Posts by loveis

In our technological age, some people obtain information from electronic sources, including the Internet. So the Society has put on the Internet some accurate information about the beliefs and activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Our Internet Web site has the address http://www.watchtower.org and contains a selection of tracts, brochures, and Watchtower and Awake! articles in English, Chinese (Simplified), German, Russian, and Spanish, as well as in other languages. The publications on this Web site are already available through the congregations and are in use in the ministry. The purpose of our Web site is, not to release new publications, but to make information available to the public in electronic format. There is no need for any individual to prepare Internet pages about Jehovah’s Witnesses, our activities, or our beliefs. Our official site presents accurate information for any who want it.

Although our site has no provision for electronic messages (E-mail), it lists postal addresses of branches around the globe. Thus people can write to obtain more information or to receive personal assistance from Witnesses locally. Feel free to share the above Internet address with any who might be inclined to begin learning Bible truth from this format.

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Looks Like the Andersons Lost in Court

by Beep,Beep in

came across this a few minutes ago.

http://www.wmcstations.com/global/story.asp?s=5973793

loveis

BTTT, UPDATE: According to the this document on the TN courts site, the Andersons appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court, but that appeal was denied on May 14, 2007. Barring an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, that will do it.

http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/OPINIONS/TSC/certiorari/2007/Certlist051407.pdf

So....the justices of the state's highest court couldn't be convinced, either. What do you think?

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Barbara's CD, the Three Year Rule & Pedophile Brothers. My comments.

by Seeker4 in

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ok, i had initially intended on commenting on two things in barbara's commentary in another thread, that combined, make for an interesting scenario for jw pedophiles - then i was distracted by a question from purps, and decided i'd use this comment to start a new thread.

that is a hell of an avatar pic, by the way, purp.

if you're half as cute as that smile you're wearing, you must be quiet a heartbreaker!

loveis

Is this the one?

*** km 10/72 p. 8 Question Box ***

Question Box

• What is meant by “some years ago” on page 170, paragraph two, in the “Organization” book?

This indicates more than a year or two. It may be noted that it did not say “many years ago.” So it is not an exact number of years, but more like two or three years. It was not intended to have a brother go back into the distant past to bring up wrongs of which he repented years ago and that have evidently been forgiven by Jehovah and are not being practiced now. In many cases the wrongs occurred prior to the time when the “Watchtower” drew attention to what the Scriptures say on such misconduct.

If a brother has been serving faithfully for some years and has seen evidence of Jehovah’s blessings upon him, why should he now step down from office? If he has the right viewpoint now on conduct and will give good counsel he should be able to continue to serve. If the local body of elders see that he has the respect of the congregation and has shown the proper qualifications over the last two or three years, he may remain in his position of service.

Must wrongdoing be brought to public attention after many years? The book (page 168) under “Public Reproof” quotes 1 Timothy 5:20 and mentions reproof of those who confess to committing more than one offense. But it really has to do with recent events. The “Interlinear” refers to those “sinning,” something going on at the time. So if repentance occurred some years ago, three years ago or more, and sinning ceased, and he is respected by the congregation, it is not necessary now to publicly reprove one who committed more than one offense “some years ago.”

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Breaking News: Berry girls lose high court appeal

by loveis in

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with those two short, sweet, words of the nh supreme court, the berry girls 4-year fight to hold the wts responsible has come to an abrupt and bitter end.. a preliminary scan of the opinion indicates a virtual slam-dunk victory for the wts, although there was one dissenting justice out of the four on one issue only, the only female justice of the four.

(coincidence?

hmmm......).

loveis

In view of the more recent cases progressing in California and other places, thought I might (bump) this for a new round of debate.

What do you think? Will the newer cases fare better?

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May 28--Four years since Dateline's JW sex abuse program aired. Results?

by AndersonsInfo in

sunday, may 28, 2006, is the fourth anniversary from when a threshold was crossed into uncharted waters.

on may 28, 2002, the u.s. television news program, dateline, publicized to millions of viewers the facts about watchtower's deceitful child abuse policies which protect pedophiles who target and molest jws' vulnerable children.

subsequently, this subject caught the interest of media throughout the world who, through careful investigation, substantiated the allegations made on dateline.

loveis

http://www.wtmedia.org/dateline1a.wmv

http://www.wtmedia.org/dateline1b.wmv

Of course, in all fairness you must update that the 2 lawsuits referred to in the program, brought by Erica Garza and Holly Brewer, were both eventually dismissed in favor of the WTS, as well as a third one that was filed after the program aired (Heidi Meyer).

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No one updated that Larry Slack was found guilty of first degree murder?

by loveis in

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(beating death) .

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-beat28.htmljury convicts dad of whipping girl to death .

april 28, 2006. by stefano esposito staff reporter .

loveis

Oops, Larry, not Leon--sorry about the mistake

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No one updated that Larry Slack was found guilty of first degree murder?

by loveis in

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(beating death) .

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-beat28.htmljury convicts dad of whipping girl to death .

april 28, 2006. by stefano esposito staff reporter .

loveis

(beating death)

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-beat28.html

Jury convicts dad of whipping girl to death

April 28, 2006

BY STEFANO ESPOSITO Staff Reporter

After flogging his 12-year-old daughter to death with an electrical cable, a somber Larry Slack told investigators he was disgusted with what he'd done.

On that point at least, a Cook County jury appeared to agree with the man prosecutors called a "sick and sadistic" tyrant. In less than three hours of deliberating Thursday, the jury convicted Slack, 46, of first-degree murder in the death of Laree Slack on Nov. 11, 2001, at the family's South Side home.

"When they showed the autopsy pictures of [Laree's] body after she was dissected, that was enough to really turn your stomach," said juror Tom Sullivan.

Slack, sitting with his elbows on the table in front of him and his fingers interlocked, bowed his head when the verdict was read but otherwise displayed no emotion. The jury also found Slack guilty of aggravated battery to a child in the beating of Laree's younger brother, Lester Slack.

During closing arguments, prosecutors told jurors that Larry Slack was someone who would inflict pain on a whim and was eager to beat Laree Slack the night she died.

"The penalty for crossing this guy -- no matter for what silly thing -- was torture," Cook County assistant state's attorney Ted Lagerwall told the jury.

When he beat Laree -- who was tied to a bare metal futon frame and gagged -- he did so "over and over and over again," Lagerwall said.

The beating started because Laree and her five siblings had been unable to find a lost credit card. The beating continued because Larry Slack was furious that Laree wouldn't take the beating quietly, prosecutors say.

"Ladies and gentleman, that isn't discipline," Lagerwall said. "That isn't corporal punishment. That's murder."

Denise Streff, one of Slack's attorneys, argued that what her client had done was wrong, but he isn't a "sadistic killer."

"Mr. Slack did not intend to kill his daughter," Streff said. "He knew it was bad . . . but he had no idea Laree wasn't going to get up and be OK."

Faces 20 years to life in prison

She reminded jurors that Slack was so upset when he realized he'd killed his daughter that he tried to commit suicide.

In his videotaped statement to prosecutors played in court Thursday, the corpulent Slack said, "I bought [a knife] for the purposes of killing myself. I hid it under the fat folds of my stomach."

But prosecutors asked jurors not to be distracted by the suicide attempt, calling it self-serving.

Cook County assistant state's attorney Rick Cenar told jurors they only had to find Slack intended to inflict "great bodily harm" to convict him of first-degree murder.

"This was a crime involving torture," Cenar said. "This was a house of pain. This was a house of torture. The king of pain is right over there."

Sentencing is set for June 1. He faces 20 years to life in prison, Cenar said.

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