Posts by Onager

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UK's NSPCC REJECTS 'mandatory reporting' of suspected child abuse

by darkspilver in

large article at the top of page 20 in today's - 6th november 2016 - sunday observer, the 'sister' newspaper in the uk of the guardian which only prints monday to saturday.. the national society for the prevention of cruelty to children - nspcc - is the uk's leading children's charity, specialising in child protection and are the only uk children's charity with statutory powers and that means they can take action to safeguard children at risk of abuse.. the headline in the web version is slightly different, but the rest of the article appears to be the same.

nspcc rejects plan for 'mandatory reporting' of suspected child abuse.

the government’s consultation on reporting and acting on child abuse and neglect was launched amid concerns about past abuse in some of the country’s major institutions.

Onager

I feel like any chance at preventing child abuse should be taken but I can also see that making it a legal obligation for teachers etc. to report any suspicion could have a lot of negative outcomes.

The individual becomes responsible and not the system. So a teacher could be charged with missing the signs of child abuse whereas it should be the whole system which is held responsible.

Fear of legal consequences could lead to masses of negative reports as teachers report absolutely everything lest they end up being arrested themselves. Parents could end up keeping children home from school because they'd fallen over on their rollerskates and got a black eye.

But, on the other hand, I wouldn't want one single case of child abuse to go uninvestgated. I just don't know what the right solution is.

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So.....Blended VS Single Malt

by ctrwtf in

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just wondering.

for you scotch lovers, i've been partial to singles for a long time, but was recently given a bottle of johnnie walker green.

i think i've fallen in love.

Onager

Is there no love for Rum here?

I found a rum in Cornwall called Three Sails. It was 80% but full of flavour and complexity. Only problem is I've never been able to find it again on subsequent trips.

I am on the lookout for a well priced Goslings Family Reserve Rum. That looks quite special.

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1000 Years is Like 1 Day?

by Sorry in

anyone else hear about this.

as all j-dubs know, whenever someone complains about how long the "new system" is taking too arrive, they use the excuse that jehovah works on his own time.

quite a few times during the public talks, i've heard speakers say the phrase "1000 years to us is only one day to jehovah" (my parents never stop talking about this).

Onager

I have to say WTWizard, that post does come across as a teeny bit crackers.

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A stunning piece of LOGIC from the Apostle Paul

by nicolaou in

1st corinthians 15 12-17. but if it is preached that christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even christ has been raised.

and if christ has not been raised, your faith is futile... .

Onager

Nicolau is an intelligent penguin typing his responses on this forum. That is a fact that I have witnessed right here.

When I tell my wife about it, she will have to have faith that Nicolau is a typing penguin because she hasn't seen the facts that I am reporting to her.

Therefore, if Nicolau is not, in fact, a typing penguin then the faith of my wife is in vain.

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Another Subliminal Image? On the JW Website

by The Searcher in

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this image appears on the current main web page - as you scroll the "witnessing" photos.. weird "facial" image at the guy's right shoulder.. .

Onager

It's clearly a Stormtrooper from Star Wars.

Clearly.

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Will Jehovah`s Witnesses join with other religions in Compensation Payouts ?

by smiddy in

justice mcclellen asked g.jackson about compensation for victims of child abuse , and mcclellan suggested it be by a consortium of groups , presumably religious and secular in nature as a pool to dispense approppiate compensation to all of the victims involved .. g.jackson hesitated and said they would have to look at the details of that proposal , before committing to it.. jehovah`s witnesses consider themselves as the only true religion and ,all others as false religion .. they take pains to separate themselves from from any association with other religions , not even being included in newspaper notices about church services.they want to keep themselves separate and distinct from false religion as they see them.. so how do you think they will handle this suggestion / requirement ?

will they join in aligning themselves with "babylon the great" in compensation .?.

didn`t they align themselves with another religion in the u.s.a. some years ago , that had to do with the w.t.

Onager

Has this compensation scheme gone live now? How would a person go about applying for compensation?

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So.....Blended VS Single Malt

by ctrwtf in

jw
friends

just wondering.

for you scotch lovers, i've been partial to singles for a long time, but was recently given a bottle of johnnie walker green.

i think i've fallen in love.

Onager

I was extolling the virtues of a 12 year old Macallan to a friend of mine after dinner in a restaurant (and he was agreeing with me) when the waitress came over and said these exact words, which are burned into my memory forever:

"Oh, by the way, it turned out that we didn't have any Macallan's so I gave you Bells. I hope that's ok?"

Probably the most humiliating experience of my life. My wife laughed herself sick.

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My Story

by SamTheGinge in

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so, i joined just yesterday after coming across this forum looking at beth sarim, and i though that i would share my story with you.

it will no doubt be very similar to a lot of others, but it's a way of getting to know me at least.. i was brought up as witness from the age of 4 years old, my dad picked up the 'truth' from one of his friends in the pub and it seemed to go from there, he would quickly get baptised and progress to becoming a ministerial servant and then an elder.

from a young age i wanted to be like my dad and become a pioneer, a ministerial servant and then an elder... perhaps even becoming a co. the world, spiritually speaking, was my oyster.

Onager

Welcome! That sounds like quite a rollercoaster ride. Hope things are good for you now, my wife is sort of pagan, not Wiccan though. We go to solstice parties and stuff. It's fun!

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2013 NWT - Conveniently Circular

by theunbeliever in

this is my first post.

as i am currently disfellowshipped, i have no one else to discuss these things with.

even if i was actively associated with the dubs, i suppose i'd still have no one else to discuss this with.

Onager

If you do a Google image search for Babylonian world view you can see what the "Cosmos" looked like to people at the time the bible was being written. The earth is a flat disk with a solid hemisphere of the Firmament above it. Above the firmament and below the earth are the waters of chaos.

Read any scripture that describes the world and you'll find that it fits perfectly into this picture.

The flood makes a whole lot more sense too.

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Why are JWs so sensitive to criticism?

by Half banana in

i remember a roman catholic priest acknowledging on the bbc that the outrageously anti-clerical tv comedy father ted was a humorous mocking of his church but an acceptable thing.. try mocking the jw religion to a believer and the result is so very different.. just why is it that jehovah's witnesses can never take even the faintest hint of criticism of their religion?.

Onager

I've found I can criticise the bible but not the Org.

I mean Samson? 300 foxes? Really? Live foxes??

I live in a heavily fox populated part of the world but unless there was some kind of fox shop nearby there is no way in Hades that I could get hold of 300 live foxes.

This kind of statement gets met fairly good naturedly by my JW family, I guess because they can invoke god magic for any biblical weirdness. They can't invoke god magic for current day stuff though because big J doesn't get involved right now.