RO is actually asking a legitimate question this time. Knowing the amount of one settlement cannot automatically be extrapolated to the other settlements. Barbara checks in here from time to time - maybe she can answer.
berrygerry
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Lawsuit Settlement Amounts
by Richard Oliver ini have a legitimate question and i am not trying to start a fight.
i keep reading that there were 6 child abuse lawsuits that settled for 13 million dollars.
how do people like barbara anderson or jwsurvey or jwfacts come up with this number?
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Fake publisher card
by floridaborn inso i've been a lurked on this site for about 15 years, thank goodness for dial up internet.... anyway my fade has been working off and on for that long but my whole family is still in including my kid.
at this point i have started dating a worldly person.
he is wiling to put onthe facade of being a witness so i don't have to lose my family.
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berrygerry
Whether he is a "worldly person" or a zealous Dub, you cannot just date him. Chaperone required, and no sleeping under the same roof.
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2017 JW Conventions
by Christian Gutierrez inhey guys!
are there less assemblies in your country or area this year?
i'm noticing trends that they are becoming fewer and fewer.
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berrygerry
Saskatoon and Winnipeg usually have one each. This year, none in all of Sask. nor Manitoba. That is a long drive for the prairie faithful.
No doubt some will miss and be turned into salt.
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Bethelites are Employees
by berrygerry inbethel seems to have legal fires happening everywhere.
https://www.newera.com.na/2017/04/28/church-loses-labour-case/.
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Bethelites are Employees
by berrygerry inbethel seems to have legal fires happening everywhere.
https://www.newera.com.na/2017/04/28/church-loses-labour-case/.
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berrygerry
Bethel seems to have legal fires happening everywhere
https://www.newera.com.na/2017/04/28/church-loses-labour-case/
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The Trump Connection
by Coded Logic ini'm a little dumb struck to see that donald trump's first cross word against russia are in support of the jws.. http://fox-news24.com/trump-warns-russia-over-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-and-urges-members-to-seek-asylum-in-the-us/.
is this because trump genuinely values freedom of religion?
or is it because his son in law jared kushner has financial dealings with the jws?
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New York's Bethel tunnels are no more . . .
by neat blue dog inhttp://www.brownstoner.com/neighborhood/brooklyn-heights/jehovahs-witnesses-brooklyn-heights-tunnels/.
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April 19, 2017 BOE Re: Kingdom Ministry School for the 2018 Service Year
by wifibandit inapril 19, 2017 to all bodies of elders and ministerial servants re: kingdom ministry school for the 2018 service year.
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berrygerry
those who fancy a day in all male company away from the wife, will be pleased.
Oh, how I hated those sausage parties.
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Ghost image of the Apostle Paul appears on Google maps
by jwleaks ini found this ghost image on google maps of the apostle paul walking on one of his missionary journeys through the region now known as turkey.. evidently the google map car was able to capture the spiritual afterglow of the apostle paul while he was walking along a roadway on his one of his missionary journeys.
interestingly the google mapping computer was able to create an overlapping image from the first century and from the twenty-first century.. .
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berrygerry
That severed arm's ghost was just reported at an Assembly.
www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/66ymg2/a_few_notes_from_the_circuit_assembly_today/
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Why Were the Anabaptists Not Chosen by Jesus in 1919?
by berrygerry inwt acknowledges their lack of neutrality during ww1, and previously stated that this was followed by a period of refining.
however, they were still the one group that far-and-away were the only ones that were practicing first-century christianity the most closely, as well as being the only group trying to do so.. interesting read about the hutterites ( http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/courtsandcolonies/chapterone.pdf ).
, especially this quote about ww1:.
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berrygerry
WT acknowledges their lack of neutrality during WW1, and previously stated that this was followed by a period of refining. However, they were still the one group that far-and-away were the only ones that were practicing first-century Christianity the most closely, as well as being the only group trying to do so.
Interesting read about the Hutterites ( http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/courtsandcolonies/chapterone.pdf )
, especially this quote about WW1:
Discrimination and hostility toward the Hutterites in the United States arose during the First World War. According to John A. Hostetler, conscientious objectors were still required to join the army as non-combatants, and this meant registering for the draft, wearing the army uniform, and performing non-combatant tasks within the army.
Young Hutterite men arriving at induction centres would not wear army uniforms or do army duty. Persecution against them within the army became quite intense:
At Camp Funston some of the men were brutally handled in the guardhouse. They were bayonetted, beaten, and tortured by various forms of water “cure” ... Men were often thrown out of a window and dragged along the ground by their hair and feet by soldiers who were waiting outside. Their beards were disfigured to make them appear ridiculous. One night, eighteen men were aroused from their sleep and held under cold showers until one of them became hysterical. Others were hung by their feet above tanks of water until they almost choked to death. On many days they were made to stand at attention on the cold side of their barracks, in scant clothing, while those who passed by scoffed at them in abusive and foul language.
They were chased across the fields by guards on motorcycles under the guise of taking exercise, until they dropped from sheer exhaustion. In the guardhouse they were usually put on a diet of bread and water.
At other camps, the treatment of the Hutterite men was similar, but the event that persuaded the Hutterites to move to Canada was the death of some of their men in prison camp. Four Hutterites who reported to Fort Lewis, Washington, refused to wear army uniforms or perform non-combatant service for the army. They were sentenced to thirty-seven years in prison and taken to the military prison at Alcatraz:
They were taken to a “dungeon” of darkness, filth, and stench and put in solitary confinement out of earshot of each other. The guard placed a uniform in each cell and said, “There you will stay until you give up the ghost – just like the last four we carried out yesterday” ... For several days the young men slept on the cold, wet concrete floor wearing nothing but their light underwear. They received half a glass of water every twenty-four hours but no food. There were beaten with clubs and, with arms crossed, tied to the ceiling. After five days they were taken from the “hole” for a short time.
Their wrists were so swollen from insect bites and skin eruptions that they could not put on their own jackets ... After four months at Alcatraz the men were transferred to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, by six armed sergeants.
At Fort Leavenworth, further persecution and hardship followed. Two of the Hutterite men collapsed and were taken to hospital. The other two were held in solitary confinement, placed on starvation diet, and “made to stand nine hours each day with hands tied and their feet barely touching the floor.”
The two men in the hospital died. When the wife of one of them came to see his body, she found that the army had put a uniform on the dead corpse, finally accomplishing in death what it could not in life.