a team of lawyers has released the results of its survey on alleged child abuse by members of the jehovah's witnesses religious group in japan.. the team held a news conference in tokyo on monday.
it provides legal support to former members of the group as well as to children of its members.. the lawyers conducted the survey, following the publishing of the health and welfare ministry guidelines last year about child abuse related to parents' religious beliefs.
a total of 560 people responded.. the survey shows 81 percent of the respondents said they had cards indicating they desired to refuse blood transfusions.. the ministry's guidelines state that parents' refusal of medical treatments for children on religious grounds amounts to neglect --- a form of abuse.. the lawyers said investigations are necessary to find how many people died from refusing blood transfusions, and how many of them were children.. the survey also shows 92 percent of the respondents experienced whipping, 96 percent were banned from school activities, and 93 percent were forced to limit their human relations.. the lawyers said many of the children experienced physical and mental abuse, which afterward led to problems such as loneliness, sense of alienation and a lack of self-esteem.
This "team of lawyers", who commissioned them, what are they called? Are they working towards a class action on behalf of victims? Are they working for a government department? The article seems somewhat incomplete.
Edit: Here is a slightly different article: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15062839
forgive the insensitivity of this but does the wt imagine the "resurrected" bodies of the dead will have useless genitalia?
or will the humans 2.0 have the smooth appearance of a ken doll or the nipple-less breasts of a barbie.
any breasts at all?
Balaamsass2: "Rutherford wrote some crazy stuff about the resurrected being raised without sex....or possibly as white men in the 30s "Golden Age"
Peter Ruckman, erstwhile prophet of the KJV Onlyism movement, said that women would be resurrected in Heaven as 33 year old men. Rutherford wasn't the only occupant of Crazy Street.
consistency plays a crucial role in determining the inherent truthfulness of statements and sources.
reliability of information: if a source consistently provides accurate information, it builds trust and is considered reliable.
inconsistent information, on the other hand, can lead to doubts about the source’s credibility.. .
Is the light getting brighter, or are the JWs about to get run over by an oncoming train 🚂?
The new light 🕯️ keeps blinking on and off 📴
i would like to know if there are any ex's or formers who still appreciate good manners and respectfulness?
but i hope this question isn't offensive to this forum.
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"Well, the forum had paused in posting this thread unlike my other threads, therefore, I thought I had said the wrong thing at this forum."
You can only post two new threads every 24 hours. Trying to do it again will only create another identical thread that will appear when the 24 hour curfew expires.
when a whole branch went bad (or was it good)?
part 1. .
i guess it's too late to get much of the details of this story (outside of the official versions), but we ought not to lose it altogether.. so i'm committing to print what i know of this story, and hoping that somewhere out there will be someone else that knows more than i do, about one of the more exotic incidents in the history of the wts.
Well, this is a fascinating story. Which is why I brought it BTTT. Some insider information about the history of the Australian branch, as told by exes, of course, could be useful. It must have been reasonably important; Jaracz served there for a while. But the OP's fears that such histories would probably die without being told by those who were around in those days have probably come to fruition. 😔
i would like to know if there are any ex's or formers who still appreciate good manners and respectfulness?
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Given that (from what many people have posted here) JWs are taught to disdain outsiders (or "The World") and even fellow JWs who are "less spiritual", I wouldn't be surprised if manners weren't a high priority in Dubdom. (I've met plenty of nice JWs, though)
i would like to know if there are any ex's or formers who still appreciate good manners and respectfulness?
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There's a limit of two new posts a day. Trying to put another one through will just clog up the system. I ended up with four duplicate threads when I first started posting here. Post only two new threads a day and wait 24 hours before trying again.
found this on fb from the recent losch talk.
time for a new business model?.
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are the governing body really in charge or are they just a figurehead with the real power being behind the curtain .
"a thousand hungry piranhas can and will fuck up your shit way worse than one big-ass shark."
A very astute observation! 👍 With one small flaw: that metaphor has predator and victim in the wrong positions...
But it's nice to see the 'Tower being devoured one bite at a time 👍
are the governing body really in charge or are they just a figurehead with the real power being behind the curtain .
DesirousOfChange: "I believe they have plugged the hole in the dike by taking extreme measures if there is even a "hint" of any kind of misconduct involving a child"
Do they now encourage the elders or the parents to call the police, or do they still insist on the two witnesses rule? If not, what's changed?
