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Police and Fire Department Officials in Guatemala Benefit From Bible-Based Workshops
by TheFadingAlbatros inhttps://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/guatemala/police-and-fire-department-officials-in-guatemala-benefit-from-bible-based-workshops/.
i am surprised that a government authority is calling on a religious organization to give their police and fire department officials instructions to behave in a better way with the guatemalan population.
the organization of jehovah's witnesses is well known to separate families (shunning) and have in the past protected numerous pedophiles within their organization ( maybe they are still doing it now somewhere in secret, who knows ?
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Christmas Eve Service
by Biahi ini just got home from attending a lovely christmas eve service with my daughter and her family.
what a nice, no pressure, service, singing the old songs we all know.
silent night, etc.
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Secret memo to Circuit Overseers "former child abuser" who was elder\MS moved to another congregation
by BottleGate_ inin 1998, #watchtower mailed a secret memo to all circuit overseers in which it was announced that when a "former child abuser" who was also an elder or ms moved to another congregation, the new congregation would **not** be informed of his past sins.
read: institutional cover-up!
https://twitter.com/mark_j_odonnell/status/1209556534944026624
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Should't they cancel their meeting tonight?
by carla ini find it kind of amusing that as worldly people who pass by a kh and know nothing of jw's tonight will think that the jw's are having a christmas eve service.
many churches have a number of services tonight; children's program, family/christmas eve service and maybe a midnight candlelight service.. you know how some jw's won't even wear red between nov & dec lest anybody think they are celebrating the holidays?
well then, shouldn't they cancel tonight's meeting so nobody thinks they are doing their own christmas eve service?
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Worldly holidays
by road to nowhere inif they announce anything any more ( my hall doesnt even announce funerals, only judicial stuff and letters from mom) they say something like: "tomorrow is a worldly holiday so..... ".
we all know it is christmas or whatever.
and most of us do have a day off, ( needed) the smart ones who are able will work for the double time and fewer bosses around.
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Another Gem Of a Book
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara incurrently reading recovery from abusive groups by wendy ford.
a truly worth reading book.
so many things resonates with jdumbs and what i have heard people go through!
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Master's Thesis on Witness CSA
by careful ini apologize if this has already been shared.
a chap named harvinder singh finished his ma thesis last year at the university of birmingham on csa among jws.
i think this may be the first of such academic works to directly deal with the matter.
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Christmas Eve ,and what am I going to watch tomorrow on Xmas day. Any suggestions ?
by smiddy3 ini`m thinking of "the life of brian " .
chevy chase and one or two of his" vacation" movies .
i will give a miss on mel gibsons "the passion of christ" ?
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“God's Debris: A Thought Experiment” by Scott Adams
by JW_Researcher inrecommending “god's debris: a thought experiment” by scott adams.
just finished it (audio version, in the car).. i ‘read’ this book because i enjoyed adams’ “win bigly: persuasion in a world where facts don't matter” (audio version, while working in the woods).
if you have a background in persuasion, some content may be redundant but, overall, very entertaining and current..
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The Craziness of an Average Bible Study
by Number 6 inlast week i posted a thread asking about who knew any "real anointed" and got some cracking replies.. that got me to thinking, as someone brought up in the 70's and 80's in the watchtower religion, my experience of bible studeis in their homes and those who made it to the hall were mostly batshit crazy or at least people with some serious quirks.. i'll relate a few, none of whose names i remember with any clarity.. in our cong we had an older couple who were from london, but who had been in the 1950's in the circuit work in the mid west usa.
they brought along some woman one night they had started a study with who told everyone cheerfully she was a recovering alcoholic and this was her cure (coming to the meetings).
this went on for a few weeks until one night they brought her to the memorial and she was royally pissed, and i mean barely able to stand; and went up to the platform table and necked some wine.