How many JWs are in China? Do they publish it?
dropoffyourkeylee
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Chinese Communist Party to commence nationwide crackdown on Christianity including Jehovah's Witnesses
by jwleaks in8 october 2016. china's governing communist party is set to launch a nationwide crackdown on the christian church.. by matthew carney - abc.
the communist party has just enacted much tougher laws that criminalise christians if they do not pledge loyalty to the state.. chinese president xi jinping has warned that all religions now have to become "chinese" and the new laws will attempt to bring churchgoers and their leaders under party control.. the new laws will put the state firmly in charge, giving the communist party the ability to hire and fire church leaders and change religious doctrine to make it more chinese.... that means churchgoers will have to pledge loyalty to the communist party first.. there is good reason to be afraid.
chinese authorities have already started the crackdown in the christian heartland in the southern province of zhejiang.. it's been extensive and brutal.
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Has Robert Ciranko replaced Don Adams as president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania ?
by EdenOne inrobert ciranko has been a "helper" of the governing body in the writing department.. don adams (born 1925, presumably 91 years old now) has been president of the wtbts since 2000. .
however, in recent official posts (april 2016), robert ciranko is identified as "president of the watch tower".
does anybody know what happened and if this is an official change?.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I think the president now is just a legal function, without any real power. As long as there is a legal corporation under current laws, there will be a president.
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd inhttps://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Everyone is different, and each one finds a different way to freedom. I found Hassans book interesting, but less enlightening than 'The Wrong Way Home' Uncovering the patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society' by Arthur Deikman. It has no mention of JWs, but I found it instrumental in my break from the JW control -
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Recording of AH MacMillan and others
by dropoffyourkeylee inhere's an interesting website with a collection of recorded talks by many of the 'historic' people in the wt organization.
i only listened to one, by ah macmillan, from about 1960 or so, but there are many to choose from.
i can't imagine where they got a hold of these.. http://da-ip.getmyip.com:8080/pdf/other%20talks/.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I found it accidentally while searching for the name Ciranko, which is the name of the president of the WT society (I think). We had a circuit overseer named Dick Ciranko back about thirty years ago and there are a few of his talks in the collection here. But I think the WT president is a different person; maybe they are related.
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Recording of AH MacMillan and others
by dropoffyourkeylee inhere's an interesting website with a collection of recorded talks by many of the 'historic' people in the wt organization.
i only listened to one, by ah macmillan, from about 1960 or so, but there are many to choose from.
i can't imagine where they got a hold of these.. http://da-ip.getmyip.com:8080/pdf/other%20talks/.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Here's an interesting website with a collection of recorded talks by many of the 'historic' people in the WT organization. I only listened to one, by AH MacMillan, from about 1960 or so, but there are many to choose from. I can't imagine where they got a hold of these.
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd inhttps://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Just because he charges money does not make him a scammer, but it definitely seems like an expensive service.
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd inhttps://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Hmmm. It sounds like he has pissed off a few people.
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Puerto Rico Special Convention 2016 Video
by darkspilver innever a jw.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6289070416199680/dressed-up-five-days-ahead-special-assembly-puerto-rico.
an hour ago i went to bid good bye my two brothers in law and their wives (all elders/elderettes).
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The bOrg Cult Tactics
by pale.emperor ini'm wondering if the borg actually studied mind control and coercion tactics deliberately or wether they just evolved over time through trial and error.
from reading steve hassans books, studying hypnosis and methods psychopaths use it all seems very complex.
like it would never occur to me to do a, b and c in the right order at the right time in order to get control of someone or control their lives.. for example, repetition of words (the word "loyalty" was a big one in the last convention), using loaded language, encouraging people not to trust their own thoughts, restricting their information, demonising those who leave etc.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Cults have formed in many places, countries, and time periods. It just happens from time to time when circumstances are right for it. I for one don't think the wt has become a cult because the leadership read books on it. It just happened the same way all the others have.
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Relationship Between the JWs and Brooklyn Coming to an End
by betterdaze inthe 107-year relationship between the jehovah’s witnesses and brooklyn is coming to an endby terence cullen sept. 21, 2016, 9:45 a.m.for jehovah’s witnesses, brooklyn heights was until recently the equivalent of vatican city for catholics.
brooklyn—“the borough of churches”—arguably has no congregation with a more noticeable presence than the witnesses.
the watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, the governing body of the jehovah’s witnesses, built its headquarters at 25-30 columbia heights, and it is there to greet any visitor driving over the brooklyn bridge.
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dropoffyourkeylee
The old guard, the JWs who I grew up with in the 60's and 70's, looked at the complex in Brooklyn as sort of a Mecca or Vatican. Now however , with the majority (someone check me on this) of JWs in non-north America, the move will not be a big issue, my opinion.