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  Nice Old Dears Tried to "Witness" to me Today

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  an older man and wife - ray and mary - got chatting to me today.

  they were tourists admiring local wildlife.

  i gave them a few tips on where to go to see some interesting things and it wasn't long before they were telling me about how awful the world is "nowadays" and paradise yadda yadda.

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  scoobydont

  Something here for me to learn. Thanks for sharing this brilliant experience !
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  World Wide Construction comes to a Shuddering Halt - Jehovah's Blessing has Evidently been Suspended!

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the chelmsford project in the uk has already come to a halt and every one has been sent home.

  the bethel family in london is to be cut by several hundred.

  my impression is that most ambitious youngster in the org dream of being involved with the building program.

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  scoobydont

  Haa ! To quote a very wise GB member, Mr Lett, "...There is more money going out than there is coming in..." Can't say the guy doesn't know what he's talking about !
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  Justice in Historic Australian investigation says Jehovah's Witnesses child protection policies WORST

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  historic investigation of jws latest videos are on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtxakzq0ity&feature=youtu.be.

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  scoobydont

  I am really grateful that I "stumbled" on this thread ! Thanks to the poster !!

  That Applewhite woman has no care or concern for the the victims of JW abuses. This is clearly manifested in her responses to questions posed to her from the 50-54 minute mark in the video.

  She sees her clients merely as "cash cows" and she contributes nothing to improving their child-protection measures. I suppose that is more than an oversight. I would say that is how she keeps herself relevant to her clients whom she has to return, now and then, to fix the same problem at different times, in different locations !But she gets her comeuppance in part 1 of the video, from 1:20:00 through to 1:23:56, when she is clobbered by the prosecution for messing about with a WTBS that she knows little or nothing about !
  
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  I'm beating s dead horse, but I must. Feeding the animals on the Ark

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the kids were on vacation so i had the privilege of feeding the grandson's zoo.. my instruction.. grandpa.. cage one ,two and three...baby tarantulas.

  they must be fed three times a week.. five fruit flies in cage two and three and 10 fruit flies in cage three.

  (me) son i can't see.

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  scoobydont

  I shouldn't be watching videos like these ones here, but he he he he he !!!!!

  Thanks the OP and V.I
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  Quote or Misquote?.. Here are the full quotes from the June 1st 2015 Watchtower- How Science Affects Your Life

  by defender of truth in

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  2. bible

  quote from 1 june 2015 watchtower:.

  quote from 1 june 2015 watchtower:.

  quote from 1 june 2015 watchtower:.

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  scoobydont

  @ NELIM : " I think the first two aren't misquotes? WT article says that some scientists think that if God existed, he would have been found. Which is what the quotes say..."

  Really ?! I would say that the second quote, though not an outright misquote is definitely intended to misinform and mislead the followers of WTS. You and I well know that WTS publish these half truths in the knowledge that faithful J-dubs would never bother to research the quotes !
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  CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF LYING: True teaching cannot become Old Light if it becomes New Light again afterward.

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower governing body leadership directly impacts 7 million members earth wide.

  would he change a true teaching?

  up to that point christians have obeyed the command at romans 13:1: "let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities.

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  scoobydont

  Well said, Terry. Thanks.
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  Article: Reveal News-California court guts child abuse ruling against Jehovah's Witnesses

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.revealnews.org/article/california-court-guts-child-abuse-ruling-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.

  california court guts child abuse ruling against jehovahs witnesses.

  topics: religion / religion and government .

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  scoobydont

  As long as the wider society, including the courts, has it's head up its backside, the WTS will continue to get away with their despicable acts, in the full knowledge that nobody gives a rat's whisker what they do to their members and just how destructive they can be. This charade of hair-splitting between what's legal and moral, hosted and encouraged by the US legal system without due regards to the measurable damages that the WTS inflicts, is simply ludicrous and clearly highlights an area where the government has failed in its primary duty of protecting the citizenry. Please let no one take this as an attack on the US or its legal system as I am sure the US has uncountable things to boast and about, and rightly so. Unfortunately, this apparent lapse in the Conti case is not one that the US can boast about.

  Is this the government's way of saying that anyone joining any religious group is basically out there on their own and does so at their own peril ?! Of course, that was a dumb a question since the government has zero interest in religion and cares even less what happens to anyone involved in religion especially those fringe ones such as the WTS.

  The American law, as I understand it, allows the creepy WTS to snake its way under the bar on the grounds that spiritual matters are not justiciable in American courts...even when the effects of membership are evident and quantifiable ?! I am begging any law expert to help me out on this !

  I live in the UK and would agree with anyone that it is far from being a perfect society, but this Conti case is one that could have left the WTS wondering what hit it if the case had been heard in a UK court !
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  Latest on Otuo v Jonathan David Morely & Watchtower Bible and Tract Society + Otuo v Watchtower Bible & Tract Society

  by Adwoa Kromo in

  1. forum
  2. links

  a month ago someone inquired about where the case against watchtower in otuo v watchtower was at currently.

  firstly the claimant has brought two separate claims against the watchtower .

  case 1 relates to a suit in slander premised on the words , "frank otuo is no longer a jehovah witness".

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  scoobydont

  The Watchtower Organisation is hurting and bleeding but has, so far, restricted its "theocratic warfare" to court rooms and newspaper pages. However, I worry that, in the long term, as the hurt continues from litigations against the society, it might adopt a mafia-style hit which would see to it that litigants in complex and costly suits against the WTBS either disappear mysteriously or have a "nice" little accident to put them out of the way.

  Yes, I know it sounds far-fetched, but would the WTBS stand by and watch its very own demise, occasioned by an inevitable rash of litigations from former members ?!

  This organisation already has a track record for fighting dirty. It remains a religious organisation only in name. How much of a leap is it from their current moral (or immoral) position to where I fear they could be heading in the future ?
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  TYPES AND ANTITYPES: Transcript of discourse by David Splane at October 2014 Annual Meeting

  by Gilgamesh in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  while working on a comments for one of the articles in the march 15, 2015 watchtower (on types and antitypes) i decided to make a transcript of the talk that turned into that particular article.

  as usual, the article that finally saw print had evolved quite a bit from the original.. anyway, here's the transcript that i also put up on the ad1914.com site.. the 2014 annual meeting program video can be found on tv.jw.org (currently found under programs and events).

  the following speech can be found about the 2 hour and 8 minute mark in the video.

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  scoobydont

  Keenly watching this space !

  Thanks for the post.
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  Conversation with my mother-in-law this morning

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am skipping the details on how we got to this point.

  conversation was calmed and pleasant and while i know she is not the most educated person (she can hardly read), its hard to justify it by saying is a matter of ignorance.

  it is definitely something inside her that triggers on that very moment.. me: i don't know where all the money is going.

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  scoobydont

  @WHATHAPPENED "It sounds like she is ready to drink the Kool Aid..."

  Don't be silly ! This lady is drowning in it !!!!!