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  Australian Jehovah's Witnesses are ignorant of the Australian Royal Commission

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  many here have asked how the average witness in australia is taking the news of the arc findings and conclusions.. is it affecting them?.

  sorry to say, hardly any are even aware of the facts.

  those that are, have been convinced that all the publicity is "apostate lies and satanic propaganda".

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  Well Australia is a big brown land with lots of people and I 'm sure we couldn't possibly speak for everyone. These kinds of things have a way of slowly dripping into public consciousness.

  You never know what's happening in the minds of people. To help things along I have printed out some key pages of the ARC report and have placed into the letterboxes in the street of the local KH. I have also supplied the local sexual abuse support centre with info because the CEO wanted to know more about the beliefs and practices of the JWs they see.

  I prefer to think of the glass being half full at this stage, nothing happens overnight.
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  When 2 JWs have the same call...

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i was driving past a certain gas station today, i recalled that the family who own it are called on by a friend of mine, and in a territory where it's hard to find interest.

  it reminded me of an incident months back when this friend, brother d, discovered that another friend, brother b, was calling on that family too.

  hey, gotta make your time.. those two went at it.

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  With a large geographical area and a small population territory the competition over RV's was fierce and call poaching was common. The cong had three middle aged non- working, no-kid lady pioneers who felt all interest belonged to them by default because of their pioneer status. Plus the COBE's wife who thought the same thing.

  If a householder told them another witness called they would interogate to find out gender, age, what they looked like, how often they called how long etc and then walk up to that piblisher at the next meeting and say something like

  "You call on so and so?"

  "Why, yes I have been calli....."

  "Well you can stop because that's my call." Marches off to continue conversation with the groupies who have been watching the exchange from the other side of the hall.
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  Jehovah's Limp Witnesses Pointed Me to JW.org When I Was Willing to Talk

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  several months ago i approached a nice young couple who were standing by a jw literature stand in my local community.

  they were pleasant and polite but incredibly stilted when it came to answering my "innocent" questions about their beliefs.

  this was the occasion of jws featuring the article headlined "is religion dying?".

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  It seems like the WT's how to create a mind control slave program is complete and successful with witnesses like this couple.

  That stare into the middle distance you observed is caled the lights are on but nobody's home look.

  What a waste.
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  Putin cronies caught again placing banned lit at the KH

  by Sanchy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can these guys not see that there are surveillance cams all over the kh??

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  https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodourorganization/docid-802016753_1_video.

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  Ha ha that's funny, all that's missing is the misson impossible music or maybe the Benny Hill theme music.

  Putin cronies or russian brothers dressed in black.

  Headshake.....too funny.
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  Warwick and transport to meetings

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would imagine that most brooklyn bethelites attended congo meetings via subway.. how do they manage transport from warwick?.

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  It would make sense for them to conduct the meetings at Warwick and I fully expect them to do so in the future.

  Why would they build a massive compound and not include a meeting hall.

  With Big Brother now on screen they don't even need a hall.
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  Crisis of Conscience: December 12, 2015 - 50 weeks later

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on december 12, 2015 this statement was made by the copyright holder:.

  i am presently considering three different routes to publishing crisis of conscience.

  i hope to make a decision within days and plan to publish within weeks.. it has now been 50 weeks since that statement.. has the book been published yet?

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  Mike and Kim have been silent on the subject for a while now and they were the ones who were in contact with copyright holder. Something seems off to me, but it's a waiting game ultimately, that's what ownership is after all you can choose to publish or you can choose to sit on it and do nothing.
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  Crisis of Conscience: December 12, 2015 - 50 weeks later

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on december 12, 2015 this statement was made by the copyright holder:.

  i am presently considering three different routes to publishing crisis of conscience.

  i hope to make a decision within days and plan to publish within weeks.. it has now been 50 weeks since that statement.. has the book been published yet?

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  I wonder if WT would ever make an offer to obtain the rights (god knows they have the theocratic warfare mentality and the $$$) and then leave them in a vault somewhere forever with any other copies they have hoovered up off e-bay.

  Personally, I wouldn't put it past them.
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  Valparaíso, Chile! (jw.org front page)

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the second in an occasional series....... following on from wollongong.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5753386743889920/wollongong-new-south-wales-australia.

  here's valparaíso!.

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  It's not unusual for photos at travel sites and tourist advertisements to be cropped and tweeked with stuff like street signs and graffiti left out etc etc. No surprise if WT uses same techniques to maximize the fairytale witness life effect.
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  WTBTS' corrupt translation - to elevate elders!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt march 2017, p.11, par.

  13 quotes ephesians 4:8 as saying, "the bible refers to them as 'gifts in men.

  however, the org's own kingdom interlinear translation (and every other bible translation) gives a truthful translation of the verse: .

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  The Bible in Living English Eph 4:8 "....gave presents to men."
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  Valparaíso, Chile! (jw.org front page)

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the second in an occasional series....... following on from wollongong.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5753386743889920/wollongong-new-south-wales-australia.

  here's valparaíso!.

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  I can hear the art direction now " yeah, totally pimp up the colours and make it look busier with extra car and foot traffic but sshh let's pretend the big-ass church isn't there." lol.