Vidiot

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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses who are disfellowshipped allowed to communicate and comfort each other while waiting to be reinstated?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just read about a disfellowshipped person who was looking for other disfellowshipped persons to socialize with.

  what does the org have to say about this?.

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  Vidiot

  I’ve long felt that if the WTS wasn’t already its own worst enemy, they at least had one ready-made.
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  Five members of Jehovah's Witness congregations across Pennsylvania charged with sexual abuse of children

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/sexual-abuse-of-children-jehovahs-witness-pennsylvania/521-1d54cc2e-3ec6-4d20-b67a-fc3c5e8f2580.

  https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-07-presentment-2_7_23.pdf.

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  Vidiot

  Yeesh, this is fugly. 🤢
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  Jehovah's witnesses sying County Governor om Oslo and Boken, Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  oops title going wrong.

  suing, in and viken correct.

  this afternoon a press release from the jw has been published in major news outlets in norway concerning the withdrawal of registration etc..

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  Vidiot

  Jeezus, just how badly do they need the government cheddar?

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  Watchtower is Run Like the Mafia

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anybody else notice this?

  the have a syndicate (governing body) regional bosses (district overseers), captians (circuit overseers), and elders are their "made men" that enforce policy at street level.

  if you run your mouth too much, they wipe out your whole family (disfellowshipping).

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  Vidiot

  “Nice extended family connections you got there…

  …shame if something were to happen to ‘em.”
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  Everyone must come to THE ORG for salvation!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  w81 11/15 p. 21 par.

  18 ‘stay awake and keep your senses’ - "...the witness yet includes the invitation to come to jehovah’s organization for salvation...".

  such an ironic & tragic title for the article!.

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  Vidiot

  Captives to the concept.
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  mentally ill/delusional or con artist?

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  maybe this has been discussed in the past and i wasn't here... what do you think?

  are the gb members knowingly pulling a con, or do they have delusions of grandeur?

  i will go out on a limb here to say that i think they are con artist.

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  Vidiot

  @ Phizzy…

  Actually, I suspect authoritarian leaders don’t experience cognitive dissonance.
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  mentally ill/delusional or con artist?

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  maybe this has been discussed in the past and i wasn't here... what do you think?

  are the gb members knowingly pulling a con, or do they have delusions of grandeur?

  i will go out on a limb here to say that i think they are con artist.

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  Vidiot

  They know it’s wrong…

  …and believe it’s true…

  …at the same time.
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  The "Time of the End"

  by Rivergang in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those who still hold to the belief that the last 109 years have been part of "the time of the end", consider this: .

  https://www.science.org/content/article/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive.

  it would have been quite understandable if those alive during the middle of the 6th century ad believed the "end was nigh.".

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  Vidiot

  Personally, I suspect the Org keeps hollering “any day now, any day now, any day now” ‘cause by this point, they know that the Big A is about the only thing that could save ‘em from all the consequences of their screwups.

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  'I was born and raised a Jehovah's Witness, and they protect their abusers.'

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  today feb.1 2023. state college, pa.. 33:33. https://www.pahouse.com/rozzi/listeningtourlive.

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  Vidiot

  It is about their “public image”…

  …inasmuch as it ensures they retain their charity-slash-tax-exemption.

  First and foremost, though…

  …it’s about reinforcing their legitimacy and authority in the eyes of the membership.

  And nothing undermines the premise of “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization” quite like the CSA problem.
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  Religious Trauma and the Fear of Armageddon

  by LostintheFog1999 in

  1. social
  2. current

  apparently it isn't just jw children who live with a fear of dying at armageddon, kids from born again families live with a similar fear, as this article explores.

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/rapture-films-left-behind-evangelical?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab.

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  Data-Dog - “… There seems to be no shortage of people who live in fear of the End…”

  Or are getting impatient for it.