'the spokesperson also said that church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately, even if there is only one complainant.'.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rebekah-vardy-sexually-abused-child-jehovahs-witnesses/.
is this true?
ThomasMore - “…They reluctantly admit that CSA is a crime, but their actions betray that they view it as sin, maybe just a short-coming.”
And yet they rant from the platform about (conventional) sexual “immorality” like it’s a goddamn epidemic.
By that logic, there are WT higher-ups who genuinely think that unmarried but consenting adults boning is somehow worse than a father diddling his little girl.
What. The fuck? 😵💫
this comment was made on reddit, perhaps protesting is starting to get the witnesses' attention.. it amazed me how many jehovah's witnesses exiting the convention were reading the protester's signs.
some of the witnesses were taking pictures of the signs.
jws were going by and smiling and giving a thumbs up.
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.”.
You know, it occurs to me that this might’ve gone a different way if the Org hadn’t so stringently demonized the secular world for the past hundred-odd years.
They made absolutely no “friends in high places” to come to bat for them if and when they ever got in trouble.
Jeezus, even nutjobs like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell saw the practical value in that.
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.”.
this comment was made on reddit, perhaps protesting is starting to get the witnesses' attention.. it amazed me how many jehovah's witnesses exiting the convention were reading the protester's signs.
some of the witnesses were taking pictures of the signs.
jws were going by and smiling and giving a thumbs up.
Something I just thought of regarding the JWs that Rick mentioned were smiling and giving thumbs-ups…
… I’m actually inclined to believe it.
Remember when there used to be a kind of implication that hidden “sins” would somehow semi-miraculously make themselves known (ostensibly to “encourage” the sinner to get ahead of it and confess, lest it go worse for them)?
I suspect more and more still-ins (PIMO or otherwise) are realizing that that just ain’t so…
…so they got a lot less to be afraid of.
this comment was made on reddit, perhaps protesting is starting to get the witnesses' attention.. it amazed me how many jehovah's witnesses exiting the convention were reading the protester's signs.
some of the witnesses were taking pictures of the signs.
jws were going by and smiling and giving a thumbs up.
It’s the over-the-top scream-yourself-hoarse ranting that turns me off.
I used to love reading Infowars…
…when I was reading it…
…imagining the information being presented in a calm, concerned Ted-Koppel-like tone (also, because I was still in at the time, but looking for reasons that the Org could still somehow be right, and a lot of early 00’s conspiracy theory could easily be retconned into WT eschatology).
Then I finally got around to watching one of Jones’s videos, and realized, “holy shit, this guy’s a fucking loon”.
this comment was made on reddit, perhaps protesting is starting to get the witnesses' attention.. it amazed me how many jehovah's witnesses exiting the convention were reading the protester's signs.
some of the witnesses were taking pictures of the signs.
jws were going by and smiling and giving a thumbs up.
Back in the day, Rick Fearon and Six Screens were the Alex Jones and PrisonPlanet of the XJW community, and I absolutely believe that his antics scared doubting but fearful JWs back to the WTS…
…he was such a perfect “apostate” poster-boy that when I was in a conspiracy-theory mood, I’d often wonder if the Org actually created him and his website as some sort of misguided false-flag tactic, and it got away from ‘em. 😁
I will admit, though… he does seem to have calmed down a bit as he’s gotten older (most of us do, after all), but IMO, he should direct his criticism more specifically at the Watchtower, and less at JWs in general.
Calling ‘em “zombies”, for example, doesn’t help… your average JWs-on-the-street are fairly decent folks.
Well…
…for now, anyway…
…who the fuck knows how full-on loyalist lifers are gonna start acting if things keep going the way they are. 😵💫
this comment was made on reddit, perhaps protesting is starting to get the witnesses' attention.. it amazed me how many jehovah's witnesses exiting the convention were reading the protester's signs.
some of the witnesses were taking pictures of the signs.
jws were going by and smiling and giving a thumbs up.
Play it at 1.25x speed.
Rick sounds like Peter Griffin.
😁
elder friend of mine texted me asking what my rc attendance was 2 weeks ago (family and i streamed it since wife is not well).
he told me that his rc in the jersey city assembly hall last weekend was low.
co told them that around 2600 were the total from 16+ congs that were assigned.
Saskatchewan merged with Alberta?
Damn.
HTF so they spin that?
https://youtu.be/5926nhzyz90.
the jehovah's witness 2023 convention theme is, ''exercise patience''...by looking at the attendance at this tucson, arizona convention, it should be changed to, '' jehovah's witnesses...running out of patience''.
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How will the Borg respond?
By taking increasingly unethical actions to maintain control and survive, which can’t help but alienate decent members even further, who, in turn fade, in a self-perpetuating cycle.
It’s called the “nightmare” stage of “Wishful Thinking”.
