LevelThePlayingField

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  Metoo movement will get watchtower in further trouble

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.care2.com/causes/will-the-metoo-movement-hold-jehovahs-witnesses-accountable-for-sexual-abuse.html.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  ToesUp, I couldn't agree more. Just think about the leaked videos showing how unable they have been to be a good steward with the congregants money. And even if you never saw any of the leaked videos, like a regular JW, if they have any memory that just a couple of years ago they said they needed to build 300 KH per year every year for 5 years. Now all of the sudden, "we don't need to build any" and "we will just make best use of available funds"

  Well, very good. Good for you, that's the way it should be. But, wait....that's the way it SHOULD HAVE BEEN FROM THE FRICKEN START!!!

  It shouldn't take you 2-3 years to figure this out. On one of the latest Mike & Kim videos, the leak video said that the GB didn't even know how many KH there were in the U.S. Hello!!! Finance 101. Know your inventory!

  But the good ole GB didn't even know the 101. So sad for them. There ARE JW's who have noticed this. There are, they are not many, there are some. And the more time that goes by and more blunder, you can bet, the chink in the armor is moving along quite nicely.

  Rant over.
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  Moving Back to Chicago - Don't care

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife was diagnosed with ms about two years ago.

  we have been living in ohio for the last 5 years but were recently assigned to a new congregation because of the dissolving and sale of our congregation/kh.

  my wife's symptoms spiked after being relocated to our new hall back in january.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I can't believe it but my new boss just called me yesterday and said that they can no longer offer me the position in Chicago!!!! WTF!

  But he did say that the SAME position is open in the area I live now.

  The first thing I thought about was, "So what the hell is going to happen to my plan of fading?!"

  My wife was very much set on moving as well. But maybe keeping the same apt ( we live in an efficiency apt) will be stable for her. And her MS is stable, but maybe this staying here will keep her grounded? I don't know for sure. I never told any of the elders about my moving. I was planning on just keeping it a secret, or until my "in" wife told everyone. As far as I know she hasn't yet. So maybe it's for the better.

  Anyway, maybe work will have overtime and I'll be "forced to miss meetings" :)

  Love you all in this community!
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  Just a mosquito ? Netherlands

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.trouw.nl/home/-dit-is-ons-geheim-als-je-je-mond-opendoet-zal-ik-je-wat-aandoen-~ab65b525/.

  from reddit.

  the first in a series of 8 articles / reclaimed voices / "this is our secret.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  This is probably the saddest article I have read. What the hell is wrong with people?!

  Elder says, "I touch your pee pee, and don't you tell anyone cause I'm high up in the congregation and I might do something to you."

  I'm glad he's dead.
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  NWT support of John 1:1. Punching holes in it

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is what they have in the new world translation index 6a to support their version of john 1:1. they are not honest even to their own people.

  they list the year of the bible, rendering, and source.

  but there's only two sources that actually lend any type of support to their argument.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I'm not sure if the last three references are of the same book. It seems like it by the title.
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  Reclaimed voices respond to jw.org's recent public statement regarding the Dutch governments decision to investigate

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i'm so sorry if this has already been posted but i think its too important and interesting to miss.. reclaimed voices chairman raymond hintjies responds to jw.orgs dutch lawyer's statement that the dutch govt.

  investigating watchtower's 300 incidents of csa would be akin to"shooting a mosquito with a water cannon" .

  i particularly like raymond's sensitive message to concerned jw parents, at around 3 minutes or so, .

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  LevelThePlayingField

  He makes some very good, solid points. Seems like Watchtower only makes excuses.
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  NWT support of John 1:1. Punching holes in it

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is what they have in the new world translation index 6a to support their version of john 1:1. they are not honest even to their own people.

  they list the year of the bible, rendering, and source.

  but there's only two sources that actually lend any type of support to their argument.

