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  Learning from History

  by no-zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was reading the book 'five stages of collapse' by dmitry orlov, which discussed in part, people's attitudes toward the probability of societal collapse.

  one group of people, those who dispassionately examine facts, like scientists, engineers and accountants ultimately become diametrically opposed to the group of people with vested emotional interests, like politicians, businessmen and economists.

  and he made some interesting comments that parallel our situation when we consider how people are polarized over the future of the organization..

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Interesting. One thing though. We almost always get "new light" at an assembly or through the Watchtower. But if they bring out new light say gradually over years, bit by bit and then the religion actually changes from "Armageddon is just around the corner" religion to a religion that believes the end will come, but just don't know when, and it may NOT be around the corner.

  Say in 20 years that's how the GB will spin it. Now what? It's just a "feel good religion" that anybody can join, and all the die hards who are 70-80 years old will pretty much be gone and the younger generation will take over.

  Who knows what people's attitudes will be like by then concerning the things you have brought up. Maybe no one who's a JW will even care about the child abuse issues, whether they make the JW's look bad or not. Right now all the die hards just say it's apostate driven lies. But in 20 years maybe the GB will have changed and have everyone just call the police for a change. My point is, trying to say the JW's are on their way out isn't really holding up much water. I think they will be around long after we are all dead, sorry to say. But the GB will just change, just like with the overlapping generation thing. Just change it...
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  black dog comes to visit

  by zeb in

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  2. friends

  dear friends,.

  once again my depression has got the better of me and i must bow out for a time.. "the angels sang glory to god in the highest and on earth peace unto men of goodwill'.

  so if that means at this special time of the year then have a happy and safe christmas time all of you.. hugs.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Zeb, take care of yourself. Be back soon. We'll hold the fort down.
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  The Evils of Aluminum

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  aluminum was an issue that became a real “tempest in a teapot” for the watchtower.

  it influenced their teaching for almost 50 years and, frankly, created an impression among observers that their members were off-the-wall fanatics.

  for all those years, the golden age and other watchtower publications took the position that aluminum cookware and utensils were one of the great health hazards of the 20th century.

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  Boy, the art work of the day back then. If that were to be published now, it would be an outcry. They ranted and raved about how bad aluminum is for several pages. It would almost be an entire magazine now a days. It's so silly of me now to ever think that these people had holy spirit. sheesh.
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  Very interesting experience

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just watched this you tube clip in its entirety.

  thought it was extremely well done.

  https://youtu.be/ihxbnpu6biu.

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  Wow, that's funny. I just watched the same video last night. Yeah, basically, he was baptized at 9 years old, was a super rock star JW, but since high school has had some doubts. Those doubts became more and more as he has had run ins with other JW's who woke up. But he wouldn't have any of it until he watched Jackson's ARC video on Youtube. That was a game changer for him. Then he moved away from his parents home area, about 1.5 hours away, got invovled with a girlfriend and fessed up to the elders. Got DF'd but told his parents he'd be right back to Jah ASAP. Found out more TTATT from John Cedars channel and that was it. Oh, and he read Crisis of Conscience. Now he's one of us. :)
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  The abuse of Tara. Scandalous cover ups by Jehovah's Witnesses 

  by honest in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/tara-was-abused-by-the-man-she-was-taught-to-trust-most-now-she-wants-justice/news-story/50cf9dbf12e650ec22b9157e65e12db2.

  fry watchtower fry!!!

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I feel so bad for her. And the elder, appointed by holy spirit right? Yeah right.
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  Royal Commission into Child Abuse Report available now (Australia)

  by Thursday in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/getattachment/c2d1f1f5-a1f2-4241-82fb-978d072734bd/report-of-case-study-no-29.

  for those that were following the australian royal commission into child abuse in institutions - case study 29 jehovah's witnesses, the report is now available.

  the summary findings were:.

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  Yes, this report's been out for a bit now and there's been a few topics discussing it. Troubling thing is, most JW's who even know about this just deny the validity of it as apostate driven lies.

  Can you believe it?
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  What do you think .

  by smiddy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  what is the one thing a male escapes from,then spends the rest of his life trying to get back into ..

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  LevelThePlayingField

  p@ssy
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  Pervert`s go-ahead to watch over kids ( A JW ? ) With A Childcare Centre

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  from an article in the herald sun newspaper wed.dec.7,2016 ," a convicted perverts plan to open a childcare centre have been given the green light by the victorian civil and administration tribunal".

  " he was found guilty of wilfully and obscenely exposing himself on five seperate occasions between 1982 and 1997.".

  apparently" he masturbated in front of two 16 year old school girls asking them if they had a good look and if they enjoyed that.".

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  My thoughts? Ok. When in the world will these governmental agencies ever wake up the the JW's BS. So a guy learns the Bible, becomes a JW evidently and then poof, problem solved? No, no. The ARC knows this is BS so why don't they see this? I don't know.
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  Article: A Look at Canada's 12 Most Wanted Fugitives (Look who is #2)

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-look-at-canadas-12-most-wanted-fugitives.

  december 6, 2016. by sam cooley.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  He's "believed to have used the institution to get close to children so he could abuse them." Gee, where have we heard the before...at the ARC, which all the JW's flatly denied. But it's true, so true. Pedos use the JW religion to work out there plans, cause it's a great place to do it.

  That's the truth.
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  Anthony Morris Made a special appearance on JW Broadcasting to talk child abuse.

  by NikL in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  just popped on to see if december broadcast was up and it's not.. however, there is a new vid of bro.

  morris addressing child abuse within the org.. https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodstudio/pub-jwban_201507_2_video.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  You've heard of, "My country, right or wrong." Well, I think there are Witnesses out there who think, my religion right or wrong down deep in there hearts, pedophiles and all.