Posts by smiddy3

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Jehovah's Witnesses accused of silencing victims of child abuse March 25 2018

by Not_Culty in

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/25/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-silencing-victims-of-child-abuse-uk.

scores of alleged victims come forward and describe culture of cover-up in religious group in uk.

more than 100 people have contacted the guardian with allegations of child sexual abuse and other mistreatment in jehovah’s witness communities across the uk.. former and current members, including 41 alleged victims of child sexual abuse, described a culture of cover-ups and lies, with senior members of the organisation, known as elders, discouraging victims from coming forward for fear of bringing “reproach on jehovah” and being exiled from the congregation and their families.. a guardian investigation also heard from 48 people who experienced other forms of abuse, including physical violence when they were children, and 35 who witnessed or heard about others who were victims of child grooming and abuse.. the stories told to the guardian ranged from events decades ago to more recent, and many of those who came forward have now contacted the police.. they told the guardian about:.

smiddy3

Welcome to the forum FrauBernadette feel free to share your experiences once you are comfortable being on this site .

Where you can voice your beliefs and opinions without sanctions put upon you .Oh people can disagree with you but you wont be shunned or ostracized for your opinions or your beliefs.

You can use the search option at the top right hand corner of the screen for any subject you are interested in their are some amazing contributions by learned people over the years on a variety of subjects.

Take care

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Jehovah's Witnesses child sexual abuse cover up gets broadcast across Canadian television.

by Finkelstein in

well the shit has finally hit the fan here in chanda for the jws.. an hour long investigative journalist program called w5 went deep into the jws's pedophilia cover up problems that have been on going for decades within the jws religion.. .

i think its good thing for the public to realize how religions can and will coverup egregious acts which are serious crimes in most countries just to up hold a clean wholesome image around their organizations.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1zlhbk6ihm.

smiddy3

One thing about the video showing ex JW`s going into KH`s and disrupting their meetings which i personally don`t think are productive methods they should at least dress appropiately similar to what a JW is expected to wear at meetings .

https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/

The nine things you didn`t know about JW`s is excellent.and should be distributed more widely among the general public.

However it was good coverage by CTV.News 5

Thanks for sharing.

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WT study

by inbetween09 in

it became rare, i thought, when considering last weekends study article.

it became rare, that most of the message is actually quite ok. the gist was to avoid loving oneself, money and pleasures more than god.

thats ok, if you're a believer.. this was my take until i saw the pictures, and discovered the real message behind the article.. as often, they use pictures to contrast bad and good behaviour (in their eyes at least).

smiddy3

It amuses me now how all religions including JW`s have to keep reminding/encouraging members to give money?

I don`t recall anywhere in the NT of Jesus asking for money or guilt tripping anybody to give over their valuable things to an organization ?

GOD the ALMIGHTY needing money from his worshipers ,makes you laugh when you stop and think about it .

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JW Decline: additional data from Aust 2016 census

by shepherdless in

about 9 months ago, i started this thread:.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6298997348106240/aust-2016-census-observations-jws-getting-older-more-kids-leaving-30-group-arent-returning.

i have had a little spare time, so i thought i would present some of the data in a more user friendly manner, with some additional detail.. 1. median age.

smiddy3

With all this bad publicity going around worldwide we can only hope the decline speeds up .

Thanks for the info shepherdless interesting stats.

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God! No one really cares!!!!

by JaniceA in

there are exposes right and left.

australia, canada , uk, usa.

news reports, court cases.

smiddy3

Sooner or later though with all this crap hitting the fan people will start to care though I share your frustration it does take a long time for any thing constructive to come out of it.

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Jesus Christ—The Greatest Scientist (and Psychologist) who ever lived on earth!

by Ireneus in

if we eliminate all the controversial and confusing verses attributed to jesus we will get the crystal clear truth from him because his source was (1) god which can be seen from his habit of early morning talking to god in prayer (mark 1:35; john 8:1, 2) which would not have been for material blessings (mathew 6:8; 16:24), and (2) also observance of people.. 1) jesus who said judgment is based on whether we acted humanely or not (mathew 25:31-46) would not have spoken about god’s people and pagans (which means bulk of the things found in gospel had not been spoken/done by jesus).. 2) another important truth he said was about the real key to our happiness which he said is with each one of us.

(luke 17:21).

from his observance of history, he knew there are people from adversities who made great contribution to the world; and there are people from all abundance who lived a life of wastage accomplishing nothing; and there are people who are mixed in varying degree.

smiddy3

Jesus Christ never published anything scientific or otherwise .

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Automatic Donations Introduced Online

by JW_Rogue in

this was announced a couple of weeks ago on the clam.

you can now donate to any congregation, the worldwide work, and assemblies online.

further they have implemented recurring payments "because the hard part about donating is remembering to donate," they actually said that!

smiddy3

The obvious question from me is why does an ALMIGHTY GOD NEED MONEY TO DO ANYTHING ?

if he needs money to accomplish his works in this system of things he can`t be a" GOD ALMIGHTY."

Because if he needs money in a world he has allowed to exist ? Giving Satan free reign for thousands of years well isn`t it obvious ?

Haggai 2:8...." The silver is mine and the gold is mine is the utterance of Jehovah of armies"

So why doesn`t he cough up and pay his own way instead of asking kids to give up their ice cream money ?

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Why are there more sisters than brothers at the Kingdom Hauls?

by Sour Grapes in

i have always wondered why there are more females than males in all of the congregations that i have visited?

some of these females are in their 70's so maybe their husbands have died and women just live longer.

or could the reason be that years ago men were the breadwinners and women stayed home to raise the children thus they were home during the week when the jdubs came a knocking?

smiddy3

Aren`t their more "Nuns" than "Brothers" in the Catholic religion ?

Jehovah`s Witnesses have copied the R.C.Church on every thing else so why not this ?

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Pioneer School scare tactics

by neat blue dog in

i just talked with a pioneer who came back from school and she said that at the end there was emphasis put on two things.. 1: stay loyal to the governing body and their teachings.. 2: beware of propaganda.

they said that in wartime the enemy will use propaganda to break the spirit of or confuse the troops.

they said the same things is happening now, so reject negative reports about the organization.. this pioneer (who is fully pimi btw and enthusiastic about it) said she asked her cotboe about if we really have that problem here.

smiddy3

If people are gullible enough to get their information from one source and one source only then what can you expect.

They will be misled eventually.

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W5 Canadian TV show. March 24 2018. JW and sexual abuse.

by arwen in

w5 on now in canada.

taking about the arc.

and other things.

smiddy3

Will watch it later , sounds very good by your comments.