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  Happy Birthday to me!

  by awake!watcher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am an inactive awake "witness" who recently had a birthday.

  most of my family is in.

  my hubby is awake, with no family in.

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  smiddy

  Happy birthday awake!watcher ,

  Have a great day and don`t worry about what the W.T./J.W.`s think.They are irrelevant .

  smiddy
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  The Hunting Ground Netflix Documentary , Sexual Assaults on Campus

  by smiddy in

  1. social
  2. current

  "this documentary expose` tackles the disturbing epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses and school officials efforts to cover up the crimes.".

  it also highlights how institutions , sport ,religion ,the media , law enforcement , and financial concerns are all complicit in this cover up , blaming the victim while protecting the perpetrator .. their are so many similarities to what occurs in the jehovah witness /watchtower religion .. i highly recommend you view it if you haven`t already seen it , and if so please comment on it .. smiddy.

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  "This documentary expose` tackles the disturbing epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses and school officials efforts to cover up the crimes."

  It also highlights how institutions , sport ,religion ,the media , law enforcement , and financial concerns are all complicit in this cover up , blaming the victim while protecting the perpetrator .

  Their are so many similarities to what occurs in the Jehovah Witness /Watchtower religion .

  I highly recommend you view it if you haven`t already seen it , and if so please comment on it .

  smiddy
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  One Person Baptized at Circuit Assembly

  by Simon Templar in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i went to the circuit assembly with my wife yesterday.

  i have to keep peace in the family.

  there were less than 1,000 people for both the morning and the afternoon sessions.

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  doykl.

  Gerrymandering it is , spot on mate , just shows you how dishonest they are.

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  what do you think is the main reason why so many young ones are waking up?

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  seems as though the number of baptisms even for the young ones is down from what people report here.

  at my former hall the young ones are all in totally sheltered even while going to school.

  expressing thier desires to pioneer etc.

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  smiddy

  i. The internet

  2. The Clown on J.W.ORG. Video`s

  3. The ARC ,, and the U.K.Inquiry .

  4. The general Dumbing down of the message ( whatever the message really is , because no J.W. seems to have any clear idea what it is )

  5. The boring meetings hashing over the same old , same old stuff, that they have heard thousands of times before , and still the end is just around the corner.

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  My mom died at 96 (without a visit from her granddaughter)

  by BONEZZ in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  don't get here much anymore.

  my mom, if you remember, really wanted to see her granddaughter before she died.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpuj96a8lg.

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  I am so sorry BONEZZ , I hope her granddaughter lives to regret her refusal to see her grandmother`s dying wish.

  Your not alone brother my niece didn`t have anything to do with her grandmother when she was dying and the grandmother was never a J.W. yet earlier in the piece they were close .go figure.

  smiddy
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  Possible Cure/Treatment For All Neurologic Disease

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is a very deep, complicated article.

  that said it offers great hope for finding effective treaments for parkinsons, alzheimers, lou gerhrig's disease and huntington's.. it concerns autophagy - an internal housekeeping system used by cells to get rid of defective proteins.. more than the above, it could lead to a cure for aging itself!.

  http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v16/n1/full/cdd2008110a.html.

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  Funny you should say that Vidiot , we both have been out for over 20 years and when she was first experiencing these problems the thought crossed her mind , " if i was still in the religion I would have thought I was under the influence of the Demons ", however she quickly discarded that thought , realizing it is a medical condition due to her medication .

  The good news is she came home today and is well on to being her old self.

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  Possible Cure/Treatment For All Neurologic Disease

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is a very deep, complicated article.

  that said it offers great hope for finding effective treaments for parkinsons, alzheimers, lou gerhrig's disease and huntington's.. it concerns autophagy - an internal housekeeping system used by cells to get rid of defective proteins.. more than the above, it could lead to a cure for aging itself!.

  http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v16/n1/full/cdd2008110a.html.

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  stillin , Skedaddle ,nonjwspouse , I thank you for your thoughts and suggestions .

  My wife is still under observation in hospital , and has been told she is not mad , not phsycotic ,or even having hallucinations in the strict meaning of the word.

  She is having illusions ,her eyes playing tricks with her brain due to complications with her medication for parkinsons disease that they need to sort out.

  Today when I visited her she seemed much more like her old self , so I don`t think she will be in their much longer. She is learning to live with what she is experiencing knowing it`s related to her illness.

  Once again thank you for your concern guys.

  smiddy
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  more from ARC

  by zeb in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  royal commission hosts criminal justice public roundtablesthe royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse is holding a series of public roundtables in april to discuss a range of criminal justice issues with invited participants.

  the public roundtables follow march’s public hearing into criminal justice issues.

  royal commission chief executive officer philip reed said the public roundtables will discuss adult sex offender treatment programs, director of public prosecution’s (dpp) oversight and complaint mechanisms and reporting offences.“these roundtables will invite comment and discussion from a range of participants, including police, public prosecutors, criminal justice policy officials, academic and practitioner experts and others,” mr reed said.“consultation through these public roundtables will help inform the royal commission’s criminal justice policy work,” mr reed said.

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  Thank you Zeb for this info .

  I will look forward to watching the webcast.

  Didn`t the W.T. challenge some 70 or so recommendations the ARC suggested ? How would that go down with the commission .?

  And didn`t G.Jackson tell the commission that if Australian states had uniform laws regarding mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse it would make life easier for the organization .?

  Thereby putting the onus on the Australian Govt .and absolving their own responsibility.

  Otherwise known as passing the buck.

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  Got a call, my dad is in hospice...

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our last conversation was him yelling at me because i "loved the gays".

  translation, i pointed out that nobody chooses their sexuality.

  i've been shunned since daing last september, and really for a year or so after visiting my df'ed brother.

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  Reading between the lines , maybe your father had regrets about shunning you and wanted to be at peace with you before he died . I don`t know , just saying.

  "It`s crazy how they turn relationships on and off at will"

  Ain`t that the truth .

  Take care dubstepped ,

  smiddy
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  Lame and werid sample presentations at the meeting

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they used to let bro's and sis's do the sample presentation and give them the leeway to put it in their own words thereby making it more natural.

  not so anymore!

  these days the sample presentations are beamed from mother website.. they seem to have been written by someone who has no experience of how people talk in real life.

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  smiddy

  Way to go WT , the more ridiculous they sound at the doors , the less people will be entrapped .

  Can anybody fill in the gaps ? as to what is actually said ? in these demo`s ?

  smiddy