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Did the WT ever trash the Catholic's in writting over their pedophila coverups??
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
if so it would be good to have these publications on hand.. .

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*** g89 11/8 p. 28 Watching the World ***

CHURCH SEX SCANDAL

“For years, Roman Catholic priests and other church workers in Newfoundland parishes had repeatedly abused dozens of children, most of them young boys, many of them orphans in the care of their attackers,” reports Canada’s newsmagazine Maclean’s. With reports of sexual abuse mounting each month...faith and trust of many Catholics in their priests have been shaken. Most disturbing is the accusation that sexual abuse in the church not only has been long-standing but has usually been covered up and the offending priest simply moved to another parish where new offenses were sometimes committed. “The Roman collar, once worn with pride, has become a source of embarrassment and suspicion,” says Paul Stapleton, vice-chairman of the St. John’s Catholic school board. “The recent events put all priests under a cloud of spoken or silent suspicion."

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Did the WT ever trash the Catholic's in writting over their pedophila coverups??
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
if so it would be good to have these publications on hand.. .

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*** g90 11/8 p. 31 ‘Our Shame Is Clear to the Whole World’ ***

The Times reported: “The Archbishop of Newfoundland has resigned after charges that the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy ignored or failed to deal effectively with three years of scandal involving allegations of sexual abuse against altar boys, orphaned youths and others by Roman Catholic priests and church laymen.”

Usually these cases are hushed up, and no significant disciplinary action is taken. Perhaps a priest is transferred to another parish or duty, where the depravity might start again. On this occasion the archbishop was moved to resign after stating: “We are a sinful church. We are naked. Our anger, our pain, our anguish, our shame are clear to the whole world.”—Compare Revelation 17:15-18.

A judicial inquiry showed that accusations had been made over a period of 15 years, but the police and government officials failed “to act decisively against the offenders.” And even worse, the church hierarchy failed to act decisively. They were accused of being more concerned about the offending priests than about the victims.

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Governing Body Member Gerrit Loesch Must Eventually Take The Witness Stand In Child Molestation Lawsuits
by frankiespeakin in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
with many more cases in the offing the zalkin lawfirm will press the issue again and again and force gerrit loesch to testify.

what say you?.

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Can you imagine Lett in court?

All those patronising, fake, exaggerated facial expressions would go down a storm

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BTTT / Marked topics
by Simon in
1. forum
2. announcements
i've noticed a lot of topics being bumped recently with "bttt" (back to the top) comments or "marked" as the reply.. i'd appreciate if people think twice before doing this.

simply forcing topics back to the top even though there is nothing to say on them is not helpful and negates the usefulness of having an active topics view.

if everyone did this with every topic they want to push then things would quickly deteriorate so i don't believe some should be allowed to do it for whatever reason.. by all means post new and relevent comments to a topic but short esp single-word non-comments that are simply used to push certain topics back to the top are likely to be interpreted as spam and removed or blocked if necessary.. .
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Governing Body Member Gerrit Loesch Must Eventually Take The Witness Stand In Child Molestation Lawsuits
by frankiespeakin in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
with many more cases in the offing the zalkin lawfirm will press the issue again and again and force gerrit loesch to testify.

what say you?.

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Yet the GB would throw any other poor JW in front of a judge with a meaningless and vacuous "Trust in Jehovah" comment.

What ever happened to respecting the authorities, paying Caesar's things, and copying the examples of Daniel, the apostles, and Jesus?

Spineless hypocrites will be repaid according to their own actions.

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ALERT: NEW LAWSUIT settlement - $13 MILLION
by Watchtower-Free in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html.

(published thursday, oct 30, 2014).

thursday, oct 30, 2014 updated at 11:58 pm pdt.
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Cadellin To the best of my memory, it's not repeated in the NT the way the prohibition against blood is, is it?

Mt 18:16 on the testimony a of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

1Tim 5:19 Do not accept an accusation against an older man a except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

2Cor 13:1 On the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter must be established.

What will be interesting is how they justify changing the two witness rule when they are forced to. How will they reason that these scriptures no longer apply?

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ALERT: NEW LAWSUIT settlement - $13 MILLION
by Watchtower-Free in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html.

(published thursday, oct 30, 2014).

thursday, oct 30, 2014 updated at 11:58 pm pdt.
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Sounds like they are angling for another GB indictment to relive the 1918 glory days of persecution.

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TMS written reviews
by rosesinbloom in
1. watchtower
2. bible
are we no longer able to receives the answers to the written reviews?.

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Use a tablet and an epub kingdom ministry - the answers are in there next to each question!

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JW attitudes to women
by Frazzled UBM in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i would be very interested to hear from you ladies on this one.

i know that the society keeps women in subjugation through the headship cr@p but didn't ahve any sense about hoew prehistoric the attitudes are until the other day when we were driving out of the supermarket car park and my wife spotted a woman dressed in tight shorts (it has been very hot here) and she commented 'they say that women who dress like that dserve to be raped'.

i did a wtf and overreacted 'how can you blame the victim like that - such attitudes give men a lciense to commit rape and make women feel they are to balme if they get raped which in turn means that rape doesn't get reported and it gopes on with impunity.
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Don't worry girls, in the new system you too will own that enviable appendage you so dearly covet:

Golden Age 1930, April 2. P. 446 Bible Questions and Answers
Whether the identity of the sexes, as such, will be preserved, we do not know. There have been some well authenticated instances in which women have been transformed into men, and it is possible that this transformation may become general and we shall all be brothers together.

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Recent Update - Service Report
by Da.Furious in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
on oct. 22, eight brothers were released from prison in turkmenistan by presidential amnesty.

(see 2014 yearbook, p. 31) the ninth brother is still imprisoned, but it is hoped that he will be released shortly.

some were already in prison for three or more years and had been severely mistreated.
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9,845 form submissions out of 363,000 views is 2.7% which is roughly what the yearly increase is.

Since 2000, 3.8 million have been baptised.
The increase since 2000 is 2.1 million.
Where have the other 1.7 million gone?

Hours spent in ministry this year = 2 billion
Baptised = 275,000
Therefore it is taking 7,000 hours (or 10 months of witnessing hours) to make each disciple.
An average congregation puts in approximately 16,000 - 18,000 hours of ministry per year.

It's a pity we can't determine born-in baptisms vs from the field baptisms, as this would better represent the ministry effectiveness.
eg. if 4 out of every 5 baptisms are born ins, this means the number coming in from the field each year is only 55,000.
That would mean 36,000 hours are needed to bring in one person from the field. That's roughly one person every two years, per congregation.

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