Posts by Chaserious

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Dad Battles School Over Child Singing Patriotic Songs

by Bangalore in

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dad battles school over child singing patriotic songs.. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/jehovahs-witness-child-patriotic-songs-chula-vista-school--197816021.html.

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bangalore.

Chaserious

It seems like the school agrees that the kid doesn't have to sing the songs, but the Dad wants them to be removed from the curriculum? Also appears that the Dad isn't even a JW, only his wife.

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Another day, another JW child rapist bust - Jeffrey Buzzard

by zed is dead in

here is the article, i can't make it clickable, and would appreciate if someone would do that for me.

http://www.fortwayne.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/fw/20130313/news/320132863/1005.

zed.

Here you go - looks like his wife passed away about a year ago and the obit mentioned that she is a Jehovah's Witness... unless there's another Jeffrey Buzzard in Fort Wayne. It looks like they had two children. Correction, seems she had two children and he was the Stepfather.... hope he didn't abuse those kids.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?pid=155818426#fbLoggedOut

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Jury duty as a JW, were you summons for Jury service.

by jam in

for over 12 years i have been summons for jury service.. each year i receive a summons and each year my physician.

send in my medical excuse.

don,t get me wrong, i would love.

Chaserious

Jam: Yes, I think most JWs that wanted to get out of jury duty said they had a personal religious objection. The medical reasons and old age that you mentioned are probably the only things that will excuse a person from showing up entirely, but that doesn't mean that people can't be excused for some other reason once they show up. I suspect that most judges would let you be excused if there is a religious objection. They might question some prospective jurors a bit further if they aren't convinced that it's sincere.

I believe there was an article in one of the publications about 10 years ago that basically said it's a conscience matter, but not to tell the judge that JWs are not allowed to serve on juries, since it's a personal decision.

As to education, there is no educational requirement to be on a jury in the U.S. Complex cases are often decided by jurors with a limited education. Just the way our system is.

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Jury duty as a JW, were you summons for Jury service.

by jam in

for over 12 years i have been summons for jury service.. each year i receive a summons and each year my physician.

send in my medical excuse.

don,t get me wrong, i would love.

Chaserious

Different states have different ways of determining who gets summoned. Voting records used to be more common, but recently many states have been pulling in data from drivers licenses and other government databases to determine who goes in the jury pool. I got called once when I was a JW, even though not registered to vote at the time. I was going to serve if they picked me. I didn't give a crap if it was discouraged. But I didn't get picked - they asked me some questions and I was eventually dismissed.

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College Basketball Question - Why is a 15th Seeded Team Reaching the "Sweet 16" so unusual ???

by RubaDub in

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first, i have very little interest in college basketball (or other college sports for that matter).. but why do i keep hearing on all news channels that it's the first time a 15th seeded team (florida gulf coast university) has made it to the "sweet 16.".

if you're seeded 15th, what's so unusual about making it to the final 16?

if you are seeded 50th or 60th then yes, it would be unusual.

Chaserious

Plus, another reason why it's unusual for 15/16 seeds to advance to the sweet 16 (as opposed to 13/14 seeds) is that generally they are not even in the 64 best teams in the country, despite being in the 64 team tournament. Teams get automatic bids for winning their conference, and usually there are 8-10 teams that win a weak college conference and are forced to be included in the tourament, even though objectively they are probably not even among the top 100 teams in the country. Those teams usually end up with the 15 and 16 seeds.

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College Basketball Question - Why is a 15th Seeded Team Reaching the "Sweet 16" so unusual ???

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

first, i have very little interest in college basketball (or other college sports for that matter).. but why do i keep hearing on all news channels that it's the first time a 15th seeded team (florida gulf coast university) has made it to the "sweet 16.".

if you're seeded 15th, what's so unusual about making it to the final 16?

if you are seeded 50th or 60th then yes, it would be unusual.

Chaserious

Well, there are 64 teams all together in the tournament, in four regions, each seeded 1-16. So really a 15 seed is ranked between 56-60 among the entire field of 64 teams.

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how valid are commitments made while being a jw.

by man in black in

several times on this board i have read comments from people who were considering joining a new religion.

and how a jw baptism was not "valid", so there should be no problem while getting ready to join the new church.. if a baptism is not real, what about other aspects of life,, such as a marriage ?

outside of the legal requirements that are written down and recorded, from a spiritual standpoint, is it just a bunch of nonsense ?.

Chaserious

I think it depends on what your world view is once you leave. Based on their set of beliefs, people have all different kind of views toward marriage and the moral obligation one has to stick with one. My wife and I left together, but I never considered the idea that my marriage was in any way less valid than anyone else's. I'm having a little bit of trouble picturing what other kind of commitments you are referring to (if any) besides marriage and baptism, but setting baptism aside, my own opinion is that they are just as valid as any other promises that people might make, JW or not. It's not like people become mentally incompetent when they become jws.

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Appeal dismissed for failure to file opening brief. 03/26/2013 ,,,,,LOL,,,,

by maisha in

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appeal dismissed for failure to file opening brief.

http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/briefing.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2025979&doc_no=a136641.

congratulations candice!!!!.

Chaserious

It means they have until the 26th to file or get another extension.

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Watchtower potentially receives at least $2.1 Billion a year in revenue by prohibiting holidays, etc...

by Calebs Airplane in

so we all know that the main reason the watchtower corporation prohibits holidays, extra-curricular sports, higher education, etc.

is that this money could potentially become "voluntary donations" with just a little guilting and manipulation.

in the minds of the brooklyn brass, money that isn't spent on all this worldly stuff is potential liquid revenue (at least some of it anyway).. now let's go extremely conservative for a minute and say that the average "worldly" person only spends a total of $300 a year on christmas, birthdays, st. valentines, father's day, mother's day, extracurricular school sports, higher education, and all the other stuff that the wt frowns upon.... we all know that the real number is much higher than $300.

Chaserious

Eh, I don't think money is the reason at all. They banned most of the holdays before they were really commercial like they are today. i think it's more about control and convincing members that they are in a special club that is the only one that knows these things are wrong. If it was just about economics, why would they tell people not to work overtime so they can peddle magazines instead? My father could have worked overtime every Saturday when I was growing up and made about $100-$150 per week extra, but he didn't so he could go knock on doors that nobody answered. The reality is that nobody is going to have a holiday pot of money and just donate it all to the WTS because of not celebrating holidays and other stuff. Never once in my time "in" did I make a donation because I saved money on something else. A lot of JWs are cheap and probably view it as a tradeoff with all the miles and gas they spend driving around in field service, money spend traveling to assemblies and conventions and all the other wastes of money for the WTS. For my family, we save more by not travelling to meetings, FS & conventions and donations than it costs us to celebrate holidays and birthdays.

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Memorial Day for JW , is that a make or break day for jehovahs Witnesses who have suffered physical and sexual abuse in this organisation

by smiddy in

the jehovahs witnesses celebrate the lords evening meal this day ,are they also going to celebrate the vindication of a victim of child sexual abuse ?.

or are they going to celebrate yet again a judicial system that fails to come to grips with a religous body that sexually /physically abuses children .. we wait with baited breath.

smiddy.

Chaserious

I think you will still be waiting after Tuesday - it's just a brief that's due. The judicial system isn't going to make a decision on the appeal until probably sometime towards the end of the year.