Jehovahs Witnesses

The July 2017 Watchtower has an article entitled;   Winning the Battle for Your Mind Once again the Governing Body are attempting to convince their congregations that Satan is behind the criticism of the organisation by, amongst others, the Australian Royal Commission and the British Charities Commission. They are claiming that it is all propaganda as you will see from this extract from the magazine; What is propaganda? In this context, it is the use of biased or misleading information to manipulate the way people think and act. Some equate propaganda with “lies, distortion, deceit, manipulation, mind control, [and] psychological warfare” and associate it with “unethical, harmful, and unfair tactics.”—Propaganda and Persuasion. How dangerous is propaganda? It is insidious—like an invisible, odorless, poisonous gas—and it seeps into our consciousness. Because we may not see propaganda for what it is, behavior specialist Vance Packard observed: “Many of us are ...

JW.ORG is announcing the imminent ban of the religion in Russia.  It states; On March 15, 2017, Russia’s Ministry of Justice filed a claim with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to label the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia as extremist and liquidate it.  The Governing Body are said to be so concerned at the situation that they are encouraging all eight million Witnesses to write to the Russian authorities to protest the ban.  One of their spokesman made this interesting comment; “The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses wants to heighten attention to this critical situation,” states David A. Semonian, a spokesman at the Witnesses’ world headquarters. “Prosecuting non-violent, law-abiding citizens as if they were terrorists is clearly a misapplication of anti-extremist laws. Such prosecution is based on completely false grounds.” The Russian Ministry of Justice filing used the words: 'extremist' while the JW spoke...

Many years ago, when I was a little boy, I was in the 'ministry' with my dad and we met a Bishop. I remember his annoyance as my dad started talking to him about the Kingdom and the Bible. He laughed at my father's beliefs and informed him that Jehovah's Witnesses were fools to believe all the scriptures as the Bible contradicted itself all the way through. My dad challenged him to show one example, however, the Bishop had decided he had spent enough time discussing religion with a JW and shut the door. My dad took this as a moral victory and he often used the experience in his talks. Of course, being brought up a JW, I believed what I was told; that the Bible books complement rather than contradict each other. How quickly we learn not to believe everything we've been taught when we wriggle free of the mind control that the Governing Body exert over the organisation. Of course, the Bishop, who in my dad's version of the story was an arro...

It's memorial season again and most of us will get an invite.  To JW's it is viewed as the most important meeting of the year and effectively it is the only celebration that they actively encourage. Witnesses view the memorial as a celebration and as kids growing up in the 'truth' we were taught the significance of the emblems and the importance of the ransom sacrifice.  However, from being a youngster, I have always questioned the whole concept of both the memorial and (apostasy alert) more to the point, the reasoning behind Jesus ransom sacrifice.  Here is the basic premise of the memorial;  It's a formal ceremony that acknowledges the sacrifice of a perfect man, Jesus. That sacrifice was made as payment to God for mankind to regain the privilege of Gods blessing which had been lost by another perfect man, Adam. So let's now break it down.  Adam was created by God (apparently) as a perfect creature.  However God, in his infinite wisdom...