Kirjoittaja Pehmoluopio » 02.01.2010 12:57
PLEASE SHARE COPIES OF THIS 2000-2009 JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES NEWS OVERVIEW
In the decade now past the Watchtower Society men over Jehovah's Witnesses found themselves increased shoved onto the defensive as the organization careened toward 2010, the 100th anniversary of the year 1914, the marked year which the Watchtower long predicted had had a generation that would see The End with Armageddon followed by paradise on earth. Also during the decade Watchtower set up some new corporations and for the first time no corporate president was of the anointed class.
This applied to the President of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Max Larson, and also Don A. Adams, President of Watchtowers worldwide Governing Body. Toward the decades end Watchtower also began selling off buildings in Brooklyn, preparing to move elsewhere, selling under-used kingdom halls, compacting others, laying off staff all around the globe, including many of the oldest, sickest and most costly Bethelite workers.
Watchtowers long secret liaison as a Non-Governmental Organization associated with and supporting the U.N. brought on an especially embarrassing scandal as also did the nationally televised Dateline NBC program on child molestation. More of the Public learned about Watchtowers policy of making all JWs, including those who are pedophiles, preach at doors. JW pedophiles, murderers, rapists, etc, mostly those who had been in power as elders and ministerial servants, were convicted in various countries, details coming to light on the internet.
Those convicted included Watchtower staffers such as serial pedophile Jesus Manuel Cano who had been stationed in New York, Michael Porter of metro London, also murderer Kelly Jarka an elder in southern California etc. In 2009 Police and news reports indicated that Phil and Nancy Garrido of central California and the Night Stalker rapist of aged women in London had also been JWs following the Watchtower Society. There are major concerns about pedophiles and those of like fanatical ilk embedded in the Watchtower, dangerous regardless of any belief systems.
Some active-, exiting-, former-JWs and persons never-JWs have urged the FBI and other bodies to investigate incidents such as involved alleged or possible wiretapping and harassment of members, former members and some who had never been JWs. Bill Bowen's Lambs March on Brooklyn carried a banner urging FBI action, attorneys have taken extra precautions when active with high-cost cases etc.
Among an untold number of others, Bethany Hughes, daughter of Lawrence Hughes of Calgary, Canada, died early in the decade after refusing blood due to Watchtowers anti-emergency blood transfusions policy, igniting a multi-year series of embarrassingly public informative lawsuits, still continuing even into 2010. An underground group called Associating JWs for Reform on Blood powerfully published Watchtower misdoings on the issue (
http://www.facebook.com/l/cbe53;ajwrb.org), became more openly active, but then went back underground, possibly due to Watchtower's elders being on high alert for them.
Those still inside Watchtower also helped expose this and other matters by underground letters etc. Despite a gag order, Associated Press (A.P.) reports broke showing that some 16 child molestation lawsuits were settled out-of-court in the Napa Valley of California for millions of dollars with individuals alleging abuse against themselves or their kids by Watchtower elders. A "gag" order was put upon the settlements and the W.T. paid out millions of dollars, no doubt trying for example to keep lurid details hidden and its most knowledgeable person President Don Adams from having to testify in court.
Entering 2010, and, as said, with 2014 looming, Watchtower was desperate to get more elders as so many had already stopped being elders. It ended the mid-week Book Study nights in JW homes, moving those into kingdom halls on the weekends. Presiding Overseers were renamed Coordinating Elders. Word came that Watchtower wanted to restructure the elders so that for example they would have to handle judicial committee matters themselves so that courts would consider the local and regional elders more liable in lawsuits than world headquarters staffers.
Printing began of a Watchtower magazine to be read by the Public so that the Public would not see the Watcthower magazines that JWs were getting. Printing costs were cut as deeply as possible, some use also being made of the internet. Watchtower redefined downwards how much time was needed to be a pioneer etc, manipulations were apparently made to keep statistics from revealing its problems in retaining members, etc.
Repeated warnings were issued that JWs needed to not be reading opposition literature on the internet, this generating all the more curiousity. The nationally respected Barna survey showed that young JWs in particular wee quitting. Many said the Watchtowers way of life had become unliveable. They knew they would be shunned for leaving but had so much of their lives ahead that they did not want to be wasted as they saw had been the case with JW parents. Many of the JW parents had become JWs as part of the Babyboomer generation and were beginning to grey, be sicker, etc. Some big name JWs such as Michael Jackson left the Watchtower, or, as with Sirena Williams, stayed associated but basically ignored what it said.
In fact a whole new class of JWs called The Conscious Class developed, nominally still JWs in order to keep family ties, but in fact being otherwise basically just paying lip-service to Watchtowers harsh, rigid policies. On the internet former JWs went from having emailing and having websites to using blogs and forums. In the middle to late part of the decade some went to having their own online fellowships the most successful basing their unity on love with freedom to differ rather than doctrinal sameness. Some also began holding free call-in Telephone Conferences.
Freely make and distribute copies of this among JWs and others. Those with time and ability to translate it are welcome to do that too.
