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  Cardinal George Pell Acquitted Of Child sex Abuse !

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. child-abuse

  cardinal george pell the australian catholic who was the 3rd most senior person in the vatican was acquitted by the high court of australia of all sex charges against him this morning.. after serving about 400 days behind bars he is now free to walk out of jail, to the shock of many.. this should make news headlines all around the world judging by past experience..

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  To be honest when this first conviction came down I didn`t see how on the evidence that was provided he could have been convicted the way he was .

  Their definetely was an element of doubt about the case he was tried on.

  However having said that I think and this is my own opinion he was convicted on what has been brought out how he was a friend of a known serial sex offender in the Catholic religion and he was in a position where he could move around priests that had a problem with abuse of children ,and he was in the thick of it in the Ballarat area where abuse was rife at the time ?

  It will be interesting to see if other accusations will now be levelled at cardinal Pell either civil or criminal now that this particular case is now closed for good.
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  Evidence of WT bad intent - How they handled changing the meaning of "porneia"

  by AlainAlam in

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  2. scandals

  sorry, long post :) i'm considering evidence that at least at some point, the gb/watchtower had bad intentions.

  i would like to share the following: *** w74 11/15 p. 703 questions from readers ***do lewd practices on the part of a married person toward that one’s own mate constitute a scriptural basis for the offended mate to get a divorce?there are times when lewd practices within the marriage arrangement would provide a basis for a scriptural divorce.. based on this, some jw chose to divorce.

  but then:*** w83 3/15 p. 30 honor godly marriage!

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  wozza

  Is that why they never identify the author of any of their publications by name ? Their books or publications would now be rejected because so and so is no longer a JW or in fact has become an apostate ?
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  STIR CRAZY please help me covid-19 with religious family

  by Wagurl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi need some help with the teachings regarding the 4type horsemen and the virus.

  i'm 17 going to be 18 in six months.

  i am a running start student and trying to find the best way to move out after i graduate next year to continue.

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  Jehovah`s Witnesses have been living on the edge for the past 140 years forever looking at every negative thing going on in the world and saying to themselves this is it ,this is it ,this is it.

  Honestly have they ever been right about anything they have predicted in their books ?

  "Your Will Be done on Earth"?

  "Babylon The Great has Fallen" ?

  "Revelations Grand Climax " ?

  The short answer is no.

  Its a religion based on FEAR ,fear of the GT ,fear of Armageddon ,fear of displeasing Jehovah,and above all

  FEAR of not following the directions of the Governing Body of Jehovah`s Witnesses.
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  Cardinal George Pell Acquitted Of Child sex Abuse !

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  cardinal george pell the australian catholic who was the 3rd most senior person in the vatican was acquitted by the high court of australia of all sex charges against him this morning.. after serving about 400 days behind bars he is now free to walk out of jail, to the shock of many.. this should make news headlines all around the world judging by past experience..

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  Thanks for putting that link up jtg
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  My ExElder Best Friend Has Coronavirus

  by minimus in

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  this has been a horrible month.

  my best friend’s wife just called to tell me that my friend had to be hospitalized due to severe coronavirus complications.

  he has severe pneumonia, is put on a ventilator and is in a coma .

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  So sorry to hear this minimus I just hope they both recover.
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  Cardinal George Pell Acquitted Of Child sex Abuse !

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  cardinal george pell the australian catholic who was the 3rd most senior person in the vatican was acquitted by the high court of australia of all sex charges against him this morning.. after serving about 400 days behind bars he is now free to walk out of jail, to the shock of many.. this should make news headlines all around the world judging by past experience..

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  Cardinal George Pell the Australian Catholic who was the 3rd most senior person in the Vatican was acquitted by the High Court of Australia of all sex charges against him this morning.

  After serving about 400 days behind bars he is now free to walk out of jail, to the shock of many.

  This should make news headlines all around the world judging by past experience.
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  My Girlfriend’s Beautiful Scottish Terrier Died Yesterday 😥

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  mia was almost 8 and she was the sweetest dog who was my girlfriend’s constant companion.

  she had a wonderful disposition and was just a source of joy to everyone who would meet her.. she was brought to the vet on thursday and seemed to have digestive issues.

  the vet gave her medicine and said it would make her sleepy.

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  My thoughts are with you ." Nobody loves you like a dog does." that`s my sentiments mourning my Toy Poodle of 16.5 years of love and affection .
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  We're going to start a food bank

  by road to nowhere in

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  2. friends

  my phone number seems to be mixed in a group elder text.

  cryptic things come through that make no sense.

  a list of needed items and a will do reply.

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  Here in Australia I believe "not for profit organizations / charities " can apply for Govt. assistance .I would hate to think that the JW/WT religion applies and gets it ?

  But knowing what leeches and parasites they are I`m sure they will put their hand out.
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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

  i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

  who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.

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  stan ,the thick red one was "Babylon The Great has Fallen" ,the Revelation book was the large book similar in size to the "Paradise Lost " book .

  Wasanelder Once

  The explanation of the 7 trumpets being conventions in the 1920's was one of the nails in the coffin for me with that explanation .I just could not accept that one bit, and I thought it was very presumptuous of them to claim that.

  And it still took me years to ditch the religion altogether. And eventually ditch all religion and the Bible.
  
  
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  How to CYA (cover your ass) Watchtower style

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  2. beliefs

  today’s watchtower article was the ultimate cya.

  for friggin’ decades all we heard was that as armageddon gets nearer and nearer, the number of the ‘great crowd’ will increase and the number of the “little flock” will decrease!

  in fact, it was one of the proofs that the end was near!.

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  For many of us who can`t stomach the thought of going onto JW.Org to see these articles can someone put the said article on here ? pretty please ?

  Reading between the lines the GB must be expecting a far greater number to partake of the bread & wine this year.?

  You would think they would stop reporting the numbers now as its getting embarrassing to see the numbers increasing so much when for decades they were predicting the opposite should be happening.

  I used to be always looking out for those numbers way back when I was in.

  You would think that this alone would wake people up ?