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  1. 4 hours ago, César Chávez said:

    It would be nice, if you people at least tried to educate yourselves!! 

    If you are "wisdom personified" I will pass ......

    Even dogs, disgusting as we are, know not to be hateful, insulting, vindictive and malicious.

    Willy-Nilly, most people LIKE dogs, because we are naturally happy!

    Your misery screams out ahead of you like a runaway locomotive approaching a bridge-out.

  2. 2 hours ago, JW Insider said:

    most of the information in the Insight book comes from. They might be less aware that this is also where we get many of the spiritual gems and treasures in the meeting workbooks, and of course the footnotes in the Study Bible, all those interesting comments about Hebrew and Greek words, etc.

    This is known as “jumping the shark“.

  3. In Finland the government considers any suppression of the right to vote to be a violation of basic human decency and God-given rights of dignity and self determination. As such as they threatened Jehovah’s Witnesses with revocation of the charity status if they were involved with anything and violated basic human rights. Jehovah’s Witness charity status entitles them by law to siphon off tax money in relationship to how many parishioners they have and in this case it’s about $12 million a year. The Society does not want to lose that money, so they have made a dispensation for Finnish Jehovah’s Witnesses, and there’s no congregational sanctions of any sort if a Witness wants to vote in Finnish elections.

    I know of one brother locally who the Elders called him up and ask if he had voted because they saw he was a registered voter. He related the incident above and they had nothing to say.

  4. Sen-yor Chavez ... if I may pose a relevant question ....

    It seems that from what I have been reading in the past few months here on the Archive, that EVERYBODY without exception is mentally ill .... except you?

    My Guardian is ASD .... he even labels my dog water bowl and food bowl with a tape label maker, which I have noticed is also labeled with a yellow tape "Label Maker" on the label maker.   And on the label of the label maker's label that says "Label Maker", is a tiny label that says "Label",

     

  5. Correctly handling the "Word of Truth", is the same as correctly handling a saw, a hammer, a level, or any other tool. 

    WORDS are the tools with which we think.

    If we use tools in a wrong way, what we build will be crap.

    If we use words in a wrong way, what we think will be crap.

    My considered dogged opinion is that Sen-yor Chavez is on the verge of hysterical panic.

  6. FINLAND - Jehovah's Witness Leaders Suspected of Fundraising Crime

    If you have a religion in Finland and want to raise money for a religion, you need a permission to do so. Permission must be applied for from the state. Jehovah's Witnesses have raised money in the Watchtower without permission, which is against the fundraising law. Religions in Finland are allowed to raise money without permission with collection (in practice this means passing of a collection plate at the religious event). Because Jehovah's Witnesses do not practice that kind of collection, they should have applied permission to raise money. Collecting money with a bank account number is prohibited without permission.

    The case is all over the newspapers in Finland.

    Google translator:

    Leaders of Jehovah's Witnesses are suspected of fundraising. The case is currently being prosecuted.

    Public Prosecutor Mika Appelsin says there are a dozen people suspected of the crime. The suspects have denied having committed the crime.

    The key issue revolves around Jehovah's Witness Watchtower magazines and websites. The donation account number of Jehovah's Witnesses had been distributed in newspapers and on websites, and this had been done without a fundraiser.

    - In the opinion of the Police Board, it would have required permission. Religious communities have the opportunity to collect bumps in connection with the practice of a religion without a fundraising permit, but other fundraising for activities requires permission by law, says Appelsin.

    - The suspects in the crime are those responsible for this activity.

    According to Appelsin , however, the whole is not quite simple. The matter has been investigated for years and the preliminary investigation of the case was completed in the autumn of last year.

    The preliminary investigation was not able to find out exactly how much money had been raised with that donation method. In any case, the scale of money transfers is large.

    - When it comes to years, there are thousands of members and the activities are largely funded by donations, yes it will be a big total. We are talking about millions of euros.

    Appelsin estimates that the prosecution will be completed this spring. In the prosecution, the prosecutor decides whether or not to prosecute the persons.

    Ilta-Sanomat also asked Jehovah's Witnesses and President Jukka Ropponen to comment . Spokeswoman Jukka Palonen says Jehovah's Witnesses do not want to comment on the unfinished business. He sent a brief statement on the matter by e-mail.

    - We are cooperating fully with the authorities in this matter. They have raised legitimate concerns, but we believe that the report we have given will answer their questions. As the matter is still pending with them, it is not appropriate at this stage to comment further.

    The whole article: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000007917890.html

    And the question of "why Jehovah's Witnesses have not applied for permission to raise money?": in order to obtain permission, a statement of religion financial policies is required. Possibly they didn't want open their financial policies.

  7. 2 hours ago, Pudgy said:

    Um..... this is all so confusing .....

    It seems EVERYBODY except Senor Chavez is ignorant, scum, uneducated, clueless, stupid and animals.

    ........ What are the odds of THAT?

    My mistake .... It seems EVERYBODY except sEN-OR Chavez are ignorant, maggots, deaf, dumb, stupid, worthless critics, hypocrites, scum, uneducated, clueless, and animals ..... except sEN-OR Chaves.

    I stand corrected.

  8. I remember back in the Old Testament how Jehovah tolerated a GREAT DEAL of error with his people .... until it reached a certain unrecoverable breaking point. Jehovah is our God, not because he needs to be worshiped, but that by doing so we all get on the same channel, and his favorite project (that we know about) prospers and does well.

    If we had pet hamsters or gerbils, we would not cut off their heads because they constantly poop and pee in their enclosures.

    (... insert many other profound related observations below: )

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