Topics Started by Nicholaus Kopernicus

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Prayers for survivors of child abuse
by Nicholaus Kopernicus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i no longer attend jw meetings.

i can't read jw literature either.

it's so difficult now to contemplate opening the pages of a watchtower magazine knowing that the organisation which publishes it is steadfast in refusing to engage in child safeguarding.
The banality of WT compared with Urbi et Orbi
by Nicholaus Kopernicus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i listened to the local memorial service via phone link.

found it banal and repetitive.

i took exception to the cboe recommending attending the clam as it's based on the life of christ.
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Angry the BBC covered J.W. child abuse on the national TV news at 1pm but not 6pm or 10pm
by Isambard Crater in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
did the j.w lawyers gag the bbc or something?

not even newsnight covered it.

it was given 3 minutes every hour on the 24-hour bbc news channel though i guess..
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All Body of Elders in the UK – A Warning!
by Nicholaus Kopernicus in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
shortly after rising this morning (monday 20th november 2017), i checked the news on the bbc’s teletext service.

in the uk (page 1010) the following had top billing…... “jehovah’s witnesses ‘covered up’ abuse”.

“children who were sexually abused by jehovah’s witnesses were allegedly told by the organization not to report it.. victims from across the uk told the bbc they were routinely abused and that the religion’s own rules protected perpetrators.. one child abuse lawyer believes there could be thousands of victims across the country who have not come forward.. the organization said it did not ‘shield’ abusers and any suggestion of a cover-up was ‘absolutely false’.”.
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Is All The Bad Publicity About The Watchtower Pedophile Lawsuits Causing Contributions To Nose Dive Worldwide?
by Brokeback Watchtower in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i think with all the child molestation lawsuits the watchtower corporation is and has been hit with is the main reason for all the prime property sell off recently.

the silent lambs protest back in 2001, and the dateline prime time expose probably was the death knell for the watchtower's hey day in brooklyn.. their membership is drying up, young people are leaving in droves, the situation is no doubt far worse than the annually published yearbook figures show and so they ceased it's publication permanently.

and those left remaining are experiencing a huge grab of money from their congregations accounts and now are required to make pledges about how much they can contribute which i think is a last ditch effort by the governing body to squeeze more money out of the rank and file watchtower indoctrinated drones.. i think all this is happening because even those still loyally attending are hearing reports of these tremendous pay out that the watchtower is making to the victims of their self serving policies that put young ones at great risks so that even the rank and file don't want to contribute to pay court costs and so are withholding giving contributions to a very great extent.
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"Jehovah's Witnesses' withheld info will cost them..."
by Nicholaus Kopernicus in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
latest perspective of the san diego reader on wts loosing its $4000 per day sanction appeal.... https://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/nov/10/ticker-jehovahs-witnesses-withheld-info-4000-day/?templates=mobile.
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JW website speaks with forked-tongue!
by The Fall Guy in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i put this under the "scandal" section because it is both a scandal how the wtbts can flaunt its evil hypocrisy and an even bigger scandal that the u.n. and governments in general turn a blind eye to the treatment inflicted on anyone who questions or challenges the org's teachings and practices.

"the right to change religions is supported by the universal declaration of human rights, which the united nations has called “the foundation of international human rights law.”......of course, these rights carry with them the obligation to respect the rights of others both to maintain their beliefs and to reject ideas that they disagree with.

https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/change-religion/.
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Clue re approach to Annual Report in Jan 2018 MWB
by Nicholaus Kopernicus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
at the agm on oct 7th, his eminence miserable morris iii stated the jw yearbook would cease publication and that the annual report would instead be released via the "about us" menu in the jw website.

related to this, the "life and ministry meeting workbook - january 2018 (living as christians)" outlines the following item to be considered jan 1-7 2018...."annual service report: (15 min.

) talk by an elder.
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Why is there such a 'high turnover' within the Jehovahs Witnesses?
by UnshackleTheChains in
1. jw
2. experiences
i happened to come across a time article in 2008. it was basically talking about the high turnover in american faiths.

it mentioned the jdubs and highlighted the following point.. an even more extreme example of what might be called "masked churn" is the relatively tiny jehovah's witnesses, with a turnover rate of about two-thirds.

that means that two-thirds of the people who told pew they were raised jehovah's witnesses no longer are — yet the group attracts roughly the same number of converts.
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Explanation please on the change of the term "worldly"
by careful in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've picked up from several replies to posts here that the org has stopped using the term "worldly" as it applies to people.

this must have happened after i left.

would someone be so kind as to explain the "rationale" behind this shift?