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  TV report-May 3, 2023-The Pa. grand jury investigation into alleged cover-up of child sex abuse within Jehovah's Witnesses

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds3q289vwok.

  the link is to the tv report - may 3, 2023. .

  below is a transcript of the tv report.. a pennsylvania grand jury has recently brought child sexual abuse charges against nine men—all jehovah’s witnesses—in what some are calling the most extensive investigation into the group in history.

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  Vidiot

  @ ThomasMore…

  The database is indeed out in the wild. Attorney Irwin Zalkin confirmed that his firm has a copy.

  @ enoughisenough…

  Sure, they’d be tempted to play that particular persecution card…

  …but…

  …according to their own eschatology, Babylon the Great is supposed to be attacked first.

  That’s been hammered home to the rank-and-file for decades, now. Swapping that one out just as their legal troubles get dialed up to 11 could cause some serious blowback, right up there with the “generation” change from the 1990s.
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  All the Old JW Acquaintances Passing Away

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday, my dad told me an older sister passed away.

  she wasn't too old (in her 60s), but i knew her 30 years ago and haven't seen her in 15 years; the main reason being that i faded 10 years ago.. yesterday, i seriously considered attending the funeral and catch-up with old jws i used to know.

  after thinking it over, i decided against it.

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  Vidiot

  I just realized…

  …the steady buildup of JW numbers was - in many ways - a generational thing.

  Stands to reason its slow demise would be similar.
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  TV report-May 3, 2023-The Pa. grand jury investigation into alleged cover-up of child sex abuse within Jehovah's Witnesses

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds3q289vwok.

  the link is to the tv report - may 3, 2023. .

  below is a transcript of the tv report.. a pennsylvania grand jury has recently brought child sexual abuse charges against nine men—all jehovah’s witnesses—in what some are calling the most extensive investigation into the group in history.

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  Vidiot

  The Tide’s comin’ in.

  It can’t be stopped.
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  Why did you leave the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've never been a witness so i never left.

  graeme hammond writes:.

  for some years i’d had a growing irritation and disillusionment with the religion: i was getting tired of the pompousness, the arrogance and the control, i felt increasingly choked by their restrictions and i was drained by their demands on my time.

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  Vidiot

  I fucking hate that.

  IMO, the moment you put maintaining your authority ahead of actually getting things right, you no longer deserve your authority.
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  Why did you leave the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've never been a witness so i never left.

  graeme hammond writes:.

  for some years i’d had a growing irritation and disillusionment with the religion: i was getting tired of the pompousness, the arrogance and the control, i felt increasingly choked by their restrictions and i was drained by their demands on my time.

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  Vidiot

  No single individual thing initially, just a quiet creeping feeling that something was off.

  Eventually, though, came the gobsmacking realization that evolution was true, and that the WTS could never budge on it.

  Other things, too, but that’s probably the most significant one.
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  Mistakes made by GB.

  by Hellothere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "the governing body is neither inspired nor infallible.

  therefore, it can err in doctrinal matters or in organizational direction".

  i know this subject been talked about before.

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  Vidiot

  They GB pays lip service to their own fallibility, but make no mistake, the rank-and-file are expected to behave as though they’re infallible.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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!

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  Vidiot

  careful - “… yes, Jaracz was definitely a throw back to Rutherford, eh?”

  I’ve long held the opinion that if there’s any justice to the universe, those two are cellmates in Hell.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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!

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  Vidiot

  Hell, I’ve long suspected Jaracz maneuvered his way up the WTHQ ladder and ruled with an iron fist specifically to position himself to deal harshly with any perceived threats.

  Its an old and well-worn tyrant’s tactic, after all.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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!

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  Vidiot

  careful - “…in the case of Ray Franz someone very powerful was out to get him, Ted Jaracz…”

  Huh.

  It’s been a while since I read COC, so I don’t remember that, but I definitely find it plausible.

  That’s just the kind of disproportionally punitive action that an (alleged) sex offender with an authoritarian streak a mile wide would take, the moment he felt the slightest bit threatened.

  And Old Man Jaracz would have absolutely felt threatened simply by Ray’s general decency.
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  Young "Elders"

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ever since the annual meeting last october and the letter to bodies of elders stating that "exceptional young men perhaps in their early 20's could qualify for appointment as elders.." it even states this in the updated elders manual!

  have any of you pimo's, pimq's, or those on here with family/friends still in hear of any young men being appointed as elders yet?

  i am talking 21, 22, 23, 24 etc.

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  Vidiot

  SydBarrett - “…why do conspiracy kooks love to use the word ‘planet’ so much? They never say ‘world’ or ‘Earth’. It's always ‘<insert paranoid nonsense> on the planet’…”

  It sounds more dramatic.

  Hell, I use it for that specific reason, and I’m not even a conspiracy theorist.

  😁