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  Characteristics of a Cult - Heaven's Gate

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  chacteristics of a cult - by my count, wt ticks 9 of the 12 boxes.

  last night i watched a really interesting video (link below) put out by an ex-mormon site discussing the heaven's gate cult.

  the person interviewed had a unique perspective in that he had firsthand contact with that group, specifically the house they lived in and the aftermath.

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  Where do you tick only 9? I tick all 12 of them.
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  PENNSYLVANIA SENTENCING OF JW CHILD SEXUAL ABUSER

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/case-update-philadelphia-jehovahs-witnesses-congregation-member-jailed-up-to-4-years-for-sexual-abuse-of-a-young-child/.

  harrisburg — attorney general dave sunday announced that david balosa will serve two to four years in prison for using his standing as a member of a jehovah’s witnesses congregation in philadelphia to befriend, then sexually assault, a young child in 1998.... and https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-voice-525087/3786329373200-4-year-old-abused-by-jehovah-s-witness-gets-justice-pa-ag .

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  It is a 10 year suspended sentence, so he has to serve 2-4 years, the rest he is on probation. Provided he doesn’t pick up any other cases and complies with his bond, his bond conditions expire within 10y, he picks up anything, DUI, assault, drugs, he spends the remainder of the sentence in prison. Likely lifelong registered sex offender.

  Given his apparent age, this will basically follow him until he dies, if he doesn’t have an ‘accident’ in prison - these people if they go in gen pop don’t survive very long, so they often end up in protected custody, where you basically get a 4x4 cell, alone, 23h/day, 2x30m in the yard, alone. For weak minded ones, as long term JW often are, this is a trip to the looney bin in weeks-months.

  The prison system has a good way of taking care of these people, criminals are often victims themselves. Some of the things they do, the guards may even let them.

  If he does survive his ordeal, I know JW will take him back in, may even make him the poster child of some reformation or persecution, although they’ll call him André when they tell his story.
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  jwfacts is gone?

  by Rnadomchris83 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  was not sure on where to put this, so please move if need be.. i was just on there last night.

  you are now redirected to a godaddy site stating that it has been taken.. did i miss something?.

  thanks!.

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  Just because you buy the domain does not mean you get the content. Either the owner has given up on the site and let the domain expire, or an oversight caused this to happen. You may be able to get most of the content from archive.org
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  jwfacts is gone?

  by Rnadomchris83 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  was not sure on where to put this, so please move if need be.. i was just on there last night.

  you are now redirected to a godaddy site stating that it has been taken.. did i miss something?.

  thanks!.

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  Seems to work for me still.
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  JW's home schooling over-representing

  by joey jojo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  speaking to an old elder friend recently about his decision to home school his high school aged kids.. he claims that here in australia, about 30% of the students that log into online classrooms are jw's.

  the others are disabled kids - who cant physically attend class and the rest are long distance students.. another generation of under-educated jw kids on the way..

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  @diogenesister: the primary reason people homeschool is to get a better education. Again, it is all about parental motivation to the kids, where are the priorities. If the parents want their kids to go out in service and view school as suspicious, you won’t get good results, regardless of the type of school.

  People from around the world go to the US for private education and healthcare, simply because it has the best outcome globally for people that are motivated. From lower to higher education, the US is filled with the rich class children of Asians, Africans and Europeans. I’ve worked in higher education for a while now and it is easier to find a foreigner than an American, even the people you think are white, speak perfect English (like myself) are often foreigners.

  @Joey: computational neuroscience. Contributions to other fields are in parallel software development (large data management, image processing and language, ML/AI). Some famous studies you may have heard of are analyzing Google ngrams/project Gutenberg how words form chains that become sentences (a stepping stone for modern LLM), our evolutionary relation to color red (males being more attracted when a female wears red), video gamers being more reactive than their peers (found out by pure accident, student in the lab was developing a test and had his friends test it and got “impossible” results), NFL helmet brain damage studies and the fact that apes can do relatively complex math.
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  JW's home schooling over-representing

  by joey jojo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  speaking to an old elder friend recently about his decision to home school his high school aged kids.. he claims that here in australia, about 30% of the students that log into online classrooms are jw's.

  the others are disabled kids - who cant physically attend class and the rest are long distance students.. another generation of under-educated jw kids on the way..

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  Hey, I’m a JW kid, but I was self-educated and self-motivated. I do have accolades and relatively well published nowadays, even have my name in documents related to one of the biggest US scientific project of the last and next decade, even made small contributions to the CERN LHC project. I agree that the majority if they remain JW may not, but I believe approx. 80% of JW kids nowadays stop attending, go to college etc.

