Jehovah's Witnesses know what a uptrend and downtrend looks like. They don't like downtrends.
From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained (1958) p 201
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No more REPORTING field service!!!!!!!!!
by BoogerMan inthis is going to break the hearts of a lot of uber-jw's!
reddit has now removed the video link of samuel herd telling jw's they will no longer have to report time or placements - just tick a box which says "active.".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdshyx79rm&t=13s.
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No more REPORTING field service!!!!!!!!!
by BoogerMan inthis is going to break the hearts of a lot of uber-jw's!
reddit has now removed the video link of samuel herd telling jw's they will no longer have to report time or placements - just tick a box which says "active.".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdshyx79rm&t=13s.
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Jehovah's Witnesses...loyal to God...or to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society ?
by Balaamsass inthis month is a month of testing for jehovah's witnesses.
individually, each must ask himself: to whom are you loyal?
no doubt in ancient isreal many attended the molech and calf worshiping festivals out of loyalty to the nation, the king, and perhaps in a mistaken belief to "jehovah".
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substitute Circuit Overseers trump Bethelites in being most loyal and faithful
18:33 scanning CSA documents
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Can Elders Voluntarily Resign?
by NotFormer inan elder with half a brain (and they must exist 🧐) is going to see the writing on the wall with the way the wt is manoeuvring them into taking the fall over csa cases.
can an elder in good standing step down with no consequences, official or social?.
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no-zombie
they move on (to busy really to give you much attention) while the general publishers that you know, are quite distant socially.
dozy
he rest of the cong viewed me with some detachment.guessing kinda like Zelensky at a party
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Is Tony Morris a Nonce / Pedophile
by MebyonKernow inthis has just been posted on youtube regarding tony morris and the reason why he was removed as a gb member and 'relocated'.is tony morris a pedophile / nonce?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahj9vxygkelet me know your thoughts down below.celtic.
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maybe that was the whole idea ?
Maybe the reason for the 2nd house, Guardhouse/Caretaker house?
An example for the next fellow on the GB who makes Watchtower look bad.
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Praise Jehovah God, Jehovah's Witnesses are not part of 'The Disinformation Dozen'
by was a new boy in'so who are the disinformation dozen?
1. joseph mercola .
2. robert f. kennedy, jr. .
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'My no-holds-barred podcast from Copenhagen just dropped. This one is gritty and deep into what's really happening.'59:30
Media (Journalists paid off or blackmailed), Integrity has left the Building
https://rumble.com/v3lflua-episode-8-silenced-with-tommy-robinson-dr-david-martin.html
Jehovah's Witnesses Announce Plans to Build Giant Media Center Despite Recent Spotlight on Child Abuse Allegations
https://www.newsweek.com/jehovahs-witnesses-new-media-center-1464752
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Is Tony Morris a Nonce / Pedophile
by MebyonKernow inthis has just been posted on youtube regarding tony morris and the reason why he was removed as a gb member and 'relocated'.is tony morris a pedophile / nonce?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahj9vxygkelet me know your thoughts down below.celtic.
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Praise for watchtower
by wannaexit indid watchtower pay for this?
or is the anchor woman affiliated with the witnesses somehow?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep3vldmrfcg.
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"While Bautista and many people on YouTube describe their experiences being shunned by their Jehovah's Witness communities, Hendriks, the church's U.S. spokesman, said shunning isn't part of the religion."We don't shun," Hendriks said. "Shunning would be cutting somebody off and pretending they don't exist. That's just not the case."'If, however, a baptized Witness makes a practice of breaking the Bible’s moral code and does not repent, he or she will be shunned' -
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Is There Concrete Evidence That The Org. Has Covered up Child Abuse?
by Vanderhoven7 ini hear of a plenty of personal testimonies of abuse but it is harder to prove organizational complicity.
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https://casetext.com/case/state-v-laurel-del-congregation-of-jehovahs-witnesses'The Delaware Attorney General’s office is suing a Laurel Jehovah’s Witness congregation, saying its leaders covered up a child sexual abuse case.'
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Jessica Masulli ReyesThe News Journal'A Delaware judge is allowing a lawsuit against a Jehovah's Witness congregation to continue, but repeated concerns about the constitutionality of the state's law that shields clergy from having to report child abuse disclosed during confessions.'
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2016/02/04/judge-gives-green-light-child-abuse-reporting-suit/79832066/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'CONCLUSIONThe Section 909 privilege exemption from the requirement to report child abuse and neglect, if narrowly interpreted, is unconstitutional on its face. The terms "priest," "penitent," and "sacramental confession" literally apply only to select denominations. The Delaware Constitution prohibits laws that give preference to any religion. However, Section 909 potentially can be read to apply to all religions.
