Topics Started by InquiryMan

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Shaking Down Satan - WT Sues Norway
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i wonder how many witnesses are aware that the wt and their team of lawyers are currently suing the government of norway for millions of dollars?

i thought that the wt taught that all the governments were run by satan.

when i was a witness, this would have really bothered me.
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Are JWs forgetting Jesus altogether?
by KerryKing in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a relative sent me yesterday's wt study article 46, how jehovah guarantees his promise of paradise.. it's been a long time since i read one of those articles but what really struck me about this one is that, considering it's discussing a fundamental jw belief, it only mentions jesus twice as an aside, and not at all as the central figure like the bible does.

it actually mentions satan far more in the same article!.

i don't remember this discrepancy from my time in the org 15 years ago.
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2023 Yearly Report UNDER the Microscope
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/pi7sn2rnrke?si=lnvklqct6nuayv2q.

branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 85 (= down one from 86 from the previous year and quite possibly they are referring to the hong kong bethel that closed down recently).

number of lands reporting: 239 ( =the same as 2022).
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Belgian court decision
by vienne in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://bitterwinter.org/the-ghent-saga-ends-belgium-cassation-court-confirms-that-shunning-is-lawful/.
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JWs and Coping with Reality
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
become a jw only if you can't cope with the real world.

i believe i picked this up here but can't find the thread.

i think it worth a repost.. “top ten reasons jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are suing the Dutch state for discrimination
by jochie in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
jehovah's witnesses believe it is unfair that the state only investigated their handling of abuse cases, and not other religious organizations.jehovah's witnesses have sued the dutch state for discrimination, the national government told trouw.

the reason: only their handling of sexual abuse has been scrutinized by the government, while other religious groups remained unaffected.

they find the fact that only they were the 'target' unfounded and therefore discriminatory.. the fact that a religious organization is suing the state is 'fairly unique', says special professor of law and religion paul van sasse van ijsselt.
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Nobody else understands
by ElderBerry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if you once were fully pimi and truly believed jw doctrine to the core like i once did, when you come to the reality that it is not the truth at all it can be extremely devastating.. i think only other ex jws could ever understand.

i wasted my entire life i thought the real life was yet to come to wasted the best years knocking on doors.

now i’m so angry.. i can understand why so many top themselves when they realise it was all lies..
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Did Geoffrey Jackson lie under oath at the ARC?
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i understand he intimated that the faithful slave was not the only spokesman for jehovah god.

he also intimated that corporal punishment was not advocated by the wts.

we're these lies or deception or did they represent the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?.
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Literature Carts
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
whenever i see a photo of a literature cart, they all look the same to me.

are they a standard design?

who makes them?
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Associated Press. "JW's Time Keepers No More
by Bill Covert in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
associated press article.

11-22-23 peter smith.. "timekeepers no more rank-and-file jehovah's witnesses say goodbye to tracking proselytizing hours".

made big time news..