Topics Started by Pubsinger

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Looooong Time
by Pubsinger in
1. jw
2. friends
especially to anyone who remembers me.

i’m on facebook (sorry simon!

) mainly these days, simon endeacott if anyone wants to look me up/add me.
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Most Translated Website
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. bible
wt claims their website is the 'most translated' and claims over 750 languages.

but in the drop down language menu there are only about 50. so where are the others?
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Candace Conti
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
so we know that wt settled out of court for an undisclosed sum and that presumably there was a 'gagging order' attached to the settlement.. not having really thought about what a 'confidentiality clause' meant before, i assumed in the past that it meant that you weren't allowed to disclose the amount of the settlement or any details about it.

but from the total and absolute silence once the settlement was made, i can only assume that it is a total gagging order.. how can the courts allow such a restriction to be put on a victim?

protecting the abusers and allowing the institution to cover up the lengths they go to to avoid admitting their guilt?
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Guardians of Doctrine.
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i'm still working my way through the videos..... this has probably been covered before but had anyone else ever heard them use this phrase before?

not me... but it's a clever and as per usual misleading choice of words.. if they are indeed guardians of doctrine, they are very poor ones.

if so jws would believe the same thing now that they did in 1879 and we all know that's not true.
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Help finding video
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
sorry everyone i keep asking for help.. there was a short video someone put up, it had letts saying 'we reject the claims of apostates that we cover up child abuse' and then it cuts to court footage of elders saying they were aware under oath, then cuts back to the same clip of letts saying the same thing.

then more courtroom footage and back to letts saying it again.

it was a great clip.
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Booklet exposing Trinity Brochure
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
there was a booklet that exposed the errors, deceptions and misquotes in the trinity brochure.

i think it was called something like "why should you believe 'should you believe the trinity'" or something like that lol.

it went through the society's brochure page by page, quote by quote and gave full sources etc.. does anyone know if it's still available, preferably an online copy?.
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Texan Billboard
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
didn't the judge rule in the candace conte trial that wts did not have a responsibility to notify the congregation only to protect them?

i think this is hugely missing the point.

other churches and organisations have strict policies to protect members from sex offenders but they do not 'notify' in the sense that i think these people want.. so the wt response to that particular question will be 'no.
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607 article on JW website
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011736.

i've not bothered to read anything on this for years as i addressed it personally years ago.

but in this official article they appear to be focusing all their argument on the '70 years' part of the debate.
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How much did Candace Conti originally sue for?
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
was it $144000.

where would i find proof of this?.

thanks.
109
Happy at Bethel. Can't believe what I'm seeing.
by Pubsinger in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
apologies if this has already been posted but i am speechless.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbmyudrwgs&x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=84838260#t=72.