Welcome to the board kennylazo1 and I agree with Simon
smiddy3
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Nosey Brothers and Sisters
by kennylazo1 inplease explain some of your past experiences of dealing with dealing with nosy brothers and sisters and how you dealt with them.
also have you ever dealt with a brother or sister who brings up your past just as a new topic for a conversation?
that happened to me once.
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The Uniting Church has today joined the National Redress Scheme for victims of Institutional child sexual Abuse.
by smiddy3 inthe only state or territory yet to sign up is western australia .. and so far the jehovah`s witness religion has not joined the scheme.
{ and i will be very surprised if they ever do }.
however if they don`t they will have to fight any case that is brought against them in a court of law and that in itself will be bad publicity for them .. so i am hoping they don`t join the redress scheme ..
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smiddy3
The only State or Territory yet to sign up is Western Australia .
And so far the Jehovah`s Witness religion has not joined the scheme. { and I will be very surprised if they ever do }
However if they don`t they will have to fight any case that is brought against them in a court of law and that in itself will be bad publicity for them .
So I am hoping they don`t join the redress Scheme .
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JW elders told abused girl’s parents not to report sex offender (another one)
by Tahoe inhttps://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/jehovahs-witness-elders-told-abused-1636907.
a bradford man's sex offence against a little girl was kept quiet for 23 years because elders of the jehovah's witnesses church persuaded her parents not to report him, a court was told.. robert lee's crime in the forest of dean was not revealed until the victim had grown up and went to the police, gloucester crown court heard on friday.. .
both the victim's family and lee were jehovah's witnesses at that time, said prosecutor kerry barker.. he told the court that having avoided justice, lee, formerly of coleford, but now of alexandra road, bradford, went on to commit further child sex offences in 2008 and 2016.. lee, who used the surname howarth at that time, admitted indecent assault of the girl in march 1995 in coleford when he was aged just 17.. sentencing lee to two years jail suspended for two years and ordering him to sign the sex offender register for 10 years judge ian lawrie qc said he was 'concerned' at the church's advice to the mother not to report him.. he also placed lee under a 10 year sexual harm prevention order.. “i've raised concerns about how this came to the attention of your church authorities and was not reported.
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smiddy3
I`m sorry Diogenesister if your missing the point i am making Watchtower are responsible secondary in this situation.
The Elders in question should be held accountable for their inaction to report such sexual abuse of children when they should have morally and ethically and legally done so .
And they did not .
Yet none of them have ever been charged or held accountable as far as I know anywhere in the world .
And i think that is unacceptable .
But what can we do ?
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JW elders told abused girl’s parents not to report sex offender (another one)
by Tahoe inhttps://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/jehovahs-witness-elders-told-abused-1636907.
a bradford man's sex offence against a little girl was kept quiet for 23 years because elders of the jehovah's witnesses church persuaded her parents not to report him, a court was told.. robert lee's crime in the forest of dean was not revealed until the victim had grown up and went to the police, gloucester crown court heard on friday.. .
both the victim's family and lee were jehovah's witnesses at that time, said prosecutor kerry barker.. he told the court that having avoided justice, lee, formerly of coleford, but now of alexandra road, bradford, went on to commit further child sex offences in 2008 and 2016.. lee, who used the surname howarth at that time, admitted indecent assault of the girl in march 1995 in coleford when he was aged just 17.. sentencing lee to two years jail suspended for two years and ordering him to sign the sex offender register for 10 years judge ian lawrie qc said he was 'concerned' at the church's advice to the mother not to report him.. he also placed lee under a 10 year sexual harm prevention order.. “i've raised concerns about how this came to the attention of your church authorities and was not reported.
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smiddy3
When is the legal system of any Country going to hold the Elders of the Jehovah`s Witnesses religion accountable for not reporting the crime of Child sexual Abuse when it is first brought to their attention ?
Correct me if I am wrong ,as far as I know no Country has ever done so .
My question then is why not ?
Their are countless accounts all around the world of child sexual Abuse cases handled by three Elders of Jehovah`s Witnesses in house by their judicial committee and NO elder ( to my knowledge) has ever reported this crime to the apropiate authorities either the Police or child protection Authorities .....Never !
