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  Pa. Has Charged 14 Jehovah's Witnesses With CSA Just Since Last Fall ! More Expected.

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwk6pxprkg&ab_channel=thethornbushwasblazing%26yetdidn%27tburnup.

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  Vidiot

  Sea Breeze - “PA. has charged 14 Jehovah's Witnesses with CSA just since last fall! More expected.”

  Would’ve been 15 if that one guy hadn’t put a bullet in his head before the cops could arrest him.
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  Beliefs clarified - A big fat WTF for 2025

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah’s witnesses have an official page for clarified beliefs they encourage elders, ministerial servants, regular pioneers, as well as all the rest of the elite, to keep up to date with:.

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200277174.

  2025 has a curious clarification:.

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  Maybe too many folks were clueing in to last year’s read-between-the-lines last-minute loophole, and asking, “well, WTF’s the point in even being a JW, then?”

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  What Theme Song Should Be Played When You Walk Into a Room?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this could fun.

  what song should be played when you walk into a room that best describes you?

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  “🎶 Here it comes… here it comes… here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown… 🎶”
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  Do children still get destroyed at Armageddon?

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.

  i just can't easily find reference to anything.

  this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.

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  Biahi - “So, if everyone makes it through Armageddon, there is no point in preaching, and starting studies!”

  Well, the ministry has been pretty thoroughly gutted already, so…
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  Do children still get destroyed at Armageddon?

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.

  i just can't easily find reference to anything.

  this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.

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  Mikejw - “New light is everyone makes it through Armageddon unless really bad.”

  At that point, YTF even bother with Armageddon?
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  The abuse of JW org

  by wozza in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  awhile ago i said on here i would like to show how wrong the jehovahs witness organisation is , in that they will not accept the testimony of a victim of sexual crime where the victim has no other witnesses to the crime.

  i faced this with helping my ex wife for about 15 years in exposing her father , an elder, to the jw org.

  his raping of her over years and they believed him.. so therefore the perpetrator knowing of the organisations stance can easily deny and therefore be free to pretend to serve as an innocent jw still mixing with the congregation ,and also i have witnessed an accused perpetrator of child molestation witnessing at my next door neighbors house in field service with a child of another family even though the elders knew of the accusations against him.

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  Not quite.

  It’s a tactic to keep secular authorities from investigating and scrutinizing the inner workings of the Org, and exposing not just human rights violations, but just how widespread, institutionalized, and endemic their CSA problem is, which would…

  a) …potentially place their charity status and tax-exemption at risk, and…

  b) …too deeply undermine the Org’s claim of being “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization” amongst the rank-and-file.
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  The Dangers of Independent Thinking

  by daystar in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "the dangers of independent thinking".

  reading mary's thread regarding the july 15th wt, i began to really consider what the wbts' problem is with "independent thinking".. what exactly is "independent thinking" and what about its opposite, "dependent thinking"?

  i think the following excerpt from an article here does a good job of defining them.

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  I distinctly remember the moment I realized that the WTS didn’t really want me to think too much.

  I actually felt a measure of despair, because I practically lived in my own head.

  The prospect of being intellectually hamstrung for God knows how long (if not forever) was depressing AF.
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  WT HQ is never proactive, they are reactive to everything put out showing their blatant hypocrisy and abject stupidity

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a few on here (and of course many on the ex-jw reddit forum) have mentioned that wt hq just recently (like in the past couple months) put out a video warning against the praising of jw actors, taking photos with them, etc.

  to not do it anymore.

  it was narrated by geoffrey jackson.

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  @ WingCommander & Ugot2bekiddingme1…

  One of those gifts that have never stopped giving. 😏
  
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  WT HQ is never proactive, they are reactive to everything put out showing their blatant hypocrisy and abject stupidity

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a few on here (and of course many on the ex-jw reddit forum) have mentioned that wt hq just recently (like in the past couple months) put out a video warning against the praising of jw actors, taking photos with them, etc.

  to not do it anymore.

  it was narrated by geoffrey jackson.

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  @ Rivergang…

  Not to mention that in this day and age, people have clued in that the more squeaky-clean the image, the dirtier the secrets tend to be.
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  The Dangers of Independent Thinking

  by daystar in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "the dangers of independent thinking".

  reading mary's thread regarding the july 15th wt, i began to really consider what the wbts' problem is with "independent thinking".. what exactly is "independent thinking" and what about its opposite, "dependent thinking"?

  i think the following excerpt from an article here does a good job of defining them.

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  I’ve always had difficulty tolerating overt displays of stupidity, and it finally came to a head with one elder in particular (a kind man, but not the brightest bulb on the tree)…

  …when he effectively parroted the old creationist idea that dinosaurs and humans were contemporaries.

  I piped up, “Then why are there no cave paintings of them? Why are there no human remains in the same layers of rock as dinosaur fossils?” (Note: I did not ask this in a mean or confrontational way. Not my style.)

  The deer-in-the-headlights look clearly indicated that these things had never once occurred to him, but to his credit, he acknowledged that they were perfectly valid questions.

  This was in front of the entire bookstudy group, BTW, and I never got in trouble for it, either.