it seems like the list of people who are accusing him of rape and sexual assault is growing every day.
i'm skeptical of single accusations but the number of people and the similar stories seem overwhelming now.. it's not a conviction but to the court of public opinion ... guilty?.
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I never agree with people making claims against someone months or years later. If the accusation can't be made then and there, then does it need to be made?
Cosby has always been good in that he talks against the problems in black culture in that these youths bring things on themselves. He was good for the culture because of that, but now these women ruined that for what?
this is my own experience so i'll share it in that it might help others.
this may not work for others but it seems to be working for me.. .
a little background...i'm happily married and 3 years ago i was an elder and my wife was a pioneer, we have 3 kids.
"As to "where should you go," at John 6:68, Peter allegedly said to Jesus, " “Lord, whom shall we go away to? "
It was all about WHO should be followed, a person. It was not about a location or, in the case of the WTBTS, an organization."
Not exactly. When Jesus asked them if they are leaving him also, Peter replied
“Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life,"
He liked the sayings of life and if he left Jesus where or to whom would have sayings like them.
I don't think a differentiation of whom or where matters. The focus was leaving Jesus. Then Jesus vs someone else or no one.
for a religious group that has become more and more reader's digest vapid across recent decades, whose ability to defend its doctrines and policies depends on punishing independent thinking and whose meetings are sleep inducing snooze-fests, a talk about sexy clothes is about as desperately arousing as it can get without unzipping one's pants.. but among those who know the religious organization behind tony morris's attention-grabbing address to the faithful, this is anything but surprising.
when you've harped on for long, unforgiving decades about the nearness of the end, whilst simultaneously shoring up treasures on earth - some ear-marked for completion in 2017 - expect even your more loyal followers to shuffle their tired, bedraggled feet and barely stifle forceful yawns.
hell, they may even contemplate tighter fitting clothes because all else is miserably bland - except for the razzle-dazzle of an alluring, colorful world intent on arousing you out of your sad slumber.. so these self-appointed emperors or governing body member focus on anything that threatens a straying spirit.
It must have been a standard outline.The Tight Pants and homosexual designers were stated 30 years ago.
i hope i don't come across as judgemental but having read a lot on the current child abuse cases and the different threads on here, i am left wondering why on earth a parent of an abuse victim would go to an elder with the problem first and not straight to police?.
as a parent myself i know that if anything like that happend to my child (this applies to when i was still an active jw as well as now) i would not hesitate in going to the authorities as soon as i found out, it wouldn't of crossed mine or my husbands mind to go to an elder.
maybe after we had reported it but definitely never as the first port of call.
I would think that the better question would be: Why doesn't the abused child go directly to the police?
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html.
(published thursday, oct 30, 2014).
thursday, oct 30, 2014 updated at 11:58 pm pdt.
I saw news reports about the lawsuit and the a TV broadcast with the reporter was standing in front of the Kingdom Hall.
San Diego huh? A good big metro market to get the word out.
ask a witness what seems like a simple bible question: "nine verses in the bible tell us that jesus is going to judge the living and the dead.
(john 5:28,29, acts 10:42, acts 17:31, romans 14:9, 2 cor.
5:10, 2 tim.
": "Nine verses in the Bible tell us that Jesus is going to judge the living and the dead. "
Those who have died will be made alive to be with those living.
It's not that difficult. But you are right, if they were acquitted of their sins at death, then of what will the be judged?
Bible makes no sense.
let's say he began ruling in 1914.. where is that rulership?.
i'm hoping this line of thought gets someone thinking.. .
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What do you want? Latitude and longitude and elevation?
He is a spirit and thus has no physical location.
jehovahs witnesses two-witness rule is applied by elders when a witness member accuses another member of a sin, even if that sin is a criminal act.
if there arent two witnesses to the accusation, it goes nowhere, including not being reported to the authorities.
and in the case of an allegation of child abuse, the accused is free to molest again.. watchtower attorney, jim mccabe, recently stated this about jehovahs witnesses two-witness rule which he described as a bible-based belief :.
The outcome is that the evidence and the conclusion is more accurate.
here is the questioned josephus' text :.
now, there was about this time jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful worksa teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.
he drew over to him both many of the jews, and many of the gentiles.
Ask him.
this is what somebody has been telling me, trying to convince me aside from anything one can say or cause reason for doubt, as the evidence that they are the true religion and true people of god.
they are convinced because while 'all other' christian and other religions support war, troops, etc, jw's don't and they are the only one's who carry god's name and preach.
nothing else matters.
Syme is right "they consider themselves citizens of "God's government" and thus cannot serve in another government's army"
But the problem with that is that they seek and benefit from the Allies in WWII to rescue them from the Nazis.
Get someone else to do their dirty work.
