I can't help but think if you were an in house bethel lawyer sitting in the KH listening to how much love / openness and transparency / accountability the organisation displays as been the one true religion. Then the next day going to court throwing some legal loop hole and a sex abuse case to get them off it.When you knew that the offender had left a multitude of victims and that the policies and procedures of that organisation had aided him. I don't know how they can go around knocking on doors with all this on their mind. So what would you do if you were a lawyer.
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Plano Star Courier: Latest news coverage about Dallas lawsuit filed against the WT
by AndersonsInfo inlatest newspaper coverage containing more details on the newly filed lawsuit against the watchtower.. lawsuit alleges exploitation, negligence, fraud throughout organization.
plano.jpgrelated documents.
jehovah's witness lawsuit.
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joe134cd
Jw gone bad = Wt is just such a hard nut to crack. For the money and legal resources they have at their disposal it makes it very easy for them to steam roll.
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NEWS : New developments in the London Bethel relocation story
by raymond frantz inlondon bethel relocation the story so farthere are new developments in the relocation of the london bethel development .
a landowner has agreed unconditionally to sell her rundown car breakers yard to jehovahs witnesses for their new uk headquarters, it emerged this week.. the international bible students association (ibsa) paid a deposit, agreed a final price and swapped contracts with charmaine small this month for temple farm in ship road, west hanningfield.. ms small has promised the ibsa the charity used by the religious sect to distribute its literature that dozens of car dealers will vacate the 50-acre farm over the next few months.. speaking to the chronicle, stephen morris, of the ibsa branch relocation department, said...(read full article here ).
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joe134cd
What ever is going on and their reasons for doing it, I can certainly smell a rat. I sincerely believe for the money they have got, and for the fraction of abuse cases that can be successfully brought against them, this won't spell the end for them.
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Warwick Building Project Fluff Stories
by bruh2012 intalking about an article that makes you want to throw-up in your mouth- wt-study jan 15, 2015 the offered themselves willingly.. amazing the psych job of selling your business, moving your entire family, quiting your job to be a "temporary" worker at the new world headquarters!.
throw your livelyhood away only to get the "feeling" that jehovahs is blessing you!
i wish there was away to track the psych job during patterson and other major projects of what happened to all the "friends" that sold and got rid of their livelyhood then and where are they now.. did you ever sacrifce it all for a building project only to be left with nothing after your "spiritual high"?.
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joe134cd
I'm lucky although I was a born in jw for decades. I was always cautious about how much of my energy and money I gave them. For as long as I can remember I was always a 1-2 hour publisher that never went above a talk number 4. I never pioneered and probably would of given a couple hundred bucks over the years. At the time I used to feel (and was made to feel) guilty about it. Now I'm thankful. I've always had a materialistic out look and always made sure I had enough in the bank to live well and now I guess i do.
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Not on JW.org: SIX Texas victims acuse Jehovah's Witness Elder & Circuit Overseer of sexual abuse, and bring lawsuit against Watchtower for cover-up.
by Balaamsass2 insexual exploitation and abuse of six young children leads to lawsuit in dallas county.
dallas, oct. 23, 2014 /news.gnom.es/ six young adults, from north texas, all sexually abused as children, filed suit today in dallas, texas state court against three north texas jehovahs witnesses congregations (dallas, plano, and greenville), the watchtower bible and tract society of new york, and an elder.. sexually abused when they were ages 4 through 14, the plaintiffs were children of members of the dallas, plano, and greenville jehovahs witnesses congregations.
the suit states that they were repeatedly sexually abused and molested by an elder and an unknown regional circuit overseer, and that they and their families were threatened with discipline and harm if they disclosed the abuse to anyone.
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joe134cd
I think if they have set up all these corporations to get get out of paying out on law suites. It will do a reverse turn and bit them on the bum. Just not a good look considering how much they go on about agape love and care for their members. The news media would have an even bigger field day than they are having now.
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The Kids Corner at Bethel!
by Atlantis infrom a jw site.. .. a nice little corner for the young ones at the central america bethel branch in mexico.. .. .. .
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joe134cd
What ever happend to the idea of the Kingdom Hall not been a play ground. If I played around with those toys when I was a kid I would of got the €+^% smacked out of me.
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Mormon Church Founder had 33 wives
by designs inwe know russell, rutherford franz and knorr wer kooky but joseph smith takes the cake.. the salt lake tribune of all newspapers has run an article on the lds founder's 33 wives, most of whom were teenagers.. http://www.sltrib.com/news/173364-155/plural-smith-joseph-marriage-lds-says.
would you stay an lds after knowing this, how would you rationalize staying with this knowledge.. .
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joe134cd
Coincidently enough I started a thread on the mormon church just a couple of days back here is the link
Here is another article discussing the issues they are facing. To the Mormons credit at least they are honest enough to come out and admit it. Sorry for some reason I can't seem to cut and past outside sources. If you google special report: mormonism besieged by a modern age | Reuters And it should bring it up.
To be honest I don't think the watchtower has got anything on the Mormon church in relation to the scandal and the total BS that surrounds it. Wouldn't it be funny if one day they merged into one.
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one last step..Is being mentally out the same as being emotionally out?
by MissFit inwe talk here about the importance of being mentally and physically out to be really free.. what about being emotionally free?.
i realized for me, i had to be emotionally awake first.
i had been yo-young back and forth for years.
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joe134cd
Direct apostasy never works. There has to be an external trigger that sets you off down this course.
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Will They Continue To Take Your Money After Booting You Out?
by steve2 inautomatic bank payments & being disfellowshipped.
as noted on this site, the organization has in place numerous electronic provisions for people to donate money, ranging from one-off payments through to monthly automatic payments from donors' bank accounts into the organization's.. this is all well and good - and consistent with what lots of organizations - religious or otherwise - do.. but, should a donor be disfellowshipped - or disassociated - is the pre-selected donation provision stopped by the organization itself?
do they have any policy at all on it?
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joe134cd
can anybody substantiate a story I heard about the bethel in the Czech Republic been financed from contributions of dirty money. i heard it was quite well known in that country.
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"The Waters" of Jehovah are drying up in Australia...65% young ones leave!
by Witness 007 inat the international convention last week i caught up with my old congregation and asked about the young ones...there were 2 answers.
1. they flat out left got a boyfriend etc.
and 2. havent seen them for awhile meaning they faded or went off the grid so as not to be disfellowshipped.
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joe134cd
I never asked him. I just took him at his word.