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No more judicial committee if maybe suicidal

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the new direction in the new elders book is very clear.

absolutely no jd if there is a suspicion of suicidal thoughts.. this is obviously due to the high number of suicidal attempts after the announcement that someone is no longer a jw and the shunning that accompanied it.. so what will happen now going forward if situations arise where there would formerly have been a jd and they say there is suicidal thoughts?.

i can’t see it working, but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book.

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ExBethelitenowPIMA, you started three threads in the past five days where plenty of ex-JWs who have experienced shunning poured out their heart to you in response to topics including suicidal feelings and what could be changed in the borg.

Did you even read what most of them posted? Did you try to commend them or comfort them, especially the ones who have been through the ringer?

Nope. You didn't even notice.

Do you really care about "change" in the borg? Do you really care about "shepherding" the flock?

These guys in the borg don't care either.

"Easyprompt I am an experienced elder, I have been in Bethel for many years and I suspect I know far more than you. As my name suggests I’m now out of Bethel but I go back there all the time. I was there at Chelmsford again recently.
Can I ask you what makes you think you know so much? Have you only recently been out or has it been a long time?
Can you tell me any Bethel Elders you know of on the service desk or on the Branch committee?
You sound like you do know some higher ups please tell me their names because I probably worked with them for years"

Here are few pictures of some people I know at Bethel...

One of the elders in my old KH has tuned pianos at Bethel as a commuter for years. His name is Mel. He was at Bethel in his younger years. His son, Jeffrey, has worked as Mark Sanderson's secretary. Sam is also from my old hall. You might know Neil and his wife, they're from England. You've probably heard of Robert Hendriks before too.

If you would read the links I shared with you on the other thread, you would see these things for yourself. I've already given you plenty of evidence that I know what I'm talking about when I tell you the elders don't care, the branch doesn't care, the GB doesn't care.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6553089276903424/three-amish-bishops-who-told-woman-rescind-protective-order-against-husband-guilty-intimidation

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No more judicial committee if maybe suicidal

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the new direction in the new elders book is very clear.

absolutely no jd if there is a suspicion of suicidal thoughts.. this is obviously due to the high number of suicidal attempts after the announcement that someone is no longer a jw and the shunning that accompanied it.. so what will happen now going forward if situations arise where there would formerly have been a jd and they say there is suicidal thoughts?.

i can’t see it working, but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book.

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ExBethelitenowPIMA said: "No Elder on the body wants to take responsibility and claim the sinner is not suicidal and then the person attempts suicide."

Do you even know any elders, ExBethelitenowPIMA?

You have NO CLUE what you are talking about.

The "elders" don't care. They are trained to not care. They are borg. You keep talking about stuff you have no clue about. Have you ever even been in the JWborg?

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No more judicial committee if maybe suicidal

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the new direction in the new elders book is very clear.

absolutely no jd if there is a suspicion of suicidal thoughts.. this is obviously due to the high number of suicidal attempts after the announcement that someone is no longer a jw and the shunning that accompanied it.. so what will happen now going forward if situations arise where there would formerly have been a jd and they say there is suicidal thoughts?.

i can’t see it working, but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book.

EasyPrompt

GB/FD$ "Guardian$ of Doctrine"

🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

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No more judicial committee if maybe suicidal

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the new direction in the new elders book is very clear.

absolutely no jd if there is a suspicion of suicidal thoughts.. this is obviously due to the high number of suicidal attempts after the announcement that someone is no longer a jw and the shunning that accompanied it.. so what will happen now going forward if situations arise where there would formerly have been a jd and they say there is suicidal thoughts?.

i can’t see it working, but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book.

EasyPrompt

enoughisenough said: "but who is going to tell them?" and "some may not become suicidal until after"

enoughisenough is right.

ExBethelitenowPIMA said: "The way the Borg works is these super fine apostles make these new direction rules at the top, who have no experience of real life never been parents or done a days work in the real world. They have no idea what things are like today having to get an education to be able to cope with the high cost of living."

ExBethelitenowPIMA, That's not true.

For instance, Anthony Morris had kids, an education, and experienced "real life"(whatever you mean by that🙄).

The men and women working at Bethel know how to work hard.

The problem with the borg isn't just "the way the borg works". It's that there even Is A Borg.

The Bethel commune setup is not scripturally based.

The FDS/GB exaltation is not scripturally based.

The disfellowshipping doctrine is not scripturally based.

To attempt to patch up something that is intrinsically wrong would be foolish.

"Nobody sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old outer garment, for the new piece pulls away from the garment and the tear becomes worse. Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins. If they do, then the wineskins burst and the wine spills out and the wineskins are ruined. But people put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

The borg way isn't Jesus' way. The borg way is busted. Jesus is coming to make all things new.

He said, "Hold fast what you have until I come."

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No more judicial committee if maybe suicidal

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the new direction in the new elders book is very clear.

absolutely no jd if there is a suspicion of suicidal thoughts.. this is obviously due to the high number of suicidal attempts after the announcement that someone is no longer a jw and the shunning that accompanied it.. so what will happen now going forward if situations arise where there would formerly have been a jd and they say there is suicidal thoughts?.

i can’t see it working, but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book.

