Srecko Sostar

They are probably formulating a policy explanation as we speak .... involving clothes-pins for men, and corks for women.

Jehovah and his type of life forms do not need anything in this SpaceTime continuum.
This Universe is necessary for the sons and daughters of DNA.
It's a BIG Universe.
There is a LOT of Real Estate out there.
It was made so that the sons and daughters of DNA would have an endless supply of raw materials. and a place to live, prosper, and make more.
The phrase " vicinity of the Earth..." means the Entire 29 billion light year diameter Universe! (NOT HEAVEN ... for those in Rio Linda ...)
Sterility was ALWAYS considered a punishment, so it is clear by actual policy that God will NOT sterilize perfect people ... which would actually make them imperfect. (You can't have it both ways).
This is bat-crap crazy on the face of it! 
I goes well BEYOND just plain NORMAL crazy!
We are talking soggy Froot Loops, here.
Week old, left out at room temperature on the Dining Room table, congealed moldy milk Froot Loops!
In recent years, the GB have become their own worst enemy, demonstrating for all to see how they are not only uninspired ... but are generally and totally clueless about how the Universe really works.  The more they speak ... the more evident it becomes.  Almost everyone has a cell phone with a still and video camera built in.
This is the REAL reason why education is , and has been for the last 60 years so thoroughly disparaged ... so that perceptions are dulled and extinguished.
The following video is NOT the exception .... and staggers the imagination of non-hypnotized, non-policy agenda driven  adults:
 

Gravity Electricity Wind .mp4

An incompetent defense is no defense at all.
It's embarrassing to be killed because you were incompetent, and a fool.

The Policeman's  body language when he sat down on the edge of the table did the trick.
As Christians we should try to de-fuse any confrontations .... if we can.
Sometimes ... it does not depend upon us.
Knowing the techniques of how minds work is a necessary skill.
At 5AM, outside a hotel in Greenville, South Carolina, as I was going to my car to go to work, some guy came up to me and demanded money. He was very insistent.
In a calm low tone of voice I told him "I don't have any money ... in fact, if I emptied my gun in your stomach, I could not even afford more bullets."
He looks down, and sees my revolver.
"I want some money, man!"
I said "Let me be clear ... I am NOT going to give you any money."
He went away, and I went to work.
It's easier to be a peacemaker, when you "have the drop" on the bad guys, and they know it ..... AND ... you many times do not have to actually bet your life.
"STUFF HAPPENS", usually when you are not paying attention, or are a coward, and have what you think is a Bible Scripture to support that fear.
 
 

Speaking of dissonant, screeching notes amongst some pure ones ...about 45 years ago I was listening to my car radio and  without any musical background was a large group of men singing in German what I thought was a German Beer Drinking song at an Oktoberfest, or something.  It was INCREDIBLE ... the energy, the power, the determination.  It got me excited!  I wanted to be a part of that group!  I wanted a big mug of BEER, and to wave it around, singing, too.
I only heard it one time, but I still remember it to this day, 45 years or so later. It was really SOMEthing!
At the end the radio host said that what you have just heard was a Nazi Gestapo marching song.
I was taken aback, surprised, and a little bit ashamed of my visceral reaction.
Since then ... I have tried to be a discordant and screeching note, whenever I can.
I also dodge and weave.
Just in case.
.... better to be safe ... than sorry.
 
 

Perhaps we should include a certain measure of the concept of "dualism" (we are bad and good) in the activities of a particular person, and hence a group and people in larger number. 
In some period of time and history of human, events that was came to existence are "responsible" for the emergence, the formation of individuals and people who made such influence on people's life. For some people they looked as positive or semi-positive actors, but for other (victims) they are very evil.
When i mentioned Bible reports, in my previous short comment, and as title of this subject give/it opens the picture of David and Saul and their involving in killing people of, not just so called enemy, but own people. And no matter is it question of one or few or 100 or 10 000 or 1 million and more, we can see how some of them are "peacefully" get old and died without been "punished" for crimes.
David, man who is mentioned so many times in various context, is the one (not only he) who is responsible for dead at least of one man, Uriah, and in some indirect way, of baby he had with Bathsheba. (No prison), no dead sentence, no abdication.
 
