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  watch towers child abuse payouts

  by Zordino in

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  if you had to guess, how much do you think wt pays out in child abuse settlements every year on a world wide scale?

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  skin

  If only the WT was made to reveal how much they pay out...
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  i thought all the embarssing books were supposed to be thrown out?

  by purrpurr in

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  2. friends

  i had a look in the library last meeting and my hall still has all the bound volumes going right back to the beginning.

  including studies in the scriptures.

  i thought the order from on high was that these were to be destroyed or taken away?

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  skin

  Before our rebuild, on one of the weekend cleaning rosters, we did a sorting of any double ups of books in the library to make room for newer books, The elder in charge that day said I could have these extras for my own personal collection. They were mainly WT volumes from the 60's.

  Which are now all boxed up in my shed, LOL.
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  i thought all the embarssing books were supposed to be thrown out?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had a look in the library last meeting and my hall still has all the bound volumes going right back to the beginning.

  including studies in the scriptures.

  i thought the order from on high was that these were to be destroyed or taken away?

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  skin

  Our KH had an impressive collection of the older books once. It covered one entire wall in the same room that TMS 2 was held in, and there were more boxes of books stored away in the the KH shed that weren't on display. Then came a rebuild of our hall, and now one devoted room to be called the Library. I was looking forward to this, with plently of room for all these books to now go on shelves. When our new hall was completed, a visit to the new library was the first thing I did, and guess what, not one book to be seen. I was shocked and disappointed, (maybe they havn't set up this room yet?) there was now a large table with about 8 chairs in the middle of this room and a laptop with printer on another table. Also a lot of empty cupboard’s (some locked), and in the end 2 cupboards were about 20 of the most recently released books. I hope the impressive library of books we once had have not been throw out. Hopefully they are boxed away in the KH shed waiting for the time that one day they will be available for all to read again.
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  THE CULT STRIKES AGAIN!!!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's amazing what you perceive, once you know ttatt.

  today's wt mind-control session was an amazing example of cult mind control techniques in action!!

  the program was about hearing jeehoobies voice!

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  skin

  Data-Dog - "The comments were great too! My congregation even managed to get some gay-bashing in!"

  That was also brought up at my congregation too.
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  Not on JW.org: SIX Texas victims acuse Jehovah's Witness Elder & Circuit Overseer of sexual abuse, and bring lawsuit against Watchtower for cover-up.

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  sexual exploitation and abuse of six young children leads to lawsuit in dallas county.

  dallas, oct. 23, 2014 /news.gnom.es/ six young adults, from north texas, all sexually abused as children, filed suit today in dallas, texas state court against three north texas jehovahs witnesses congregations (dallas, plano, and greenville), the watchtower bible and tract society of new york, and an elder.. sexually abused when they were ages 4 through 14, the plaintiffs were children of members of the dallas, plano, and greenville jehovahs witnesses congregations.

  the suit states that they were repeatedly sexually abused and molested by an elder and an unknown regional circuit overseer, and that they and their families were threatened with discipline and harm if they disclosed the abuse to anyone.

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  skin

  How timely it was that the meeting last week warned us that satan will use the worldly media to spread these lies about jehovahs organization.
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  "The Waters" of Jehovah are drying up in Australia...65% young ones leave!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  at the international convention last week i caught up with my old congregation and asked about the young ones...there were 2 answers.

  1. they flat out left got a boyfriend etc.

  and 2. havent seen them for awhile meaning they faded or went off the grid so as not to be disfellowshipped.

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  skin

  Drying up here in NZ too. When I joined as a teenager our congregtion had a lots of young ones, now only about 1 in 3 (or less) of these are still going to meetings.
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  Convention Stadium is double booked?

  by skin in

  1. social
  2. current

  this would have been interesting.

  our convention is this coming weekend (17th - 19th oct) and is being held at the forsyth barr stadium, dunedin, new zealand.

  at the same time our nz rugby itm cup is having its semi final round.

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  skin

  This would have been interesting. Our convention is this coming weekend (17th - 19th Oct) and is being held at the Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand. At the same time our NZ rugby ITM cup is having its semi final round. Now if the Dunedin home team (Otago) were to host this semifinal, it would have been played at the Forsyth Barr Stadium on the same weekend as the convention. According to the Stadium Management "A window had been secured before the convention was booked to have the ground free for a game to be played at the covered stadium. It was expected to be played on the afternoon or evening of Saturday, October 18". The interesting thing about this is that the convention program for Saturday finishes at 7pm leaving no time to set up for a rugby game that day.

  The Otago rugby team have not make it to the semifinals, if they had it would have made for some interesting fast planning to be made to host both these events at the same time in the same stadium.

  Looks like Jehovah made sure that Otago did not make it to the ITM cup rugby semifinals.

  http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/rugby/316777/rugby-home-semifinal-not-completely-beyond-otagos-grasp
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  'Wales This Week - Witness to the Truth'. News Documentary on JW child abuse in UK, Broadcast on Monday, 29 September 2014.

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiyw0bgwks8.

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  skin

  Thanks. This is news to me.
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  Its the 3rd of October in Bangkok ...........

  by cantleave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  armageddon looks awesome from my hotel window.

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  skin

  Be careful, the Watchtower will know where you are, and track you down by using that view. LOL.

  I thought about posting a photo of the view from here, but decided not to in case someone recognizes my location, then who I am.
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  Saturday morning field service is a joke

  by hoser in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i havent been going door to door saturday mornings for since i can't remember when.

  i have been putting in regular reports to the congregation but the last time i actually went on a door was probably six months ago or so and it has been at least 2 years since i did a saturday morning.

  9:30 we showed up to the group arrangement, we waited outside because we were not sure that it was the right place.

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  skin

  It certainly is a joke, I try not to go out but I get the guilt talk, so to keep the peace I go out. What irratates me is when we are working house over house with another couple or two, these others always seem to walk very slow or stand around on the street talking to each other. leaving us to do about 7 out of every 10 houses. If the others are pioneers then our house rate that I knock on is closer to 4 out of every 5 houses on the street.

  No matter how manys hours or not a month I do, I only report 1 hr. No one else in my congregation have got the Biblical right to judge my spiritually / relationship with Jehovah based only on the field service hours I do. Unfortunately that now appears to be the way we are looked upon (Judged) in the congregation.