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johnw47: That ambassadors says it all ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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MaxInDHouse: The bold is part of the lies and manipulations in your brains ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() something is wrong with you upstairs Na Tuesday morning we dey. Don't rush into default mode in a hurry ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When you need to troubleshoot what is wrong with you upstairs start with you saying..... Those who bear the name Christian does not belong to Christ. Allow them claim Christian it does not change your statement that they don't belong to Christ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's why MaxInDHouse will never rest about others claiming Christians to advance more lies and manipulations in your something is wrong with you upstairs 1 Like |
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johnw47: And he still hasn't got a hold on how large the gibberish is 1 Like |
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johnw47: The lies and manipulations going on in there summarised 1 Like |
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johnw47: He needs to start receiving the same dosage he gives to others as to the bold. Jehovah's Witnesses don't claim, he always make claims on behalf of others ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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wumiwumi100: Looool! He can't. You and I know Jehovah’s witnesses strong area regarding Bible discussion is centred mainly on three topics 1. Trinity 2. Hell fire 3. Immortality of the soul mini extras.... what they class as pagan celebrations It is based on all these main 3 they class all other Christian denominations as false Christians and after engaging them in those main 3 topics you will equally get to see that being a false Christian to them is not even about those 3 topics but simply people not being one of Jehovah's Witness ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All other biblical topics. They will run away than discuss. You can imagine their main foundation topic 1914 is off limit,out of bounds. Go against this inside their congregation is = to going against thr Governing Body and you know the hammer question that send people out of the organization is just one Do you believe or accept the faithful and discreet slave is Jehovah’s channel of guiding and directing his organization today? Say NO and you get disfellowshipped and shunned as an apostate ![]() ![]() 1 Like |
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MaxInDHouse: Lies from the start.... From the year 1914 till today Jesus has been gathering obedient people throughout the earth and his disciples are working round the clock with him Jesus has been gathering his disciples before 1914 not from the year 1914. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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MaxInDHouse: Out of the abundance of your heart you peddle your bitterness. You know this thread just exposed more lies and manipulations of your religious organization and you can't contest the fact that indeed your religious organization are lying and manipulating your brains ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pẹ̀lẹ́ i'm waiting for your friend to come and respond after all he jumped in to engage me but crawled back into his shell! Your lying and manipulating brains already called him apostate, atheist, churchgoer and we know your are not expected to deal with those you call apostates but because your face was bartered by the exposure wumiwumi100 gave to the lies and manipulations of the title of your thread you are seriously looking for means to keep tarnishing his image to save your head and face ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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oteneaaron: Who needs to go to a place ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as many as those born and raised in God's organization who doesn't feel the emptiness that there's no other place to go if they should leave God's organization {John 6:68-69} of course such ones are useless to our God! Hebrews 10:38 His lies and manipulations filled brains change WHOM to WHERE since that is the lies and manipulations packed into his brains. Who needs where when he reads in his own Bible that In answer Jesus said to him: “If anyone loves me, he will observe my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him He can see in his own Bible where the Father and son will come to him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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seunmsg: I thought they contested the saying that Obasanjo already said if anyone want or is ooking for a politician in Nigeria they should go to bourdillon Ti in his book.... My watch. 1 Like |
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MaxInDHouse: Just like redefining words thousands of times to suit your lies and manipulations 3 Likes |
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oteneaaron: A woman who had access to the elders manual that the wives of elders or any other person in the congregation can't peer into ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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oteneaaron: That Australia Royal commission na eye opener in this religious organization. Anyone that wants his ears full should just go for the video during Jackson session, those two branch committee members then one elder and finally the Catholic woman brought in to defend them ![]() ![]() ![]() You can imagine a governing body member that just didn't jump into becoming a member of the Governing Body lying that........ That is not my understanding. But again, as I said, it is not my field, that goes into policy with regard to those types of things, but from my personal experience, that’s not the case. 2 Likes |
