From this thread's OP -
WT: Public Reading of Study Material at Congregation Meetings (Footnotes)
it's tuesday morning 16 may 2017!.....
australia: royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions.
the guardian, 15 may 2017. .
From this thread's OP -
WT: Public Reading of Study Material at Congregation Meetings (Footnotes)
jw believe that jworg is the best website and most translated in the world.. i heard this today in streetservice.
there was already a thread about this subject.
anybody can link it?.
How often do people outside of the Watchtower's influence discuss and even long for websites that are translated into a large number of languages? How often is the subject discussed when important issues arise?
With Brexit - it'll be interesting with the EU dropping English as one of their 'official' languages....
Could one website handle the traffic of 1.2 billion plus people?
I believe youtube gets 20.5 billion visits-per-month - videos are not exactly 'light-weight' traffic
So, yes, it is likely that one website could handle the traffic of 1.2 billion plus people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.
no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.
instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO PROTEST AT THE LOS ANGELES CONVENTION AT LONG BEACH,......SHOUTING INTO MICROPHONES.
like this?
it's tuesday morning 16 may 2017!.....
australia: royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions.
the guardian, 15 may 2017. .
Australia: Royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions
The official (and accurate!) transcript of Justice Peter McClellan's speech referred in the OP above is available in full here:
http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/media-centre/speeches/safe-as-churches.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvEjIMMzcLc
may 15, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: regular pioneers.
uk version.
Looking at the requirements to be met to be recommended, the only male Pioneers would now be elders or m/s.....
Hasn't that always been the case? Unless they were born-in and too young to be a M/S yet?
And the reverse? Wouldn't it mean that any female pioneer would effectively be "considered" as a M/S if they were male?
it's tuesday morning 16 may 2017!.....
australia: royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions.
the guardian, 15 may 2017. .
AverageJoe1: I'm not sure if that's legit mainly due to the date: 14th May 2017, which is a Sunday and nobody in the committees in Bethel works on a Sunday.
Cool - sharp eyed!
Though apparently Sunday is OK for WT letters.....
Sunday March 19, 2017 - Re: Guest Rooming for Publishers Visiting Bethel Facilities
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwqmWMK7dwtlZUpGSHpQdEZrU1U/view
Sunday February 26, 2017 - Re: Witnessing in Public Places
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwqmWMK7dwtlMW5idV9BZF9HNlE/view
Sunday January 1, 2017 - Re: Handling Matters Relating to Alleged Child Abuse
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9F18BvXhTI1dmZieGRmR2dIX2M/view
jw believe that jworg is the best website and most translated in the world.. i heard this today in streetservice.
there was already a thread about this subject.
anybody can link it?.
zeb:any other website I have seen has a 'contact us' facility. The borg does not.
I believe it's in the footer of every page on the main website
They also give their physical real-world address/es and phone numbers - you don't get that on many websites...
it's wednesday morning!.
usa: bus driver didn’t talk about heaven and hell with boy, but did talk religion.
previously..... polk woman claims school bus driver told 7-year old son he would go to hell for mom's same-sex relationship - 7 march 2017 - includes videohttps://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5645890129756160.
It's 17 May 2017! It's Wednesday morning!
Previously....
Polk woman claims school bus driver told 7-year old son he would go to hell for mom's same-sex relationship - 7 March 2017 - includes videohttps://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5645890129756160
Boy says school-bus driver told him he and his moms are going to hell - 10 March 2017
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5743062892412928
News Chief, 17 May 2017
Bus driver didn’t talk about heaven and hell with boy, but did talk religion
The Polk County School District found that a bus driver accused of telling a student he and his two moms are going to hell did not explicitly talk about heaven and hell with the boy, but did talk about religion and distribute religious literature.
Superintendent Jacqueline Byrd reported to the School Board on Tuesday that the investigation, which included a review of video from the bus, found no evidence that bus driver Violeta Jacobo told Nathaly Encarnacion’s second-grader that he and his two moms are going to hell.
