Consider the "outcome" when elders apply the two-witness "rule"

by AndersonsInfo 105 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  JWdaughter

  “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
  

  
  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

  
  

  The problem with the WTBTS is that there are no great minds. Truth can handle reason.
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  Vidiot

  Ding - "Where did the WT get the idea that because it follows the two witness rule with regard to organizational discipline that it's justified in hiding criminal accusations from the police?"

  Par for the course for a perspective that views virtually every potential human action in the context of "sin" rather than "crime", and - despite any lip service to the contrary - holds secular, "worldly" authorities (like the police) with suspicion and contempt.
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  Phizzy

  Would the WT/JW religion, if it said that from now on any allegation of a criminal nature must first of all be reported to the Authorities, be going against any "Bible based" injunction or principle ?

  NO !
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  Vidiot

  @ Phizzy...

  I think that at by now, we're long past that...

  ...for all intents and purposes, the Sociey views its own ideology as, if not superior to the Bible, then the only truly legitimate way of understanding it.

  Besides, when they've eased up up on policies in the past, the end result - arguably - just seems to be more members skirting the rules.

  x

  They've made their bed; they're determined to sleep in it.
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  AFRIKANMAN

  AndersonsInfo busy prepping an Essay on this subject to be sent to Bethal, the media in my country and to radio talk show hosts - we have 2 powerful talk radio stations here: 567 CAPE TALK and TALK RADIO 702 - [Google]

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  Sabrina Sawyer

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