https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7jloq/breaking_watchtower_issues_dmca_takedown_to/.
zing.
Seriously though...
...I think at this point, the Org no longer gives a hairy blue fuck about the “public eye”.
Discrediting XJWs in the eyes of the loyal rank-and-file, though?
Top priority.
And I suspect the vitriol and rhetoric is only gonna sound increasingly shrill (not to mention batshit crazy) in the near future.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7jloq/breaking_watchtower_issues_dmca_takedown_to/.
zing.
Wrong.
Next up...
...Scientology is gonna sue the WTS...
...for stealing their playbook.
disclaimer: this article has some broad generalizations that will have exceptions to what is stated.
this is the only way i can even attempt to address the topic.
i've looked for scholarly articles published on peer reviewed journals for years.
@ Victor...
Ah, okay, so you weren’t actually being critical per se... it was more of an observational conclusion?
one of the respondents on my post on mental illness stated that it was the same of ex jw's.
i thought about this for a couple of days and drawing from my personal experience, i can say that this is mostly true.
if one is disfellowshipped, the act of forcibly cutting off all ties to a jw's way of life is painful and in some cases inducing cognitive dissonance.
Ostracism is a fundamentally cruel and punitive act in the extreme, and only someone who's actually experienced it can truly understand just how much.
Only the very worst types of people deserve it.
Definitely not someone who is simply unable to subscribe to an ideology anymore.
disclaimer: this article has some broad generalizations that will have exceptions to what is stated.
this is the only way i can even attempt to address the topic.
i've looked for scholarly articles published on peer reviewed journals for years.
@ eyeuse2badub & Victor...
Tell me...
...would you still say that about religions that genuinely and fairly utilize the democratic process, embrace fiscal and policy transparency, foster authentic, positive community activism, and actually accept and respect the discoveries of history and science (no matter the implications)?
what were some of yours?
the big one in our hall was no frontal hugs!
these were generally thought of as inappropriate, only side hugs should be given between sisters and brothers.
Well, I was actually talking about normal young people "giving in" to normal sexuality.
(Not that the Org's repressive policies don't foster deviant behavior, because holy shit how could they not?)
a criminal in nz- in this case a murderer - has the right not to be identified - even after conviction?
quote: "why was grace millane’s murderer granted anonymity?
the reasons for the so-called suppression order, like the name of the killer himself, cannot be given for legal reasons.
Is he a minor?
in september 2019, the branch of jehovah’s witnesses and a number of kingdom halls in são paulo brazil were raided by the police, in search of documentary evidence of criminal activities relating to child sexual abuse.
the jehovah’s witnesses claim that the raid was unlawful.
below is a translation of the court of justice determination.
road to nowhere - "That was the 2 best dingbats they had."
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7jloq/breaking_watchtower_issues_dmca_takedown_to/.
zing.
@ Phizzy...
And none of the anecdotal evidence does anything to dissuade me from suspecting that at this point, the GB is fucking desperate to keep the rank-and-file from figuring out that the WTS isn't actually "God's Earthly Organization"...
...because virtually everything they're doing seems like increasingly frantic (and, especially, reactive) measures taken to - ultimately - prevent that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7jloq/breaking_watchtower_issues_dmca_takedown_to/.
zing.
I've heard rumors they actually employ non-JWs to monitor sites like this one so as not to "contaminate" the faithful.
It sounds stupid, but...
...it is exactly the sort of thing deluded True Believers might actually do.
