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  Royal Commission live streamingstarting soon!

  by possum in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  august.

  mon 3 (cont) fri 7 .

  public hearing: case study 29 into jehovah's witnesses, sydney.

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  10.am Australian time

  5:00 pm West Coast time USA.

  8:00 pm East Coast time USA.

  It already started.
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  Royal Commission live streamingstarting soon!

  by possum in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  august.

  mon 3 (cont) fri 7 .

  public hearing: case study 29 into jehovah's witnesses, sydney.

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  When will it start?
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  For those of you "not baptised" and too afraid to front the RC. WT is hoping you won't come forward.

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hello to those following what is going in australia with our royal commission.. i want to let all those abused, neglected, shunned and blamed that i understand why you may not front the rc.

  the wtbts is hoping you will consider yourself an invalid complainant, because you are not or were not.....baptised.

  if you were abused at a young age and you told on your dad or the bad man that did it.......you would have been taken aside by the overseer and read scriptures about lying and being immoral; even if you didn't know what that word meant.

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  SimonSays:

  Do you even know what your writing about, and what the purpose of the RC is? read their pamphlet again, and stop distorting their intent for their inquiry FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  And please tell us Brother Says, what is the Royal Commission's intent?
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  Royal Commission needs to call GB to personally testify

  by RedPillPopper in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the gb needs to be subpenaed to testify just like losch was.

  the commission needs to subpena each one individually and make separate fines when each one refuses.

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  I also sent a short email worded:

  "As a former Jehovah's Witness who left the religion 35 years ago I want to thank you for everything you're doing in Australia concerning the child abuse case.

  "I was amazed by the knowledge of the cult and the professionality of those asking the questions. I wish that something similar would happen in the United States."

  We might want to word it differently than each other so that they don't think that it's just a mass mailing.
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  Saturday, Elders response to Royal Commission

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  on saturday the elder and his wife turned up.

  i have my reasons for not turning them away at the moment, at least, not until the completion of the rc.. i asked him about his thoughts on the rc.

  he said that he thought it was easy and nothing to worry about.

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  umbertoecho:

  "Only a thousand or so perverts compared to beastly Babylon the great apostate religions of the world."

  Tell him to compare that 1,000 to the 66,000 or so publishers in Australia. Also tell him that Australia is not going to be a nation any different from the rest of the world as far as percentage of offenders are concerned.
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  Like and Dislike buttons

  by KateWild in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  i have been visiting and commenting on jwn on my phone and have had a lot of success.

  the only thing is a couple of times i have hit the like or dislike button and can undo it.. simon could you add a way to help us uncheck a mistake..... i am not too concerned about the like button as much a the dislike....i wouldn't want to discourage any posters .

  kate xx .

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  On a different subject, is it possible to have a view count on the thread?
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  Watershed moment???

  by sparrowdown in

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  2. beliefs

  will this rc turn out to be the beginnings of a watershed time in wbts history?.

  do you have any thoughts regarding this?.

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  "Will this RC turn out to be the beginnings of a watershed time in WBTS history?"

  It will have an impact on their secret history, which is what most of Watchtower history is from the point of view of its members, but I don't think your typical JW will notice too much. There would be some fallout in the US but not in non-English speaking countries.
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  The audio recorder days -- remember those 1950s luggable cases?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don't remember why they met at our new bedford, ma, tenement, a $5 weekly cold water flat.

  mom took home some $37 per week and dad was disabled.

  there were no food stamps, no ssi.

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  kaik: "Also my grandmother had old radio."

  Ah yes, I remember that we had a vacuum tube radio. I also remember my teenage cousin showing off her new technology transistor radio.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses "Handling Child Abuse Matters" flowchart

  by jwleaks in

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  2. child-abuse

  jw leaks courtesy of the australian royal commission.

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  Tornintwo, can you give us a link directly to the specific PDF where that file can be found? There's a lot of documents one would have to plow through.
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  Labeling one self "Atheist" is Unscientific

  by LAWHFol in

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  2. beliefs

  i have not meet all atheists, and it would be foolish for me to assume that all atheists, share the same prototypical view points.

  i am inclined to feel that this classifies the views of a large percentage of atheists.

  "atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.

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  C0ntr013r:

  "We are not debating the existence of God, we are debating if you can be sure of his existence/non existence."

  I don't know if this has been brought up before but it would be helpful to define what type of god we are talking about. Is it the Biblical god? Is it a Deist god who only created the universe but left it alone for life to evolve?

  You can make absolutely sure that the biblical god either does not exist or if he exists that he is a pathetic writer and tyrant. That would be based on the contradictions and the moral turpitude of the Bible.

  The Deist god is harder to "disprove" as he can be considered to be an over glorified scientist in a different universe experimenting with the creation of other universes.