Posts by Room 215

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The Ride

by eyeuse2badub in

the ride!.

about 2 weeks ago i went on a one day motorcycle ride with about 50-60 other jw’s.

(at least most of them claimed to be dubs) it’s an event that 2 jw fleshly brothers put on every year.

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" I know, it’s hard to believe that 60-70 jw’s got together and talked about something other than service, paradise, resurrection, and Armageddon but it happened that day.."

Not hard to believe at all... it's what happens when JW friends converse just after the final "amen" at the Sunday meeting... it's usually about the afternoon football game they're about to watch, their vacation plans, comparing restaurant notes, or exchanges of recipes by the ladies, etc., etc., etc.....

IN SHORT: anything but discussing what they just sat through for for the past two hours.

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Suspect in Jehovah's Witness child sex abuse case arrested

by Tahoe in

by david gambacorta, staff writer @dgambacorta | [email protected].

martin haugh rolled out of bed one morning earlier this month, shuffled into his kitchen, and turned on his coffee maker.

while the machine gurgled to life, he glanced at his phone.

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Awesome... Gambacorta's work is shaping up to be a Pulitzer-worthy effort.

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JW Door-to-Door Notekeeping Attracts Scrutiny of EU Authorities

by Room 215 in

a newly- enacted eu gdpr privacy protection law, to become effective from may 25, has apparently prompted jws to file suit in protest: .

(translated from the italian) .

source: ex-jwblog: http://testimonidigeovachiedono.blogspot.com/2018/05/le-note-di-casa-in-casa-sono-illegali-per-il-gdpr.html):.

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A newly- enacted EU GDPR privacy protection law, to become effective from May 25, has apparently prompted JWs to file suit in protest:

(Translated from the Italian)

Source: ex-JWblog: http://testimonidigeovachiedono.blogspot.com/2018/05/le-note-di-casa-in-casa-sono-illegali-per-il-GDPR.html):

"Notes on door-to-door visits by Jehovah's Witness members violate the EU Data Privacy Act, according to the attorney general of the EU Supreme Court. His discovery confirms the vision of the data protection commission of Finland."

"The Luxembourg attorney general, Paolo Mengozzi, rejected a lawsuit filed by the Jehovah's Witness movement on Thursday that states that the memos of its members are only collected individually and do not violate the EU's privacy directive."

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Regional Convention New Releases

by pixel in

the new releases for the regional convention are out at the borg's page.

but remember, you can not see them unless first you attend....

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Their "meat in due season" has deteriorated to "bread and circuses."

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Scary Effectiveness of Assembly Videos

by Captain Schmideo2 in

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well, i got to see the final day of this years regional convention.and i saw something that disturbs me.. the final, "summing up review" video.

it disturbs me because it was so well done.

(i wish i could remember the title of the song), to the strains of a solo vocalist singing in a fine "irish tenor", we see the actors from the previous videos of the last few days all assembling together in a clearing.

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I think the unintended effect of all this technological wizardry and its "shock and awe" impact on the masses will be to underscore just how tedious, boring, irrelevant and "dry as dust" their weekly meetings are in comparison.

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Do JWs Say They Are Fulfilling Prophetic Bible Prophecies Any Longer?

by minimus in

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every bible book pretty much was applied to the “anointed remnant “.

if a prophet blew his nose it was a fulfillment of a future deed done by the “anointed”.. have they stopped this nonsense?

?.

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Yet they pick and choose which types/antitypes still apply... Nebuchadnezzar's Seven Times is one example and their core 1914 doctrine is based on it. They never tire of trying to pound square pegs into round holes.

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New York's Attorney General, Schneiderman Statement On Assembly Passage Of The Child Victims Act

by AndersonsInfo in

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-statement-assembly-passage-child-victims-act.

a.g. schneiderman statement on assembly passage of the child victims act .

news from attorney general eric t. schneiderman.

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That's good news; earlier, in March, it was shot down: http://buffalonews.com/2018/03/30/state-budget-omits-child-victims-act/

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Don't be too Christian, you'll raise red flags

by neat blue dog in

for the past few years all my comments and talks have been a purely christian message.

i tiptoe around wt dogma and focus on the basics of love, life compassion, etc.

and i deliberately do not use jw terminology whenever i can.

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It's clear WT is neo-Judaism. The recent Memorial talks and a baptism talk I recently heard could have been delivered by a Rabbi... barely a reference to you-know-who.

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Continuing congregation mergers

by Are you serious in

in the area i live in the pacific northwest, three spanish congregations we're merged into two a couple of years ago and in the next month or so four english congregations will be cut down to three.

both situations happened because of lack of growth.

a few years ago, i would never have imagined spanish congregations disappearing or merging but it's happening.