the whitewashing of tm111 from jw history continues - tending to confirm that he was booted.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ghbhv6961a.
i'm pretty sure the cult got him to sign a nice nda - in exchange for a lifetime residency in the house bought by wt..
Reminds one of George Orwell, 1984
”People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.”
hi i want to tell my story and get advice.
i'm a single sister ( in usa) that has been baptized for 20 years.
i came from the world, so did not grow up in the truth and i have no family in the truth -- i am alone.. last year i met a brother & we did have premarital sex while we were dating.
Hello Sue. Judicial Committees are a bit of a lottery. I sat on load’s during my elder days and it all depends who you get and how the conversation goes when they get in the closed room. One positive or negative comment can swing the decision. If they are looking to d/f you they might say :
“ She did not confess straightaway, they hid their sin from the congregation and despite your claims of repentance now he has left , if you were truly repentant you would have come forward straightaway “
I know that sounds hard but that is how they are trained to think.
On this board you are welcome though, no judgement from us . Please stick around.
today i discovered the musical highlight of jehovah's witnesses, recently added to jw.org.
we had "from house to house, from door to door", but this song will be more famous!
https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=e&docid=1014316&srcid=share.
The Cart Song is indeed an oldie.. I can’t believe they would take the P... out of themselves so I have to reckon it is unintentional humour... but it is funny
"the shepherd the flock of god elders’ manual had instruction to take notes, sign and file them in judicial cases where the accused threatens suicide.
this instruction was removed in 2020. pic 1 is 2019 version, pic 2 is from a 2020 edition.
it remains the same in 2023.
I have never seen this as a way to stave off or avoid d/f and carry on sinning. If you can convincingly claim suicide as the outcome.... then the JC is delayed but it will not be stopped.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/495876/the-rules-and-culture-that-keep-child-sex-offenders-hidden-from-followers-of-the-jehovah-s-witness-faith.
rnz new zealand.
anusha bradley, investigative reporter.
I relate to this man’s comment that as a new elder he trusted the older ones.. I would have done the same at that stage. Four paedo’s in one cong ? That is a hotbed…
I found this a recent “ Shepherding” book about disclosure of such people in a cong.
” “The Service Department will direct the elders to inform family heads of minors within the congregation of the need to monitor their children’s interaction with the individual. The elders would take this step only if directed to do so by the Service Department. The coordinator of the body of elders should ensure that newly appointed elders and elders who move into the congregation are made aware of the Service Department’s direction regarding such individuals.”
Excerpt From
Shepherd (sfl-E)
WATCH TOWER
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in this jw training video, an elder gets deleted because his daughter has "stumbled" other jw's by pursuing higher education.
🤣.
@ 13.35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u2ohrbdm-c.
Fisherman’s post above conveys exactly the way that BOE’s are taught. They are the reps of “The Society “ company men first and foremost.
When I was in the throes of resigning my position, a friend of mine on the body was taking flack because he allowed a situation in his family that did not agree with Society recommendations. This was his right as family head , in my view. He endured removal because of it. The Body used my absence to do it unappposed .
If the Society say ‘ jump’ you must simply say “how high”?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/watchdog-reports-on-investigation-into-watch-tower-bible-and-tract-society-of-britain.
press release.
watchdog reports on investigation into watch tower bible and tract society of britain.
This conclusion baffles me, What is the consequence of this?
2023
“· Commission concludes that Watch Tower is not the organisation that is currently directly responsible for the safety of JW beneficiaries.”
Ends
i remember many years ago that apparently there was an annual event where witnesses' blood cards (or whatever they're called) were checked by some visiting wt dignitary.
that the blood cards were current, and that the r&f were carrying them.. given the situation in some countries that kingdom halls can't legally keep data about people who have been visited, is the practice of checking and enforcing the carrying of blood cards similarly illegal in some places?.
are there any places where it is illegal for the hlc to set up camp near the hospital bed of a sick jw?.
I do have a memory that group leaders were once told to ask the members to make sure their blood cards were complete. Also I believe that they were asked to give a photo copy of it to the congregation to be kept by the Secretary. However, checking the “ Shepherd the Flock” book , it says nothing like that now. Data protection laws finished that off , I expect. The elders never bothered to ask anyway.
Incidentally, the book also says that HLC have to get the patient’s consent before getting involved or talking to doctors.
thought inspired by my post on tattoos: within the watchtower organisation, how many "conscience issues" actually are?
are people who actually do exercise their consciences in grey areas painting a target on their backs for the more hard-line dubs?
are they quietly avoided because " bad associations spoil useful habits"?
Many years back the WT ran a series of study articles on the “Christian Conscience” and made clear that we carry the responsibility for the outcome of such decisions w make..
That was then. Today the Org. has become much more black and white with people spoon fed instructions... It does not make for a mature Christian society.
2023-price per publisher.. .
https://imgbox.com/jshf0csu .
atlantis!.
I think a little context is required about this . If I am right this is talking about a donation that a congregation makes to the WWWF , not an individual donation by the Publisher. I guess the congregation hopes it will get it back from donations but there is no obligation on a Publisher to do so.
Am I right?
