Vidiot

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  Norway Takes Appropriate Action Against Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. bible

  3 years ago

  i hope other countries follow suit.. https://youtu.be/pfw9xzugcms.

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  Yet another indication that the end of the Org's tax-exemption is in sight, IMO.

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  Article: Judge: Jehovah’s Witness Parodies Are Fair Use. Watch Tower: So What?

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  3 years ago

  https://torrentfreak.com/judge-jehovahs-witness-parodies-are-fair-use-watch-tower-so-what-220220/.

  february 21, 2022 by andy maxwell.

  in 2018, watch tower filed for a dmca subpoena that would've required youtube to hand over the identity of an animator who parodied the religious group in his videos.

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  As far as I'm concerned, this is proof the Org reps have long since bought into their own rhetoric.

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  Governing Body needs qualified ''early to mid-twenty year old elders''

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  3 years ago

  https://avoidjw.org/files/en/docs/doc-s/s-147/2022/s-147-22.01-e_bi.pdf.

  avoidjw.org has posted a letter titled, ''announcements and reminders january 2022.''.

  the governing body are always changing bible procedures.

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  Rules & Regs:
  

  This one never gets old.

  It still looks like a drunken southern mayor up for reelection, and trying to pander to the "colored" demographic.

  
  

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  It begins norway no money for wt because of shunning

  by Yomama in

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  2. friends

  3 years ago

  organized shunning will stop when money stops.

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  Is there a transcript of the article that can be posted here?

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  Does anything about your religion trouble you as a Jehovah’s Witness or is it all good?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  3 years ago

  can you add to this:.

  "does anything about your religion trouble you as a jehovah’s witness or is it all good?

  some of the things that would trouble me if i were a jehovah’s witness would include:.

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  Stephane - "I felt I was surrounded by people who pretended they lived in a spiritual fortress all the while being afraid of someone with a slingshot."

  Damn, that's good.

  I felt intellectually muzzled, personally.

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  Well what do you know gb finally understanding social isolation or shunning.

  by Yomama in

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  3 years ago

  update some upstanding jw are experiencing social isolation isnt that what df and da people feel?reap sow karma..

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  hybridous - "Of course they understand it... That's why they're so strident about using it."

  Nailed it.

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  Coercion at its worst: religious mandated shunning

  by Yomama in

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  3 years ago

  by patrick haeck any comments on article?.

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  I think targeting the WT's "charity status" violations are the way to go.

  The fact that they've quietly bend over backwards trying to keep it over the years suggests that they are far more financially dependent on it than we'd previously thought.

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  How To Heal a Sick Mind According to the Watchtower

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  3 years ago

  healing for sickness of mind.

  many who are mentally and spiritually sick are not confined in mental institutions.

  millions are held in restraint, however, in institutions of another kind, religious organizations.... by his prophet god expressed his disgust with such methods and those who practice them.

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  That was all I would get when things were bothering me...

  ...if I studied, associated, attended, witnessed, and prayed (i.e. followed the "Five Rules"), everything would be ok.

  I soon learned very early on not to talk about things that bothered me.

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  I have come to the conclusion that a lot of JWs don't care if the end is near.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  4 years ago

  i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.

  i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.

  they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  "...even if it isn't true, it's still the best way of life..."

  In retrospect, this one actually helped my fade.

  Denying yourself perfectly valid and legitimate interests, hopes, and dreams, and placing all your chips on a promise made by people you don't even personally know is "the best way of life"...?

  Isolating yourself from and condemning people and institutions you need whilst simultaneously availing yourself of their benefits is "the best way of life"...?
  

  Waiting with baited breath for a near-extinction-level event to wash across the planet whilst hoping you wont get caught up in said wave is "the best way of life"...?
  
  

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  McFree v. Watchtower!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  3 years ago

  mcfree v. watchtower.

  a us federal judge has ruled against watch tower pennsylvania, denying their dmca subpoena to identify the creator of the jehovah's witness parody videos known as "dubtown.. .

  see last page (page 20).

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  Vidiot 3 years ago

  I'm imagining the whole thing going a little like this:

  
  

  
  

  Honestly, how the fuck do the Org's lawyers manage to keep a straight face?

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