What is Bible message? Maybe this one:
If God like you so much, He will spare Your life because of some "higher reasons". Because He need You (like He "need" David) to accomplish some "prophecies". But if God "kill" you (because You are guilty, at the end of a day) then His plan will, may be "suffer" .... ?? and whole Future of Mankind, Kingdom, etc. will be in "jeopardy" :))))  
Perhaps, in that period of time, Great Britain had need for Churchill, Yugoslavia need for Tito, USSR for Stalin .... to safe them from some other "dictator" (Hitler for example). What choice we have?  Run away from the lion and meet the bear? JW rune from Pope and meet GB. Dualism in both choices. Final Ending is predicted. All other, in meantime, is matter of "luck".

I'm laughing, sorry. But I don't know where you get all your info'. It's great, thank you. 
So basically every time the GB discovers something they know is wrong or bad, they make up an excuse for it. 
Quote "the Watchtower has explicitly used this as one reason for a recent change in doctrine... " 
doctrine
/ˈdɒktrɪn/ noun   a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a Church, political party, or other group. "the doctrine of predestination"   indoctrination /ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ noun   the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. "I would never subject children to religious indoctrination"   You seem to be proving more and more that it is all false and that the GB are not the Faithful Slave at all.  I've no idea where it will all end, but for sure that GB have to be removed. 

Bible book history contains similar reports.

Georgia USA, or Georgia, Russia?
Yeah, I know full well what can happen when you "half learn " Swedish.
Here is a short documentary about that ........ best when viewed full screen with speakers turned up.
 

Half Learning Swedish .mp4

This was the only thing you wrote which was not conjecture, and that I recognize instantly as the basis of ALL organized religion ... from a six person tribe in some wilderness, with a Shaman, to the Pope of Rome with billions of adherents, and a whole hierarchy of control managers.
Including the JW Governing Body.
NO ONE is exempt.
That is why the necessary and scriptural policy of disfellowshipping as we practice it today, includes TOTAL control of speech, through the shunning process, and the ripples of chilling morbid fear it generates.
Your above quote "nailed it".
It is worth repeating, and emphasizing !
" Satan loves to control - anyone who loves to control - has qualities of satan in their personality. It will show very soon!"
... but I did like and appreciate, and was very impressed with your analysis and reasoning in your above post, Arauna, and your ability to articulate it so well.
I just do not agree with it.
It is all complete theoretical conjecture .... and besides .... if ever implemented ... we will both be quite dead.
 

While I was a little boy, I wanted to be a cop ... on a motorcycle. Later, in the age of teenage years, I liked films with martial arts. At the same time, my parents became JW and learned me differently. Then I became JW. And I did not become a cop who would hunt these bastards !!!
Today ... I'm not all that I could possibly become, but I'm not even a JW any more. I'm glad that I left.

The problem, with JW and similar groups, is that "they do not want to learn to fight", according to Isaiah verses.  But, they do not want to learn to defend themselves or others who need help in trouble, too. Adult JW or JW children should not go to self-defense courses because such an idea opposes JW's beliefs, religion. JW instruction, according to some biblical advice, is to scream loud, or run away. Sometimes that helps, but ..... to oppose the evil bastards you need much, much more. And I do not see, if God want to intervene (???) in your personal life (and not only in your life but in life of all other people who are victims), why He would not give you (and them) His approval in fighting against criminals. 

Facebook.mp4

100% agreed. Teaching young ones about Strangers is the best thing someone should do.
 
Kidnappers tend to go for young girls, and kidnappers tend to have several motives.
 
This is why I am happy, those who have been educating on this, those who teach others on this matter, even young children to teach and speak their story, these ones are the ones who have this wisdom and their solution is to educate and teach.
 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96145&page=1 https://www.narcity.com/news/a-teen-girl-escaped-a-kidnapping-using-this-feature-on-her-iphone We must teach our children, we are obligated to do so.
 
 
 

Every 40 seconds a child goes missing somewhere in the United States. There are more than 460,000 missing children each year. Of those missing children, almost 1,500 of them are kidnapped.

