https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/charges-probe-child-sexual-abuse-among-jehovahs-witnesses-pennsylvania/3600171/#:~:text=a%20pennsylvania%20grand%20jury%20investigating,that%20has%20identified%2014%20suspects.
what to know.
a pennsylvania grand jury investigating child sexual abuse among jehovah’s witnesses has charged another five people with raping or molesting children as young as 4 years old.. the indictments friday are the latest charges in an ongoing probe that has identified 14 suspects.. state attorney general michelle henry says that while the misconduct dates back years or even decades, “the trauma endures for these victims.”.
Personally, I’ve come to suspect that JW loyalists who vehemently deny there’s a problem are the same kind of loyalists who are disproportionately hostile towards “apostates”.
They’re not freaking out because they think the accusations are wrong…
…they’re on the warpath ‘cause they’re afraid the accusations are true.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/charges-probe-child-sexual-abuse-among-jehovahs-witnesses-pennsylvania/3600171/#:~:text=a%20pennsylvania%20grand%20jury%20investigating,that%20has%20identified%2014%20suspects.
what to know.
a pennsylvania grand jury investigating child sexual abuse among jehovah’s witnesses has charged another five people with raping or molesting children as young as 4 years old.. the indictments friday are the latest charges in an ongoing probe that has identified 14 suspects.. state attorney general michelle henry says that while the misconduct dates back years or even decades, “the trauma endures for these victims.”.
Wow… usually it’s all weasel words meant to lead the rank-and-file to come to that conclusion themselves.
Ten bucks says he went a bit off-script, there… maybe you touched a nerve?
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it should be starting to become more clear to people what i've stated for years on this site.
the threat against religion that becomes pivotal will come from lgbtq politicians forcing through " hate crime" bills aimed at religions.
in the past i have had a " maybe" statement from only one commenter.
My dad knew old Freddy Franz’s eschatology backwards and forwards, so I grew up thinking of the UN as Darth Sidious’ galactic empire.
Realizing it wasn’t much more than a toothless, jumped-up debating forum (with a charter that had clauses protecting religious freedoms, no less) was, in retrospect, one of my little wake-up moments.
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according to a new harris poll shared exclusively with fast company, most americans would prefer to live in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media, and this sentiment is especially strong among older millennials and gen xers.. asked whether they would like to return to a time before humanity was “plugged in”—meaning before people had wide access to the internet and smartphones—77% of americans age 35-54 said they would, the highest of any group.. .
what would you consider your ideal level of the internet?
as a gen x'er, i would not want to go back to the per-internet world, but i would like to go back in some specific technologies.
All the trappings of civilization can and will collapse at any moment!
This is our inevitable future:
'last night's flccc weekly update featured stories of families who fought in court to compel hospitals to give their loved ones ivermectin.
that it has come to this is tragic.
63 studies have now shown ivermectin’s efficacy in all stages of c19 disease.'.
Re. The thread title…
… Personally, I don’t think the issue is so much as the desire to censure information, as it’s the frustration of having to compete with all the idiots out there spewing bullshit as fact.
I could be wrong.
it should be starting to become more clear to people what i've stated for years on this site.
the threat against religion that becomes pivotal will come from lgbtq politicians forcing through " hate crime" bills aimed at religions.
in the past i have had a " maybe" statement from only one commenter.
Quick follow-up…
…looking back, I think that moment was when I first started to realize something that I personally think is significant…
…that if you use heavy-handed (or under-handed) methods in your efforts to claim the moral high ground…
…you forfeit the moral high ground.
it should be starting to become more clear to people what i've stated for years on this site.
the threat against religion that becomes pivotal will come from lgbtq politicians forcing through " hate crime" bills aimed at religions.
in the past i have had a " maybe" statement from only one commenter.
I remember way back in the day, reading Wikipedia’s entry on JWs (still in at the time).
I felt it was fairly accurate, but one thing really stuck out at me…
…the acknowledgment that the WTS had made significant efforts in advancing and protecting freedom of speech (paraphrasing, but not much), but, however, did not practice it internally.
What stopped me short was that I could not, in any honesty, refute that statement.
it should be starting to become more clear to people what i've stated for years on this site.
the threat against religion that becomes pivotal will come from lgbtq politicians forcing through " hate crime" bills aimed at religions.
in the past i have had a " maybe" statement from only one commenter.
Simon - “The rainbow brigade have ridden a wave of regular people being tolerant, but they have overreached and pushed things too far…”
Hard to argue with.
Par for the course when you’re a professional activist, I guess…
…you gotta keep finding a new crusade to wage, or you’re out of a job.
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if it’s looking like someone may be disfellowshiped or announced they are no longer a jw and they don’t want to be shunned they just want to fade without being shunned - just say that would make me suicidal .
simple.
in the new shepherding book it says if they say that then don’t go ahead with it.
The closest I’ve ever gotten in the past 15-odd years is an aunt telling me it would be nice to see me active again (paraphrasing, but not much).
putting this under "friends" because i couldn't figure out where to put it.
it is very often on here and in ex jw videos, ect that people like to undermine some of those who once we would have called friends.
there seems to be a view that window washers, plumbers, cleaners, construction workers are somehow less intelligent than those who may be college educated.
Label me! Label me!!! Harder!!! I have no safe word!!!