EasyPrompt

ExBethelitenowPIMA said: "but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book."

No, they don't.

ExBethelitenowPIMA, Massimo Introvigne says the same thing as you, that the elders always go by what is written in their publications, but he says a lot of things he really knows nothing about.

Have you ever been through a "shepherding call"? Have you ever been through a judicial hearing or an appeal hearing?

The elders don't "always follow" what is in their book. Only when it's convenient for them.

Why are you trying to advertise for the borg elder book anyway? Do you have stock in their "publishing company" or something?

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RNZ investigation reveals 11 alleged pedophiles active within JWs

by EasyPrompt in

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/495727/rnz-investigation-reveals-11-alleged-paedophiles-active-within-the-jehovah-s-witnesses.

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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jehovahs-witnesses-investigation-reveals-11-alleged-paedophiles-active-within-the-church/xfyeqifk2zfzxnj2ugp5yafxra/.

EasyPrompt

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/495727/rnz-investigation-reveals-11-alleged-paedophiles-active-within-the-jehovah-s-witnesses

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jehovahs-witnesses-investigation-reveals-11-alleged-paedophiles-active-within-the-church/XFYEQIFK2ZFZXNJ2UGP5YAFXRA/

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Half of disfellowshipped one suicidal?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

jw
friends

this ex brother says about half of disfellowshipped ones are suicidal at about 43 minutes into this video https://youtube.com/watch?v=otcdksnf4zo&feature=sharec.

it really is that brutal having your family and friends shun you that many unfortunately do actually take their own lives including steve letts nephew.. no wonder the drastic change in the elders book to not have any more judicial committees if suspected it would make them suicidal.. this is probably one of the largest changes in recent history that most rank and file don’t know about yet.. how it will work in practice i just don’t know.

what if someone keeps sinning but says it’s weakness not wickedness and they are suicidal?

EasyPrompt

(I posted the transcript of one of the elder "shepherding call" meetings on this thread, as well as copies of various emails from the elders...they are not shepherds - they are wolves...)

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6553089276903424/three-amish-bishops-who-told-woman-rescind-protective-order-against-husband-guilty-intimidation

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Half of disfellowshipped one suicidal?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

jw
friends

this ex brother says about half of disfellowshipped ones are suicidal at about 43 minutes into this video https://youtube.com/watch?v=otcdksnf4zo&feature=sharec.

it really is that brutal having your family and friends shun you that many unfortunately do actually take their own lives including steve letts nephew.. no wonder the drastic change in the elders book to not have any more judicial committees if suspected it would make them suicidal.. this is probably one of the largest changes in recent history that most rank and file don’t know about yet.. how it will work in practice i just don’t know.

what if someone keeps sinning but says it’s weakness not wickedness and they are suicidal?

EasyPrompt

I don't believe it. Who's the "they" who knows about the "change"? When did this supposed "change" happen?

Look, I was just disfellowshipped last year. The charge was "reviling and causing divisions" since I reported abuse and warned the rest of the congregation via email. The elder in question was a COBE and HLC and substitute pioneer school teacher and a high rated convention speaker, and the other elders wouldn't proceed with the procedures as written in the elder book. Instead they did everything they could to throw in "monkey wrenches" and dance around even their own procedures. I sent copies of a transcript of one of the "shepherding calls" to Bethel, as well as copies of emails sent to me by the CO and different elders so that Bethel would see how they weren't following their own supposed procedures. (A lot of that time was during COVID, so much of the communication was via email and Zoom rather than at the KH.) It turns out Bethel was the one telling these guys what to do, so they could keep that elder in "use". There were three different KHs involved, three bodies of elders, two COs, and then the appeal committee with elders from another circuit/KHs.

For months, one tactic these guys used was to copy a paragraph from the w88 about mentally deranged people shouting out during meetings and quote it to me saying "you need to be medicated." They even said "we'll take you to the doctor so you can get treatment" even though I very clearly told them I regularly see my medical practitioner for a thyroid disorder that is treated with medications, thank you very much, I have a clean bill of health and I am under no need for any psych medications. I have never disrupted a meeting. Those elders kept giving me assignments to research and arrange phone and writing territories during COVID, and they kept calling on me to comment during Zoom meetings. It wasn't until I sent emails to the congregation members to tell them what was going on about the abuse situation that the "get medicated" baloney started getting shot at me on the "shepherding calls".

Eventually after several extremely rude and condescending "shepherding calls" I told those elders - "Fine - make an appointment. Sure, you can take me, and when we go in to the doctor, I'll tell him that these elder-clergy-guys here with me want me to be drugged up because I keep telling on how they are allowing an abuser to stay an elder in the congregation." After that, they stopped with the "we'll help you get to the doctor" bit, but they stripped "privileges" little by little, saying "we're not supporting your ministry any more, no more literature for you" and "no more Zoom meetings" since I would turn off my video/audio during their hypocritical prayers. Then when meetings were going to resume "no coming to the KH" since I asked to meet with the elder in question about the abuse and the elders didn't want to have to follow up "with the second part of Matthew 18". (They told me they wouldn't talk to that elder about the abuse allegations until I confronted him first, and that I hadn't talked to him yet since he wouldn't answer my repeated phone calls and letters.) They got a trespassing ban on me when the KHs were opening up again because they didn't want to have to follow through with the abuse procedures. Bethel told them how to avoid having to follow those procedures.

