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  Victoria, Australia: Brief Update - Steven Unthank is still Acting Prosecutor, etc.

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  court hearing results for december 6, 2011:.

  steven unthank is still the acting prosecutor (and that's why he could not comment on the case on the"dialogue" program), and all 5 cases are still before the courts.

  the crown informed the court that the office of public prosecutions are "acting as a facilitator at the moment"; and that the police investigation is "quite well progressed"; and that the police are awaiting response from the department of justice.. .

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  I love seeing Romans 13:1-7 in full affect. Can violators of this law receive prison time?
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  How do you view human authority?

  by sabastious in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  between 1 and 100 rate how you respond to human authority.

  where 1 is being in favor of anarchy and 100 is being in favor of humans having full control over your life.. me: 25.

  -sab.

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  100. It's not perfect, but it is all we have. I support government ruled by laws.

  Plus, it's job security for me.
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  Recent C.O. visit: Bad news re: U.S. English meeting attendance

  by Open mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  visiting a nearby town during his thursday night service talk mentioned how poor meeting attendance is in the english-speaking u.s. congregations.

  he said that when the gb reduced the weekly meetings from 3 to 2, there was a brief surge in meeting attendance percentages.

  after a few months it began to slide and it hasn't stopped sliding.

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  Some of the changes seen in the past 5 years shocked me. I think the reduction in the meetings was the biggest one. One I was first told there was a change in the meeting schedule I thought, "They are adding another meeting" only to find out it was just the opposite.

  The reason for my thinking this was a special needs talk once giving on meeting attendance. The Presiding Overseer/Congregation Coordinator beat on Hebrews 10:24, 25 like a drum. We were supposed to meet even more as we behold the day drawing near.

  So, we're being told the end is almost here and yet, in direct conflict with the Bible, Jehovah's Witnesses are meeting less.
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  My first conversation with an "anointed"

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was not "born in".. i was recruited.. i've told the story dozens of times.. it began as a "best friend" at school comraderie and ended with my baptism 4 or 5 years later.. i had no desire up front to join any church or attend any services or even to associate myself with people who talk about "god" and "faith".. it creeped me out.. my family was not sociable.

  they were like hermits.. my grandmother had been reared catholic and had attended convent school.

  she told horror stories about the stern, disciplinarian mother superior and corporal punishments by the nuns.. i had the bible read to me barely at all.

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  My father professes to be of the annointed. I've heard people comment that when my father reads from the Bible it is as if he wrote it himself. He is a truly loving man who sees the faults of the organization, mostly that it does not display the mind of Christ.

  He's probably the #1 reason why it took me nearly 3 decades to finally cut all ties with the evil empire.
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  the cult is slowly taking my family apart

  by Evidently Apostate in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  its been 3 years since i made my decision to fade and i am starting to think our marriage might not survive.

  my wife is under pressure from her parents to push away from me.

  the anniversay card they gave her(not me) was nothing more than jw propaganda, parts were actually highlighted.

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  Tell your wife:

  1) You love her

  2) You will support her

  Explain that supporting her means that you will not interfere with her wishes to be a practicing Jehovah's Witness. In fact, you'll do just the opposite. If she needs assistance getting to the meetings, out in field service, Circuit Assemblies or Conventions you will provide it. Let her know that you will never belittle her or her beliefs.

  The evil empire quotes scripture in telling Witnesses who have "unbelieving" mates to stick with their spouse so that they might be "won over" through their conduct. With that, remember this; almost everything in life is like an algebraic expression. Whatever is done to one side of the equal sign must be done to the other side. In other word, you might be able to win her over with out a word.
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  A reality test for Jehovah's Witnesses that really seems to work

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i admit to a fondness for "factoids".

  little snippets of information.

  statistics.

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  The same is true when it comes to the statistics showing that reported violent crimes have been going do each year in the U.S. I once had a book, I forget the title, I think it was called "Everything You Know is Wrong". It showed statistics and studies that proved that things are pretty much as they have always been.

  I like the new AMC show "Hell on Wheels". One character says, "What is this world coming to?" in reference to a massacre. The main character replies, "It's not coming to anything. The world is as it has always been."

  Jehovah's Witnesses whole world revolves around the idea that this system of things is coming to an end and soon. That the composite "sign" of the last days given to us by Jesus is all around us. When something bad is reported on the news they say, "See. This is part of the sign of the end" and when the news says that things are getting better it is dismissed as insanity.
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  Too fat for the kingdom of God !

  by koolaid-man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  former jehovah's witness servant dick borghi along with elders in the lowell, ma.

  congregation were asked by the circuit overseer to vote on whether to disfellowship overweight brothers and sisters.. this was very troubling to dick for two reasons.. 1... brother borghi thought it would be the responsibility of the faithfull and discrete slave to lay out a precise directive on the basis for this unusual request.

  what criteria would have to be met to make such an awkward decision?.

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  The same reasonning for DFing smokers would apply to beefalos who eat fast food.
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  How big a fee does the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society get for booking Jehovah's Witnesses into Convention Hotels?

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  curious.

  i know travel agents and on-line sites get a kickback or fee for booking hotels.

  how much is this fee?.

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  I remember congregations that were 200+ miles away being assigned to the Cow Palace for their District Convention. The worst part was that the hotel list was posted after the Service Meeting on a Tuesday night, which sucked for me, because my congregation met on Thursdays. So, pretty much every room being offered with the "Convention discount rate" was booked a full 48 hours before we were "officially" told we were all going to the craptacular Cow Palace.
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  The end is really really close now!

  by Lady Viola in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a little bit of background information.

  i haven't been to the meetings for 1,5 year now and my mum and dad try to 'encourage' me all the time... .

  the co is visiting and i already know that the encouraging will begin, but even worse.

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  ...living in the "Last Days" since 1874...
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  Born ins..Were You Forced to Be a JW Growing Up?

  by LostGeneration in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  myth: parents who are jehovahs witnesses.

  force their children to follow their faith.. fact:witness parents strive to inculcate love.

  for god in their offspring, just as the bible.

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  truth_b_known

  Jehovah's Witnesses are taught that they are to raise their children to become Jehovah's Witnesses. The rational is that if you are a child living under your parent's roof they have a right to raise you that way. If the child makes it known that they do not wish to participate in that religion they are labelled a "rebel". Jehovah's Witnesses claim that it is a command from God, written in the Bible, to do so.

  Jehovah's Witnesses who are parents teach their children that the doctrines of their religion are "The Truth" and all other religions are false and that being an aethist is evil. They teach their children that if they do not faithly live by their doctrine that they will be killed with all the other non-believers during an event referred to as "Armageddon".

  Similar to Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses baptise children. I say similar in that the children are never given a choice to opt out of the religion.

  When I was about 15 my father told me that I was ready for baptism. He told me I should let our congregation presiding overseer know because there was a Circuit Assembly coming up. At the next meeting the presiding overseer CAME UP TO ME and say, "Your father tells me you want to get baptised." What was I supposed to say?