Posts by iloowy.goowy

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A Jehovah's Witness in a relationship with a non-Jehovah's Witness

by KShelton in

my name is kevin shelton.

my wife is a jehovah's witness.

my two children are jehovah's witnesses.

iloowy.goowy

Hi KShelton,

In many cultures around the world, young love is seen as a wonderful time, though. In the Bible we're told there's a time when a man and a woman will leave parents for each other. (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5).

The Watchtower likes to publish articles that take away personal freedoms for the sake of uniformity in order to better control its "publishers."

The Watchtower doesn't approve of teenage dating
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g200701/When-Can-I-Start-Dating/

Despite the wishes of many parents, their children are going to experiment. Most schools have classes on sex ed. but the proverbial discussion about the birds and the bees is important, it might help.

The comments from ExBethelitenowPIMA are something to keep in mind. Are the young man and woman ready to leave their parents and start a family together? If not, and it does lead to a sexual relationship, the lack of knowledge about protection might just throw them into a very life altering situation being young parents without a clue as to how to raise a child, give it up for adoption, or most likely the grandparents will raise the baby. Are you ready to raise another child?

I agree with the comments about 13 being way to young to be in a relationship in the society we live in.

(*My opinion--I was a PIMO elder, partaking of the emblems until I exited the 0rganization a few years back over the Watchtower saying Jesus was not everyone's Mediator, only for the 144000, now I just consider myself a Christian who follows Jehovah's Word and believes in Jesus Christ)

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What is Greg Stafford up to these days?

by slimboyfat in

you may have been wondering: what is greg stafford up to these days?

lots of interesting things, is the answer.

exposing the false trinity doctrine, of course, but keeping on top of other issues too.

iloowy.goowy

Looney toons show.

My how the mighty debater has fallen!

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Taking after Lett... more money going out than coming in. "Things are bad" in Lloyd Land

by iloowy.goowy in

lloyd published a video, "things are bad," pretty much along the lines of lett's appeal for more money.. he'll have to let go tbo who does his editing, if he doesn't get more sponsor money.

he even mentions dijana.

he claims the defamation has hurt his family.. but he says the defamation suits are still ongoing and will take maybe years since it caused great harm to his channel saying that due to the defamation hundreds of his supporters dropped off because the defamation gave them the impression that he was someone he isn't and that led supporters to think he was misleading them somehow.. you can watch if you can sit through it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5hinrjexm4.

iloowy.goowy

So three days later Lloyd made his Things are Better video. (I won't post the link here, it makes me throw up a bit just thinking back at that video and how he is so giddily proud of his 666 sponsors).

But what can one say? Are people really still continuing to support him? He once again says he is deleting anything negative towards him said in his channel.

He says he was accused wrongly. But, I think there's enough there for critical thinking folks know better.

He says he gives a damn about his work and worries about his little daughters and what they'd think if he doesn't continue with his defamation suit.

He's gotten a job offer that was very tempting. But guess what, he doesn't want to leave TBO and Dijana "jobless". So I guess he'd rather be happier begging for money on YouTube than working.

So he's going to ignore the haters and continue with his videomaking, but he's moving to cut costs. He had previously said he'd be back to doing videos from his bedroom to cut costs. Who knows what kind of job he'd been offered.

If you support Lloyd why do you? If you don't support Lloyd what makes you not to?
Was it the "defamation"? Was it something else?

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WT Lawyers response in Hines v. Watchtower CSA case 2/11/22

by iloowy.goowy in

this is the link to the memorandum of law in the hines v. watchtower csa case filed last friday 2/11/22.https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/viewdocument?docindex=vzujfhgk0etye/azc/kcbg==.

it is the wt lawyers reply in the trial where deborah hines accuses wt hierarchy even governing body members of continuing to employ a known child abuser, her own dad, at bethel because he was indispensable to them in video-production.

the slimy wt excuses start on page 7 of 28 where, as far as my non-legally mind can understand, the wt lawyers say the governing body can't get sued because they're not a corporation, nor are they mandated reporters of abuse, meaning they don't have to say anything by law even if they know a crime has occurred.. the slimy wt lawyers are also pretty good at playing with words to hide the fact that the governing body does run the business of the watchtower but from behind the scenes.

iloowy.goowy

It seems that the latest in the Hines v. WT case is that the stipulation for the case is discontinued by agreement among the defendants and plaintiff lawyers.

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=dW3e8BXSZBnhJHLT8RY8sw==

In the above court document from January 23 it says:

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, by and between the undersigned, the attorneys of record for Plaintiff DEBORAH HINES and Defendants WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK; THE GOVERNING BODY OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES; and JOHN AND JANE DOES 1-20, that whereas no party hereto is an infant or incompetent person for whom a committee has been appointed and no person not a party has an interest in the subject matter of the action, the above entitled action be, and the same hereby is, discontinued with prejudice, and without costs to any party. This stipulation may be filed without further notice with the Clerk of the Court.

