Dr. Gazda discusses “Neurological Issues Post-COVID”,
'the fifth horsemen is us'
13:36
was a new boy
JoinedPosts by was a new boy
-
147
Smoking gun GB can’t get out of this one
by Mikejw inhere in 2022 if anyone says anything against the vaccines even a little bit you are almost apostate.. someone once mentioned all vaccinated sports stars collapsing and someone else said not to speak badly about the gb or by extension jehovah.. the gb can’t get out of this one, it’s gone too far.
it’s now the case that if you speak against the vaccines you are speaking against the gb and by extension jehovah .
-
-
-
In his life story, Leon Weaver, Jr. left out his most nervous day at Bethel
by was a new boy inthat day was probably september 11, 1977, at the conclusion of the 63rd gilead graduation at the assembly hall in long island city, new york.
the chairman of the meeting, karl klein (who always seemed to me, as having garbled speech, unless it was just his heavy german accent) was wrapping up the meeting.
13 years later, barbara anderson describes him this way.
-
was a new boy
That day was probably September 11, 1977, at the conclusion of the 63rd Gilead graduation at the Assembly Hall in Long Island City, New York. The chairman of the meeting, Karl Klein (who always seemed to me, as having garbled speech, unless it was just his heavy German accent) was wrapping up the meeting.13 years later, Barbara Anderson describes him this way.'Around 1990, enter Governing Body member, Karl Klein into the picture, a doddering old fellow that lacked good sense or judgment at this point in his life.'
AndJAVA wrote: 22 years ago'I received this from a former member of Bethel.' ...Karl called me in for an unexpected meeting at his office one afternoon not long after the Sanchez's and Quilan's were evicted from Bethel... I knew I had been in the company of a certifiable nut.'
Karl Klein had been at Bethel since March 23,1925, so who does he call on to give prayer? Himself? Another GB member? No! New boy Leon Weaver, Jr.Karl Klein seemed lacking in social graces, apparently the Judge didn't know how to pass on proper etiquette to him.In Karl's Life Story he wrote in 1984.'Brother Rutherford was like an understanding and loving father to me,It might be added that Brother Rutherford’s prayers at morning worship also endeared him to me. Though he had such a powerful voice, when addressing God he sounded just like a little boy talking to his daddy. What a fine relationship with Jehovah that revealed! To have a man of such spiritual stature taking the lead was faith strengthening to me,'
So instead of 'taking the lead' like Rutherford did in prayer, Karl Klein calls on new boy Leon Weaver to give the prayer. Perhaps he was so excited that the GB had picked Leon, a black, and member of the great crowd to stay at Bethel and perhaps lead us into the New World with his eventual leadership position that any etiquette he had was abandoned at the time.Leon and his wife were sitting in the new boy section, second row from the top in the balcony.
This likely was Leon Weaver's first Gilead graduation experience. As he walks down the right aisle, putting on his coat during the song, I'm thinking is this Klein for real? It was the first time I saw an unanointed give a prayer at a Gilead Graduation.I could tell he was nervous, who wouldn't be, granted he'd been a CO for a decade, but it wasn't you're normal long Gilead prayer. Afterward seemingly to tell Karl, he wasn't expecting that, who chuckled and seemed to reply like, "I knew you'd do fine."-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------'For 24 years, I worked in the Service Department, where brothers often deal with sensitive and complex questions.'Is 'sensitive and complex questions' code for ,'we have some 1st class sickos in this religion'? How many child molesters did he help cover for, while in the Service Department?https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-september-2022/I-Have-Enjoyed-Learning-and-Teaching-About-Jehovah/ -
10
Dispute resolved over gift shop for Jehovah’s Witnesses
by was a new boy inbackground:.
https://westfaironline.com/105235/partners-fighting-over-gift-shop-for-jehovahs-witnesses/.
'a jehovah’s witness who partnered with a couple he trusted based on their shared faith is suing them over ownership of a religion-themed gift shop in orange county.. greg holland of victoria, british columbia, claims in a federal lawsuit that thomas and nanci matos of pine bush, coerced him into relinquishing his property.. “through deceit and intimidation, the matoses stole holland’s investment and interest in ministry ideaz llc,” the complaint states.
-
-
was a new boy
Judge orders couple to pay nearly $1M to defrauded gift shop partner (westfaironline.com)
'Observants of the faith are required to shun disfellowshipped members and keep business and professional contacts to a bare minimum.
In Holland’s telling, the Matoses used his transgressions as a wedge to undermine his marriage and seize control of the business.'
Exactly how it works in the religion.
Judge orders couple to pay nearly $1M to defrauded gift shop partner
August 26, 2022A federal judge has awarded nearly $1 million to a Canadian man who claimed that his partners took away his business of selling gifts to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Pine Bush, Orange County.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas ruled on Aug. 14, following a four-day bench trial, that Thomas and Nanci Matos and BestLife Gifts had to pay Greg Holland $980,447. He declared that the one-page agreement that Holland signed in 2018 handing off business assets to the Matoses was “void because of fraud.”
