Orphan Crow. It is a small detail but it is an important detail. HLC is the Hospital Liaison Committee which is at the local level. Hospital Information Desk is who the HLCs will report to, that desk is within the Service Departments at branches around the world. Hospital Information Services is where Sanderson was, is a World Headquarters Department that falls under one of the Governing Body Committees, and the HIDs will report to that department.
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RUSSIA: (5 April 2017) Jehovah's Witnesses hearing under way
by jwleaks inthe trial has begun.
the crowd on the street (see photo) is now inside and the gallery is packed.. yesterday jehovah's witnesses presented a written legal argument - "objections to the administrative claim of the ministry of justice of the russian federation" - to the supreme court of russia which, in paragraph 254, argued that if the ministry for justice liquidates and bans the activities of jehovah's witnesses then this will force individual members to renounce or abandon their religion for fear of persecution.. download legal argument (russian).
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Lewis V Watchtower
by Richard Oliver inas some may know as reported by jwsurvey in october 2014 that a lawsuit against watchtower was initiated in vermont.
march 30, 2017 saw a resolution to this case with a summary judgment being filled in watchtower favor..
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Richard Oliver
I never said it was a good thing. I just presented that the case is now over.
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Lewis V Watchtower
by Richard Oliver inas some may know as reported by jwsurvey in october 2014 that a lawsuit against watchtower was initiated in vermont.
march 30, 2017 saw a resolution to this case with a summary judgment being filled in watchtower favor..
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Richard Oliver
A portion of the case did involve a dispute about what portion of Lewis' facebook account could be turned over to the defense. The court ruled that the plaintiff did not turn over all relevant information from social media accounts to the defense and the court gave further instructions to the plaintiff to turn over all relevant information.
This case was previously dismissed in part and intact in part, but now it is fully dismissed in favor of Watchtower. Basically, the court ruled Watchtower did not act negligently because the abuse did not take place during official church activities and that they were not the causation of the abuse. They ruled that because True's daughter would bring Lewis' and her sister to True's property while she was babysitting the girls, that Watchtower and the Congregation did not exacerbate the possibility of True molesting Lewis or her sister. It was also ruled that True was not an agent of Watchtower or the Congregation and that they cannot be held liable for improper hiring of True. The court ruled that she wouldn't be entitled to Punitive Damages because "In Vermont, the culpability required to support an award of punitive damages based on reckless misconduct requires “evidence that the defendant acted, or failed to act, in conscious and deliberate disregard of a known, substantial, and intolerable risk of harm to the plaintiff, with the knowledge that the acts or omissions were substantially certain to result in the threatened harm.”"
True was left off the hook with a separate argument that Lewis civil actions was time-barred by the statute of limitations because the court ruled that a reasonable person should have made a correlation between her mental health symptoms including depression and self-harm with her abuse that True committed on her.
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Lewis V Watchtower
by Richard Oliver inas some may know as reported by jwsurvey in october 2014 that a lawsuit against watchtower was initiated in vermont.
march 30, 2017 saw a resolution to this case with a summary judgment being filled in watchtower favor..
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Richard Oliver
As some may know as reported by JWSurvey in October 2014 that a lawsuit against Watchtower was initiated in Vermont. March 30, 2017 saw a resolution to this case with a summary judgment being filled in Watchtower favor.
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March 30, 2017 Re: New Agreement with BBVA for 2017
by wifibandit inmarch 30, 2017 to the bodies of elders, circuit overseers and assembly hall servants that have accounts in banco bbva re: new agreement with bbva for 2017.
30 de marzo de 2017 a los cuerpos de ancianos, superintendentes de circuito y siervos de salones de asambleas que tienen cuenta en el bbva asunto: nuevo convenio con el bbva para 2017. condiciones de servicios bancarios para testigos cristianos de jehová.
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Richard Oliver
It is not that uncommon. In the US those in special full time service gets free checking through Citi because the US Branch has some large accounts with that bank and it is a perk for those accounts.
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How much $$$$ will have been spent on the letter writing campaign to Russia?
by OrphanCrow ini have been following the jw chatter online about the letter writing that has been furiously undertaken by the jws around the world.
a global effort done on the command of the gb in ny.. several jws have mentioned the cost of mailing letters (and packages of letters, where allowed) to russia and the cost is substantial.
some jws have mailed dozens of letters.. the jw boast is that the russian postal system will be overwhelmed with letters.
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Richard Oliver
Nope i confirmed mailing a envelope under .20 ounces is $1.15
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How much $$$$ will have been spent on the letter writing campaign to Russia?
by OrphanCrow ini have been following the jw chatter online about the letter writing that has been furiously undertaken by the jws around the world.
a global effort done on the command of the gb in ny.. several jws have mentioned the cost of mailing letters (and packages of letters, where allowed) to russia and the cost is substantial.
some jws have mailed dozens of letters.. the jw boast is that the russian postal system will be overwhelmed with letters.
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Richard Oliver
If sending from the US a letter to Russia costs $1.15. So if you figure 4 million people will actually send letters to all 6 officials that is 24 million letters. 24,0000,0000 x $1.15= that is 27.6 millions dollar for postage. -
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'Asking Questions' & JC's
by Tallon inon another forum, a user posted that their partner is being hauled before a jc for asking questions and, that the jc will go ahead regardless if in attendance or not.. the post does not say what questions were being asked.
another user responded with - possibly viewed as 'brazen conduct'.
here is the link to jw.org - brazen conduct: https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-glossary/brazen-conduct/.
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Richard Oliver
I hope you know the branch couldn't care less if you try and Sue them over a disfellowshipped at least in the US. Recent case law shows there is nothing a court can or will do.
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The Watchtower are Right About Blood...
by cofty in... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.
it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.
they take pride in obedience.
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Richard Oliver
The Hebrew Scriptures do consistently bring out that it was forbidden for worshippers of Jehovah to consume the blood of animals. In fact that is why the Apostles were so shocked when Jesus said Drink my blood and eat my body, to them that would not only be cannibalism but it would also be the consumption of blood.
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Russia and the letter writing
by Listener inthis is the whole of the instructions that the watchtower gave jws when writing to russian officials -.
content • you are writing to the official to request his intervention.
express the hope that the russian authorities will stop the legal action being taken against the branch office and the congregations in russia so that our brothers and sisters can continue to gather peacefully for christian meetings without interference.
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Richard Oliver
Well first of all the article you listed is inaccurate in the first paragraph, Jehovah's Witnesses are not banned in Russia at least not yet. And I cannot speak for what other people are doing but none are specifically assigned by either the Governing Body or by an entity used by the Governing Body to do that. And those individuals are subject to the laws of that land so if they do preach in a country where it is banned then they are in violation of that law. I know of a country committee member in Vietnam who is Australian, he and his wife do not go in service because preaching is banned in that country. The country does allow for meetings to take place legally and in the open so they attend meetings and assist witnesses in that way, but they do not preach.