i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.
he was very very strange.
he was a nice guy but goofy.
I used to curl up with embarrassment in densely populated areas when the other JW's congregated together & laughed loudly about the householders they had just called on & what they had said.
I knew something was wrong with the JW/WT many years before I finally got out.
i took the most recent video on "obey" and edited it down to its core.
here tony explains that the decisions of the faithful slave are arrived at "collectively" but are not a "collection" of man made decisions.
it would be comical if it weren't so sad.. tony video.
I wonder who decided 'collectively' he should wear that effeminate turquoise pocket handkerchief.......definitely not their 'manly god of war' surely.
one of the things that gave me confidence in life was that i believed i had the almighty creator/god watching over me, directing me, guiding my every step, protecting me from harm, and answering my prayers.
i now know that is not the case anymore.
i finally stopped praying.
I would like to see Angus Stewart quiz Jehovah god about his role in the child abuse scandal.
I would want to ask God "Didn't your son say 'Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.'
Didn't he also say "What is the price of two sparrows--one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows"
In view of what your 'son' said how can you claim you did not know the abuse was happening?
Why then God didn't you answer the desperate cries for help from the small children as their abusers ripped their little vaginas?
Did you decide their faith was not 'as large as a mustard seed'& therefore decided to let the abuser satisfy their dreadful cravings?
What would you think of a man or woman that was present when an act of child abuse took place but did nothing to prevent it?
Would you not view them as culpable?
That's what I would ask Jehovah God.
dino ali, elder, taking the stand now in the australian hearings.. he's talking about interaction with disfellowshipped persons.. watch it live: .
http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.
-aude..
Thank you Pants for the 'ss' tip.
I've wanted to download the youtube vid's for my parents to see what's happening.
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.
liars is what the governing body are:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekz68jpowlc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uktg0rlvyu.
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'
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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igk4xvzwocw.
apparently americans are all chubby, baggy clothes wearing optimistic fast food eaters.
who knew.
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.
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.
How is God generous to us?
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.
I never agreed with not voting when I was a JW.
Thank goodness I do not have to tout that convoluted WT tosh anymore.