PLEASE SHARE COPIES OF THIS 2000-2009 JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES NEWS OVERVIEW
In the decade now past the Watchtower Society men over Jehovah's Witnesses found themselves increased shoved onto the defensive as the organization careened toward 2010, the 100th anniversary of the year 1914, the marked year which the Watchtower long predicted had had a generation that would see The End with Armageddon followed by paradise on earth. Also during the decade Watchtower set up some new corporations and for the first time no corporate president was of the anointed class.
This applied to the President of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Max Larson, and also Don A. Adams, President of Watchtowers worldwide Governing Body. Toward the decades end Watchtower also began selling off buildings in Brooklyn, preparing to move elsewhere, selling under-used kingdom halls, compacting others, laying off staff all around the globe, including many of the oldest, sickest and most costly Bethelite workers.
Watchtowers long secret liaison as a Non-Governmental Organization associated with and supporting the U.N. brought on an especially embarrassing scandal as also did the nationally televised Dateline NBC program on child molestation. More of the Public learned about Watchtowers policy of making all JWs, including those who are pedophiles, preach at doors. JW pedophiles, murderers, rapists, etc, mostly those who had been in power as elders and ministerial servants, were convicted in various countries, details coming to light on the internet.
Those convicted included Watchtower staffers such as serial pedophile Jesus Manuel Cano who had been stationed in New York, Michael Porter of metro London, also murderer Kelly Jarka an elder in southern California etc. In 2009 Police and news reports indicated that Phil and Nancy Garrido of central California and the Night Stalker rapist of aged women in London had also been JWs following the Watchtower Society. There are major concerns about pedophiles and those of like fanatical ilk embedded in the Watchtower, dangerous regardless of any belief systems.
Some active-, exiting-, former-JWs and persons never-JWs have urged the FBI and other bodies to investigate incidents such as involved alleged or possible wiretapping and harassment of members, former members and some who had never been JWs. Bill Bowen's Lambs March on Brooklyn carried a banner urging FBI action, attorneys have taken extra precautions when active with high-cost cases etc.
Among an untold number of others, Bethany Hughes, daughter of Lawrence Hughes of Calgary, Canada, died early in the decade after refusing blood due to Watchtowers anti-emergency blood transfusions policy, igniting a multi-year series of embarrassingly public informative lawsuits, still continuing even into 2010. An underground group called Associating JWs for Reform on Blood powerfully published Watchtower misdoings on the issue (http://www.facebook.com/l/cbe53;ajwrb.org), became more openly active, but then went back underground, possibly due to Watchtower's elders being on high alert for them.
Those still inside Watchtower also helped expose this and other matters by underground letters etc. Despite a gag order, Associated Press (A.P.) reports broke showing that some 16 child molestation lawsuits were settled out-of-court in the Napa Valley of California for millions of dollars with individuals alleging abuse against themselves or their kids by Watchtower elders. A "gag" order was put upon the settlements and the W.T. paid out millions of dollars, no doubt trying for example to keep lurid details hidden and its most knowledgeable person President Don Adams from having to testify in court.
Entering 2010, and, as said, with 2014 looming, Watchtower was desperate to get more elders as so many had already stopped being elders. It ended the mid-week Book Study nights in JW homes, moving those into kingdom halls on the weekends. Presiding Overseers were renamed Coordinating Elders. Word came that Watchtower wanted to restructure the elders so that for example they would have to handle judicial committee matters themselves so that courts would consider the local and regional elders more liable in lawsuits than world headquarters staffers.
Printing began of a Watchtower magazine to be read by the Public so that the Public would not see the Watcthower magazines that JWs were getting. Printing costs were cut as deeply as possible, some use also being made of the internet. Watchtower redefined downwards how much time was needed to be a pioneer etc, manipulations were apparently made to keep statistics from revealing its problems in retaining members, etc.
Repeated warnings were issued that JWs needed to not be reading opposition literature on the internet, this generating all the more curiousity. The nationally respected Barna survey showed that young JWs in particular wee quitting. Many said the Watchtowers way of life had become unliveable. They knew they would be shunned for leaving but had so much of their lives ahead that they did not want to be wasted as they saw had been the case with JW parents. Many of the JW parents had become JWs as part of the Babyboomer generation and were beginning to grey, be sicker, etc. Some big name JWs such as Michael Jackson left the Watchtower, or, as with Sirena Williams, stayed associated but basically ignored what it said.
In fact a whole new class of JWs called The Conscious Class developed, nominally still JWs in order to keep family ties, but in fact being otherwise basically just paying lip-service to Watchtowers harsh, rigid policies. On the internet former JWs went from having emailing and having websites to using blogs and forums. In the middle to late part of the decade some went to having their own online fellowships the most successful basing their unity on love with freedom to differ rather than doctrinal sameness. Some also began holding free call-in Telephone Conferences.
Freely make and distribute copies of this among JWs and others. Those with time and ability to translate it are welcome to do that too.