https://apnews.com/article/jehovahs-witnesses-child-abuse-pennsylvania-investigation-01660ed00de1f2a02f87c0597c9ae0af?fbclid=iwar0f8whtbzsjnyzze0p3xg8t1qcprtvjh9wfe2zzryv1pnr-ospnejxri0o.
charges put focus on jehovah’s witnesses’ handling of abuse.
by mark scolforo and peter smith - yesterday.
“…Church spokesman Jarrod Lopes said otherwise — that the church does recognize abuse as a crime and that members have the right to report sexual assault to authorities…”
Of course, he conveniently forgets to mention that members are (directly or indirectly) threatened with church discipline themselves (official or otherwise) if they actually choose to exercise that right.
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is this the "great tribulation" which jesus warned he would bring upon the corrupt christian congregations worldwide, (revelation 2:22; 7:14) or is it the same 1st century g.t.
which he said would never occur again?
(matthew 24:21).
I think from their perspective, it pretty much has to come soon, just to bail them out of all the trouble they’ve gotten themselves into.
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today, i received a call from my oncologist nurse.
she informed me that i will need to sign a consent form for a blood transfusion.
the doctor will see me next wednesday to go through the consent form with me.
One thing I’ve learned about the Org…
...when they’re obviously wrong about minor things, they (eventually, and very quietly) walk it back, and pretend they never taught the wrong thing in the first place…
…but when they’re wrong about big things…
…they are 100% guaranteed to double-down like a lifelong gambling addict in a Vegas casino.
Every. Fucking. Time.
in 1977 ( i was 18 years old), i attended a led zeppelin concert at the chicago stadium.
sat in the 10th.
row.
Hah!
Reminds me of a story told around the local congos about a suspected “demonic” rock album that was allegedly very hard to burn.
Well, duh.
It was vinyl.
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this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
Someone with access to him could offer to take him out to a quiet little pub, get him good and soused, and ask questions with their phone set to “record”.
ok, so another favourite female protagonist of mine is ellen ripley, played by sigourney weaver.
she just about overcame the xenomorph in ridley scott's alien (1979).
and she spent most of james cameron's aliens (1986) getting over her trauma.. here's some nice footage of newt calling ripley 'mommy' .... https://youtu.be/7fjana93kea.
Blade II qualifies, IMO.
ok, so another favourite female protagonist of mine is ellen ripley, played by sigourney weaver.
she just about overcame the xenomorph in ridley scott's alien (1979).
and she spent most of james cameron's aliens (1986) getting over her trauma.. here's some nice footage of newt calling ripley 'mommy' .... https://youtu.be/7fjana93kea.
T2 doesn’t count, sorry.
Cameron made both.
ok, so another favourite female protagonist of mine is ellen ripley, played by sigourney weaver.
she just about overcame the xenomorph in ridley scott's alien (1979).
and she spent most of james cameron's aliens (1986) getting over her trauma.. here's some nice footage of newt calling ripley 'mommy' .... https://youtu.be/7fjana93kea.
On a related note…
…how often has a filmmaker made a superior sequel to another filmmaker’s already awesome first film?
You could probably count the number of times that’s happened on one hand.
former kgb agent yuri mesmenov explains the concept of ideological warfare.
or how to destroy a nation from the inside out - by demoralising them within 20 years.. why 20 years?
because it takes 20 years to educate one generation of students that despite an abundance of information to the contrary, they are unable to come to a sensible conclusion in the best interests of their family, their community and their country and instead embrace the ideology of the enemy.
All hail the Deep State!
can watchtower really continue with cart preaching?
it has become like zoom.
we're people attending zoom not wanting attend halls.
punkofnice - “…One comment was they didn't know if JWs were still a thing because they hadn't seen any about in a long time.”
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