Posts by jwleaks

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Article: Jehovah’s Witnesses Holds Women Back

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/jehovahs-witnesses-women-religion-serena-williams-news-81664/.

by lydia segebrecht december 16, 2016. an open letter to serena williams about jehovah’s witnesses’ treatment of women.. dear serena,.

i want to start by applauding everything you said in your open letter that was reproduced on the guardian website last week.

jwleaks

AN OPEN LETTER TO SERENA WILLIAMS

Serena Williams, you have confirmed you will be in Melbourne, Australia, next month, January 2017, for the Australian Open from the 16th to 29th. I was born in Melbourne and I love my capital city.

Serena, do you endorse or support the Jehovah's Witnesses religion's decision not to report to the authorities the rape and molestation of over 1,800 girls and boys within the church in Australia alone? These figures have been verified by the Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission. I hope you don't remain silent like the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses who only spoke to declare the child abuse within their religion is "apostate driven lies".

Each family in Australia has on average 2.4 children. Therefore the 1,800 child abuse victims in Australia have an immediate family of 6,120 not counting themselves. Add to this number each child victim's grandparents (7,200) then the total number of people (immediate family) directly affected by the concealing of child abuse with the Jehovah's Witness church in Australia is:

15,120

The Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne has a tennis seating capacity of 14,820.

12% of the seats amounts to 1,800.

Serena, when you take the court in Rod Laver Arena next month I hope you recognizes that every single seat in the arena you are playing tennis in represents a family member directly affected by child sexual abuse in Australia within the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses alone.

Serena, if you win the Open, and I wish you all the best, I hope that in your speech, instead of thanking Jehovah God (and by extention the Jehovah's Witness religion which you associate with) you draw attention to these 1,800 child abuse victims.

Unless one person stands up no one else can join them. You are a role model so be that role model and stand up.

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AUSTRALIA: Jehovah's Witness Malcolm Lee guilty of raping 80-year-old-woman

by jwleaks in

friday 16, december 2016. abc news: malcolm lee, 56, has been sentenced to three years, nine months jail for the attack on the woman, 80, at her home near lakes entrance in march.

during a home massage, organised as a gift by the victim's daughter, lee touched, kissed and digitally raped the woman.

he claimed he believed at the time it was consensual and she was enjoying it.

jwleaks

Friday 16, December 2016

ABC News: Malcolm Lee, 56, has been sentenced to three years, nine months jail for the attack on the woman, 80, at her home near Lakes Entrance in March. During a home massage, organised as a gift by the victim's daughter, Lee touched, kissed and digitally raped the woman.

He claimed he believed at the time it was consensual and she was enjoying it. Lee pleaded guilty to the charges in August and was today sentenced in the County Court in Morwell. He will be eligible for parole in two years, six months.

Image: ABC Gippsland: Nicole Asher

The Age newspaper: Lee, a masseur for 14 years who was registered with the national body, pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault.

His lawyer this week called for him to be spared jail because of his mistaken belief about consent, his subsequent remorse and previous good character. He had since split from his wife and was ostracised by his family and friends in the Jehovah's Witnesses church.

But Judge Mullaly said jail was the only appropriate penalty for the "brazen" breach of trust, which had had a significant impact on the woman and her daughter.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/masseur-jailed-for-raping-80yearold-woman-20161216-gtczqr.html

http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/masseur-jailed-for-raping-80yearold-woman-20161216-gtczqr.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-16/gippsland-massage-therapist-jailed-for-rape/8128116

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Is there any recent information about Watchtower owning 50% of Rand Cam Engine Corp & REGI Technologies?

by AndersonsInfo in

please, recent information is needed about this subject discussed some 12-years ago here on jwn?

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https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/85323/watchtower-society-50-share-holder-military-company?page=1&size=10.

jwleaks

Here's the official SEC background information from 2002 where it lists Watchtower on page 26 as a shareholder having over 5 million shares or 44.94% stock.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/922330/000106299302000371/form10k.txt

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Jehovah is unjust (outrageous article on slavery in last WT for public)

by Master_Bob in

according to the last paragraph of the article entitled "escape from slavery—then and now" (wt#2, 2017).

jehovah god felt grieved by the harsh treatment of israelite slaves in egypt; he must feel the same way about similar injustice today.. .

if you call modern slavery "injustice", wasn't the slavery during moses time also "injustice"?

jwleaks

Read the article carefully and note the OP above. The subject was not slavery but only the "harsh treatment" of slaves. Then in typical Watchtower fashion the bait-and-switch takes place and the subject is now injustice.

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Do you believe that Jehovah is using the Organization today?

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

any elder has never asked me that question so far but i want to be prepared to answer that question if any of them ask me that question in the future.

i hope that they will never ask me that question.

any suggestions on how to answer that question would be very much appreciated.

jwleaks

Are you asking me to join you in some apostate rebellion? Because I'm not interested.

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Disassociation - shunning - can we all lobby Government that it is against freedom of religion?

by stockholm_Syndrome in

if jws want to inflict shunning on members who want to remain -- knock yourselves out.

but if someone wants to leave - dont believe in an evil almighty god, bible ...or just dont agree with the rules- they should be free to leave- even after being 'disfellowshipped'.

i think it was pre 1980 that you could disassociate yourself without shunning repercussions.

jwleaks

The governing body and the Watchtower corporation argue that shunning is a scriptural requirement and a law of jehovah god.

