Simon, OK. Thanks for the heads-up on that. So I did the same search using incognito and everything came back identical except for the JW's. Their search resulted in 7 instead of 6 talking about sexual abuse. Wow.
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Let's compare, shall we
by LevelThePlayingField inif you did a news search on google news today, jan. 15, 2017 what would you find it you typed in "jehovah's witnesses"?
i did an analysis of news searches under the main christian religions in the us and this is what i found:.
if you click on google news and type in the following religions' names and then look at the news headline for each of the and description with out actually clicking on it, but just just what google provides for a clip or snipet of information and then click on the next page and the next page until you got to 5 pages down in the news for today (jan 15, 2017) this is what i found for those news mentioning anything about "sexual abuse" of any kind per religion.. mormon 0 and latter day saints 0. catholic 1. presbyterian 0. lutheran 0. methodist 0. episcopal 0. protestant 0. evangelical 0. unitarian 0. jehovah's witnesses 6. pretty interesting that the jw's get more about sexual abuse than any other major religion in the us isn't it?
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baptised nearly 51 years
by Phoebe inbeen reading this site for awhile now.
i have had a long and often tragic life as a jw.
my story is so long because i'm pretty old :) i feel sad i've been locked in fear and guilt for my entire life.
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It is very unfortunate, (because they are supposed to be the true religion) but factual that you are getting more support here than you were getting in your congregation. See, we don't judge here. We just help.
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Let's compare, shall we
by LevelThePlayingField inif you did a news search on google news today, jan. 15, 2017 what would you find it you typed in "jehovah's witnesses"?
i did an analysis of news searches under the main christian religions in the us and this is what i found:.
if you click on google news and type in the following religions' names and then look at the news headline for each of the and description with out actually clicking on it, but just just what google provides for a clip or snipet of information and then click on the next page and the next page until you got to 5 pages down in the news for today (jan 15, 2017) this is what i found for those news mentioning anything about "sexual abuse" of any kind per religion.. mormon 0 and latter day saints 0. catholic 1. presbyterian 0. lutheran 0. methodist 0. episcopal 0. protestant 0. evangelical 0. unitarian 0. jehovah's witnesses 6. pretty interesting that the jw's get more about sexual abuse than any other major religion in the us isn't it?
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If you did a news search on Google News today, Jan. 15, 2017 what would you find it you typed in "Jehovah's Witnesses"? I did an analysis of news searches under the main christian religions in the US and this is what I found:
If you click on Google news and type in the following religions' names and then look at the news headline for each of the and description with out actually clicking on it, but just just what Google provides for a clip or snipet of information and then click on the next page and the next page until you got to 5 pages down in the news for today (Jan 15, 2017) this is what I found for those news mentioning anything about "sexual abuse" of any kind per religion.
mormon 0 and Latter day saints 0
catholic 1
presbyterian 0
lutheran 0
methodist 0
episcopal 0
protestant 0
evangelical 0
unitarian 0
Jehovah's Witnesses 6
Pretty interesting that the JW's get more about sexual abuse than any other major religion in the US isn't it? Gee I wonder why that is. Feel free to type in the name of any religion into the Google news search box at any time and see what results you get over the next 5 pages. How many mention "sexual abuse" or the equivalent of that in the news search. The JW's top the list.
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For those that read the bible, does the true message of scripture still come through in NWT?
by NikL inmy active and in jw wife is up for reading bible together.
thing is she wants to use nwt.. i have problems with that translation as you my imagine.. just wondering if you thought the true message of the bible will shine through the deliberate tampering of the nwt?.
i know many people here don't like or want to read the bible and think it's rubbish anyway, so if that's you, you can save your comments :-).
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LevelThePlayingField
Overall, I don't think that they changed the message of the Bible, but the main thing is that they gotten rid of the deity of Christ.
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JW.org as a Prank Tool
by schnell inthe moment i saw the "request a study" form on the site, i thought, "umm, that could be a bad thing.".
but to date, i have heard of only one case where it was used for less than genuine purposes.
that was in the case of a "game developer" who was selling crappy asset-flips on steam.
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LevelThePlayingField
A while back, just for the hell of it, I filled out the form online and put a fake name in there, but to my actual address. Sure enough, two dubs came to my door. I answered and was like, no, no one here goes by that name. Must have been a prank. ;)
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An Obvious Omission in the J.W.'s Good News!
by The Searcher inas baptized or unbaptised witnesses, no one ever discussed or even mentioned (at least in my jw experience) this topic: .
"we are preaching about the good news of the kingdom.
why do we preach about only one hope - living on earth?
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LevelThePlayingField
Some witnesses will say at the door that "there are some who go to heaven, but the calling now is for those who will live in a paradise earth". And that's really as far as it goes.
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"Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
by pale.emperor innow that im not longer a jw this verse puzzles me.
being born and raised a witness, this verse confirmed to me that jesus was talking about a paradise on earth.
but now that everything the witnesses taught is 99.99% incorrect can somone explain what he was getting at here?
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LevelThePlayingField
I agree with the part that some believe that one time in the future those in heaven might be placed back on the earth. To be honest, I wonder about that scripture too.
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How to reply when someone asks about your spiritual health
by RodrigoGuerreiro infirst of all, sorry if i cannot correctly express the original expression used in my native language to ask for the "spiritual condition".. a few years ago some member of the family asks my wife directly how is her "spiritual health" (for me it's one of the many strange vocabulary used by jw like "the slave says...").
she was catched by surprise with the direct question and says that everything is ok... and luckily someone call them for lunch.. my question is: do you have any good answers for that question?
you can be ironic/use some humor because the question is a little bit anecdotical .
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From my experience, most witnesses are asking because they care for "your spiritual health". And I say that in quotes because to them, spiritual health is all about the things you do, like meetings and field service. If you do those things they think, then automatically you will be healthy, which isn't true.
Then there are some witnesses, usually elders who ask to be noisy or think they can fix you. You're hours are low or you've missed meetings. Again pointing back to what you do in those activities means good spiritual health. They are only victims of what they have been taught.
If you look in the Bible, it isn't like that at all.
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Some apostates are coming across as crazed psychopaths
by jambon1 ini'm not sure whether or not my view on this is correct so please leave your input.
in recent months i've been viewing youtube videos.
again, it might just be my view but there has been an increased amount of random people grabbing a camera and doing vlogs.
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LevelThePlayingField
I think there has always been those type of apostates. But by and large, now a days they are much fewer of them going around as compare to 20 years ago.
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SPAIN - number of Kingdom Halls
by darkspilver inplease note that this post links to websites that are in spanish, if that's a problem, please do not click on the links!.
it is now just over two years since the wt send the now infamous 17 september 2014 letter regarding the programme of building kingdom halls to all congregations in spain.
(letter page one / letter page two).
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LevelThePlayingField
Good research. I think this shows the picture of things happening in various countries where the org is consolidating the congregations. If you need cash then this is the way to do it. Sell off a KH and move the two congregations to just one hall. If they do this "everywhere" then it shows us that, perhaps, the org is thinking that down the line there will be less of a percentage growth. The reason I say that is because, long term if they consolidate the congregations and they continue to grow, then that will be a problem in the future. They will need more halls again.
But maybe even if that happens they will simply build using the new KH design. So they are ahead anyway?
Things that make you go hmmm.