Posts by LevelThePlayingField

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Jehovah's Witnesses View of Jesus Compared to the Early Church

by cofty in

the following is an extract from something i wrote 16 years ago soon after leaving the watchtower.

i am posting it because it may help honest jws consider how far their beliefs are at odds with new testament christians.

if they have "the truth" then their attitude to jesus ought to reflect that of the apostles.

LevelThePlayingField

I totally agree. Yeah, if I went into a KH and said half of those things the elders would be pulling me in the back and asking what church I had been attending.

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Convention program 2017 AM3

by George One Time in

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/convention-program-2017/friday/.

why would our beloved gb member be on the top picture of the program?.

any ideas?.

What makes me mad is that not one single talk in all 3 days had anything to say about Jesus. There's not a hint of Jesus anywhere in the program. And I just looked at the Memorial Invitation for 2017. The cover doesn't have Jesus on it nor is the title about him. It says, "Peace, Health and Prosperity". They note about Jesus in it, on the back, but JW's as a religion are going further away from Jesus. Everything is Jehovah.

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For any victims of abuse by Elders/Watchtower

by nicolaou in

if you are still holding on to your story and struggling alone please, please consider speaking up now.

the australian royal commission into child abuse has shown that these enquiries are not toothless and can in fact make a difference, but only if they are empowered by brave individuals like you.. now it's the turn of the uk.

yes, there's been a few false starts but now is the time to tell them what happened.

LevelThePlayingField

With those TV adds coming out of NY about, "If you've been sexually abused by a JW call us", so maybe with that will come momentum and then an action like the ARC. Just maybe.

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and then there's YOU....

by Tahoe in

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LevelThePlayingField

Yeah, how come the Religious one is taller?

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I need some serious help

by bulldogg1877 in

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friends

i grew up a jw kid until the age of twelve.

since then i have lived a worldly life.

i have enjoyed alot of my life experiences, but i now feel like i am lost.

LevelThePlayingField

Let me be honest with you. I would recommend that you visit jwfacts.com. Go there and spend some time reading about the Organization. Fact check as much as you want. If after doing so you still want to return to your local Kingdom Hall, then by all means do so.

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Where are my Chemistry people at?

by RavenPearl in

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friends

dude.......i'm like zoning on this.

i can't figure it out.

i got 1.79 and .11 and .11 ...but its not working.

LevelThePlayingField

In the JW world, remember, 2+2=5. That's my 2 cents. Oh, and don't mix ammonia and bleach :)

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Judge sanctions WTS - $4k per day penalty for not producing sex abuse documents

by Simon in

judge sanctions jehovah's witnesses.

imposes $4000-a-day penalty for not producing documents in sex-abuse case.

by dorian hargrove, june 24, 2016. a san diego superior court judge has ordered the church of jehovah's witnesses, also known as the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, to pay $4000 a day for every day that it fails to produce documents requested in a civil lawsuit brought by former parishioner, osbaldo padron, who claims a church elder sexually abused him when he was seven years old.. in a june 23 ruling, expected to be made final today, judge richard strauss admonished the church for willfully ignoring a court order to produce all documents associated with a 1997 body of elders letter that church leaders sent to parishes around the world in a quest to learn about sexual abuse of children by church leaders.. over the course of the past year, the watchtower society and its lawyers have fought hard to keep the letter confidential, claiming that turning over the documents would infringe on the privacy of those mentioned in the letter that were not associated with the case.. in march 2015, the church turned over a heavily redacted version of the letter.

LevelThePlayingField

I can't believe the worldly JW lawyer actually tried the "what about pedos at a Coca Cola company" spiel. You are right on cha ching, kids don't work at Coca Cola, but they are at the KH!

Hopefully the judge didn't fall for that.

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ARC report released today.. and phew!

by zeb in

"the response of the jehovah’switnesses and watchtower bibleand tract society of australialtd to allegations of childsexual abuse".. this report is 110 pages.

it is imperative to look it up on the arc website each and every one of you.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/getattachment/c2d1f1f5-a1f2-4241-82fb-978d072734bd/report-of-case-study-no-29.

LevelThePlayingField

Thank you. I saved it to my hard drive.

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Article: Pinoy Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia face deportation (About Philippine JWs in Russia)

by AndersonsInfo in

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friends

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/152841/pinoy-jehovahs-witnesses-russia-face-deportation.

pinoy jehovah’s witnesses in russia face deportation.

philippine daily inquirer / 05:40 am february 24, 2017. .

LevelThePlayingField

So according to the law in Russia, "The prohibition covers religious activities that impart “propaganda of the exclusiveness, superiority or deficiency of individuals on the basis of their attitude to religion, social, racial, national, religious or linguistic identity.”

So therefore, JW's are not the only one that would be labeled as extremist. Many other religions and group would. But the average JW won't have a clue, they will think it's persecution for them.

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Watchtower’s 53 Date Failures -- Prophetic Declarations Quietly Abandoned

by FatFreek 2005 in

below is a paste of the front of my recent essay.

ask most jws today and they'll tell you that, yes, watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.. lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of watchtower history.. len miller.

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LevelThePlayingField

This is very good work! Thanks so much. Maybe some people can be awaken by this. Thus, Awake!. LOL.