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On 2/3/2019 at 8:24 PM, JOHN BUTLER said:
So they count as JW's from age of 3 when they put in Report Slips,
and they can get baptised from age of 5.
How desperate the GB / JW Org is getting, and how competitive it must be getting for parents.
Oh look!!! Those silly disciples are still at it!
Just like it says at Mark 10:13-16.....................
"People now began bringing him young children for him to touch them, but the disciples reprimanded them. At seeing this, Jesus was indignant and said to them: “Let the young children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such ones. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a young child will by no means enter into it.” And he took the children into his arms and began blessing them, laying his hands on them."
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On 2/3/2019 at 8:24 PM, JOHN BUTLER said:
How desperate the GB / JW Org is getting, and how competitive it must be getting for parents.
Yep. We're really desperate, and competitive. All losers excluded!!!
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48 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:
So in many cases there seems to be recommendation for waiting to get baptised until a person is of a mature age.
Is that what you did?
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36 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:
And as W/t material has been in production for far longer than i've been on this forum, you are obviously wrong.
Just on the basis of forum presence I would hazard you win hands down.
37 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:as usual from you
Always glad to meet customer expectations.
38 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:But for person that hides behind a pussy, I don't expect anything better
I have reported your abusive comments anonymously to 0300 1234 999. Expect a visit.
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47 minutes ago, The Librarian said:
quite a few @jw.org email addresses registered
Does that make them professionals?
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4 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:
Just pointing out the facts that the GB / Writing dept' seem to need to write about it all.
You have a higher % of sextalk in your postings than WT material though.
- Melinda Mills and JOHN BUTLER
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On 2/3/2019 at 10:45 PM, Witness said:
Gerrit Losch: "I do not direct and have never directed..."
Leave it to the professionals to decide. Thaere ain't none of them on here!
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2 hours ago, JOHN BUTLER said:
Jesus was 30 years old when he presented himself for baptism to do his Father's will
Do you think this made him more accountable?
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1 hour ago, JOHN BUTLER said:
GB or some JW's just love to think about and talk about SEX
You too, it appears.
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37 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:
So you are condemning the ELDERS of JW org then ? Thanks I agree with you.
Actually, I condemn the action (or inaction) of every single last one of you who hide the facts of child abuse from the relevant authorities. I don't differentiate on the basis of any perceived status in or out of any organisation. You are all in the same bag to me.
- JOHN BUTLER and Anna
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2 hours ago, JOHN BUTLER said:
there were people on both sides of this issue
It's not about the issue around who is on what side or the other.
It's primarily about the safety of children and the failure of adults, whoever they are, to discharge their responsibility to ensure that safety. And it's also about the moral responsibility of those both inside and outside of organisations who cover up detailed allegations out of cowardice and misplaced loyalties.
These responsibilities are not removed by the opinions of others.
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13 hours ago, Anna said:
@JOHN BUTLER posted on November 18th 2018:........... "For, in my opinion, it is the duty of anyone that has any information concerning child abuse to report it to the police."
This is a quote from the original poster who subsequently asks for the opinion of others.. The opinion of others can only be Yes, No, or Maybe. As this is a UK issue, there is a moral, not legal, duty, for an informed third party to report such matters to a suitable authority. In view of the intimate knowledge this alleger claims to have, the option was suggested that they discuss the matter anonymously with Childline on a Freephone number 0800 1111.
What is particularly odious about the whole exchange is that the party in question is vociferously complaining and making allegations about others who, in their opinion, "cover up" such cases.
Consider:
- An allegation has been made.The accuser has given their opinion as above.
- Others have expressed their varied opinions.
- An option that would report the matter to a suitable authority, anonymously, has been given.
- Yet the alleger continues to dither, continues to accuse others of the same moral hypocrisy.
- The alleged potential for further harm remains.
This person, regardless of status, is appearing to behave like an active part of the problem they are continually complaining about. Why is there even a discussion on the matter?
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On 12/25/2018 at 11:08 PM, Jack Ryan said:
"There was no biblical reason for divorce like prostitution or death,"
Smeone has been on the sauce here!
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On 12/25/2018 at 11:17 PM, Jack Ryan said:
Don't worry Billy.... just send in your money to the Governing Body via JW.org and God will bless you.
Just ask any Jehovah's Witness near you in rich California and they will explain how they dedicate so much money to charities and helping people in need.
"Keep warm and well fed"!!
Did you send him something?
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5 hours ago, Srecko Sostar said:
that difference in question detail is more than clear!
You're probably answering the wrong question.
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21 hours ago, JW Insider said:
Edgar Clay was effeminate in a way that kind of creeped out other Bethelites.
Yes, probably they were some of the more creepy Bethelites, of whom there were a few I met in the 70s.
My recollection of Edgar, who I met just after I was baptised, was of a rather friendly, polite, little, old gentleman. He had quite a soft voice and a rather eccentric way of speaking, almost like a stammer, and a bit of a twitchy eye, like a kind of squint that would intermittently assert itself. I suppose that might have made him a bit "unfashionable" along with his early '50s dress sense. I knew nothing then of his background, that he was one of the anointed, started his Bible study in 1914, Bethel from 1926 etc.
In the ensuing years he visited us at home or we met up with him at Bethel when he keenly showed me round the various printing presses and how to operate the linotype press as in the photo. Jack Barr was working next to him at the time. He was anything but "creepy". In fact, he gave me a great deal of encouragement in my most formative years coming into Jehovah's organisation. I lost touch with him late '70s and actually do not know when he died. He was in his 80s when I last saw him.
I found out later that he was known by the brothers as one of the "three wise men" along with Pryce Hughes and Ewart Chitty because of the lead they took at Assemblies and Conventions during the 40s and 50s.
I knew him as an unassuming, kindly and encouraging gentleman, with one or two "minor" physical oddities that provided food for behind-the-back ridicule on the part of some Bethelite "creeps".
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42 minutes ago, The Librarian said:
I heard one brother say one time that the point 'is to be the last JW standing' ..... you get the idea.
Didn't Peter say something similar?
Yes indeed...., but not wisely (unless I am mistaken)...."But Peter, in response, said to him: “Although all the others are stumbled in connection with you, I will never be stumbled!”" Matt.26:33
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On 3/12/2016 at 11:48 PM, Jack Ryan said:
By then he had roomed with the same man for 30 years and just about gushed when speaking about him.
"Then, too, I have had the same friend and roommate for the past thirty years or more, Brother Edgar Clay, whose life
story you may have already read; but now we share a lovely room, a most pleasant home with a fine view facing south, and
an extra window looking out to rising fields and trees and the setting sun in all its glory." WT Feb 15 1963.You call that gushing?
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4 minutes ago, Jack Ryan said:
Like the ones back in the 1950's or more like the ones in 2018?
Do you mean 1950s ones that have survived through to 2018? Or dead 'uns?
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2 minutes ago, Jack Ryan said:
Modern JW Baptismal question contradicts previous Watchtower claims
???
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18 minutes ago, Srecko Sostar said:
NOT CUT my Quotes
Don't be silly. You do it all the time.
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Is this an issue? Or just for information??
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2 minutes ago, Srecko Sostar said:
I can say a little pray for you to my unknown god ....
Unknown to me ...or to you?
New announcement at the meeting this week in Japan.
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And texters and social media users and, if possible, snoozers. Blinking cheek!!!
Do it, do it, do it!!!
Yeah! Yeah! why not not just set up those bank drafts or standing order thingys, get the tax back and be done......In fact, make it a condition of joining!!