Topics Started by NotFormer

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The FAFO Ratio for PIMOs and ExJWs
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://youtu.be/1c9r8mgqwfk.

how much did you have to f*** around, before you found out?.
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Mary And The Two Witness Rule
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/47672/top-secret-confidential.

in the above page, the september 1, 1987 watchtower article about breaching confidentiality is quoted.

mary is a medical worker and finds out that someone in congregation has had an abortion.
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Did The Australian Royal Commission Actually Achieve Anything?
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i've been going through past threads on here during the period i was not very interested in what was going on in jw world.

the australian royal commission era caused a great deal of excitement and inspired some hope, but did any good come of it?.

the 2 witness rule in child sexual assault cases still exists, and elders still don't call the police and try to handle things in house.
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Secret Elders Book? Bwahahaha!
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i remember a couple of decades ago when the internet was relatively young and the wt was at war with it, that they were battling to keep the pay attention book secret, commencing legal action against anyone who published it online (and of course, trying to out anyone who leaked it).

i think it was a norwegian skeptics organisation who had it available for download and dared the wt lawyers to come after them.. so i guess the new shepherd the flock book came out to try and put the genie back in the bottle and reassert some air of mystery and secrecy back into the equation.. so i typed jehovah's witnesses secret elder book into google.

colour me gobsmacked!
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Current Member Stats/Numbers
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i remember that the wt used to regularly publish their membership and memorial attendance numbers.

was that in the watchtower?.

how would i find the current numbers by country?
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Blood Card Check
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i remember many years ago that apparently there was an annual event where witnesses' blood cards (or whatever they're called) were checked by some visiting wt dignitary.

that the blood cards were current, and that the r&f were carrying them.. given the situation in some countries that kingdom halls can't legally keep data about people who have been visited, is the practice of checking and enforcing the carrying of blood cards similarly illegal in some places?.

are there any places where it is illegal for the hlc to set up camp near the hospital bed of a sick jw?.
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New NWT
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is it very different from the old version?.

has it changed much?.

how can i get a copy?
5
New Version of NWT
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
how does it compare to the old one?.

has anything changed much?.

how do i get a copy?
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Conscience Issues
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
thought inspired by my post on tattoos: within the watchtower organisation, how many "conscience issues" actually are?

are people who actually do exercise their consciences in grey areas painting a target on their backs for the more hard-line dubs?

are they quietly avoided because " bad associations spoil useful habits"?
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Tattoos
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was wondering about the jw attitude towards getting tattoos.. redditors suggest that the only jws who have them would have got them before they were baptised.. jw.org gives a meally-mouthed "true christians wouldn't" response.. but no-one (that i've seen so far) answers the question i'm actually asking: is getting a tattoo after being baptised a disfellowshipping offence?.

if not disfellowshipable, how would a typical jw congregation treat someone who got a tattoo after baptism?

would they really treat it like it is a conscience issue?.