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  Dutch government look for possibility to revoke JW charity status (=tax breaks) after JW refuse independent investigation re. abuse

  by Anders Andersen in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  well, the title says it all.

  the dutch government will look into the possibility to revoke the charity status of jw after they refused to cooperate in the child abuse scandal.. the government urged the jw to start an independent investigation into the jw child abuse issues, and after some stalling the jw flatout refused.

  unfortunately the government can't really force them.. the chance that the charity status is actually revoked is very small as there appears to be no legal basis to do so, but right now the government and house of representatives are very annoyed with jw.. and in the meantime the da will continue their investigation based on the victims officially reporting abuse to the police..

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  I hope their charitable status does get revoked.
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  The glass prison

  by Normalfulla in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  cognitive dissonance.

  a term i came to learn about after waking up as i'm sure many of us here did.

  i was thinking of how this condition is similar to the proverbial glass prison, how jw are unknowingly confined by the walls of their belief while observing life around them but are truly captives to a concept as ray put it.. .

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  I wonder how well he would take it if you said there is no evidence outside the Bible that Jesus even existed as written in the Bible?

  The worst prisons are the ones with no walls. That's definitely the life of a JW.
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  God is going to kill all of his unbelieving children at Armageddon

  by Half banana in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jws are taught to think in a childish, simplistic and paranoid way.. the ticket to paradise includes a gory bloodfest of unimaginable proportions.

  and jws calmly and unquestioningly trust and even look forward to this happening.. what about the morality of this unprecedented solution to mankind’s problems?

  (there is evidence in the earth’s crust that noah’s flood never happened so it doesn’t count as a precedent).. sweep all of your problems under the biblical carpet and you know that god will sort it all out by the ultimate act of near total genocide—or not!

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  Here in lies one of the greatest paradoxes of the Christian faith.

  The Almighty creates humans with freewill. They are free moral agents. However, if they chose not to worship him they are to be executed.

  Furthermore, the Almighty of the Christian faith "is love". He is supposed to be the personification of love. Yet, we see how unloving he is with his death sentence for non-believers.

  The Christian god is supposedly not above his own laws. That is why we are supposedly having this whole testing period due to the challenge of Satan. Yet, when Jesus comes to Earth he tells his followers that we are to love our enemies in following his example. How can you simultaneously love your enemies while destroying them for simply not believing in you?
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  Bayern Munich beaten in German Cup Final!

  by The Fall Guy in

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  2. humour

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0cbasgsie.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2321700961&feature=iv&src_vid=tUEyYuZkjVI&v=h5PM3oYeKy8
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  What Should I Say?

  by cookiemaster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i need a bit of advice.

  i've been pimo for a long time and fading more and more.

  i occasionally attend for family but never give any answers or actively participate in any way.

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  They won't be honest enough with you to tell you the truth. The truth is they don't care about you. They just want to find out where you stand. They are going to force your hand and ask "Are you in or are you out?"

  If you are not ready to completely cut ties, be disfellowshipped, or marked you should come up with something elaborate and make it believable. Be ready to give an Academy Award level performance to sell your story.

  You best be ready to sell that you -

  1. Love Jehovah

  2. Love Jehovah's organization
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  murders at school

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at a school in santa fe in the us.

  many people killed and wounded.

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  A 17 year old gets his father's revolver (6 round capacity) and short-barreled shotgun (2 round capacity), plants numerous Improvised Explosive Devices (i.e. "pipe bombs"), goes to school, and Murders students as well as a teacher. He intentionally spares the lives of students he likes because he wants them to "Tell his story." His story, as told in his confession to authorities, is that he was suicidal due to being bullied by teachers and students, but couldn't bring himself to taking his own life.

  Current laws broken by this incident -

  1. No one anywhere in the United States of America is permitted to purchase or possess any type of firearm under the age of 17.

  2. Allowing a loaded firearm to be accessible to a minor is prohibited by law.

  3. A short-barrel shotgun requires a tax stamp from the BATFE. This was an unregistered short-barreled shotgun. In additional, the shotgun was purchased legally, but altered to it's illegal length after purchase. That is also illegal to due.
  

