I know that most people here are in the States and you take the freedom of speech granted, because it is written so in the Constitution, but here where I am the realities are different. Just recently one JW gave me their magazine that discusses what to do when a catastrophe strikes and I thought this publication gave some good advices but the distribution of this same publication on another side of the border in Russia is not allowed. How our worlds can be so different.
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Russia has not yet gone so far as the USSR did, the JWs were declared as the enemies of the state and the simple distribution of the JW publications may have caused a person to be sent to the gulags of the USSR for ten years.
I have been invited many times to attend the JW services in their local Kingdom Hall, have not gone there yet, but my grandmother was a JW pioneer, on another side of the border was then the USSR and I spent countless hours in my grandmother’s house and so this JW matters has followed me since my childhood. Maybe one day I’ll attend their services.
In 1999 when I started hearing voices more in the States, I experienced that I received voices from Jehovah, and this started a long and painful divorce process in America. My former American spouse’s brother made jokes about the JWs already before that without really knowing about my childhood and my JW grandmother.
The reason they get banned in most countries is they actually put Jesus above everything else. They don’t celebrate nothing including their country