from the faq as captured on the website with this question (how many jehovah's witnesses are there worldwide?
) led to this question of mine who do the organization sees as a jehovah's witness?
the organization answers: .
A related question to the OP is:
Who can be disfellowshipped?
One must be a member to be disfellowshipped.
How do they identify a member?
Only if a person is baptized, not whether or not the person is an active publisher.
But they define a JW as someone who reports preaching time, regardless of whether or not the person is baptized. The reasoning seems contradictory to me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11573103/active-shooter-throws-molotov-cocktail-jehovahs-witness-center-colorado.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top.
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CNN is reporting two dead
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/25/us/colorado-jehovahs-witnesses-homicide-investigation-dead/index.html
I am sickened
the cult demands that the "sheeple" avoid anything which has "pagan origins," so for consistency, the wtbts should come clean and abandon the use of the pagan gregorian calendar, and adopt the biblical hebrew calendar.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gregorian_calendar#months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hebrew_calendar.
I don't know, but I want my wind chimes back.
sorry if this has been discussed before but on quora someone asked if rutherford had said that dinosaurs had been taken to venus .
i assume that the questioner had heard it somewhere and wanted to check it out.
i've never come across this before is it true ?
Loved the science fiction of the 40's and 50's. I grew up reading Heinlein, Asimov, and especially Bradbury.
https://www.statsforvalteren.no/nb/oslo-og-viken/folk-og-samfunn/tros--og-livssynssamfunn/jehovas-vitner-taper-registrering-som-trossamfunn/.
published december 22, 2022. the state manager in oslo and viken has decided to withdraw jehovah's witnesses registration as a religious community under the religious society act.. .
we sent a notice to jehovah's witnesses about possible loss of registration on october 25 this year.
As I understand it, the government support of religions in Norway came about in a roundabout manner. At one time there was a single state-supported religion, but at some point the state support was expanded to other religions and the government money (through taxes) began to be distributed proportionately to all the registered religions based on each religion's membership numbers. To qualify, a religion had to register and to meet the legal qualifications defined in the law. One of the legal requirements was that the members have to have the freedom to leave one religion and join another without penalty or repercussions. JW's disfellowshipping fails this test, the goverment claims, so the JWs registration has been removed. Especially galling is the fact that minors are baptized, become members who are counted in the totals (hence more money to the JWs), but cannot leave without being penalized by disfellowshipping.
I guess he won’t be giving assembly parts any time soon.
well, that went by the wayside quickly.
another flip-flop by the indiscrete slave?.
december 12, 2022what’s new.
I didn't know they had any online lessons, so I guess I am not going to miss it.
it's becoming unbearable for me to attend another meeting.
i dread coming to the weekly sunday public talk and watchtower study.
the talks are ''repeats'' of a ''repeat.
Thankfully, nowadays I can look at my phone and pretend to be following along, but in reality I'm playing chess online. LOL
most of us are aware the wt original purchase of brooklyn properties were the "plymouth bethel" and henry ward beecher's residence.
i was just sitting here and it occurred to me these should be recognized as historical sites.
beecher's role in american history surrounding the civil war is certainly worthy of recognition and remembrance.
If I remember correctly, 124 Columbia Heights was his residence. His church, which Russell used as his tabernacle, was a block or two away. I think the WT sold that off not long after Russell died. I seem to remember a historical plaque at the site of the tabernacle, but that was back in the '70s or '80s when I was there.
a boston police officer who is already part of a suit seeking millions of dollars in damages from boston over its rescinded indoor vaccination requirements today filed a separate suit seeking at least another $2 million because the city fired him last month after rejecting his request for a religious exemption from covid-19 vaccinations.. in his new suit, filed today in suffolk superior court, saviel colon said the city forced him into a "hobson's choice" even though it knew he was a jehovah's witness when it hired him and he began working as a police officer in december, 2019 - and even though he filed all the paperwork the department required for a religious exemption.
colon says the city rejected his exemption request and put him on an unpaid leave in october, 2021, and then fired him last month.. in addition to the "financial and emotional distress" - including headaches, exhaustion and sleeplessness_ - he says he's suffered, colon adds:.
defendant's decision on disciplinary action was embarrassing and was made publicly in front of all his colleagues at the police station.. .
Me too. It doesn't make sense on two fronts. 1) JWs do not become police officers due to carrying a gun and possibly having to use it to kill someone is a no-no. and 2) JWs are not prohibited from having vaccinations. But this guy is claiming he is losing his job as a police officer because his JW religion prohibits him from getting a vaccination. If just don't make no sense! I guess two wrongs make a right
