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  Mental health treatment

  by kidchameleon43 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i'm actually not a jw, but i've always been curious about the religion since it always had an esoteric vibe to it.

  i was raised catholic, but more than half my life i've struggled with my faith, and therefore, i've defaulted to the agnostic position.. i'm sorry, let me get to my question.

  i've struggled with mental illness for most of my life.

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  cha ching

  From my 50+ years inside this organization, I have seen the viewpoint change with time. A long time ago, the 1960's and 70's, people in general (from what I could tell) did not want to be known as someone who was sent to a *Psych ward.," as we called it.

  JWs were wary of "counseling" or therapy... That would mean that you valued what a worldly doctor/therapist could do for you, versus wisdom from God's word.... Especially regarding marriage counseling.

  Over time, 60 years, slowly the need for drugs and therapy has become more accepted, as people have allowed themselves to be more educated.

  Sometimes, it can vary with where you live.

  Hope this helps.
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  TONY MORRIS , IS GONE, CONNECTING THE DOTS

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/ewp8o6dgwmg.

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  In his last talk, he was not connecting the dots, I was wondering if he was wavering.
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  Newspaper Article about JWs resuming door knocking

  by fred1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from the houston chronicle.

  isn't it wonderful how jws don't judge anyone and love everyone?.

  jehovah’s witnesses have restarted their door-to-door ministry after more than two and a half years on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, reviving a religious practice that the faith considers crucial and cherished.. from coast to coast, members of the christian denomination fanned out in cities and towns thursday to share literature and converse about god for the first time since march 2020.. in the jamaica plain neighborhood on the south side of boston, dan and carrie sideris spent a balmy morning walking around knocking on doors and ringing bells.

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  What a "balmy little report" on the very merry work of Jehovah's Witnesses. 🤪
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  Prediction of how Watchtower going to be in 5 Years.

  by Foolednomore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can see it that watchtower will become an online/tv based group with just con-vention hall$.. field service would be letter writing and phone preaching, door to door is done.. watchtower will have pay to view programs and still ask for donations after all that.. zoom meetings are here to stay.

  kingdumb halls will be sold off except for con-vention venues, or need for new ones$.. df'ing will continue.

  the craziness will continue.

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  I have been on exjw Reddit. So many young people see thru/ behind the curtain, no problemo.

  After "this" generation turns 18, I believe there will be a big surprise.
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  Mark Toutjian International Gilead Child Molester...

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  in the 80s there was an bethel elder in the mexico branch, he was graduated along with his wife ruth becerril from gilead school.

  he was in charge of meps and the whole computer department... he then started had sex with a 14 year girl in his congregation in the city of texcoco mexico.... he was then df and kicked of bethel but his wife stayed.

  he then moved to usa took the girl with him and married her and a couple of years later was re appointed an elder again.. i saw a news article that an elder ex bethelite computer consultant from concord ca with the same name was charged on 1999 by the fbi for having sex with a minor in texas.. both from the same city elders jw and computer consultants.... i wonder what happened with his case..

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  I knew of him and his family... This FBI matter just "disappeared"
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  Mark Toutjian International Gilead Child Molester...

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  in the 80s there was an bethel elder in the mexico branch, he was graduated along with his wife ruth becerril from gilead school.

  he was in charge of meps and the whole computer department... he then started had sex with a 14 year girl in his congregation in the city of texcoco mexico.... he was then df and kicked of bethel but his wife stayed.

  he then moved to usa took the girl with him and married her and a couple of years later was re appointed an elder again.. i saw a news article that an elder ex bethelite computer consultant from concord ca with the same name was charged on 1999 by the fbi for having sex with a minor in texas.. both from the same city elders jw and computer consultants.... i wonder what happened with his case..

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  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/news/amp/Concord-Man-Accused-of-Meeting-Teen-Via-Internet-2947002.php
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  What would happen if the Watchtower decided no more meeting at Kingdom Halls, only Zoom?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m seeing my hard core believing relatives slowly losing faith that the watchtower is the organization that “god” is using to represent him on earth.. just about all the churches in their area have opened up.. but not the watchtower.. this is having an affect on the faith of even the old timers.

  now the only ones who are still holding the faith are the female jws and only those past 70 years of age.

  even my old male jw relative past 70 are starting to say that it can’t be jehovah’s organization because the other churches are all open and god supposed organization who is supposed to preach the warning message is still closed with no open in sight.

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  Personally, I think of the WTBS as a corporation. A business, interested in making money. I believe they have "seen the writing on the wall," young people exiting, more waking up, and KNOW that they must restructure, pure and simple, and have hired PR people, business savy people to help them slow the exiteers.

  Videos, kids, less costs. Those Caleb & Sophia videos had my non-JW nieces afraid of their "My Litttle Pony" toys eager to toss them in the garbage in one showing of "Sparlock." Convinced that they were demonized, afraid out of their skins.

  The other niece came back from a visit with PIMI grandma and grandpa afraid mom & dad would die at Armageddon if they didn't become JWs.. she was 4.

  When WT had the "bright idea" that individual congregations "sign over" their Kingdom Halls to WT, "for liability sake, so 'in the future (the long term, well planned business decision future) they can sell them.

  I think they will do something like:

  sell off K Halls, make a video studio, move to Brazil, (the GB have been "taken to heaven, so obey their helpers") and either totally 'disappear with the cash, or merge (secretly) with another corporation and become a different business with whatever deception it takes.

  We'll see.
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  Has anyone contested a Will and WON????

  by cha ching in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my jw mom just died last week, about 6 1/2 months after my non jw dad died (dehydration, starvation, imo) i was the executor of that will.

  before a month had passed of his death, my dad & mom's will was changed.

  i didn't know until she died.

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  Thank you, Sigfrid, it was devastating...
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  Three new lawsuits against Watchtower filed under NY Child Victims Act (CVA) this October, bringing number of CVA cases up to six

  by Corney in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  new cases:.

  diaz case, filed on 10/21/2020 by zalkin law firm - two plaintiffs abused (here and hereinafter - allegedly) by two ministerial servants in 1970s.. iglesias case, filed on 10/19/2020 by eisenberg & baum, llp against various nyc and wt entities - abused by an "elder john doe" and "[travelling] overseer john" in 1970s and 1980s.. aldridge case, filed 10/06/2020 by zalkin law firm - abused by a congregation elder in 1970s.. older cases:.

  tarry case (no 1 and no 2), filed on 09/17/2019 and 07/23/2020 by parker waichman llp - abused by a publisher in 1984. very weak case.

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  So glad that there are lawyers out there that have the ability to win against WT.
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  Memorial Prep question

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so are individual witnesses being told to prepare bread and have wine on hand for the zoom memorial?

  are they saying it’s “vital” or is it just a “suggestion?” .

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  cha ching

  When I was still "in", I made the bread and brought the wine... Last time? I believe 2010.

  Afterwards, my son would tell his friends "It's ok to taste the bread, it's just a symbol, and the ceremony is over... It's just bread, want to taste it?" We had so many happy kids tasting the bread.

  :-)