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  The two elders threaten my sister again

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as i reported here in this forum, some time ago, my sister was constantly harried by two elders so as to be submitted to a judiciary committee for apostasy.

  these two elders were constantly hounding her in the street when she walks to go to her job.

  so she had to send them a notary letter in which she wrote that she would attend the judiciary committee only with her attorney.

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  opusdei1972 You may find the information here from Marvin Shilmers Blog most useful:

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.co.za/2012/03/judicial-committee-preparation.html
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  JW to be banned in Russia soon?

  by I am a Bible Student in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i saw this on jw.org today:.

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  http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2161

  By Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service

  Three Jehovah's Witness communities are trying to challenge lower court orders that they be liquidated as "extremist" and are awaiting Supreme Court decisions. The cases brought to six the number of their communities banned as "extremist". Court moves to liquidate a seventh were launched in May 2015. Since spring 2015 at least seven further Jehovah's Witness communities have received written "extremism" warnings from prosecutors, a frequent prelude to liquidation suits, Forum 18 News Service has found. A Jehovah's Witness community in Arkhangelsk applied to liquidate itself in October 2015, just weeks before Regional Governor Igor Orlov told the local Russian Orthodox Diocese website of "ongoing work to ensure the de-legalisation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Arkhangelsk Region". All these moves mark an intensification of law enforcement efforts to curtail Jehovah's Witness activity, Forum 18 notes. One Muslim community is known to have been similarly liquidated, with a second being issued a warning.

  
  
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  Banned from the second school!

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been told by a jw friend that when her hall recently had a refurb that big changes were made to the second school.. one, a large sign has been placed on the door telling people not to use it and to sit in the main hall itself.. two,that all the chairs which used to face the large windows looking into the main hall are now side on to the window facing the wall instead.. this is because "so many people were sitting out in there!

  people were finding all manner of exhuses to sit-in there and the brothers want us to all be together in the main hall!

  " she said.. of course i didn't tell her what i really thought of this but seriously?

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  I was fetched and taken to the "barber-shop" by one such overbearing elder when I was about 19 yrs. He then also proceeded to instruct the barber on how my hair should be cut [I came out looking like a cross between a Nazi and Kim-un-Jerk of North Korea]. I then rebelled totally...........left home [Dad was an abusive alcoholic anyway] and grew my hair + beard ............

  This elder screwed with many lives ......
  
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  JW.ORG Channel on Roku

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on my roku box, i went to the most popular channels and there sits jw.org.

  it has a rating of 5 stars with over 43,000 reviews!

  more than the nbc news channel, and more than the history channel.

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  Maybe people are into that type of humour ?

  Or when you have 8 million faithful Kool-Aid drinking followers you will get a lot of people willing and ready to obey and view your TV channel. I am sure that if Kim-un-Jerk of North Korea had to have a TV channel ALL Koreans would faithfully view it and it would garner high ratings levels too.

  Don't let stats deceive you into anything.

  Porn Channels would probably show a high stat too !
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  I need your feedback re: anti-shunning campaign

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  alright, so i posted earlier this week about my desire to put together some sort of campaign to target the friends and family that shun us before the regional convention part on shunning.

  my goal is to produce a postcard that can be mailed out to those that shun us to contrast shunning and love before it is cemented in their minds this summer.

  i want to make them think twice.

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  Lovely Poem for your campaign !

  Don't say too much ! Have you ever seen the glazing-over of the eyes of a Dub whose core beliefs have just been challenged ? And be sure to direct them to a source of good info: eg JW-Facts/
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  This week's resurrection video, will it backfire on the wt?

  by prologos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the resurrection is supposed to be a joyous occasion?, if it ever happened!

  --well, this week's showing at the hall was the opposite, it was about death with violins playing in the background.

  a recently bereaved member, , full of tears, (like many others) could not contain herself.

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  It sick and cheap and disgusting manipulation ..................................
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  Memorial attendance

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my spies seem a bit confused.

  here, in this neck of the woods 3 congregations had 3 separate sittings.

  the attendance seemed to be swelling.

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  With multiple sittings you often have some going to other congregations to get the early or later sitting etc so it skews the figures and in my neck of the woods there is a school vacation over this time so many have travelled to other locales.

  I don't think we must fixate on memorial attendance numbers at all as being any indicator of anything lest we fall into a similar trap.
  
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  So... Are they done printing the number of partakers?

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  during the wt study yesterday i had a confused look on my face the whole meeting.

  more of a, wtf, face.

  one paragraph says, "therefore,the number of partakers does not accurately indicate the number of anointed ones left on earth.".

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  sir82 Tornintwo - Great point you make [and others here too!] - Its this reasoning and the arrogance that accompanies it that makes me so angry.
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  Survey of Involvement in Cults / Religious Groups : PhD Research Project

  by ZAPPA-ESQUE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  its a short anonymous survey - perhaps you would like to contribute 5 minutes- .

  via: icsa (international cultic studies association).

  ""i'm passing on the message below from a duke university student who is conducting a research study that has gone through the duke institutional review board.

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  OneEyedJoe - Hi ...This is not my survey but I receive reports and e-mails from the ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) - anyone can subscribe btw. They flagged me about the survey.
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  So... Are they done printing the number of partakers?

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  during the wt study yesterday i had a confused look on my face the whole meeting.

  more of a, wtf, face.

  one paragraph says, "therefore,the number of partakers does not accurately indicate the number of anointed ones left on earth.".

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  I am going to throw my hand in with the side speculating that the Stat is going to be dropped - its annual egg on their faces.

  Even still-in's are quipping : " The little flock is becoming the Great Crowd" -