Byrd said the district asked Encarnacion to allow the video to be released, but she declined.
READ MORE: http://www.newschief.com/news/20170517/school-inquiry-bus-driver-didnt-talk-about-heaven-and-hell-with-boy-but-did-talk-religion
Montgomery Advertiser, 17 May 2017
Downsizing to make room for life's next chapter
Jack and Sandy Daniels never intended to move when they built their home in Rockton — north of Rockford — more than 40 years ago.
"Nobody thinks they're going to get old," Jack said.
The Daniels couple donated a lot to Goodwill, had multiple garage sales, and still filled two dumpsters with accumulated "stuff" after 46 years in their home.
The Daniels couple are members of Jehovah's Witnesses, and Jack has scaled back his involvement with the organization since the move.
"She's getting more frail, and I promised her I would be there for her," Jack said. "I'm just less available for congregation business now, and for me that's a relief because I can focus more on my wife."
READ MORE: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/life/2017/05/16/downsizing-make-room-lifes-next-chapter/101749502/
La Silla Rota, 17 May 2017
My brother and his friend vanished on the road
In an interview with La Silla Rota, the sister of Martín Miranda Cruz, one of the missing young people, reports that he and his friend Jesus Antonio Servín Ramos traveled last week from Cananea , Sonora, to Cuauhtemoc City, Chihuahua to buy a car.
But on the way home, on Friday, May 12, they lost contact with them when they were only four hours away. It was that day at 2:00 in the afternoon when they had the last communication with them.
Martín Miranda and Antonio Servín regularly went to the Jehovah's Witnesses church, liked to talk to people about Bible passages and make their beliefs known.
Perla, describes the young people as good people who were not "walking badly" or related to criminals.
READ MORE (Spanish): http://lasillarota.com/estados/mi-hermano-y-su-amigo-se-esfumaron-en-la-carretera/150908
READ MORE (Google Translate): https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Flasillarota.com%2Festados%2Fmi-hermano-y-su-amigo-se-esfumaron-en-la-carretera%2F150908
Göteborgs-Posten, 14 May 2017
Left everything to start a new life
Althéa Gagliano has left both Jehovah's Witnesses and the hometown of Varberg behind him and moved to Oslo. Nowadays she lives in the Norwegian capital together with her seven-year-old daughter.
She felt guilty and prevented from shaping her own life. In the end, Althéa Gagliano realized that there was only one way to go - in order to survive, she had to leave Jehovah's Witnesses and eventually the hometown of Varberg.
READ MORE (Swedish): http://www.gp.se/livsstil/althéa-lämnade-allt-för-att-starta-ett-nytt-liv-1.4261632
READ MORE (Google Translate): https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gp.se%2Flivsstil%2Falth%C3%A9a-l%C3%A4mnade-allt-f%C3%B6r-att-starta-ett-nytt-liv-1.4261632
it's tuesday morning 16 may 2017!.....
australia: royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions.
the guardian, 15 may 2017. .
Visalia Times-Delta, 15 May 2017
Trolling the obits in the name of God
On Wednesday, May 3, 2017, my mother passed away. In the course of making arrangements, I placed an obituary in the Visalia Times Delta. One of the benefits of the Internet is having that announcement posted online, available for family and friends to see and leave condolences. It's become apparent that certain "Christians" also troll those online announcements, for purposes of proselytization. On Monday, May 15, my sister in Kansas received the following:
READ MORE: http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/opinion/alternatingcurrents/2017/05/15/trolling-the-obits-in-the-name-of-god/101737522/
it's tuesday morning 16 may 2017!.....
australia: royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions.
the guardian, 15 may 2017. .
It's Tuesday Morning 16 May 2017!.....
The Guardian, 15 May 2017
Royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions, says head
The head of the royal commission into child sexual abuse, Justice Peter McClellan, has referred 2,025 incidents of abuse to authorities since 2013, provoking 127 prosecutions to date.
The commissioners have held more than 6,700 private sessions for survivors of institutional abuse.
