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  Days of Elijah by US Marines U-tube

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for all the newbies and lurkers who have been indoctrinated that jw`s are the only ones who know and use the name of jehovah/.

  and i don`t know how to put it up here ,oh well i tried .

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  For all the newbies and lurkers who have been indoctrinated that JW`s are the only ones who know and use the name of Jehovah/

  And I don`t know how to put it up here ,oh well I tried
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  New rules for child sexual abuse?

  by formerministerial in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a european jehovah's witness, who served in an important branch, has sent me the following rumor.. some serious sources are mentioned.

  it clearly shake my perspective of what is going to happen in the coming months.. i'm totally shocked !.

  the law firm managing all the interests of the wt has studied the problem in europe on data protection and actions on files and protocols of child abuse.

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  They prepared a draft for the Legal Department, to create specific instructions for European Union countries:

  - eliminate records, files, data instructions at European level, branches and congregations

  - local elders have to take the decision, according to their inner conscience, that any future case of sexual abuse is exclusively a matter for parents and judicial authorities.

  Surely this would be against the law to comply with these instructions in most country`s and set yourself up for criminal prosecution if you obeyed these directions from the GB.?
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  Question for PIMOS but all welcome

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so once pimo how do you deal with going to the meetings, ministry, social getotgethers, conventions assemblies?.

  for one you know it is all off key,.

  two your 2 hours or more so just wasted (not counting the time getting ready,travelling etc).

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  My heart and best wishes goes out to all of you PIMO and POMI for the sake of family extended and otherwise.

  And anybody else caught in between if their is such a place .
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  Are the G.B.members really good business people ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if i was an author of a book i think i would be over the moon if i was guaranteed a sale of around 5 million or more books for my work.. the jehovah`s witnesses have over 8 million members plus relatives that are fringe dwellers who come to the memorial once a year ,.

  so what a gold mine they have been sitting on as a publishing house .. why didn`t they keep publishing books for the faithful ,they could have even upped the price , and the faithful would have paid especially in prosperous country`s in the west.. they could have milked this venture for years to come as the faithful would have bought anything they would have published .. and their prophets (profits) would have soared ,literally and figuratively for many more years to come ..

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  Pete Zahut ,you may very well be onto something there ,and if they haven`t thought about it before they are certainly going to be thinking about it now
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  Joke Sharing Thread

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. social
  2. humour

  got a good joke or two?

  why not share them.

  here is a fun one.. retirement can be fun.

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  Me...I just read in the "Health & Well being " section of the newspaper that Russian scientists have discovered a cure for the STD of syphilis

  You.. OH ?

  Me.. Yes its called an atomic pill

  You... Oh and what does it do ?

  Me... It gives you a Nu-Clear weapon .
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  Don't give them 2019

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am writing the post i have wanted to write for some time.

  it's a heartfelt note to those still attending meetings, still caught between the lines of watchtower and the world.

  those with kids or a spouse in the society..... despite being mentally out....those who have weighed up that there is too much to lose in leaving.

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  I believe snare&racket `s OP and I believe in overlapping both make interesting valid points for seeing both sides of the issue .

  Its an excellent post "snare" and an equally excellent response "I believe".

  Any lurkers on here would do well to read this post and weigh the pros and cons on what decision they decide .
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  Library now cleared out

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.

  during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.

  i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.

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  Witnesses already can't check books out of the "Kingdom Hall library"

  Is that only in your local KH ? or is it a GB directive ?

  That`s really weird ,a library with books your not allowed to read.
  
  
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  Are the G.B.members really good business people ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if i was an author of a book i think i would be over the moon if i was guaranteed a sale of around 5 million or more books for my work.. the jehovah`s witnesses have over 8 million members plus relatives that are fringe dwellers who come to the memorial once a year ,.

  so what a gold mine they have been sitting on as a publishing house .. why didn`t they keep publishing books for the faithful ,they could have even upped the price , and the faithful would have paid especially in prosperous country`s in the west.. they could have milked this venture for years to come as the faithful would have bought anything they would have published .. and their prophets (profits) would have soared ,literally and figuratively for many more years to come ..

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  (if you go on to the jws own website it tells you that in 2012 they closed 20 bethels around the world down)

  I know they went through or are even still going through a period of cut backs however I didn`t realize they closed down 20 Bethels in one year Is that correct ?

  All of the cutbacks and closures taking place are not the signs of an organization/religion doing well rather it is more like the writing is on the wall as in an imminent end.

  Maybe I should titled this post

  "Are The Current G.B. members good Business people" because obviously the first couple of generations did build up an impressive religious publishing and real estate empire that the current GB members seem hell bent on destroying .
  
  
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  Library now cleared out

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.

  during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.

  i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.

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  Where about`s did this happen ? Maybe not a specific cong .but a country or state ?

  It could be newsworthy if it is a direction from the GB to do it everywhere .

  What religion or any other organization is there that is either ashamed or even embarrassed by their beginnings /early history and is continually re-writing that history as the years roll on ?
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  Robert Alter Completes his New Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the jewish telegraphic agency comments on alter's translation:.

  https://www.jta.org/2018/11/21/culture/robert-alter-completes-monumental-translation-hebrew-bible.

  translation is not an easy task.

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  In this 21st Century their is still $$$ Dollars galore that can be made in making money from thousand year old texts that are not even original and that you can give your own interpretation too .in a gullible market.

  And still the so called inspirational author of these writings Jehovah God is silent .?