  JW abuse (in every way from eviction and abandonment to more serious physical and sexual abuse) in general is a problem that perpetuates through the generations, but kids can be successful despite lack of early education. My last year in school was interrupted by JW ‘schools’, I tried so hard in pursuit of a JW girl :) but I pulled it together somehow. I know others may not have been as lucky, but you can always do your best and you’re almost guaranteed to be successful. Nobel prize specifically has always been a political thing, but I know kids that were raised JW that have the potential.
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  JW's home schooling over-representing

  by joey jojo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  speaking to an old elder friend recently about his decision to home school his high school aged kids.. he claims that here in australia, about 30% of the students that log into online classrooms are jw's.

  the others are disabled kids - who cant physically attend class and the rest are long distance students.. another generation of under-educated jw kids on the way..

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  Home schooling doesn’t necessarily mean they are undereducated. Plenty of people do it.

  In the US, African American families often have a bias against education, there too you see despite full availability of public schools, people don’t graduate high school, are unable to read properly etc. So too JW are biased against education, despite having it available, their kids often don’t fully attend, putting their efforts into proselytizing.

  Home schoolers on average do better than public schools, on par with private schools. It all depends on the parent and their priorities, kids mirror that. Home schooling in some regions of the world allow side stepping of oversight, the US is pretty strict on these things, requiring annual equivalency tests both at state and federal level, but Europe and I guess Australia, once you home school there are no further checks.
  
  
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  Struggling

  by Kelley959 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hope this is the right place to post this.

  if not, please remove.

  this is a long post, sorry for the rant, but i have been debating posting this for a while.

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  Hey. Great to hear I’m not the only one with messy deaths. I should have been in line as well, my grandmother has already donated it all before she even died.

  What I have found however is that those things are not at all important in the long run. Sure it may have made life a bit more comfortable, but what makes me comfortable is knowing that it won’t make them happy.

  As I stated somewhere else, recently found out an extended family member died. Only know because I was tracing them down for information on some true inheritance, my children. It made me feel happy that they died and soon others will die without ANY children, grandchildren or true friends present at their funeral, if they even know of their deaths. One of them found out 24h before the service out of some sense of duty and called in from work only to find the whole thing (JW funeral) very odd.

  Your true inheritance is the happiness of your children. Not some number on a bank account you cannot take with you. Your children and grandchildren should remember you and have fond memories of you, a story told for at least a few generations - that is how you will be remembered. You never hear people talk about their rich great-grandmother, often the wealth is already squandered by then.

  My children don’t know their great-grandmother at all, their grandfather or the person that raised me either. They know a bit about their grandmother. Not all of them are JW anymore but they made mistakes that are hard to forgive and forget, relationships broken. But they will know about their great uncle that inspired their dad and that ethos lives on, they will know about their great-great grandfather that engineered the railroads for my home country, even though he died by the time I was 8. They will know about their great-grandfather that was instrumental at developing Teflon at DuPont. I don’t have their inheritances, which were sizable enough, my grandmother squandered it at the JW, others through drinking and drugs (partially also because they were raised JW). But I do have their stories, their ethos, their legacy on which I am building some wealth, not for me, not for the JW but for my children and theirs.
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  Child abuse calculations

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  there are no real numbers for jws but they are a relatively small group.

  compared to the number of catholics at least.. the australian commission gathered more than 5000 cases with over 1000 perpetrators that went completely unreported for the jws.

  likewise they did the same for catholics and collected just under 4800 cases with 1880 perpetrators.

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  There are no real numbers for JWs but they are a relatively small group. Compared to the number of Catholics at least.

  The Australian commission gathered more than 5000 cases with over 1000 perpetrators that went completely unreported for the JWs. Likewise they did the same for Catholics and collected just under 4800 cases with 1880 perpetrators. This is not specific to clergy, this is things the churches were aware of and did not report.

  At first glance, these are the same numbers, so what is the big deal - there are 5M Catholics in Australia and strokes with the overall rate that there are about 40 child molesters per 100,000 in the general population, however there are ONLY about 70,000 JWs in Australia. That means unreported child abuse is 71 times more prevalent among JW than among Catholic, this amounts to 1.8% of JWs are child molesters.

  And although I am highly biased, somehow that number doesn’t surprise me. This would mean in every congregation there are 1 or 2 known child molesters. I would say that is about accurate, every hall I ever went to had rumors about at least someone.
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  Whatever Happened to Those who returned to JEHOVAH

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/3yylzu0bi_k?si=kku6r9szfenj3h9i.

  whatever happened to those who came back to jehovah?

  due to slow growth and the constant scrutiny from governments like norway in relation to their harsh disfellowshipping practices,last year in a move that no one expected the watchtower for the first time extended an olive branch to all those who left the organization or were disfellowshipped in the past.considering this practice was introduced over 60 years ago and with a rough estimate that around 100,000 leave jehovah’s witnesses every year the total number is in the several millions.so we should have expected millions to have accepted this invitation and rejoined the organization, the result though was an abysmal few thousands according to a recent jw update.. so now, for the first time, the latest watchtower study magazine for april 2025 gives us an inside view on how this reintegration is coming along, and it doesn't look good!.

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  So those idiots that return, will they happily forget about all the damage they caused or was caused to them? They ruin lives, generations worth of innocents, lives lost, people damaged. At least they can give them a handshake, but no apology, no restitution.