Posts by Fencing

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Has anyone heard about Elders latest instructions re: Child abuse?

by Newly Enlightened in

ok, we got an email thru facebook from a viewer of ours and he said that he had heard, that it is not even going out in a boe letter, the elders have to sign into their secure https://www.jw.org/apps/e_hfrsfvtrhc1.

page to get firmer instructions on how to handle any child abuse accusations and they are being told not to call the police..

Fencing

They're already not supposed to call the police unless instructed to by the Legal Department. The first call for child abuse cases is ALWAYS to Mother, not the authorities.

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If they changed their blood banwould their be a floodgate of lawsuits?

by Londo111 in

i know nothing about legal matters, but there are those here who are quite keen at these things.. if they changed the no blood teaching, would this open the watchtower society up to litigation?.

Fencing

In the US, lawsuits probably wouldn't fly. The 1st amendment tends to get interpreted very liberally at all levels of the Judicial branch, often protecting groups that are doing serious harm to people, all because they cloak themselves in religion. It's extremely hard to hold a religion in the US accountable for doctrines that hurt people.

But in other countries? I could see them getting into serious legal trouble somewhere like France.

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New Study Exposes Acupuncture As Pseudoscience

by alecholmesthedetective in

besides it being pseudoscience, what interests me about this is that even though it's something to do with the "qi" energy flowing in our bodies, that wasn't a problem for some members of my family or a special pioneer i knew.. new study exposes acupuncture as pseudoscience.

Fencing

I seem to recall acupuncture being "strongly discouraged" as spiritisim many years ago. It was only when the Society started trying to make inroads into China and the Chinese community in the US when it suddenly became permitted.

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Rolf Furuli's accusation about VAT 4956 being tampered with?

by possiblepineapple in

i'm sorry but can someone here explain what this is about.

i saw someone on here called scholar on here saying that it somehow destroyed both coj and hermann hunger but how?

how does rolf furuli know that it was tampered with?

Fencing

Furuli's entire purpose is just to be the Society's pet "scholar" whom they can point to whenever needed, to say, "See! There's a bonified book-learned person out there who agrees with us!" He provides a facade of there being "disagreement" in the archaeological world. In reality the only disagreement comes from Furuli himself, but the Society doesn't mention him by name, so they can just cite "some scholars" and make the R&F think there's this serious rift in the academic community about the date of Babylon's destruction.

It's such a laughable sham.

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