I have some of the best stories about local needs, probably my favorite part to listen to =D
thedepressedsoul
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Any elders out there? How to Local needs talks work?
by Letts Party inso a local needs talk was lovingly given at our hall last week that i'm positive targeted me specifically.
it had to do with missing meetings for work.
they even had a demo on what we should do if our boss asks us to stay overtime on a meeting night (basically say "no" and risk losing your great job which you have no desire whatsoever to lose)... so i'm aware that there's a sort of protocol the elders follow when someone in the hall needs to work on something.
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Any elders out there? How to Local needs talks work?
by Letts Party inso a local needs talk was lovingly given at our hall last week that i'm positive targeted me specifically.
it had to do with missing meetings for work.
they even had a demo on what we should do if our boss asks us to stay overtime on a meeting night (basically say "no" and risk losing your great job which you have no desire whatsoever to lose)... so i'm aware that there's a sort of protocol the elders follow when someone in the hall needs to work on something.
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thedepressedsoul
I agree with Morpheus though. It's probably an over all issue at your hall. Each person though probably isn't there enough to know it's an issue so each one of you thought it was directed at them!
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Any elders out there? How to Local needs talks work?
by Letts Party inso a local needs talk was lovingly given at our hall last week that i'm positive targeted me specifically.
it had to do with missing meetings for work.
they even had a demo on what we should do if our boss asks us to stay overtime on a meeting night (basically say "no" and risk losing your great job which you have no desire whatsoever to lose)... so i'm aware that there's a sort of protocol the elders follow when someone in the hall needs to work on something.
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thedepressedsoul
All it does is make the congregation aware of an issue that they would normally have no idea or clue about. That's all I ever noticed and people are like, "I wonder who that was targeted at?"
I see why they're doing away with it, completely pointless. I think it was a way to control people in the past and get power over them when it was something they couldn't DF you for so they made it a local needs to shape you up in the spot light.
I remember the dating years in the congregation, the local needs kept being on dating even though we did nothing wrong. You can bet I went right up to elder after the local needs each time and confronted him.
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Do you think the GB ever mentions these abuse cases directly?
by thedepressedsoul inthe title says it all, do you think that the gb will ever bring up these cases in their literature or in a talk?
i'm not talking about them just mentioning "persecution" i'm talking about actually bringing up child abuse cases and trying to justify it.. or will it just remain the elephant in the room until years have passed?.
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thedepressedsoul
Or I wonder how long until reading anything in the news related to JW is "apostate" material and should be treated as such. I'm suprised they haven't pulled that card yet.
Crap, I think I just gave them an idea....
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Do you think the GB ever mentions these abuse cases directly?
by thedepressedsoul inthe title says it all, do you think that the gb will ever bring up these cases in their literature or in a talk?
i'm not talking about them just mentioning "persecution" i'm talking about actually bringing up child abuse cases and trying to justify it.. or will it just remain the elephant in the room until years have passed?.
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thedepressedsoul
Why isn't this getting big news covereage like the Cathloics? Or will it once the ball really gets rolling? If it doesn't get much news coverage it's safe to say that the JW are a drop in the bucket of religon to not even get that much attention.
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Kingdom Hall Money Grab Was for Child Abuse Its Completely Clear
by thedepressedsoul inif youve followed the news lately there are more and more child abuse cases popping up.
one lawyer said he has over 28 cases in the pipeline that are going to be coming out soon.
on december 1 st a new one just popped up.
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thedepressedsoul
I heard and have witnessed some halls not sending all of the money and keeping a lot more than $3,000.00. There have also been whispers of a dividing on some elder bodies has half feel they should send it and the other half feels they shouldn't. The elders that own their own businesses seem to be the ones against sending it.
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Kingdom Hall Money Grab Was for Child Abuse Its Completely Clear
by thedepressedsoul inif youve followed the news lately there are more and more child abuse cases popping up.
one lawyer said he has over 28 cases in the pipeline that are going to be coming out soon.
on december 1 st a new one just popped up.
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thedepressedsoul
They can't get it back now where as before they could.
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Do you think the GB ever mentions these abuse cases directly?
by thedepressedsoul inthe title says it all, do you think that the gb will ever bring up these cases in their literature or in a talk?
i'm not talking about them just mentioning "persecution" i'm talking about actually bringing up child abuse cases and trying to justify it.. or will it just remain the elephant in the room until years have passed?.
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thedepressedsoul
I agree there is a huge risk but they have to know that Witnesses are reading these news articles. They can't stop them from poping up on their TV or news feed. Any Witness who hears Jehovah's Witnesses on the news will watch it.
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Do you think the GB ever mentions these abuse cases directly?
by thedepressedsoul inthe title says it all, do you think that the gb will ever bring up these cases in their literature or in a talk?
i'm not talking about them just mentioning "persecution" i'm talking about actually bringing up child abuse cases and trying to justify it.. or will it just remain the elephant in the room until years have passed?.
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thedepressedsoul
The title says it all, do you think that the GB will ever bring up these cases in their literature or in a talk? I'm not talking about them just mentioning "persecution" I'm talking about actually bringing up child abuse cases and trying to justify it.
Or will it just remain the elephant in the room until years have passed?
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Kingdom Hall Money Grab Was for Child Abuse Its Completely Clear
by thedepressedsoul inif youve followed the news lately there are more and more child abuse cases popping up.
one lawyer said he has over 28 cases in the pipeline that are going to be coming out soon.
on december 1 st a new one just popped up.
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thedepressedsoul
If you’ve followed the news lately there are more and more child abuse cases popping up. One lawyer said he has over 28 cases in the pipeline that are going to be coming out soon. On December 1 st a new one just popped up. The branch saw this “war” coming and these cases coming before the media and we ever caught wind of it. Here is why I think it’s clear that the Kingdom Hall money grab was to battle these cases.
Multiple cases are coming and coming and will continue to come. The more people that come forward the more it’ll’ give other abuse victims courage to come forward instead of living with the horrible assault that happened to them. These cases are not cheap if the lawsuit numbers have anything to say about it. There also comes the issue of there being just too many cases for their 90$ per month lawyers to handle. They’ll start to hire outside help if they have not already to deal with this overwhelming number of cases coming to light.
So what do they do? They grab all of the Kingdom Halls money to try to fight this never ending battle. If they simply just borrowed the Funds on Deposit money like they do, some halls could just withdrawal all of their money on hand with the branch and the branch would be stuck paying the lawsuits plus the money back the halls. This way they can just use all this money with no thought of having to pay it back.
They go even a step further though. They start requiring all halls to pay a monthly amount, that’s not cheap mind you and for them to only keep around $3,000.00 on hands. Sounds like a franchise doesn’t it? They have positioned themselves for these lawsuits. They got a pay day from the Funds on Deposit and they are getting a huge monthly amount from every congregation to “build new halls” or aka pay for these child abuse cases.
It’s actually pretty sickening to think about. This money grab has a very suspicious timing with all of these law suits coming to light. In my opinion, they saw them coming and realized the danger of their survival if they did not do this. There have been other things taking place too, selling of properties, closing of branches, getting rid of unnecessary expenses and distancing themselves from appointed men. Those in the congregation, all they do is focus on judging people for wearing tight pants while those they claim are their brothers and sisters are told to suppress the sexual assault that happened to them.
They are hunkering down for a storm and it’s getting clear as day that this storm is starting to kick up. It’s ironic that all this is happening at the 100 year anniversary. Who knows, maybe in 50 years they will teach that on the 100 year anniversary “nations attacked them”. “How clear it has become that 1914 is an actual date and that on the 100 year anniversary we faced an attack from the nations”.