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  Geoffrey Jackson - Royal Commission Live Hearing Now!

  by LostinJapan in

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  2. child-abuse

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  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.

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  InquiryMan

  He definitely got it wrong with this:

  To actually say he has no knowledge of that an inactive person caught celebrating xmas or bday would be DF is bull.

  After four years of inactivity (and having no elder visits in those years) my ex-wife got a visit from two elders who had got information from a concerned publisher that had observed christmas lights in her window. They definitely wanted to investigate and thus starting a process ultimately leading to a judicial case. However, we saved them the efforts and wrote them a letter (I joined forced with her) the same night stating we no longer considered ourselves to be Jehovah’s witnesses (however not using the term DA).
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  Article in New Yorker magazine

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i guess this article will be appreciated within the jw community, being on the positive side when discussing blood transfusion.

  it is the first of three articles to be published in that prestigious magazine.. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine.

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  InquiryMan

  This might be the topic of the remaining two articles yet to be published...
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  Article in New Yorker magazine

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i guess this article will be appreciated within the jw community, being on the positive side when discussing blood transfusion.

  it is the first of three articles to be published in that prestigious magazine.. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine.

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  InquiryMan

  I guess this article will be appreciated within the JW community, being on the positive side when discussing blood transfusion. It is the first of three articles to be published in that prestigious magazine.

  http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine
  
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  What is their official explanation for not allowing beards?

  by keyser soze in

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  2. friends

  i ask because my gf, who knows all about my jw upbringing, convinced me to grow a goatee, just to see how it looks.

  we both decided it looked good so i decided to keep it.

  i tried to explain to her that as a jw, i wasn't allowed to grow one, but then drew a blank when she asked me why.

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  InquiryMan

  One cannot say that beards are banned. In some ways it is also a cultural issue.

  When attending an assembly jn Denmark, one of the Elders giving a talk had a beard and several in the audience as well.

  In Sweden and Norway however, beards are not accepted among witnesses.

  Also, beards are common among JWs men in countries like the Netherlands and Ireland (this is something I have been told, but Denmark I know for sure).
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  The cruelty of shunning now being exposed rc

  by poopie in

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  2. friends

  let justice roll forth.

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  InquiryMan

  Interestingly, in many languages the term shun cannot be translated. In scandinavian languages the term is invariably translated in terms of have nothing to do with, avoid etc...
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  Jehovah’s witnesses hearing adjourned

  by InquiryMan in

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  2. child-abuse

  does anyone know if this is a temporary decision?

  will it continue?

  or is the hearing completed?.

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  InquiryMan

  Thank you for explaining.
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  Jehovah’s witnesses hearing adjourned

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  does anyone know if this is a temporary decision?

  will it continue?

  or is the hearing completed?.

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  InquiryMan

  And what about the adjournment? Just for this day?
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  Jehovah’s witnesses hearing adjourned

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  does anyone know if this is a temporary decision?

  will it continue?

  or is the hearing completed?.

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  InquiryMan

  Does anyone know if this is a temporary decision? Will it continue? Or is the hearing completed?

  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/2015-08/jehovah’s-witnesses-hearing-adjourned

  Also this was stated in a newspaper articles yesterday:

  «The commission was due to conclude its hearings into the Jehovah's Witnesses on Wednesday but Justice McClellan said he will now call Geoffrey Jackson, a senior member of the church's governing body in New York who is currently in Australia, to appear next week. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/08/05/abuse-victims--face-cruel-choice---inquiry.html#sthash.ziVwn4S1.dpuf

  
  

  Is this a valid scenario?
  
  
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  The Guardian: JWs Church says it will comply with mandatory reporting of child abuse

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/04/jehovahs-witness-church-says-it-will-comply-with-mandatory-reporting-of-child-abuse.

  august 4, 2015. australian associated press .

  the jehovahs witness church says it will comply with mandatory reporting obligations when they learn about sexual abuse crimes against children in their congregation.. a royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has heard that the theocratic church records more than one child abuse allegation every month yet in 60 years has never reported them to police.. in the second week of a hearing into the churchs handling of abuse incidents, the head of the communitys service desk, rodney spinks, acknowledged they dealt with matters internally and did not encourage reporting to police.. the service desk under the auspices of the churchs legal entity, the watchtower bible and tract society australia, is the first point of contact for elders looking for advice on how to deal with child abuse reports.. spinks said the first issue addressed is the safety of the child, and elders are referred to watchtower publications on the matter.. they are also given generic advice based on a handbook that says they should never suggest not reporting the allegation to police.. spinks acknowledged they had not had a practice, against the wishes of the victim or otherwise, to directly report to police.. the commission chair, peter mcclellan, pointed out there were mandatory reporting obligations when a crime had been committed.. spinks said he had been made aware of this in these hearings and the church would accept and comply with mandatory reporting, regardless of our strongly held religious belief that individuals should have the right to decide what is done with that information.. he said when there were mandatory reporting requirements with some sort of uniformity across the country we will happily and willingly comply.. mcclellan pointed out that uniform laws were not yet in place and they would differ from state to state but they would impose a criminal sanction on a person who knows [about an abuse crime] and does not report.. spinks said he understood that.. mcclellan said the church needed to have a very good look maybe with the help of the churchs lawyers at what the law provides.. the commissioner also pointed out that what the jehovahs witnesses were doing was different to what other churches might be doing because you might be taking allegations and resolving, as you see it, the truth of the allegation by reason of your process.. the commission has heard that the jehovahs witness process is based on a biblical rule that the wrongdoing is only proven when there are two witnesses, and expect the abuse victim to confront the abuser..

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  InquiryMan

  Happy to live in a country where JWs actually do report to police in matters of child abuse.

  http://www.nrk.no/norge/slik-svarer-jehovas-vitner-nrk-1.10660487
  
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  Interesting development

  by InquiryMan in

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  2. child-abuse

  http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/08/04/jehovahs-witnesses-change-abuse-rules.

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  jws in australia agrees to change procedures in regards to reporting abuse..

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  InquiryMan

  http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/08/04/jehovahs-witnesses-change-abuse-rules

  JWs in Australia agrees to change procedures in regards to reporting abuse.