the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (iicsa) is holding a public hearing in the child protection in religious organisations and settings investigation for the next two weeks.
the provisional timetable for the first week was released today: https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/17795/view/2020-03-12-cpiros-public-hearing-week-one-timetable.pdf .
five witnesses will testify on the jw issue next thursday, 19 march:.
"...After careful consideration of whether it is possible or appropriate to continue with this public hearing in light of this update, the Inquiry concluded it had no alternative but to postpone in order to protect the health of everyone involved..."
Ten bucks says the WT leadership is telling themselves that the pandemic is actually God stepping in to protect the Org from "persecution".
i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.
some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.
the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).
@ carla...
Just confirms what I've long suspected... that deep down, at a fundamental level, the WT leadership don't really want XJWs to come back.
The act of "reaching out" to inactives or DFs is - rof all intents and purposes - lip service...
...ten bucks says the efforts are more to determine if inactives or DFs have been exposed to "apostate" information and/or come to suspect that the WTS isn't actually "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization".
I guarantee you they don't want anyone like that anywhere near loyal rank-and-filers.
special talk by lett.
very serious ( for him)droning voice.
wife fell asleep.
JoenB75 - "It is funny someone in charge can not see how odd he comes across."
When you're convinced you speak for God, have the ear of 8 million people, and surround yourself solely with individuals who are never allowed to disagree with you...
...you view everyone else as "odd".
As far as the ones in charge are concerned, they're the "normal" ones.
special talk by lett.
very serious ( for him)droning voice.
wife fell asleep.
Spanky McTightypants - "We've been waiting for this."
Waiting?
Maybe.
Hoping?
Even more so, I suspect.
Of course, I can't quite recall where the fuck a "superflu" fit into old Freddy Franz' End-Times script, but whatever.
this kelowna kingdom hall can be yours for just under $3 million.
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https://infotel.ca/newsitem/this-kelowna-church-can-be-yours-for-just-under-3-million/it71323.
alanv - "...Another 28 had or will have major renovations..."
Ten bucks says most of the refurbished ones get listed before too long.
alanv - "...He did not say how many were sold in Canada."
That would definitely be more useful information, and the fact that he didn't mention it suggests, to me, that the number sold exceeds the number built or face-lifted.
i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.
some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.
the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).
How many of you wanna bet that this is a some kind of half-assed attempt to suss out potential "apostates"?
i found this video on youtube which correctly explains how religoius cults develop and operate on a psychological and sociological study.. while watching it think of the jws and its general operative behavior.. i think its important to realize many people who fall into cults are usually having some kind unstable problems in their lives looking for answers and relief, the jws are known to exploit people who are under going some personal strife and are venerable to that effect.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-djacxaxa&t=281s.
TheWonderofYou - "There are similarities in the operation with JW."
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck...
...odds are pretty fair it's a duck.
hello everyone, i know that many here like me have read ray's book crisis of consience, i was very impressed with it, it helped open my eyes to the hypocrisy and double standards of the wts, and ray gave me the impresion of being a very loving and kind man, not the demonized apostate we were all lead to believe.
but, i noticed something that wasn't quite correct when i was reading the part that spoke of then brother rene vazquez, he makes it seem like all rene did was have private conversations with ray and nothing else, this is not true, i for a fact know that this was not all that happened.
in a ms meeting on tuesday back in 1980, rene was conducting a part and he went up to the stage with only his bible, he started saying that all we needed was the bible, that we would no longer be using other publications by the wts .
Pretty sure that the Org would have sued Ray's ass off if CoC was bullshit.
The fact that they didn't speaks volumes, IMO.
my wife pimi wife said today...." the tribulation has started" i was like wtf... i know things are bad.
but...... we have had other pandamics and market crashes in the past.
1889: russian flu 360,000 perished.
PIMI wife - "They're (finally) attacking Jehovah's People(TM)!!!"
goingthruthemotions - "Um... isn't 'Babylon the Great' supposed to be attacked first?"
interesting video.
i'd like everybody's thoughts on this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlfvxinte8&fbclid=iwar2omsj1dkm7rzxcyjblkd9aqnnp5xmijrxoc-rfaoh7ucfgvwlpkiynofs.
Hell... these days, it feels like they're trying to passive-aggressively provoke everyone to some degree or other.
Of course (as I've said many times)...
...going around jabbing people in the eye with a stick and then whining when you get a beatdown for it doesn't actually make you a martyr.
It just makes you an asshole.
