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  Australian States & Territories Fail to Sign Up on a Redress Scheme For Victims of Child Sexual Abuse.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  at a recent coag {,council of australian governments} meeting the subject/issue of states & territories to sign up for a national redress scheme to compensate victims of institutional abuse sexual and otherwise fell on deaf ears.. not one state or territory agreed to sign up .

  not one.. i am sure the victims of child sexual abuse within various institutions not only the jehovah`s witnesses victims would be very disheartened to learn that.individual states and territories of government within australia do not support a national redress scheme to compensate victims of child sexual abuse .. the south australian govt.

  to my understanding is they will never do so .

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  Thanks again shepherdless
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  Animals Have Soul

  by glenster in

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  awwrr see the video at the next link:https://www.facebook.com/animalshavesoul/videos/158795278097284/.

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  glenster i have a distaste for FB and quit it .Is their any other way to view this video?
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  An elder with only one testicle

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i happen to be one of very few people who know of this condition that the man has.

  he had an accident several years ago with some power equipment.

  leviticus 21:20 commands that no man present the bread at the temple with damaged testicles... so?.

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  I knew a few sisters over the years that stood up to the Elders in their respective congregations over personal issues .

  I guess they had balls that the Elders didn`t.

  { Well if women can have beards in heaven I can`t see why they can`t have balls on earth }
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  Australian States & Territories Fail to Sign Up on a Redress Scheme For Victims of Child Sexual Abuse.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  at a recent coag {,council of australian governments} meeting the subject/issue of states & territories to sign up for a national redress scheme to compensate victims of institutional abuse sexual and otherwise fell on deaf ears.. not one state or territory agreed to sign up .

  not one.. i am sure the victims of child sexual abuse within various institutions not only the jehovah`s witnesses victims would be very disheartened to learn that.individual states and territories of government within australia do not support a national redress scheme to compensate victims of child sexual abuse .. the south australian govt.

  to my understanding is they will never do so .

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  Thanks for that clarification shepherdless .

  In earlier reports the JW`s had objections to joining the redress scheme also ,I wonder how that`s going.

  In that ABC regional radio station report it also said that the Catholic Church supported the redress scheme proposed by the Government.And at least they have come out with public apologies .

  Not so the Jehovah Witness Organization

  Congregation`s deny such a problem even exists and blame it on apostate lies
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  Australian States & Territories Fail to Sign Up on a Redress Scheme For Victims of Child Sexual Abuse.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  at a recent coag {,council of australian governments} meeting the subject/issue of states & territories to sign up for a national redress scheme to compensate victims of institutional abuse sexual and otherwise fell on deaf ears.. not one state or territory agreed to sign up .

  not one.. i am sure the victims of child sexual abuse within various institutions not only the jehovah`s witnesses victims would be very disheartened to learn that.individual states and territories of government within australia do not support a national redress scheme to compensate victims of child sexual abuse .. the south australian govt.

  to my understanding is they will never do so .

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  Sorry Hecce I don`t have a link it was reported on ABC radio station and I haven`t been getting the papers lately so I don`t know if it was reported there.

  And I haven`t seen anything on TV about it either.
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  Shouldn`t this sort of information be forwarded on to leah Rehmini ? who is supposed to be looking at doing an expose on the Jehovah Witness religion ?

  I hope somebody does this i`m pc illiterate

  Isn`t this the type of information she could use ?

  Also the loans to Kingdom halls that were cancelled out loans that may have had a few years to go that were then cancelled by the organization only to introduce a voluntary contribution that matched what you were paying on your loan but now you were committed to paying that same amount forever ?

  If that`s not a scam then what is ?
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  Australian States & Territories Fail to Sign Up on a Redress Scheme For Victims of Child Sexual Abuse.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  at a recent coag {,council of australian governments} meeting the subject/issue of states & territories to sign up for a national redress scheme to compensate victims of institutional abuse sexual and otherwise fell on deaf ears.. not one state or territory agreed to sign up .

  not one.. i am sure the victims of child sexual abuse within various institutions not only the jehovah`s witnesses victims would be very disheartened to learn that.individual states and territories of government within australia do not support a national redress scheme to compensate victims of child sexual abuse .. the south australian govt.

  to my understanding is they will never do so .

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  At a recent COAG {,Council Of Australian Governments} meeting the subject/issue of states & territories to sign up for a National redress scheme to compensate victims of institutional abuse sexual and otherwise fell on deaf ears.

  Not one state or Territory agreed to sign up

  Not one.

  I am sure the victims of Child sexual abuse within various institutions not only the Jehovah`s Witnesses victims would be very disheartened to learn that.individual states and Territories of Government within Australia do not support a National Redress scheme to compensate victims of child sexual abuse .

  The South Australian Govt. to my understanding is they will never do so

  I look forward to your comments and stand to be corrected if anything I have said is incorrect.

  Thank you
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  More News about child sexual abuse on Dutch National Television

  by jochie in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  more dutch news (english subs)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50sgu0jmzq8&list=pljylxw3p9cbfy6ok1om84bef4irkutnog&index=2.

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  Thank`s for the post jochie I hope this helps to wake up more Jw`s in "Dutch" land that it is not an Apostate lie that their is an ongoing problem with the way the JW organization handles child sexual abuses in their congregations kudos to the dutch national Television station for airing this program I only hope they keep up with further developments in how the JW organization respond to such allegations and what they plan to do about addressing the problem or if they are just going to deny/ignore it.
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  North and South Korea making up will start JWs saying the cry of Peace and Security is here

  by Isambard Crater in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i can see it happening.... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/10/kim-yo-jong-meets-south-korean-president-in-seoul-as-thaw-continues.

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  I wonder how many of the North Koreans will apply for political Asylum after tasting some "western" freedoms/democracy and how north Korea will re- act then ?
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  For Smiddy: Cool and Damp

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  gosh, smiddy, it's nice to have a request for poetry!.

  "the black oaks" describes where i live in the california sierra foothills; we are, for the most part, above the fog and below the snow.

  nevertheless, we do get both occasionally.

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  A sea mist rolling in giving you that eerie feeling of the moors of England or Transylvania where Frankenstein ,Dracula or the Wolfman were going to emerge from. I loved those movies when I was a kid.

  Thinking back to my childhood in the 40`s and 50`s watching these B grade movies that never seem to leave you.

  My wife worked at Hamilton Island for 3 months at one time and we spent a holiday their I gather you enjoyed your stay in that vicinity ?

  Do or did you have family or friends their ?

  That black and white photo of the "Tree" is so majestic and haunting I think it captivates a time of awe and mystery of what could or does unfold around it.