metro station.

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  Was the guy down on the ground because the police threw him there before placing the handcuffs on him, or was it because he had fallen down dead drunk, I wonder?

  Either way, it looks like the only injuries suffered were to one or two people's egos!
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  Do you think the general public cares about former Jehovah's witnesses?

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  2. friends

  i was wondering if you guys think if the general public cares about our stories or if they even care what the watchtower does to people??

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  Bungi Bill

  It is rather difficult to imagine that the "general public" even knows the existence of such persons as "former" JWs:

  - and even more difficult to believe that they might actually care!

  Health Professionals who are engaged in the counselling, psychology and similar fields, though, may be a different matter. Although the Jehovahs Witnesses make up only about 1/1000th of the world's population, they are very much over-represented amongst the patients of such professionals (This, according to a number of such counsellors that I have known) .
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  Why Do People Join Cults? A TED Talk -- JW's to a T

  by daringhart13 in

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  2. friends

  https://youtu.be/kb-djacxaxa.

  great video for showing how to define a cult.

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  Interesting that "cults" are not limited to religious groups!
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  More scullduggery in the New World Translation?

  by NikL in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was reading in jude last night in the esv bible.. i came across this little gem as i was falling asleep and woke right up.. jude 1:5.

  5 now i want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that jesus, who saved a people out of the land of egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

  jesus who saved a people out of egypt?

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  steve2,

  Add to what you have just said the observation David_Jay has made on other posts that the religion did not come as a result of the scriptures, but rather the other way around. That is, the religion was already well established before the writings were completed.
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  As an Ex JW now, how would you react if you met your Bible study conductor?

  by EverApostate in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was a jw for 11 years , came to know ttatt and wrote my disassociation letter 5 years ago.

  since then i had been an atheist and trying all i can to spread awareness for “still in” members.

  my wife and mom are still jws and i do get along with them perfectly.

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  Bungi Bill

  I am not at all sure how I would react, although I am in no doubts what I would really like to say to him.

  That would include such things as what he said about 1975, how he stopped me from going to university, and later how he made me abandon my apprenticeship. (Or in general, how he managed to screw my life around).

  However, I know that if we were ever to meet up again, this person would not even speak to me, so none of the above is going to happen!
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  Watchtower Lost Lopez Summary Judgement

  by John Davis in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  superior court of california,.

  minute order.

  time: 10:00:00 am.

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  Bungi Bill

  Londo111,

  A "Summary Judgement" decision pretty much means that there is no case to answer for, and the matter is then just quietly dismissed.
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  Why does this forum tolerate Cold steele and his mormonism beliefs ? Who`s next ?

  by smiddy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i thought this forum was for people who were ex jw`s and pro jw`s and the like to debate ,discuss and reasonably talk about our differences ,and sometimes drift off into politics world events and whatever.. however over a period of time i have come across cold steel `s many posts which are nothing more than promoting his mormon religions point of view./beliefs what has that got to do with jehovahs witnesses and the concerns many have with the jw religion.?.

  it seems to me he is using this forum to promote his religion and is getting away with it over a long period of time.. how long before other cult religions see this as a springboard for promoting their own religion such as .

  sda`s ,christian scientists , christadelphians ,beroean bible students ,etc.etc.. where will it end if he is able to keep doing this ?.

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  Bungi Bill

  Cold Steel promoting the Mormon religion? There must be a point I am missing here, or something!