dubstepped
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Reveal article: Jehovah’s Witnesses settle suit alleging cover-up of child sex abuse
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.revealnews.org/blog/jehovahs-witnesses-settle-lawsuit-alleging-coverup-of-child-sex-abuse/.
by trey bundy / february 17, 2017 .
the jehovah’s witnesses settled a lawsuit this week brought by a pennsylvania woman who says the religion’s leaders covered up sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager.. the settlement came five days into a trial in which stephanie fessler, a former jehovah’s witness, claimed the religion’s parent corporation violated pennsylvania’s child abuse reporting laws by instructing local leaders – known as elders – not to report her allegations to police.. according to fessler, a middle-aged jehovah’s witness woman, terry monheim, began sexually abusing her when she was 14. at 15, fessler disclosed the abuse to her parents.
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dubstepped
Why doesn't the Watchtower fight to change laws so that they can be forced to help those children that are sexually abused? Why don't they fight for manual reporting laws? Shouldn't they stand up for what is right and moral as the beacon of love that they claim to be? Why do they require courts to push them to help those that have been hurt under their watch? Why do they spare no cost fighting legal battles to avoid blood or to have the right to go door to door but fight AGAINST helping children or adults that were hurt as children? The answer is obvious. They're shitbags that only care about themselves. They don't help anyone charitably or otherwise. They are all talk, no action, when it comes to love. Love is an action, and they claim to show it by devoting time and money to their ministry, but not to helping those impacted by their policies and devastated for life.
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Reveal article: Jehovah’s Witnesses settle suit alleging cover-up of child sex abuse
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.revealnews.org/blog/jehovahs-witnesses-settle-lawsuit-alleging-coverup-of-child-sex-abuse/.
by trey bundy / february 17, 2017 .
the jehovah’s witnesses settled a lawsuit this week brought by a pennsylvania woman who says the religion’s leaders covered up sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager.. the settlement came five days into a trial in which stephanie fessler, a former jehovah’s witness, claimed the religion’s parent corporation violated pennsylvania’s child abuse reporting laws by instructing local leaders – known as elders – not to report her allegations to police.. according to fessler, a middle-aged jehovah’s witness woman, terry monheim, began sexually abusing her when she was 14. at 15, fessler disclosed the abuse to her parents.
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dubstepped
Ah Jehovah's Witnesses, a disgusting organization that hides behind laws when they can and skirts them when convenient, that exploits technicalities with the same deftness that they exploit their members, that allows pedophiles to abuse children because they are God-directed and Jehovah forgot to include anything in the Bible about that precludes sexually abusing those most vulnerable. An organization that is about the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law, that would take even that so far as to keep dangers to children hidden. They are filthy, and so are those that would defend them. If it makes you feel better to be technically "right" more than acting in the best interests of children, feel free to join the cult and feel morally superior while allowing immoral things to go on with impunity.
Every settlement is yet another loss for the Borg. I love that donations are going to this (well, I actually wish they never had to, but if they have to go somewhere, might as well help someone). I hope that more and more do whether technically legal or not because I hate organizations that would systematically leave children vulnerable, and if you have any morals you should care more about that than any technicality or legal jargon. Jehovah's Witnesses exploit everyone from children to adults and any hit to them is a win for humanity, morality, love, and goodness.
Some care about kids, and others care only about legal technicalities and it's pretty sad and speaks to their character.
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If one is associting with what org call bad association
by poopie indespite repeated counsel and it's willful and voluntary wouldn't that be brazen conduct calling for judicial comitee?
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Why, are you hoping to get another disfellowshipped person in your congregation so that you can be baffled yet again by shunning? Are you hoping someone goes down for this?
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What could it be?
by Randy notmarsh ini'm doing some research.
someone snitched over something minor-ish on me about six months ago the person is from a different hall, person got df ( over some other stuff) why haven't the elders talked to me?
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dubstepped
Why don't you ask them? ;p
Seriously though, you said it was minor, so maybe they don't care. Maybe they're busy with something else. Maybe they forgot. Maybe nobody snitched for real. Maybe Jehovah just doesn't love you, because we all know that Jehovah loves those he disciplines. Only the elders know. There's lots of possible reasons.
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3.(e) By Charitable Works for the Relief of Poverty
by Lostandfound inlooking at the australian wt memorandum and articles of this line took my attention.. when did they ever undertake works to relieve poverty, some discarded bethelites facing poverty would laugh at this, more like charitable works for the extension of poverty.
but no poverty facing the ultra heavies and gb members replete with obscene displays of the means of telling the time..
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dubstepped
Lol, they create poverty by condemning higher education and encouraging part time work. They don't do anything to help poverty. Are they claiming to? If so, that's a slap in the face.
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What is the name of this specific book?
by QuestionAskerPersonMan ini'm taking a class, and we are learning about jws.
my teacher is talking about a "big brown book" that is used for any questions or scriptures quoted by the person who jws are talking to.
he used it in the context that if they don't know the answer off the top of their head, they look for the verse in this book.. what is the name of this book?.
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I'm starting to wonder if the professor has it wrong or you do, or maybe I just don't go that far back. The Concordance was a larger book for looking up scriptures, the Reasoning book was for looking up specific topics with lines of cult reasoning to inflict on an unsuspecting person, lol. I can't think of any other such books that fit your description. They were different sizes and colors.
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How can elders find someone.. And how long would it take?
by Randy notmarsh inlet's throw a hypothetical.
let's say that a body of elders is looking for someone in a different congregation, but don't know what kh he attends, how do they go on about it?
how long do you guys think it'll take?
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It depends on how bad the elders want it. When my brother moved he didn't tell any of us where. He just wanted to go live his life. I wanted to find him myself because he's my brother and I was concerned. I found out the street from friends and knocked doors until I found him. We started hanging out again. Poor guy was in a really weird place mentally and emotionally and I didn't blame him.
Anyway, the elders found out from my dad, a fellow elder, that I knew where he lived. One confronted me in the auditorium of the KH and wanted me to spill the beans. I told him he should leave the 99 and go find his sheep like I did if he truly cared about him, or was this purely a punitive hunt for him? He got enraged and it got loud and another elder stepped in or it may have come to blows.
I believe they ended up finding out where he worked and essentially served him outside when he went to his car with a summons to attend their judicial hearing. So yeah, they have their ways if they're determined. They aren't technically supposed to hunt people down anymore, but I'm sure it still happens. My brother's experience was 16 years or so ago.
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"serenity now!"
by nowwhat? injust had my annual checkup.
first time in 10 years my blood presure is normal.
and i've cut my anti anxiety medicine dosage by 75 percent.
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dubstepped
Nice! My anxiety levels plummeted too after I left.
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Back again to say hi! Life update after walking away from the cult.
by Darkknight757 ini hope all is well.
my last post over a month ago was going to be the last considering i wanted to get away from all things jw but this place is much harder to ignore than previously thought.
life has taken some very interesting turns since late last year.
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dubstepped
Congrats on the new life DK and the new babies to come!!! Quote who you want at this point, who gives a f#$!, just go be happy and life a life of YES instead of that awful humanity robbing existence as a mindless drone in the Borg. Good for all of you. Get that new job, expand your horizons, and LIVE life instead of waiting for false promises of the future. Find what makes you happy.