These guys have known me for over 20 years. I pioneered for five years, then married an elder and raised my two kids as good little Jehovah's Witnesses. They were baptized at ages 9 and 11. I auxiliary pioneered every year a few months of the year. I was interviewed on different parts at conventions. They never gave me a hard time about being "disruptive" until I told the truth about abuse an elder did, and then they threw me under the bus.

They disfellowshipped me even though they labeled me "mentally" whatever. Their label was a lie, just like their charges for disfellowshipping me were a lie. They don't care about anyone, ExBethelitenowPIMA. Those "changes" are just for show. They are a pack of liars who are trying to "rule as kings" now. They have slaves. They have positions and people paying for their cars and insurance and food. It's a scam. They aren't letting go of their "kingdom" until Jesus comes and rips it away from them.

If it's to their advantage to "disfellowship" someone, they'll do it. It doesn't matter to them if the person is suicidal or not, or whether they are guilty or not. My alcoholic husband was caught smoking, committing adultery, celebrating Christmas, arrested for domestic assault and breaking conditions, there were plenty of witnesses, he never repented, and he was not disfellowshipped because he supports the elder worship/GB worship.

It's a scam. It's all a bunch of baloney.

Here is part of an email from one CO to me...

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Is WT Teachig on Hell Biblical?

by Sea Breeze in

i guess you could say jesus was the first christian, since he was the christ.

and as the first christian, jesus spoke more about hell that any other biblical figure.

but, he is also the figure that said that he didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.

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More for Rattigan350☺️...

The WTBT$ teaches that the preaching work will be over when the great tribulation begins, but they have that backwards too. They've been preaching that Jesus has been king since 1914, but they haven't been telling the truth. He wasn't king then. Once the great tribulation begins, we'll know he was made king in heaven. Then it will be time to preach that he's been made king.

"However, when they hand you over, do not become anxious about how or what you are to speak, for what you are to speak will be given you in that hour; for the ones speaking are not just you, but it is the spirit of your Father that speaks by you."

"However, how will they call on him if they have not put faith in him? How, in turn, will they put faith in him about whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach? How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent out?"

"Jesus said to them again: “May you have peace. Just as the Father has sent me, I also am sending you.” After saying this he blew on them and said to them: “Receive holy spirit.""

"But you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, in all Ju·deʹa and Sa·marʹi·a, and to the most distant part of the earth.”

When you see the attack of the nations break out on all the religious institutions, you will know that Jesus has been enthroned in heaven and he is furiously "riding the white horse" to clear Jehovah's name of reproach. Love will motivate you to announce in that hour that Jesus has become King in heaven, to rule for a little while amidst his enemies here on earth. That will be the time to maintain loyalty to the Kingdom by showing love for people and God, to obey God as ruler rather than men when those men ask us to do things that are not in harmony with God's will. It will then be time to comfort the people, to let them know the tribulation will last 3 1/2 years (while the nations attempt to make a go of world rulership without hypocritical religious institutions) but that Jesus will come at the end of that time and set all things right, since humans aren't meant to rule one another and just make a big mess out of it.

"In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Ju·deʹa, saying: “Repent, for the Kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” This, in fact, is the one spoken of through Isaiah the prophet in these words: “A voice of one calling out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of Jehovah! Make his roads straight.’”"

The 3 1/2 years will be like "hell" for religious institutions in that they will be removed. But lowly ones will be alright. We'll do our best to comfort others during that time. We don't have to be afraid, because we're not alone. "I will be with you all the days," said Jesus, and "I am not alone, for the Father is with me."

(It is quite likely that forums discussing religion like this will no longer be permitted by the nations during that time of tribulation.)

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Is WT Teachig on Hell Biblical?

by Sea Breeze in

i guess you could say jesus was the first christian, since he was the christ.

and as the first christian, jesus spoke more about hell that any other biblical figure.

but, he is also the figure that said that he didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.

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Oops @Fisherman, I think Vanderhoven meant it as a question that has an obvious answer...God will not keep people alive to torture them forever. It's never come up into His heart. 🙂

The answer to that question "when will God grant immortality to the wicked" is Never. You are right, Fisherman - life is a blessing not a curse. 🙂

The "fire" illustrations that Jesus gave in the gospels and the related plagues of Revelation are illustrative of the time during the "appointed times of the nations" aka the three and a half years of the great tribulation when the nations attack religious institutions and the Pharisee-types are removed from their prestigious positions and the false religious doctrines are destroyed. That time period has a beginning and it has an end.

"Truly I say to you that this generation will by no means pass away until all these things happen." Since it's only 3 1/2 years, we will see the beginning and the end of that time period. Jesus was telling us so that we wouldn't freak out when the tribulation begins. Jesus and the angels will help us get through that 3 1/2 years, just like they helped the Israelites get through the wilderness time.