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  Judge sanctions WTS - $4k per day penalty for not producing sex abuse documents

  by Simon in

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  judge sanctions jehovah's witnesses.

  imposes $4000-a-day penalty for not producing documents in sex-abuse case.

  by dorian hargrove, june 24, 2016. a san diego superior court judge has ordered the church of jehovah's witnesses, also known as the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, to pay $4000 a day for every day that it fails to produce documents requested in a civil lawsuit brought by former parishioner, osbaldo padron, who claims a church elder sexually abused him when he was seven years old.. in a june 23 ruling, expected to be made final today, judge richard strauss admonished the church for willfully ignoring a court order to produce all documents associated with a 1997 body of elders letter that church leaders sent to parishes around the world in a quest to learn about sexual abuse of children by church leaders.. over the course of the past year, the watchtower society and its lawyers have fought hard to keep the letter confidential, claiming that turning over the documents would infringe on the privacy of those mentioned in the letter that were not associated with the case.. in march 2015, the church turned over a heavily redacted version of the letter.

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  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_p8K2ydWOoOomRneCXYy8JwH28J3C6NyO9V5fSJxZVA/edit?usp=sharing
  
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  What happened to Marvin Schilmer and his Blog against the JW's?

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. scandals

  https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspoturl=https://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2013/07/complete-donation-what-happened.html.

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  His entire site is gone, gone, gone.
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  I Just had a CLOSE ENCOUNTER of the Dub kind

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  i just frightened a jehovah’s witness lady half out of her wits!.

  i just frightened a sweet jehovah’s witness lady half out of her wits.... .

  she took off like a sprinter at the sound of a starter pistol!.

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  I'm at my post today j-u-s-t in case M'Lady returns because of troubling visions of wrongdom in her false Kingdom.
  
  Do I expect a return visit? No.

  But, there's this tingling on the back of my neck. Call it intuition. Call it heat stroke. . .

  but there's something there. . . I hope.
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  The Watchtower leaders are afraid of our elephants

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in the 1960's, when i was most active as a jehovah's witness, it was a different, more relaxed religion.

  we were filled with confidence about our "truth" because we were skilled in rebuttal, overcoming objections, and we encouraged tough questions to test our mettle in the door to door work.. when an anti-dub book like "30 years a watchtower slave" was released, we all couldn't wait to read it and comment about it.it was seen as a pathetic effort at spite--never as a serious threat to our confidence in what we had.. so--what was different about the jw religion and our skillset back then from the watchtower world of paranoia and enforced loyalty today?i think i know.. we were like boxer george foreman before ali knocked him out.

  we were mike tyson before buster douglas introduced his face to the canvas in that ring in japan.we were bullet proof.. not until you have a bone-shaking reckoning do you lose confidence and wonder, "wtf just happened?

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  Pretty sure that whatever the case, they'll want a membership of just hard-core True Believers.

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  Accretion.

  The smart ones wake up and leave (or are driven out and shunned) which leaves the less smart. Being less smart, these remainders are easily controllable.
  The constant sifting and shifting leaves the Watchtower members dumber and dumber-er.
  
  The dumber the membership is, the more maneuver room the puppetmasters are given room to shuck and jive.
  
  The ideal version of the Jehovah's Witness religion would be a once a week check-in by tablet or PC with a pledge payment and a Check YES on "Are you still brainwashed?"
  The GB
  
  
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  The Watchtower leaders are afraid of our elephants

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in the 1960's, when i was most active as a jehovah's witness, it was a different, more relaxed religion.

  we were filled with confidence about our "truth" because we were skilled in rebuttal, overcoming objections, and we encouraged tough questions to test our mettle in the door to door work.. when an anti-dub book like "30 years a watchtower slave" was released, we all couldn't wait to read it and comment about it.it was seen as a pathetic effort at spite--never as a serious threat to our confidence in what we had.. so--what was different about the jw religion and our skillset back then from the watchtower world of paranoia and enforced loyalty today?i think i know.. we were like boxer george foreman before ali knocked him out.

  we were mike tyson before buster douglas introduced his face to the canvas in that ring in japan.we were bullet proof.. not until you have a bone-shaking reckoning do you lose confidence and wonder, "wtf just happened?

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  I choose to see all the downsizing as twofold:

  1. Squeezing money out of assets to afford lawsuits.

  2. Reinventing the religion ala Worldwide Church of Gawd
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  What happened to Marvin Schilmer and his Blog against the JW's?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspoturl=https://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2013/07/complete-donation-what-happened.html.

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  I would hate for it to be either a lawsuit brought by the Watchtower or the awful thing that happened with Farkle.
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  What happened to Marvin Schilmer and his Blog against the JW's?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspoturl=https://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2013/07/complete-donation-what-happened.html.

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  https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL=https://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2013/07/complete-donation-what-happened.html
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  The Watchtower leaders are afraid of our elephants

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in the 1960's, when i was most active as a jehovah's witness, it was a different, more relaxed religion.

  we were filled with confidence about our "truth" because we were skilled in rebuttal, overcoming objections, and we encouraged tough questions to test our mettle in the door to door work.. when an anti-dub book like "30 years a watchtower slave" was released, we all couldn't wait to read it and comment about it.it was seen as a pathetic effort at spite--never as a serious threat to our confidence in what we had.. so--what was different about the jw religion and our skillset back then from the watchtower world of paranoia and enforced loyalty today?i think i know.. we were like boxer george foreman before ali knocked him out.

  we were mike tyson before buster douglas introduced his face to the canvas in that ring in japan.we were bullet proof.. not until you have a bone-shaking reckoning do you lose confidence and wonder, "wtf just happened?

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  Make the Sign of the JW with your middle finger, at least. . .
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  I Just had a CLOSE ENCOUNTER of the Dub kind

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just frightened a jehovah’s witness lady half out of her wits!.

  i just frightened a sweet jehovah’s witness lady half out of her wits.... .

  she took off like a sprinter at the sound of a starter pistol!.

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  It was rather unsettling to become a source of terror!
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  I Just had a CLOSE ENCOUNTER of the Dub kind

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just frightened a jehovah’s witness lady half out of her wits!.

  i just frightened a sweet jehovah’s witness lady half out of her wits.... .

  she took off like a sprinter at the sound of a starter pistol!.

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  TerryWalstrom

  edvip20002 hours ago

  @Terry

  Nice read, but i'm trying to understand why you wanted to put an end to the conversation (you know you were). Pulling out the "cult" card almost always means run to the exits, and you certainly knew this would happen
  

  My feeling is that you thought the language barrier presented an extra hurdle in trying to reason with this woman - you really didn't think you would have any success anyway, so you pulled out the big scary conversation stopper just for fun.
  

  ____________________________
  
  Communication was a problem.

  Her accent was thick.
  

  Mainly, I was unable to determine the proper way to proceed.
  In speaking to active JW's there is a tendency to throw the kitchen sink at them like a shotgun blast.

  She struck me as intelligent, kind, devoted, and perhaps vulnerable.
  Maybe I'm wrong about the 'vulnerable' part because she was, after a bit, protective of her self.
  
  I'm at a different Starbucks today.
  I had never seen her before and doubt I'll see her again.
  

  We are always wiser the next day.
  I should have asked her personal questions rather than doing a soliloquy. That was my biggest failure.