James Thomas Rook Jr.

Due process at one time was binding a witch suspect with ropes and dropping her into a full horse trough.
If she sank she was innocent.
If she floated she was guilty.
Remember, at the height of the Nazi plague on the Earth, they had a fully staffed "Department of Justice" and death warrants were signed, sealed delivered and executed with all due process.
 

Well, now that you put it that way, the work stinks. 
But you shouldn't put it that way. It is a ridiculous description. 'Brazen' is nebulous whereas 'loose' is crystal clear? You're just beating a familiar dead horse, possibly one that has thrown you.

Because it is not, relatively speaking.
Study 54 of the report, a follow-up to Study 29, makes possible an apples-to-apples comparison. Study 54 looked at the 17 instances of child abuse from the Witness organization that had been reported in the interim, from August 2015 to January 2017. Nine were historical cases and none involved an elder. All occurred in a familial setting. Of the seventeen, two had refused to report as they were adult survivors and it was their right not to report. The number of Witnesses in all Australia at the time was 67,418.
An apples-to-apples comparison becomes possible with a pool size large enough to be significant. Out of a total national Australian population of 23,968,973, The Australian Institute of Family Studies reported 41,622 notifications of child sexual abuse, (2014-2015) and the Commission likely reviewed some of them. Seemingly, the safest place a child could be was in the Jehovah’s Witness community, for proportionately, one would have expected 117 incidents, 100 more than the actual number. (The disparity is even greater, since a 17 month period for the Witnesses is compared to a 12-month period for all Australia) Do the math discover from these figures that a child is ten times safer in the Witness community than in the overall world.
What the ARC criticized was procedures for handling abuse cases that have occured. It was not their mission to look at whether, in a given setting, abuse was more or less likely to happen in the first place. Had it been, they would have awarded JWs a Family Glory award, just like Putin did to the Russian Witness family.

How and why is the Jehovah's Witness' translation of the Bible different than some more common translations?
The ENGLISH translation was theoretically accurately translated into the New Word Translation of the Bible. 
This worked well pre-2013 with the old NWT and produced a Bible that was highly respected even by critics ... well, some critics who were demonstratively objective in their analysis, such as Jason BeDunn.
THEN, they got the idea to paraphrase the Bible, and fit it to the previous policy statements of the 2010 Top Secret Elder's Handbook which made it a punishable offense to have "brazen conduct".
A catch-all that could mean anything.
With this "Silver Sword" post 2013 paraphrased Bible Translation Centers were established all over the world .... where whatever folks were available could take this simplified, paraphrased English version ... and translate it into local Languages by whoever was available that would work for free, and spoke both English and any of several hundred other languages.
The selection of translators criteria and qualifications to do this kind of work is a closely guarded "military secret". The quality control is totally unknown by ANYBODY.
Many translation centers all over the world were closed down. and the staff dispersed.
Some went home... others just disappeared mysteriously.
The pre-2013 (1962 to 2013) New World Translation is in my considered and educated opinion the finest Bible Translation ever produced by the mind of man ... into English.
I wish I had stocked up on them before they were discontinued.

The best dressed folks I ever saw were Mafioso types, the Governing Body, and of course, Penguins.

I noticed on the "Pillowgate" WTB&TS Videos, that sex toys were not mentioned.

Works for ME!
Think Tight Pants Tony would like this cartoon?

Here is a picture of some Brothers and Sisters participating in TPT Fashion Felonies, at an Assembly.
Note the contrasting lapel badges.

Of course customs vary .... In San Francisco, California they could be mistaken for  Insurance Salespersons.

.... an 18 shot 9mm sem-auto handgun under my pillow is better than a 5 shot revolver under my pillow.
Ya never can tell ..... ( wink wink ).
As you can tell from my photo ... made my hair grow out in BANGS!

Mr. Rook,
 
I want to know what Biblical support you have for the your idea that the Holy Spirit is a power/force... do you have any? I think not.
 
Also, I don’t need to substitute anything. Like it or not, you brought up the silly example of drivers’ license to try to support your manmade idea, I just showed how unsubstantiated it was. <><

When I propose mindless fluff, I do not mind,  AllenSmith, because I have YOUR mind,  in mind.
By the way .... you just did EXACTLY what Matthew9969 accused you of.
ZING!
 