To date, the commission has analysed the information from 6,302 of those private sessions, and McClellan will for the first time reveal the breakdown of institutions in which those survivors were abused.
Nine per cent reported abuse in an Anglican institution; 4% in a Salvation Army institution; 3% in an other Protestant institution; 2% in a Presbyterian and Reformed churches institution; 1.3% in a Uniting Church institution; 1% in a Jehovah’s Witness institution; 0.6% in a Baptist church; 0.5% in a Pentecostal churches’ institution; 0.4% in a Churches of Christ institution, 0.4% in a Seventh Day Adventist institution, and 0.3% in a Lutheran church institution.READ MORE: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6becl3/arc_commissioner_justice_mcclelland_warns/
The Daily Express, 15 May 2017
Man faces trial accused of harassing Jehovah's Witnesses
A 66-year-old Gloucester man is to stand trial in July for alleged religious harassment of two Jehovah's Witnesses.
Angelo Famiglietti, of Bloomfield Terrace, Gloucester is accused of religiously aggravated behaviour and using threatening words and behaviour towards the Jehovah's Witnesses because of their faith on May 3 and May 9.
He denies both charges.
Prosecuting Jane Cooper told Cheltenham Magistrates Court that one charge alleges he stood near to a Jehovah's Witness stand on the Cross in Gloucester City Centre on May 3 holding up a newspaper with the headline “Paedophile Jehovah's Witnesses”.
READ MORE: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6bcmdc/in_uk_you_cant_publicly_hold_up_a_newspaper_with/
15 May 2017
Talk starts at 38:20 - first five minutes is audio only, then video/audio for the rest of talk - the first part of the video below is a 'postmortem discussion.'
READ MORE: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6bgfbx/remember_the_post_about_an_apostate_giving_the/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNLUSFBxVU
14 May 2017
TO ALL BODIES OF ELDERS - May 14, 2017 - Re: Public Reading of Study Material at Congregation Meetings
Material in Footnotes, Endnotes, Parentheses, and Brackets: Footnotes and endnotes should not be read by the assigned paragraph reader. The conductor should decide to what extent the thought in a footnote or an endnote should be included in the discussion. After the paragraph has been read, the conductor might choose to have someone in the audience read the footnote or endnote or he might choose to ask for a comment on it. In some cases, he may choose not to refer to it at all.
READ MORE: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6bakdu/may_14_2017_to_all_bodies_of_elders_re_public/Previous WT direction was: Kingdom Ministry September 1996, page 7
Question Box: What should be kept in mind regarding reading the paragraphs at the meetings?
Read the Material as Printed: Footnotes as well as information in parentheses or brackets are ordinarily read aloud if they clarify the printed text. The only exceptions are references that simply identify source material. A footnote should be read where it is referred to in the paragraph, prefacing it by stating: “The footnote reads . . .” After reading it, simply continue with the rest of the paragraph.
Vice, 15 May 2017
Vice asks a JW ten questions.... (via Google Translate)
We meet Melanie in the kingdom hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, a barren room, a row of chairs on a row of chairs, a lectern on a small stage. As in a church it does not look. Only posters with psalms in four languages reveal that the hall for the people here is a religious place.
1: How does it feel to stand on the street and know many people find freaky what you're doing?
2: Is it at all an efficient way to convince people of your faith by standing on the street?
3: How many people are talking to you at all?
4: Are you sometimes cursed at work?
5: Do you despise non-believers?
6: Will God destroy me because I do not believe in him?
7: You do not celebrate your birthday. Do you sometimes celebrate secretly?
8: When were you finally able to do something because you are a Jehovah's Witness?
9: How much money do you spend every month in the community?
10: When do you expect the sunset?
READ MORE (German): https://www.vice.com/de/article/10-fragen-an-eine-zeugin-jehovas-die-du-dich-niemals-getraut-haettest-zu-stellen
READ MORE (Google Translate): https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fde%2Farticle%2F10-fragen-an-eine-zeugin-jehovas-die-du-dich-niemals-getraut-haettest-zu-stellen