Posts by smiddy3

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Article: D.C. Attorney general proposes making clergy ‘mandated reporters’ of abuse

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-attorney-general-proposes-making-clergy-mandated-reporters-of-abuse/2019/01/23/2a8f8f72-1f35-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.1c7f810d688b.

d.c. attorney general proposes making clergy ‘mandated reporters’ of abuse.

by fenit nirappil and.

smiddy3

Clergy of whatever denomination should be mandated to report abuse whether it be sexual or physical abuse against minors or adults ,including domestic violence in the home and for that matter any crime that has been committed by a confessor to a clergyman .Elder ,Pastor or any other person who has heard of a confession of a crime in a religious setting.

It should be Mandated reporting and penalties applied for not doing so .

It should be a no brainer ?

JW`s claim they have no clergy yet claim clergy penitent privilege in a court of law .? Go figure.

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Prayerfully Considering or Seeing What Sticks

by scotoma in

jw
friends

tony says the magical words “prayerfully considering”.

presumably, this has been done many times even when they have gotten things wrong.

have a urim and thummim method of knowing the correct interpretations?

smiddy3

I sincerely believe the Bible is an instrument that you can play any tune on to suit your own particular beliefs.

I know this is not original but it is a tune I subscribe to .

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The King of the North has now entered into the 'land of decoration' (the Spiritual Estate of Jehovah's People) - Annual Meeting

by Listener in

the final part of the october, 2018 annual meeting has now been released of jw org tv.the following includes a transcript of mark sanderson's speech for those that don't want to listen to the broadcast.. we have long held that the land of decoration is the "spiritual estate of jehovah's people"... now brothers what can we say about all these events that have taken place (referring to recent events in russia) in such a short period of time?

well, truly, if you're a student of the history of god's organization, you can say these events are unprecedented in our history.

we've never seen a country or a territory with 175,000 witnesses of jehovah go under ban.

smiddy3

Pay attention, the annual meeting is not yet over. By the end of this meeting you will have the answer to that important question.

And the answer is ????

And did they give an answer ? or did they leave that up to the brothers and sisters to draw their own conclusions whereby the GB can say at a future date the bros and sisters went ahead of Jah`s celestial chariot .

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Just peeking in for a bit...

by Jidders in

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friends

i rather apprehensively would like to say hello.. i've been raised somewhat in the truth,one of my parents is rather rather strong in the beliefs but could honestly be considered pomi with how active they are and their side of the family comes from a line of witnesses, the other parent was but faded a long time ago.

as such i was taught quite a bit of jw teachings between family and off and on again bible studies.

recently i had a serious emotional break down over a few months after said pomi parent had advised me that they would not attend my wedding should that day come (i also had recieved a text from my bible teacher i hadnt heard from in a year or two giving a scripture) and it sorta all sank on me that my activity over the last few years was not really jw material.

smiddy3

Welcome kevinbothma I look forward to hearing more of your story / experiences .

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The Young & not so young taking drugs @ Music Festivals in OZ.

by smiddy3 in

music festivals are supposed to be entertaining events for young and old alike ,so why is it that so many youths and one`s in their twenty`s & thirty`s are being treated for drug overdoses at these venues ?.

their is so much information about the dangers of using drugs at these events or anywhere else ,why do they do it ?.

they put their own life at risk and traumatize those that try to treat them ?.

smiddy3

Music festivals are supposed to be entertaining events for young and old alike ,so why is it that so many youths and one`s in their twenty`s & thirty`s are being treated for drug overdoses at these venues ?

Their is so much information about the dangers of using drugs at these events or anywhere else ,why do they do it ?

They put their own life at risk and traumatize those that try to treat them ?

Not to mention the pain and suffering of those they leave behind .

This has been news in OZ this Australia day long weekend , and I know this is a worldwide problem .

I know their is no answer ,its an individuals responsibility to manage their own life but its so sad it still happens.

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So I read the the gog of magog chapters from the new restore true worship book...

by nowwhat? in

and what a heaping nonsensical freddie franz like bunch of crap.

as i told my pimi brother.

it's all based on assumptions and assertions that the ezekiel gog of magog account has a 2nd fulfillment in our day.

smiddy3

Jehovah`s Witnesses /International Bible students Association have been around since the late 1880`s ,their hey day was from around the 1950`s to the 1990`s since then it has been all down hill with all of their selling off properties ,KH`s , Branch Offices ,reduced printing of all sorts of literature ,shelving off old time Bethelites into neighbouring congregations for them to look after , amalgamations of congregations ,continually beg for money/donations ,etc,etc.

This is not a sign of an organization religious or otherwise that is going places ,progressing and expanding ? Its a sure sign that this organization is in deep shit and is heading for rock bottom losing contributing $$$ members everyday and they are downsizing trying to stop the flow from getting any worse .

However its out of their control you can only pull the wool over someones eyes for so long ,eventually people remove that wool and see things for what they really are for the first time .

And then they take action to free themselves from bondage .

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Something more than physical life.

by Charles Gillette in

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friends

most every night, where i work i transport dead persons to the morgue.

others i work with have told me that around 3:00am they hear voices in the morgue.. i asked them have they experienced something more than physical life?

just the voices inside the cold morgue.

smiddy3

When I was a teenager and not then a JW my peers had told me about tying a piece of cotton on a gold ring and holding it steadily suspended over a photo of someone who has died and it would start to rotate in a circle or swing like a pendulum.

I cant remember which.

If you do the same thing with a gold ring tied with a piece of cotton suspended over the photo of a living person it will act opposite to what it does with a dead person either swing like a pendulum or rotate in a circle .

I did it once and it was true .

I have never tried it again

Just saying.

Believe it or not .

I don`t really care.

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Just peeking in for a bit...

by Jidders in

jw
friends

i rather apprehensively would like to say hello.. i've been raised somewhat in the truth,one of my parents is rather rather strong in the beliefs but could honestly be considered pomi with how active they are and their side of the family comes from a line of witnesses, the other parent was but faded a long time ago.

as such i was taught quite a bit of jw teachings between family and off and on again bible studies.

recently i had a serious emotional break down over a few months after said pomi parent had advised me that they would not attend my wedding should that day come (i also had recieved a text from my bible teacher i hadnt heard from in a year or two giving a scripture) and it sorta all sank on me that my activity over the last few years was not really jw material.

smiddy3

Welcome jidders glad to have you on board .You can speak your mind and ask any question you like and you wont be judged or ostracized in any way.

I second AudeSapere`s advice .

And I would suggest you think about this simple fact .

If the IBSA/JW`s as they are now called was approved by Jesus/Jehovah in 1919 as the F&DS class because of what they were teaching then ,

Jesus/jehovah would be rejecting them today simply because they have abandoned most of those teachings that were taught then .

Even with the year 1914 , what they taught and preached then is not what they teach about 1914 now .

They are forever re-writing their own history to cover over their errors/false hoods about what is going to happen according to what the WatchTower and other publications they have produced says.

Take care .

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If you had to

by rolliepollie in

if you had to follow one religion, what would it be and why?.

smiddy3

Maybe something like cofty said if a gun was pointed at my head otherwise just shoot me.

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Australia Day.

by zeb in

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friends

happy oz day all ye fellow aussies..

smiddy3

Happy Australia day to all my fellow Aussies ,crack a VB,.Fosters,XXXX,,Swan Lager ,Tooheys,Darwin Stubbie ,NT bitter ,or even a Cascade and put some Lamb cutlets on the barbie with a Vegemite sandwich to go with it .