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What's wrong with jeans? Over here jw women are forbidden to wear even trousers on cold days. I imagine tight pants Tony will eventually rule all jw women must wear skirts at all times.
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I can't tell if jw's look more like Mormons, Baptist or the corrupt men in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street.
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The video of Ripley's alien friends would be interesting to watch.
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Why do Jehovah's witnesses hate mainstream Christianity?
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Better not be tight pants, Tony might get mad at them.
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I remember the hoagie's and pudding cups, the highlight of the conventions.
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Pagans breath air when they are worshipping and praying their pagan gods, there fore jw's should stop breathing.
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18 hours ago, Rosalie Barry said:
I think it would be very hard to be a Witness and be a teacher in the public school system. I feel very sorry for this sister having to go through this.
I agree, esp. if it's at a Christian private school.
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In all my years in school, the teachers always organized the parties. And as I work with several children to this day, that hasn't changed. So it appears she was going to refuse to let them have a party. I believe she is suing just to try and get some money, not the first person in history to do that. I'll have to check to see if she lives in an at-will state.
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I have talked with former bethelites and they said the governing body lived in dorms just like everyone else. Then bought a couple of brownstones for some of them. So it would make sense, that sense it is a billion dollar luxury compound that they probably made for themselves pretty lavish apartments with a massive amount of security.
I'm wondering if those security guards are carrying?
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These men put themselves on the same level as Jehovahs God Himself. They demand worship and are not anointed.
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JW adults such as yourself are seeing through the worldly schemes of the governing body, (and it's not to late no matter how old you are to truly come to Christ), so they are mass targeting to young ones. Kinda like when camel cigarettes reached out to young people with Joe Camel.
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You certainly have enough time to respond. I believe all it takes is a letter to the society.
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Why does the bible say the great crowd is in heaven?
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Of course she had no problem forcing the kids to observe her religious views.
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I liked those Tuesday night book studies, esp. the short stint we got to host them at our house.
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2 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:
This is completely beside the point and misses the entire purpose of the thread. Get off your rear end and research it. I want to know the number.
Oh I already know why, why do you want someone here to research some numbers for you?
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And yet jw's will continue worshipping them.
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Why have any at all?
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Modern day pagans breath air when they are praying to their false gods. Jw's should stop breathing.
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Yes there is child abuse everywhere.
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On 2/10/2018 at 10:32 AM, JOHN BUTLER said:
I cannot understand why there is only partial information concerning the Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Society Child Abuse accusations from around the Earth. I have just put a status on my FB page saying that : The one thing I have learnt in life is, that I don't know the truth about anything". The reason for this is that there is always some doubt about things read 'online'. Are they true ? Does one want them to be true? Are my opinions correct? So with that in mind I will continue with the information I 'have read online'.
We all know that Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse accusations are, or appear to be 'in fashion' right now. In politics, in entertainment, and in religion. But Jehovah's Witnesses claim to be 'no part of the world', that is the 'world' that belongs to Satan the Devil. So it would come as a surprise then that from top to bottom the JW's are being accused of Child Abuse Earthwide.
What I've noted so far : The Australian Royal Commission did a three year investigation into the JW org, most of which is available online to read. They found that since 1950 there were 1006 accusations of Child Abuse within the Australian branch of Jehovah's Witnesses, none of which were reported to the police or secular authorities........... In Canada there have been large court cases in Quebec and Ontario againse JW org..... A $66 million lawsuit against the religion's leadership is taking place..... In the Netherlands 'Reclaimed Voices' foundation have set up emergency phone lines and have put out advertisements concerning victims of abuse within the JW org there. The 'hotline' had received 80 replies as of December 28th 2017..... In the UK (where I am) the Charity Commision set up an inquiry into the UK branch of Jehovah's Witnesses regarding child abuse / sexual abuse. I think this started with the Manchester New Molton congregation in 2014. The Charity Commision also set up an inquiry into the Watchtower Soc (WTBTS) here in the UK. In Feb 2016. The Org went to court to try to block the investigations but failed. A former elder from South Wales said there was instructions to elders to destroy all documents regarding child abuse. There seemed to be a cost to the Org of over £1 million which I presume is court fines and payouts.
