court denies summary judgement for laurel jehovah's witnesses congregation.
a motion for summary judgement is denied in a case against the laurel congregation of jehovah's witnesses and some individuals over child abuse reporting issues.a lawyer for the congregation maintained that elders were exempted from reporting requirements under a state law because of clergy privilege and confidentiality.the case resulted from allegations that elders did not report an unlawful sexual relationship between a woman and a 14-year-old boy, both of whom were members of the jehovah's witnesses congregation.. download the court opinion here.
http://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/download.aspx?id=235880.
Except, Fisherman, that our system of government is set up with a system of checks and balances in which the Judicial branch interprets the laws of the Legislative branch, including the Constitution.
Just because you don't like the way such laws were interpreted doesn't make the court's decision invalid.
the new midweek meeting has been running for a month now.
here are my thoughts on how it is going so far:.
1) elders are looking frazzled from being on virtually every meeting and having to prepare unfamiliar formats for items.
CLAM = Candy, Lollipops, and a Movie
It's their new plan to raise attendance at the midweek meeting.
Hopefully with the fun new format, fewer children will be dragged to the back room to be beaten. ;-)
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/another-judge-criticizes-jehovahs-witnesses-court-tactics/.
another judge criticizes jehovahs witnesses court tactics.
by trey bundy / january 11, 2016 .
so i had a phone conversation last night, i'm not proud of myself but that is how the cookie crumbles.
started off all well & good then up came the arc which i was informed was all propaganda & the oct 2012 polices i got from the internet are apostate & not true.
so i lost the plot, completely lost it, & let out everything i was feeling.
"The Borg actually believe that shunning is bad and wrong unless they are the ones doing it." - Sabin
That is so true! She actually admitted to you that shunning is wrong, but can excuse the org when they do it.
She couldn't admit this contradiction?
Let me guess, no?
given recent posts on the forum and discussion, maybe we could play this game: would i lie to you?
in the uk we have this tv programme where minor celebrities tell weird or embarrassing stories about themselves and the rest of the participants have to guess if it is a true story or made up.
when the others have voted then the person reveals if the story is true or false.
Ah, sherherdless, I suspected the first story was true. It is hard to understand how your wife can know all of that and then stay, but sometimes people overcome cognitive dissonance by doing anything to justify their current opinion. I hope she does continue to listen to these stories and that she eventually changes her mind.
Also, I reread my Bill Cosby story and it really was unclear. The boss left the kitchen, locking the door behind him. Good pointer!
given recent posts on the forum and discussion, maybe we could play this game: would i lie to you?
in the uk we have this tv programme where minor celebrities tell weird or embarrassing stories about themselves and the rest of the participants have to guess if it is a true story or made up.
when the others have voted then the person reveals if the story is true or false.
The story about my husband meeting Bill Cosby was true. Good guess, SBF.
The story about the Secret Service chasing my husband out of Dick Cheney's fishing hole did not happen...to him. This is a local legend that absolutely happened to the friend of the cousin of that guy at work!
Urban legends usually have a grain of truth to them. Dick Cheney did actually own a piece of property around here and he does act like his name. :)
i've studied and observed several lottery patterns.
this one is now gone so nothing lost by revealing it.
i had a certain history search and noticed that almost each week the past few months a list of numbers not used recently were being used 1 per week.
True, EOM, each number has a 1/69 chance of hitting, but it's not cumulative. Each time the dice are rolled, so to speak, that individual number still has a 1/69 chance of coming up.
When you speak of a number being "over-due," that's the gambler's fallacy.
It's not like each time a number doesn't come up, the chances move up to 2/69 and then 3/69 and then 4/69, etc.
Unless the lottery is fixed, which seems like it might be a possibility. :)
I remember you now; you're the thinker. Thanks for posting a thought-provoking topic and warming up my brain cells.
Best of luck with the lotto!
given recent posts on the forum and discussion, maybe we could play this game: would i lie to you?
in the uk we have this tv programme where minor celebrities tell weird or embarrassing stories about themselves and the rest of the participants have to guess if it is a true story or made up.
when the others have voted then the person reveals if the story is true or false.
Pete, your story one about Aerosmith is easily disproved because of the date (1999). The only time the tour stopped in Atlanta was 10/3/98.
So, I'm going with your being a distant relative of Lady Di.
Also, I think the Presbyterian minister story is false. You made several converts at a church, while you were still in high school?
I'm going with the naked GB member.
i've studied and observed several lottery patterns.
this one is now gone so nothing lost by revealing it.
i had a certain history search and noticed that almost each week the past few months a list of numbers not used recently were being used 1 per week.
So, Saintbertholdt, if there were 5 dice, each with 45 sides, the number of possibilities would be 45 to the 5th power? (45*45*45*45*45)
I have a cheesy calculator. 45 to the 4th power is 4,100,625. If I multiply that number by 45, I get an error.
So, basically that's a huge freakin' number of possibilities. I don't know how to analyze which number is most likely to be thrown!
I like math, but took statistics in college a long time ago. Thanks for your insight!
given recent posts on the forum and discussion, maybe we could play this game: would i lie to you?
in the uk we have this tv programme where minor celebrities tell weird or embarrassing stories about themselves and the rest of the participants have to guess if it is a true story or made up.
when the others have voted then the person reveals if the story is true or false.
I'm guessing number one is false.
Dropping the towel is totally a thing. My BIL did it as ateenager and it happened to me once when I was about 7 years old. Ick!