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  This is what they have in the New World Translation Index 6A to support their version of John 1:1. They are not honest even to their own people. They list the year of the Bible, rendering, and source. But there's only two sources that actually lend any type of support to their argument. The first one’s actually from a Bible. The second one, The Emphatic Diaglott, The Watchtower had copyrights to it for decades and is a horrible translation. The the 4th one down 1950, "New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, Brooklyn". That's the part they are being deceptive about. After each Bible, they list who the author is. They put, "Brooklyn". They don't even put, "by, Brooklyn". Because then you would think it was a person named Brooklyn. It’s the Watchtower’s OWN Bible and they are citing it here saying, “look at these other Bibles that support us”. Then to be more deceptive, the last 3 are simply reference works, NOT Bibles.
  

  The New Testament, in An Improved Version,1808

  
  

  1. The translators think there’s seven books of the New Testament that aren’t authentic.

  2. They think that the miraculous conception of Jesus is fiction.

  3. They don’t believe the Lamb is real.

  4. They think that “everlasting cutting-off” of the wicked means restoring them to happiness.

  5. They believe that Satan is a symbolic being.

     
     

     Emphatic Diaglott, by Benjamin Wilson 1902

     
     

     1. Wilson’s translation makes it hard to know if Jesus is a god or Jehovah.

     2. He admits to allowing suggestions and opinions from friends to change the translation.

     3. He says demons are not real.

     4. The Watchtower says his translation is biased and has faults.

     5. The Watchtower says they think that Wilson doesn’t believe in in the Devil, Jesus’ prehuman existence and that Jesus is in heaven with his fleshly body.

        
        

        (So they are both horrible translations and the translators were very biased)

  1808	“and the word was a god”	The New Testament, in An Improved Version, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome’s New Translation: With a Corrected Text, London.
  1864	“and a god was the Word”	The Emphatic Diaglott (J21, interlinear reading), by Benjamin Wilson, New York and London.
  1935	“and the Word was divine”	The Bible—An American Translation, by J. M. P. Smith and E. J. Goodspeed, Chicago.
  1950	“and the Word was a god”	New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, Brooklyn.
  1975	“and a god (or, of a divine kind) was the Word”*	Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Siegfried Schulz, Göttingen, Germany.
  1978	“and godlike sort was the Logos”*	Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Johannes Schneider, Berlin.
  1979	“and a god was the Logos”*	Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Jürgen Becker, Würzburg, Germany.
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  Org's "rearranginging deck chairs on the titanic" serving 2 purposes

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in 2 weeks we will be announcing major changes in northern ohio congregations and there is quite the buzz in the area about it.

  just talked to a jdub from the detroit area that just underwent similar changes, and they mentioned it has been "quite exciting" to get to meet new brothers and sisters.

  so besides the cash benefit of selling a couple kingdom halls in the process.

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  They just announced in my hall tonight that the week of July 30th they will be spillin' the beans to everyone. They said we're not announcing this to get anyone anxious, just so you can be theocratic, (meaning OBEY)
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  GDPR Warning for the Org?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  a uk organization has been fined £200,000 for accidentally breaching the data protection of numerous individuals.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44872880.

  how will jw branches/elders fare in the eyes of the law if they deliberately breach someone's privacy?.

  uk elders/trustees, it may be time to take out liability insurance for yourselves!.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I just love news like this. The reason is because I definitely can see WT violating this often.
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  Apostate chic rocks

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  love this vid 👍.

  https://youtu.be/cafygzb1geo

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  LevelThePlayingField

  There's a smile on my face that goes A - Z!
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  Lies! Since the Watchtower knows how to lie, they can give expert advice on it.

  by days of future passed in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  study article for october: speaking the truth.

  the article is about lying, but the wt is all about lying.

  i guess they are concerned with their followers lying to them!.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Par. 14, "What is one way that true Christians distinguish themselves from false religions? We "speak the truth"."

  That makes the governing body a false religion. They lie all the time.