mandated shunning is on the rise around the world with devastating effects on millions of people.
shunning that is mandated by organized groups to its members is a form of both physical and psychological violence against those people being shunned and cut off from their family and life-long relationships.
mandated shunning means that the shunning is ordered from the top down.
Bringing this thread BTTT. I don't know if it died out before the Norwegian government did what they did to the WT. The GB seems to have responded to the threat of losing their funding by relaxing* some of their rules on disfellowshipping and shunning.
Was it a step in the right direction?
* We all know that there's nothing kinder and gentler about any of it š
a very certain distinctive of jws is how they refer to themselves.
"one of jehovah's witnesses".
it's one of those coded jargon thingies.
I am not 'a' anything. Israel was a people, Christians are a people. not 'a' anything.
Jehovah's Witnesses are a people?
i started doubting the organization when i was 15. i spent the next 12 years doing in-depth research involving numerous emails with bible scholars and scientists.
i finally left the organisation 3 years ago.
technically i was never actually a jw as i was never baptised, so iām not being shunned.
"...if they wanted to be consistent"
Herein lieth their problem!
It looks like they* found the first dating method that fit the agenda du jour. None of them make sense, even at first, and trying to make them line up with each other is a fool's errand.
* Probably meaning Rutherford and his toadies.
is anybody aware of any kingdom hall builds going on or any kind of ldc activity?
i've been wanting to ask this, and committeechairman's question at the end of this thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/289353/ldc-semininar?page=4&size=20, moved me to go ahead and ask.. i've kind of wondered whether the org leaders got rid of rbcs and instituted the ldc arrangement because they wanted to be able to stop or slow down construction without it being obvious.
if the rbcs were still in existence, it would be obvious that there's nothing (or almost nothing) going on (if that really is the way it is) because rbc personnel would be idle when they were used to being busy.
ThomasMore, LDC, RDC meanings? (I assume that the C stands for "committee")
https://youtu.be/np05twylal8?si=wjcdevvpxmlwxb2p.
shame is an ancient form of control.
shame is the mechanism used to control behaviour.
I can't watch stuff like that, but I don't imagine that the infantilisation of grown adults is pleasant to watch.
*w60 2/1 80 - 17 there may be rare instances where a child is so hardened in its stubbornness that even the rod of correction cannot drive it out.
in the days of israel parents were instructed by jehovah to take such a rebel to the city fathers and they, in turn, took the incorrigible one out and stoned him to death.
there were no juvenile delinquents under such a system.
She is not in the truth today nor is her daughter.
Given their experiences, do you blame them?
ok i just want to officially set the record straight about the report of csa in new zealand.
i have a pimo relative who lives in nz.
as far as public awareness, with regard to the jws, it was basically a big nothing burger.
You're right, Blondie, that the other groups are larger and higher profile, and therefore attract more attention. I can't help feeling that the WT punches way above its weight statistically, though. Not that we'll ever really know what those statistics are. š¤„
i was asking why jws won't sing any church hymns even if they were doctrinally correct.
jws asked me in response if i would sing any of their songs.. dan watkins wrote .
its a hilarious misunderstanding, if it does not come from the watchtower bible and tract society, then it is effectively considered as coming from satan.
"They'll probably soon use AI to create their art and music, more Bethelites on the streets."
Is the "music ministry" large enough to justify permanent Bethelites anyway? Once a new songbook and the accompanying recordings are done, wouldn't the Bethelites involved be assigned back to their regular duties? Does anyone know how the songbook system works?
the last two seem very young.. will there be any further new gb members or will they all die off?.
i still remember when tony morris and a few other joined many were disappointed thinking the current crop would be the last.
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"Will the Catholic church have a pope?"
Remember the discussion concerning one of the recent ones, that he would be the last pope? Based on some mediaeval prophecy by a monk or some such?
library.
meeting workbooks.
life and ministry meeting workbook | november 2018. .
"I'm not sure if the decision on the date was made by the UK Branch, but if feels more like another example of an out-of-touch GB in the USA making decisions for other countries"
I'm imagining the GB huddled around their wargame board, moving the pieces around, totally oblivious to field conditions in the real world. šø