A " helicopter parent" is a parent who hovers over his or her children, ever watchful, ever close-by ... ready to guide and direct the children wherever and whenever needed, but at a manageable distance, and close enough to provide real, not imagined protection and security.
Like admin says... it may take ten minutes for police to respond, whereas I have the capability to make bad guys behave themselves (probably) faster than the speed of sound ....about 1100 feet per second.
I have been armed every day of my life, for the past  half-century or so, and have avoided at least three "incidents" just by being obviously armed ( I had to pull my gun, which is otherwise always concealed.
That gun I posted the picture of on another thread is small and light, and has a one-watt green laser on the top, ( my own modification so it works in bright sunlight ...) and still fits in my front right pocket.
I do not expect to get into gun battles ... merely restrain or stop the stupid and undisciplined.  I am never without it, except in courthouses, where it is not allowed ... and airports, and in the bath ... where it is on the adjacent toilet seat, under a towel.
If I expect a sustained fight, I "dress heavier", and differently.
Carrying an unloaded gun around is a good way to get killed .... like trying to outrun an avalanche in a snowmobile with no gas.
OF COURSE IT'S LOADED!
There are people that are sheep, and there are people that are Sheepdogs, like myself ... who have fangs and consider it my genetic duty to protect the innocent (myself included).
An incompetent defense is no defense at all .... and that's why they get eaten by wolves, and  eventually .... the sheep get sheared,  eaten by their Shepherds.
Think of me as a "helicopter gunship" Sheepdog parent.
Once you get that image in your mind ... you may need several beers.
 

... and stop from time to time to look at the sky, the birds, and the flowers ... an pick the broken glass out of the bottoms of your bleeding feet .... and massage and scratch the bee stings between your toes that are driving you so absolutely crazy that you want to cut your swollen toes off with a knife.

People needs to go slowly through life. That means .... walk barefoot, and watch/look/see aka learning around yourself. :))

This unfortunate man isn't the only one this is happening to, worse is happening to other Christians as well.....https://www.persecution.com/

I seriously doubt that two organizations  almost NOBODY has ever heard of giving him the State Fair "Best in Show" blue ribbon in reality counts as "International Support.".
It would be like me here in the United States ...  and Frederico in Argentina, who works on a pig farm,  approving of The Librarian, and labeling him as a "Super Swell Guy" also counting as "International Support"
How does that translate to the REAL world ... where "the rubber meets the road"?
It doesn't.
You still need the price of a cup of coffee ... to buy a cup of coffee.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/jehovahs-witnesses-use-1st-amendment-to-hide-child-sex-abuse-claims/

https://nltimes.nl/2018/12/07/three-jehovahs-witnesses-buildings-raided-sex-abuse-investigation

On facebook, were two interesting comments regarding this topic.  
1.  "I was told young, I got baptized at 14, to not call the police because it makes the org look bad and we don't wnt to bring reproach on jehovah...hmmm.  Doesn't this sound like what Satan aka "je-hovah" would do...conceal the wickedness and not let justice take place?!
2.  "If they say the deed would cause reproach, then they admit that the deed is evil... yet it goes unpunished. How can it bring reproach on God... unless God is the one that committed the crime?
What shames God, is that people to claim to bear His name, let evil thrive, and let victims go without mercy, justice, or comfort."  

 

Which made me curious about the U.S.  I am sure it probably already has been brought out here at some point.
https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse-statistics/?gclid=CjwKCAiA0ajgBRA4EiwA9gFOR6BV2G7R1syZW2qmKOv37Dgo1GzPeKHXcBya6QjQWRA48-QCTfiWvhoCMI8QAvD_BwE

It is a good thing anyway to see the Netherlands authorities making some kind of a start to get to grips with this problem.
"In the Netherlands, every year more than 100,000 children and young people between the ages of 0 and 18 are abused in one or more ways. It is estimated that between 40 and 80 children die of the consequences."

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/12/police-raid-jehovahs-witness-buildings-in-sexual-abuse-inquiries/?fbclid=IwAR3Tmy1_CIqcKAcCfUs8Y8S1ZwLwS3cnJ6ji4xH0f1AsGpK_Ya2qK6DgRSo