Here's my list of poorly worded scriptures: 1. Proverbs 4:18, "But the path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established." There should have been a nice asterisk placed on this one explaining that this would be used as an excuse by WT for being wrong.
Sammy Jenkis
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Elders' Gems of Wisdom
by stephenw20 inmy dad asked the co about this one.
mat 27:52-53. and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, .
and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
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Britain | Jehovah's Witnesses hushed up child sex scandal | July 16, 2013
by jwleaks inchurch officials hushed up a child sex scandal in their ranks and refused to co-operate with police.. .
jehovah witness ministerial servant gordon leighton admitted sexually abusing a child when he was confronted by his church elders, a court heard.. but during the official police investigation, the 53-year-old who made headlines in the 1990s when wife yvonne, 28, died after refusing a blood transfusion after childbirth on religious grounds denied any illegal wrongdoing.. and when detectives asked elders simon preyser, harry logan and david scott to make statements about the confession, all three refused and said what they had heard was confidential.. for three years, the elders refused to co-operate with the criminal investigation and kept up that stance when the case was brought before newcastle crown court after the victim made a complaint to police.. each was issued with a witness summons which they fought to overturn before being ordered to testify by judge penny moreland citing public interest.. their barrister richard daniels said the men had a duty to god not to breach confidence.. he added: privileged communication between members of the congregation and ministers is an absolute right and duty and there is no power in law to breach such a confidence.. judge moreland said: it is apparent that the three elders who were present when this conversation took place are in possession of relevant evidence as to a point which is of real significance in this case.. they claim the right of confidentiality, they claim that what they heard said by the defendant during the course of that meeting ought to be subject to privilege, as ministers of religion.. judge moreland refused to withdraw the summonses and said: public interest is clearly in favour of this evidence being given.. what was said by the defendant on that occasion is of great significance in the trial.. despite the judges ruling, the men still refused to make statements to police until just hours before they were called before the jury.. leighton, who has since been expelled from the church at lambton kingdom hall in washington, denied two charges of indecency with a child and seven of indecent assault.. he was yesterday found guilty of two charges of indecency with a child and six of indecent assault.
he was found not guilty of one indecent assault charge, on the direction of the judge.. he was remanded in custody until he is sentenced next month but warned he is facing a lengthy spell behind bars.. prosecutor katherine dunn told the court the victim, who is now an adult, broke her silence in 2009.. the court heard how at a special church meeting, leighton admitted sexual abuse and made excuses for his behaviour.. miss dunn said: the elders conducted their own investigation.
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Sammy Jenkis
Disgusting as usual and guess how many JW's heard about this? Not enough...
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The UNFORGIVABLE Sin: What Is It?
by Cold Steel injesus said: .
verily i say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall blaspheme against the holy ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
(mark 3:28-29).
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Sammy Jenkis
It has to be not changing the toilet paper roll when it runs out on you.
Unforgiveable.
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Bitter apostates
by Laika inwitnesses often go on about apostates being spiteful and bitter.
when you get cut off, shunned, or threatened with shunning just for the audacity of thinking differently, it's not surprising that getting angry at the witnesses is the reaction - it's like a self fulfilling prophecy.. but also, i recently posted an email from a 'friend' on this board who told me that everyone he'd spoken to about me said i had changed, become like another person.
it didn't occur to him that the day before i told my parents i'd quit the religion just 3 weeks ago, i met him for lunch, we had a good time and he didn't know anything was up.
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Sammy Jenkis
Don't step out of line robot because if you do we'll call you an apostate and then all of your robot friends and family will forget about you and act like your dead.
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Open letter Re: Mr. Bowen, Mrs. Anderson
by Prime in"jws leaders need to mandate elder bodies to uniformly report abuse to the authorities no matter what jurisdiction; prohibit elders from being involved in any investigative process to decide guilt or innocence in place of the authorities; do away with the two-witness rule to determine, as if they were magistrates, guilt or innocence of someone accused; prohibit so-called repentant molesters from engaging in the door-to-door ministry, and always inform the congregation if a convicted or confessed molester is meeting with them.
" -barbara anderson .
this is another reason why the watchtower society doesn't require that the elders uniformly report abuse to the authorities no matter what jurisdiction.
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Sammy Jenkis
Prime is still inside I believe and must have discovered this issue on one of these sites. It's a hard truth to swallow so instead of accepting facts that are true he/she has decided to refute them, too bad because child sex abuse and JW's should never be mentioned in the same sentence especially if they really have God's support.
As I'm assuming you're still a JW why do you posts on sites like these? I was under the impression that an active JW would avoid doing so as it would be offensive to Jehovah.
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When Is Armageddon? Really?
by Cold Steel inyeah, i know that it's been just around the corner for as long as there have been corners, but my question adds just a little different twist, and that twist is: is there anything (according to the gb) that needs to take place before armageddon?
or can it happen any moment?
and what will be the first signs of armageddon?
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Sammy Jenkis
I got a confidential BOE letter that says it's happening later today.
Not!
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This is my first time. Please be patient.
by Miss.Fit ini have never posted before.
i have been lurking for a few days and have decided to give it a try.
the subject of child abuse caught my eye.
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Sammy Jenkis
Welcome, look forward to reading more of your posts. Thanks for sharing..
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What's The STRANGEST Thing You've Seen At A Kingdom Hall?
by minimus ini saw a fight break out on the platform between an elder and a unbelieving husband who accused the elder of f---ing his wife.
he then threw the lectern on the floor and pushed the elder.
it was cool.......
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Sammy Jenkis
This didn't happen at the KH but instead at a convention- this guy comes in yelling and running looking for someone named Miranda. Immediately myself and the goon crew of attendants start pursuing him trying to escort him out. The whole time we're running behind this dude the attendant overseer is shouting we can't touch him, don't touch him!
So we literally form this bubble of like 15 attendants around him to keep him from going anywhere and the dude freaks, he shoves one of my buddies straight onto his ass. I mean it was so cool I wish we had instant playback to watch him go down because this guy put all his rage into it.
Boom he goes down to the ground and he runs off to another part of the convention center, at this point I check out of the maniac pursuit and decide it'd be great not to be stabbed today- I haven't had lunch yet.
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If you were on the Zimmerman jury, how would you vote? 2nd degree murder, manslaughter or innocent?
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Sammy Jenkis
Guilty, how many times have you gone out confronted someone you thought to be suspicious and blasted them in an altercation you might have started?
It's b.s. how this guy got off so easy and a kid is dead for nothing, the jury decided that his actions were okay. How can that be? Is a person's life of no value?
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I had a dream.
by TotallyADD inas many know reopened mind and i have had a very angry letter sent to us by our oldest son.
cult.
cult.
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Sammy Jenkis
Here's to hoping your dream is not only a dream but a moment in the future waiting to happen. All the best..
