Originally posted by galveston75A man sent me a gift from there, chess magazines from the 1960's, very valuable and rare, was super kind of him. I tried to google it to see what it looked like, it looks roasting hot, like cracks in the road hot.
Yep sure do......Been thru there a couple times but was years ago. Reeeeeeeeeeally flat land in those parts.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieIt is pretty much that way. The last scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where they rode off into the sunset was filmed in the panhandle of Texas because of the flatness of the land there.
A man sent me a gift from there, chess magazines from the 1960's, very valuable and rare, was super kind of him. I tried to google it to see what it looked like, it looks roasting hot, like cracks in the road hot.
It's also looking like we all may finally be moving back to Texas. Not a sure thing yet but now that dad is alone he is wanting to move back and so is my daughter and family, maybe even this summer. It would be a dream to finally move back home. I left in 89' and have thought of going back every day. Should never have left but I've got to see some beautiful things out west for sure. So we'll see.....
Pudgenik: No you are right that i have not read up on the findings of the Royal Australian Commission's report.Here are the findings of the Royal Commission and all the transcripts, robbie.
Originally posted by robbie carrobie
neither has divgeeester or FMF
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Originally posted by galveston75There were over a thousand allegations against their members and elders that the JWs knew about over a period of 60 years that were reported/submitted to the Australian Royal Commission, and the findings of the commission were that none of the allegations - not one - had been reported to the authorities by the JW organization since 1950. You should look at the findings. You can obtain them by clicking on the link in my post to robbie above.
No the report said thousands were reported.....
Originally posted by galveston75Isn't Deuteronomy part of the "old covenant"?
Deuteronomy 19:15
15 “No single witness may convict another "for any error or any sin" that he may commit. On the testimony of two witnesses or on the testimony of three witnesses the matter should be established."
Originally posted by galveston75Why not report the case to the authorities so that experts could handle it?
If there were no obvious proofs of a sin committed against someone, the proof needed to make a judgement against one persons words had to verified ( same rules as today but with modern help available ) somehow and this is where the two or more witnesses of that offence came into play. If no other eye witnesses or proof were available and the person was truly abused, that was a sad and horrible thing to happen indeed.
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Originally posted by galveston75It's not clear what you are saying here. How did your "God's rule" help "the abused" in Australia between 1950 and now?
If anyone here were accused of abusing a child but you were truly innocent, would you not want to have all the proof you could find that you were innocent? Not only does God's rule on this help the abused without question, it helps the innocent.
Originally posted by galveston75From the commission's findings:
One must remember the many things available to us today with science did not exist then that have only become available in the last few years.
"BCG and BCB – two survivors of child sexual abuse whose complaints of abuse were first handled by the Jehovah’s Witness organisation in or around 1989 and 1992 respectively".
What are you suggesting about the ability [or lack of ability] of "science" to tackle sex crimes in 1989 and 1992?