Posts by doofdaddy

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Introducing Myself

by Peony in

i've finally got round to joining the site (after over 2 years lurking!

i was born into jws, pioneered for 10 years (met my husband at pioneer school).

had health issues that saw me catapulted away from 'the centre of the cong' and wow what a different place that was!

doofdaddy

You write well and certainly brought back memories for me.

It's a sad little world the jws inhabit and I felt truly "born again" when I finally left it's orbit.

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Paul Grundy being interviewed on ABC 612 right now

by Anonymous1 in

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/stations/local_brisbane/live?play=true

doofdaddy

Well, Conversations is prime time every week day morning, 11 to 12 and goes national. Has to be hundreds of thousands at the least.

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Scottish Convention Revelation!

by The Searcher in

some circuit overseer gave a talk and made this statement - "jehovah will very soon resurrect millions of people.....".

"soon" is so old hat now - "very soon" will become the new buzz words in j.w.-land..

doofdaddy

The watchtower was saying we were in the dying seconds of the old system back in the 80's.

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i actually have had dealings with rod and found him to be a very reasonable and "non-robotic" man in the past.. i know it should not surprise me, but i was disappointed to hear his lies and half-truths.. they know their stuff and are not easily led, but he tried to lead the royal commission to believe that 2 people could be involved in investigating a claim - which is wrong.. his lack of memory on what parts of the judicial process are biblical - hello - none are.

there are no scriptures that backup the use of 3 men, a body of elders, cutting people off from family and friends, restrictions, etc.. he also lied about the gb being involved in policy creation and changes.. his statement that in all cases, elders are told to inform parents that they can go to the authorities and get the full support of the congregation is not verifiable.

doofdaddy

Hey Smiddy excellent point. Here is an article from 2012 which covers this exact case. The woman loses a defamation case against the elders on a technicality but the basis of the article is this woman talking to another sister about her ex's wrongdoing even showing a photo of him with another woman on holiday.

The elders disfellowship HER (!) for slander!!

Kinda blows that elder's lies into the weeds http://www.irishtimes.com/news/claim-by-jehovah-s-witness-dismissed-1.475835

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A Limerick for Geoffrey

by JustVisting in

there once was a man from down under,who's speech was thought of like thunder,.

but when pops came dow ill,.

geoff flew in with a pill.

doofdaddy

There once was a jw called Jackson

who had an unusual attraction

Another called Michael being quite diabolical

shared Jackson's attraction to young action

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Royal Commission live streamingstarting soon!

by possum in

august.

mon 3 (cont) fri 7 .

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

doofdaddy

These guys have been coached. All claim to have not read the material sent by the RC. All claim to know nothing about the RC despite it being covered in all media in Oz.

All are claiming poor memory but then can recall points of how the "society" assisted in these cases (in detail).

I agree with Ozman. The wt lawyers are only keeping their arguement to "We were only following the law back as it was when these cases came up." and "We are now at the cutting edge of religious organisations who protect children." In other words they are not liable for compensation from the cases highlighted by the Commission.

It's all about the bucks and The Chief Justice and Angus Stewart know that.They are laying careful foundations for a compensation case e.g. why they destroyed that "expert" witness and why they are hammering each elder to admit that they didn't follow legal procedure on the say of the branch and the wider wt material.

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JW EXPERT WITNESS FLOORED BY COMMISSION OF INQUIRY LAWYER

by steve2 in

much has already been written about dr monica applewhite, the expert witness hired by the jw organization.

her job was to provide "expert" testimony to the australian commission of inquiry into jehovsh's witnesses' policies and practices on child sexual abuse.

astonishingly, dr applewhite was unprepared for the inquiry lawyers' questions.

doofdaddy

I enjoyed the way Mr Stuart slowly, carefully and accurately pulled her CV apart. It was all fluff and bubble.

But what I cannot get my head around is that as a Doctor in her professed field, she didn't reference her conclusions. Justice McClelland stopped proceedings and took her to task saying the statement was purely personal opinion and considering she is speaking for the jws, inadmissable.

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Yet more trolley (in)activity

by konceptual99 in

jw
friends

i am currently having to spend a little time waiting for an appointment in the vicinity of a central london station.

whilst waiting i am catching up on some work in a cafe.

i can see a couple of trolleys and have been watching them for around an hour now.. not one person has stopped to take literature.

doofdaddy

Interesting that the jws who take the bible so literally have now decided to ease back on christs command to go door to door and into people's homes.

Many yrs ago on this site I predicted that jws were slowly heading mainstream and sure enough the blood "issue" has since been radically eased, the urgency of the end times has been eased, the ban on the internet has backflipped, the generation of the last days has basically disappeared and finally preaching has been downgraded to signs on kingdom halls saying go to jw.com and passively sitting behind a desk checking facebook and chatting with friends.

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Indian Paradox

by fulltimestudent in

while researching a comment on the long-running naga rebellion in india, i came across this charming image.

a woman wearing a burqua (so obviously muslim) walks her son to school.

its described as being a festival day, so the boy is dressed as the lord krishna.. from the indian newsnation: http://www.newsnation.in/photos/entertainment/only-happen-in-india-1021/slide1#more.

doofdaddy

While travelling in India I found the Muslims almost over the top friendly to me as a stranger, always asking me to tea at their homes. Religious tolerance, actually tolerance is a poor word as it relates to tolerate, India celebrates religious interaction. As one (Hindu)sage said to me, god is like a lampshade with many holes in it. Every one looks through a different hole but it is all from the same source.

It is only the fanatics on all sides that fuel the hate filled violence.

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What would a Psychoanalyst think about Jehovah's mental health condition?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think he would definitely diagnose him with a extremely violent form of narcissism, lugging around a huge shadow of denial, which makes him petty and homophobic, and those 100,000 animal sacrifice orgies he so very much enjoys are a sign of a serious greedy glutton.

no doubt this voracious hunger for burnt flesh of lowly animals stems from the energy need after he experiences a uncontrollable bursts of anger creating a vicious cycle he can not break free of so that the only thing that can save him and turn him less violent is a human sacrifice from his heavenly son incarnate to quell his terrible anger.. maybe some form of oedipus complex too?.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oedipus_complex.

doofdaddy

I see "jehovah" more like an adolescent boy who uses his size or fists to lord it over who ever he can. When his belly is full (usually overstuffed) he is peaceful and relaxed but when hungry watch out. As these boys age (not mature) they can become spousal abusers/sociopaths. The god of the bible is a self absorbed brat despite how hard christians try to spin it.