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  CEDARS (Again) Is it really about religious beliefs?

  by Listener in

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  2. friends

  john cedars has posted his latest blog "the trouble with apostates (and why it shouldn't put you off becoming one)".

  i acknowledge that he is entitled to his opionin just as we are ours but i am disappointed in some of his comments.. at this stage i'll try to be objective about it.

  he is defending his own position after all.. what bothers me most is his comments about athiests and christians which he seems to identify as being in conflict with each other.

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  You make some excellent points StephaneLaliberte.
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  Pistorius charge changed to murder

  by Tornintwo in

  1. social
  2. current

  just read on sky news that pistorius' charge has been changed to murder by the appeals court, on the basis that: .

  "pistorius must have foreseen that firing into the toilet would likely have killed whoever was inside - but he went ahead anyway".

  quite right too imo, he should go back to prison now.

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  Glad sanity has prevailed. It was touch and go there for while, the bastard almost got away with it.

  Hopefully the family can begin to heal.
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  Two Year Delay in Building New KHs - What Is the Real Impact?

  by committeechairman in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  where are all these kingdom halls that were going to start being built?

  the rbc arrangement was officially announced as an arrangement that was ending in the united states branch territory in a letter on january 24, 2014 (although this letter is no longer listed on jw.org).

  this means that 23 months have passed since the announcement of the ldc taking over and "acceleration" of kingdom hall builds.. what has happened in the meantime with kh construction?

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  WT doublespeak translation

  Acceleration = applying the brakes, coming go a screeching halt, now awaiting the sickening thud.

  Sad to think there are all these ex-RBC minions out there lost and waiting to hear from their Despicable GB.
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  The watchtowers view on Rape!!! must see

  by Khaleesi in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this person did a great job putting this together... i am disgusted with wt policies & them acting both judge & jurywatch "noonespecial - rapists - jw" on .

  youtube.

  https://youtu.be/lwufz7gyozm.

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  It's official, the WT are worse than current catholic church policy. Everyone who can should send this vid to the ARC.
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  Please i need guidance

  by alex_Am in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i know im young.

  i know i still have so much to learn i mean im only 14 but but even at a young age i have learned and i know what love is.

  this is where the problem comes in.

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  Just wait and see. No need to rush into a religious or romantic committment.
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  my sources tell me that it's time to pull out paper shredder

  by poopie in

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  at bethel.

  they have dug themselves deep in hole they are shreddin documents little by little so stuart anderson cannot get his hands on documents that would cause them to open those wallets the shunning policy is being questioned so much

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  Which bethel?

  Who's Stuart Anderson ?

  Are they shredding docs pertaining to shunning?
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  CEDARS (Again) Is it really about religious beliefs?

  by Listener in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  john cedars has posted his latest blog "the trouble with apostates (and why it shouldn't put you off becoming one)".

  i acknowledge that he is entitled to his opionin just as we are ours but i am disappointed in some of his comments.. at this stage i'll try to be objective about it.

  he is defending his own position after all.. what bothers me most is his comments about athiests and christians which he seems to identify as being in conflict with each other.

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  Oubliette - ok.
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  CEDARS (Again) Is it really about religious beliefs?

  by Listener in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  john cedars has posted his latest blog "the trouble with apostates (and why it shouldn't put you off becoming one)".

  i acknowledge that he is entitled to his opionin just as we are ours but i am disappointed in some of his comments.. at this stage i'll try to be objective about it.

  he is defending his own position after all.. what bothers me most is his comments about athiests and christians which he seems to identify as being in conflict with each other.

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  Is taking oneself too seriously a hangover symptom of being in a cult?

  Inside the cult, intolerance was taught and encouraged.

  Judgemental attitudes abounded in the congregation, yet because JWs are all "polite christians" they rarely told you their problem to your face they gossiped behind your back and plotted your downfall with some elder or elderette they had in their pocket.

  It's no surprise to me that some ex-dubs are extra sensitive to criticism and all questions can be percieved as a form of attack.

  Put those things together and you end up with some very self-absorbed, know-it-all, paranoids. I 'm sure there are plenty who would enjoy watching the downfall of JC and there are plenty of sycophants who worship the ground he walks on.

  Like most things in life the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

  Hopefully the more time spent around "normies" (normal, regular people who weren't raised in a doomsday cult) the more balanced one becomes.
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  Impact of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on JW policies and procedures

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the royal commission is not yet over.

  the summary of findings on jws is not the end of the story.

  the legal process is unfolding and the only open question is the extent to which jw organization in australia will be legally mandated to change its policies and procedures on child sexual abuse.. (on the question of shunning those who leave, the commission is well intended but has strayed beyond its legal brief.

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  Girlnextdoor -Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm not saying the RC is a toothless tiger, but that possibly someone in WT heirarchy would arrogantly deem it to be and therefore not to be taken too seriously. Hypothetical reason for their un-preparedness???
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  Impact of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on JW policies and procedures

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the royal commission is not yet over.

  the summary of findings on jws is not the end of the story.

  the legal process is unfolding and the only open question is the extent to which jw organization in australia will be legally mandated to change its policies and procedures on child sexual abuse.. (on the question of shunning those who leave, the commission is well intended but has strayed beyond its legal brief.

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  The WT did appear rather ill-prepared which I put down to several possible rationales/scenarios.

  * This was a deliberate strategy from the higher ups at HQ to cause the brothers at Australia Branch to appear feckless to the extreme. Which wasn't difficult because even brothers with positions at a relatively large branch are feckless to the extreme. Ignorant and out of the GB loop, cannon fodder at best.

  * Once fecklessness has been established, and it was...oh it was. The GB have their heads on a plate to serve up to the media or the gov or whoever else is demanding for a few heads to roll. They can say the Aus Branch f...ed up, they didn't know what they were doing, but we will "fire" all the incompetents and "clean house" in the spirit of cooperation.

  * Someone, somewhere in the Head Honcho dep at HQ would have reseached the RC and deemed it to be a toothless tiger, so therefore nothing to worry about.

  *They have already inplemented some clever jiggery-pokery with changing the name of the TMS and dropping the bookstudy in private homes and will continue to rearrange the wording/phrasing of key passages in future literature and correspondence and present this as evidence of change - if asked to provide it.