i've been fighting computer problems for over a week, but i finally got a new article up at ex-jw.com about the status of the court case in san francisco.. the plaintiffs will be going to court this week and possibly again in ten days.
the big issue is the bank account statements and signature files.
plaintiffs claim that defendants opened up unauthorized bank accounts and allegedly forged the then current coboe / ceo's signature.
Thanks for posting these JV. Makes for interesting reading. This case is really ugly. I think it does show how heavy handed some COs are. Do you know if the plaintiffs have been DF'ed yet? I can't imagine that won't happen but I'll bet it will be after the case is concluded.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
...but 5 years ago today, i made my first post here on jwn.. .
i was an elder, had a true-believing jw wife and our unbaptized publisher children were beginning to feel pressure from other jws to take the plunge.. .
amazing how much can happen in 5 trips around the sun.. .
That's awesome OM!! Glad to see things are going so well for you.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20110825/news/108250327/-1/sitemapwatchtower buys another parceljehovah's witnesses to exit brooklyn for orange county this is the former international nickel co. site in warwick that the watchtower bible and tract society purchased two years ago to be the site of its new world headquarters.
the former international nickel property is about six miles from the society's latest purchase, the one-time international paper property in tuxedo.by alyssa sunkintimes herald-recordpublished: 2:00 am - 08/25/11 .
the jehovah's witnesses organization is moving forward with its plans to move its world headquarters to the town of warwick.
Wrong Orange County. Not CA but NY.
Not shocked at all about the purchase. They've made no secret about their move to this area and move out of Brooklyn. They flipped the expensive real estate for cheaper digs in the country. Build the new buildings with "volunteer" labor and lock in an instant profit. This has been their game plan for years.
no, this is not satire or a joke.
a jw seriously sued a dr. for "wrongful life" after the dr. saved her life with a blood transfusion.. .
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/judge_dismisses_wrongful_life.html.
And kudos to the husband for making the decision to allow his kids go grow up with their mother as opposed to sacrificing her life for an ever changing religious doctrine! I'm not sure if he was a JW or not. If he was, I wonder what sanctions the congregation took against him?
Honestly you've probably given them enough already to start down the df'ing road. If you were looking to fly under the radar, those responses aren't going to do it.
i've been wondering about this for some time.
if there are 60,000+ registered users on here, what percentage are actual non-dfed or non-daed witnesses?
if it was 1/3, that would be over 20,000 active/inactive witnesses that post and read these pages- and that's huge.
Mentally free, physically trapped. flying under the radar for the moment.
i came across a website that presents decent argumentation against three main areas of jw doctrine.. http://jwreform.org/index.html.
who do these people think they are?
do they really believe that the wts will sit up and take notice of their objections?
Evolve to survive, yes. Reform for good, no.
DB - of the "thought I could make a differance than sadly realized I was a naive idoit" class
i could go on and on about all the things i loved, but i'll keep it brief and just mention one, rather trivial thing: music.
i love grunge and punk, and occasionally heavy metal, and can't listen to a lot of it as a witness..
Let's see: playing school sports, going to college (even though I now have a degree), not being the odd kid out on every damn thing! Otherwise, nothing!
It certainly could have been worse. My folks are not bad people and I know they thought they were doing what they though was right. My childhood was most definately better than theirs and I'm grateful to them.
"oh woe oh woe, how bad the world is getting!".
that's the theme of the first 5 pages of every issue of the watchtower and awake for the past 80 years, and the opening 5-10 minutes of every "public" sunday talk for the past 80 years.. but is it really true?
are things just continually getting worse and worse?.
BTW - watching the world was one of my favorite columns the WTS ever produced! Holy cow, I used to think I was so up on current events by reading that!!!
You're point is well taken. The fact is, less people are dying of disease, hunger, etc percentage wise than anytime in human history. Granted, we still have major problems but things are way better now than they were even 100 years ago.
forgot to mention this as a "highlight" of the dc i recently attended.. the speaker was giving details of how many jws served as auxiliary pioneers in april (when the hour requirement was temporarily reduced to 30).. something like 2.5 or 2.7 million of the worldwide population of jws ap'ed that month.. the really surprising thing was, 83% of the us bethel "family" pioneered that month!
57% of the worldwide bethel "family' ap'ed in april.. can you imagine?
40+, maybe 50+ hours of work per week, "family" wt study, the congregation you attend probably 45-60 minutes away...and 83% "volunteered" their services to get 30+ hours of field serve-us in?.
It seems around here, the CO put a huge amount of pressure on local servant bodies (both elders and ms and their wives) to pioneer in April. I have to believe that the Bethelites got even more pressure. I was told by one of the local servant's that said the CO told them during his Friday evening servant meeting that he would be following up with those who didn't a/p in April to find out why!
