charlie rissole had some weird ideas that were probably about par for the course in his day.. rutherford was a bullying propagandist.. knorr was a business man that spouted crap.. f franz was a crackpot theologian.. what of the gb today.
are they any different to previous cult leaders?.
yes, i can see they are self agrandising despots full of their own importance.
Rutherford was a conniving scoundrel, but also a spellbinding orator; Franz was an eccentric, wild-eyed screecher, but a writer with an extraordinary flair for imagery; neither of these two guys, nor Knorr, had an aversion to publicity or to cultivating a colorful public persona.
The current lot come across as a singularly unimpressive, reclusive, unremarkable collection of nonentities, intellectual lightweights; mediocrities.
seem familar?
child abuse cover-up by insular religious community enrages citizenry of lakewood, nj:.
http://www.app.com/article/20130616/njnews20/306160026/lakewood-orthodox.
A scary parallel to JW child abuse policies.
i have a question about the historical development of the doctrine currently held by the watchtower, specifically about jesus being michael.
i am not interested in a polemic about whether jesus is or is not michael, but rather in how this teaching evolved in the historical development of the watchtower movement.
for instance we know that at least as far back as november 1879, page 4, [reprints page 48] the watchtower was teaching a doctrine contrary to what it currently teaches:.
In fairness, and with no particular opinion on the merits of the JW claim, their position on the Michael/Jesus issue is not an unreasonable one, given the paucity of detail in the scriptures.
seem familar?
child abuse cover-up by insular religious community enrages citizenry of lakewood, nj:.
http://www.app.com/article/20130616/njnews20/306160026/lakewood-orthodox.
Seem familar? Child abuse cover-up by insular religious community enrages citizenry of Lakewood, NJ:
http://www.app.com/article/20130616/NJNEWS20/306160026/Lakewood-orthodox
i was really bold and put one up on my facebook page.. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/15/12225753-jehovahs-witnesses-ordered-to-pay-more-than-20-million-to-woman-who-said-she-was-sexually-abused?lite.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/calif-jury-awards-28m-in-_n_1602997.html.
Good work, Julia! It's not old news to those who've never seen it, as your experience demonstrates.
jw leaks has published the june 3, 2013, united nations general assembly analytical report on conscientious objection to military service.. page 3, paragraph 4, of the report states:.
"the following non-governmental organizations responded: the associazione comunita papa giovanni xxiii, the centre for civil and political rights, the european bureau for conscientious objection, the european organisation of military associations, forum 18 news service, the german institute for human rights, human rights watch, the international fellowship of reconciliation, jehovahs witnesses, the quaker united nations office, the russian ngo soldiers mothers of st. petersburg, the union of conscientious objectors, and war resisters international.".
this 17 page report deals substantially with jehovah's witnesses.. .
The Watchtower is de facto an NGO or "Non Governmnetal Orgaization." It's not its NGO status per se, but rather its application for recognition and membership on the list of approved NGOs to the UN that was the source of the scandal.
http://theworldnewsmedia.org/jw.org+new+witnessing+shop+opens+in+france.
video.... http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=rvcvnhohno4&desktop_uri=%2fwatch%3fv%3drvcvnhohno4.
religion or corporation..... you decide......
Looks like these venues will be stationary targets for "apostates" who mind their manners and engage them on their own turf, perhaps in the presence of other non-JW onlookers in the place, but politely enough to avoid getting kicked out.
this jw guy put a camera in his bookbag and went around snapping pics... sick.. .
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8799082/up-skirt-voyeur-a-jehovah-witness.
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Frankie: " With the amount of sexual repression the JWs under go it is surprising that they don't have more people like this in their organization."
Who can say they don't?
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Wasn't the point of having the Israelites wander in the deserts for 40 years precisely because God wanted the "faithless generation" that refused to follow Joshua and Caleb into the promised land "to pass away?"
dear brethren ;.
it is maintained by some of the friends in the ecclesia.
that the watchtower teaches that the study of the.
" The witnesses read and study all the Watchtower magazine, not just parts of it, like some professed Christians who limit their Bible reading to the last one fourth of the Bible and brush aside as outdated the first three fourths of it."
It's exactly the opposite at Bethel today: the neo-Judaisers there have swept aside the last fourth in favor of the first three fourths.
