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  Shocking Example of JW Elder Corruption

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

  1. watchtower
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  let's play a game of believe it or not, shall we?

  i'll relate a story, and you decide whether you believe it or not.

  what would you think of an elder who told his daughter's fiance that he would kill him if he ever did anything to hurt his daughter?

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  I have no problem believing it .I have witnessed shady dealings between brothers a number of times .

  JW`s are just human beings who have faults like all of mankind (women ) too.

  Google crimes committed by active Jehovah`s Witnesses and you will find they can commit every crime under the sun just like anybody else .

  I personally know of brothers who have been guilty of fraud ,sexual offence, mis-appropriation of KH funds. and a brother who who was found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife and served time in Jail.

  And sexual dalliances between married bros, and sisters .

  The JW religion A spiritual paradise ? I don`t think so.

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  Connections between Christadelphians and Russell´s Biblestudents

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the bible students and the christadelphians have a lot in common.. i searched on facebook... .

  and look what i found:https://www.facebook.com/christadelphianbiblestudents/.

  there´s even a group named like that..

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  joe134cd10 hours ago

  - another religion that is worth researching if your interested in finding similar religions is “ iglasea ni Christo” they are a Phillipines based religion that heavily borrowed from the JWs / LDS

  And I think they actually have more members world wide than Jehovah`s Witnesses do .

  And if that is truly the case then Jehovah is blessing them more than the JW`s
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  Chaos at Gatwick Airport

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754.

  perhaps all major airports will eventually employ their own industrial sized drone, operated by a trained/authorised pilot who can track and pinpoint the nut-jobs who cause such disruption and possible catastrophe..

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  It could simply be youths or teenagers who without thought of consequences are just being foolhardy and thoughtless of the consequences of their actions .

  I hope that`s all it is and the authorities learn how to deal with this in future .

  Maybe their needs to be more controls and restrictions on who can own and fly a drone..

  Simon that was beautiful , I loved that , that is paradise on earth now .
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  JW Australian Finances

  by Attewc in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i imagine someone has done this already, but i couldn't find it in a search.

  feel free to move to another thread if i'm posting in the wrong one.. i've been watching leah remini's scientology show (eerily very similar psychological traits to jw's) and one episode talked about how australia now requires non-profit organizations to make their finances public, so i decided to look for jw's reports.. link to jw's reports:.

  https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#financials-documents.

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  Welcome Attewc ,I`m sure their will be many who will appreciate this post and the information contained here .

  I`m not qualified to make a comment however I`m sure their are others who will relish this information

  thank you.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses... Who sent the Star of Bethlehem?

  by JW Answers in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses... who sent the star of bethlehem?.

  the watchtower teach their followers that the star of bethlehem was sent by non other than satan... however as we take a look at the scriptures by comparing spiritual things with spiritual we begin to see that the star of bethlehem was not sent by satan, but used for the glory of god.a seasonal message to end the year.. watch now here :.

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  A Star as seen in the night sky anywhere on earth is a Sun millions and billions of light years away from earth.

  Much like our Sun only bigger or smaller but still giving off light and heat .

  They do not move across the sky as depicted in the biblical account ,it just didn`t occur .
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  Coping with a change of heart

  by Strugglingrsa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after 24 years of active service as a witness my marriage came to an end causing massive trauma.during this tragic life event for a period of approx 8 months i went haywire.

  drinking.

  partying.smoking.i was disfellowshipped.i met a wonderful non witness along the way and am remarried.what i don't get is this.if an announcement was made that i am no longer a jehovahs witness then why does the bible principle in corinthians about not even greeting he who calls himself a brother still apply.

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  When Peter asked Jesus how many times he was to forgive his brother sinning against him Jesus replied not up to seven times but seventy seven times Matt.18: 21,22.

  So how much more should/would Jesus forgive sinners ?

  So instead of DF people they should be helping them to overcome such transgressions of their religious beliefs as they see it and not blackmail them into submission as what they attempt to do now.

  Luke 17 :3 ,4 .if your brother commits a sin rebuke him and if he repents forgive him .Even if he sins 7 times a day and he comes back to you seven times ,saying I repent you must forgive him .

  Are Jehovah`s Witnesses given this option ?at a Judicial meeting ? are they even aware of this option ?
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  A recent antiwitnessing experience

  by john.prestor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i shared one of these before in which my approach left something to be desired, and i got some flack for that, and rightly so.

  so if this story doesn't go over well i won't share another... but given how it ended, i just had to share.... a few days ago i took a trip to a nearby city by bus.

  in the about 20-30 minute window between my connecting buses i walked over to a mcdonald's and got a cup of coffee, and when i came back to the little bus station i saw a literature cart sitting unmanned near the doors.

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  Well i think you did pretty damned good jp considering it was likely spontaneous and off the cuff.

  We can all sit back after the event and say maybe you should have done this or said that ,like I said you done well.

  Why should we pussy-foot around with them anymore , with all that`s gone on in the organization these past years and they are still in denial they need some hard hitting blunt truth`s to wake them up.

  keep up the good work

  and take care .
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  Jehovah's Witnesses... Who sent the Star of Bethlehem?

  by JW Answers in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses... who sent the star of bethlehem?.

  the watchtower teach their followers that the star of bethlehem was sent by non other than satan... however as we take a look at the scriptures by comparing spiritual things with spiritual we begin to see that the star of bethlehem was not sent by satan, but used for the glory of god.a seasonal message to end the year.. watch now here :.

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  How in the world would a star in the sky lead you anywhere ? It could lead you to a million places on earth .

  This is one of the most ridiculous scriptures in the Bible .

  I challenge any of you to go out on a cloudless night and pick a star and imagine it moves somewhere and see if that identifies a particular specific place on earth .

  If you can do that tell me what lotto numbers I can expect next Saturday night .
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  Connections between Christadelphians and Russell´s Biblestudents

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the bible students and the christadelphians have a lot in common.. i searched on facebook... .

  and look what i found:https://www.facebook.com/christadelphianbiblestudents/.

  there´s even a group named like that..

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  Their were so many religious groups that sprung up in the 1800 `s in America that had to do with the return of Jesus Christ and the End of The World .

  Christadelphians as a religion was founded by John Thomas in the early 1800`s and they did have similar doctrines that JW`s adopted decades later.

  Was Charles Taze Russell influenced by the teachings of John Thomas ? who came before him ? who knows .
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  After all these years

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i found out a couple of weeks ago that friends who i haven’t seen for over 20 years left the watchtower two years ago.

  and it’s having a ripple effect on their friends who are in.. i was also going to post on the thread about posters who’ve left but it seems to have been locked!.

  i have been very busy these last few years, working on my hobbies, writing articles and books and haven’t had much time for jw activism.

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  Another book by an ex JW ,

  I think is a good thing and I also look forward to reading it. Hopefully it gives a different slant as to what has previously been published maybe highlighting the Child Sexual Abuse Scandals that are coming to light around the world by Jehovah`s Witnesses that are calling at the homes of unsuspecting householders exposing their children to a potential Pedophile .

  A chapter on that issue would be great.