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#JWvsNorway
Huge blow for WT in a preliminary ruling. They are not allowed to present their hired expert opinion as evidence, or use their foreign hired experts as witnesses.
Norwegian Courts won't accept the confusion WT tries to make.
English translation here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Dhzv...
Huge blow for WT in a preliminary ruling. They are not allowed to present their hired expert opinion as evidence, or use their foreign hired experts as witnesses.
Norwegian Courts won't accept the confusion WT tries to make.
English translation here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Dhzv...
Ruling BORGARTING COURT OF APPEAL.pdf
drive.google.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#JWvsNorway
Huge blow for WT in a preliminary ruling. They are not allowed to present their hired expert opinion as evidence, or use their foreign hired experts as witnesses.
Norwegian Courts won't accept the confusion WT tries to make.
English translation here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Dhzv...
Huge blow for WT in a preliminary ruling. They are not allowed to present their hired expert opinion as evidence, or use their foreign hired experts as witnesses.
Norwegian Courts won't accept the confusion WT tries to make.
English translation here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Dhzv...
1/6 This Watchtower quote clearly defines "governors" (“chief men”) as those who “rule over” Jehovah's Witnesses and must be obeyed. This contrasts with the Governing Body's claim of merely "taking the lead.”
-Watchtower, Feb 1, 1943
-Watchtower, Feb 1, 1943
January 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
1/6 This Watchtower quote clearly defines "governors" (“chief men”) as those who “rule over” Jehovah's Witnesses and must be obeyed. This contrasts with the Governing Body's claim of merely "taking the lead.”
-Watchtower, Feb 1, 1943
-Watchtower, Feb 1, 1943
Announcements and Reminders, January 2025
January 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Announcements and Reminders, January 2025
1/5 Public Information Department Update:
According to a source who wishes to remain anonymous, the Central America Branch recently held a live stream for those assisting the Public Information Department.
According to a source who wishes to remain anonymous, the Central America Branch recently held a live stream for those assisting the Public Information Department.
January 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
1/5 Public Information Department Update:
According to a source who wishes to remain anonymous, the Central America Branch recently held a live stream for those assisting the Public Information Department.
According to a source who wishes to remain anonymous, the Central America Branch recently held a live stream for those assisting the Public Information Department.
1/2 Stephen Lett’s Real Estate Side Hustle Update 2024 from The Blue Envelope on YouTube. youtu.be/Xe0jEE6-iaY?...
January 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
1/2 Stephen Lett’s Real Estate Side Hustle Update 2024 from The Blue Envelope on YouTube. youtu.be/Xe0jEE6-iaY?...
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"What is Mandated Shunning? Part 1 with Dr Windy Grendele & Dr Savin Bapir-Tardy"
Cult Chat
30 Dec 2024 [0:54:29]
#JW #ExJW #Cult
https://s.cultpodcasts.com/kENpB0qEd0m0clcYwLzf3Q
Cult Chat
30 Dec 2024 [0:54:29]
#JW #ExJW #Cult
https://s.cultpodcasts.com/kENpB0qEd0m0clcYwLzf3Q
Cult Chat Episode 50 - What is Mandated Shunning? (Part 1) with Dr Grendele & Dr Bapir-Tardy
Is shunning the most insidious of all cult practices? In today’s episode Lindy and our guests, researchers Windy and Savin from Roehampton University, define shunning and discuss how it's used deliberately as a tool by coercively controlling groups to threaten and impose social death for those who question the rules. Savin and Windy introduce listeners to their research, and the movement sweeping the world to make mandated shunning a crime. This episode is the first of four in a mini series on shunning.
Show Notes
Windy and Savins research study https://stopmandatedshunning.org/new-research-project-on-the-harmful-effects-of-mandated-shunning/
The Shunning is a Crime panel at ICSA conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ZSW3-MACM (you can watch their presentation on this link)
Windy Grendele - senior lecturer at Roehampton University
Savin Bapir-Tardy - psychologist and PhD
Experiencing Religious Shunning: Insights into the Journey From Being a Member to Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses Community
Grendele, W. A., Bapir-Tardy, S. & Flax, M., 12 Jun 2023, In: Pastoral Psychology.
Shunning from the Jehovah’s Witness Community: Is It Legal?
Grendele, W. A., Flax, M. & Bapir-Tardy, S., 22 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Law and Religion.
“You’re Going to Go into Some Really Dark, Dark Places in Your Mind.” Loss and Disillusionment of Being Shunned From the Jehovah’s Witnesses Community and Its Impact
Windy A. Grendele, Flax, M. & Bapir-Tardy, S., 23 Aug 2023, In: International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM).
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2024 at 8:30 PM
"What is Mandated Shunning? Part 1 with Dr Windy Grendele & Dr Savin Bapir-Tardy"
Cult Chat
30 Dec 2024 [0:54:29]
#JW #ExJW #Cult
https://s.cultpodcasts.com/kENpB0qEd0m0clcYwLzf3Q
Cult Chat
30 Dec 2024 [0:54:29]
#JW #ExJW #Cult
https://s.cultpodcasts.com/kENpB0qEd0m0clcYwLzf3Q
Black or white? Here are the covers of the Watchtower (No1, 2016) English language edition and Twi edition for Ghana.