Then of course we have the USA. In 2014 a $10.5 million lawsuit against JW Org by Valicia Alston and others. In 2015 the Candace Conti case against Jonathan Kendrick. And in April 2016 the Watchtower Soc' remained defiant in refusing to hand over documents about the Child Abuse in the USA branch of the JW Org. Now it seems (and remember I'm only going on what I've read) that the JW Org in USA sent out a letter in 1997, to all elders of congregations in the USA. The letter was a direct instruction to the elders to send in ALL documents and information concerning accusations of Child Abuse / Sexual abuse both current and passed. This was to be an ongoing instruction and all information was to be sent in special blue envelopes to Brooklyn. Now there are approx' 14,000 congregations in the USA, and the time period from 1997 to 2017 is of course 20 years. So it would seem that the Governing Body have 20 years worth of accusations concerning Child Abuse and Sexual abuse with in it's USA congregations. However, despite court action and direct instruction to the JW Org / Watchtower Soc', the W/T and JW Org still refuse to hand over the documents to the High court. In November 2017 a High court of California fined the JW Org / WT Soc' $4,000 per day for not handing over the documents, and it seems the cost so far to the Org / WT is more than $2 million. I cannot find out if any of this money has been paid or is still owing.
One other point that I found interesting (providing it's true of course) is that the Governing Body has deliberately separated the JW Org, known as the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Each of these now has its own Legal Department. The purpose of this is to slow down all court proceedings because the Legal Dept from one has to write to the Legal Dept of the other for information, then the legal Dept of the other refuses such information etc. This is what caused the Supreme Court of California to impose the heavy fines on the Org. Basically the court got fed up with the 'clowning around of the JW Org.
So to sum up: It seems that many countries, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, UK and USA, have found and proved many cases of child abuse / sexual abuse within the Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Society. But what makes this worse is that the Governing Body of the Org' is deliberately withholding the information about pedophiles within its ranks. Add to this that elders of congregations Earthwide are instructed not to inform their congregations about pedophiles within their congregation. And, congregation members are told not to report child abuse / sexual abuse within the congregations, to the Police or outside secular organisations. On top of this victims are not believed, because the Governing Body has made a rule that says there must be two witnesses to any accusation of abuse, which of course will not happen in the case of Child abuse or Sexual abuse.
About me : I was one of Jehovah's Witnesses until about a month ago. After doing approx three months research online my conscience would no longer allow me to remain within the Organisation. How could I encourage other people to join an Organisation that allows Child Abuse /Sexual Abuse to continue unreported and unpunished within its ranks. There could be a pedophile within the congregation that I was part of, I would never know, because the Elders would keep it secret.... However, I do believe in God, whether His name is Jehovah, Yahweh or something else, and I am keeping my mind open as to how I will find the 'truth' of God's requirements.
What i am hoping for is that some BIG media source will bring all the information together concerning all the Child Abuse / Sexual Abuse accusations against the Jehovah's Witnesses Org' and the Watchtower Soc' Earthwide, so that all info' is readily available to everyone. At the moment it all seems so 'bitty' and not organised. Yes there is info' online, but are the sources trustworthy. What is needed is a neutral unemotional factual report, please.
I am glad to hear that you are not willing to give up on God. Many who find out the truth about the organization, that it is not Gods organization turn to anger and hatred toward religion and abandon God altogether. Here is a support site for believers leaving the jw religion: http://www.4jehovah.org/
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In the context of this video, and I've watched it before, Dawkins claim can be strengthened by the watchtowers suicide doctrine by blood, extreme shunning, anti social, anti government, the only people who are going to survive the end of the world with Jehovah killing all men, women and children who are not jw's, and of course a child who is raped has to have a witness to the horrible crime. Yes Jehovahs Witnesses make God out to be a horrible monster that no one would want to worship so it would be easier to not believe in that spaghetti monster the jw's have taught society.
But at least he is more polite than Christopher Hitchens
Does the Governing Body live on-campus or off-campus?
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Those stats you put up include the watchtower bible and tract society estimated net worth in the billions.....just like the catholic church. And you take John 2:16 out of context which show's you have very little clue as to how some churches raise money, where as in John people were ripping poor people off by selling sacrificial animals at higher prices. Those 7 men you worship now realized how they want to live in Luxury like Benny Hinn or the Pope, fly first class, stay in 5 star hotels and don't lift a finger for the billions of dollars they control. Sounds like your jealous of them.