background: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5684019822854144/vicarious-liability-court-appeal-dismisses-appeal-from-religious-organisation-following-sexual-assault.
the judgment (unanimous): https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2021-0089-judgment.pdf.
press summary: https://www.supremecourt.uk/press-summary/uksc-2021-0089.html.
Amazing case… to think that he could rape her while his wife was in the front room ! That’s crazy..
What the hell was he doing still on the B of E when suffering noticeable depression and flirting with women ? . I think the Supreme Court got it wrong. They don’t appreciate the regard that elders are held in and in fact, you are never off duty .
betty georges is listed as a helper to the governing body service committee, according to this page on the website: https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body-jw-helpers/.
anybody know anything about her?.
I noticed Betty and Jodie in the helpers list and wondered ........
Just Googling around I found this on a baby name site
”Betty is predominantly a girls name, with 99.64% of Bettys being girls, and 0.36% being boys.
In the United States there have been a total of 3619 males named Betty, and 999979 females given the name”
Well well well...
in 1977 ( i was 18 years old), i attended a led zeppelin concert at the chicago stadium.
sat in the 10th.
row.
As a young man , I was a believer and a big fan of rock music. I just reasoned that the GB had their knickers in a twist , over that. I said tha Holy Spiirit might direct the doctrines but I could see that it was the men who gave such advice.
I also knew that if ever my parents did such things to me , I would leave home…Thankfully they never did.
Actually , thinking back, around where I was we all listened to such counsel but did nothing about it. Most of the lads still enjoyed music and went to concerts and older ones let slip what films they enjoyed, stuff that I considered too strong to watch.
a year ago i came back to jwd.
the 2 years before that.
when covid stated, i was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Delighted for you, Lady Lee
i found out that a uk hospital (nnuh) uses kingdom melodies as hold music, apparently for some years!
i called and heard it myself.
i wrote an email to the complaints team and await a response.
Oops, the publicity might mean that the story gets back to Warwick. Still, the fact that they have taken it down might save them from being sued.
Some local dub in the hospital administration must have thought he was being clever….
it somehow never set well with me that if a boy got baptized that his mother couldn't pray or hold a study with him or in his presence without a headcovering.
maybe some of you were baptized as a boy in the home...how did that make you feel?
( like knowing you had rank over your mom???
I was baptised at a young age, that never stopped my Mum and big sister giving me a hard time though…… You can make all the rules you like but it doesn’t stop the reality of home life being what it is .
for newbies, who was carl olof jonsson?
he was a jw in sweden who was challenged by a householder in the 1960s, who pointed out to him that secular history books don’t agree with watchtower that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, but instead place the event 20 years later.
the reason the date is important is because it is the starting date for jw chronology which leads to 1914 as the end of the gentile times, and the beginning of the last days, as jws understand it.
I have not read all of Carl Olaf Johnson’s book but I have read enough of it to be impressed by the work . It methodically shows that the 1914 date and others are just the faulty reasoning of men ..
Farewell Carl, you have left a great legacy. RIP.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22011278/new-bible-chapter-hidden-verses-discovered-erased-scribe/.
i wonder what the remaining members of the gb will make of this?.
i excited to read all of this once it’s released and compare with the rest of mathew.
It is a pity that tabloid newspaper is our source for this . We shall see if anything more develops . However, I won’t hold my breath.. There have been many “wonderful “ finds that have promised more than they delivered. This might be a better article, if link works
https://catholicherald.co.uk/long-lost-chapter-of-bible-discovered/
I still don’t see a clear beard on the guy , mind you the WT May 1 1968 said this
‘“ In paradise restored on earth it would not be out of order if men returned to wearing beards, in perfect fashion, like Adam in Eden.”
i can't remember if i've told this story before .... but back in the day, in irlam congregation (northwest england, uk, cheshire #1 circuit i think) we used to rent a kingdom hall for many years before we eventually built our own.. preston hall.
ah, the memories .... it was primarily used as a community hall for old folks, but we had it friday night and sunday morning.. there was a loft and fold-out ladder and we used to store the chairs up their.
every meeting, there would be an assembly line of all the "lads" to pass the chairs down and set them up, then collect them up and pass them back up at the end of the meeting.
Yes , there were some funny things to put up with in the days when we used to rent halls. I can’t match Simon’s story but....
I remember a Circuit Assembly in my childhood that was held in what seemed to be an army drill hall. At the back of the audience there stood a large field gun of some sort, just there at the hall while we talked of peace on Earth.
When I was giving Public Talks one place had a portrait of The Queen up behind the platform. As the congregation arrived though, someone turned up with a Yeartext board , made to fit and covered it up completely..
A lot of things happened in the past that would not be done now, congregations were more independent and sometimes did their own thing.
