I have to wonder whether the announcement that so-and-so Is No Longer One Of Jehovah's Witnesses™ is a breach of minister-congregant confidentiality.
Y'know... since they're so eager to protect confidentiality.
Posts by Scully
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47Watchtower's April 9 BOE Confidentiality Letter - Child Abuse - Did Jane Doe lawsuit play a major part?
by SweetBabyCheezits ini'd bet my left.... pinky toe that the wt's monster 4/9 confidentiality letter was put out as a direct result of the jane doe/candace vs wt case as they were preparing to go to trial.
there had already been a year of legal proceedings - surely the wt knew the shit was about to hit the fan.. thanks goes to atlantis for posting the boe letters originally as pdfs.
the person that a restraining order is a personal legal matter that does not involve the congregation.. thereafter, the elders should call the legal department immediately for direction..
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Newspaper Contra Costa Times Reports Jehovah's Witnesses must pay more than $20 million
by BlindersOff1 inhttp://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_20867874/jehovahs-witnesses-must-pay-20-million-fremont-sex.
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Jim McCabe, an attorney for the congregation, said he was very disappointed with the verdict and plans appeal it.
"The Jehovah's Witnesses hate child abuse and believe it's a plague on humanity," McCabe said. "Jonathan Kendrick was not a leader or a pastor, he was just a rank-and-file member. This is a tragic case where a member of a religious group has brought liability on the group for actions he alone may have taken."
Just like the WTS likes to point the finger at the Catholic Church for behaviour of pedophile priests.
WTS:0, Karma:1
"But if she was, in fact, abused then we feel horrible, and hope she can make a full recovery and lead a normal life," he said.
Translation: We won't feel horrible about her allegedly being abused until she proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
@$$holes
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Newspaper Contra Costa Times Reports Jehovah's Witnesses must pay more than $20 million
by BlindersOff1 inhttp://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_20867874/jehovahs-witnesses-must-pay-20-million-fremont-sex.
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Jehovah's Witnesses must pay more than $20 million in Fremont sex abuse case
By Chris De Benedetti Oakland Tribune
Posted: 06/15/2012 03:15:15 PM PDT
Updated: 06/15/2012 08:26:30 PM PDTOAKLAND -- A jury has ordered the Jehovah's Witnesses to pay more than $20 million to a woman who accused the religion's national leaders of setting a policy of secrecy that led a Fremont congregation's elders to protect a convicted sex offender who she claims molested her in the 1990s.
An Alameda County Superior Court jury on Thursday awarded $21 million in punitive damages -- and another $7 million in compensatory damages the previous day -- to plaintiff Candace Conti, a San Joaquin County resident.
"It was the nation's largest verdict for a victim of sex abuse involving a religious institution," said Rick Simons, the plaintiff's Hayward-based attorney.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York -- the organization overseeing the Jehovah's Witnesses -- must pay Conti nearly $24 million, covering all of the punitive damages and 40 percent of the compensatory damages.
Jonathan Kendrick, the congregation member whom Conti accused of molesting her, has been ordered to pay 60 percent of compensatory damages.
Jim McCabe, an attorney for the congregation, said he was very disappointed with the verdict and plans appeal it.
"The Jehovah's Witnesses hate child abuse and believe it's a plague on humanity," McCabe said. "Jonathan Kendrick was not a leader or a pastor, he was just a rank-and-file member. This is a tragic case where a member of a religious group has brought liability on the group for actions he alone may have taken."
Conti, now 26, was repeatedly molested by Kendrick from 1995-96, when she was 9 and 10 years old and a member of the North Fremont Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, Simons said.
The lawsuit claims Watchtower formed a policy in 1989 that instructed the religion's elders to keep child sex abuse accusations secret. The North Fremont congregation elders followed that policy when Kendrick was convicted in 1994 of misdemeanor child molestation in Alameda County, Simons said.
"That abuse case had been reported to the elders," he said. "But they kept it secret and didn't do anything to stop him from molesting more kids."
Kendrick, a registered sex offender, was convicted in 2004 of molesting another girl in Contra Costa County, Simons said.
"That policy is still in place and it was a secret until, through the power of the court, it was put into evidence," he said. "That policy was what this case was all about."
Criminal charges have not been filed against Kendrick in the Conti case, but Simons said authorities are investigating. Sources confirmed the investigation but declined to comment further.
McCabe said there is a lot of dispute regarding the plaintiff's accusations.
