via /r/exjw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7vhu8l88k.
15:45 "Some of the friends will say, 'what's the process?'... So what we do, BECAUSE THE GOVERNING BODY'S TIME IS SO VALUABLE AND WE TRY NOT TO WASTE THEIR TIME IN ANY WAY, is we'll try to get what is called a stand in........"
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
now this is embarrassing.. after being cold in the truth for many, many years, and getting back some 2 years ago, my wife and i, decided to auxiliary pioneer last year during the memorial campaign.
we were quite impressed that we made the 30 hrs.. last month, we decide to do it again.
after handing in our application forms, and being approved, our service overseer asks me, "how many hours are you going to do?".
"You do know you got to do 50? This is not a campaign month."
So much for giving from the heart. There be rools 'round here.
not sure if anything will come of this.
but i signed it.. https://www.change.org/p/united-states-attorney-general-investigate-the-watchtower-society-of-jehovah-s-witnesses-re-child-sexual-abuse?recruiter=363165656&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink.
Make that 648 signatures.
I'm happy to add my signature but I have no faith in this gaining traction. The U.S. is afraid to rock it's religious boat. These people demand the right to do just about ANYTHING in the name of religion and the gubberment turns a blind eye to it.
Besides, I think the feds know that if they start snooping around they're going to find a spectrum-wide quagmire they're not ready or willing to acknowledge, let alone address. Religion is such an integral part of government here that the corruption is winked at, not investigated.
Be like asking the government of Iran to investigate abuses from Islam.
Why do you think all these whacko religious movements have their roots in America?
... and it bumped into a concrete wall.
you know what he said?.
"dam!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/child-checks-for-all-religious-leaders-inquiry-recommends/story-fngburq5-1227486717033.
by: rick morton .
from: the australian .
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.
at 20:00 - 21:30 in his testimony, mr. geoffrey jackson - in answer to mr. stewart's question about the governing body claiming to be god's spokespersons - claimed that it would be presumptuous of them to say that they were the only spokespersons which god was using.
mr. jackson doesn't seem to know what he and his fellow g.b.
members - and the providers of his lifestyle, the wtbts - actually teach as "bible truth.
SEARCHER, you may have to narrow your quotes to the time since noo lite shown down from above and bestowed the title of Faithful & Discreet Slave upon the governing body members only.
... if I understand the noo lite correctly.
a gb helper was at the rc.
this guy was decked out.
fancy expensive suit and cuff-linked shirt, super fancy cuff-links.
and elderly woman who lives across the street from me has had some hard economic times.
her adult son got injured and had to move back in with her due to his inability to work.
they are struggling.
And elderly woman who lives across the street from me has had some hard economic times. Her adult son got injured and had to move back in with her due to his inability to work. They are struggling. I haul their trash off so they don'y have to pay for a service. Sometimes we and others help out with utilities, meals etc... The son, Kieth, and I have had several nice chats over the split rail fence.
Recently their car went on the fritz. Their little church down the road bought them a small used car that runs fairly well. I couldn't help but think about how individual JWs would have certainly pitched in in such a case... but the congregation as an entity would have NEVER done such a thing. Never!
EVER!
just a short observation from several in the congregation.
it's only hearsay because i do not go to meetings, and this is what i have been told.. the co wore tight pants in the ministry and on the platform.
as one sister said, "you could see everything".. but like i said its hearsay, i never saw it, but i did have a giggle..
I don't understand this. I have always worn loose-fitting shorts and pants and with boxer shorts, you can still make out everything. It kinda goes with the territory of having a piece of skin that sticks out in the front. (Not trying to be graphic here.)
Is the suggestion being that men should strap it to their leg?
