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  Hitting the fan: CD epidemic at my Hall

  by neat blue dog in

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  yesterday my congregation met for field service and the elder taking the lead did something not so smart: he brought up the child abuse situation and the recent news articles hitting local news across the country.

  he said 'you can see that the persecution is really coming' and that we should be ready if someone complains about it at the door.

  (funny how it's persecution when it's us and righteous judgment when it happens to the other churches.

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  My brother in law, who was an elder when the Dateline episode on JW child abuse came out, said the WT instructed them to tell the congregation not to watch it.

  I remember that. At the time someone in my congregation had recorded the episode on a VHS tape. The tape was being passed around and I wanted to watch it. However the talk was given which shut down viewing the tape.

  I didn't know anything about the child molestation issues until many years later when I found the Dateline broadcast, along with others from around the world, on Youtube.
  
  
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  Can this be true: GB to court - NBC ??

  by Festus in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  is this a bad joke or "fake news"?.

  nbc new york is claiming "attorneys are expected on monday to announce the filing of lawsuits in king's county supreme court against eight members of the governing body of the jehovah's witnesses for alleged child sexual abuse claims.".

  eventhough i would enjoy to see this happen i am very suspiciouse concerning nbcs reliability with this case.. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/happening-today-nj-water-cosby-appeal-epstein-probe-536740491.html.

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  ScenicViewer- the link doesn’t come up...

  So sorry about that. Several minutes ago it worked for me, but now it doesn't. I wonder what changed.
  

  One more attempt at the same link:

  https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-jehovahs-witnes-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-20190812-benjcqrlozeyjl3gi3nlidc37u-story.html
  
  
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  Can this be true: GB to court - NBC ??

  by Festus in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  is this a bad joke or "fake news"?.

  nbc new york is claiming "attorneys are expected on monday to announce the filing of lawsuits in king's county supreme court against eight members of the governing body of the jehovah's witnesses for alleged child sexual abuse claims.".

  eventhough i would enjoy to see this happen i am very suspiciouse concerning nbcs reliability with this case.. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/happening-today-nj-water-cosby-appeal-epstein-probe-536740491.html.

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  NEW YORK DAILY NEWS article:

  

  (Photo caption: Child sexual abuse accusers John Michael Ewing (r.) and Heather Steele announced a lawsuit Monday in Manhattan against the governing body of the Jehovah's Witnesses.) (Barry Williams/for New York Daily News)

  "A man and woman who accused Jehovah’s Witnesses elders of child sexual abuse will launch lawsuits against the organization’s governing body under a landmark state law that goes into effect this week, the former church members said Monday.

  "John Michael Ewing and Heather Steele, in separate lawsuits that will be filed Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, said they endured years of rape and molestation at the hands of the group’s elders."

  Continue reading here...
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  Can this be true: GB to court - NBC ??

  by Festus in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  is this a bad joke or "fake news"?.

  nbc new york is claiming "attorneys are expected on monday to announce the filing of lawsuits in king's county supreme court against eight members of the governing body of the jehovah's witnesses for alleged child sexual abuse claims.".

  eventhough i would enjoy to see this happen i am very suspiciouse concerning nbcs reliability with this case.. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/happening-today-nj-water-cosby-appeal-epstein-probe-536740491.html.

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  So your post exposes nothing that hasn't been predicted in scripture

  I can't tell if you are being sarcastic in your post or not.

  If you are serious, what you posted from Jude 1 perhaps fits the GB very well, but what is new is that GB members are being sued for the first time, assuming this law suit is real and makes it to trial.
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  Can this be true: GB to court - NBC ??

  by Festus in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  is this a bad joke or "fake news"?.

  nbc new york is claiming "attorneys are expected on monday to announce the filing of lawsuits in king's county supreme court against eight members of the governing body of the jehovah's witnesses for alleged child sexual abuse claims.".

  eventhough i would enjoy to see this happen i am very suspiciouse concerning nbcs reliability with this case.. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/happening-today-nj-water-cosby-appeal-epstein-probe-536740491.html.

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  Attorney Irwin Zalkin had previously said that Governing Body members would be sued in court. Perhaps this is what he was referring to.

  The following is from the link posted by Xanthippe...

  On Friday, attorney Irwin Zalkin held a news conference in Manhattan announcing that two alleged victims, Heather Steele and Michael Ewing, will file lawsuits in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Wednesday. The lawsuits will name as defendants eight members of the Governing Body of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs).

  Now located in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., the JWs World Headquarters occupied a building with a large Watchtower sign in Brooklyn.

  “Litigation by the Zalkin Law Firm has exposed a database maintained by the JW containing information about known child molesters within the organization that dates back decades,” according to a news release from the law firm. “The JWs have defied numerous court orders compelling them to produce this database in several of the lawsuits.”
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  Step 1 : Steal a cadaver (Check!)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  step 1. steal a cadaver (check!).

  i live in fort worth.

  fortunately, he preceded me by half a century!.

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  The History Channel's 'Haunted History' series did an episode on HH Holmes in 2013.

  It's entitled Murder Castle, (Season 1, Episode 3). I stumbled on it completely by accident when channel surfing to see what's on.

  They go heavily into the 'haunted spirits' angle, meaning the ghosts of Holmes victims are still roaming through his hotel in Chicago. This is nonsense to me, but when I hit the channel there was a photo of Holmes on screen that was one of the photos that Terry had posted. What a coincidence. It got my attention immediately and I watched a few minutes of it.
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  Criminal Charges against Jehovah's Witnesses for Trial Fraud!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just in case this wasn't posted yet.. criminal charges against jehovah's witnesses for trial fraud.

  (a video is provided on this same page.).

  use google translate.. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/strafanzeige-wegen-prozessbetrugs-gegen-zeugen-jehovas,zeugen-jehovas-104.html atlantis!

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  TD: Members would be put under pressure if they accept blood transfusions in the event of life-threatening illnesses.

  Thanks for the better translation. That makes much more sense!
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  Criminal Charges against Jehovah's Witnesses for Trial Fraud!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just in case this wasn't posted yet.. criminal charges against jehovah's witnesses for trial fraud.

  (a video is provided on this same page.).

  use google translate.. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/strafanzeige-wegen-prozessbetrugs-gegen-zeugen-jehovas,zeugen-jehovas-104.html atlantis!

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  ...members of the religious community are pressured to accept blood transfusions...

  Did Google Translate misfire here? Shouldn't it read that 'members of the religious community are pressured to reject blood transfusions?'
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  In Sydney, and ex jw gathering, with an apperance by Angus Stewart!

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this happened yesterday.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pfyty9bs3i.

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  Thank you Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho for explaining that!
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  Again, thank you Amber Scorah

  by newsheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this week alone this lovely person has been on bbc, late night comedy show, and now i read about her in toronto's globe and mail log inadchoices.

  opinion.

  i was raised a jehovah’s witness.

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  That was one of the most eloquent, accurate and gripping descriptions of disfellowshipping and shunning that I have ever read.

  And the similarities between Chinese brainwashing and Jehovah's Witness indoctrination is eye opening.