The elders themselves had a licence to abuse. Some of these guys really get off on questioning anyone who's been involved in sexual activity, forced or otherwise.
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How Far Apart Were Your Legs?
by Joe Grundy inseveral threads on here about the excellent bbc r4 programme this week ('the report') focussing on rape and abuse in barry, south wales, jws.
fat pervert mark sewell later got 14 years and i hope he is enjoying every minute of it.. the courageous ladies who spoke on the programme were articulate, reasonable and made a tremendous impression.. the quote in the thread title made an impression on me, and i hope, on all listeners.. forget religious, theological, 'biblical' issues and cut to the basics.
a rape victim was asked to demonstrate - to demonstrate, ffs - to three unqualified (middle-aged at least, presumably) men just how far her legs were apart when she was raped.. i have rarely heard anything so outrageous, and i used to investigate rape and abuse in my profession.
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Fabulous Assembly Drama
by snugglebunny injust amazing!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zneq2utm0nu.
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Just amazing!
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Whatever Happened to the Remnant?
by snugglebunny inback in the 50's, when i was just a skinny kid, my father became po of a new congregation.
he'd only been baptised for around 4 years, so his rise was quite remarkable.just one of his flock in the new cachement area was of the "remnant".
this lady was well into her 60's, childless but married.
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I guess all those original remnant 1950's members that I recall must have died off by now. Which means, according to WT doctrine, that all present "genuine" remnant must have received their calling because those other members have fallen away.
And yes, the point about the Memorial now being meaningless is well made.
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Whatever Happened to the Remnant?
by snugglebunny inback in the 50's, when i was just a skinny kid, my father became po of a new congregation.
he'd only been baptised for around 4 years, so his rise was quite remarkable.just one of his flock in the new cachement area was of the "remnant".
this lady was well into her 60's, childless but married.
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Back in the 50's, when I was just a skinny kid, my father became PO of a new congregation. He'd only been baptised for around 4 years, so his rise was quite remarkable.
Just one of his flock in the new cachement area was of the "remnant". This lady was well into her 60's, childless but married. Her name was Alice. She was a pleasant soul on the surface and called everyone "Ducky" - including my father.
At the time, persons of the remnant were held in very high regard indeed. Their numbers were diminishing fast and they were highly valued.
My father would consult Alice on a weekly basis concerning all aspects of his congregation's affairs. Her husband was well used to visits from PO's, CO's and DO's and would busy himself making tea and coffee when they called. Sometimes, when my father received a visit from one his flock who was experiencing a crisis, he would declare "I need to go and see Alice", and off to Alice he'd go. Alice would advise him on no end of congregational affairs and personal matters, and in the main, she seemed to be quite a wise old owl.
Once, Alice told my father that the spirit in the congregation was being restricted by immorality - fix it Ducky! Regrettably, the culprit was a 14 year-old girl who had her misdoings read out to the entire congregation and even now as a 70 year-old woman, is still deeply affected by the experience. Not so good!
On another occasion we had a joint assembly with a neighbouring circuit. Alice was seen talking animatedly with several other elderly people whom she had just met. She claimed to be able to recognise fellow remnant members and they claimed the same.
So now, I wonder what ever happened to the high esteem in which these people were once held?
It seems to be that the WT has implied that anyone claiming to be of this group is most likely mentally ill.
And yet, they were once regarded as being the creme de la creme of Watchtower land.
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Name "UNWRITTEN" Rules That JWs Are Supposed To Follow
by minimus inas with the scribes and pharisees, there are a number of unwritten rules that witnesses are supposed to follow.
here's a couple : "worldly" kids in society depictions are shown quite often wearing their baseball caps backwards.
jehovah's witness youths would not want to imitate that "look".
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And you have to give up being a football player:
Peter Knowles (born 30 September 1945 in Fitzwilliam, near Wakefield, Yorkshire) is an English former Wolves football player. He spent his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he became a popular player scoring around 101 goals in all competitions. He voluntarily ended his football career in 1970 after he became one of Jehovah's Witnesses. He is the brother of fellow professional footballer Cyril Knowles, who even became so famous that he had a special song written about him:
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Sick of the nanny state. Polictical correctness can kiss my donkey!
by punkofnice ini am sick of this bloody nanny state here in the uk.
political correcness has become a drag.
(am i allowed to say drag without offending someone?).
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Damn! I covered the -phobics and the -ists labels in my earlier post and left out the bigots! -
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Sick of the nanny state. Polictical correctness can kiss my donkey!
by punkofnice ini am sick of this bloody nanny state here in the uk.
political correcness has become a drag.
(am i allowed to say drag without offending someone?).
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Punkofnice: There does seem to be a tendency for persons who are not directly affected to take up a cause on behalf of a minority to which they do not actually belong.
It's been my experience that some folk who aspire to political correctness can be the most vociferous in their insults to those who may have reservations about what really constitutes equality, and they are often the most likely to be the ones who would hang a -phobic or -ist label on someone who does not agree 100% with whatever cause they happen to be championing at the time.
We're all entitled to our opinions. But being being totally convinced that our / your cause is just and right doesn't make it OK to trample underfoot those who disagree, as though the Crusades are being re-enacted all over again.
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A Tired Child is Better than a Dead Child
by snugglebunny inincredibly, fred franz once announced at a district convention: "yesterday a sister approached me and said, brother franz, why do we have to keep our children up so late just so they can attend the meetings?
i responded sister ***, would you rather have a tired child or a dead child?".
*cue rapturous applause*.
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Incredibly, Fred Franz once announced at a District Convention: "Yesterday a sister approached me and said, Brother Franz, why do we have to keep our children up so late just so they can attend the meetings? I responded Sister ***, would you rather have a tired child or a dead child?"
*Cue rapturous applause*
The reality:
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Statement in today's WT
by stillin inparagraph 14.
"the majority if unmarried youths who lose their virginity say that they regret what they did.".
where do they get this stuff?.
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I think that in the US the term "youths" applies to both sexes whereas in the UK, "youths" are regarded as generally being male.
And, no, my only regret is being engaged for 4 years before finally discovering the joys of rumpy pumpy.
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List of Prominent JW Urban Legends...
by Tuesday inhey folks,.
i'm wondering if you all could help me with my next video that i want to put up in the next couple of days (though i'm hoping for tonight), i want to come up with a list of the most prominent urban legends surrounding jws and then refute them whatever they may be.. i'm thinking there's the urban legend about the question on jeopardy that said the nwt was the most accurate would be a good one.
that one stems from an online powerpoint presentation named theological jeopardy and a book which was written comparing six different translations of the bible.
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"in WW2 the lions in the London Zoo ate straw, so you see its perfectly reasonable that animals will be vegetarian in the paradise"
Sources? Still have to find any proof!Heh. That one was doing the rounds in the 50's!
