When you're looking at this horsecrap with objective eyes, it makes you wonder, "How was I so STUPID? How could I have believed this tripe?!"
cappytan
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In Case Witnesses Didn't know..............
by The Searcher inwatchtower july 15 2015 p.11 pars.
"your share in contributing to the spiritual paradise".
18 it is an honor to be allowed by jehovah to contribute to the beauty of our spiritual paradise.we do that by zealously preaching the kingdom good news and making more disciples.
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LATEST NEWS: CANDANCE CONTI VERIDICT READY - WT LOST!!!!!!!
by Viva la Vida ini'm not an expert but that is my understanding of this: .
opinion filed.. (signed published) the judgment against defendants on the negligence count is affirmed.
the judgment against watchtower on the cause of action for punitive damages is reversed with directions to enter judgment for watchtower on punitive damages.
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cappytan
What's the over/under on WT still appealing the negligence ruling? I bet they do.
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EDIT: Barbara, good point. Is it possible, though, that they could put out a JW dot ORG official press release about the 'victory' and not even mention the negligence ruling?
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LATEST NEWS: CANDANCE CONTI VERIDICT READY - WT LOST!!!!!!!
by Viva la Vida ini'm not an expert but that is my understanding of this: .
opinion filed.. (signed published) the judgment against defendants on the negligence count is affirmed.
the judgment against watchtower on the cause of action for punitive damages is reversed with directions to enter judgment for watchtower on punitive damages.
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cappytan
EdenOne: That sentence means that the judgement on punitive damages was in Watchtower's favor. "...judgment for Watchtower."
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Barbara is right. It is still a positive outcome.
However, I wanted to see Watchtower have to pay. I was hoping they wouldn't have any room to spin this as a 'victory.'
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LATEST NEWS: CANDANCE CONTI VERIDICT READY - WT LOST!!!!!!!
by Viva la Vida ini'm not an expert but that is my understanding of this: .
opinion filed.. (signed published) the judgment against defendants on the negligence count is affirmed.
the judgment against watchtower on the cause of action for punitive damages is reversed with directions to enter judgment for watchtower on punitive damages.
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cappytan
Here was what Watchtower argued in their Reply Brief for the appeal:
Finally, with respect to punitive damages, Watchtower illustrates how (I) there was insufficient evidence as a matter of law to show malice to support the award of punitive damages against Watchtower; and how (J) punitive damages were misused in an attempt to force Watchtower to change its nationwide policy as perceived by Plaintiff.
The court's judgement was "for Watchtower" on this point. Again I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds to me as if Watchtower will not be required to pay any punitive damages.
As to the details and verbiage of the Court's written opinion, that remains to be seen as the document isn't available online yet. The court could conceivably only agreed with point J of the brief, thus possibly leaving the door open to a different amount in punitive damages. But, if they agreed with both lines of arguments from the brief, then I would bet on them not being required to pay any punitive damages.
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LATEST NEWS: CANDANCE CONTI VERIDICT READY - WT LOST!!!!!!!
by Viva la Vida ini'm not an expert but that is my understanding of this: .
opinion filed.. (signed published) the judgment against defendants on the negligence count is affirmed.
the judgment against watchtower on the cause of action for punitive damages is reversed with directions to enter judgment for watchtower on punitive damages.
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cappytan
So, WT won!!
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LATEST NEWS: CANDANCE CONTI VERIDICT READY - WT LOST!!!!!!!
by Viva la Vida ini'm not an expert but that is my understanding of this: .
opinion filed.. (signed published) the judgment against defendants on the negligence count is affirmed.
the judgment against watchtower on the cause of action for punitive damages is reversed with directions to enter judgment for watchtower on punitive damages.
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cappytan
Here's my interpretation:
IANAL, but I worked for one for 5 years.
The judgment against defendants on the negligence count is affirmed.
Defendants are still "guilty." They will be paying the 130,000 for therapy and treatment, or whatever it was to begin with.
The judgment against Watchtower on the cause of action for punitive damages is reversed...
This whole sentence sounds weird and is poorly written, but here's what it sounds like to me, and I don't think it's good news. It is my opinion that this means that Watchtower actually won in reversing the punitive damages.
...with directions to enter judgment for Watchtower on punitive damages.
The decision of the court was to find in favor of the Watchtower on punitive damages. If Watchtower was to be required to pay punitive damages, it would have been a judgement for the plaintiff, not Watchtower. The sentence reads "...enter judgement for Watchtower." Watchtower was trying to have the punitive damages reversed on appeal, and the judgment was in their favor. (The punitive damages were the ones that rose to the millions of dollars amount, FYI)
The parties are to bear their own costs on appeal.
This last sentence is self explanatory.
Again, I am not a lawyer, but this is how I am interpreting it based off my experience.
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Latest on Conti Case- I do not understand what this means
by Captain Schmideo2 in1st appellate district .
change court supreme district 1 district 2 district 3 district 4 div 1 district 4 div 2 district 4 div 3 district 5 district 6 .
court data last updated: 04/13/2015 12:30 pm.
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cappytan
Deleted post to post on other thread mentioned by fastJehu.
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All you men here, who does the house cleaning?
by James Mixon indo you help or is this a woman job?
have you change your ways since.
leaving the borg.
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cappytan
I really need to do more. I've been trying a lot lately. But it's hard to break the pattern of just coming home exhausted at the end of the day and not doing anything. That's not fair to my wife.
So my goal is to at least do one thing for her every day.
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God evolved from chimpanzee diety
by freemindfade inresearchers say todays lord almighty shares many traits in common with the chimp deity, including color vision and omniscience.. .
berkeley, cachallenging long-held views on the origins of divinity, biologists at the university of california, berkeley, presented findings thursday that confirm god, the almighty creator of the universe, evolved from an ancient chimpanzee deity.. the recently discovered sacred ancestor, a divine chimp species scientists have named pan sanctorum, reportedly gave rise over millions of years to the lord our god, maker of heaven and earth.. although perhaps not obvious at first glance, there are actually overwhelming similarities between the supreme being of today and this early primate deity who preceded him, said dr. richard kamen, a leading biologist who also heads berkeleys paleotheology department.
the holy chimp moved around on all fours, but its descendants eventually began walking upright to expend less energy while foraging across the infinite reaches of the universe.
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cappytan
This was amazing...LOL
Well done, freemindfade.
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Apostasy Trial on YouTube - Undercover spycam part 1
by RayPublisher infor only the second time in internet history, a video recording of a secret jehovah's witness apostasy trial has been published online on the jwstruggle youtube channel.
follow isaac's story here:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9rh6qux0o&feature=youtu.be.
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cappytan
What's really interesting is that Isaac didn't bring up 1975 or 1874 first, but it was the elders who did! It shows they're thoroughly familiar with TTATT talking points.