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  Deleting Elders Watchtower Style

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the only spirit-directed organization on earth never ceases to amaze me.. https://www.youtube.com/live/0u2ohrbdm-c?feature=share.

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  Vidiot

  Also, just reinforces my opinion that the guys at the top really do believe…

  …‘cause that’s not typically the kind of tactical blunder cynical charlatans would make.
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  Deleting Elders Watchtower Style

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the only spirit-directed organization on earth never ceases to amaze me.. https://www.youtube.com/live/0u2ohrbdm-c?feature=share.

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  Vidiot

  Yup.

  Continually alienate and demonize intelligence and intelligent people, and all you’ll end up being left with are dumbfucks.

  It ain’t rocket science (irony squared 😏).
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  No more public WT & Awake?

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

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  Vidiot

  This simply reinforces a suspicion I’ve had for years, now…

  …that the door-to-door work - and specifically, the record-keeping aspect of it - was initiated solely to create a legal paper trail of “charity” activities, in order to qualify for tax-exemption (without having to bother with soup kitchens, clothing drives, and the like).
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  England: Failure to Report Child Abuse to be Illegal

  by notsurewheretogo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  people who work with children in england will be legally required to report child sexual abuse or face prosecution under government plans.. .

  the move - which is subject to a consultation - was recommended last year by the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (iicsa).. .

  the home secretary told the bbc she wanted to correct one of the "biggest national scandals".. .

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  markweatherill - “…how long before they join in the consultation demanding any legislation includes clergy-penitent privilege for them?”

  A couple years back, that might have been on the table, but these days?

  Ten bucks says that all the recent repeated court losses have ‘em nervous about anything going to trial.
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  England: Failure to Report Child Abuse to be Illegal

  by notsurewheretogo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  people who work with children in england will be legally required to report child sexual abuse or face prosecution under government plans.. .

  the move - which is subject to a consultation - was recommended last year by the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (iicsa).. .

  the home secretary told the bbc she wanted to correct one of the "biggest national scandals".. .

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  Phizzy - “…if small clubs, with less than 50 members can do this, WHY CAN'T the J.W ORG ?”

  Oh, come now…

  (sarcasm alert)

  …the methods of “This Old System” couldn’t possibly be more appropriate than those of “Jehovah’s People”, now, could they?

  (end sarcasm alert)
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  England: Failure to Report Child Abuse to be Illegal

  by notsurewheretogo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  people who work with children in england will be legally required to report child sexual abuse or face prosecution under government plans.. .

  the move - which is subject to a consultation - was recommended last year by the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (iicsa).. .

  the home secretary told the bbc she wanted to correct one of the "biggest national scandals".. .

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  Vidiot

  Sorry, Menrov, I missed your response back then for some reason…

  To explain why it’s “missing”, I’ll repost something I said in another thread around the same time this one was running…

  “I think a compelling argument could be made that ‘sexual assault’ wasn’t actually viewed as a thing in Biblical times… Sure, it happened, but given that daughters, sisters, and wives were first and foremost property, the OT penalties mandated for such offences more closely resembled the kind of things imposed on someone guilty of theft or vandalism.”
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  To All Those Keen To Tell Us About Their Beliefs

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  we seem to have had an influx of religiots - the people who want to tell us all about how we / the wts / whoever are wrong, wrong, wrong about everything and how right they are.

  they obviously have special insight, or voices (probably voices, right?

  ) telling them the real truth.. as proof, there is inevitably a wall of random scripture references and quotes.. sorry, but we're not here for that.

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  Vidiot

  IMO, the most accurate and affectionate media portrayal of the average American Evengelical…

  …is Ned Flanders of The Simpsons.

  Seriously.
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  Jesus and Hail Zeus

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  maybe not the best subject area for post, but i was watching 3 different youtube channels in which pronounciations of god's and his son's names were being discussed.

  all 3 agreed that the scribes ( i believe thought to be greek ) when copying yeshua ( jesus) into greek used a word ( instead of yeshua ) that in greek meant hail zeus so that christians would unwittingly praise their god.

  at least 2 of the videos mentioned the nicean counsel and over 50 gods were being voted on and they finially voted on 2 : krishna and zeus ( jesus christ ) anyway, all of this was interesting to say the least.

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  Vidiot

  Wait, Jesus was equated to Zeus by these assholes?

  Seriously?

  I read all the Greek myths when I was a kid… Zeus was a first-rate douche-nozzle. Shitty father, shitty husband, shitty god.

  Hell, none of the Olympians had a scrap of decency; they were all basically the cast of Jersey Shore with superpowers.
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  'church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately'

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  'the spokesperson also said that church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately, even if there is only one complainant.'.

  https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rebekah-vardy-sexually-abused-child-jehovahs-witnesses/.

  is this true?

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  LongHairGal - “Very good points you raised…”

  Thanks.

  I assume I’ll be noted as “improved” on my theocratic ministry school record, and move on to the next point of counsel.

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  'church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately'

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  'the spokesperson also said that church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately, even if there is only one complainant.'.

  https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rebekah-vardy-sexually-abused-child-jehovahs-witnesses/.

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  ThomasMore - “…It was clear that they do not acknowledge that children actually have any rights at all…”

  That has its roots in several things, I think.

  Firstly…

  …my elder dad once explained to me that technically, all of us (including children) were God’s property, and therefore none of us actually had any so-called “rights”… only privileges and gifts Jehovah was gracious enough to give us, even though we could never possibly hope to earn or deserve them.

  Secondly…

  …since we’re living in Satan’s World deep in the time of the End, “suffering for righteousness’ sake” (or, really, suffering of any kind) must be a defining characteristic of True Christians©️. Therefore, we should expect to have shitty things happen to us all the time, so quit whining and suck it up, you ungrateful little pricks.

  And thirdly…

  …old-school JW leaders very likely viewed children as, at best, miniature adults to be used as a resource (like actual adults), and at worst, a nuisance. They absolutely were conditioned (by both their upbringing’s conventional but outdated thinking, and the wonderful works of the Apostle Paul) to think of kids as horrible little shit-goblins who couldn’t be trusted to tell the truth, like, ever.

  (Note: I never heard my elder dad parrot the second or third things, and I don’t think he believed them.)

  None of these “theological” concepts are unique to JWs, but regardless, they cannot help but make for an environment that’s apathetic, casually dismissive, and downright toxic with regards to the victimization of the most vulnerable…

  …children or adults.