Jehovahs Witnesses

It might seem a bit left field, accusing the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses of having anything to do with the porn industry.  After all, this religion is so sexually repressed, it goes as far as to designate what sexual positions are acceptable and which are not.  (Basically missionary is OK if you really have to and all others are Satanic).  However there is a very clear link between the two; just consider the following. Pornography denigrates women.  Okay, I'm sure some will argue that there are now women in the industry who are fighting the tide, however most pornography is designed to show women as a 'commodity' a thing to use (and abuse) a piece of (ass) rather than a sentient human being. If you doubt me just listen to a group of men while they are watching porn; the combination of viewing sex whilst in the company of other men, brings out an animalistic and deeply disturbing view of the male psyche.  This makes me sound like I am a d...

I live very close to Sheffield in Yorkshire, England.  To those of you that don't know Sheffield it's famous for steel, the finest cutlery in the world, silver plating, The Human League, The Arctic Monkeys, Jess Ennis-Hill, Sean Bean and the world snooker championships - oh and the film The Full Monty - plus lots, lots more. It is a fantastic city - Mclaren build all their car body shells in Sheffield, Rolls Royce build jet engines in one of the many industrial sites, it has more theatres than any UK city outside of London and it has a fantastic University.  It has the second largest Chinese population in the country and it has spawned numerous highly successful music bands. However this is not a Trip Advisor guide to Sheffield.  This blog is about the University and JW's attempt to subvert the kids that go there for a fantastic education. Most students enter Sheffield by train and the city station is superb.  The station itself is very easy to n...

The Governing Body are keen to warn all Witnesses to avoid any questions from non-Witnesses that begin with the line; Is it really so? They maintain that these type of questions are designed to undermine faith rather than build up strong confidence in Jehovah and his organisation.  The party line is that these 'sly and undermining questions' are one of Satan's tactics as he tries to draw people away from the 'Truth' I have to agree with them.   Yes, there is at least one thing that JW's and I agree upon! You probably know people who love to cause trouble by malicious gossip and insinuation, I certainly do and as I surf the internet I get annoyed that so many ex-Witnesses and JW detractors use this method to attack the Society. What is the point of playing straight into their hands when there is so much hard evidence that can be used against them?   What I'm saying is the Governing Body keep warning the congregations about questions that und...

These are the seven men that currently run Jehovahs Witnesses; Samuel F. Herd  Geoffrey Jackson  Mark Stephen Lett  Gerrit Lösch  Anthony Morris III  Mark Sanderson  David H. Splane     These seven men control an organisation of 8 million people worldwide.  There are no women on this board of directors and there is a solitary black man. Would it be cynical to suggest that he is in place to appease the large percentage of black Witnesses?  The remaining six are old white men. It is claimed that God, by means of Holy Spirit, directs the Organisation through these men.  A claim that begs the question; If God is directing a worldwide organisation why would he choose a board of old, predominantly white and predominantly American, English speaking men to represent a religion of which more than half the members are women and a very large proportion are either black, Asian and / or Spanish speaking? The cur...

In recent months the Governing Body of Jehovahs Witnesses have persistently made claims to their followers that no other organisation does more to protect their children and that media claims that they covered up child abuse within the congregations are 'utterly ludicrous'. If these claims are true why are so many historic child abuse cases within the religion now coming to light?  Cases where the elders disciplined the offender but did nothing to prevent them abusing again. Why are the Organisation fighting legal battles in the UK and the USA to prevent their documentary evidence of these crimes from being passed to relevant authorities?   A UK Charities Commission spokesperson described the legal battle by the WTBTS to block a Charity Commission inquiry into how Jehovah’s Witnesses (a registered charity) handles allegations of abuse; " The extent of the charity’s challenges and the length of time they have gone on for are unprecedented in recent times....