I've bolded the words which mentioned that the action be "discontinued with prejudice and without costs to any party".

Does that mean a settlement out of court?

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Taking after Lett... more money going out than coming in. "Things are bad" in Lloyd Land

by iloowy.goowy in

lloyd published a video, "things are bad," pretty much along the lines of lett's appeal for more money.. he'll have to let go tbo who does his editing, if he doesn't get more sponsor money.

he even mentions dijana.

he claims the defamation has hurt his family.. but he says the defamation suits are still ongoing and will take maybe years since it caused great harm to his channel saying that due to the defamation hundreds of his supporters dropped off because the defamation gave them the impression that he was someone he isn't and that led supporters to think he was misleading them somehow.. you can watch if you can sit through it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5hinrjexm4.

iloowy.goowy

Lloyd published a video, "Things are bad," pretty much along the lines of Lett's appeal for more money.

He'll have to let go TBO who does his editing, if he doesn't get more sponsor money. He even mentions Dijana. He claims the defamation has hurt his family.

But he says the defamation suits are still ongoing and will take maybe years since it caused great harm to his channel saying that due to the defamation hundreds of his supporters dropped off because the defamation gave them the impression that he was someone he isn't and that led supporters to think he was misleading them somehow.

You can watch if you can sit through it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hinRjexM4

I think maybe he'd have more money to pay TBO, and support his family if he didn't spend it on trips to Thailand and on Lawyer fees? What do you think?

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TONY MORRIS , IS GONE, CONNECTING THE DOTS

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/ewp8o6dgwmg.

iloowy.goowy

Maybe one too many Macallans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1-1IeB3xJg

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Kim Silvio's "Celebrate Good times and have fun as the 2022 Service Report has been released" video

by buzkid in

kim silvio has published a video on youtube entitled ".

celebrate good times and have fun as the 2022 service report has been released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aywkstceg3o.

iloowy.goowy

I'll join the celebration! 🍻

Bad news for the Watchtower are good news indeed!

Cheers!!!🍺

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OPINIONS PLEASE: I propose a new strategy against the Watchtower policy of DISFELLOWSHIP

by Terry in

i need your opinion and a discussion...tell me what you think, both pros and cons...the governments of norway and russia have both targeted watchtower's severely inhumane policy of disfellowship separating and isolating members by ostracizing them and labeling them as 'mentally diseased", etc.

dis fellowship.is a mushy concept unfamiliar to non-jw's.that word doesn't convey brutal, cold, and uncaring shunning and the impact on vulnerable persons cut off from family and friends.i propose swapping the phrase "religious apartheid" for the term "disfellowship" because it is significantly more impactful, familiar, and gut-wrenching.jw's teach practice and promote discrimination, opprobrium, and animus in punishing by isolation those who disagree with their doctrines.

moreover - it is a de facto death sentence both spiritually and (according to the expectation of armageddon) literally as well.

iloowy.goowy

You are right, Terry.

From the Australian proceedings, it was obvious the WT wanted to confuse and obfuscate the court, to the point of saying a person disfellowships him or herself and shun the congregation.

Angus Stewart, though, did an excellent job of getting out exactly what the doctrine and practice of the JW/WT is in reality.

Words convey ideas clearly if we understand the connotation and exact meaning. Otherwise, the same words can mean different things in different cultural and societal settings.

Associating the WT doctrine and practice of disfellowshipping with relations in a way others can identify with, calling it religious apartheid, brings a deeper emotionally felt understanding to it.

Kudos! I'll definitely start referring to it and describing it that way.

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Beyah the God of the Jews?

by peacefulpete in

having stumbled upon this little tidbit, i thought i'd share.

i've a few times mentioned the midianite or kennite hypothesis which assumes the numerous ot texts that describe yahweh as having migrated north to judah represent credible mnemonic history.

while reading an article by prof. israel knohl i learned something rather surprising.

iloowy.goowy

Initial B is a preposition as you mentioned not part of the name. Are you saying it parallels with the name Baal? Because "in Baal" would be b'Baal" and in Yah would be "baYah". https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%91%D6%BE

Cloud rider is definitely a Divine reference. That is why the Hight Priest threw a hissy fit when Jesus said he would see the Son of man coming in the clouds, and called it blasphemy.

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Face-Masks - don't stop infection OR transmission!

by BoogerMan in

pores in surgical face-masks = 600 microns.

coronavirus = between 0.125 & 5 microns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qomrgfyfdie&t=227s.

iloowy.goowy

Do masks provide perfect protection, no.

DO they offer some protection, yes. And that is better than no protection at all.