re: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/116108/1.ashx.
a bethel insider in the know told me that all of the child abuse lawsuits where the watchtower bible and tract society was one of the defendants were settled back in the beginning of this year.
i questioned it and called napa myself and they were absolutely settled back then.
Have they settled ALL of the cases where they were named as defendants, every single one? I am in shock. How long will they continue to get away without major publicity? I am actully sick to my stomach. I was so hoping that bad press would soon be making the headlines. What a sad day!
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i know a lot of people that believe they are "better" because they're witnesses.
what about you?
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Quandry- I agree with you too. Mother Theresa was one of the finest human beings to walk this earth, she is truly a saint.
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i know a lot of people that believe they are "better" because they're witnesses.
what about you?
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I remember growing up how I always admired all the people I would read about helping this planet and the people on it in practical ways, people involved with Greenpeace, UNICEF, Cousteau Society, especially Jaques himself. I would think how could Jah destroy such wonderful people who are caring for his creation so selflessly, just because they are not JWs? Even when I believed most of what I was taught by the "Society" I never believed the good people on this planet would be obliterated and I never thought I was a "cut above" others, rather I felt many times that these really active volunteers were a "cut above" me.
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had a jw phone me last night ,( r.thompson) ??
wanted to talk about the wicked things happening in the world.
i asked "are you jehovahs witness ?
What a real idiot!! What was he going to tell the police?? This organization really attracts the "cream of the crop" doesn't it?
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when they reach a certain age they are expected to "sign up" (get baptized).
in many cases if they choose not to their parents essentially "disfellowship" them.
so a lot of children get baptized under pressure from the parents and when they fail to live the jw life and get df'd the folks are the harshest shunners.
Unfortuneatly, most JWs have no clue of what the cocept of "unconditional" love entails. It's so ironic how they pride themselves on the "love" amongst themselves- I don't think there is another group in the world with such a myopic view of love.
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napa wt child abuse case.
two important court decisions, which came out of napa valley, ca, are now available for us to post on jwd.
these significant rulings overturn objections regularly made by the watchtower in recent lawsuits and may serve as a precedent for future lawsuits.
Any updates?
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07117/781358-237.stm.
pbs show screening.
point park university will screen the upcoming pbs "independent lens" documentary, "knocking," at 7 p.m. thursday in room 212 of the university center, 414 wood st., downtown.
From the Knocking.org website it lists the following info for the Chicago viewing:
Wednesday, May 2nd 7:00pm
Facets Cinematheque 1517 W Fullerton Ave.
For more info contact: [email protected]
watchtower to sell 6 brooklyn heights properties.
brooklyn daily eagle, ny -7 minutes ago.
... residential and all in brooklyn heights, according to david semonian, a spokesperson for the watchtower society, also known as the jehovahs witnesses.
Danny- That issue as well as a host of other dribble of the day is what convinced my dad not pursue his PHD, whereas two other witness classmates, who by the way were third generation JWs whose grandparents and parents had heard it all before, continued in their educations and have enjoyed 35yrs in careers they really wanted to pursue.
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any new info for us lowly publishers?
do they ever tell or warn you not to discuss the kms with others?
or some of the reasoning and terms they use .
The last KM school was in Nov and Dec of 2005. I believe he meant to say TMS= Thecratic Ministry School, the weekly meeting.
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i think the best way to measure how enthusiastic the publishers are is...the number of auxiliary pioneers, especially when there is a "big push" for such.. in any sufficently large population (such as jws), there's always going to be a core of "true believers".
in the jw world, these are the regular pioneers - devoted enough to put their lives on hold & financial security at risk to spend 70 or more hours per month knocking on empty houses & leaving magazines at laundromats & with hapless gas-pumpers.. likewise, there's going to be a group of less active ones, who are in it mainly for social reasons, or because their parents are forcing them.
these ones typically have the stigma of being "low hour publishers" or "spirtually weak" or (horrors!
We have 74 pubs., which means we should have had around 12, we only had 6.
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