Oh, how I wish this would blow up in the WTB&TS's face and cost them beaucoup bucks, and I mean beaucoup!
Maybe even resulting in jail time for the hounders that covered up according to momma WT's instructions.
australia, breaking news: police launch investigation into the rape and molestation of a number of children with the traralgon congregation of jehovah's witnesses.
jw news can report that victoria police have launched an investigation into the rape and molestation of a number of children within the traralgon congregation of jehovah's witnesses over the past two years.
according to initial reports,... the body of elders were strictly ordered by the watchtower bible and tract society of australia to cover-up the multiple rapes of a number of children within the traralgon congregation allegedly committed by a fellow member of the jehovah's witness religion.
Oh, how I wish this would blow up in the WTB&TS's face and cost them beaucoup bucks, and I mean beaucoup!
Maybe even resulting in jail time for the hounders that covered up according to momma WT's instructions.
i have relayed how "broken" my mother is when it comes to reasoning on her beliefs as a jw...and my not believing the jw story any longer as an ex-jw.
it seems to be a common story of cognitive dissonance, etc., etc,.
now comes a classic new angle that really has me scratching my head.
Hi TYA,
your mom is suffering from WT mind control which excuses the duplicity in her personality.
If you could get your wife to try and help your mom come to her senses then get a copy of "Captives of a Concept"
http://www.captivesofaconcept.com/NewOrderInformation.html
you can download it for $7
Follow the steps to get your wife start a Study with your mom,
your mom will be delighted, but use the suggestions in the book
and have your wife give a witness to your mom about the WT's
history by letting your mom be the teacher and your wife asking
the questions from the CoaC book.
If your wife is willing to do this, you may win your mom over.
Shalom.
i'm still inside because of family, friends... all my life is there.
i used to have doubts (one year ago) but now i only have certainties about the org.
another reason for staying, at least for now, is i'm living at home with my jw mother and she allowed me to go to college.. i seem to everyone in the congregation a normal witness but when i sit down in the meetings i do know 99% what i listen to is just the same failed prophecies and doctrines repeated always in the same way.. i'm now being "persuaded" to accept my appointed as a ms. though i'm not doing nothing special to get it, i'm serving in a foreign language territory simply because i couldn't hold on with the pressure of my family and elders from my congregation.
Hola HijosDeLaWatch,
Mi experiencia es muy similar a la tuya. My experience is very much like yours.
Por ahora, quedate adentro y conviertete en un espia si lo puedes aguantar.
For now, stay inside and turn into a spy if you can stand it.
Trata de siempre dar gloria a nuestro Salvador, Jesucristo.
Always try to give glory to our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Si tienes fe en que Jesus es el Cristo, Messias,
tienes vida en ti y eres hijo de Dios no de la Watch.
If you have faith that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ,
you have life in you and are a child of God not the WTB&TS.
Cuidate mi hermano. Quedate con Cristo.
P.S. anyone who can help embed the YouTube vid, much appreciated.
brown-driver-briggs hebrew and english lexicon (bdb).
pdf, 77.7mb.
http://ia600301.us.archive.org/35/items/ahebrewandengli00briggoog/ahebrewandengli00briggoog.pdf.
thank you, possible-san, domo arigato.
Very nice to have this in PDF.
tebowing is defined as "to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.".
http://tebowing.com/about.
here's tim tebow in full tebowing stance:.
LOL @Aussie Oz.
You know that if anyone tried Tebowing at a Christendom church it seems nobody would bat an eyelash.
But have it happen in a Kingdom Hall and all H*E*L*L would break loose, sending the hounders after the Tebowing perpetrators.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/12/14/few-clues-in-arson-at-jehovah-witness-kingdom-hall/.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't "all" Kingdom Halls insured by Momma WT herself?
If so, betcha that if there was a chain of these throughout several places the WT would be going to the insurance companies real soon.
Even then, the possible harm and threat to responders isn't worth the delight of seeing the ol' gal WTB&TS take the fall on a few hundred$ of thousand$.
curious.
i know travel agents and on-line sites get a kickback or fee for booking hotels.
how much is this fee?.
For the CA and District Conventions, the WTS doesn't get a kickback in cash for the amount of rooms publishers rent.
They do get a number of rooms free. So they need to meet a quota of booked rooms, once that's done they can have the DO, CO's and invited Bethel speakers, visiting Missionaries etc. stay for free.
The discounts on rooms aren't that great compared with what some traveling salespeople and public sector workers can get through their employer's deals with big hotel/motel chains.
coc was delivered this evenning and i will be jacking it the whole night.
i might write a review to refute ray's argument after the reading and btw, i will be away from here for some time.
let it begin.. .
former jehovah's witness servant dick borghi along with elders in the lowell, ma.
congregation were asked by the circuit overseer to vote on whether to disfellowship overweight brothers and sisters.. this was very troubling to dick for two reasons.. 1... brother borghi thought it would be the responsibility of the faithfull and discrete slave to lay out a precise directive on the basis for this unusual request.
what criteria would have to be met to make such an awkward decision?.
without hesitation listen to the conferance call before making a premature evaluation"
Oh, my I'm glad i read that a second and third time... e-val-u-ation, e-val-u-ation...
my mind kept telling me the last word had a syllable like "jack" in there somewhere. Whew!
good gravy
Good gravy for sure...
I knew this business of stopping at Dunkin Donuts for break everytime while in service just wasn't going to pay off.
Oh, and do beer bellies count?
boring and irrelevant or what?!.
when i was appointed, i thought that i would share in building up the congregation.
the co is usually a company man making reports and passing.
Well there was this youngish CO named Palen who equated apostate literature with a menstrual blood stained rag.
And said aloud during his first meeting with the local BOE, "Well this is what they are offering!", and he thrust his right hand out and swung it with pinched thumb and index finger, left and right, as if he were holding a rag and shaking it in front of our faces.
"Well, what are you going to do? Aren't you going to recoil in disgust?" he said, "Well, that's what your response needs to be to apostate literature!"
Day after on Sat. morning he held up the WT and Awake! in the same manner while talking about presentations.
Strange thing is I immediately got a mental picture of him holding a WT and Awake! and put that together with what he was saying to us elders the previous night about the blood stained rag.
He sure had some very vivid illustrations.