i was walking through a market today, and spotted lds cart witnessing.
so i thought, what the hell, i’ll give him a go.
i focused on the character of joe smith.
There was a TV documentary about the LDS church in the UK a while ago.
What struck me as interesting was the amount of proselytising that the young missionaries are encouraged to do via social media platforms like Facebook (they actually have to report meeting weekly targets).
gilles gray writes:.
the short answer is, god communicates with jehovah’s witnesses very poorly indeed.. jehovah’s witnesses are the first to affirm that god doesn’t directly communicate with them at all.. however, this fact doesn’t stop them from making the baseless assertion that god communicates to them through reading the bible, through holy spirit and through their leaders (known as the governing body, or the faithful and discreet slave).. here is a claim made by one of the first leaders of the watchtower organisation:-.
communication through reading the bible.
Every religion claims to be doing what God has asked for them to do.
How does the church of England hierarchy communicate with God? the church of Rome? the Baha'i community? all of them... there's a gap between the people at the top and God. How does the divine spark jump the gap between God and that religion?
I think the org is a dysfunctional family where people call each other brother and sister but are not equals, so when I saw this at my therapist's office I thought it was appropriate to the way courts can't get a straight answer from WT.
'they turn the story around to make it seem like you are at fault, deflecting attention and blame away from them to make you feel guilty.
this type of emotional manipulation is called gaslighting.. .
deflection is manipulation, and if it's coupled with other toxic relationship behaviors, it may be necessary to remove yourself from the situation.'.
Putting things off until the New World arrives.
I still hear ones I grew up with in the congregation who were older than me by a couple of decades saying "I will learn to play the guitar and the piano in the NW." "I can't wait to learn to paint in the NW."
And I keep wanting to scream at them, "FFS what is/was stopping you from doing it now!?"
Of course, their answer would be"Now is the time for us to store up our treasure in heaven."
Makes me want to 🤮🤮
court to decide on clergy-penitent privilege.
don't know if this link will work.
hope it does.. https://www.lexblog.com/?s=watchtower+ .
Court to decide on clergy-penitent privilege.
Don't know if this link will work. Hope it does.
with so much being said about the jws shunning policies again at the present time i thought it would be worth reposting this article.. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc9803876/.
With so much being said about the JWs shunning policies again at the present time I thought it would be worth reposting this article.
i see they have updated their list of translations or versions where some form of yhwh or jhvh appears in the new testament.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/study-bible/appendix-c/divine-name-new-testament-2/.
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Can I ask please if you are writing a book and using this forum as a testing platform?
It's simply the length of all of your answers and where you have opened posts with questions that resemble university essays.
I have to be honest, I lose interest in reading most of them halfway through as they just go on and on and on.
When I was in the JW organisation I found that was the way the elders tried to force through a contentious belief by swamping students with a tidal wave of references and so-called proof points. I guess it might have worked for some of the newbies, but I just switched off, and turned my attention elsewhere.
a "waking up", but still a member, jehovah's witness acquaintance of mine from eastern europe wrote the following lines:.
"i count among the main sins of the watchtower society:.
1. concealment.
The witnesses used to ridicule the church services for their scripted parroting, such as Priest: "The Lord be with you", Congregation: "And with you also."
But when you reflect on the content of any WT or book study they are parroting in a similar manner. True the person answering might put it into their own words but the answer won't deviate from what is printed in the paragraph. Elder reads out printed question, congregant responds with printed answer.
following on from the rebekah vardy tv programme last week, dr heather ransom's story is in the daily mail.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12097861/my-family-friends-rejected-fled-jehovahs-witnesses.html.
Following on from the Rebekah Vardy TV programme last week, Dr Heather Ransom's story is in the Daily Mail.
in relation to a study program being undertaken i came across this accredited article and thought it would be worth sharing with this group.. https://www.qualitativecriminology.com/pub/osa148h6/release/2.
Vidiot, your earlier post above referred to the 70s and 80s.
The WT admitted that they had a problem with child abuse (child molesting) within their ranks back in the 80s.
It was mentioned in passing in their Watchtower magazine of January 1st, 1986, page 13. Interestingly, the opening sentence to paragraph 12 makes reference to "prominent" ones. Clearly these were elders and ministerial servants who were caught on and disfellowshipped, making you wonder how many more weren't caught on and were able to carry on by virtue of their prominence within the congregation or organisation!
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