The quip about the Australian Branch having more experience than some of the Gobbering Body members and being able to make up their minds on what procedures should be followed is a definite put down of the GB and would make a great video clip!
Take that Geoffrey Jackson! I wish you'd been able to address how Mr. Spinks' just threw the GB under the bus and positioned the Branch above the GB and also negated the Branch's need to be in absolute compliance with all directives from the GB.
Woohoo! Angus is telling His Honor about Geoffrey Jackson!
i'm revisiting an old topic here, but this was a subject of much confusion for me when i was still a witness.
i went to a spanish congregation in the u.s. and it seemed to be taken for granted by most that you needed to cook beef thoroughly to "get rid" of the blood.
i was surprised when i learned that folks in the english speaking hall would order a steak medium-rare and think nothing of it.. it wasn't until after i left the witnesses that it started to occur to me that if the red fluid that was present when you'd cut the beef was blood, cooking it thoroughly wouldn't get rid of it, it'd just cook it and transform it into another color.
I never liked a rare or medium rare after articles about ecoli and nastiness about meat.
But I do remember one talk where a brother went into this saying that the juices from meat aren't really flowing blood as you would consider it in the veins and arteries and if you properly bled the meat you would still have juices left in the muscle tissue.
I guess the consideration is that when an animal is killed for food and all reasonable measures are taken to bleed it properly then it's okay to eat eve if there's residual amounts of blood still left in the meat.
sorry i have to remain completely anonymous about this but you will see why.
i have first hand knowledge that geoffrey jackson of the governing body is staying with his parents in toowoomba, queensland for the next few weeks.
he has already been in australia for a couple of weeks.
I just sent an email to the contact address for the Royal Commission about requesting Geoffrey Jackson to appear before the RC.
I believe it would be a milestone appearance if it happens--to question one of the men who can effect change in the procedures for handling cases of child abuse.
If you haven't yet I would urge anyone on the forum to consider writing an email to the RC requesting G.J.'s appearance and give testimony.