  4. Firearms are not permitted on a public school campuses.

  5. Manufacture, possession, and use of explosive devices is prohibited by state and federal law without proper permits.

  6. Murder is illegal.

  Please forgive me for being absolutely baffled how someone can come to a logical and reasonable to conclusion that we need "sensible gun laws" to prevent these tragedies. Items 1-4, and 6 are all current firearms laws on the books by the federal government and/or Texas statute. Murder is probably the oldest prohibition known to man and codified. Yet, it has never prevented a single Murder.

  Then take item #5. Change the narrative. What if this 17 year old planted these IEDs and successfully cooked a few of the off Murdering untold dozens of students. What commons sense gun laws would you demand then?

  "Common sense gun laws" is code for "Get rid of all the guns and Murder goes away."

  Here's what's needed to address the issue -

  1. Swallow the hard pill that you can never completely prevent Murder from happening.

  2. Stop obsessing over the inanimate objects used to commit these tragedies and put practices in place to make such incidents more difficult.

  3. Study the psychological profile of every prior mass murder in a school and use it to identify potential mass murderers prior to them committing these crimes.

  4. Figure our why kids want to go to school and Murder their classmates. This has been going on for 20 years. What has happened in the past 20 years that started this? Why was this not happening since 1999?
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  Did You Care About The Royal Wedding?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i don’t get it.

  who really cares?

  in the usa, it’s such a huge newsworthy event.

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  I stopped caring about the royals in 1776.
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  Job 26:7 “Earth is hanged upon nothing”—proof of inspiration?

  by Ireneus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jws has been saying bible is authored by god because job 26:7 says: “earth is being hanged upon nothing.” and this verse in combination with isaiah 40:22 which says “god resides above the circle of earth” implies that earth is spherical and remains unsupported from above or from beneath.

  thus, bible contains the knowledge which science confirmed later.. however, recent understanding of science is that the whole visible part of the universe is only 4%, and the visible exists because of the invisible 96%-- “dark matter 26%” and “dark energy 70%”--which is a fifth and previously unknown type of fundamental force called quintessence, which fills the universe like a fluid serving as a support to the visible universe.

  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/dark-matter/.

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  Don't forget that a "circle" as Earth is describes is a flat, 2 dimensional shape. Job did not use words such as "globe," "sphere," or "ball." Job, if he really existed, was a flat-earther.
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  The political left, perfectly captured in one short video exchange

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  this perfectly encapsulates the behaviour and opinions of the left and dave rubin nails it - "you're not oppressed, you're entitled".. lots of of shouting and claims of being denied rights to speak but nothing really to say when given a mic, just endless shouting and baseless confused claims about 'free speech'.

  hey, some blm bitches try and get in on it too because, why not.. constant "i have a question, i have a question ..." as though she isn't allowed to ask it when the reality is she really has nothing to say, she just wants to stop other people being able to talk.

  what a stupid cunt.. sadly, the left is indoctrinating a generation to think that *this* is what political discourse and "taking a stand" is.

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  The student speaking perfectly emulates the core of the progressive movement in the United States. This movement is built on 4 pillars -

  • Envy
  • Self Loathing
  • Hypocracy
  • Intellectual Dishonesty

  This movement is intolerant of ideas and speech that exists outside their paradigm. They are statists who literally wish to exchange freedom and liberty so the government can enforce their belief system.

  This student, and so many like her, literally believe that by the government locking people up in prison who express ideas that go contrary to her own will some how stop bigotry and violence based on bigotry.
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  Interview with an Apostate - Scratchme1010

  by scratchme1010 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for what it's worth:.

  tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i am one of 7 children in my family, three boys, three girls and me.

  yes, i'm right in the middle, and i'm the pink sheep of the family (or at least the official one).

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  I wish I could have seen you do the chicken dance during the meeting. I probably would have joined you and got our sooner.