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  JW org fighting Royal Commission of Inquiry 3 years, article by Anusha Bradley, RNZ

  by EasyPrompt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/497240/jehovah-s-witness-church-spends-3-years-fighting-scrutiny-of-royal-commission-of-inquiry.

  jehovah's witness church spends 3 years fighting scrutiny of royal commission of inquiry.

  from article by anusha bradley, rnz.... .

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  Vidiot

  ThomasMore - “…I owe Barbara Anderson more than I can ever repay…”

  Amen, brother.

  Woman’s a fucking superhero.
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  How has 3 years of inflation affected WTC?

  by ThomasMore in

  1. social
  2. current

  the current u.s. administration and the fed says inflation is hard to tame.

  it was over 9% at it's peak.

  one of the greatest increases is price of food, something that everyone feels to some extent.

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  Vidiot

  Well said.

  The way I see it, virtually every poor decision they’ve made in the past half-century has been, for all intents and purposes, anchored on the assumption that they were right and the world was buggered sooner rather than later (among other things).

  To do anything less would be to display a lack of faith, but more importantly, it would be acknowledging that they have, in fact, been wrong.

  That is something they simply cannot do (except in only the most passive-aggressive manner possible) for all kinds of reasons…

  …but…

  …the longer they keep being wrong whilst basing major decisions on the flawed assumption that they’re actually right, the more those poor decisions cannot help but compound in interest…

  …and here we are watching the present shitshow.
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  77 years ago today, Watchtower admits 'they were truly supporting the war effort' in Australia

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  other commercial enterprises were opened up under the.

  direction of those at the branch office, and the brethren.

  were asked to operate sawmills, bakeries, numerous farms.

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  Vidiot

  Journeyman - “…still they double down on being God's only representative on earth…”

  From their POV, they have no choice.

  If, after a hundred years of rhetoric and policy, they’re not actually what they say, then by their own standards, they are a “false” religion, and therefore have no right to even exist…

  …which is, needless to say, unthinkable on their part.

  Journeyman - “…and must be listened to and obeyed without question.”

  This demand is a survival tactic.

  
  For the reasons listed above, the Org simply cannot allow its ability to function to be threatened, simply because if that ability were at serious risk, it couldn’t very well be what it claims to be… its status as “God’s only representative on Earth” should make it, for all intents and purposes, invincible.

  
  Requiring the rank-and-file’s unquestioning obedience is therefore a survival tactic, because there’s only one thing any religious authoritarian high-control group fears worse than loss of tax-exemption and insolvency…

  
  …and that’s a mass exodus (active or passive).

  
  

  At this stage in the game, with constant lawsuits, member apathy and discouragement, This Old System’s stubborn refusal to collapse into chaos (and supposedly bail the Org out)…

  …requiring unquestioning obedience is the only way to forestall that eventuality.
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  Why Was WT OK with Blood Transfusions for over 65 Years Before Banning?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  blood transfusion history.

  1665 the first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in england: physician richard lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs.. 1818 james blundell performs the first successful blood transfusion of human blood to treat postpartum hemorrhage.. 1840 the first whole blood transfusion to treat hemophilia is successfully completed.. 1900 karl landsteiner discovers the first three human blood groups, a, b and o.. 1902 landsteiner’s colleagues, alfred decastello and adriano sturli, add a fourth blood type, ab.. 1907 blood typing and cross matching between donors and patients is attempted to improve the safety of transfusions.

  the universality of the o blood group is identified.. 1914 adolf hustin discovers that sodium citrate can anticoagulate blood for transfusion, allowing it to be stored and later transfused safely to patients on the battlefield.. 1932 the first blood bank is established at leningrad hospital.. 1939-1940 the rh blood group is discovered and recognized as the cause behind most transfusion reactions.. 1940 the us government establishes a nationwide blood collection program.. so from the beginning of the watchtower being printed in 1879, they were ok with blood transfusions until 1945. what caused this?

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  Vidiot

  Beth Sarim - “Hoser,,, if I could smash your 'like' button 100x,,I would.”

  Calm down Beth, he’s a married man.

  😏

  Besides, it’s an entirely inaccurate pic.

  Rutherford would’ve demanded a much bigger bottle.
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  First video from the convention is all about FEAR

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/cdzydtuoblw?si=tyr8hgdgaiyn7c4h.

  this was leaked only few days ago and it's a small segment of the video from the 2024 convention that has already started.

  the video shows a jw logo down while worried jws are watching it as a news item on their tv screens, others are seen hiding from the police, others driving is the countryside to escape the authorities.

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  Vidiot

  Looking back, I couldn’t keep living that way…

  …it was fucking exhausting.
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  Why Was WT OK with Blood Transfusions for over 65 Years Before Banning?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  blood transfusion history.