Photo from BestLife Gifts’ website.The business relationship had been forged by Holland’s and the Matoses’ shared faith and trust in one-another as Jehovah’s Witnesses, according to court records, and sundered by a scandal that made Holland an outcast amongst his fellow religionists.
Holland founded Ministry Ideaz in 2002 as an online business based in Ecuador, where he was “pioneering,” or evangelizing, for his religion. He sold Bible covers, notebooks, calendars and other products primarily to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In 2017, he decided to open a brick and mortar store near the Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters in Warwick, Orange County.
A mutual friend introduced him to the Matoses, who lived in Pine Bush about 26 mile from the headquarters. Thomas Matos, a carpenter by trade, was a ministerial servant, or administrator, for his local congregation. Nanci Matos was a pioneer and had worked as a cake decorator.
The gift shop opened in May 2017 in the Valley Supreme Plaza in Pine Bush and quickly became successful.
Later that year, Holland was hospitalized in a coma for several days in Ecuador, according to a court affidavit he filed, “following a drug overdose during an extramarital affair.”
Around January 2018, he was disfellowshipped, a severe form of discipline that Jehovah’s Witnesses reserve for persistent, unrepentant behavior that violates their teachings. Observants of the faith are required to shun disfellowshipped members and keep business and professional contacts to a bare minimum.
In Holland’s telling, the Matoses used his transgressions as a wedge to undermine his marriage and seize control of the business.
Holland signed a one-page agreement drafted by Thomas Matos to dissolve Ministry Ideaz and allow the couple to keep the inventory. Then the couple formed BestLife Gifts and rebranded the gift shop.
Holland sued them in 2018 in White Plains federal court for $300,000, claiming that he was coerced and alleging that Thomas Matos had threatened to reveal his marital problems to customers unless he signed the deal.
The Matoses filed a counterclaim for $1 million. They accused Holland of misappropriating funds and failing to maintain financial records.
When Holland was disfellowshipped, they state in affidavits, morale collapsed at the gift shop, employees quit their jobs, customers stayed away, and sales plummeted.
Conducting business with Holland was untenable, they said, and they simply “wanted to find a clean way to exit our troubled business relationship with Mr. Holland.”
They say they agreed to keep the inventory because Holland said shipping it back to Ecuador would cost too much. They denied making any threats and they depicted the process as friendly.
The $980,447 judgment against the Matoses includes “funds looted from company accounts,” undeposited cash proceeds, online sales, inventory, and 9% interest from March 2018.
Holland has left Ecuador and lives in Victoria, B.C., Canada. His current status with the Jehovah’s Witnesses is not disclosed in court records.
The Matoses have relocated to Palm Bay, Florida.
Holland was represented by attorneys Luis F. Calvo and Joshua B. Katz. The Matoses were represented by Christopher Mun-Yin Seck and Eric Hui-Chieh Huang.
-
10
Dispute resolved over gift shop for Jehovah’s Witnesses
by was a new boy inbackground:.
https://westfaironline.com/105235/partners-fighting-over-gift-shop-for-jehovahs-witnesses/.
'a jehovah’s witness who partnered with a couple he trusted based on their shared faith is suing them over ownership of a religion-themed gift shop in orange county.. greg holland of victoria, british columbia, claims in a federal lawsuit that thomas and nanci matos of pine bush, coerced him into relinquishing his property.. “through deceit and intimidation, the matoses stole holland’s investment and interest in ministry ideaz llc,” the complaint states.
-
-
was a new boy
background:
https://westfaironline.com/105235/partners-fighting-over-gift-shop-for-jehovahs-witnesses/
'A Jehovah’s Witness who partnered with a couple he trusted based on their shared faith is suing them over ownership of a religion-themed gift shop in Orange County.
Greg Holland of Victoria, British Columbia, claims in a federal lawsuit that Thomas and Nanci Matos of Pine Bush, coerced him into relinquishing his property.
“Through deceit and intimidation, the Matoses stole Holland’s investment and interest in Ministry Ideaz LLC,” the complaint states. “The Matoses then used Ministry Ideaz’s inventory and cash to establish their own competing business.”
Holland went through a “disfellowship” in January, for his conduct, Thomas Matos replied, and is no longer a Jehovah’s Witness. “As far as all the other charges, they are baseless and we look forward to disproving them in court.”
Holland started Ministry Ideaz in 2002 as an online business from his home in Ecuador. The company makes and sells leather and paper products – such as Bible covers, notebooks and calendars – for Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Last year, he decided to open a store in the U.S. He met the Matoses through a mutual friend and, “based on his trust of fellow members of the Jehovah’s Witness faith, agreed to partner with them.”
Holland held 90 percent of the New York company, and the Matoses owned the rest.
