Posts by AverageJoe1

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Religious Discrimination; now LEGAL

by lastmanstanding in

newsflash.

there are businesses that are now discriminating in their hiring practices based on the fact that you are a jw.. sure, you think i'm mad.

but it's true.. the business circles have become acutely aware of the -not even 1 year old- decision in the industrial court where a jw ratted out a fellow jw and brought disrepute to the bank where they both worked.

AverageJoe1

Here’s what happened when I tried to access the link (a new one for me):

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Am I imagining this cover or what?

by carla in

i am trying to remember a cover of a wt or awake that had a picture of a priest or maybe even the pope.

i think the issue came out in the height of the catholic sexual abuse cases and being disappointed in your religion or something like that.

i have searched this site and google images but not be using the correct key words.. the reason i am looking for it is because should it come up that jw's are being persecuted due to all the recent publicity i would like to ask a jw if the wt and the mainstream media were 'persecuting' the catholic church when they were uncovering wrongdoing in that religion or any other.

AverageJoe1

@Carla

You’re more than welcome. I too seem to recall a picture like that. I think it was in episode 2 of the “Cults & Extreme Belief” series but I don’t think it was an actual WT cover as I’ve looked through my collection of all WT & Awake covers in colour.

@Days

Interesting observation about the colour scheme. Now that you mention it...

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Am I imagining this cover or what?

by carla in

i am trying to remember a cover of a wt or awake that had a picture of a priest or maybe even the pope.

i think the issue came out in the height of the catholic sexual abuse cases and being disappointed in your religion or something like that.

i have searched this site and google images but not be using the correct key words.. the reason i am looking for it is because should it come up that jw's are being persecuted due to all the recent publicity i would like to ask a jw if the wt and the mainstream media were 'persecuting' the catholic church when they were uncovering wrongdoing in that religion or any other.

AverageJoe1

How about these?

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Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

by TerryWalstrom in

https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

AverageJoe1

My Hero....thanks for the share.

You're more than welcome JD!

Glad to have been of some use.

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A & E Cults-Barbara Anderson

by Joyzabel in

16 years ago dateline's report on jw's and child abuse was aired may 28, 2002, a tuesday night and tonight a&e aired on may 29, 2018, tuesday night!.

i can't help but think how barbara has tirelessly worked to expose the child abuse issue within the watchtower/jw.org and is still working to not only expose the problem but to help change the laws in the usa to help protect children.

she has a wealth of information gathered for over 20 years on how the governing body protects the pedophile and not help the victims .

AverageJoe1

Here you go folks: https://we.tl/xEk1VRVIDO

This WeTransfer link expires on 6th May 2018 so download it before then!

MKV file size 609Mb.

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Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

by TerryWalstrom in

https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

AverageJoe1

Here you go folks: https://we.tl/xEk1VRVIDO

This WeTransfer link expires on 6th May 2018 so download it before then!

MKV file size 609Mb.

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A&E - Cults and Extreme Belief - Jehovah's Witnesses

by Incognito in

jw
friends

i haven't seen this posted.. tuesday may 29, 2018 @ 10pm (new york time zone).

cults and extreme belief - jehovah's witnesses.

AverageJoe1

Here you go folks: https://we.tl/xEk1VRVIDO

This WeTransfer link expires on 6th May 2018 so download it before then!

MKV file size 609Mb.

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Impact of GDPR on WT HQ and EU branches?

by respectful_observer in

curious if any of our eu-based members (especially those still in) have heard anything from official wt channels on how the organisation plans to be in compliance with gdpr ("general data protection regulations") by may 2018?

it's my understanding that religious organisations must comply, and that religious data is treated a "protected" and therefore subject to some enhance requirements.. specifically, how will they comply with the following requirements:.

you must disclose to the individual: what data you collect on them, why, and what you do with the data (including what other parties receive the data and what they do with it).

AverageJoe1

@zboubiz

At the elders meeting we were told who refused to sign and that they displayed an “unchristian, rebellious attitude”. Then my wife tells me that some sisters in the cong were talking about who hadn’t signed it and how they didn’t have any privileges (I’m guessing here that the elders told their wives).

The families that have refused to sign have had all their privileges removed: they can’t participate in the program from the platform (so no CLAM assignments, no reading parts, no handling microphones, nothing)!

@respectful

Then in the “Spiritual Gems” Talk, the brother spent 5 minutes talking about “loyalty” to Jehovah and his Organisation by signing the GDPR form and how by not doing so it revealed a bad attitude. I was so taken aback that I didn’t even think to record it. I should have in hindsight.

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Impact of GDPR on WT HQ and EU branches?

by respectful_observer in

curious if any of our eu-based members (especially those still in) have heard anything from official wt channels on how the organisation plans to be in compliance with gdpr ("general data protection regulations") by may 2018?

it's my understanding that religious organisations must comply, and that religious data is treated a "protected" and therefore subject to some enhance requirements.. specifically, how will they comply with the following requirements:.

you must disclose to the individual: what data you collect on them, why, and what you do with the data (including what other parties receive the data and what they do with it).

AverageJoe1

Not a lot of impact really. We’ve had 3 families in our hall not sign anything despite the elders naming and shaming them amongst themselves and then having all their privileges removed.

WT are helping the R&F to wake themselves up!

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2018-05-18-BOE--Instructions For Circuit Accounting!

by Atlantis in

2018-05-18-s-331-e-boeinstructions for circuit accounting6-pageshttps://we.tl/lm1hgyqxe3atlantis!.

AverageJoe1

Or in layman’s terms: “How to cook the books”!

Will have a read later. Thanks Atlantis. Does it have a paragraph that says, “always start your assembly announcements with, ‘brothers we have a deficit’”?!