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  CNN Video: Royal Commission's querry into JWs sexual abuse cases

  by ScenicViewer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm not sure if this will be embedded or clickable, but this cnn video is a good one.. http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/28/australia-jehovah-witness-sex-abuse-hannigan-lklv.cnn.

  edit: looks like the link is clickable, but if someone knows how to embed it please do.

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  Surely the GB cannot ignore this anymore.

  They are the ones to have brought reproach on big ole J's name

  I hope they are all cacking their pants.
  
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  Is The Watchtower Corporation In Financial Trouble? Are The New Donation Drives A Harbinger Of Future Impending Lawsuits Payouts?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  liars is what the governing body are:.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekz68jpowlc.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uktg0rlvyu.

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  Yes, we mustn't forget that apparently this is being used as a Watchtower Welsh language translation unit.

  Couldn't possibly be a weekend bolthole for some Watchtower high-ups could it.

  Some JW's I've shown this to respond with 'Well only the best for Jehovah'

  
  
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  Circuit Overseer Removed in Texas

  by James Jack in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a friend at the convention told me that kenneth williams, a co in the houston texas area was recently removed and taken off the road.

  does any one have any details?

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  Haha.........You beat me to it Diogenesister.......Exactly what I thought.
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  How do you distinguish Americans?

  by paulmolark in

  1. social
  2. humour

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igk4xvzwocw.

  apparently americans are all chubby, baggy clothes wearing optimistic fast food eaters.

  who knew.

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  I met some lovely Americans in Vermont & New Hampshire......very friendly & generous.

  Some Brits have bad teeth, many do not.I'm sure some Americans have bad teeth too...........it's silly to sum up a nation of individuals in this way.
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  New video telling the R&F to be generous

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bro sanderson has a 7 minute video up on their streaming website called "be willing to open your hand".. in it he tells us not to be "tight fisted" or "stingy" and later "regardless of how much we have or how little we have, we'll find something within our power to be able to do".

  we have the responsibility to imitate jehovah's generosity.. there's a bit about giving to one another when we see the need, which is nice, then he drops in how 20 years ago the canada branch committee asked the bethel family for donations to the disaster relief fund, and promptly raised over $10,000.

  i think that's pretty good going for those under a vow of poverty.. "the generous person will prosper" he says, then illustrates this using a made up story.

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  How is God generous to us?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses mentioned on BBC News site regarding not voting

  by defender of truth in

  1. social
  2. current

  jehovah's witnesses.

  there are about 140,000 jehovah's witnesses in the uk who will choose not to vote on 7 may.. mark o'malley, a spokesman for the christian-based religious movement, said: "as you go through the bible we see that god's kingdom is already established in heaven with god as the king of that kingdom.. "we are politically neutral as, in a sense, we have already chosen to support that kingdom's government.

  we see it as a real government.. "there are limitations to what governments can do, maybe they can improve the health system, but they can't prevent death, maybe they can help children, but they can't provide a secure future for them necessarily.

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  I never agreed with not voting when I was a JW.

  Thank goodness I do not have to tout that convoluted WT tosh anymore.
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  PBS NEWSHOUR: Did Leades of Jehovah's Witnesses Cover Up Sex Abuse? Watch 2/17/15

  by 4thgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/leaders-jehovahs-witnesses-cover-child-sex-abuse/.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-w3smjzugm#t=28.

  transcript.

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  Watchtower supervisor Richard Ashe was asked if the organization has a responsibility to protect children from abuse.
  

  RICHARD ASHE, Watchtower Supervisor:
  

  .......within the congregation, ours is a spiritual protection. When we’re talking about physical protection, that’s up to the secular authorities to provide.

  Shame on you Watchtower!

  
  
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  Mummy Dear Lies at Assemblies

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my zealously fanatic jw mum is aware of my current "tourist-jw" life.

  what she doesn't know for sure is that she's part of the ones who brought me to this.. my mum was a quite moderate jw, she even got publically reproved once.

  in our house, there was no daily text, no family study, no eating together, no preaching together, no watchtower study...even though she regularly checked my wt to see if i studied it.. being a single mother, she had a quite busy work schedule, so from the moment she woke up to the moment she went to bed, you'd better not waste a single minute of her time needlessly.

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  I know for a fact that any truthfulness in the experiences boasted about on the assembly platform has been, at the insistence of the CO & DO, buried under a pile of spin & heavily glossed up until the persons relating it felt they were having to tell lies.
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  Article: Reveal News-California court guts child abuse ruling against Jehovah's Witnesses

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.revealnews.org/article/california-court-guts-child-abuse-ruling-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.

  california court guts child abuse ruling against jehovahs witnesses.

  topics: religion / religion and government .

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  I understand what you're saying Eden.

  However the Watchtower has always taken the moral high ground on every matter & has continually wagged its finger at 'false religion' (their terminology not mine)

  The Watchtower can now be seen as being no better than any 'worldly' law bound corporate religion operating in 'Satan's old world' (their terminology not mine)
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  Article: Reveal News-California court guts child abuse ruling against Jehovah's Witnesses

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.revealnews.org/article/california-court-guts-child-abuse-ruling-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.

  california court guts child abuse ruling against jehovahs witnesses.

  topics: religion / religion and government .

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  floriferous

  Matthew 5:40

  "If you are sued in court and your shirt is taken from you, give your coat, too."

  In other words go beyond mans law to do what is good to others.

  Matthew 18:6

  "If anyone causes one of these little ones--those who believe in me--to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."

  The the men comprising the Governing Body of the Watchtower Organisation who claim to be Christs spiritual brothers have nothing to crow about. Yes their millions of $$$$$ are safe for the time being however their victory is a hollow one & the world can see it.