Russian Roulette

Many Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) across the globe are becoming aware of the impending annihilation of the organization in Russia, where they have been under restrictions for many years, however, this time, they face having all the Kingdom Halls and Branch Offices seized by the Russian Government, and permanently putting the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society out of business in that country. JWs and non-JWs alike are taking sides on this issue, however, the leadership of this society, the Governing Body (GB) are calling all active JWs to action, to participate in letter writing campaigns to protest the permanent ban of the JW organization in Russia.

Doing a bit of online research in this area, you will find this has happened before to the JWs. In many countries the leadership have compromised with local authorities in order to keep functioning as a religious or charitable organization with some Kingdom Halls having a governmental flag hanging inside the Kingdom Hall so they can operate freely in that country. The problem with any ban of the JWs is that they mandate their membership to disobey the laws of their country of birth or who reside there for whatever reasons. They mandate absolute loyalty to the GB who are headquartered in New York and mandate their membership to obey THEM over any governmental rules, policies and regulations. Yes, they believe they are God, in that you obey God as ruler rather than man. 

If you look up some of the past atrocities that happened in the country of Malawi where the JW organization was banned and outlawed, the GB who reside in their posh apartments in New York, with free labor at their beck and call, with a car service, maid service, and chefs, all mandated that the local JWs in Malawi disobey their government and continue to meet and study JW literature, and prohibited them from purchasing a political card. This resulted in many JWs being tortured and murdered for the sake of a policy by the GB leadership. 

How those GB members of that time period slept at night is beyond me. It's one to thing to say that you need to stand up for your religion, but not when you don't live in that same country and face the same trials and tribulations of your brothers and sisters but from afar tell other people in other countries to simply disobey the laws of the land, is disgusting when you live across the globe in America, living for free off of a huge bank account worth millions [now billions] and tell your brothers in another country OH, you've got to disobey your presidents! If you die for us so we can live a posh life for free, living off of donations and investments for the past 100 years, with a new compound in New York with a swimming pool, spa, gym, you name it, oh, you will be mentioned in our annual book of statistics [called a Yearbook]. The GB are blood guilty for their sins against their own membership.

For further reading, reference:

https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/malawi-mexico-oath-allegiance.php

Am I for a ban in Russia? The answer is yes. This book publishing company that has amassed great wealth through real estate holdings and investments is masquerading as a religion. They further force its membership to disobey laws of their own country and to refuse life-saving medical treatments so the Watchtower leadership can grab a few headlines. They need to be put out of business. However, the sad part is, the poor misguided JWs will listen to those billionaire boys at the top of this organization living at their new posh fortress in New York and think that God is speaking through these pompous, obnoxious and imperfect mere mortal men.  The GB have placed themselves in the form of gods to their membership.

The JW leadership are bloodthirsty. First with banning its membership to save themselves or a loved one from death by refusing a potentially life-saving blood transfusion, to mandating they die or be thrown into prison before following the legal mandates of the country where they live if they are placed under a permanent ban to operate freely. You must preserve life first. Some countries mandate their citizens be trained to kill, to go to war, to become anarchists, these are the horrors that exist, we can't do anything about it. But, if your country has strict rules and regulations you have to abide by them or try and move out of that country. Stop blaming yourself for the woes of a billion dollar book publishing company. Too bad if their properties are seized by a governmental power. No pain and suffering is worth a Kingdom Hall building and no one has the right to tell you to disobey the laws of your country. No true God or Higher Power will ever demand your life or that you suffer pain or imprisonment, especially to save real estate holdings. Praying to God is free and you can do that no matter if religion is banned or not. God can exist in your life without a Kingdom Hall or any religious building. Jesus died so no one else would have to, and the GB are blood guilty for past crimes. 

Why did God stop Abraham from sacrificing his son Isaac? To teach him a lesson that you do not participate in the practice of sacrificing children to the false gods and idols that the nations were doing. The true God is not demanding your life. Life over law, that is the lesson of the Bible, love one another, that is the only commandment you need.

If you know someone who is struggling with this issue, you must obey the laws of your land and not the billionaire boys in New York who are only panicking since any property they own that is seized by the governments means they make zero profit off all that real estate they have amassed. That is the only thing they care about, their bank accounts and nothing else.

