we are encouraged to all, if possible, get the vaccinations.
if you don’t, we are told that we definitely could get the virus.
fair enough.. but what happens if you decide you aren’t going to get the shots?
I'm not getting it the vaccination. I don't understand the reasoning that if I don't get it I'm putting others at risk. Can someone explain this to me? If they're vaccinated and I'm not how are they at risk. I'm fine with taking the risk but I don't get how that puts others at risk if they are vaccinated.
Oh and thanks Biden for giving me permission to be outside without a mask. Funny thing is, I've never stopped doing that! lol
even some democrats are advocating for reopening society, and are at least hoping for some point in 2021, but the governing body just announced that they're canceling the assemblies in 2022 as well, aiming to restart in 2023. .
they're really milking this 'pandemic', because as soon as things go back to normal that sense of urgency will start to die again, and publisher counts / meeting attendance will go down as well.
i wonder how many jws are suffering form (additional) depression from this as well, because with meetings, assemblies and conventions at least you could see and meet new people, as well as socialize.
I'm surprised they don't start having assemblies as soon as possible since they made a lot of money off of them. This must really be hurting them financially.
and no more minors in judicial hearing?.
How did you hear that??
hello everyone, if the elders start hounding someone to attend a judicial committee meeting is there any legal recourse that someone can take to make them back off?
i know that sometimes they will just at the threat of it.
thoughts?.
Hi Justaguynamedmorph, it would only be to avoid being DF’d because of the effect it would have on family relationships.
Hi Petra, that letter is awesome. Has that worked before?
hello everyone, if the elders start hounding someone to attend a judicial committee meeting is there any legal recourse that someone can take to make them back off?
i know that sometimes they will just at the threat of it.
thoughts?.
Hello everyone, if the elders start hounding someone to attend a judicial committee meeting is there any legal recourse that someone can take to make them back off? I know that sometimes they will just at the threat of it. Thoughts?
it's long overdue, i know, and i apologise profusely but it's tough working full-time and trying to spend time on all the ex-jw work that i want to do...... that said - here are the 2018 survey results for anyone interested and i am already working on the 2019 results.
also, i'm tweaking the survey for the 2020 release which will be soon..... hugs to all!.
sherrie d'souza (aka unstuck!).
The link is timing out for me...
i just saw this on the link below.. https://youtu.be/tigp4huuigy.
the question that's raised is.
why would wt want to use a 3rd party in order to recieve donations.
Whether you think the 3rd party was important or not I do not think that charging a fee to pay for administration staff and customer service staff is surprising or inappropriate. These are witnesses but they are not volunteers. They are paid for their time. But either way local donations are no longer being handled that way anymore.
https://youtu.be/2nacvosx8n0.
good to see the caring brothers help establish depth of guilt..
It blows my mind how JW’s will spend literally years trying to get someone into the organization and in 45 minutes (a friend’s JC was only thirty minutes) to decide to kick someone out. He wasn’t some imminent threat to the congregation. How many people could they have avoided df’ing if they turned it into a process that might span months of really and truly “helping” the person with the core issues they might have rather than immediately “helping” by giving them the boot. If the person isn’t apparently repentant At first couldn’t they spend time with them trying to bring them to repentance? Nope, they make a snap decision based on a moment in time and totally and cruelly destroy someone’s life. It’s one of the most abusive religious practices in the world up there with genital mutilation.
i haven't been on here in quite some time so i apologize if i missed a similar thread already (i did look for one :) ) anyways, just to be clear i think the jw response to covid in general has been really positive and proactive and they've done really well trying to educate people on covid, doing zoom meetings, etc to prevent spread within the congregations.
the part that i find interesting is how compliant and non-apocalyptic the branch has been during all of this.
even as someone who's a bit of a skeptic i found myself wondering if this might be the beginning of the end between covid, economic upheaval, and blm.
I agree. Their response has been very atypical. The idea was floated on here that maybe they want to sell all, or most of the KH's so continuing this lockdown indefinitely would suit them fine. Who knows...
"16 april 2020 | comment | article by alan collins.
jehovah’s witness elder sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual abuse.
jehovah’s witness elder, clifford whiteley, has been sentenced to nine years in prison at the birmingham crown court for sexual abuse offences he committed against a child member of the congregation over ten years ago.. mr whiteley initially denied the offences to the police, despite the fact that he had admitted his guilt during an internal investigation of the jehovah’s witnesses.. during court proceedings, mr whiteley’s defence counsel, sharon bailey, stated that the jehovah’s witnesses refused to disclose the details of his confession to the police.
I'm trying to remember what scriptural basis do they use to claim that they need to keep these matters confidential from the authorities. Clergy privilege is a concept that the authorities made up. It's not Biblical. If they really cared about these children then why not proactively reach out to the authorities if there's no scriptural reason not to? This shows it is only about the money.