Why bother with a reshoot when you can just digitally color in a white man’s arm?
Good thing it was just an arm and not a face.
#JW
Why bother with a reshoot when you can just digitally color in a white man’s arm?
Good thing it was just an arm and not a face.
#JW
December 31, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Black or white? Here are the covers of the Watchtower (No1, 2016) English language edition and Twi edition for Ghana.
Why bother with a reshoot when you can just digitally color in a white man’s arm?
Good thing it was just an arm and not a face.
#JW
Why bother with a reshoot when you can just digitally color in a white man’s arm?
Good thing it was just an arm and not a face.
#JW
1/3 English translation of Czech branch letter to congregations concerning the government looking to deregister #JW as a religion there.
December 30, 2024 at 5:15 PM
1/3 English translation of Czech branch letter to congregations concerning the government looking to deregister #JW as a religion there.
1/3 This letter clearly acknowledges that in some states, it is the ELDERS themselves who are legally required to report child abuse. However they admit they pass the duty to others. This shows they are fully aware of their legal obligation, yet they openly admit to avoiding it.
December 28, 2024 at 11:52 PM
1/3 This letter clearly acknowledges that in some states, it is the ELDERS themselves who are legally required to report child abuse. However they admit they pass the duty to others. This shows they are fully aware of their legal obligation, yet they openly admit to avoiding it.
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Yeah.
In the final part of the final part of the last days, just before the last day of the last days... God really cares about giving his subjects permission to grow beards or wear pants, & his representatives on earth to warn his people about giving too much attention to actors in JW movies. 😆
In the final part of the final part of the last days, just before the last day of the last days... God really cares about giving his subjects permission to grow beards or wear pants, & his representatives on earth to warn his people about giving too much attention to actors in JW movies. 😆
December 28, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Yeah.
In the final part of the final part of the last days, just before the last day of the last days... God really cares about giving his subjects permission to grow beards or wear pants, & his representatives on earth to warn his people about giving too much attention to actors in JW movies. 😆
In the final part of the final part of the last days, just before the last day of the last days... God really cares about giving his subjects permission to grow beards or wear pants, & his representatives on earth to warn his people about giving too much attention to actors in JW movies. 😆
1/4 At a 1924 convention, Rutherford controlled thousands by making them sing to suppress “panic”, assuming the disruption was caused by “disturbers”. If there had been a fire, this blind obedience could have led to tragedy, as safety was sacrificed for control. -Yearbook 1974
December 28, 2024 at 11:06 AM
1/4 At a 1924 convention, Rutherford controlled thousands by making them sing to suppress “panic”, assuming the disruption was caused by “disturbers”. If there had been a fire, this blind obedience could have led to tragedy, as safety was sacrificed for control. -Yearbook 1974
For years, #JW were adamant that 1914 was the key year for prophecy. Now their Silver Sword Bible says Satan was hurled to earth “about” 1914, and William Malenfant confirms the uncertainty, saying Revelation’s prophecies happen from “about” 1914.
December 26, 2024 at 6:20 PM
For years, #JW were adamant that 1914 was the key year for prophecy. Now their Silver Sword Bible says Satan was hurled to earth “about” 1914, and William Malenfant confirms the uncertainty, saying Revelation’s prophecies happen from “about” 1914.
1/2 The Watchtower once praised the Bible's commercial success: millions sold yearly in hundreds of languages by Bible societies. Ironically, they were part of this business, selling Bibles and profiting from spreading “God’s message to man”.
- The Way to Paradise, 1925
- The Way to Paradise, 1925
December 26, 2024 at 2:18 PM
1/2 The Watchtower once praised the Bible's commercial success: millions sold yearly in hundreds of languages by Bible societies. Ironically, they were part of this business, selling Bibles and profiting from spreading “God’s message to man”.
- The Way to Paradise, 1925
- The Way to Paradise, 1925
It’s Christmas Day—while the world is celebrating, laughing, and enjoying time with loved ones, #JW are reminded to ‘obey without complaint (again!)
December 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
It’s Christmas Day—while the world is celebrating, laughing, and enjoying time with loved ones, #JW are reminded to ‘obey without complaint (again!)
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And yet another example of the leadership of Jehovah's Witness providing propaganda to encourage women in abusive marriages to stay with their abuser in the hopes of them one day deciding to stop the abuse. #exjw #cult #bestlifeever
December 23, 2024 at 8:36 PM
And yet another example of the leadership of Jehovah's Witness providing propaganda to encourage women in abusive marriages to stay with their abuser in the hopes of them one day deciding to stop the abuse. #exjw #cult #bestlifeever
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Kenny Cook is set to present the final GB update of the year! Can’t wait to hear their year-end message. Stay tuned, coming this Friday!