Do not be a statistic in a Yearbook of JWs. Stand up for yourself, obey the laws of the land where you live, survive and thrive. If you are under a religious ban in your country, obey it. However, nothing stops you from praying to your God. The GB have no right to tell individuals to not obey the laws of their own country. The GB are not God. Do not sacrifice your life, your livelihood or your family to the money hungry JW Society sitting in wealth and luxury in New York or in all their branch offices around the globe supported on donations from the public and never earning a living on their own merit through honest, hard work. No, they only solicit donations from the public and from their membership and demand they leave their life savings to the organization and that's it, their sole purpose, to gain wealth and real estate holdings around the globe. Don't be a victim of the JW organization. Choose life over the GB who think they are gods.

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Moving a Mountain

As reported on this blog site, the Australian Royal Commission (ARC) issued its findings on the internal practices of the Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) organization and found that its policies fail to protect victims of molestation and abuse suffered inside the organization. [See blog entry: Royal Pain, dated 11-28-16].

The ARC were back in session on March 10, 2017, to further investigate the JW practices and to find a solution to the thousands of cases of child abuse allegations covered up by the JW organization in Australia, with only a few of the cases actually resulting in the punishment of the perpetrators. In its prior investigation, the ARC outlined the areas that needed to be changed, specifically the JW internal rule that there must be two witnesses to any crime of sexual abuse. This was the most egregious and horrific policy that needed to be changed by the JW leadership, and that their shunning practices of members who leave the organization were deemed to be cruel by the ARC. 

However, the JW leadership [the Governing Body (GB) headquartered in New York and their enforcers, the Body of Elders assigned in each congregation around the globe] believe that sexual molestation and abuse are sins not crimes, when the general population and the criminal court system believes otherwise. These are crimes punishable by fines and imprisonment. According to the JW's internal rules, there must be at least two witnesses to a sexual assault, something that rarely if ever happens. Normally, abusers are manipulative and threatening to their victims, and operate in secrecy.

The ARC addressed moral and criminal issues within the organization and how the JWs basically do nothing to protect victims. The JWs refused to back down on that two witness rule for allegations of sexual abuse and their practices of shunning those who simply walk away from the organization, whether from being traumatized and nothing done to the perpetrator or they just decided to walk away. The JWs have the nerve to say the person who leaves is shunning the organization which is an outright lie. No indoctrinated and baptized JW will speak to a person, including their own children, who simply choose to walk away from the organization without doing anything wrong but simply decide they don't want to be a JW, that person will be shunned. It's not the person leaving who shuns their own friends and family who stay within the organization.

The JW leadership also fail to completely divorce themselves from such egregious matters of child abuse by mandating the victim and their family to immediately report the crime to the local officials and let the trained professionals handle the matter. The JW Body of Elders go beyond the scriptures and do not simply provide spiritual advice, they take the law into their own hands by hushing up crimes against minors. Even adult victims of abuse are left to fend for themselves with many having to go to safe houses in their city resulting in "Satan's world" having to care for victims of abuse, with the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society doing zero to help their own flock. All the Watchtower corporation cares about is money flowing into their so-called holy mountain with zero leaving by way of a small stream of cash trickling down that mountain to the rank and file membership.

Inside the congregation, nothing is done to protect the flock. Any abuse allegations are kept secret and confidential, with no announcement made to warn members. I know this first hand by being born into the organization and raised in it. As I have already related some of my experiences on this blog site, I read my father's notes [an Elder in the congregations where we were assigned] from the numerous judicial committees where he was one of the judges of the person accused of wrongdoing and their victims. Yes, pedophiles were kept hidden and secret in the congregation, two I knew of, that abused their own children. Oh, they were praying about it and trying to stop, oh, just sleep in another room at night away from the wife and kids. Nothing was done and the congregation never knew of these confessed pedophiles in the congregation. This is normal practice within the JW church.