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Stewart is dogged; he won’t let the point go. Quite rightly. In the context of child sexual abuse, the fact that a JW cannot choose to stop attending congregation meetings without sacrificing their closest family and friends presents an unbearable burden to victims of sexual assault at the hands of fellow congregation members. They, in effect, must either continue attending congregation meetings (sitting in the same room with their abusers who have been deemed repentant by congregation elders) or formally disassociate and face excommunication and shunning. The situation surrounding child sexual abuse in the JW community is grave indeed and worthy of a separate volume completely. Respectfully, I do not discuss this topic at length in The Life of PIMO. But as Stewart proceeds with his examination, he touches on a sociological reality that sets the stage for my book. He continues: Stewart: Do you accept that putting people to that choice makes your organization in many respects a captive organization? Jackson: I do not accept that at all. Stewart: Well, there’s no middle road, is there? I mean, you are either a member and subject to the organization or are not – isn’t it the case? Jackson: Yes... Stewart and Jackson finally agree on one thing: There is no middle road. That's it. There is no middle road yet he was lying and contradicting their very own doctrines just to accept the fact that their religious organization is a CAPTIVE ORGANIZATION that hates REJECTION ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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MaxInDHouse: Na legalisms you sabi not spirituality ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The letter kills the spirit gives life. Anyone that don't follow the letter of your GOVERNING BODY aka Jehovah's organization are killed instantly. Like you are already stoning wumiwumi100 while still inside before he eventually leaves ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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MaxInDHouse: You cannot stop responding to him abi? I know you are not responding to his messages or instructions ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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Jackson refuses to concede. Jackson: I thought I made it quite clear that I don’t agree with that supposition(...) Stewart: Mr. Jackson, the reality of the situation is that a person who has been baptized a Jehovah’s Witness is thereafter either in the organization or out of it; is that not right? Jackson: I think perhaps you have got your facts a little wrong there. Stewart: I don’t think that’s correct, because you have accepted already, Mr. Jackson, that a person in the situation you have postulated of merely becoming inactive is still subject to the rules of the organization. Jackson deflects. His tenacious refusal to admit (or perhaps even to comprehend) the implications of the organization’s coercive policy is confounding. Finally, the governing body member unequivocally presents his stance on the point of contention. Jackson: I don’t agree with the sweeping statement that they only have the two choices. Stewart: Well, it’s right then, isn’t it, because if they don’t want to be subject to the discipline and rules of the organization, then they have to leave by actively dissociating; isn’t that the truth? Jackson: That’s if they definitely don’t want to be, yes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What an exchange of words and interesting conversation in court ![]() 2 Likes |
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At this point in the proceedings, Stewart is only barely able to conceal his frustration. Official policy is clear: every JW is subject to the rules of the organization under threat of judicial action. This includes prohibitions on premarital sex, the celebration of holidays, voting, and violating the policy of shunning by having spiritual association with ex-member family or friends. Stewart: Well, there’s no middle road, is there? I mean, you are either a member and subject to the organization or are not – isn’t it the case? Jackson: Yes, but I thought you were asking me about disassociation. Stewart: Well, I am, indeed. So if someone hasn’t disassociated but has sought merely to become inactive or to fade [away from the organization], they are then still subject to the organization’s discipline and rules? Jackson: If they acknowledge being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Stewart: And if they do the contrary – which is to say they are not one of Jehovah’s Witnesses – the effect of that is disassociation? Jackson: That’s if they decide to go down that course. (…) Stewart: So someone who wants to leave the organization must choose, you accept, between freedom from the organization on the one hand and friends, family, and social network on the other? 1 Like |
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Stewart goes on to present a hypothetical in which a JW who chooses not to formally disassociate and face shunning from his friends and family is caught by congregation elders celebrating Christmas or a birthday (customs considered by JWs to be part of false religion and detestable to God). Stewart: They would be found to be in transgression of the rules, would they not? Jackson: That is not my understanding. But again, as I said, it is not my field, that goes into policy with regard to those types of things, but from my personal experience, that’s not the case. Stewart (indignantly): Mr. Jackson, you say it’s not your field, but you are a member of the Governing Body which is responsible, as you have said, for the whole field, and you have been a member for 10 years, and all the committees are responsible to and accountable to the Governing Body. Jackson: That is correct. You see how a governing body member can lie under oath ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To be continued........ 3 Likes |
