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In this episode, Lynn Ragusa shares her personal experience about how she was affected by the two witness rule.

International Rape Crisis Hotlines - http://www.ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html

Barbara Anderson - Watchtower Documents, discusses the Two Witness Rule
https://youtu.be/Q9dCHqEMObo

Former Jehovah’s Witnesses recount years of sex abuse ahead of landmark case (article from NY Post – August 12, 2019)) https://nypost.com/2019/08/12/former-jehovahs-witnesses-recount-years-of-sex-abuse-ahead-of-landmark-case/

The child victim’s act (article from NY Post – February 14, 2019) https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/cuomo-signs-law-allowing-child-sex-abuse-victims-to-sue-as-adults/

Mark Albert, Chief National Investigative Correspondent
Silent No More: The Survivors (video – part one) https://www.kcra.com/article/silent-no-more-part-1-the-survivors/28659357

Silent No More: The Survivors (video – part two) TV: https://www.kcra.com/article/silent-no-more-part-2-the-verdicts/28660625

Legal floodgates to open Wednesday as child sexual abuse victims, many after decades, get long-awaited day in court (article from the NY Daily News dated August 11, 2019) http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-child-victims-act-lawsuits-20190811-gvqqq4wfqzdyhbkowenk6gao7q-story.html

Zalkin's press conference (Facebook video) https://www.facebook.com/FOX5Vegas/videos/2401724586765655/

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Former Jehovah's Witness elder/bethelite is discussing his own personal experience about what he knows about the practices and policies of the Watchtower, Bible & Tract Society.

This video discusses the vow of poverty and how it affects those in full-time service and the impact it has for many individuals that live in areas and what happens when they do not pay into social security.

Is there anything wrong with taking a vow of poverty? No! However, the Watchtower, Bible & Tract Society is guilty of hypocrisy for condemning other religious denominations for instituting such an arrangement. Why? Because when they discovered they could take certain tax breaks for doing the same thing, they decided to set up their own vow of poverty system - Worldwide Order of Special Full-Time Servants of Jehovah's Witnesses

Unfortunately, such vows did not benefit the Bethelites and other individuals in full-time service. In fact, when it was convenient, the Watchtower dismissed thousands of Bethelites from their assignments. Many of them were released after serving upwards of 30+ years at Bethel.

One couple was so excited about being accepted to Bethel and after selling their home, donated the money from the sale of their home to the Watchtower Society. Sadly, they were part of the massive layoff of 1,000+ Bethelites.

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Former Jehovah's Witness elder/bethelite is discussing his own personal experience about what he knows about the practices and policies of the Watchtower, Bible & Tract Society.

It's all about the money. The Watchtower, Bible & Tract Society is at it again. This time they are interested in your travel reward points.

While there is nothing wrong with donating your points, the Watchtower Society is being hypocritical because they have long condemned other organizations for doing the same thing.

First, they were coming at the children trying to get them to give up their ice cream money and now they are begging for your travel reward points.

In this podcast, JT & Lady Cee presents a skit on what could happen in many Jehovah's Witness households once the idea of donating travel rewards becomes popular within the community.

JW Video: https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/LatestVideos/pub-mwbv_201907_4_VIDEO

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Former Jehovah's Witness elder/bethelite is discussing his own personal experience about what he knows about the practices and policies of the Watchtower, Bible & Tract Society.

In this video, JT & Lady Cee join their voices with Arc Ripley of Arglue to Collaborate on the topic of Jehovah's Witnesses and Collective Narcissism.

We discuss the top three things that identify the Jehovah's Witnesses as collective narcissists:

1) Persecution Complex
2) Belief that they are the only true religion
3) They believe they are the center of attention

Arc is a fellow YouTuber from a different community that focuses a lot of videos on the topic of Narcissism. He is not affiliated with Jehovah's Witnesses thus offers an outsiders perspective on the traits of Narcissistic traits.

Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's idealised self image and attributes. The term originated from Greek mythology, where the young Narcissus fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water.

Collective narcissism (or group narcissism) extends the concept of individual narcissism onto the social level of self. It is a tendency to exaggerate the positive image and importance of a group the individual belongs to – i.e. the ingroup.

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