this australian investigation is astounding to watch.. the elders clearly don't see child abuse as criminal, if a jw confessed to murder, the police would immediately be called.
yet child rape is a spiritual issue..... ridiculous.. this is what happens when 7 window cleaners lead a bunch of dangerously loyal, ignorant middle aged men ...... in managing 7 million people..
Heaven: Some of my family members on my Mom's side are JWs. I wonder if they even know about this stuff being that they are in Canada.
The media in Canada the CBC et al use to try and segregate the Canadian populace by invoking Canadian content rules on media content happenings around the world and especially the evil US. It doesn't work anymore for the most part thanks to the information superhighway.
i don't know if a commercial will come up and i can't find this on youtube as it is probably copyright material or i am just not in a good search pattern today.
anyway, try to view this if you haven't seen it:.
https://rutube.ru/video/0ba7a3ee7e89dbbc730c4af32032e33b/?ref=logo .
will this issue continue to grow worldwide- particularly in America and Europe? I mean, the average U.S. witness would never hear about something in Australia,
I don't know I watched PBS News hour last night they had a little story about the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints and the Boy scouts. If this story was going to hit the main stream media in the states I would expect to see reference to it on PBS. It remains to be seen what will happen here in North America?
hi folks.
new here, and growing weary of finding an e-text version of one of the earlier releases of the new world translation.
i have searched high and low, and for some reason, it is as if it does not exist.. i'm catholic, but for research purposes and as a courtesy to jws, i've put the 1984 and the 2013 versions in a database format for e-sword (e-sword.net).
Welcome Pieta House
You being Catholic will fit right in with all of the Mentally Diseased on this board.
(let me know if anyone thinks my assumptions are way out of line, or if i've forgotten anything).
basic facts:.
the australian royal commission has 1000+ documented cases of child abuse over 65 years.
Is that not the same as the German Nazis who lamented when discovered "We followed orders"
I was thinking that too notoneoftheboys. No Oscar Schindlers there.
the information provided by the watchtower to the royal commission is turning out to be a gold mine, you can find almost anything related to jws in australia.. want to know the names, addresses, birth dates and appointment dates of the office holders at bethel in australia?.
name of the document: .
asic current and historical extract.
i'm wondering if this is just a hearing or if this commission has teeth?.
some very damning things coming out nonetheless .
check it for yourself: .
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/jehovahs-witnesses-did-not-report-1006-alleged-sex-abusers-to-police-royal-commission-told-20150727-gil1u7.
not a good look!.
Flipper: Over a 1,000 cases not reported in just Australia ? Wrap your mind around the other hundreds of countries worldwide that WT Society and JW's inhabit and have inhabited for over 60 years
And this organization has been led by holy spirit to do this all these years? Profound holy leadership indeed!
my wife's mother just related to us an interview she heard during the recent three day convention that she just had to share with us.
a brother and his wife have, for over 20 years, shunned their daughter because she ran off and eloped with a worldly guy.
while openly sobbing, he related how difficult it has been to shun his daughter and avoid unnecessary contact with her and her family.
think I'll print these articles out, bring them to their house and make sure they are keeping contact with their grandchildren. I'll share these with my mother-in-law as well just in case we do DA
Are you sure that's what you want Bonsai?
There comes a point when dealing with family that you may just have to let them go. Sometimes the cult wins.
my wife's mother just related to us an interview she heard during the recent three day convention that she just had to share with us.
a brother and his wife have, for over 20 years, shunned their daughter because she ran off and eloped with a worldly guy.
while openly sobbing, he related how difficult it has been to shun his daughter and avoid unnecessary contact with her and her family.
Children don't understand why they have grandparents who don't want to have a close relationship with them or their parents.
I only meant that my children could figure out that i was not welcome. Not a very healthy situation.
My two children know only a very small amount about the witnesses they are both University Science people one is doing post graduate work and the other is graduating next year and then she is pursuing a law degree. So the shunning did not work in my case it only strengthened my resolve,
my wife's mother just related to us an interview she heard during the recent three day convention that she just had to share with us.
a brother and his wife have, for over 20 years, shunned their daughter because she ran off and eloped with a worldly guy.
while openly sobbing, he related how difficult it has been to shun his daughter and avoid unnecessary contact with her and her family.
I paid the price for my parents delusional watchtower expectations. While I let my children know who their grandparents were with very limited association, most dealings with my parents regarding my children were conducted in a very business like manner. Sad way to do it. I was not welcome anyway and my children are not stupid and could figure that out on their own.
I was more on guard against any effort of my parents to indoctrinate my children than they were. I am sure that my parents acted as per elders instruction by dealing with them and me in a very limited way. My children are not paying the price I paid it for them and they are totally unaware of it now, as it should be.
So the cult only got to mess up two overlapping generations in my case, my parents and myself and my children are free!
