i'm not an expert but that is my understanding of this: .
opinion filed.. (signed published) the judgment against defendants on the negligence count is affirmed.
the judgment against watchtower on the cause of action for punitive damages is reversed with directions to enter judgment for watchtower on punitive damages.
Candace's original intent was to force the WT to be accountable, and to make the WT change their policy. In this respect, since the WT's negligence was affirmed, I would say that it is a win for Conti. The secondary issue of millions of damages (which Conti didn't ask for in the first place) the WT has apparently dodged the bullet. But the precedent is set and they can no longer say that they have never lost one of these cases.
Not a lawyer, just what I am getting from the wording in the OP.
the round of "international" conventions that started in the middle of last year in the states "wrapped" up last weekend in new zealand.
there was some media converage (from which i derived the information that follows).
(someone who knows how to copy links may be able to provide the relevant media links?).
here is the link to a recent news article.
maybe it was commented before, but today was the first i had seen it.. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.
i guess caleb is getting around.
Here is the link to a recent news article. Maybe it was commented before, but today was the first I had seen it.
I guess Caleb is getting around
was it $144000.
where would i find proof of this?.
thanks.
does anybody have any information on recent growth in the jdub religion?
other than their own reports?
or, can you point me to the right post here?
In the US in my region (midWest rural) there isn't any growth. Kids getting baptized, some foreign language growth (I hear) but besides that there are very few converts like in the pre '1995-or-so' days. I believe the increase on publishers that are being printed are due to:
1) making it easier to report time. 15 minutes at a time is allowed, and both parents can report time for their bible studies at home with kids. and
2) encouraging, reaching out to, former publishers who have gone inactive in service but still attend meetings for family reasons. There are many, many people in each congregation like that who have started reporting again, maybe just an hour or two.
The result is an increase in numbers of publishers, but I wouldn't call it growth.
if you think the mormon church is off-the-scale crazy you probably don't know the half of it.. the historical information in this talk by david fitzgerald is fascinating.
the good news is that, just like the watchtower, their growth is being stunted by the internet.. grab a coffee and be amazed at just how gullible millions of people can be.. lucy harris has become my new heroine.
don't miss the section from 8:50.
Just listened to the entire thing. A bit on the sensational side, but interesting.
It's a shame that he doesn't bring out the JW roots in the 'burned over' district of upstate NY, though he does mention the SDA connection.
here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book dracula:.
the importance of blood during the victorian era: blood as a sexual signifier in bram stokers dracula by by nilifer pektas.
http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/fulltext01.pdf.
here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book dracula:.
the importance of blood during the victorian era: blood as a sexual signifier in bram stokers dracula by by nilifer pektas.
http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/fulltext01.pdf.
Actually, the connection of the vampire horror stories and sex has been written about before, so the author of the essay referred to in the OP isn't original in that respect. But he or she does make more of a specific connection to blood transfusions than I have read before.
Thanks for commenting. I think for some reason the WT leaders in the 30's and 40's had a gut level abhorrence of blood transfusions without really understanding why. It is quite possible that it was a subconscious feeling on their part that was based on sexual repression.
For the record, Fred Franz was born in 1893, Rutherford in 1869.
here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book dracula:.
the importance of blood during the victorian era: blood as a sexual signifier in bram stokers dracula by by nilifer pektas.
http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/fulltext01.pdf.
Here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book Dracula:
The Importance of Blood during the Victorian Era: Blood as a Sexual Signifier in Bram Stoker’s Dracula by By Nilifer Pektas
http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Since many of the WT leaders (notably Fred Franz) were born or grew up in this time period, this sheds some light on how they may have been preconditioned to view blood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbsv4z03sau.
youtuber peter rose called bethel and asked them if it was true that peter sutcliffe was baptized.
the brother who answered didn't think so but went off somewhere to check and came back to say that it wasn't true.