#exjw #watchtower #jworg #ttatt
#exjw #watchtower #jworg #ttatt
December 24, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Kenny Cook is set to present the final GB update of the year! Can’t wait to hear their year-end message. Stay tuned, coming this Friday!
#exjw #watchtower #jworg #ttatt
#exjw #watchtower #jworg #ttatt
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So a sister can write this and be praised for it by JWs, but she can’t carry a microphone?
I don’t even know where to start with this one, it’s a difficult read when you know #ttatt
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#exjw #watchtower #jworg #cults
I don’t even know where to start with this one, it’s a difficult read when you know #ttatt
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#exjw #watchtower #jworg #cults
www.cambridge.org
December 23, 2024 at 2:52 PM
So a sister can write this and be praised for it by JWs, but she can’t carry a microphone?
I don’t even know where to start with this one, it’s a difficult read when you know #ttatt
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#exjw #watchtower #jworg #cults
I don’t even know where to start with this one, it’s a difficult read when you know #ttatt
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#exjw #watchtower #jworg #cults
#JW whiteboard animation: “Should I Drop Out of School?”
Education protects you from being taken advantage of!
They discourage higher education and push kids toward trades like construction—one of their tactics to secure free labor for their building projects.
Education protects you from being taken advantage of!
They discourage higher education and push kids toward trades like construction—one of their tactics to secure free labor for their building projects.
December 21, 2024 at 5:27 PM
#JW whiteboard animation: “Should I Drop Out of School?”
Education protects you from being taken advantage of!
They discourage higher education and push kids toward trades like construction—one of their tactics to secure free labor for their building projects.
Education protects you from being taken advantage of!
They discourage higher education and push kids toward trades like construction—one of their tactics to secure free labor for their building projects.
1/3 Jesus chose his channel in 1919, and under his direction, they were selling Christmas cards in 1922. They stopped celebrating his birthday in 1927. Strangely, he allowed his people to celebrate their own birthdays until the 1950s
December 16, 2024 at 10:06 AM
1/3 Jesus chose his channel in 1919, and under his direction, they were selling Christmas cards in 1922. They stopped celebrating his birthday in 1927. Strangely, he allowed his people to celebrate their own birthdays until the 1950s
Remember when it was the season to make some Xmas money by selling “Miracle Oil”? Here God’s channel (freshly chosen by Jesus just 2 years before) advertises “Miracle Oil” at a bargain price to readers, to be sold on for profit.
-Golden Age, December 7, 1921. #JW
-Golden Age, December 7, 1921. #JW
December 15, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Remember when it was the season to make some Xmas money by selling “Miracle Oil”? Here God’s channel (freshly chosen by Jesus just 2 years before) advertises “Miracle Oil” at a bargain price to readers, to be sold on for profit.
-Golden Age, December 7, 1921. #JW
-Golden Age, December 7, 1921. #JW
Awake! February 2013: This article’s language, examples, and context make it evident that “the needy” refers exclusively to #JW.
There is a noticeable lack of mention or concern for people outside the faith despite the general sounding title.
God only cares about JW.
There is a noticeable lack of mention or concern for people outside the faith despite the general sounding title.
God only cares about JW.
December 13, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Awake! February 2013: This article’s language, examples, and context make it evident that “the needy” refers exclusively to #JW.
There is a noticeable lack of mention or concern for people outside the faith despite the general sounding title.
God only cares about JW.
There is a noticeable lack of mention or concern for people outside the faith despite the general sounding title.
God only cares about JW.
“Why don’t they leave?”
JW literature explains how some domestic abuse victims stay with their abusers because they fear being shunned.
-Awake! April 2013
The irony.
#JW
JW literature explains how some domestic abuse victims stay with their abusers because they fear being shunned.
-Awake! April 2013
The irony.
#JW
December 11, 2024 at 5:42 PM
“Why don’t they leave?”
JW literature explains how some domestic abuse victims stay with their abusers because they fear being shunned.
-Awake! April 2013
The irony.
#JW
JW literature explains how some domestic abuse victims stay with their abusers because they fear being shunned.
-Awake! April 2013
The irony.
#JW
1/2 Awake! Dec 8 1981:
Jehovah’s Witnesses began as the Bible Students in the late 19th century, one of many new religions formed out of dissatisfaction with traditional churches. They developed into Jehovah’s Witnesses in the 20th century, claiming to be the sole true faith…
Jehovah’s Witnesses began as the Bible Students in the late 19th century, one of many new religions formed out of dissatisfaction with traditional churches. They developed into Jehovah’s Witnesses in the 20th century, claiming to be the sole true faith…
December 11, 2024 at 7:29 AM
1/2 Awake! Dec 8 1981:
Jehovah’s Witnesses began as the Bible Students in the late 19th century, one of many new religions formed out of dissatisfaction with traditional churches. They developed into Jehovah’s Witnesses in the 20th century, claiming to be the sole true faith…
Jehovah’s Witnesses began as the Bible Students in the late 19th century, one of many new religions formed out of dissatisfaction with traditional churches. They developed into Jehovah’s Witnesses in the 20th century, claiming to be the sole true faith…
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December 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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