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  AUSTRALIA: Migration Scam Being Operated by Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jw leaks has updated their "human rights" page with hundreds of pages of documents released, all relating to 19 separate court cases involving jehovah's witnesses conducted through the european court of human rights and also the australian refugee tribunal.. .

  the 9 cases that were run through the australian refugee tribunal by the jehovah's witnesses all came from lebanon.. .

  one former member of jehovah's witnesses, who advised on a number of refugee and migration cases for jehovah's witnesses and the watchtower bible and tract society of australia, and provided the documents and background information (yet to be published) to jw leaks, stated:.

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  Par for the course with these people... I believe jw leaks means "reprehensible".... I certainly do
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  Which of the 5 weekly meetings did you hate the most?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it was always stressed that the five weekly meetings were like the fingers on your hand.

  each one was just as important as the next.

  which of the meetings were the most boring,bothersome and difficult to listen to?

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  Service Meeting, for sure... the WT study, where the conductor loves the sound of his own voice, pontificates ad nauseum, runs way overtime and then rushes the last few paragraphs to catch up; most of the comments were read-outs verbatim, or from kids who mumble them out as their doting parents nudge them.
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  Celestial chariot or broken down cart? Judging the agility of the organization...

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've just uploaded an "end of year" article to my blog.

  you can read it on the link below.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/why-is-gods-earthly-organization-so-slow.

  in my article i explain how 2012 has taught me something i didn't know previously about the watch tower society - that it is painfully slow at responding to important developments.. i cite examples of three recent developments where the society has been slow to respond, or get word out.... the candace conti verdict - media blackout for six days following the judgmentthe appointment of mark sanderson - no official confirmation for months after the appointment was announced at morning worshipthe "new light" on the faithful slave - over a month before officially confirmed on jw.org, and a further month before the information was available in other languagesi then go on to look at the recent video about the watchtower sign and make the argument that, far from being comparable with a lightning-fast celestial chariot, the society has grown slow and cumbersome in responding to developments because it is essentially in love with itself - as per the greek mythological character narcissus.. anyway, take a look at the article when you get a moment, and let me know what you think!.

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  I suspect there's an element of contempt for the rank and file evident in their nonchalance; the Bethel biggies feel no obligation to divulge anything in a timely manner..
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  JW.org reports on the Sandy Hook shooting...

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from the official jw website.... .

  school shooting in connecticutdecember 17, 2012 | united states.

  on friday, december 14, 2012, a shooting took place at an elementary school in newtown, connecticut.

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  Bangalore: "Micah" the contributor to the JW forum you mention above posed a couple of very interesting questions; I notice nobody attempted to reply to him....
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  Sparlock Child's Toy Makes Jehovah Sad!

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well according to the governing body aka> jehovah's spokesman for the entire earthly population, a toy such as sparlock that is in the posession of small children who's parents are jws makes jehovah "sad".. well if that is true then jehovah needs to see a psychiatist for depression caused by unreasonableness and phobias.

  if this little child toy makes him sad, and prone to wrath and murder, as biblical accounts show him wipeing out vast portions of the human and animal populations when his sadness hits major proportions, he also needs to take some anger management courses to get a handle on his sanity and riegn in his jealousy which seems destructive and out of control at times.. it is no idle speculation that if jehovah finds sparlock offensive and makes him depressed, he's got some serious mental issues, but realistically this sadness is all a projection of the governing body and shows them to have the issues that they are projecting on a imaginary figure whom they call jehovah.

  in other words the currant governing body are a bunch of mentally sick bastards in a delusional state of mind..

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  It's interesting that Caleb's mommy says the harmless plastic toy makes Jehovah "sad," when what she really means is "mad" ....
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  OK, spill the beans, which one of us wrote into Biblical Archaeology Review this month about the pronunciation of YHWH?

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's the subject:.

  the "q&c" questions and comments section of the journal 'biblical archaeology review' (one of my favorite magazines), jan/feb 2013 , p. 68, someone from illinois wrote the following question:.

  quote: "we've often heard that 'jehovah' is an amalgamation of the unpronounced tetragrammaton (yhwh) and, when spoken, is pronounced "lord" (adonai).

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  The very name is a vestige of the Hebrew god's progression from polytheism to monolatry, and finally, to monotheism....
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  October 15 Study WT, Page 17 Story: "Richard, Lowell, Ramon, Bill:" A Gay Subtext?

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't now whether anyone else read that article, but several of the photos , and the comments under the subtitle "happy marriages" wherein the happy quartet suggested that they acceded to marriage only when uber-zealot females who took priority over physically attractive girls could be found.... made me wonder... hmmmm... .

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  I intended no reproach; for all I know they're fine people... I've come to believe that being gay is a genetic predisposition more than a lifestyle choice. At the same time, for anyone who has spent some time at Bethel, where homophobia is pervasive, the suspicion that some, if not many, celibate gays are present in the family, is not new.
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  October 15 Study WT, Page 17 Story: "Richard, Lowell, Ramon, Bill:" A Gay Subtext?

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't now whether anyone else read that article, but several of the photos , and the comments under the subtitle "happy marriages" wherein the happy quartet suggested that they acceded to marriage only when uber-zealot females who took priority over physically attractive girls could be found.... made me wonder... hmmmm... .

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  I can't help but sense that these Bethel "lifers" succumbed to peer pressure to "Straigthen up and Fly Right" ... at least one of those photos is a little too touchy-feely for comfort, IMHO
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  October 15 Study WT, Page 17 Story: "Richard, Lowell, Ramon, Bill:" A Gay Subtext?

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't now whether anyone else read that article, but several of the photos , and the comments under the subtitle "happy marriages" wherein the happy quartet suggested that they acceded to marriage only when uber-zealot females who took priority over physically attractive girls could be found.... made me wonder... hmmmm... .

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  I don't now whether anyone else read that article, but several of the photos , and the comments under the subtitle "Happy Marriages" wherein the happy quartet suggested that they acceded to marriage only when uber-zealot females who took priority over physically attractive girls could be found.... made me wonder... hmmmm...
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  JWs exposed in Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during the past week, 17 different articles on various practices of jws and comments to those, have been published on the web page of the norwegian equivalent of the bbc, nrk: http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.8397366.

  in addition to this a special news programme with a discussion on sexual abuse and jw was broadcast on nrk2, and p1 contained an interview with an ex-jw on its weekly news summary programme.. it seems the expose is continuing..

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  The neighboring Scandinavian coutnries would seem to be a good place to start.