Posts by Anony Mous

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the pope has died

by stan livedeath in

most people on the planet have heard of the pope.. most people on the planet have never heard of the governing body..

Anony Mous

The pope is an interesting character. I do think that people should mourn death unlike JW ghouls, some people are sad, you should have sympathy for that.

The problem with the papacy is not necessarily religious, Catholicism has grown very resistant to unilateral leadership changes. Bishops can defect and criticize the pope unlike JW. The problem is that the media makes him out to be some form of moral authority as long as he goes along with their viewpoint. And this pope and the last one has missed the entire point of being pope, criticizing other world leaders as if politics is somehow his business or makes Catholicism popular.

The pope being for socialism is like gays being for Gaza - in the end they’ll still throw you off the nearest building. Some bishops have it right, going back to basics, Latin mass, sticking to principles of faith rather than complying with what seems popular because a minority is very loud, the pews in those churches are being filled while the rainbow flag churches are running empty.

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Green Handshakes - Taxable income in Australia

by Listener in

i was doing some research on the taxable status of money being gifted to co’s and travelling missionaries and was surprised with what i found.

i had assumed that it was not taxable income in australia.. it is taxable income in australia and it‘s likely that the same rules apply in some other countries.. a registered religious institution only receives tax free status on donations because they have been endorsed by the australian tax office.

travelling overseas and missionaries are not in this category.. there’s a tax ruling that goes into great detail.

Anony Mous

There is probably a minimum amount you are allowed to receive in gifts before it becomes taxable income. In the US at least, unless you make more than ~40k at the end of the year, you do not pay any taxes, any income taxes paid are generally returned, state taxes may be different though, the CO also benefit from major welfare benefits as they don’t have an official income. They also don’t need to pay for food or lodging most of the time,

So at the end of the day, how much do they really get? Do they get $1000 every week they visit a congregation? If they’re true believers, didn’t they take a vow of poverty, meaning they have to turn over anything like that to the organization?

And let’s say, somehow a ton of cash payments are cleared and they stuff it in their mattresses, how will the government prove it and collect their share, you can’t get blood from a stone.

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119 Hours....

by onacruse in

...until i meet the most incredible, wonderful, fascinating lady i've ever encountered in my life!

bikerchic, you have captured my heart and make me happier than i've ever been, ever, ever, ever!

craig (of the totally twitterpated, gushing-and-blushing-all-over-the-place dufus-in-love class).

Anony Mous

Sorry to hear it didn’t last. A lot of ex-JW have demons, which leaves us not in a good position. Hopefully he can get the help he needs before it is too late, this organization continues to kill and affect people long after they have left. Sometimes though you have to take care of yourself, don’t blame yourself, everyone makes their own decisions in the end.

I don’t know where you are in the world, but here are some places you or him can reach out to:

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/helplines/national-helpline

https://www.aa.org/find-aa

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WASHINGTON ST PASSES BILL MANDATING CLERGY REPORTING CHILD ABUSE

by blondie in

jw
friends

https://www.thereflector.com/stories/washington-legislature-passes-bill-to-make-clergy-mandatory-reporters-of-child-abuse,378913 .

Anony Mous

It seems to make an exception specifically that clergy do not have an exemption under privileged communications. Typically there are a few people that can claim that privilege: spouses, attorneys, medical doctors under certain conditions (eg psychiatric care) and clergy.

The point was always moot with WTBTS as they do not have a procedure for privileged communications. Because the way they are set up, elders have always been mandated reporters if they were doing any discussions in official capacity, in unofficial capacity an individual elder would not have clergy protections.

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Memorial talk the SAME EVERY YEAR no anointed??

by Witness 007 in

yeah so got invited this year and just thought what a waste of my time no one partakes in the wine or bread the talk has been the same for 20 years i would rather stay home.

Anony Mous

@rattigan: the Bible clearly instructs to do this ‘whenever’ two or more followers of Christ come together for worship. If you are a Christian, you should partake whenever you worship in a group.

