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  CA Judge Orders VICTIM to Pay Award to Abusers

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://youtu.be/ay9do_jojtm?si=76u8asuictmymi9m.

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  Short version? An hour video or pages of download take too much time
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  Do you play the LOTTERY?

  by Fisherman in

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  jw view gambling as a sin and sadly people get addicted to gambling causing them financial and health problems.

  but is playing a couple of bucks a week on some lottery tickets actually gambling?

  what do you have to lose?

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  Lotto is for the mathematically challenged. That said I do dabble on the off chance i hit.

  The elders will DF you. It has to do with greed, the payout is not penny ante. The WT should look in a mirror regarding greed.
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  JW org fighting Royal Commission of Inquiry 3 years, article by Anusha Bradley, RNZ

  by EasyPrompt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/497240/jehovah-s-witness-church-spends-3-years-fighting-scrutiny-of-royal-commission-of-inquiry.

  jehovah's witness church spends 3 years fighting scrutiny of royal commission of inquiry.

  from article by anusha bradley, rnz.... .

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  Send out orders to destroy records, then claim they find no records.
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  If JW is not the truth, then what is the true religion?

  by TxNVSue2023 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  even though i'm disfellowshiped ( & i belive wrongfully so).

  i still belive this is the truth.

  i have been d'f for about 8 months now and working on reinstatement.

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  It should be noted that all bibles are rewritten when translated. JWs started with the King James and proved some basic tenets. Adding Jehovah was probably mostly correct.

  Adding details and application is where all religions go wrong. As I already posted, the Golden Rule is a good standard, James has the better take on applying it

  Humanity at it's best can be found and quoted in select places whether Bible, Koran, Mark twain, will rogers. The worst can also be found; meanness, lust, pettiness, selfishness etc.

  Witnesses fall very short on actual love which is their claim of Christianity
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  Does the kingdom hall still provide older books upon request? If so which ones?

  by average joe in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is there a list of current books available for order that are the older books?.

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  Wife never gets a current magazine or CLAM. The (tm) campaign is a 2020 watchtower. Except for the storage keeping the older books has the old dim light
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  Are Elders prepared to take the fall for WT/GB misdemeanor's / crime ??

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been thinking about this in relation to the directive given to elders to destroy any incriminating evidence they may have either on their pc`s ,e-mails , private notes in their possession, or notes in their witnessing bags ,etc.

  to do with child sexual abuse they may still have in their possession.. isn`t that encouraging the elders to interfere with the justice system ?.

  to break the law?.

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  Most elders are doing God's work so think there is no way things can go awry. Until it is too late.

  Anyone who is really " thinkingest" (tm) can figure out that directions to get rid of damning material us a cover up.
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  Theocratic Dressing Standard

  by NotFormer in

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  an enthusiastic new recruit attends the kingdom hall.

  the elders aren't sure about his style of wardrobe.. does something like this ever really happen with new recruits?.

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  My dad told that joke 70 years ago and it was old then. Canceled as in not allowed by facebook
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  Exes: Would You Rat On A Current JW?

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it's an interesting thought.

  if you are an ex jw, presumably dfed, and you see a current jw in good standing engaging in behaviour that would concern their elders, would you pass on that information to interested parties?

  do accusations from exes and other outsiders carry any weight?

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  I'm with Simon. A few need cut down to a size
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  Memorable gem from November 2023 Study WT

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  study watchtower november 2023 p. 16,17 pars.

  9,10 - "consider the example of oleg and irina, a married couple who serve as pioneers.

  after moving to assist a congregation in another area, they lost their source of income because of the worsening economic conditions in their country......one day when they returned home from the ministry, they learned that a close friend had traveled about 160 kilometers (100 mi) to bring them two bags of groceries.

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  The congregation and jeh had nothing to do with it. It was an established friend.
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  If JW is not the truth, then what is the true religion?

  by TxNVSue2023 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  even though i'm disfellowshiped ( & i belive wrongfully so).

  i still belive this is the truth.

  i have been d'f for about 8 months now and working on reinstatement.

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  Golden rule and book of James wrap it nicely. But not what is seen in practice. Other religions and some secularists often come closer.

  The last days is a common theme in all doomsday religions. The outcome depends on which one: rapture, living through to paradise, reincarnation.

  My feeling is either God doesn't care, or doesn't exist. Maybe ( witness belief ) waiting for a greater number to destroy