Sadly .... no.
The first thing I go to when I visit someone at their house is their bookcases, to see what they read .... and all too often I have seen NOTHING but the Society's publications.
It is as if ignorance is a badge of honor.
 

This conversation is OVER, James
Go back to your gun loving glee club, and enjoy sleeping with your armoury.

WHAT A BAD, SAD, HORRIBLE  WORLD????????
PEOPLE NEVER CAN WORK IT....    JEHOVAH,  PLEASE COME SOON?? 

John:
You have tunnel vision, and it's a long tunnel, and what you see is an oncoming train.
There are thousands of massacres occurring all over the place, and always have been.
In 1995 Rwanda had a MILLION PEOPLE MURDERED , with 800,000 machetes the government bought for some carefully planned ethnic cleansing, by the general populace, against the general populace.
Just google Massacres, or Genocide, and the name of any particular country you want to know about.
Most massacres and genocides are done with edged weapons, or poison gas, or other non-gun methods, blunt force trauma leading the pack.
IT"S CHEAPER THAN FIREARMS AND BULLETS!!
Even Australia has it's gun massacres  ..... as happened in Tasmania, at Port Arthur about 22 years ago.  Australia had been disarmed, but one of the guns confiscated  SOMEHOW was used to kill kill 35 people and wound 23.
OH WAIT!  Let me rephrase that .
The firearm was in a police storage area and was used as a tool to murder and maim them ... by an evil MAN.  The rifle itself was quite content in the dark, in a police impound area.
Of course the Aboriginal Australians were massacred, but massacre is hardly the right word ... GENOCIDE is.
You are WAY, WAY behind on your history.
Add that to an agenda driven perception and you will absolutely insure that as you said... you were wrong before, and will be wrong again.
And you are wrong NOW.

Most of the human race are kind, just, and honorable .... but the 15% pure evil people can mess up your whole afternoon.
The price of freedom and peace is eternal and COMPETENT vigilance.
OTHERWISE, you end up like the corpses in the above photos.
 

( JTR pauses to throw a brick through the plate glass window...)
Remember the original question?
"DOES THE GOVERNING BODY LIVE ON CAMPUS OR OFF CAMPUS?
I would like to supplement that with:
"Who lives in the Watchtower owned residence valued at 1.4 MILLION DOLLARS in Colony Park gated community, 35 miles from the Campus?"
Hmmmm?
 

( JTR pauses to throw a brick through the plate glass window...)
Remember the original question?
"DOES THE GOVERNING BODY LIVE ON CAMPUS OR OFF CAMPUS?
I would like to supplement that with:
"Who lives in the Watchtower owned residence valued at 1.4 MILLION DOLLARS in Colony Park gated community, 35 miles from the Campus?"
Hmmmm?
 

For example, I just read that Billy Graham died today at 99, the grandpa of the TV evangelists.
I don't recall any financial abuse with him, and his final circumstances appear to be reasonably modest. When he traveled, it was not via VW Beetle and he didn't clip the Pennysaver, but they conducted operations as would anyone else on tour -  I can recall Carlin or someone making fun of his expensive suits, but it is a cheap shot and everyone knows it - even he himself, probably, who was just doing what comedians do.

Thank you for showing a perfect example of how detached from reality you jw's are.  Also how you attempt to deflect the conversation to something else...what the heck does forcing people to divorce have to do with the subject? You born in jw's have no clue how religious charities work, you do realize there is more research outside of the watchtower publications don't you?
 

Go figure it out. If you can't, I do feel sorry for you.

We have gone a LOOOong way since we were simple Bible Students seeking the approval of Jehovah God and his Christ.
lyrics to Mercedes Benz / Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?
I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?

Everybody!
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

 
 

Less than full disclosure CREATES hate .. as innocence is assumed to be real conspiracys if it is not crystal clear, based on facts.
A culture of everything being "Eyes Only" secrets breeds distrust.
Only the very young, the very naive, and the very new, trust their Congregational Elders anymore to tell them what is REALLY going on ....
 

I am pleased to see that your Christian personality is is shinning through.........or is it your true personality???

... and as far as being footstep followers of Jesus Christ ... there is NO RECORD of any children being Baptized in the Bible, and Jesus himself was age 30 when he was Baptized.
We are baptizing children at the ages of 8, and up.
Follow Jesus?
Gimmee a BREAK!
His example is being totally ignored.