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Jackson evades again. Jackson: I would have to check on that, because personally that’s not my field. But my understanding is, if a person has made it known by their actions in the community over a period of years that they are not a Witness, we would only hold any reports in abeyance until they decided they wanted to return. Stewart pushes back once more. Stewart: Mr. Jackson, I have to say that my understanding is if someone in that position is caught transgressing one of the rules, they would still be subject to the disciplinary proceedings, including possibly disfellowshipping; is that not right? Jackson: That is a possibility, but in all fairness to your question, I think there are circumstances, but I couldn’t make a definitive comment on that. 2 Likes |
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The prosecutor then reads from the official policy of Jehovah’s Witnesses as published by the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania (WTS) regarding the procedure for discontinuing membership as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The policy is clear: if a Jehovah’s Witness (JW) decides that she no longer wants to be a member of the religion, she must disassociate herself and will be shunned from the community. Further, if she chooses not to formally disassociate but is later discovered to have violated the organization’s strict code of conduct, she will be disfellowshipped. (Disfellowshipping refers to WTS’s disciplinary policy of formal excommunication from the religion. The policy also calls upon close friends and blood relatives to shun the disfellowshipped person.) Stewart again attempts to hold Jackson to the unambiguous policy of disassociation and disfellowshipping enforced by the influential preacher. Stewart: So is it the case, then, that someone who no longer wants to be recognized as or known as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses must then disassociate? Jackson: No, it doesn’t say that they must do anything. If you read on, you will see there is a process. This gives the person the right to officially have an announcement made that they are no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. But, as I already said, if they decide they don’t want to exercise that right, they don’t automatically come under this provision. Stewart: But then people who don’t exercise that right are then (...) still subject to the rules and discipline of the organization, aren’t they? 2 Likes |
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For your reading delight... As I understand it, people who no longer want to be known as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, but who have been, must then dissociate; is that right?” says Angus Stewart, the Senior Counsel Assisting to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Stewart looks briefly up at the witness under oath and then back at his notes. Across from him is a TV screen projecting a videoconference feed of Geoffrey Jackson, a member of the eight-man governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses responsible for the spiritual and organizational leadership of over 8.5 million Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide. Jackson: No, not necessarily. I meet many people in my travels that perhaps were Jehovah’s Witnesses at one stage but then have decided no longer to be active. So, they haven’t gone through a formal process. Stewart: Well, I have chosen my words deliberately, Mr. Jackson. Stewart repeats the question, challenging Jackson’s evasion. Stewart: If someone no longer wants to be known as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, they must then disassociate; is that right? Jackson: Again, please, if they want to take the action of doing that. But, of course, they have total freedom. If they don’t want to apply to officially be removed as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, they can tell anyone they want that they are no longer a Jehovah’s Witness. 2 Likes |
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MaxInDHouse: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You must console your lies and manipulations filled brains If a Buddhist, Hindu, Judaist, Muslim or member of any religion strongly believe that only his religion is God's only channel to reach mankind such a person is one of Jehovah's Witnesses we call them the lost sheep of the house of Israel You don't call them lost sheep of the house of Israel, they are part of babylon the great empire of false religion. ![]() ![]() ![]() 4 Likes |
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wumiwumi100: You see that politics ehn no be small in the midst of elders. Even the circuit overseer looks more like the godfather in whatever circuit he serve regarding playing politics with lives of their members made subject under them ![]() ![]() ![]() The shock of your resignation go catch them, they start running helter-skelter to seek why ![]() ![]() ![]() 3 Likes |
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wumiwumi100: Na the concept Jehovah's organization dey colour their thinking and vision. ![]() ![]() ![]() 3 Likes |
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MaxInDHouse: ![]() ![]() ![]() See you when all evildoers are gone! Psalms 37:7-11 Ask Anthony Morris III he is no longer a faithful and discreet slave after demonstrating how despicable apostates will go up like smoke ![]() ![]() ![]() 3 Likes |
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johnw47: MaxInDHouse did you see the message? ![]() ![]() 4 Likes |
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MaxInDHouse: Seeking consolation as usual. ![]() ![]() 3 Likes |
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johnw47: Looool ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
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johnw47: They have to run when their lies cannot hold up against the truth. 3 Likes |
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