On March 10, the ARC queried two representatives from the Branch Office of the JWs located in Australia to go over their internal policies and procedures, Mr. Terrence O'Brien, Australian Branch Committee member and current director of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia and Mr. Rodney Spinks, member of the Service Department, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia. These two JWs testifying in this case maintained that their policies and procedures are based on scriptures, specifically, the most contentious of their policies is that a victim needs at least two witnesses to their molestation and abuse before the JW Elders will take any action against the perpetrator(s). This leaves victims and their families with nothing. They will be jettisoned from the so-called loving cocoon of their own congregation and left to their own devices on how to proceed. Do they go to the police to report the crime, especially if the victim was a minor? If it was an adult victim of abuse, then what? They have to seek help from the secular authorities, commonly called Satan's world by the JW leadership. They will be driven out of their home congregation since they will have to face their abuser at each and every meeting at the Kingdom Hall who will remain in good standing and still be allowed to participate in the door-to-door ministry work that is a requirement for being a member in good standing, you must engage in the weekly recruitment work to gain more followers of a false god named Jehovah [a name used in our common era by both Jews and Protestants with a Catholic Monk being the first to use it. It does not originate from scriptural records or ancient writings].

How do you move a mountain like the JW organization? A mountain that has been immovable for a hundred years? You start at removing the top first. The ARC are starting at the top. GB member Geoffrey Jackson was subpoenaed at the first hearing in 2015 since he was already in Australia. No one from the GB appeared for this second hearing on March 10 and no representative from the society's headquarters in New York bothered to attend either. They let the local JW Elders handle the matter in Australia and they defended their cruel policies of the two witness rule to abuse allegations and their shunning practices if the victim decides to leave the organization due to their trauma of being abused, while their abuser sits in that Kingdom Hall unscathed and in good standing. To add insult to injury, if a perpetrator admits to sexually abusing a person in the Kingdom Hall but repents, he may or may not be put on probation or expelled from the congregation. Either way, nothing is reported to local authorities.

However, the entire world is now witness to the fact the JWs hide persons accused of being pedophiles inside their organization and do not turn the matter over to authorities. IF there is a local reporting law, then they tell victims to handle the matter on their own and abandon the sheep to fend for themselves. But, to bring down this destructive society it starts at the top, then working down to the local leadership in each congregation, then down to the lost flock of sheep who are skinned and thrown about since they will be sheep without a shepherd and will be in shock when the veil of lies is removed from their faces placed there by the GB, the ruling class of the organization and the Elder leadership in each congregation.

Yes, the ARC is attempting to move that mountain from the top down. They will succeed since more people will see that the mountain can be removed, a bit at a time. But it is worth it. It may mean the life of a child within the organization that has no voice and has to suffer abuse within the organization with a leadership that does nothing since they are terrified of being sued by the perpetrator. So it ends in a stalemate with nothing being done with a victim being forced to leave and subsequently shunned by those still inside the organization.

The JWs leadership are terrified to take a stand for a child and hand the matter over to the authorities trained to ferret out the truth of these kinds of cases because they are afraid of being involved in litigation from the perpetrator. Is the victim lying? Why? What prompted the whole situation? What history does the alleged perpetrator have with children and young persons? These kinds of questions can and will be handled by the proper authorities, not by untrained dads sitting in a Kingdom Hall set up in the position of power, dads who do nothing but sit at a desk all week and in front of a TV all weekend. These people are not trained to handle anything of a serious matter inside a congregation. They are barely trained in the scriptures, just looking up a scripture here and there on their iPad and counting their time as is required for membership in the organization and doing what's called shepherding work, which is useless conversation so the Elders and their helpers, called Ministerial Servants, don't have to trod door to door for hours but can count their time sitting in people's homes drinking coffee and having a snack for an afternoon.

I hope you will take the time to listen to the full hearings of the ARC. It is extremely interesting for both current and active JWs and those who are not familiar with the society. The hearings and related information are readily available with a quick YouTube search. You can access the original Case Study 29 and the new Case Study 54 at the ARC website:

https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/public-hearings/case-studies

If we join together, we can move a mountain like the JW society that's resting on a foundation of lies, deceit, misdirection and misinterpretation of the scriptures that make up the Holy Bible. The great crowd of exJWs is growing and getting stronger with each passing day, week, month and year. Don't be afraid to walk away from your abusers whether they be emotional, physical, mental or verbal, since that is the definition of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, an abusive organization that protects wrongdoers and let's them operate freely without repercussions, while victims suffer in silence. 

Don't suffer in silence. Seek help from a licensed counselor, physician, therapist, or psychiatrist and get that help you need. Don't be afraid to enlist help from caring professionals who will bring down that person who harmed you inside the destructive and cruel JW society.

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