update: jehovah's witness jailed for five years for indecently assaulting young girls.
barry furlong.
first published monday 22 december 2014 in news last updated 10:41 monday 22 december 2014 by will frampton.
“That said, with the exception of count three, all are offences in which there has been either touching or rubbing over clothing.”
In interactions between consenting adults, "touching or rubbing over clothing" is known as foreplay, you moron. Since children are not capable of consenting to sexual interactions, it automatically becomes sexual assault.
What amounted to foreplay for the offender, in reality was sexual assault where the victims were concerned.
after all, it's a secular holiday not a religious holiday.. if i was still an active member, i think i would start a new tradition of celebrating festivus.
most likely no jws would come, but that's okay, it's a famiily holiday anyway.. what grounds would the elders have to disfellowship you?.
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JWs don't need an excuse - how many of them have big turkey dinners with all the family over the holidays? The hypocrisy was astonishing, especially when they'd turn around and criticize you for doing something like decorating inside the house with paper snowflakes and snowman figurines to counteract the dreariness of winter.
i listen to one of these all time in our hall.
she brings it up constantly about how they would do this or that but he has to work that saturday.
i think she should get a job and then he could find a lower paying 9 to 5 job..
If the wife has not worked in many years, it's likely that she has few marketable skills that would offer her many options in the workforce.
She might be better off selling Avon or Tupperware. It's more of a social marketing thing, and it may just open her eyes as to how hard it is to provide for oneself. Then again, it may be her way of boasting. She gets to slam her husband for not making all the Meetings™ while he provides for her every whim, and then she gets to play the martyr.
i've posted these years ago and was reminiscing, so i thought i would share the laugh with you again.. top 10 signs that jehovah's witnesses want to disfellowship you:.
10. there's two guys in suits staying all night outside your home in a four-door sedan.. 9. an elder you spoke to on the phone calls and asks you to repeat what you said the other day, but asks you to speak slowly and clearly.. 8. suddenly, jw friends stop by and ask an awful lot of the same questions.. 7. your laptop computer was moved, left on, or is missing.. 6. you left your car unlocked, it was thoroughly searched by someone but absolutely nothing is missing including your gps which was searched too.. 5. your boss asks if you are in trouble with the law or someone, stating some really polite men were asking about you and left some "tracts.".
4. someone picked up the cigarette butts around your back porch.. 3. the bartender at your favorite nightspot asks if you have ever before seen the guys in the corner booth that have been ordering "cokes" all evening and pulling out a camera everytime you order a beer.. 2. you receive registered mail and you already served on a jury this year.. 1. your jw mother who finally had accepted that you will never go back starts begging you to either go back to the kingdom hall or move with no forwarding address.. .
You haven't been to a Meeting™ at the Kingdom Hall™ in 10 years, and out of the blue you get a visit from an Elder™ and Circuit Overseer™ asking if you 'consider yourself to be One of Jehovah's Witnesses™".
i ran into an elder the other day at walmart.
he's a fairly good man and has a wife that is very sickly.
so sickly in fact i don't know how she's holding on.
Here's the quote for you Cofty:
If members of the congregation are known to have undue association with disfellowshipped or disassociated relatives who are not in the household elders should counsel and reason with those members of the congregation from the Scriptures. Review with them information from the "God's Love" book, pages 207-208; The Watchtower of April 15, 1988, pages 26-30; or the article "Display Christian Loyalty When a Relative Is Disfellowshipped" in the August 2002 Our Kingdom Ministry. If it is clear that a Christian is violating the spirit of the disfellowshipping decree in this regard and does not respond to counsel, it may be that he would not qualify for congregation privileges, which require one to be exemplary. He would not be dealt with judicially unless there is persistent spiritual association or he openly criticizes the disfellowshipping decision.
i ran into an elder the other day at walmart.
he's a fairly good man and has a wife that is very sickly.
so sickly in fact i don't know how she's holding on.
I would assume that visiting and helping out an ailing parent would qualify as Necessary Family Business™, especially since the Congregation™ almost never steps in to do it, insisting that this role is the family's job, not theirs.
On the other hand, perhaps the shunning of the DFd children has created a rift that is beyond repair. It might be a good idea to get their input in case they want nothing to do with parents who put their belief system ahead of family.
new member here so don't attack :d here is a couple questions i have been contemplating lately.. .
if jw isn't the right religion, then which one is?
or is it basically believe in god, the bible and you'll be fine?.
The best belief system will teach you how to think, rather than what to think.
the difficulty of finding a marriage mate is well known for sisters.
but i would say it's hard for brothers also.
i was talking to a jw last night.
Perhaps your JW "friend" should take a trip to the Philippines or Japan and meet some Sisters™ there. I understand the women are petite, attractive, and really dig Submissiveness™. /sarcasm
PS Your friend is an asshole and I wouldn't wish him on anyone, not even a dog.
post a cl add looking to contract some window washers and house cleaners, 98% of the 200+ respondents will be your local jw's.
We all know from personal experience as JWs that attempts to "educate" active JWs is likely fruitless in 99.9% of cases. The WTS admonishes JWs to pay no heed to unsolicited Apostate™ material, to just toss it out or delete it. They also advocate the idea that unsolicited Apostate™ material is a form of Persecution™, validation that their beliefs are The Truth™.
Why anyone would want to feed those delusions and further entrench someone in the JW belief system is beyond me.
aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.
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I'm of the opinion that if you are going to stir up a hornets' nest, you have to expect you'll get stung.
These tactics almost always fail with JWs because they feed the persecution complex that JWs have had trained into them, and it ends up reinforcing their delusion that they have The Truth™.
