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  How Many Elders And Ministerial Servants Are There In Your Congregation?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm curious to see how much manpower a little congregation - a hundred?

  - requires to keep it running.

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  TheOldHippie

  Yes, there are remarkably fewer elders than publishers.
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  San Diego: Osbaldo Padron v Watchtower

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/apr/24/ticker-tough-build-jehovahs-witness-sex-abuse-case.

  tough to build jehovah's witness sex-abuse case.

  11. without documents, says plaintiff, he can’t get justice.

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  TheOldHippie

  This is an era of openness, you can not to such an extent as earlier hide bank accounts in foreign countries, tax havens, you can not monitor people's acts or phone calls or whatever without it being known, you have all sorts of -leaks. So it makes me sad that they continue doing this, that they have not understood that the best way of showing that you have learned, that you want to improve, that you really mean it, that you are sincere - is to show all the papers, letters, files, to do as my dog does, lay down on her back, wagging the tail and saying "I give in, sorry".

  Makes me sad. The Catholic Church continues in this way too, but at least the Pope himself seems somewhat sincere.
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  How Many Elders And Ministerial Servants Are There In Your Congregation?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm curious to see how much manpower a little congregation - a hundred?

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  TheOldHippie

  60 JWs, 5 elders, 1 MS
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  When a crime is commited?

  by Drifting Away in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i responded to someone on another thread, but would love to know this answer.. if a victim adult or child goes to elders and claims they were abused, don't they have to have clergy confidentiality?

  so i was told that they encourage the victim to contact authorities , and they contact bethel, but arent there hands tied if the victim does not want to go to authorities?

  an elder made the comment to me once.

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  TheOldHippie

  In many European countries, there is an exception made for child abuse, so that one has to report, even if it is only a possibility that an abuse has taken place or can take place in the future. It is mandatory, and you will be prosecuted if you do not report.
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  Defend Jehovah's Witnesses.. False claim from opposers of JW's--Creative Day..

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "the creative day" how long was each day?

  defend.

  maybe this was posted before but i found this site.. search the above site.

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  TheOldHippie

  "but only recently did Jehovah start the creation process on the Earth,"

  Not so. That each creative day was millions of years old, is said in talks and taught. A common phrase would be something like that science tells us the Earth is billions of years old, plants many many millions if years old etc. - and that does not contradict the Bible.

  The start of the human family, though, is still fixed at 4 026 BC.
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  The Jehovah’s Witness bagged themselves a Big One when they got Professor Raj Kalaria, to speak about his belief

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  uk scientist helps christian cult to promote creationism.

  the jehovah’s witness bagged themselves a big one when they got professor raj kalaria, above, to speak about his belief in creationism in a new video posted online by the cult.. keralia is currently a deputy director of the newcastle centre for brain ageing and vitality, newcastle, and a professor of neuropathology at newcastle university, uk.. when ex-jehovah’s witness lloyd evans, who runs jwsurvey, discovered that an april 2016 jw broadcasting episode featured keralia, he decided to:.

  reach out to newcastle university to find out whether it endorses the academic’s stance on evolution, and found myself in a rather frustrating email exchange with helen rae, the media relations manager at the university’s faculty of medical sciences .. after much to-ing and fro-ing, an official statement was finally forthcoming ….

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  TheOldHippie

  So in the opinion of Lehigh University, evolution has been tested scientifically?
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  Model Jw family?

  by MrTheocratic in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i would like to get the opinion of those on this community.

  does serving as an elder make one a bad family man.

  with all the demands placed on those serving... how can one make time for family life?

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  TheOldHippie

  "Now I could be wrong.... but I don't think so."

  In other words, you are looking for affirmative responses?

  "What do you tell a sister with a unbelieving mate when she ask, "can I talk to my daughter who

  is df". "

  I tell her, "yes, of course!"
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  Live in the U.S.? Tune into Dateline Friday evening, April 15th, to see a report about the Colorado Candelario murder trial (he's a JW).

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ralph and pam candelario were active jws in colorado.

  ralph murdered pam.

  professor jim penton was invited to appear at the trial last month by the prosecution as an expert witness to answer questions about jws.

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  TheOldHippie

  I wonder why this should be so interesting? One murderer among thousands in the USA. What makes this one so special? Is it because he is a JW? What about the Catholics or Evangelicals or Agnostics or Atheists? Why specifically target this one?
  
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  $13.5M award vacated in Jehovah’s Witness abuse case

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  ruling gives church chance to turn over disputed documents.

  http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/apr/14/jehovahs-witness-lopez-sex-abuse-appeal/.

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  TheOldHippie

  OK. Thank you. Perhaps that has changed lately, but when that is done here, the spouse is either together with the study conductor or at least always in the house. But perhaps it varies from country to country.
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  $13.5M award vacated in Jehovah’s Witness abuse case

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  ruling gives church chance to turn over disputed documents.

  http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/apr/14/jehovahs-witness-lopez-sex-abuse-appeal/.

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  TheOldHippie

  I have just a small, "technical" question: In some of these cases, the newspapers and/or court reports write that this or that person had as a special task to instruct children, or that the elders gave Brother so-and-so the task of guiding the sister's son or daughter, that a brother was frequently in the d-t-d work with a little boy or girl etc.

  In all the congregations I have been, I have never experienced that someone had as a special task to teach or guide children, and I can 100 % thruthfully say that if a member of the congregation had frequently been out in the service or doing other acitivties with boys or girls, then others in the congregation would have reacted and started asking questions about what was going on. So why not in these cases? Why no warning lights?