Posts by Slidin Fast

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Website for U K Indipendant Inquiry Into Child Abuse

by BluesBrother in

this inquiry is to consider organizations such as jehovah's witnesses, next month.. here is a link to their site.. www.iicsa.org.uk.

they are open to hearing from whistleblowers with geniune information and survivors who may not have previously come forward......

Slidin Fast

Thanks for the link, We'll watch this space with interest.

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Did you enjoy some of these back then?

by Mandrake in

i was bored to death this sunday, and suddenly i remembered that it could be worse if having to attend the public meeting on a sunday, even worse, not being assigned to the sound department, accomodating, being the mic guy, or reading the wt at the platform... then i realized that i hated just "attending" and sitting at meetings, those "privileges" were the only thing i enjoyed and made my last months inside bearable.... did you enjoy these assignments?

Slidin Fast

Car park duty, that was the gold card. For 20 minutes you could go outside in the fresh air, browse the internet on the KH wifi, or go out early and shoot the breeze with the previous assignee, shoot the breeze with the next one. The others on the same assignment were always ready for a chat about football, cars or any other common interest. Nobody was ever in a hurry to get back in. You could often spin it out to 50 minutes or an hour.

Still a complete waste of time but better than absorbing all the toxic material from the platform like an infected sponge.

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Congregation Judicial Hearing Centres (Kangaroo Courts)

by Slidin Fast in

so, now it's official.

the only use for kingdom halls in england is for judicial committee hearings.

meetings?

Slidin Fast

So, now it's official. The only use for Kingdom Halls in England is for judicial committee hearings. Meetings? No. Groups? No. Field service meetings? No. Food distribution centres? Don't be silly. Community usage? Don't even ask. This is a direct quote from recent instructions to elders now in circulation.

* 12. Kingdom Halls: Regardless of direction from secular authorities, the Kingdom Hall should not be used for any meetings (except what is outlined in paragraph 18) until further direction is received from the branch office.  
18. Judicial Matters: (Not Scotland and Wales) Judicial matters, including reinstatement hearings, may be handled at the Kingdom Hall. However, please note the following important points:

Such love! Only in Jehovah's loving organisation.

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Court confirms:--Severe Criticism of Jehovah's Witnesses is Justified!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

court confirms: severe criticism of jehovah's witnesses is justified!.

https://docdro.id/axa555i.

petra!.

Slidin Fast

Fantastic, death by a thousand cuts.

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Bringing Reproach on Jehovah's Name

by cofty in

all my jw life i was reminded constantly about the importance of not bringing reproach on jehovah's name.

decisions on whether or not to disfellowship an individual often turned, not on the seriousness of the sin, but on whether the incident was public knowledge and had resulted in bad publicity for the congregation.

i recall a middle-aged lady being reported to the elders for shoplifting a sweet worth less than £1- and the elders' insistence that a judicial committee must be formed because the store manager and staff knew that she was a jw (i successfully argued that all she needed was support for her dreadful family life, but that's another story).

Slidin Fast

I can see them spending more in legal fees, fighting the government etc than they would have had to pay out in compensation.

The Methodist Church said in 2015,

"On behalf of the Methodist Church in Britain I want to express an unreserved apology for the failure of its current and earlier processes fully to protect children, young people and adults from physical and sexual abuse inflicted by some ministers in Full Connexion and members of the Methodist Church. That abuse has been inflicted by some Methodists on children, young people and adults is and will remain a deep source of grief and shame to the Church.

"We have not always listened properly to those abused or cared for them, and this is deeply regrettable. In respect of these things we have, as a Christian Church, clearly failed to live in ways that glorify God and honour Christ.

"I am certain that the Methodist Conference will want to resolve to do all in its power to improve its systems to protect children, young people and adults from abuse within the life of the Church and on Church premises, and to review them diligently on a regular basis."

Now, that's more like it. An apology like that and then financial redress would start to heal the pain and restore the reputation of the religion.

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Another shocking JW Abuse case, with Legal Commentary

by Phizzy in

"16 april 2020 | comment | article by alan collins.

jehovah’s witness elder sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual abuse.

jehovah’s witness elder, clifford whiteley, has been sentenced to nine years in prison at the birmingham crown court for sexual abuse offences he committed against a child member of the congregation over ten years ago.. mr whiteley initially denied the offences to the police, despite the fact that he had admitted his guilt during an internal investigation of the jehovah’s witnesses.. during court proceedings, mr whiteley’s defence counsel, sharon bailey, stated that the jehovah’s witnesses refused to disclose the details of his confession to the police.

Slidin Fast

Nothing...Ever...Changes

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Hello everyone 😊

by SuperMarioDiMaggio in

i was a jehovah's witnesses for 15 years (1983-1998) in pietermaritzburg and durban, south africa.

i was baptised in 1985; appointed a ministerial servant in 1987 (aged 21); refused military service on religious grounds in 1989 (served a three year community service sentence) and was appointed an elder in 1993 (aged 26).

i wrote to the governing body in brooklyn four times between 1992-97, respectfully questioning the nonsense they were publishing about science and evolution (you can see all my correspondence and their hilarious replies here: http://bit.ly/jw-md-letters ).

Slidin Fast

Welcome Mario,

I love to read correspondence with the GB and it's minions like yours. The logical way that you build your arguments is devastating. The lame attempts at answering your points are not worthy of the time reading them.

How do they continue to defend the indefensible? There is no answer to most of your research and clear view of the flood myth and the creation story.

Good stuff!

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