http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/im-relieved-everybody-now-knows-7357125.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-28127683.
'She wants worshippers in congregations to be notified when a fellow churchgoer is disfellowshipped from the faith for sex abuse.
Karen told us: “They are going to have to do something, I’m not going to let this go.”'
Is Karen aware that others before her have been disfellowshipped and labelled apostates for trying to reform the cult's policy with regard to pedophiles?
Personally, I wish her the best and hope she's successful.
it seems i am going to have to teach people to use a tablet as part of my job and i don't even have one!
any advice would be most helpful please.. i keep reading blurb on amazon etc and now i'm really confused.
what should i buy?
I have an iPad, my father just bought a Nexus.
He loves it, but it really is no less expensive than an iPad (I think it was about $500).
I like the iPad, but for my purposes, a laptop would have been better. That being said, a nexus doesnt compare to a laptop either. So. . . .
If you need a tablet, get the iPad.
Final answer!
bibl3thumper has posted a youtube of the celebrations that took place for german delegates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs6_q7rqps&feature=em-subs_digest.
it's hard to believe that they are now using the kingdom hall to sing pop songs and for dancing.
Something to reflect on:
This "entertainment" evidently had the society's blessing, if it wasn't requested by the society itself (which I believe it was).
HOWEVER, could you imagine the shit storm if a body of elders arranged such "entertainment" without direction from the society?
In other words, it's a cult.
my friend, mike works as a massage therapist, and there is a woman at the shop that is super-jw-woman and is constantly hounding him with things.. today, he's messaging me and he tells me that she was trying to push a brochure or something on him.
he said he'd really rather not read a religious pamphlet.. so... she says, "it's not religious... it's from god.".
isn't that kinda what religious means?
This comes from the people who have been told a generation is really TWO generations overlapping so, hell, sure, a pamphlet about god isn't religious.
bibl3thumper has posted a youtube of the celebrations that took place for german delegates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs6_q7rqps&feature=em-subs_digest.
it's hard to believe that they are now using the kingdom hall to sing pop songs and for dancing.
This is not my religion. . . . I'm just sitting here shaking my head. . . .
the paedophile/rape case in wales has attracted the interest of the the charity police.
it seems the clouds are gathering and the charitable status of the wt in the uk is in question.
not great for the dubs but superb for champions of truth and righteousness.. ironic isn't it.
This is good.
Bring it on indeed!
Thanks, SLIDIN
a discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.
as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.
the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.
If you could somehow snap your fingers and take away all the advances made in the past century - technology, civil rights, etc. - Jehovah's Witnesses would cry: "It's the Great Tribulation!"
the old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.
intact- is viagra for the guys.
funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.
From the NY Times: "Justice Alito said he accepted for the sake of argument that the government had a compelling interest in making sure women have access to contraception. But he said there were ways of doing that without violating the companies’ religious rights."
A company has religious rights?
I live in a bizzare land.
a discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.
as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.
the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.
I swear, scientists could proclaim that they've cured every type of cancer known to man and the WT would trump that with something like "We had 3,000 hits on our website in one day!"
Narcissists.
hi there folks,.
i no longer believe in a dime the wt corporation says.
for over a year i've been inactive in field service and i skip meetings whenever i can.. all my family is jw, and that includes my spouse.. i have already come open with her and exposed the wt for what it really is.
I second JAMIEBOWERS.
Washing the dishes/cleaning the house when she's gone; the glass of wine when she gets home. . . etc. . .. Be creative.
Make your not going to meetings/service the best thing that ever happened to her.
BTW FREDPOTATO - your screen name "resonates" with me - won't go into details. But when you first posted and I saw it, I SWORE it was someone I know!