This requirement of shunning applies equally to all who follow the bible or who are willing to recognize the religious freedom of jehovah's witnesses. Therefore all christians are permitted to shun jehovah's witnesses based on their own self-interpretation.

If shunning is a law in the bible then it applies to all, equally and fairly with no distinction.

If the prohibition on fornication is a law in the bible then it applies to all, equally and fairly with no destinction.

Consider: two humans have a dispute. They have the legal right to bring the dispute before the judicial authorities and courts for judgment. Do they also have the Divine Right to bring their dispute before jehovah god - or his representatives (governing body and their agents the judicial elders) - considering his kingdom is apparantly ruling? If they do not have this right to receive a judgment from jehovah god then neither does jehovah god have the right to judge them under any circumstance ... ever!

The nation of Israel was given the free choice of adopting god's laws, including the 10 commandments, when they were before Mt Sinai. They chose yes. Today mankind has been given no choice as to whether they accept god's laws. This is arbitrary with no freedom to chose. Therefore god's laws are null and void as theh have never been offerred and accepted.

If the laws of the bible, and the rendering of biblical justice, only apply to christians who are jehovah's witnesses then the laws, including fornication and the judgment associated with it, only applies to jehovah's witnesses. The world cannot be judged.

All jehovah's witnesses have the right to shun members as a disciplinary action. However, once the member is no longer a member the right to shun ceases. At that point it becomes the victimization and targetting of a former member or member of the community.

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awake 12/8/2004 p 28

by gerry in

just doing research and came across this.. i know this is old however.

here we have a worldly organisation distributing pamphlets and warning parents about child abuse.. last point in particular.

3) inform the child that what happened is against the law and that it is necessary to report it to the police so that it will not happen again.. pretty straight forward if you ask me.. watchtower were happy to use that in their magazine.

jwleaks

This is damage control by the Watchtower. Pause for a moment and think about the reality. The Watchtower and the GB have just learnt that the Mexican government is about to give a pamphlet to all JW parents instructing them to report child abuse to the police. They are not being told to report it to the elders and to let them handle it.

Simply put, the Watchtower and GB have no control so they are literally jumping on the bandwagon.

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JW Ideal candidates for Life Insurance?

by MNLifeAgent in

jw
friends

i am not a jehovah's witness, although i do respect your religion entirely.

i am 27 years old, and live in minnesota.

i have an older cousin, who's mother (not with my uncle -separated when my cousin was a baby) had been a witness, grew up in your word, and about 12 years ago she fully converted.

jwleaks

MNLifeAgent: Your "research" is unfounded and based on an assumption the members of the JWs are similar to members of other religions but have better morals/habits which equals better health.

An insurance company would never consider JWs a good choice. Why?

The typical JW lacks any form of higher education (i.e. university or college) as this is discouraged. Therefore they typically hold menial jobs such as window washing, cleaning and laboring. (No offence meant to anyone in those industries, unless you are a JW.)

http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/higher-education-university.php

Reasearch for yourself the link between higher education and life expectancy in the USA and you will find that those with higher education live on average 8 years longer than those who don't. This means JWs die 8 years earlier than members in comparative religions.

For JWs - your god jehovah always knew that you would die earlier because of your lack of education. This also means your service to the Watchtower will be on average 8 years less than if you received higher education. 8 years less preaching. 8 years less donations to the Watchtower coupled with lower donations because of lower average salary.

http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/educational-distribution/

On the other hand the world doesn't have to put up with your nonsense more than they should. 8 years less. Actually, come to think of it, we should all thank jehovah god that JWs are less educated. 8 years worth of thanks.

Here are some links which compare life expectancy:

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/site/ataglance/2015/07/education-and-mortality-study-finds-less-education-reduces-life-expectancy.html

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Reports/2013/us-educational-attainment-mortality.aspx

Remaining Years of Life for U.S. Adults at Age 25 by Educational Attainment, 2005

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Vatican launches website for preventing clerical sex abuse

by AndersonsInfo in

https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2016/12/06/vatican-launches-website-preventing-clerical-sex-abuse/.

inés san martín .

december 6, 2016 vatican_correspondent.

jwleaks

Interesting that the Catholic Commission set up to address this matter was made up a balance of men and women.

http://www.protectionofminors.va/content/tuteladeiminori/en/the-commission_section/members_page.html

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JW Policy Regarding "Marking" From The Nov 2016 WT

by JW_Rogue in

jws will deny that local needs parts are often just a way to mark those in the congregation who are deemed to be "bad association" or who don't fall in line with the elders viewpoints.

now, for the first time in a long time the wt discusses their marking policy and how it works in the nov study wt:.

recall paul’s counsel regarding disorderly ones in the congregation.

jwleaks

The key point and who the article is actually addressed to . . .

"If you are aware of the situation described in the talk, will you take care to avoid socializing with such an individual?"

So what about members of the congregation who are not "aware of the situation" and therefore will continue to socialize with such an individual?

Once again the Watchtower decides not to inform those in the congregation who need to know.