I believe the memorial attendance is down on last year, but I am not sure which countries are counted in the Britain total.
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Governing Body Public Address - today!
by diamondblue1974 inany ideas what this is about?
- apparently a three hour public address through each kingdumb hell from the gb.
anyone heard anything about this?.
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Governing Body Public Address - today!
by diamondblue1974 inany ideas what this is about?
- apparently a three hour public address through each kingdumb hell from the gb.
anyone heard anything about this?.
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konceptual99
OK - it was basically the following:
1 - don't worry about the upcoming persecution we are likely to get. God is with us. Whatever the courts or media throw at us don't forget Jehovah approves us.
2 - Chelmsford (the new British Branch HQ) is pushing forward and they got planning approval yesterday. A coincidence put down to Jehovah's blessing
3 - around 225k at in the UK at the memorial this year
4 - don't lose your joy. How? Go to the meetings, do more in the service, pray, don't worry about what you can't change and count your blessings.
The end.
NB - I use "us" in the broad sense
Oh, and Jehovah can measure the universe in the span of his hand. I guess his hand must be getting bigger.
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just a question
by poopie inwhat percentage would you say of all jehovah's witnesses really 100 percent follow the shunning decree to the letter just answer with a percent thank you
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konceptual99
Depends. If it's a close family member - 10%. If it's some body you never liked anyway - 100%
Seriously, I think for anyone outside of a family relationship with the DF'ed person it's going to be up around 80%
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Aussie exJW Comedienne on BBC (Limited Time)
by berrygerry inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3srd.
deborah frances-white - online.. .
spot on - and funny..
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Aussie exJW Comedienne on BBC (Limited Time)
by berrygerry inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3srd.
deborah frances-white - online.. .
spot on - and funny..
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konceptual99
This is worth 100 incidents of making a scene in a KH and 1000 protests outside a convention.
It would be great if it was linked to from some other sites like jwleaks, jwsurvey etc.
It's time limited but I wonder if it's possible to get it extended?
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Videolink speech by a HQ member this Saturday
by Powermetal4ever inso this saturday we are going to have some kind of videolink speech, by a james mantz from headquarters apparantly.
how very exciting... or not.
thats what my mum said anyway, and i just thought like " yeah right" i can t remember we have ever had it before, is it a new take?
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konceptual99
Yup, three hour streamed show next Saturday pm. What fun.
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Videolink speech by a HQ member this Saturday
by Powermetal4ever inso this saturday we are going to have some kind of videolink speech, by a james mantz from headquarters apparantly.
how very exciting... or not.
thats what my mum said anyway, and i just thought like " yeah right" i can t remember we have ever had it before, is it a new take?
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Tear down the whole of South Africa
by Louise inthere was a statue outside the rhodes university.
a 30 year old black student then threw his pooh on the statue and that got the ball rolling to pull the statue down.
the board of this university built also gives out burseries and grants to previously disadvantaged black south africans and not disadvantaged black south africans.. there has been a huge debate in the country and now the statue has been removed.
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konceptual99
Interesting BBC op-ed
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Tear down the whole of South Africa
by Louise inthere was a statue outside the rhodes university.
a 30 year old black student then threw his pooh on the statue and that got the ball rolling to pull the statue down.
the board of this university built also gives out burseries and grants to previously disadvantaged black south africans and not disadvantaged black south africans.. there has been a huge debate in the country and now the statue has been removed.
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Article: Reveal News-California court guts child abuse ruling against Jehovah's Witnesses
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.revealnews.org/article/california-court-guts-child-abuse-ruling-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.
california court guts child abuse ruling against jehovahs witnesses.
topics: religion / religion and government .
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konceptual99
The point about duty to warn the congregation is covered in the court documents:
https://jwleaks.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/04-13-2015-appeals-court-final-decision-a136641.pdf
Check page 12 onwards - there is several pages of legal reasoning.
The punitive damages were based on the duty to warn the congregation. Since the ruling was there was no LEGAL duty to warn the congregation then the punitive damages were removed.
When you real the documentation you can see why this was not upheld and what the broader implications are should this duty have been established as a legal responsibility.
Of course, this does affect the MORAL responsibility to protect the congregation as far as is possible. It does not mean that some policy cannot be formulated that helps protect the congregation as much as possible from the risk of child molestation without exposing the congregation to the broader implications of a duty to protect from the risk of one congregation member committing a crime of any sort against another.
It is bizarre that the WTS is so ready to spout on about when things, such as building projects, have been done to a standard way beyond that required by the law yet on this matter seem only too happy to go only as far as the law requires them to go and not implement the best practice that so many other organisations have adopted.