Why is this so ? ,maybe we should be asking our politicians and the media why no Jehovah`s Witness Elder has never been charged with not reporting a sexual crime against a child a minor ? When it has been brought to their attention ?
Their must multiple charges that could be laid surely ?
I think in this regard the Jehovah`s Witnesses are just as guilty or maybe even more considering the ratio of Jehovah`s Witnesses to Catholics .
More than 1 Billion Catholics and just over 8 Million Jehovah`s Witnesses .
so than the Catholic religion yet they seem to remain unscathed and the brunt is falling on the catholic religion .
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Son of God
by Steel inis this a title of diety or did god have a baby?
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sorry for being so brief, typing on a phone.. i am kind of interested to see what you have to say.
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smiddy3
Jesus is.... "son of God " , "son of man" ,"the Logos" , "Michael the Archangel" , " Immanuel" , " a God" ,
Take your pick .
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I've graduated at last
by fulltimestudent inafter a bit of a kerfuffle over a procedural matter, my university has awarded me a degree.
(the procedural problem was caused by my independent selection of what i wanted to study).
award : bachelor of arts.
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smiddy3
Congragulations FTS your posts have always interested me as I find them very informative .
Well done.
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An End (at last) to the Korean War - Well Maybe ?????
by fulltimestudent inthe korean war officially commenced on june 25, 1950, of course, it had a back history.
from 1876, the new meiji government of japan successfully subverted korea's long held attachment to the manchu ruled qing dynasty that had conquered china in the 17th century.
in 1910 japan occupied korea and attempted to make it part of japan.
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smiddy3
I just recently watched a documentary on the Korean conflict on Netflix ,I had`nt realized how far into North korea the South USA/UN had advanced into North Korea only to be confronted by the Chinese who were afraid they would have been invaded .
What terrible conditions they all suffered under North ,south and Chinese ?
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Signs You Would Like To See At Watchtower Convention
by Brokeback Watchtower ini think gb loesch has made some pretty bold statements that could be put in quotes with his picture attached could be a real killer!.
believe and obey only the faithful slave, don't believe any negative comment about us in the press believe only us.. google: child molestation watchtower bible and tract society, klick on wikki.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jehovah%27s_witnesses%27_handling_of_child_sex_abuse.
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smiddy3
Jehovah`s Witnesses say "Witness about Jehovah".......scriptures none 0
New Testament of the Bible says "Witness about Jesus" ....Scriptures 18 +
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GB and Moses—an interesting similarity!
by Ireneus inmoses is the symbol of divorcing anyone who acts smarter and exhibits sharper spiritual insight.
his wife, zipporah, daughter of a pagan midianite priest (exodus 2.15-22), was more spiritual and had keener spiritual insight than moses.
on one occasion she averted a disaster by acting promptly (by performing the act of circumcision on their son) thus saving moses from being killed by jehovah’s angel which ultimately helped the israelites’ exodus from egypt.
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smiddy3
Moses "supposedly" wrote the first five books of the Bible approximately 2,000 years after the creation of Adam .
{Maybe nobody knew how to write during those first 2,000 years} .
Jesus never wrote anything down at all .?
{ You can speculate all you want here }
The Governing Body / WTB&TS / Jehovah`s Witnesses / I.B.S.A. have been prolific in their writings these past 140 or so years flooding the western Christian world with their literature and having virtually no impact on non Christian lands at all.
So they have really only preached to about a third of the earths population ,so that means at least two thirds of the worlds population have never heard of Jehovah`s Witnesses or Gods Kingdom.
And after this 140 or so years the vast majority of all that has been published by this religious organization over all these years has been discarded as "old light" and not believed or preached anymore .
In other words.. they were .. WRONG .
WRONG.... a word that Jehovah`s Witnesses have great difficulty saying or admitting too that they were WRONG .
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For the Conspiracy Theorists
by berrygerry ingeoff jackson speaking at a france dedication:.
then he said (i'm quoting him best i can remember, but you'll get the idea): "imagine if next week i go back to us and you see in the news that the whole gb was arrested for no reason.
how'd you react?
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smiddy3
As slim says I would like to hear the talk for myself, if it was true surely someone would have it ?
Somebody else mentioned on Reddit that they had the same talk too at another Assembly ?
So I`ll wait and see.