Posts by Pete Zahut

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Article in The Australian: Jehovah's Witnesses facing tax turmoil

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/.../64acd93d531eb6b7301d.... .

sorry, the article is behind a paywall.

however, here's a copy of it without the photo:.

Pete Zahut

In a statement, Watchtower director Terry O’Brien denied the ACNC had moved to strip the organisation of its charity registration. “The ACNC has assured the - directors that they do not intend to revoke Watchtower Australia’s charity status,” Mr O’Brien said.

If what O'Brien says is true, and the ACNC didn't move to have their charitable status removed, then why did the Watchtower file for a review of the ACNC's decision?

According to an application for judicial review filed by Watchtower, the ACNC’s decision is “unlawful” and an “unreasonable and inappropriate exercise” of its discretion.

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Larry Graham interview, last days quote

by neat blue dog in

we all know stephen lett's infamous quote that we're living in "the final part of the final part of the last days!

shortly before the last day of the last days.".

well, there is an interesting interview with larry graham and his family that has a variant on this, where he says that we're living in "the last of the last of the last days".

Pete Zahut

I haven't been able to find anything however on their daughter.

He became a JW in the 80's when he was in his late 30's when the end was right around the corner. He's now 76 years old and I heard he was recently reproved for serving Graham crackers at his zoom Memorial. I'm guessing that between his son Darric and his daughter Latia, he probably has Graham-kids by now.

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WT Says Don't Contract with False Religion, But Does Just That

by Sea Breeze in

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let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.

Pete Zahut

So much for the typical funeral parlor decorations and color scheme that Jehovah used to like . I notice that the JW's did leave some of their tracts in the pockets behind each seat before they left .

Anyway...a good JW would have no problem coming up with any number of rationalizations as to why this is not only ok but is Jehovah's will. They could one day rationalize using the mostly idle JW printing facilities to print up the religious literature of other religions for them and make it look like it was Jehovah's direction.

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Does Politics Affect Your Entertainment Decisions and Choices?

by minimus in

jw
friends

if coke disturbed you because of a certain stance would you stop buying coke?

would you stop watching a sport if a certain view was politicized?.

would you boycott a certain product because you did not agree with the corporation’s opinions?

Pete Zahut

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but I've noticed that for the last 5-6 months I can't tolerate watching any movie or TV show that has black people in it if it's based on the fact that they're black or if they continually feel the need to mention the fact that they are black rather than simply telling the story and assuming we are able to conclude that for ourselves. It sees as if someone out there is determined to keep us aware of race and keep us from ever simply seeing each other as people who are similar in more ways than we are dissimilar.

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Aussie covid situation I got vaccinated anyone else?

by Witness 007 in

record 747,000 new cases yesterday but in australia we have no new infections except people flying into quarantine from other countries.

we are 116th with 29,000 confirmed cases.

i work in a hospital so received astra zenica vaccine 2 weeks ago with no bad symptoms.

Pete Zahut

2 Pfizer shots no sides except for sore injection site. Less so with 2nd shot. Wife had flu like symptoms for 1 day after 2nd shot.

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How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

by pistolpete in

remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

Pete Zahut

When I started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade I started wondering

As a kid I used to wonder:

If all the first born were killed, what happened to twins?

If the Egyptian army rushed into the dry river bed after the Israelites and were swallowed up by the water, who was left to travel all the way back to the City to report what happened?

I was told that if I wasn't careful, I'd think my way right out of the Truth.

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JWs now in the movie business

by mickbobcat in

so the cult is building movie studios and making films or propaganda d movies of jesus.

my question is how do they plan to make their investment back?

my guess is that they are hoping that this somehow brings in converts.

Pete Zahut

They could sell subscriptions to Armageddonprime or JWFlix and show nothing but their own videos.

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Do you sometimes bemoan the LOST idea, or Belief, that Someone Powerful was going to set all things right?

by pistolpete in

so it looks like about half of my jw relatives are not going back to the meetings once they open up the kingdom halls.

the main reason all of them give is that if we were truly living in the last days, jehovah would not have allowed the door to door preaching work, and kingdom hall meetings to stop for over a year.. the elders have talked to some of them and tried to convince them that letter writing is accomplishing the same thing as door to door, and zoom is the same as meetings-----------but my relatives just won’t buy it anymore.

just a note here, at first, the kingdom hall lock-downs, and the no preaching door to door was not that bad,the relatives still held on to their faith strongly because they believed it was temporary.

Pete Zahut

For most JW's, believing that a sky daddy is going to fix everything was a way to feel ok about copping out on life and not doing anything tangible in the here and now to help others. It gave them permission to feel virtuous about closing their minds and not seeking answers or asking questions anymore.

There was a mourning period once I fully let myself face the fact that I had spent my life engaged in magical thinking. They say that one should allow themselves 1 month for every year they were involved in or with the thing that they are mourning. For me that meant 50 months or 4 years would have to pass before I truly began to feel comfortable again. Little by little I was able to find peace and be emotionally strong without the world having to be perfect or by mentally resting on the the idea that most of mankind having to be destroyed in order for things to be normal.

These days, I'm simply taking a "wait and see" attitude about the "big picture". I figure that if there is a God and he/she has good things in store for mankind, there's no reason I shouldn't be a part of it as well. There's no reason that I should receive the same fate as Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Ted Bundy and all the mass murderers and the various human monsters that have walked the face of the earth, simply because I stopped attending those mind numbing meetings at the Kingdom Hall.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

Pete Zahut

Mormons have resumed calling in our neighborhood, wearing masks and standing back from the door as they do their presentation. Since the beginning of covid, lot of the churches around here have been meeting in outdoor marquees or listening from their cars as the program is done in the parking lot.

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If God loved the world so much, Why hasn't Jesus told the 'Slave' about Nebulized hydrogen peroxide?

by was a new boy in

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story at-a-glance.

Pete Zahut

If god loved the world so much why hasn't Jesus told the slave about Nebulized Hydrogen Peroxide

I'm not sure why you'd ask that question but I'd say it's probably for the same reason he hasn't told them what causes or how to deal with cancer, birth defects and the myriad of other afflictions that come upon humans. If he even exists, we (including the JW's) are left to figure these things out on our own.

In the meantime, nebulized or vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide is beneficial as a sterilant but like any medical treatment, it's levels must be monitored precisely and can play havoc with electronic hospital equipment and overexposure to hospital staff and the patient can occur .