JWs don’t believe in the divinity of Christ, so whatever they do at the memorial has nothing to do with Christ’s divine nature, they are focused on the ‘anointed’ although that’s recently been modified to only include the ‘governing body’, because the anointed (aka governing body) rule the JWs on earth as kings and according to their doctrine will in heaven too.

In other words, it’s a power play to confirm the ‘rulers’ of the JW on earth, although with more and more partakers, that kind of backfired on them. I remember back in the day, the partakers were always old, elders and circuit overseers or their family members, and if you partook (there was always some crazy brother or sister) they were called into the backroom for the next few meetings to assess their spirituality with subsequent approval from Bethel based on their report. That changed later in the late 90s I believe when they said they would no longer do these assessments and the elders were told to kind of figure it out on their own whether they wanted to count them.

But I know two people that were disfellowshipped for continuing to claim they were anointed after the elders told them they weren’t approved, I was too young to understand, but one of them was a woman that said Jehovah was talking directly to her, which I now understand is a mental issue, but the window washers said it was demons which you could get from playing tapes backwards (I was scared of those double self-reversing hifi setups and 8-track players, because ‘what if’ instead of rewinding, it played music backwards) Yeah, crazy stuff used to go on in the 80s and 90s.

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Chosen

by Gman2001 in

how exactly did jehovah come down to earth in 1919....look around at all the religions....and choose the bible students?

.

Anony Mous

If Jesus chose them because they would ‘advertise, advertise’ when they ran into trouble several times violating laws, they stopped doing that and started ‘door to door to sell, sell’ which changed to ‘door to door, donate, donate’ and then during COVID, ‘stay home, stay home’ and then ‘cart, cart, but only if you feel like it’ wouldn’t that be the same argument as the change of doctrine.

If Jesus chose them at a time when there was a strict requirement for pioneers (they used to be called “full time” for a reason) to be doing 180h/month and even more for missionaries and others, how does he feel now that it’s 30h/month or less if you are elderly.

@Herelam: the argument against that is that since that time, they have pretty much rejected all the doctrine and practices of that time. The JW ‘today’ is an entirely different thing than what it was just 20 years ago, and it was different from 20 years before that, let alone more than a 100 years later, it is completely unrecognizable. If the reason for Jesus’ blessing was their practices and beliefs of that time, then they’ve got some explaining to do for what changed since.

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Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025

by raymond frantz in

the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.

each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.

we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.

Anony Mous

@longhairgal: same reason I left. You can justify killing yourself in some cases, I couldn’t for my daughter. I’m sorry for the children that are raised by parents that do think their ideology should trump the well being and even lives of their children. Although as they keep diminishing the policy to what it once was (in 2000 they changed the fraction policy with significant hints that they prefer you didn’t) this is going to lead to a lot of regret, as people that made a decision in one direction later are told they could’ve made a different one.

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Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025

by raymond frantz in

the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.

each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.

we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.

Anony Mous

The blood issue has been a “hot topic” ever since its introduction. It’s not grounded in scripture and more and more people are deciding to trust science, even amongst the most ardent JW.

They have been very quiet on this topic for years leading to some here to speculate whether or not they may be ending the policy. But without reference, some/many “elders” decide that their preference should be applied or will reference to the last publication on the subject for “guidance”. Some have not yet gotten the hint and do explicitly need to be told “stop talking about it”. This is the beginning of abolishing that mandate.

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Memorial attendance

by Balaamsass2 in

curious.

what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?

Anony Mous

Isn’t Easter next week?

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

Anony Mous

Claiming we will be entering a recession when we have effectively been in a depression for 4 years+.

Note that the current global market correction is not even the worst in the last 4 years, and both the US domestic markets and bonds have risen significantly over the last week. So the EU and China are doing a bit worse, who cares, if you’re that dependent on the US markets doing poorly, then perhaps that’s a you-problem, not a US problem.

yet we hear crickets when we remember:

when inflation was at 10+% annually

when the top advisor to the president was a Chinese cutout

when top Democrat senators were sleeping with Chinese spies.

when our president was brain dead and incoherent on live television

Pepperidge Farm remembers.