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Has the Watchtower been sued for defamation?

by biometrics in

does anyone know if the watchtower or individual elders have been successfully sued for defamation follwing a disfellowshipping.

i know some have tried to sue for shunning, and their case had no legal basis.. what is the current platform announcment for a df or da?.

what about court action to recover past donations?.

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The measure is what would be considered defamatory (and/or character assassination) by the typical reasonable citizen.

Saying “So-and-so is no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses” is no more offensive to the typical reasonable citizen than saying “So-and-so is no longer a member of the First Methodist Church”.

Because the typical reasonable citizen does not associate such language with defamation then it is safer in legal terms.

However it could be argued that JW's have a closed community with its own language and sub-culture, where saying “So-and-so is no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses” is equivalent to saing “So-and-so is is immoral, shouldn't be trusted, and is a low-life” to a reasonable citizen.

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Has the Watchtower been sued for defamation?

by biometrics in

does anyone know if the watchtower or individual elders have been successfully sued for defamation follwing a disfellowshipping.

i know some have tried to sue for shunning, and their case had no legal basis.. what is the current platform announcment for a df or da?.

what about court action to recover past donations?.

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Wouldn't the public announcement of “So-and-so is no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses” be grounds for defamation? Given almost all members of the JW community universally associate this phrase with the person having done something bad, or being of bad character, and as a result would shun that person. It's equivalent to saying “So-and-so is of such bad moral characther that they are no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and you should all shun that person”

If I said “So-and-so is a lousy person” in front of an audience, that would be enough grounds for a defamation case.

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WT.org Description of Not Being Antisemitic during Nazi Years

by Band on the Run in

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i meandered over to wt.org just to see what it was like.

they have an article about jws' courageous challenge to hitler.

strangely, the vast internet does not give them enough space to quote rutherford's letter to hitler in full.

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The witlesses are anti-anything that disagrees with their own doctrines.

They're anti-everything except Watchtower doctrines.

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Has the Watchtower been sued for defamation?

by biometrics in

does anyone know if the watchtower or individual elders have been successfully sued for defamation follwing a disfellowshipping.

i know some have tried to sue for shunning, and their case had no legal basis.. what is the current platform announcment for a df or da?.

what about court action to recover past donations?.

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Just read the Moyle letter to Rutherford. It really puts perspective on exactly what type of a man Rutherford was.

http://www.jwfacts.com/images/Moyles-letter-to-Rutherford.pdf

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Name Things You Did As A Witness That You Weren't Supposed To Do

by minimus in

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i was considered "exemplary" but i defintely liked my drinking with my other fellow examples.. porn was never a terrible thing to me.

i looked.. throwing in a few extra hours and placements worked pretty well for me too..

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While I was going to school mum would never let me go to worldly school friends' places because they would have been a "bad influence". But she let me stay over at JW friend's houses.

So mum dropped me over at James' place to stay for a few days. I always saw James at the meeting with his parents, seemed like an OK friend and they seemed like a perfect JW family to my mum.

When I got to his house I was in for a big supprise. He was drinking, listenting to heavy metal, stealing condoms from his dad's room (so he could sneak out at night to see a girl down the road), and smoking pot. Keep in mind he was 14 years old JW boy. At night he'd sneak out to do graffiti.

Later that year we went to the assembly, he met a couple of girls from his previous congregation. After they left, he told me he'd slept with both of them (at different times).

When he grew up (in his 20s) he became the local drug dealer. His older brother took me to nightclubs. One time he visited an elder's daughter on the way home (at 2pm). She was about 17, he was 22, she lived in a room detached from the main house, he stayed for about 40mins, I was his lookout incase the elder woke up.

I would have been better off visiting worldly friend's.

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What the Watchtower needs to do to survive.

by jwfacts in

drop its teaching on paradise earth.. the primary issue facing the watchtower results from it's teaching that members will never die, but live forever on this earth in paradise.

this teaching is cause of most of the doctrinal failures, and will be its eventual demise.. the promise of never dying is one of the foremost motivations for people that join the religion, and the message of living forever in paradise is compelling.

however, it is also the watchtower's achilles heel, as it forces false predictions of the nearness of the end.

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Maybe the Watchtower could offer Armageddon Insurance. If Armageddon doesn't come before a specific year, the policy pays out.

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What the Watchtower needs to do to survive.

by jwfacts in

drop its teaching on paradise earth.. the primary issue facing the watchtower results from it's teaching that members will never die, but live forever on this earth in paradise.

this teaching is cause of most of the doctrinal failures, and will be its eventual demise.. the promise of never dying is one of the foremost motivations for people that join the religion, and the message of living forever in paradise is compelling.

however, it is also the watchtower's achilles heel, as it forces false predictions of the nearness of the end.

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You've just fulfilled a prophesy.

Do you know why they are called the last days?....because they last....and last....and last

3. Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. 4. They will say, "What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created." - 2 Peter 3:3-4

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Has the Watchtower been sued for defamation?

by biometrics in

does anyone know if the watchtower or individual elders have been successfully sued for defamation follwing a disfellowshipping.

i know some have tried to sue for shunning, and their case had no legal basis.. what is the current platform announcment for a df or da?.

what about court action to recover past donations?.

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Does anyone know if the Watchtower or individual elders have been successfully sued for defamation follwing a disfellowshipping. I know some have tried to sue for shunning, and their case had no legal basis.

What is the current platform announcment for a DF or DA?

What about court action to recover past donations?

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Jehovahs Witnesses and Mental Health

by Marvin Shilmer in

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jehovahs witnesses and mental health.

today i added a new article to my blog addressing jehovahs witnesses and mental health.

documented sources inside and outside watchtower express the same thing.

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Some people just can't handle "the truth".

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The "30 Other Lands" in the Worldwide Report - revealed!

by cedars in

i've just uploaded the third article in my four-part "under the microscope" series - looking at the society's claims to be god's sole channel with mankind.

a link is below:.

http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/under-the-microscope-the-watch-tower-societys-claims-to-divine-direction-part-3.

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Maybe that's why the 1914 generation prophesy failed, so they could be given more time to give a witness in those countries.