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  16-year old high school senior raped & strangled inside Mexico Kingdom Hall

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  for those who know some spanish.... .

  a friend just forwarded me this (spanish) youtube video a few minutes ago... it's basically a tv news report about a rape/murder that occurred last august (2011) in mexico.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?nr=1&feature=endscreen&v=4fk4ngb9muk.

  apparently, a 16-year old jw girl was lured into a kingdom hall (by someone who had the keys) and then raped and strangled to death.. the reporter starts off by saying that the police have strong leads, but i have not been able to find much more info about this on the internet.

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  Forget Mexico: Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world: eighty times that of Western Europe, according to The Economist.

  The place is the new settlement for people who were relocated there after hurricane Fifi took away their homes.

  That said, the people were protesting because of the rape and strangling. This video should serve a very different purpose. It should make a Witness or two re-consider their opinions of worldlies:

  The worldlies cared about the murder of the girl. They made poems and wrote stuff to mourn her death. They joined the march. They helped find leads. They were against the Watchtower because they wanted the perpetrator arrested.

  The parents were Jehovah's witnesses who decided to seek justice for their daughter, and found it with the help of the worldlies. The Watchtower didn't seem to help.

  More importantly, had people stuck to the two witness rule, justice would have never been made. Is this what Jehovah wants?
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  GB member gets pulled over...

  by Alfred in

  1. social
  2. humour

  so one day a governing body member got pulled over on interstate 95 for erratic driving (frequent lane changes, slowing down, speeding up, etc.).

  immediately, the highway patrolman asks to see the gb members drivers license.

  the gb member happily obliges and hands over his worn out new york state drivers license.

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  dgp

  Well, every time they tell you the Present Truth, they can claim that "No truer words were ever spoken".
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  Buddhist, Gay, and in Love with a Jehovah Witness

  by fergal in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  my name is augusto and i'm a 24 gay male, who practices buddhism since i was born.

  where i work i was lucky enough to meet a wonderful guy who has been sort of my friend for quite some time.

  when i say sort of, it is because since january we are not able to have any communication out of work.

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  dgp

  I believe Nugget as Cantleave gave you extremely good advice.
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  How to Help Someone Leave - New Article

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there have been a few threads asking how to help someone leave, and i get asked that regularly by email.

  i have posted a new article at http://jwfacts.com/watchtower/helping-someone-leave.php.

  please feel free to offer any suggestions or point out any errors.

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  dgp

  Bookmarked.
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  16-year old high school senior raped & strangled inside Mexico Kingdom Hall

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  for those who know some spanish.... .

  a friend just forwarded me this (spanish) youtube video a few minutes ago... it's basically a tv news report about a rape/murder that occurred last august (2011) in mexico.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?nr=1&feature=endscreen&v=4fk4ngb9muk.

  apparently, a 16-year old jw girl was lured into a kingdom hall (by someone who had the keys) and then raped and strangled to death.. the reporter starts off by saying that the police have strong leads, but i have not been able to find much more info about this on the internet.

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  This was in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in a place called "Nueva Suyapa".
  
  The parents of the sixteen year old marched to demand justice.
  
  The first place they visited was the high school her daughter attended, where she was appreciated and where the classmates wrote poems and the like to mourn her death.
  
  The community joined the parents. They posted signs on the gates of the Kingdom Hall where the girl was found.
  
  The parents posted a sign with a cell phone number so that people could inform whether they had seen the girl with someone before her death. The community decided to protest because they had seen so many rapes and wanted the authorities to take action.
  
  The father said that the hypothesis that she had been killed elsewhere and then taken into the Kingdom Hall had been disproved.
  
  Some people wanted the Kingdom Hall closed because, in their opinion, "they" were protecting the rapist, and, in the future, somebody else's daughter could be raped as well.
  
  The entire community protested and asked passersby for leads to find the murderer.
  
  The mother was in the march, and she said that "Jehovah is a just God, and He knows just how much it hurt to lose his own Son. I know that one day He will give us Justice, too. I, the imperfect human being I am, [the death of my] daughter hurts just so much, and I want justice, too. I want to know just who did such evil to her".
  
  The journalist concludes by saying that, as of that moment, the "Jehovah's witness church" was the only institution not to have made any comments.
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  Question for elders about MEMORIAL EMBLEMS...

  by Alfred in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what is done with the bread and the wine after the conclusion of the memorial?.

  is it normally tossed in the trash and poured down the drain?.

  if so, wouldn't that be simbolic of throwing jesus' body in the trash and pouring his blood into the sewer?.

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  So, in the end, you can be sure that someone NOT OF THE ANOINTED drinks the wine anyways; it's just not done publicly.
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  Can you take part in a very modern discussion?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  note to mods.

  i guess this might break posting guideline 8 but it really is just a bit of fun.

  pm me if you're concerned or don't understand what's going on.. nic'.

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  dgp

  I think it would be a good idea to use this QR codes explicitly saying what you will find if you scan them. Otherwise you could end up being thought of as spammer. That removes the element of surprise to a Jehovah's witness, but it also attracts the interest of those who wouldn't read about the Watchtower otherwise.
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  the sistine chapel

  by Ucantnome in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i thought this is interesting.. http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html.

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  dgp

  Very good one.
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  Can you take part in a very modern discussion?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  note to mods.

  i guess this might break posting guideline 8 but it really is just a bit of fun.

  pm me if you're concerned or don't understand what's going on.. nic'.

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  dgp

  Bookmarked and very clever and interesting. Only that, after a while, they will talk about the evils of QR codes.
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  If Jehovah's Witnesses Were Right...

  by lilbluekitty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if they (or the governing body) were right: (fill in the blank).

  - the bible (even their own) would have lies in it, which would mean the whole bible would be a lie.

  - jesus' blood wouldn't really save anyone (so what would be the point of him dying for us).

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  ...then Charles Taze Russell was wrong anyways...