BTW. This is my first post... the RC stuff compelled me to register
Welcome Alcyone!
GB member Geoffrey Jackson is lying!
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite 100 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
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cha ching
Welcome, welcome, Alcyone!
Glad to hear that more and more of our 'brothers and sisters' are standing up for the truth!
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fastJehu
alcyone
Do you know when they apologized? I have not seen it over decades in "the truth".@ alcyone: Welcome on board.
You can read more about this here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/427700005/mr-jackson-said-gb-has-apologized-past
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Heaven
Welcome Alcyone!
Billy, we all bow to your true prophet-ability. ;0)
One of the things that comes to the fore through all of this is that whilst Jehovah's Witnesses claim they attempt to be morally higher than everyone else and ensure they have clean congregations in reality fail miserably at both of these.
They need the secular authorities to force them to report the sexual abuse of a child because their interpretation of an ancient scripture is prohibiting them to do this.
What does that say about the Bible? This foundational book these people use, supposedly from God Almighty himself, is holding them back from doing the morally upright thing.
It boggles the mind.
Do you think Geoffrey Jackson suffers from cognitive dissonance after this?
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Vidiot
Authoritarian leaders don't suffer from cognitive dissonance; they "compartmentalize"...
...it's how they can "know it's wrong" but "believe it's true" at the same time.
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alcyone
@all: thanks for welcoming me.
i can recall letter from our branch office in 1990s after the new light on alternative service: A lot of people were df'd due to 'compromise' in their neutrality done by accepting alternative service (in those years, army was not professionalized and the state required either to take military training or to perform this alternative work). Then the new light came (1996) and afterward a special directive was sent to the congregations.
It was explicitly stated in the letter elders should not apologize to those df'ed based on previous understanding when they ask for reinstating. This demonstrates very well how humble the Society is when an apology is needed...
(unfortunately, this letter is not included among the docs in jwleaks. Perhaps it was issued only in countries with mandatory military service. Here is Czech version of the letter)
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Heaven
Vidiot said:Authoritarian leaders don't suffer from cognitive dissonance; they "compartmentalize"...
...it's how they can "know it's wrong" but "believe it's true" at the same time.
Doh! Sounds like something psychotics do. Wikipedia states people with 'borderline personality disorder' use this.'Nuff said. -
Billy the Ex-Bethelite
alcyone: It was explicitly stated in the letter elders should not apologize to those df'ed based on previous understanding when they ask for reinstating.
Wow. A copy of that needs to go to the Royal Commission.
Heaven: They need the secular authorities to force them to report the sexual abuse of a child because their interpretation of an ancient scripture is prohibiting them to do this.
He kept insisting that "family" was a divine institution that they couldn't overstep in order to protect children. This from the religion that has a rich and embarrassing history of 'bedroom laws', enforces draconian shunning practices that destroy families, and instruct dubs to report any anti-WT 'thought crimes' expressed by even the closest family member. And then they claim that they view child sexual abuse as a terrible crime? In reality, they view the worst criminals to be anyone who dares to point out their lies and false prophecies.
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Vidiot
Alcyone - "...the RC stuff compelled me to register..."
Pretty sure you won't be the only one. :smirk:
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LisaRose
t was explicitly stated in the letter elders should not apologize to those df'ed based on previous understanding when they ask for reinstating. This demonstrates very well how humble the Society is when an apology is needed...
Welcome Alcyone, it's good to hear the RC hearings are waking some people up. After saying such reports are apostate lies they made themselves look foolish, since they couldn't dispute the fact that they do have a problem with pedophiles and their weak defence of their procedures being bible based were shown to be a questionable.
The closest they got to an apology was after the 75 fiasco. After misleading people by making them believe Armageddon would come in 1975 they said that "some" went ahead of the things written. No explanation as to who "some" people were, or why that did not make them false prophets. People sold their homes and lived on the proceeds (and were praised and held up as an example), others put off getting married or having children. The Awake said young people would have to accept the fact that they would never have time for a career in this system. After misleading people into making bad life changing decisions, they took zero responsibility for their mistake.
