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  Yet Another Putdown of Women! – KM March 2015

  by SAHS in

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  2. friends

  this weeks service meeting part (week starting march 23, 2015) in the our kingdom ministry under the heading meetings for field service that accomplish.

  their purpose includes a little sub-article entitled when a sister must conduct.

  the direct link is: http://www.jw.org/en/publications/kingdom-ministry/ click the little document download button under the one labeled km15 03-e us and then choose a format (pdf looks best)..

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  OrphanCrow

  SAHS:“The service overseer should try to anticipate unusual situations and give appropriate instructions so as to minimize awkwardness.” Awkwardness? So, it’s really that much of an “unusual” and “awkward” situation for a woman (female) to conduct a little field service group?

  SAHS, I believe you can find the reason for that awkwardness a bit farther down in the directive.

  Or perhaps there is an adult brother who is restricted from conducting the meeting or offering congregation prayer for reasons known by the elders. Without revealing confidential information, the elders should let the assigned sisters know that they should conduct and pray even if he is in attendance.

  The directive is laying out the procedure for what to do if "an adult brother who is restricted from conducting the meeting or offering congregation prayer" is in attendance.

  And why would he be restricted? Well, it would be for "reasons known by the elders".

  And would the sister conducting know what that brother had done so she could assign him to an appropriate group? Hell no. "Without revealing confidential information, the elders should let the assigned sisters know that they should conduct and pray even if he is in attendance."

  And how will that brother who is on restrictions be spared the embarrassment of attending and having to have a woman pray for him? Well, that's simple. “The elders might also let the brother know which days sisters are scheduled to conduct the meetings for field service.”

  And there you have it - how women are to be kept in the dark about a rapist/pedophile in the field service group.
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  JW's caught laughing at Child rapist accusers"

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jwvictims has done an excellent but disturbing article on how jw's feel about the child abuse problem.. http://jwvictims.org/2013/11/23/jehovahs-witnesses-caught-laughing-at-child-rape-accusers/.

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  OrphanCrow

  Ugh. that was horrible.

  The speaker made a big deal out of a young girl who said her father "touched her'. And then the speaker listed all the bad consequences that happened to the family...and THEN the young girl recanted, trying to put her family back together.

  Of course she tried to sign a document saying her father didn't do it - she was being pressured to do so by what happened to her family because of her father's actions.

  And yet, the speaker makes her out to be the one who victimized the family, along with the law.

  The speaker's interpretation of events is truly disgusting and lacks any intelligent or reasonable explanation for the young girl's actions - rather than interpreting her "lie" as a maneuver to save her mother and family from the consequences of her father's actions, she is painted as the one who did something wrong.

  The message I got is that victims shouldn't report their abuse because saying something about it will hurt the family. He reinforces the destructive practice of keeping secrets.
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  Deplorable Website Promotion

  by HBH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my siblings mother in law died recently, and there was a condolence posted with the borg website.

  i googled the name of the poster, and found the same condolence on 100s of funeral home websites!!!

  many of these sites dont have mods or a way to report a website promotion.

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  Wow, spamming the family of the deceased.
  A new low.

  The Jws who engage in this behavior are ghouls.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses now trying to infiltrate a Hospital

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/spiritual-care-volunteers-at-jackson-hospital-support-sick-welcome-babies/article_83c3872e-66df-5cbd-8db8-d4c6b31d3f0a.html.

  5 hours ago by frances moody jackson hole news & guide.

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  OrphanCrow

  The JWs have been 'infiltrating' hospitals for many years. The protoype for the HLCs were trialed in Canada starting back around 1970.

  Visiting groups for JWs in hospitals were in place long before that. This is not something new.

  I am not alarmed by the visiting groups established to offer support for JW patients. I see nothing untoward about it.

  However, what does alarm me is the number of JWs who are working in hospitals trying to influence the medical community on blood management.

  Here is a JW who has taken their affiliation with the Watchtower and transformed the blood doctrine into an opportunity to influence the medical care of the population at large.

  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/edward-blakeney/50/b11/453?trk=pub-pbmap

  Some of Edward Blakeney's experience (visit link to find more):
  

  Blood Conservation Program Coordinator
  

  Tenet Healthcare

  August 2009 – Present (5 years 8 months)Hired to create, oversee, and market the Blood Conservation Program. Blood utilization was reduced and the patient population increased as a result of the program.
  Accomplishments:
  Managed Program at two hospital campuses
  Developed Policies and Procedures
  Created new patient forms
  Wrote marketing brochures
  Established Anemia Clinic
  Facilitated contract with Jehovah's Witnesses Headquarters
  Featured on Channel 10's Health Beat report
  Responsibilities:
  Serve as patient advocate and physician referral
  Speak at employee orientations, department in-services
  Market program at community functions
  Arrange program content, guest speakers, location
  Participate in Health Fairs
  Present lectures to corporations, groups
  Interviewed for print publications, published in Miami News
  Served on Ethics Committee

  Edward Blakeney is only one of the many JWs who work in the medical field influencing health decisions at the administrative level.

  The field of blood management is infiltrated by JWs all over the world.

  And let's not forget about Shannon Farmer and Axel Hoffman et al who have successfully influenced and infiltrated a whole country's hospital system in Australia.
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  Yet Another JW Child Molester in the news and again its South Wales

  by jimtheman699 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3007905/south-wales-jehovah-s-witness-36-sex-15-year-old-schoolboy-avoids-jail-sentence.html.

  married jehovah's witness, 36, who had sex with boy, 15, after inviting him to sleepovers with her children avoids jail sentence .

  she was spared jail by a judge at merthyr tydfil crown court today.

