damned if you do, damned if you don't: religious shunning and the free exercise clause.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=3827&context=penn_law_review.
JW shunning ends when the shunned re-surrender to the cult
or
when some shunners abandon cult policy to resume contact
Other than those scenarios, JW shunning ends only at death, yet even then, culty judgments linger over funeral arrangements & resurrection worthiness
gb sanderson reminding the member what the russian war is all about.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/tng8ys/dont_even_know_what_to_say/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3.
JW leaders narcissistically teach they themselves are "spiritually" at the center of all major global events, and that the fate of the entire universe revolves around them.
"Universal sovereignty" doctrine
pomo-c. physically-out-mentally-out... of cult .
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https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/ukraine/update-4-brotherly-love-prevails-amid-ongoing-crisis-in-ukraine/.
@apologistpete
I have no interest in getting to know characters that post comments in defense of WT cult theatrics.
What we do know about you is that your parents are active food box schlepping cult members, which you only lightly criticized; yet you come here now to play WT advocate for the cult stacking some supply boxes in a staged propaganda photo.
Don't be a WT apologist just because your JW parents perform culty "good" deeds.
Pete's JW Parent's Phoney Food Bank
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6210719212109824/jw-food-bank#5124205350748160
damned if you do, damned if you don't: religious shunning and the free exercise clause.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=3827&context=penn_law_review.
pomo-c. physically-out-mentally-out... of cult .
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https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/ukraine/update-4-brotherly-love-prevails-amid-ongoing-crisis-in-ukraine/.
@"peacefulpete"
Are you still a little bit mentally-in?
Don't be a cult apologist.
That's like praising a paedophile for buying cookies from a children's charity.
You said it yourself... WT truly harms lives.
No amount of "good" deeds can ever balance the scale of unnecessary suffering & death caused by WT doctrine/policies.
We've learned WT "humanitarian efforts" always have ulterior motives... narcissistic love-bombing. That, in itself, poses a harm to naïve observers, AND is eventually harmful to WT.
For what its worth, even the bible warns:
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven." - Matthew 6:1
pomo-c. physically-out-mentally-out... of cult .
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https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/ukraine/update-4-brotherly-love-prevails-amid-ongoing-crisis-in-ukraine/.
Yes, true humanitarian relief for refugees of high-control tyranny comes not from a box but from attaining POMO freedom
pomo-c. physically-out-mentally-out... of cult .
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https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/ukraine/update-4-brotherly-love-prevails-amid-ongoing-crisis-in-ukraine/.
POMO-C
Physically-Out-Mentally-Out... of Cult
have received news of the passing of alan fuerbacher today having just turned 70 years of age.
alan was an earlier and frequent poster on this forum and was a strident critic of wt bible chronology.
i enjoyed the continuous debate on matters relating to 607 bce and will miss his intellectual contributions and his scholarship even though i disagreed with much of his contributions on this subject.
so i pioneered for 10 years in the 1990's it was 90 hours a month with alot of country driving.
i was shocked when brothers and sisters with full time jobs would park their brand new cars and go witnessing in my 20 year old orange datsun.
i was barely living on $250 a week as a yeah...window cleaner.
@007
And who did the circuit overseer & his wife gravitate towards... the Datsun, or the BMW ?
i would like to collect as many instances of watchtower dishonesty and pretense as possible.
here is one from a bulgarian as an example of what i'm looking for.. are jehovah's witnesses disfellowshipped for receiving blood in a hospital?.
helge fauskanger writes: "if witnesses can’t convince the elders that they are utterly “repentant” for this vampiric lapse of theirs, they will be held to have disassociated themselves from the religion — even if they never said a word about wanting to leave it!
Presently in northern european nations (e.g. Norwary, Iceland, Belgium) Watch Tower is actively deploying crafty "theocratic warfare" strategies to maintain its eligibility for state funding status.
State agencies discovered Watch Tower shunning practices violate human rights principles.
Watch Tower legal teams, and letter writing campaigns by active JW membership now claim Watch Tower does not shun former members.
Meanwhile, thousands of JW congregations and families continue to actively shun former members in obedience to internal Watch Tower policies which enforce hardline shunning practices.
