so my wife and i were up in edinburgh for the weekend for the international festival - we had a great weekend including going to see the military tattoo at the castle.. we were walking up the royal mile watching the street performers among hundreds of thousands of others from all over the world when i spotted the cult cart in it's usual spot being universally ignored.
feeling confident after my confrontation a couple of weeks ago we decided to go and have a chat with the two men.
i asked them if they were keeping up with the events in australia and proceeded to share lots of information with them.
Cult Care Elder: ... corrected his friend and said they must contact the branch.
Cult Care Elder: One of the elders responded the he "was happy to be controlled".
Cofty: I asked the elders if [his] 14 year old son ... came to him [in] a few years time and told him that he no longer wanted anything to do with the religion would he shun him. He said that he would.
Let's review: It's a cult!
about a month ago i posted what had happened to two elderly sisters who were reprimanded by a couple of elders for crying because the jw broadcasting was going to be stopped at the kingdom hall and it was up to each publisher to learn how to use the internet.
if you recall the sisters got together with my mom and talked about it and it resulted in all of them declining to make meals for the pioneers.
here is the link.
this weekend
Sure, tell him that I owe him a big, "Thanks!"
For several years Lett gave talks at the District Conventions I attended. He is such an idiot that I couldn't even stand to look at the Big Screen while he pontificated in his particularly odd and condescending style.
Watching him was was one of the first things that made me begin doubting that this was God's "One True Religion."
I figured there's no way in hell that any sentient being would ever pick that ridiculous buffoon to represent him.
so i was fooled by the witnesses.
what can i learn from that?
not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.
TR: You mentioned quite forcefully that you thought the moon landing was a stupid subject for children to discuss.
It's clear that it is impossible to have a rational conversation with you.
I never said anything of the kind. I indicated that I think it's a stupid subject to debate, referring to whether or not it actually happened.
As a science teacher, I do think it's a great subject to discuss, as your quote from E & T makes clear: "The Apollo Landing is man kinds [sic] most outstanding engineering event, so it's deeply worrying that such a large number of people think the FIRST moon walk never happened."
has the australian rc been given misleading assurances that jws will fully comply with laws demanding that child sex offenses be reported to the police?
it appears that way when we look at the background to these assurances.
several jws testified to the rc, that they would have reported all child molestation cases to the police had they had been required to do so by law.
You're overthinking this. They were required to report. Several states in Australia require mandatory reporting and the WT authorities (elders, etc.) still failed to report 100% of the time.
That being said, it was brought out in the inquiry that in alll of Australia there is a legal concept know as misprision. According to this principal all citizens are required to report any and all criminal to the authorities. Again, the WT authorities (elders, etc.) still failed to report 100% of the time.
Over 65 years, 1,006 known abusers, and the WT leadership dropped the ball every time. Every time.
The scope of this failure is simply spectacular.
under coodinators comitee pt63.
you can now request your personal records from the branch check it out.
so i was fooled by the witnesses.
what can i learn from that?
not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.
so i was fooled by the witnesses.
what can i learn from that?
not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.
TR: A good point Viv and Oubliette, but as you can see from the link, it was not myself, but this privaliged school that referred to the topic " Did man land on the moon?" As a debate.
I went to the school link you provided and saw nothing that mentioned any debate on the question you posted.
I did a keyword search from the school's homepage and got this result:
Search Results for "moon land"
Nothing Found
Sorry, but nothing matched your search terms. Please try again with some different keywords.
That being said, the Kenninghall Primary School (KPS) does have a cute little page titled "Our Friends on the Moon" showing a classroom full of fresh-faced, little darlings with cute handmade drawings of aliens!!!
WTF?!? Clearly, conveying accurate scientific facts, knowledge or thinking is not high on the agenda of the teacher in this particular classroom.
To the contrary, this is obviously a class where science-fiction and fantasy are taught, not critical thinking and evidence-based argumentation.
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On the other hand, in a different class at KPS, one teacher had their students build Moon Buggies, which would tend to disconfirm your thesis in the OP:
Interestingly, many of this English made "moon buggies" were sporting American flags. Thanks, mates!
i think if you look at the governing body and the efforts they will go to cover up their crimes against humanity i can rest my case.. the governing body are in great emotional pain as they are being brought to court over these denial issues, expect to see great distortions of fact and compartmentalization going on and them getting owned for it as they are called to court to testify before a tribunal which will hang them because it..
last week, i had requested the elders to put their shepherding concerns in writing and that only one elder visits me because i am uncomfortable with two.
well, today they approached me and said we are not able to write to you and we are going to see you the two of us.
i felt how inconsiderate and disrespectful of individuals the watchtower machinery is.
They pulled a scripture in John were the disciples asked "where shall we go to? you have sayings of everlasting life."
No. It actually reads:
Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, whom shall we go away to? You have sayings of everlasting life."
Peter clearly understood he was talking about a person, not an organization or a place.
This is one of the most commonly misquoted and misapplied scriptures in JW-land.
Let's review: It's a cult!