  1665 the first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in england: physician richard lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs.. 1818 james blundell performs the first successful blood transfusion of human blood to treat postpartum hemorrhage.. 1840 the first whole blood transfusion to treat hemophilia is successfully completed.. 1900 karl landsteiner discovers the first three human blood groups, a, b and o.. 1902 landsteiner’s colleagues, alfred decastello and adriano sturli, add a fourth blood type, ab.. 1907 blood typing and cross matching between donors and patients is attempted to improve the safety of transfusions.

  the universality of the o blood group is identified.. 1914 adolf hustin discovers that sodium citrate can anticoagulate blood for transfusion, allowing it to be stored and later transfused safely to patients on the battlefield.. 1932 the first blood bank is established at leningrad hospital.. 1939-1940 the rh blood group is discovered and recognized as the cause behind most transfusion reactions.. 1940 the us government establishes a nationwide blood collection program.. so from the beginning of the watchtower being printed in 1879, they were ok with blood transfusions until 1945. what caused this?

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  Vidiot

  I also suspect that back when the Org’s blood prohibition was being cobbled together, there were some WT higher-ups who were quietly bigoted (there’s some anecdotal evidence Rutherford was antisemitic, and if that’s true, he couldn’t have been the only one)…

  …and the prospect of receiving a transfusion from a donor of another race secretly freaked them out.

  I could be wrong.
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  Why Was WT OK with Blood Transfusions for over 65 Years Before Banning?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  blood transfusion history.

  1665 the first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in england: physician richard lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs.. 1818 james blundell performs the first successful blood transfusion of human blood to treat postpartum hemorrhage.. 1840 the first whole blood transfusion to treat hemophilia is successfully completed.. 1900 karl landsteiner discovers the first three human blood groups, a, b and o.. 1902 landsteiner’s colleagues, alfred decastello and adriano sturli, add a fourth blood type, ab.. 1907 blood typing and cross matching between donors and patients is attempted to improve the safety of transfusions.

  the universality of the o blood group is identified.. 1914 adolf hustin discovers that sodium citrate can anticoagulate blood for transfusion, allowing it to be stored and later transfused safely to patients on the battlefield.. 1932 the first blood bank is established at leningrad hospital.. 1939-1940 the rh blood group is discovered and recognized as the cause behind most transfusion reactions.. 1940 the us government establishes a nationwide blood collection program.. so from the beginning of the watchtower being printed in 1879, they were ok with blood transfusions until 1945. what caused this?

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  Vidiot

  Honestly, I don’t think the loyalist rank-and-file would give a shit.

  Ancient history.

  However…

  ….if it could be proven that the current GB were, say, having regular cocaine-and-viagra-fueled call-girl orgies on giant beds of laundered cash, it’d be a different story.

  Maybe.

  😏

  Note: I don’t think they are. Sorry to get your hopes up.
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  First video from the convention is all about FEAR

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/cdzydtuoblw?si=tyr8hgdgaiyn7c4h.

  this was leaked only few days ago and it's a small segment of the video from the 2024 convention that has already started.

  the video shows a jw logo down while worried jws are watching it as a news item on their tv screens, others are seen hiding from the police, others driving is the countryside to escape the authorities.

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  Vidiot

  ThomasMore - “…Spinning it as persecution may be their only way to keep the whole crowd from walking out.”

  Hmph.

  Good luck spinning being sued, taxed, and legislated to their knees as “persecution”.

  (Thanks, BTW.)
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  LEAKED 2024 USA SERVICE REPORT

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/lov1gsxj4tg?si=ze-fdc8yswirahwx.

  this is a mini report on usa that includes an update on ramapo as it was delivered during the british bethel inauguration few days ago....

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  Vidiot

  Beth Sarim - “…The Borg can claim ‘we never said that’…”

  Not quite what they do.

  They hum and haw and weasel-word, and remind the rank-and-file that “Satan’s World” is out to get “God’s People”, and can’t be trusted, etc., etc…

  ….and leave ‘em too scared to believe it.

  Know how I know?

  ’Cause that was me.

  Right up to the moment that I realized, “hey, they didn’t explicitly deny it…” 🤔.
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  Why Was WT OK with Blood Transfusions for over 65 Years Before Banning?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  blood transfusion history.

  1665 the first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in england: physician richard lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs.. 1818 james blundell performs the first successful blood transfusion of human blood to treat postpartum hemorrhage.. 1840 the first whole blood transfusion to treat hemophilia is successfully completed.. 1900 karl landsteiner discovers the first three human blood groups, a, b and o.. 1902 landsteiner’s colleagues, alfred decastello and adriano sturli, add a fourth blood type, ab.. 1907 blood typing and cross matching between donors and patients is attempted to improve the safety of transfusions.

  the universality of the o blood group is identified.. 1914 adolf hustin discovers that sodium citrate can anticoagulate blood for transfusion, allowing it to be stored and later transfused safely to patients on the battlefield.. 1932 the first blood bank is established at leningrad hospital.. 1939-1940 the rh blood group is discovered and recognized as the cause behind most transfusion reactions.. 1940 the us government establishes a nationwide blood collection program.. so from the beginning of the watchtower being printed in 1879, they were ok with blood transfusions until 1945. what caused this?

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  NotFormer - “…Conveniently, after Rutherford's death.”

  Was chemotherapy a thing back then?

  ’Cause Rutherford had cancer, and that treatment involves transfusions, if I’m not mistaken.

  🤔