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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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.
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
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/.
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/
watch tower is in court all the time.
it wins some.
it loses others.. we know it costs £££££ to go to court, pay barristers, expert witnesses, etc.. with wtc going to court for so many diverse reasons these days, from challenging laws to defending wt practices and paying out to csa victims, how much do you think wtc is spending annually on court cases?.
Watch Tower is in court all the time. It wins some. It loses others.
We know it costs £££££ to go to court, pay barristers, expert witnesses, etc.
With WTC going to court for so many diverse reasons these days, from challenging laws to defending WT practices and paying out to CSA victims, how much do you think WTC is spending annually on court cases?
Can anybody put a figure on it for us?
saw this on a pomo friend's page and thought it was definitely worth sharing with all of you.
i had never seen it before but i don't know if any of you have.. https://witnessnomore.com/?page_id=19.
Saw this on a POMO friend's page and thought it was definitely worth sharing with all of you. I had never seen it before but I don't know if any of you have.
saw this on a pomo friend's page and thought it was definitely worth sharing with all of you.
i had never seen it before but i don't know if any of you have.. https://witnessnomore.com/?page_id=19.
Saw this on a POMO friend's page and thought it was definitely worth sharing with all of you. I had never seen it before but I don't know if any of you have.
"a number of techniques employed to mislead others fall under the category of weasel words, and this article quotes examples that are regularly found in watchtower publications.. weasel words are defined as:.
“words or statements that are intentionally ambiguous or misleading,”[1].
intended “to avoid answering a question clearly or to make someone believe something that is not true."[2].
There was a radio program about how publishing companies tweak newspaper book reviews to place Quotes on the back of their paperback books.
Examples given were "if you are looking for a really exciting mystery story, don't bother buying this book!" and "I was looking for an author like Agatha Christie but unfortunately this isn't close to her!"
So the publisher lifts the relevant part of the sentence and puts it on the back cover of the paperback in emphasis - the New York Times wrote "... an author like Agatha Christie..." The Times of London said that this is "... a really exciting mystery story..."
Well they did say those words but not in the implied way because the words have been lifted out of context.
As I was listening to this radio program I thought to myself it is exactly what the WT does with a lot of their quotations, quoting the source at times, but not showing the full quotation in the context from which it was lifted!
i was reading an article about the pomp and circumstance around the first coronation in nearly a century.. made me think of the revelation book (the red one, not the bible) and the picture of the two headed beast with a sword and if i have some time today i will see if i can’t find it and age it a bit, it seems the sword is a bit dull and the two heads are now both octogenarians with severe dementia, kind of funny to see that instead of “swift judgment” we’ve come to internal decay.. what do you canadians, english, scots, irish and australians think about your new leadership?.
English spiritual/new age author William Bloom recently gave his view of the Coronation:
"Seen through a metaphysical lens the coronation is a grand event of ceremonial magic. The monarch's aura will be blessed, suffused and linked to great angels, spirits and archetypal virtues. The archbishop and colleagues are the high priests. The crown, sword, sceptre and spurs are all symbolic artefacts which resonate to help anchor these blessings."
