Here is a link to a post I started about the March 2017 Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide letter writing to President Putin and other senior Russian officials.
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JW news release and deception - The "High-Profile Case" in Russia
by jwleaks ini found this interesting bit of news release propaganda by the jws on their website dated april 5, 2017.. "russia's supreme court begins high-profile case against jehovah's witnesses".
https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/supreme-court-begins-case-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.
my interest was piqued by the jw claim that the court hearing is a "high-profile case".
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JW news release and deception - The "High-Profile Case" in Russia
by jwleaks ini found this interesting bit of news release propaganda by the jws on their website dated april 5, 2017.. "russia's supreme court begins high-profile case against jehovah's witnesses".
https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/supreme-court-begins-case-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.
my interest was piqued by the jw claim that the court hearing is a "high-profile case".
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jwleaks
Thanks doubtfull1799 for the photo identification. A large full size of the photo also appears at this address:
https://assetsnffrgf-a.akamaihd.net/assets/m/702017110/univ/art/702017110_univ_lsr_xl.jpg
Below is a cropped section of the photo clearly showing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
What on earth was Watch Tower and the JWs thinking in depicting President Putin as personally presiding over the first day of the Russian Supreme Court case into the banning of Jehovah's Witnesses.
First the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses launch a worldwide campaign among followers of the church to bombard President Putin, with potentially millions of letters, to try and stop the hearing before the Russian Supreme Court. When that fails they then publish an 'official' image falsely depicting President Putin as personally presiding over the Supreme Court case.
Talk about incompetence.
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JW news release and deception - The "High-Profile Case" in Russia
by jwleaks ini found this interesting bit of news release propaganda by the jws on their website dated april 5, 2017.. "russia's supreme court begins high-profile case against jehovah's witnesses".
https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/supreme-court-begins-case-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.
my interest was piqued by the jw claim that the court hearing is a "high-profile case".
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jwleaks
The below screenshot is from Watch Tower's official description of the first day of the trial. It has been translated from Russian into English. Interstingly, tbe JWs have claimed that "a little less than 250 people were left on the street waiting for the results of the hearing." Doesn't seem to be any uni students in that claim. The official JW hearing summary leads one to believe that Watch Tower and the JWs were expecting a result on the first day back on April 5. They were mistaken. Today is April 20 in Moscow and the case is still going on. I wonder if the journalists, representatives of international organizations, and foreign embassies are still attending?
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JW news release and deception - The "High-Profile Case" in Russia
by jwleaks ini found this interesting bit of news release propaganda by the jws on their website dated april 5, 2017.. "russia's supreme court begins high-profile case against jehovah's witnesses".
https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/supreme-court-begins-case-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.
my interest was piqued by the jw claim that the court hearing is a "high-profile case".
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I found this interesting bit of news release propaganda by the JWs on their website dated April 5, 2017.
"Russia's Supreme Court Begins High-Profile Case Against Jehovah's Witnesses"
My interest was piqued by the JW claim that the court hearing is a "High-Profile Case". This claim is being bolstered with the support of the following picture (note this is a page screenshot):
The use of the above impressive image has the propensity to create in the mind of JWs the importance of their case and the "high-profile" nature of their case. Notice that the JW news release clearly states "Russia's Supreme Court Begins..." The use of the word begins denotes that the case has commenced at the time of the news release. The use of the above image, and the linking of it directly to the JWs court case is clear deception as the image is not from the actual court hearing. The image is being used falsely to misrepresent the facts.
The JW news release, in the first paragraph states:
NEW YORK—Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation began consideration of a claim from the Ministry of Justice to liquidate the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia. The Court announced a recess, and the hearing will resume Thursday, April 6, 2017, at 2:00 p.m.
A powerful opening statement in the above JW news release linked to a completely false and misleading image.
The below image is taken from the actual courtroom being used for the case hearing. As can be clearly seen the image that the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses is portraying of a "high-profile case" is entirely false and misleading.
Did the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses really believe their court case was so important that they would have it heard in such high-profile setting as depicted in their news release? Evidently the Russian Supreme Court did not feel the same way.
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The best Yeartext the WBTS could use for 2018 would be..... Ezek. 18: 25A
by HowTheBibleWasCreated inyou people will certainly say: “the way of jehovah is not adjusted right.”—ezek.
18:25.
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Given the Watchtower's frequent misuse of ellipsis it would read:
"The way of Jehovah ... is right." - Ezekiel 18:25
Maybe we should use that scripture in ellipsis form and flood the internet with pictures, or JW[.]ORG logos and the scriptural quote. No typical JW would ever look it up and realize the truth.
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Serena Williams Pregnant
by wisdomfrombelow innow that she has announced that she is 20 weeks pregnant and not married, what is her status in the cult?
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At 20 weeks pregnant this means Serena was pregnant when she won the 2017 Australian Open and thanked jehovah for the winning shot.
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If we are further away from perfection, why are we more moral?
by stuckinarut2 inas we know, witnesses teach that adam and eve were perfect and then committed the first act of sin and rebellion.. they in turn were cursed,and we all declined as their offspring.
humans supposedly lived shorter and shorter lives, and became more imperfect and sinful.. the further away in time humans go then, they should be getting worse.
so why is it then that as a society, humans have actually improved in so many ways?.
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The further a person, family, or group of people move away from the influence of jehovah the more moral and just they become.
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Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017
by freddo intheresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..
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Does this mean the world may actually miss out on a real photo opportunity of Donald Trump meeting Boris Johnson?
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Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017
by freddo intheresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..
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Someone's confident.
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Jehovah Witnesses View on medical marijuana?
by Slade1224 ini was wondering what the view jehovah witnesses and the bible and tract society had on medical cannabis?
i remember as a kid reading in the reasoning book that marijuana was bad and smoking it caused cancer and was worse then cigarettes.
as more reach comes out we are leaning marijuana can cure certain forms of cancer!
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In a congregation I was in some 15 years ago a brother was prescribed medical marijuana for his spinal pain relief. He let the elders know just in case anyone in the cong reported him. I was with him when he told the elders. One elder replied that he did not think it was appropriate for Christians. An answer had already been prepared. The brother replied "well if that's the case then I want to report every sister in the congregation for fornication with their gynaecologist." The elder got the point. Another elder smiled and replied "as long as you don't light up in the kingdom hall carpark."
On a side note: The blood prohibition is in the bible alongside the fornication prohibition. The Watchtower defines fornication as including digital penetration, yet the governing body allows a gynaecologist to perform such an act on a woman with no repercussions because it is a medical procedure. Well, so is a blood transfusion.
