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  In general, what is the ethically correct response if a minor tells you someone is molesting him/her?

  by InterestedOne in

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  i was thinking about what the elders are trained to do versus what i personally would do if a minor confided in me that someone was molesting him/her.

  i'm not sure what the ethically correct first response should be.

  my first thought is to contact some kind of law enforcement that specializes in investigating situations like this with people experienced in getting to the truth of the matter.

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  exactly what I meant. glad to see some people understand me

  Lee, you worded it clearly in plain English. The problem isn't what you wrote, it's some folks' inability to accept what you said.

  so no matter what the superior authorities might require the accused and his or her victims to do, we are going to investigate the facts of the report made, and if at least two witnesses confirm the report, the matter is established in our minds, regardless of what police and judges do

  So, the WT thinks elders should be the detectives, and the prosecutors, and the judges, and the jury? They aren't! Where in the reporting laws does it mention "investigation" by civilians and "at least two witnesses"? It doesn't! When the WT needs to use so much strained wording to justify what they are telling the elders to do, that's a pretty reliable indication that they are telling them to do the wrong thing.
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  I do NOT have Leukemia

  by Robdar in

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  some members of the board are aware that i have been having health problems.

  i didn't ask them to keep it secret and so am not sure if any other posters on this forum knew about it.

  for those of you who may care, here is my update:.

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  Great news from both of you! Ms. Ducky, I hope the new treatment works for you.
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  I want to make one of these so bad!

  by sooner7nc in

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  http://www.wimp.com/cannonfiring/ .

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  Enough of the carbonated beverages, how many bound volumes can it penetrate?
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  In general, what is the ethically correct response if a minor tells you someone is molesting him/her?

  by InterestedOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i was thinking about what the elders are trained to do versus what i personally would do if a minor confided in me that someone was molesting him/her.

  i'm not sure what the ethically correct first response should be.

  my first thought is to contact some kind of law enforcement that specializes in investigating situations like this with people experienced in getting to the truth of the matter.

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  The US departmenrt of Health and Human Services provides information about the abuse reporting laws of the various states. Mandatory reporting laws vary from place to place. Almost every state has a mandatory reporting law. Sometimes these are written to apply to "any person", not just professionals (doctors, teachers, etc.). In some states there is no clergy-penitent privilege in cases of child molestation.
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  Have a good Easter weekend.

  by tec in

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  i'm going to my parents for this long weekend, along with my boys, my aunt and her twin boys (same age as my oldest), and our pup.

  will be a busy and bustling weekend, seeing as the basement recently flooded, so that area is now off-limits.

  so for the next five days, the four and a half hour drive tomorrow is going to be the only quiet time i think i'm going to get, lol.. however, my mother is going to have a big pot of homemade chili waiting for us... and that alone would be worth the drive and the craziness :).

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  Have a safe trip, Tammy!

  "He then opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, 'So it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that, in his name, repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem."

  (Luke 24:45-47)
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  Temporarily tired of JW boyfriend. Should I: a) leave

  by SEL in

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  2. relationships

  or b) continue in my plan of eventually getting him out with steve hassan's help?.

  option b is going to be expensive but not impossibly so.

  but it would require more patience than i think i have.

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  SEL, please read the article Lady Lee posted on Freeminds today. The story she tells is a sad one, that many of us have lived through.
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  Works- question for xtians

  by LV101 in

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  i'm confused.

  dr. chas.

  stanley says there's absolutely nothing we can do to earn life and it's all thru acceptance of the grace of the christ and repenting of our sins.

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  If you have faith, you will accept the grace God freely offers. If you accept His grace, that will show in your actions.

  Actions complete and complement faith. Faith that doesn't motivate good works is weak, incomplete faith: a faith lacking the love at the core of Christian teachings.

  "And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all the faith necessary to move mountains -- if I am without love, I am nothing." (1 Cor 13:2)
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  How did you feel when the expression "by extension" was used when discussing scriptures?

  by stillstuckcruz in

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  i really had a hard time accepting certain scriptures as being an "extension" to modern-day jw's.

  examples:.

  ip-2 cp6 pg87 paragraph 87: "for gods exiled people in babylon, those words are an assurance that the promised land will not remain desolate.

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  It makes me feel like quoting 1 Cor 4:6, or Rev 22:18.
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  BIG-JW Sues over Blood demand

  by Refriedtruth in

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  2. medical

  jehovah's witness battles in kansas court for bloodless transplant .... kansas city star - brad cooper-1 hour ago.

  but she also would have to compromise her jehovah's witness principles, because she would receive a blood transfusion, something she believes violates god's ...transplant case pits religion, medicaid rules -kansas.com.

  get in and comment expose deadly watchtower dogma shows how unpractical bloodless elective surgeries can be wants $250.000 k for operation.

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  One line from the article (quoting a state official) says it best:

  “The beneficiary’s religious preference to have a bloodless liver transplant does not meet medical necessity.”
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  If you could have dinner with any three FICTIONAL people, who would they be?

  by Mad Sweeney in

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  i'm still thinking about this one but right now i've got:.

  mr. nancy.

  the lady jessica atreides.

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  Capt. Lemuel Gulliver

  Kilgore Trout

  Tommy Walker