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  Child Sexual Abuse Update from PA

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  dated july 9, 2025 this is the 17th jehovah's witness, charged from the grand jury investigation.

  https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/westmoreland-co-man-allegedly-abused-2-children-charges-result-from-grand-jury-investigation-of-jehovahs-witnesses-congregation-members/ .

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  Vidiot

  Tide’s really coming in, these days.
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  What is the pulse of active JW‘s?

  by SouthCentral in

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  2. beliefs

  there has been a lot recent small changes that could be considered earth shattering for some… how are the longtime witnesses reacting?.

  the typical response has to be thankfulness that jehovah is shedding light and refining them for the end of the world….

  the witness, who’s a thinker has to be frustrated with wasting decades… is the lightbulb coming on for more pimi’s?.

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  This.

  Sometimes I suspect that no one else in history has sunk more cost into a fallacy that Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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  Pittsburgh Post: "How the Jehovah’s Witnesses sex abuse crisis in Pennsylvania unfolded"

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  7/6/25 how the jehovah’s witnesses sex abuse crisis in pennsylvania unfolded.

  state prosecutors turned up troves of internal files revealing rampant abuse dating back decades.

  madaleine rubin.

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  “…child rape…and assisting the perpetrators conceal it… are universally condemned and reflect total moral bankruptcy…”

  100% spot on.

  Which is why CSA is such a singular problem for authoritarian religions in general, and the WTS in particular.

  Total - and obvious - moral bankruptcy (particularly in instances where its impact hits close to home, and has been demonstrated as institutionalized and endemic) thoroughly undermines any given religious organization’s legitimacy and authority like nothing else…
  

  …and exponentially so, for one who has insisted for decades that it has exclusive legitimacy and authority.

  When the actions you take to reinforce your own claim of the moral high ground are inherently immoral…

  …you forfeit the moral high ground.
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  Applying the facial hair change in New Order portrayals

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a hard time watching the org's vids and reading the publications.

  however, that's not the case with others here.

  hence this post.

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  Journeyman - “The Org is moving quickly to show beards on brothers and to normalise it as quickly as possible…”

  Which, since the Org couldn’t “move quickly” and “normalize” anything to save its own life, ironically looks awkward AF.

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  Are JW's a Social Experiment ?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when a person looks at the sheer volume of watchtower lies, denial of salvation, free labor, false prophecies, misrepresentations, gas-lighting and falsehoods about everything and anything, it makes me wonder if it's one big test to see how gullible people can be.

  there was as social experiment in the 1960's that tested how far people were willing to administer an increasing dose of electric shock if directed to do so by an authority figure.

  shockingly, people were willing to give lethal doses to their neighbors.

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  Vidiot

  The villain prevails in the end…

  …so, it’s a horror movie?
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  JWs can toast now….what’s next

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so you can see from multiple topics here (& elsewhere), based on gb update #4, jws now have permission to toast.. there’s been a boatload of “xyz is now allowed” over the past couple of years….beards, no ties in field service or at the kh, sister can wear pants at the kh & in field service…... what do you think is next?.

  a lot of folks are speculating on birthday celebrations being allowed, and i agree that will eventually come, but i don’t think it is next.

  too big of a jump.. heres my guess:.

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  Vidiot

  Greeks, too.
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  Steve Let has been cloned

  by JohnR1975 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he looks completely different and he doesn’t do that raised eyebrows and funny mouth that he used to.

  and something is going on with his hair.

  is it a combover or a wig or is that even him?

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  Vidiot

  Pretty sure Lett was already a clone of someone, BTW…

  …maybe even the latest in a series.

  It would definitely explain a couple things…

  …a copy of a copy is never quite as sharp as the original, after all.

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  JWs can toast now….what’s next

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so you can see from multiple topics here (& elsewhere), based on gb update #4, jws now have permission to toast.. there’s been a boatload of “xyz is now allowed” over the past couple of years….beards, no ties in field service or at the kh, sister can wear pants at the kh & in field service…... what do you think is next?.

  a lot of folks are speculating on birthday celebrations being allowed, and i agree that will eventually come, but i don’t think it is next.

  too big of a jump.. heres my guess:.

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  Vidiot

  As for trolling the rank-and-file…
  

  …Poe’s Law just doin’ its thing? 😏
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  JWs can toast now….what’s next

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so you can see from multiple topics here (& elsewhere), based on gb update #4, jws now have permission to toast.. there’s been a boatload of “xyz is now allowed” over the past couple of years….beards, no ties in field service or at the kh, sister can wear pants at the kh & in field service…... what do you think is next?.

  a lot of folks are speculating on birthday celebrations being allowed, and i agree that will eventually come, but i don’t think it is next.

  too big of a jump.. heres my guess:.

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  Beth - “Elaine on her JWescape channel just uploaded a video… She outlines how Lett is just mocking the JWs”

  Just watched it, and I think she’s spot-on; WT reps would absolutely sour the deals (they probably had to make) by not participating in something that is, at its core, harmless.

  Hell, they probably did it plenty of times in the past*, but in the Information Age, that kind of thing is damn near impossible to keep on the down-low, so they tried to get ahead of it.

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  *Not unlike having to swear allegiance in order to obtain a passport? Or acquiring NGO status to make missionary work a little easier? Or flipping on organ transplants because maybe a GB member needed one?

  Thing is, no leader should expect their followers to obey instructions that they themselves wouldn’t…

  …and any leader who does expect it is no leader at all. 🤨
  
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  Steve Let has been cloned

  by JohnR1975 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he looks completely different and he doesn’t do that raised eyebrows and funny mouth that he used to.

  and something is going on with his hair.

  is it a combover or a wig or is that even him?

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  dropoffyourkeylee - “Maybe an AI-generated Governing Body will be their answer to the overlapping generations problem.”

  That was an actual plot point in the movie Equilibrium.

  😏