great find jonas!!!.
https://youtu.be/yfqffc7vczo.
Not sure the youtube claims are legit. Actually the name of the organization is The Norwegian Gambling and Foundation Authority. (Norwegian : Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet)
The Gambling Authority looks after gambling and horse racing, while the Foundation authority looks after the work of foundations and voluntary associations in Norway.
Both are separate - the foundations and NPO's, NGO's are regulated by the Foundations Act while Gambling is regulated by the Gaming Act of Norway.
would he be working on the massive audio/visual complex being built at ramapo?.
i overheard my wife listening to some update broadcast this morning and immediately thought would a true humanitarian such as jesus, mahatma gandhi or albert schweitzer be at all interested in such things?
these were 'people' persons not interesting in the stupid trappings of life.. if the gb were to sanction the building of hospitals, orphanages, refugee centers and the like, maybe we would have a little more respect for them but this ramapo project seems like a sense waste of time, energy and money.
Would he be working on the massive audio/visual complex being built at Ramapo?
Obviously not. He would have miraculously created the videos and distributed it to people, like he did with the loaves of bread and fish for feeding 5,000 people.
last spring norweigian state refused to give public contribution to jws (religious organisations can apply that in norway and previously wtbs has been granted that).
the decision was caused because of practise of disfellowshpiping.. now there is a new twist.. 25.10.2022 authorites in norway send a letter to wtbs and told them that they have four weeks to fix that practise.
if they don't do that they will loose their status as a religiouse organisation.. intrestingly jws did not "understand" what authorites meant by that and requested more time.. how can they not understand?
They won't change any policies, even at the risk of losing money.
If they wanted to they would have done it in Russia, which was far more populous than Norway. They will drag Norway through all possible legal battles and if needed, lose the case with a pat on their back by fellow JW's.
episode 203 of netflix ... i am a killer looks at the murder of christopher chavez in texas.
christopher chavez was a 22 year old ministerial servant and a born-in son of an jw elder.
after a thursday night meeting and a quick bite to eat afterwards with friends at a local restaurant, he was kidnapped, taken to a gas station and forced to drive his killers around for hours while they were in the back seat.
Too bad the WT didn't reverse their spiritual food in time for Chris Chavez to save his own life since this article came out after his murder. Sorry about that Chris.
Sea Breeze,
In the WT, fighting back in self defense, even inflicting a fatal blow to the assailant is permitted. at least since 1975:
Awake 1975 9/8 Page 27-28
If flight is impossible, the individual may be able to reason with the assailant. But, at other times, trying to reason with a person determined to inflict injury may lead to loss of valuable time. The situation may be such that the only thing a person can do is to use whatever is at hand to protect himself or others. As a result, the attacker may receive a fatal blow. From the Scriptural standpoint, the one acting in self-defense would not thereby incur bloodguilt.
atlantis, do you have the v.d.m.
questionnaire?.
hi betty:.
Thanks Atlantis I`m still learning something everyday about the cult even though I was in for 32 years.
Wow the r&f would never guess the origin of things like this, never even heard of it. Thanks so much for sharing the research!
Actually this is not new. The list of VDM questions and an image of it was already published in 1992 in the Proclaimers book Chapter 15:
after discouraging and in many instances prohibiting jw's from getting an education, like in computer graphics, film-making and design, the wt is employing these kinds of professionals and throwing vast sums of money at their new film-making adventures doubtless from all the properties they confiscated, sold that the local members paid for.
kim and mikey talk about this primarily starting at 13:15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqafxmsjirk&ab_channel=kimmikey .
Nothing new to see here. JW's have been spending a lot of money on a lot of things since Russell's time, ever since they produced the Photo-drama of creation.
They have a lot of cash with them from the time they scaled back their printing work and sold real estate.
For many JW's giving money to WT equates to serving God. But then, who are we to judge? Many Ex-JW's give their money to Lloyd, so to each his own.
Don't request or access the link. It will come on JW broadcasting in a few weeks if you want to watch it. There is no spoiler or anything in it to watch.
it is a very long time since i was an elder and the elders textbooks have changed multiple times since then.
going back to when i was an elder, to the best of my knowledge the only way a spouse could divorce from his/her partner was porneia, if that person had sexual relations with a man, woman, child, or beast.
but it had to be proven and that's the dubious 2 witness rule.. in fact, if it was not proven and the innocent party divorced and married someone else, then they could be hauled up in front of a judicial committee and be charged with committing adultery and disfellowshipped!
Pity help the poor man if he spent the night on a sofa, with his secretary in the bedroom, because the hotel reservation had been cancelled by the office junior in error.
That's why the book says "extenuating circumstances".
Also, my wife will leave me in a second if she comes to know that I spent the whole night sleeping on the sofa while my secretary was in the bedroom. She would prefer I go out and sleep on the sidewalk, park bench, or even under the bridge among the homeless if such a situation arises. She has made this crystal clear before we got married.
examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.
know ye not your own selves, how that jesus christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
- 2 cor.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? - 2 Cor. 13: 5
When I was a JW, I would have been very uncomfortable allowing Jesus' spirit to live inside of me.
If you were a JW, you woudn't have read the King James Version, but the New World Translation, which gives a different rendering of the above scripture.
examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.
know ye not your own selves, how that jesus christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
- 2 cor.
If Jesus dwells inside of people, why is he apparently not present where only ONE has gathered in his name?
How can ONE "gather"?
