this and several other articles are here: https://bitterwinter.org/excommunication-looking-for-a-balance-of-interests-between-opposite-freedoms/.
No journalist would be so sly as to bring up that half truth as an excuse for shunning.
Very well said Diogenesister!
Watchtower literature has reported on baptisms of children as young as 6 and 8 yrs old. I recall an assembly part where the speaker said he was baptized at 6 yrs old too.
Do we read of small children, or even teens, being baptized in the Bible, or was it only adults? Jesus himself was about 30 I believe.
jehovah's witnesses in belgium have to pay €12k fine for shunning policy.
news.
you have probably heard of the trial going on in belgium about the shunning policy of jws.
There is a misconception here that this Belgian court decision is dictating to people whom they must associate with.
Rather, it is upholding the right of individuals to choose for themselves whom they want to associate with or not;
Exactly!
You can choose to talk to or not talk to anyone you want, to be friends with or not be friends with whom ever you want. But if someone else tells you who you can speak to, or associate with, or be friends with, that crosses a line to being a hate crime.
Watchtower is the one that is crossing the line, dictating to JWs who they can speak to, email, text, talk to or have association with. That is what the Belgian court found Watchtower guilty of.
we were told we were part of the world if we got involved in politics.
if we had employment that had political involvement we were instructed to get another job.
we were told we might be considered disassociated if we voted and then it became questionable.
To say that Christians cannot have a say in the laws and policies that God himself requires them to live under (Rom 13:1, I think) seems wrong. Further, to say that Christians can't have a say in the leaders who enact those laws and policies seems equally wrong.
Voting does not, in and of itself, mean you are against God's Kingdom, which isn't ruling over us yet. All we have as of now are the "superior authorities" that God has appointed.
So yes, I think Watchtower has gone way overboard on the neutrality issue.
jehovah’s witnesses facing norway data regulator’s privacy audit.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/jehovahs-witnesses-facing-norway-data-regulators-privacy-audit.
https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/datatilsynet-opnar-sak-mot-jehovas-vitner-etter-brennpunkt-dokumentar-1.15377099.
Here is a 15 min video on this subject by Goatlike Personality, who lives in Norway and was involved in getting the investigation started.
made a big mistake of talking about being raised as a jehovah's witness to some old friends and family.
people have told me that i am still a jws even though i've never been baptized.
i'm in school for social services, dealing with student loan debt, and a lot of other debt.
The mind control that they use is irreversible.
Not so. When you realize it's mind control it is completely reversible.
However I also realize that some people need their cult - they cannot survive without it. As you mentioned earlier, suicides are way to common among both active JWs and ex-JWs. I suppose it's better to be in a cult and be alive than to be away from the cult and not be alive.
All the best to you, whatever you choose.
made a big mistake of talking about being raised as a jehovah's witness to some old friends and family.
people have told me that i am still a jws even though i've never been baptized.
i'm in school for social services, dealing with student loan debt, and a lot of other debt.
Like I mention, some people leave the watchtower and are really successful, but some people are not.
You have described your financial situation as being bleak. I'm confused ... how are you imagining you are going to get support from JWs except for words? If you return to that Organization you won't get any more real help from them than from your 'worldly' associates.
There is not enough offline, direct support. There is good online support, but you have to find the right people to talk to.
Again, except for the words, when you "find the right people to talk to," how is online or offline support from JWs going to help you, since there isn't any?
I'm starting to really understand why the suicide rate for this religion is so high.
If you get that, then why in the world would you want to return to THAT Organization?
pounding the disfellowship crap this week.
that nnea3n we should avoid the drunk on the gb and ignore the pleas for money?.
Double post.
pounding the disfellowship crap this week.
that nnea3n we should avoid the drunk on the gb and ignore the pleas for money?.
Road to nowhere: I was sneaking this in during meeting
I LIKE that!
pounding the disfellowship crap this week.
that nnea3n we should avoid the drunk on the gb and ignore the pleas for money?.
nnea3n ???
announcement.
december 3, 2020. for congregations.
1. covid-19 vaccine information: several covid-19 vaccines may soon be approved and.
