I wish this case would go national!
Posts by carla
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Judge sanctions WTS - $4k per day penalty for not producing sex abuse documents
by Simon injudge sanctions jehovah's witnesses.
imposes $4000-a-day penalty for not producing documents in sex-abuse case.
by dorian hargrove, june 24, 2016. a san diego superior court judge has ordered the church of jehovah's witnesses, also known as the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, to pay $4000 a day for every day that it fails to produce documents requested in a civil lawsuit brought by former parishioner, osbaldo padron, who claims a church elder sexually abused him when he was seven years old.. in a june 23 ruling, expected to be made final today, judge richard strauss admonished the church for willfully ignoring a court order to produce all documents associated with a 1997 body of elders letter that church leaders sent to parishes around the world in a quest to learn about sexual abuse of children by church leaders.. over the course of the past year, the watchtower society and its lawyers have fought hard to keep the letter confidential, claiming that turning over the documents would infringe on the privacy of those mentioned in the letter that were not associated with the case.. in march 2015, the church turned over a heavily redacted version of the letter.
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carla
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slimboyfat joins the Mormons!
by slimboyfat ini know that some people on the board have experience of being mormons, so i would be interested in your feedback.
at church this afternoon it was an uncanny experience.
in the past i've read a lot about mormons, so i thought i was prepared in general for what it would be like.
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carla
Please check out http://www.mormoncurtain.com/
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Bethel "Vow of Poverty" documents scanned.
by What-A-Coincidence invow of poverty scanned from 2002 documents.
i believe these are the latest ones unless someone has a newer one.
i posted these in another thread but i thought it deserved its own.. ocrd with 98% accuracy.... initial cover page 1 of 4. vow of obedience and povertyto the.
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carla
Might be off topic a bit, my apologies, I am wondering about the use of the word 'order'. I don't remember hearing this used in reference to jw's. Reminds me of the Catholic hierarchy & many different 'orders'. What do r & f think of this?
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Ever-changing teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses - probably the most comprehensive compendium about Watchtower doctrinal changes
by WTS Archive intwo days ago a new book was released for download, called "ever-changing teachings of jehovah's witnesses".
it was originally written by a polish jw scholar (who never was a jw himself) włodzimierz bednarski, with a help from szymon matusiak, who was a jw and an elder, and is a result of years of labourious work to compile quotes regarding every single doctrine the book describes.
it covers the most important changes in years 1879—2015.
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carla
Thank you! WTS Archive has quite a few things I would like to check out when my jw is not around.
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Do not waste your time writing letters to the Governing Body. (My story)
by Iamallcool inyears ago, my first job was at the copy center just like kinkos (now fed ex) there was ex jw family that i have met in the kh, but they did not attend the meetings regularly, just rarely probably just for social reasons, i guess.
one of the unbaptized family members worked with me at the copy center.
he tried to get me to read an apostate book, i refused to read one word of it, then one day he decided to copy the book by writing on many pieces of paper, what did i do?
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carla
This non jw has in fact written to NY and I can tell you that there were results. I was having a few issues with some of the local jw's and the elders had to take care of the problem. Went around the k-hell like wildfire I heard.
Write the letters, even if it you get no response at least you will feel better. I suggest sending a copy of the letter to a journalist as well. If we keep asking the press to cover the story eventually they do. Not like Scientology but why not? why shouldn't the wt be held to task as well? one day.......
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Detroit TV station expose' on JWs
by Emma inhere's a link to a brief but good, four-minute piece on jehovah's witnesses.
wdiv in detroit filmed it.
there's a place for comments so please add helpful info.
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carla
Glad to see it! thanks for posting.
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Letter # 2 to the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
by WITNESS-FOR-WATCHTOWER-REFORM injust sent this letter off to the governing body.
i also sent a copy to the britain branch.
the governing body.
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carla
You need this letter to be published for the public to see and to have them see that the wt will not answer your questions. Perhaps the religious page of your paper? or send to other media outlets? Reddit? (don't go there myself but...) yahoo questions?
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RC Was Worse Than I thought...
by JW_Rogue ini was visiting with my family and it seems the rc was worse than i thought.
now they all seem to think that "we are so close to the end" and that the "brothers are really preparing us for the gt".
some even saying that soon our message will change to a judgement message for mankind and talking about how we need to improve "everything we do".
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carla
Would the harshest of messages have been on the second day of the rc? (Sat.) my jw came home in the most horrid mood.
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The WTG and UN - official source
by crazy_flickering_light inhi,.
maybe some of you look for an official and safe link for the connection between the un and the wtg.
i hope this helps: http://ask.un.org/faq/14501.
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carla
jw's memories are only as long as the latest issue of wt's. Do jw's even remember why this was a big deal? -
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2016 Regional Convention - Sunday Morning synopsis
by Jehalapeno invia reddit.
here are the morning program highlights.
will update for the afternoon once it's all over.
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carla
Oh great, sounds like my jw will be extra dubby after this one, blah. Their favorite topic being the end is here! how I hate this evil org. 3 days of this drivel? or will it move on more cheery things? Step right up in an orderly fashion for a nice refreshing glass of kool-aid.