Holland claims he wired more than $40,000 to the Matoses to set up the store and then another $190,000 to cover expenses for nine months. He shipped $250,000 in inventory from Ecuador that he hoped would sell at retail for $750,000.
In May 2017, they opened a storefront in Valley Supreme Plaza in Pine Bush, 25 miles from the Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters.
Business was good. The store sold $38,837 in goods in the first month and another $250,000 in credit card transactions over the following four months.
But Holland became estranged from his wife in late 2017, having engaged in an extramarital affair. His wife moved to Canada with their two children.
Holland describes the Matoses as his “surrogate parents.” They offered emotional support during his marital troubles and assured him that he need not worry about the business because it was in their good hands.
At the same time, Holland alleges, the Matoses were trying to persuade his wife to divorce him, seek sole custody of their children and “extract a financial settlement.”
The Matoses, the complaint states, were already “secretly scheming to steal Holland’s entire investment.”
They registered BestLife Gifts LLC in February, using the Ministry Ideaz address.
On March 2, the Matoses held a “special meeting” at their home and decided to dissolve the company. Holland, the majority owner, claims he was not notified.
Thomas Matos emailed him on the same day, stating, “We are severing ties!”
“The store sign has been removed, the lease has ended, utilities, phones and internet cancelled,” the message said.
“There has been far to (sic) much pressure on Nanci and I being in business with you,” the message stated. “Being associated with Ministry Ideaz has become a liability that has already damaged us.”
To this day, according to the July 25 lawsuit, BestLife operates from the same storefront as Ministry Ideaz, uses the same telephone numbers and sells the same inventory.
On March 5, the complaint states, Thomas Matos threatened to reveal Holland’s marital problems to the customers he had cultivated for 16 years and to stop processing about 1,000 online orders.
Matos allegedly offered a deal. He would not follow through on the threats if Holland signed over his entire interest in Ministry Ideaz, agreed to dissolve the company and relinquished the equipment and inventory.
Holland says he signed the one-page agreement, “fearing that the Matoses would ruin his livelihood and his relationship with his family and his church.”
Holland reconciled with his wife, moved to Canada and “began to grasp the extent of the Matoses’ deceit.”
He is demanding $300,000 in damages, and he wants the court to declare the dissolution deal null and void and to bar the Matoses and BestLife from selling inventory and assets.
Holland is represented by Jack A. Gordon, Joshua B. Katz and Luis F. Calvo of Kent, Beatty & Gordon LLP in Manhattan.'
-
6
Watchtower Propaganda Techniques
by Ding inis there a book (books, articles, etc.
) that systematically examines and exposes wt propaganda techniques?
if not, do you think such a book would be useful in helping people escape the borg or in recovering from their own indoctrination?.
-
-
-
6
Watchtower Propaganda Techniques
by Ding inis there a book (books, articles, etc.
) that systematically examines and exposes wt propaganda techniques?
if not, do you think such a book would be useful in helping people escape the borg or in recovering from their own indoctrination?.
-
-
was a new boy
3. Use of "evidently," "obviously," or "reasonably" in the literature as a substitute for evidence.
Evidently, Charles Taze Russell fell head over heels in love with the word, 'evidently'. Using it 127 times in 1902. While The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses top usage of the word was 115 times in 1991 according to
https://comingoutamycage.github.io/JW_Lib_Analytics/HeatmapWords.html?words=evidently&publication=All&normal=1
-
11530
It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
-
-
was a new boy
That’s an excellent video, but unfortunately now I can’t find it again!
2:25
-
25
Jehovah's Witness Elder, Ron Felt suing Jehovah's Witness he disfellowshiped, for "Harassment"- Broadcasting a recording of JW Ron Felt......
by Balaamsass2 inhttp://www.dover-express.co.uk/8203-ironic-isn-t-says-jehovah-s-witness-court/story-23631047-detail/story.html.
' says jehovah's witness in court for harassing another jehovah's witness.
by dover express | posted: october 27, 2014. by jamie rose exclusive [email protected].
-
-
-
25
Jehovah's Witness Elder, Ron Felt suing Jehovah's Witness he disfellowshiped, for "Harassment"- Broadcasting a recording of JW Ron Felt......
by Balaamsass2 inhttp://www.dover-express.co.uk/8203-ironic-isn-t-says-jehovah-s-witness-court/story-23631047-detail/story.html.
' says jehovah's witness in court for harassing another jehovah's witness.
by dover express | posted: october 27, 2014. by jamie rose exclusive [email protected].
-
-
-
2
How to post good quality images
by Diogenesister ini am as just wondering what the best way is to post a good quality image on the forum.
is there anything we can do to improve an image we have?.
alternatively, if anyone has a good link to something that would help, that would be equally great.. cheers all dio x.
-
-
was a new boy
After posting an image, was unable to delete it. Maybe your update will fix that.
p2
Photo from BestLife Gifts’ website.