What they do is what the law of the land requires. The lawsuits brought against the Organization are from decades ago for the most part. Because laws vary from state to state, they are instructed to call Watchtower legal ... even if there is only an accusation by a single individual. Elders are then instructed to comply with the law for their particular area, no more and no less. This clearly isn't for the protection of the innocent, although it may provide more protection than years gone by, it is a protection from future litigation for the corporation.
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A sensible fix for the Jehovah's Witness "two witness rule" when dealing with child sex abuse
by Watchtower-Free injehovah's witnesses could retain their two witness rule for internal judicial.
congregation matters .
but in the case of a child abuse allegation they should .
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New "I'm an ex-Mormon" video ... could easily fit a JW
by wannabefree incheck this one out and share with your jw friends if you can get away with it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-1ibfy2tou.
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Another new one ... these are such great tools.
My wife is uncomfortable with them, she has caught on to my gig.
I played this for my daughters today and they liked it.
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Will my inactive JW bring our children up as a witness?
by stevepill ini have been with an in active jw for 6 years, she now wants to marry and have a child, will she want to bring a child up as a witness, she says not but any experiences?
will she start go back once we are married?
(i'm a non jw)
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wannabefree
Stevepill, you seem to be a little indecisive here.
What do you want in the relationship?
What are you worried about?
Stand your ground, man up.
JW is not just a religion, it is an identity. It is based on fear, guilt, promises never realized, it runs deep. Your girlfriend clearly struggles with the JW identity. Whether she is living it or not, it is her foundation and until that foundation is recognized as flawed by her, anything else in her life is built upon it.
She has two failed marriages as it is. She needs to address her issues and until she is willing to take an honest look at her foundation, she will only address symptoms. Major events in life will cause her to reflect on the indoctrination and may very well drive her back to the religion at some time. Even if it doesn't, she will always have difficulties if she believes that it might possibly be The Truth.
When she has her own kids, even if she was willing to sacrifice her own life and ignore her faith, she won't be willing to let her kids die at Armageddon. If she believes the religion, she will want to return to it because in her mind not doing so would be a death sentence to her children.
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New LDC Meeting KH Video
by wifibandit inbeen away from the site for a few days...because i have been busy getting these!!!!!!
(pixel, thank you!
) they did not make it easy, plus technical difficulties.. for the main attraction:.
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New LDC Meeting KH Video
by wifibandit inbeen away from the site for a few days...because i have been busy getting these!!!!!!
(pixel, thank you!
) they did not make it easy, plus technical difficulties.. for the main attraction:.
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Something else I couldn't help but wonder about ....
The speech by His Holiness Lett was prerecorded.
With how these guys seem to get themselves in trouble in live performances, I wonder if they will try to prerecord future talks of these guys since they are now in the limelight more that ever so they can be edited and controlled.
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New LDC Meeting KH Video
by wifibandit inbeen away from the site for a few days...because i have been busy getting these!!!!!!
(pixel, thank you!
) they did not make it easy, plus technical difficulties.. for the main attraction:.
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wannabefree
I listened to the program.
Overall the new plan seems to be reasonable, what they never address is the actual motive.
My thoughts as I listened ....
They are spending a considerable amount of time preparing the audience by warning them about the scriptural reasons not to complain. They must have anticipated that it would be hard to sell.
(some of the background music in the videos seemed hypnotic)
They have become landlords and if they haven't completed the property takeover yet of all of the Kingdom Halls in the U.S. this helps achieve that goal.
Local congregations are just renters now. The property belongs to the Society and will be rented into perpetuity.
That they are no more than renters is evident by the fact that the Organization will make all decisions (other than perhaps some local decoration options) ... they will decide if a congregation needs a new hall or a remodel or nothing at all, they will decide the location and acquire property ... the elder's will be appeased by allowing them to make suggestions, but they will ultimately have no final say.
The congregation will have the blessing of providing for the material needs/cost of this LDC crew that will come and make preparations. Although, in my mind, if everybody is now renting until time indefinite, why are these expenses not just covered by the rental pool?
And, further emphasizing the fact that they are renters without actually stating it, they finish by telling about the great privilege each congregation will have with standardized preventative maintenance schedules and how the Organization will train each congregation how to properly maintain the property for the landlord.
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Towards the beginning there was a comment made about how there were interested ones that lost interest once they visited the Kingdom Hall ... then towards the end it was commented that these new attractive Halls may attract interested ones ... and I'm wondering, if God is supposedly drawing somebody who has the right heart condition by means of His Spirit how does this make sense?
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New "I'm an ex-Mormon" video ... could easily fit a JW
by wannabefree incheck this one out and share with your jw friends if you can get away with it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-1ibfy2tou.
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HA HA Data Dog!
Terry's cartoon post is what sent me to check for new releases of exMormom!
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New "I'm an ex-Mormon" video ... could easily fit a JW
by wannabefree incheck this one out and share with your jw friends if you can get away with it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-1ibfy2tou.
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wannabefree
Check this one out and share with your JW friends if you can get away with it.
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Christian missionary whinges about the prosperity of Kenya
by cofty injessica tidwell arrived in nairobi ready to heroically preach the gospel to destitute, half-naked peasants, living in mud huts and covered in "bug bites".. when she discovered that nairobi was in fact a prosperous, modern city with people in expensive clothes buying food and electronic goods in shopping malls, she was dejected and said so in her missionary blog.. the comments section below her blog entry is well worth a read.... here is bob marley's take on self-centred western christian missionaries.. "we're going to chase those crazy baldheads out of town".
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Thanks cofty. Interesting.
But at least she recognized that no matter what, it was what GOD wanted her to experience ... it was all part of HIS plan for her.
But as the day has worn on, I realized that I wasn’t fully accepting all that God had for me.
That He orchestrated this unexpected time in Nairobi.
That He wanted us to see the affluent parts so I could gain perspective.
That He wanted me to search myself and find the flesh in me that wanted to secretly stay here in the safe.
The protected.
The secure.
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No.
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2014 Watchtower Library CD (very discreetly) changed the Insight article on Faithful and Discreet Slave
by Gilgamesh inthe updated article on the "fds" makes several changes although it still lists the article/entry as if it had come from the 1988 edition of insight on the scriptures, vol.
(1co 3:2, 5; 4:1, 2; compare mt 4:4.
at the same time the individual members making up such composite body, or the domestics making up the house of god (mt 24:45; heb 3:6; eph 2:19), would also be recipients of the food dispensed.
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wannabefree
Jehovah's chariot is on the move ... try to keep up will ya?