https://www.gov.uk/government/news/watchdog-reports-on-investigation-into-watch-tower-bible-and-tract-society-of-britain.
press release.
watchdog reports on investigation into watch tower bible and tract society of britain.
Re. Sea Breeze‘s post…
Hard to argue with.
Corporations are, first and foremost, businesses, and all businesses try to maximize profit whilst minimizing deficit.
Therefore, activities like that will always be on the table, because that is what they are specifically designed to do (as long as they’re not done so egregiously that the exposure spoils it for everyone else).
i've been going through past threads on here during the period i was not very interested in what was going on in jw world.
the australian royal commission era caused a great deal of excitement and inspired some hope, but did any good come of it?.
the 2 witness rule in child sexual assault cases still exists, and elders still don't call the police and try to handle things in house.
Exposure.
Embarassment.
And their grudging concession to the redress scheme reveals that, when backed into a corner, the Org will show its throat to “Satan’s World” to keep its tax-exemption…
…strongly suggesting that they really need it.
And that is useful intel.
certain forces appear to be trying to make sure donald trump never runs for president again.
some republicans are clearly abandoning trump and of course the democratic press has been saying trump is done!
is trump’s goose cooked?
The “battle between the grumpy old men”…
…that put a smile on my face.
https://cne.news/article/3409-norwegian-court-maintains-jehovah-s-witnesses-ban-on-sealing-marriage .
Sorry, but I can’t think of any way that you can spin “paying back Caesars things to Caesar” as persecution, and have anyone with half a brain take it seriously.
this guy: how embarrassing.it's also sad that when it was being filmed, no one thought to tell him "you don't have to over do it..they'll get the point.."now he lives forever in internet infamy.
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“Deafsturbation”…
…the gift that keeps on giving.
😏
https://cne.news/article/3409-norwegian-court-maintains-jehovah-s-witnesses-ban-on-sealing-marriage .
Loss of tax-exemption-slash-subsidies from Satan’s World are “persecution”?
w50 1/1 pp.
10-11 par.
2 - the watch tower bible & tract society, the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses,... .
They used to be mysterious figures.
Now they’re televangelists.
https://cne.news/article/3409-norwegian-court-maintains-jehovah-s-witnesses-ban-on-sealing-marriage .
It’s not about marriages.
It’s about loss of official registration as a state-recognized religion and the regular state-sponsored checks that came with it.
embedded in the cleveland ohio convention.
pre covid attendance was always 7k+ this year 4500.. 37baptised mixed bag.
less then half were children.. as far as patience goes, it can certainly help you be a better person when dealing with others but needless to say, this having patience waiting for jehovah is pure b.s.!
Possibilities:
a) They were His organization, but they’ve strayed so far, so egregiously, that (like He did with Israel) he used the “nations” (i.e. “Satan’s World”) to smack ‘em. Hard.
b) They falsely claimed the mantle of His organization, so He simply sits back and lets them inevitably (and deservedly) hang themselves with their own hubris-noose.
c) He doesn’t actually exist, and eventually the rest of the civilized world gets tired of their bullshit and shuts ‘em down.
These three options are the most likely, but - more importantly - all end the same way… because from what I can see, they are way past the point of positive reform (voluntarily or otherwise)…
…since - at their core - they simply refuse to acknowledge even to themselves that they are, quite simply, wrong.
at what point does a jehovah’s witness cease to be a jehovah’s witness?
what if a witness doesn't believe some of the official teachings of the governing body but remains silent on these subjects to avoid being disfellowshipped?
is he or she an apostate to the faith?
@ Pallbearer…
I’m not exaggerating.
I don’t have the book on hand at the moment, but there’s plenty of PDF copies available at different locations around the net. Feel free to check.
And there is absolutely a section which describes how - for all intents and purposes - thinking the GB is wrong about something technically constitutes apostasy. They may phrase it in “theocratic” terminology, but make no mistake, that’s what it means.
It’s been discussed here more than once.
