Posts by Room 215

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Religiously Motivated Child-Abuse Cover-Up Enrages Citizenry: Sound Familiar?

by Room 215 in

seem familar?

child abuse cover-up by insular religious community enrages citizenry of lakewood, nj:.

http://www.app.com/article/20130616/njnews20/306160026/lakewood-orthodox.

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A scary parallel to JW child abuse policies.

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Historical Development of the Jesus/Michael Doctrine

by moggy lover in

i have a question about the historical development of the doctrine currently held by the watchtower, specifically about jesus being michael.

i am not interested in a polemic about whether jesus is or is not michael, but rather in how this teaching evolved in the historical development of the watchtower movement.

for instance we know that at least as far back as november 1879, page 4, [reprints page 48] the watchtower was teaching a doctrine contrary to what it currently teaches:.

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In fairness, and with no particular opinion on the merits of the JW claim, their position on the Michael/Jesus issue is not an unreasonable one, given the paucity of detail in the scriptures.

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Religiously Motivated Child-Abuse Cover-Up Enrages Citizenry: Sound Familiar?

by Room 215 in

seem familar?

child abuse cover-up by insular religious community enrages citizenry of lakewood, nj:.

http://www.app.com/article/20130616/njnews20/306160026/lakewood-orthodox.

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Seem familar? Child abuse cover-up by insular religious community enrages citizenry of Lakewood, NJ:

http://www.app.com/article/20130616/NJNEWS20/306160026/Lakewood-orthodox

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i was really bold and put one up on my facebook page.. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/15/12225753-jehovahs-witnesses-ordered-to-pay-more-than-20-million-to-woman-who-said-she-was-sexually-abused?lite.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/calif-jury-awards-28m-in-_n_1602997.html.

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Good work, Julia! It's not old news to those who've never seen it, as your experience demonstrates.

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United Nations General Assembly Report on Objection to Military Service by Jehovah's Witnesses and others | June 3, 2013

by jwleaks in

jw leaks has published the june 3, 2013, united nations general assembly analytical report on conscientious objection to military service.. page 3, paragraph 4, of the report states:.

"the following non-governmental organizations responded: the associazione comunita papa giovanni xxiii, the centre for civil and political rights, the european bureau for conscientious objection, the european organisation of military associations, forum 18 news service, the german institute for human rights, human rights watch, the international fellowship of reconciliation, jehovahs witnesses, the quaker united nations office, the russian ngo soldiers mothers of st. petersburg, the union of conscientious objectors, and war resisters international.".

this 17 page report deals substantially with jehovah's witnesses.. .

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The Watchtower is de facto an NGO or "Non Governmnetal Orgaization." It's not its NGO status per se, but rather its application for recognition and membership on the list of approved NGOs to the UN that was the source of the scandal.

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Imagine if the JW's tried to copy Apple and open a 'JW store'......OMFG.......they did...

by snare&racket in

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http://theworldnewsmedia.org/jw.org+new+witnessing+shop+opens+in+france.

video.... http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=rvcvnhohno4&desktop_uri=%2fwatch%3fv%3drvcvnhohno4.

religion or corporation..... you decide......

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Looks like these venues will be stationary targets for "apostates" who mind their manners and engage them on their own turf, perhaps in the presence of other non-JW onlookers in the place, but politely enough to avoid getting kicked out.

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Up-skirt voyeur pervert is a Jehovah's Witness

by RayPublisher in

this jw guy put a camera in his bookbag and went around snapping pics... sick.. .

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8799082/up-skirt-voyeur-a-jehovah-witness.

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Frankie: " With the amount of sexual repression the JWs under go it is surprising that they don't have more people like this in their organization."

Who can say they don't?

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Generation clarification

by zound in

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Wasn't the point of having the Israelites wander in the deserts for 40 years precisely because God wanted the "faithless generation" that refused to follow Joshua and Caleb into the promised land "to pass away?"

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1925 wt QFR - Study the Watchtower. STUDY IT!! no mention of bible.

by Captain Blithering in

dear brethren ;.

it is maintained by some of the friends in the ecclesia.

that the watchtower teaches that the study of the.

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" The witnesses read and study all the Watchtower magazine, not just parts of it, like some professed Christians who limit their Bible reading to the last one fourth of the Bible and brush aside as outdated the first three fourths of it."

It's exactly the opposite at Bethel today: the neo-Judaisers there have swept aside the last fourth in favor of the first three fourths.

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New Trend in Dramas?

by breakfast of champions in

so it used to be that all dramas were ot.

period, that was it.. then they started incorporating a "modern day" application of the ot drama where actors in the present day reflected on the story.. then they started using some highly fictionalized nt characters in dramas (never jesus of course).

in the past few years we've been getting more "modern dramas", just about people in the present dealing with their "problems".

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"It opens with us seeing Sister Loving, who died in the arms of her dear husband, Brother Loving, who promised he would stay faithful to Jehovah so they could be reunited in the New World. But Sister Loving awakes in the resurrection to find Brother Loving arm in arm with Sister Dress-Slutty, the young single flirtatious bitch all the nice sisters hated in theCongregation. And look there! they have a new little son, Jr Loving. Junior is 10 years old. Oh my, Sister loving comes to realize that she has been dead less than 11 years. Brother Loving must not have waited long to spread his loving around.

Real life drama in Paradise. This could be fun entertainment. "

Great suggestion, DOC!!, Now THAT is what I call a drama!!