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  Judge Twomlow told Richards he had decided ‘with some hesitation’ not to send her to jail.

  Cultural gender bias appears to be difficult to overcome. If 'she' was a 'he' the Judge would likely not have hesitated to send a male perpetrator to jail.

  It is still the prevailing attitude of male judges (and the public) that the boy was 'lucky to have scored' rather than having had the course of his life changed.
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  Trademark?

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a while back, there was some controversy over whether or not jw .org qualified for registered trademark status.. yesterday, i was given one of the 2015 memorial invitations and there is a small tm next to the jw logo.. did the wts get the logo approved for trademark?.

  or, am i looking at an invitation to the janitor world's jesus celebrations?.

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  OrphanCrow

  Ah...I did not understand that. Thanks Cappytan for clarifying.

  So...the TM is just an attempt to appear legitimate and carries no weight at all except for appearance.

  Okay.

  :)

  *oops...posted too soon...I see the extra info now...thanks cappy.
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  Trademark?

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a while back, there was some controversy over whether or not jw .org qualified for registered trademark status.. yesterday, i was given one of the 2015 memorial invitations and there is a small tm next to the jw logo.. did the wts get the logo approved for trademark?.

  or, am i looking at an invitation to the janitor world's jesus celebrations?.

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  OrphanCrow

  A while back, there was some controversy over whether or not JW .org qualified for registered trademark status.

  Yesterday, i was given one of the 2015 Memorial invitations and there is a small TM next to the JW logo.

  Did the WTS get the logo approved for trademark?

  Or, am I looking at an invitation to the Janitor World's Jesus celebrations?
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  Canadians have no problems with bright colored socks according to Branch Rep (Zone) visit

  by Quarterback in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we just had the visit of the br, winston payne from down under australia.

  he was a good old mate, and he commended the brits accent over the australian.

  no mention of the metero sexual suits, bright colored socks, spandex, no association with df relatives.

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  truthseeker: Rod Jung gave an update on Canada's work (12,000+ reg pioneers, 50,000+ bible studies, 180,000+ attended last year's memorial, they are focusing a lot on translating to First Nations languages)

  Canada appears to have a pretty low saturation level compared to the US, and especially compared to Mexico.

  It must be Mexico that brings the saturation number up to 1 per 250 for the 'Americas' reported by jwfacts, because, if you use the stats from jwfacts, the memorial attendance of 180,000 translates to 2.6 times the number of publishers which leaves approx. 69,000 publishers for Canada.

  That means that Canada has a saturation level of about 1 per 500, half of what jwfacts says the 'americas' has. I am assuming that jwfacts has included Canada in the Americas...unless Canada is part of the Queen country's stats...

  Regardless, 1 per 500 is quite a bit lower than the US figures, and much lower than Mexico.

  The first nations people here have had enough, when the wbts are focusing on first nations languages it just goes to show how desperate they are. Most of the first nation people I know are focused on getting their kids educated and learning english. The last thing they need is a family destroying cult.

  I agree wholeheartedly. I get very agitated when I consider what the WTS is doing by targeting the First Nations communities with their horrible translations of Watchtower crap. The illustrations in the literature are terrible - they have taken white people and colored them brown and call them First Nations. Not only that, nobody in the First Nations communities that I know can read Cree. It's a joke - the JWs leave Cree literature thinking they are 'helping the natives' and the natives cannot and do not read Cree.

  Besides, Cree is only one of the languages spoken. We have Dakota, Lakota, Chippeweyan, Ojibaway, to name a few.

  The WTS is incredibly insensitive to the Canadian First Nations people.

  I personally checked out a couple of jw books from an inuit library. The books are now over due and not likely to return

  Good.

  I have close friends who are First Nations who live up north. The one family I know was actually having a Bible Study with two old white gals. I have them on my facebook account and I make sure that I post all the child abuse scandals so they can see them and pass the posts out to their community.

  I also know of one JW woman who goes up to Cumberland House with both her Watchtower literature and her Avon business. She kills 2 birds with one stone.

  Funny thing is though, the reserves don't get worked...I think the JWs are scared to send people out there. They should be scared.

  It makes me angry that the WTS is targeting the First Nations in Canada. It is ignorant and damaging to the First Nations people.
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  Wife fully awake.

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i learned this past week that my wife is now awake.

  i just shared the pbs newshour segment with her with no comment other than something along the lines of, "jw story on pbs.".

  she is furious at the arrogance of these men.. thats what happens when you get a momma angry!.

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  OrphanCrow

  Cappytan - you must be doing the happy dance right about now!

  Good thing you married a Mama Bear.

  :)
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  Recent Birth Experience

  by lambsbottom in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i'm completely flabergasted at what happened with a couple in my old congregation recently.

  they are still active.

  the guy messages me that they had their baby and will be at a local hospital for the next couple days.

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  OrphanCrow

  I have noticed over the years that birth stories are a lot like fishing stories with estimates of length of labor equating to size of fish.

  The difference between 'birth stories' and 'fishing stories' is that a birth story has a real live woman experiencing the limits of pain and suffering for those hours she is in labor.

  Fish stories don't involve women in pain and possibly herself and her baby dying.

  Fish stories are men bragging about a sport.

  Birth stories are real life and death situations.