Video of a Jehovah’s Witness elder 'twisting' the Truth in Court
February 27th, 2006
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In this video an elder states that disfellowshipping is a congregational matter and not a family matter and that Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t use the word ‘shunning’.
He talks positively about disfellowshipping saying that “for every six or ten people you bring on here that have bad experiences [with disfellowshipping] I can bring a hundred people that have been disfellowshipped … who will say it is the best thing that happened in their life”. Watch the video! Read more…
Categories: Psychological & Social Issues
A man filmed the announcement of his Disfellowshipment made by two Jehovah’s Witness elders who came at his door. Watch the video! 
The Bronx, New York -Julio Lopez, a Jehovah’s Witness man gunned down his estranged wife and then killed himself after accusing her of straying from their faith and sleeping with another man, police and neighbors said yesterday. 
This paper examines the ways in which the movement promotes its millenarian message to prospective recruits. It also considers how the Witnesses are able to hold futuristic beliefs and at the same time, lead active lives in the present. The methods of data collection include unstructured interviews with devotees and content analysis of the movement’s own literature. The paper concludes that while the Witnesses’ futuristic symbolism is a form of escape from the modern world, it is also part of their own pseudo-corporate ‘branding’ which has contributed to their international success. 
This paper examines the ways in which the movement has managed to retain a millenarian orientation in a world that is, for the most part, indifferent to its beliefs. The Witnesses reject many commonly recognised accoutrements of sacred practise such as mystical concepts, awesome rituals and transcendental symbolism in favour of a rationalised form of religion based on the study of published texts. Ethnographic analysis reveals the dependency of this quasi-totalitarian movement on the very physical and cultural resources it condemns. The paper concludes that the Witnesses’ anti-mystical faith is both an inverted form of corporate ‘branding’ and an anti-modern quest for certainty in a hostile world of relativism. The movement’s relationship with the modern world is, therefore, ambivalent and paradoxical. 
A disfellowshipped armed man threatened to blow himself up in a Circuit Assembly Hall in Rome Saturday where around 2,000 members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses were holding a Circuit Meeting, Italian media said. 
Blaming church policy for the deaths of her sister’s family, Sharon Roe plans to make a career of speaking out and helping former members deal with breaking from the Jehovah’s Witnesses church. 
It happened last Thursday, the last day of the school year. Two boys squared off on the school playground. There are conflicting versions of who started the fight. But no doubt about who got the worst of it.