"But if she was, in fact, abused then we feel horrible, and hope she can make a full recovery and lead a normal life," he said.
Kendrick, now 58, lives in Contra Costa County, according to the state sex offender registry.
Conti said she had two main goals in filing the lawsuit last year against Kendrick, Watchtower and the North Fremont congregation: She wanted to protect children in the future and to encourage sex abuse victims who've been hurt by the policy of secrecy to come forward and make their voices heard.
"Nothing can bring back my childhood," she said. "But through this (verdict) and through, hopefully, a change in their policy, we can make something good come out of it."
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Watchtower sends Cease and Desist order on SPARLOCK items!
by sacolton injust got notice that all sparlock t-shirts, cups, bags, etc.
will be pulled from my shop.
watchtower corp. has filed a complaint to cafepress on all sparlock items.
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Maybe we should be looking at ways to get this company to claim copyright infringement and issue a cease and desist order against the WTS.
- defaming their name and product with religious bigotry and association with "making Satan happy"
- discrediting their charitable work and negatively impacting their business profile
etc.
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Watchtower sends Cease and Desist order on SPARLOCK items!
by sacolton injust got notice that all sparlock t-shirts, cups, bags, etc.
will be pulled from my shop.
watchtower corp. has filed a complaint to cafepress on all sparlock items.
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Scully
What about using accented letters?
Spärløck (I'm rather partial to the ø because it's the same as the universal "no" symbol)
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Sparlock Drives My Wife to the Brink of Apostasy
by breakfast of champions ini reported the other night that we sat down to watch the new video, and while my wife was smiling and laughing while watching the first part, she stiffened and became quiet during part two.
it disturbed her deeply:.
"this is ridiculous.
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Scully
You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger
I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turned into a shining band of gold
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your 'tuition
You will see it come to its fruition
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air you'll never find me
I will turn your flesh to alabaster
When you will find your servant is your master
Ohhh, you'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
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Does the "Virgin Mary" God got me pregnant story sound fishy to you?
by Witness 007 injoe : "your pregnant.....but how????".
mary: {lights a cigrette and takes a puff} well....it's amazing, please just hear me out, an angel came to me and........".
{10 minutes later}.
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Scully
Zeus used to go around impregnating virgins too, but nobody believes in Zeus anymore.
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Are you up and down all night?
by compound complex ini am - every hour or so - but last night i slept for 5 hours uninterrupted, and this despite 4 cups of coffee late afternoon.
still can't account for what was for me tantamount to a full-night's sleep .... .
do you sleep well most nights?.
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Scully
Occasionally I experience insomnia - shift work has a way of disrupting sleep cycles.
I had to stop drinking coffee a few years ago as it was making insomnia even worse. Sometimes I take a sleep aid like melatonin or dramamine. I started listening to audiobooks (set the Sleep Mode to turn off after 15 minutes) and I usually fall asleep before Sleep Mode turns off the audiobook.
I have strange dreams.
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Moving to Canada from France
by cdoc5c inhi, .
i am an ex jw and moving to canada tomorrow, montreal exactly, anybody around to meet up?
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Scully
iamallcool, smarten up. If someone doesn't understand French and really wants to know what laverité wrote, they can certainly copy and paste that small amount of text to Google Translate.
Or they could politely ask laverité if he would mind posting a translation.
Bienvenue, cdoc5c. S'il vous plaît ne pas tenir compte du chieur.
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How Do You Deal With The Shunning You Receive From "Captive" Witnesses?
by Bubblegum Apotheosis ini am liking don's term "captive to a concept" more and more, it explains so much about the mindset of average dubs.. to those who are being activily shunned, how does it affect you when you see former friends and family, do the sideway's crab-walk to get away?
you are not alone, shunning is happening to weaker witnesses in the congregations, this practice is not sanctioned by the watchtower society, this trait is straight from satan the devil, it pure evil and cruel!
as i post, this new trait is being taught to the power player's apprentices, teaching them how to do the "weak witnesses exit stage left!
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Scully
The only flaws in her plan are that (a) the answers to those questions are none of her damn business and (b) you aren't allowed to just "find a different Kingdom Hall™ - you are expected to go to the Congregation™ based on your place of residence and the Congregation's™ Territory™.
It's incredible that some people's hold on the attention of others is so tenuous that they must weed out any potential competition before they even arrive. I see this "questionnaire" as part of a narcissistic attention-seeking personality. She's like the Queen Bee and everyone around her does her bidding.