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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

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  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  If they wipe out his video history, that would crank the rumor mill into overdrive. It's an interesting dilemma. Ray Franz had a hand in writing a lot of the content in the Aid to Bible Understanding book. Others who were removed during that purge also helped write books and articles. None of that content was removed or recalled. Since the writer's names weren't on any of the content, I guess they felt safe in leaving it alone. That's not the case with Morris.

  Now that I think of it, is there anything in Insight on the Scriptures that was copied from the Aid book? I wonder how much current information was written by those who were removed for apostasy in the 1980s.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  TonusOH

  Morris can still identify himself as the Faithful and Debauched Slave, I suppose.
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  Every JW Elder In State Of Pennsylvania Subpoenaed

  by JW GoneBad in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  breaking news!

  every jehovah’s witness elder in the 67 counties of pennsylvania are being given notice by state attorney's office to turn over any & all documents relating to child sex abuse cases!

  watch attached video beginning at time-stamp 101:00...pay particular attention to what is said after 103:00.this is wild!.

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  TonusOH

  They could always violate the law in the interests of doing what is right, and trust in Jehovah to see them through it. It wouldn't be the first time they advocated taking a stand in the face of dire consequences. It might be a bit too close to home, perhaps.
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  Every JW Elder In State Of Pennsylvania Subpoenaed

  by JW GoneBad in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  breaking news!

  every jehovah’s witness elder in the 67 counties of pennsylvania are being given notice by state attorney's office to turn over any & all documents relating to child sex abuse cases!

  watch attached video beginning at time-stamp 101:00...pay particular attention to what is said after 103:00.this is wild!.

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  TonusOH

  Fisherman: All it takes is a Google search to confirm what I said.

  Yes, you are right about the federal law and priest/lawyer/client relationships, and I am wrong.

  I stand by my point about the WTS's approach, since we must keep in mind that many of the unreported crimes were not confessions by suspects, but accusations by victims. Otherwise, there would be no point to all of the subpoenas.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  TonusOH

  It'll be interesting to see if they offer up any details. Did he step down? Was he asked to step down? Is it due to illness? Did they sack him for expressing a personal opinion? Was the liquor cabinet inadequately stocked for the most recent meeting???
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  Blood question re: sample for testing

  by carla in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  why can jw's give blood samples for testing in a medical setting?

  i was with someone once (non jw related) who was getting multiple tests done and they must have taken a good pint all together in separate vials.

  how do jw's square this with their blood policies?

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  TonusOH

  The WTS is against the transfusion of blood. Storing blood for the purpose of transfusing it into a person is what they object to (even if it is your own blood). Blood that is drawn for testing is, presumably, discarded in accordance with local laws and regulations. It is understood that this blood is not collected for transfusions.

  I'm not defending their stance regarding blood transfusions, just pointing out that they have a rational reason for not linking a blood draw to them.
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  Details of Noah’s Ark

  by enigma1863 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw magazines have claimed the flood story has so much detail that it couldn’t be just a made up story.. is it detailed?

  name one person outside of noah’s family.

  name one nephilim.

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  Genesis 6:4 - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

  If we go only by the Genesis account, the Nephilim were 'heroes' and 'men of renown.' There are two other mentions, one in Ezekiel (which refers to mighty warriors, but does not use the word Nephilim) and one in Numbers (which, presumably, refers to their existence after the flood? The verse above seems to imply this as well).

  The verse in Genesis seems like it was added in at some point, as it doesn't seem to fit in context. In any case, they seem like heroes of legend and not wicked dominators of men (though the verse in Numbers implies that they did terrorize people). Many cultures revere the powerful people who led them and/or kept them safe, and over time these characters are mythologized.
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  How did it come to this?

  by New day in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am now in my early 60’s.

  i was baptized in 1980. i served as a ministerial servant and an elder.

  i gave my all for many years but about eight years ago i started to question many things.

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  New day: I look back on my life as a Witness and now I am basically a non-entity

  While I understand the sentiment, I see it almost as the opposite for myself. When I was a JW, I had to control my thoughts and behavior and go down the simple track designed for me by the organization. Many things that I would have liked to do were forbidden. Life had to be simple and bland and practically devoid of anything aside from the JW treadmill. Meetings, field service, the occasional get-together where you had to mind how you acted and what you said, and so on.

  JWs are taught that anyone who wants to be free of that control wants to misbehave and do terrible things that will offend God and prevent them from being saved. But what are some of those awful behaviors? Growing a beard. Getting a tattoo. Wearing snug clothing. Celebrating holidays. Smoking a cigarette. How can you consider that list and not recognize the tight, smothering control they want to have over you?

  I am not a non-entity now. But I was one when I was a JW.
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  If death is the result of sin, why do animals die?

  by Orgull in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my first week of posts here were very serious and all the wonderful, encouraging replies helped me very much.. so now i want to ask something semi-frivolous.

  (actually it's one of the many things that don't make sense to me about "the truth").

  why do animals die?.

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  TonusOH

  If I am remembering the story correctly, Adam and Eve covered themselves with leaves. It was God who provided them with animal skins. I wonder where he got them...
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  2. scandals

  original reddit post (removed).

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  TonusOH

  I didn't watch the interview, and don't plan to. But it sounds like the comments section was heavily moderated, and that Evans himself spent hours beforehand making sure things were sanitized. The callers were screened and one made it through before getting cut off, but Evans had to address the interruption anyway.

  To me, that's a success. Anyone intrigued enough to want to know more about Evans will also want to know what that was all about, and it shouldn't take long to figure out that he's not the innocent victim of a harassment campaign, but an awful person. It also serves as a reminder to him that this isn't going to go away.