As far as I'm concerned, Etude's story simply reinforces the theory that institutionalized JW lifers are simply unable to function without a narrow set of rules.
Put them out in the real world, and they'd be helpless.
i've been out of this loop (or any other) for a while.
can someone tell me if the bethel farm facilities are still there in wallkill county, ny?
i was there for about a year.
As far as I'm concerned, Etude's story simply reinforces the theory that institutionalized JW lifers are simply unable to function without a narrow set of rules.
Put them out in the real world, and they'd be helpless.
wife tells me the latest video mentions the wt has spent $25 million on covid relief.
the "food pantry" was all local, and is almost non existent.
the government food was mostly inedible on the rare occasions it came.
The Org's position on "The World" has been pretty consistently "fuck The World".
https://www.prri.org/research/2020-census-of-american-religion/.
more than one-third of muslims (39%), white mainline protestants (37%), buddhists (37%), and the religiously unaffiliated (36%) have at least a four-year college degree.
another 19% are catholic, 2% are latter-day saint, and less than 1% each are jehovah’s witnesses or orthodox christians.
smiddy3 - "Really, it just goes to show you how ineffective their witnessing is if in the birthplace of Jehovah`s witnesses the USA is 1% or less... All of those years of going D2D with SFA results."
I think it's pretty clear by now that the D2D work was never really about "being effective in witnessing".
It was busywork activity to shore up group solidarity...
...and more importantly...
...provide a tangible paper trail to help maintain the Org's charity status in order to keep its tax exemption.
Hmph.
Spoiled for choice, it seems.
it seems like the moment someone attains some type of power, whether it's money, political power, or religious power, their first agenda is ---to control others.. bill gates is a good example of this.
another is george soros and michael bloomberg.
and let's not forget all the politician and religious leaders like the governing body.
Basically, one guy being responsible for all the “fake news”?
Figures.
Reminds me of the 9-11 Truthers…
…from what read, that all tracked back to that video “Loose Change”.
vaccinations.
how many deaths were instigated which could be prevented?watchtower policies against vaccines left faithful sheep vulnerable to horrible consequences.antitoxins and vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, cholera, plague, typhoid, tuberculosis, and more were developed through the 1930s.. 1921 - "vaccination never prevented anything and never will, and is the most barbarous practice" - golden age oct 12, 1921, p.17.
1923 - "vaccination, summed up, is the most unhygienic, barbaric, filthy, abhorrent, and most dangerous system of infection known.
sea breeze - "That was right during the polio epidemic. I wonder how many suffered death and crippling due to a bunch of uneducated nut jobs?"
Figures.
Just further proves to me that the leadership have always been True Believers.
Only people who were 100% certain they were right would play roulette with peoples lives like that, 'cause they're...
a) ...convinced every knee-jerk reaction, conspiracy theory, or flash of "insight" is God whispering in their ear, and surround themselves solely with people who are never allowed to disagree with them...
b) ...simply can't imagine a bad outcome as a result of any decisions based on that conviction, and...
c) ...are certain Armageddon's gonna drop any day now, so any errors made won't matter, anyway.
Terrific recipe for making needless martyr-wannabes, innit?
france: possible lawsuit to confront the leaders of jehovah's witnesses in france about the "judicial committees" conducted in the congregations.
contact mr. nicolas jacquette: https://www.facebook.com/nicolas.jacquette.1.
message translated with google translate :.
Like I said the other day...
...a school of hungry piranhas can fuck up your shit way worse than one shark.
woke up to this piece on abc news australia.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-13/jehovah-witnesses-child-abuse-four-corners-investigations/100444320.
the shine lawyer group have a reputation for going in hard.. jtg..
Sure, they “exercise their personal religious conscience… to limit or cease their association with a disfellowshipped person"...
...'cause if they don't, the rest of the community will be required to “exercise their personal religious conscience … to limit or cease their association" with them...
...and so on, and so forth...
Here's a handy tip...
...if you're compelled to "exercise your religious conscience" to do something under threat of sanction, it's no longer an "exercise of religious conscience".
It's just coercion.
vaccinations.
how many deaths were instigated which could be prevented?watchtower policies against vaccines left faithful sheep vulnerable to horrible consequences.antitoxins and vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, cholera, plague, typhoid, tuberculosis, and more were developed through the 1930s.. 1921 - "vaccination never prevented anything and never will, and is the most barbarous practice" - golden age oct 12, 1921, p.17.
1923 - "vaccination, summed up, is the most unhygienic, barbaric, filthy, abhorrent, and most dangerous system of infection known.
Figures that the Org was once anti-vax.
Ten bucks says they flip-flopped 'cause their qualifications for tax-exemption came under a bit of scrutiny.
two observations here.
(1) i just saw a segment on the 4 corners documentary involving erwin zalkin.
the u.s lawyer involved in the law suites against watchtower.
zachias - "In Australia its my understanding that a 'dont watch it' note was sent out..."
Clearly, the Org has never heard of the Streisand Effect.