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  Have the Governing Body caught themselves out in a lie?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  all sorts of suspected deception going on surrounding the cutbacks and the reasons for them.

  but hard to pin down a direct falsehood.

  sure, they initially said they were reducing the magazines so the brothers had less to read, then later said it was to save money.

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  I think the big reason is that donations are drying up. This could be a combination of different convergent things. JWs are poor, the few who are getting baptized from "the world" are also poor. This equals less money per publisher coming in. You also have a shrinking group of old timers who would religiously give money ever month. The younger crowd is 1: not as disciplined 2: poor money managers 3: more likely to use the $20 in their pocket for a double frap soy latte 4: Then you have other factors like the continued flow of changes causes confusion in the ranks, making it a little less likely to give up hard earned money - stupid things like cart witnessing produces lots of unproductive hours in service, with just about no chance for donations - and every hall having to buy giant TV's, computers, video equipment and so on diverts the money going to the big house.

  What do you think?
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  Do some Jehovah witnesses engage in psychological terrorism

  by poopie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes or no explanation.

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  Do some? It seems by definition - they all do.
  If they didn't it wouldn't be a cult.
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  Impact of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on JW policies and procedures

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the royal commission is not yet over.

  the summary of findings on jws is not the end of the story.

  the legal process is unfolding and the only open question is the extent to which jw organization in australia will be legally mandated to change its policies and procedures on child sexual abuse.. (on the question of shunning those who leave, the commission is well intended but has strayed beyond its legal brief.

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  One comment from the first post.

  And even before the Royal Commission, the organization loosened the hitehrto literal interpretation of the two-witness rule as applying to two different incidents involving the same alleged offender.

  This is a heinous change not a loosening. This assures that at least 2 people (kids) need to suffer first, before something is done. Just think of how this would work? Most people don't come forward ever - so the 2nd abuse victim could easily be the 3rd 4th or 5th. Still there is no protection of the congregation, or the public in general, since even a DFing does nothing for the neighbors of the abuser.

  Your Brothers

  UnChristian Congregation
  of JDubs
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  What happened with Dr. Applewhite's supplementary report? Mistery solved

  by Viva la Vida in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  542 on 16 august 2015, dr applewhite wrote to the legal representative of watchtower.

  australia and advised that she was unable to prepare a supplementary statement due.

  to other commitments.

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  Viva la Vida - where did you see that statement?
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  Watchtower's response to Royal Commission shows they have learned nothing and will do nothing

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've quickly read through watchtower's submission to the royal commission.

  seems like they aren't planning to change policy anytime soon.

  they are critical of how the royal commission handled the situation.. the tone is of the submission is shear arrogance.

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  We can only hope that the RC wasn't just an exercise - that the government will not just sit by and let these organizations continue the dangerous practices that got them all in this mess.
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  New GB video: Why Reduce the Number of Special Full-Time Servants?

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  watchtower released at tv.jw.org a new gb video with samuel f. herd, with the theme:.

  why reduce the number of special full-time servants?.

  it seems there is a reason to release this special message.. http://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodstudio/pub-jwbrd_201511_4_video.

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  It is so 1984.

  "We have so much money and the preaching work is so important - we have to cut the preaching work and all the tools that we have used to date so we can expand the preaching work! Our god is an awesome god"

  Thank you brothers and sisters.

  p.s. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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  Australian Royal Commission Findings released

  by Mephis in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  will just post the general findings by counsel for the commission (angus stewart) - case specific ones are prior to them.

  in short, absolutely damning.. not been through every submission myself yet.

  available for download here: http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.aspx.

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  Drake - where does it say that - I want to see that!!
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  The FINAL DAYS are here !!!

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to this jw video... now is the time to preach without fear!

  now that the final days are here!.

  the final days were not here previously (as they kept insisting for over 140 years)... but now they are!.

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  You have to understand that 99.9% of all species that ever existed on the earth are extinct today. Life goes on.

  Its the way the world has always worked. As for me - I am not sorry to see the dinosaurs go:)
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  Could There Be Another Mass Exodus From This Cult?

  by mrquik in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's happened before.

  how much crap can any rational human being take before they just snap & walk away disgusted?.

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  I see it as a slow decline - lead by very few people coming in from educated nations, coupled with absolutely no teaching nor any education to make people effective teacher - young people though forced to be baptized young but becoming disillusioned or just waking up - the call for those who have left to come back falling largely on deaf ears - and the continual improvement in education found in 3rd world countries helping that last bastion of potential JWs starting to dry up. And in 20 years when we have the triple decker overlapping overlapping generations - more will leave.
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  Theocratic Ministry School cancelled. Why?

  by the girl next door in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  is it possible this aspect of the meeting was cancelled so that jws would not be categorized as a "school" where in many areas elders and ministerial servants would have to submit to a background check by secular authorities?

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  In magic - misdirection is the biggest tool used to make a trick work.

  Man since 2014 the GB have had a full court press on keeping everyone so drunk on changes and events, that they don't see whats going on.
  I am amazed when I see some long time sisters practically have an orgasm when a BIG change is announced ( like at annual meeting). All I was thinking was, MAN I was believing a lie for 30 years? And I have been telling people at their door that this is the absolute truth!
  Is there like a cone of amnesia secretly planted in every KH?
  How does everyone forget what was absolutely true only last week?