Of course, Delaware's General Assembly could clarify its intentions through legislative action, with language that would make the exemption denomination-neutral. --------
Regardless of the constitutionality of Section 909, genuine issues of material fact exist that prevent summary judgment.
THEREFORE, Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment is hereby DENIED.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
/s/ Mary M. Johnston
The Honorable Mary M. Johnston'
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One day Jehovah's Witnesses will Educate themselves on Child sex abuse, just don't know when.
by was a new boy inpublic information department us branch office must be pulling their hair out by now.. .
opinion.
decision by jehovah’s witnesses church in springfield failed the community (editorial).
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Decision by Jehovah’s Witnesses church in Springfield failed the community (Editorial)
- Published: Sep. 25, 2023, 8:46 a.m.
'Jay Aaron Smith arrived in the Springfield area after spending time in prison following a rape conviction in Georgia. His crime required him to register in Massachusetts as a Level 3 sex offender.
And yet somehow, Smith, a known sex offender, secured the title of “ministerial servant” within a Springfield location of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Smith is again in prison, starting a 15-year sentence after being convicted recently on several counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. Smith, who is 62, was found to have abused a 13-year-old at his home in 2020 and 2021.
The First Amendment gives members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organization the right to believe what they want. That discretion stops when it comes to their moral duty to protect children and other vulnerable people from abuse.
Jay Aaron Smith was convicted of child sexual assault.
This is an organization that distrusts secular authority and has fought efforts to provide common sense protections against sexual abuse of children, as seen in multiple national cases. This year, the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office brought charges against several members of the church. A grand jury there continues to probe what’s described as “widespread” child sexual abuse. A report is expected to provide the fullest account to date of documented sexual abuse by members of this faith in that state.
In the Springfield case, a national spokesman said the church was “deeply saddened” by Smith’s assaults. “No child should ever be subjected to abuse,” he said. Then, the spokesman took pains to point out that Smith’s crimes did not occur during any sanctioned activities by members of the congregation.
That doesn’t absolve the organization of responsibility. In fact, it fits a pattern of secrecy and coverup documented in other court cases, including a civil suit brought by a woman molested by a man within a Jehovah’s Witnesses chapter in North Fremont, California. Depositions in the case revealed that the abuser had a prior history of assault known to the church.
As documented by the Center for Investigative Reporting, the church’s defense in the California case included the claim that the First Amendment allowed it to fashion its own approach to handling instances of sexual abuse.
Internal church correspondence unearthed in that trial showed church officials calling for reports of sexual abuse by officials to be kept from members of its congregations.
That institutional secrecy is abhorrent and dangerous. Children pay the price.
The plaintiff in the California case, who prevailed, said she sued after learning the man who molested her later assaulted a 6-year-old girl. Her attacker had remained in good standing with the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization she attended and, a deposition revealed, had been lauded as being good with children in a letter of reference mailed to another California Kingdom Hall.
Officially, the national church claims to report instances of sexual abuse to civil authorities. In the Springfield assaults by Smith, the organization said it notified the state Department of Children and Families; that is the step required by mandated reporters in Massachusetts, which include members of the clergy.
That’s what they say. Actions count more. The church made the decision to grant Smith, the Level 3 sex offender, an appointed church post, conferring on him institutional respect he did not deserve.
In doing so, it failed a child, the child’s family and the wider community.
When asked by The Republican about the case, the spokesman for the church’s national office claimed that the Hampden District Attorney’s Office was wrong to identify Smith as an “elder.” He said the church was “currently working with the District Attorney’s office to correct this ….”
While it may have tried to adjust the narrative, the DA’s office refused, its own spokesman said. “Based upon evidence collected through the course of the investigation, we are comfortable with our assertion of his place of prominence within the hall,” he told The Republican.
It took further questioning of the church by the newspaper’s investigations editor, Greta Jochem, to draw out the fact that Smith did in fact hold the lesser title of “ministerial servant,” a role described as being an assistant to an elder.
Jochem’s reporting work included this written exchange with the church’s spokesman:
Jochem: “What are your policies for responding to allegations like this?”
Church: “Whenever an allegation of abuse comes to the attention of elders, they first seek to comply with any reporting laws, thereafter, they follow the Bible’s direction to comfort victims of sin and they evaluate whether the person accused of the sin may remain in the congregation or must be disfellowshipped (removed).”
A court in Georgia found Smith guilty of rape. When he got to Massachusetts, years later, church policy appears to have allowed elders to make their own call about his fitness.
If they didn’t know Smith was a sex offender, they should have.
If they accepted him in spite of that status, they shouldn’t have.'
