After reading Jeff's thread, that stupid Let's Watch How we Walk song has been going through my head all weekend! I never liked that song when I was in and after this weekend I positively hate it.
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Kingdumb maladies stuck in your head...
by Leto ini had a dream last night that i went to a meeting.
the speaker announced we were going to sing the "we're jehovah's witnesses" song, to which i said an audible "dear god" which got a bunch of dirty looks from other people sitting by me.
so now i'm awake, sipping my coffee, and i have "we're jehovah's witnesses" stuck in my head.
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An Australian Teacher Comments on WWC
by compound complex ini am a registered teacher in western australia and i have a working with children's card, as is mandatory for all who work with children in most australian states, i.e.
victoria, new south wales, queensland, and western australia.. the wwc is more strict than the national criminal history check which many employers in australia now insist on.
the wwc considers not just convictions for child-related crimes, but also allegations, acquittals and spent convictions (where one is found guilty but no penalty is imposed).
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A few months ago I was employed as a Teacher Aide in a school in Queensland (Aust) and on my first day of employment I was required to apply for a Working With Children Card. I also had to do a course in Child Protection as my position requires that I have a certificate in Student Protection Training. As part of that course we learnt that any form of abuse such as mentioned by JesusisYHWH in the above post must be reported. It was emphasized many times that even if you just have a suspicion that a child has been abused in any form or is at risk of any abuse you must act on that suspicion.
With so many eyes and ears watching out for kids today it will be harder and harder for the WTS to cover up and hide abuse of JW children.
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Scientology Told to Honour Australian Workplace Laws - Could the WTS be next?
by Hopscotch ini read this article in our local newspaper (online) tonight and thought what the ombudsman said about scientology's use of 'volunteer' workers was very interesting.
i feel many of the statements made in the report could also apply to the wts.. here's the article.
i have highlighted the parts i personally feel relate to the wts.. .
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I read this article in our local newspaper (online) tonight and thought what the ombudsman said about Scientology's use of 'volunteer' workers was very interesting. I feel many of the statements made in the report could also apply to the WTS.
Here's the article. I have highlighted the parts I personally feel relate to the WTS.
Scientology told to honour workplace laws
- By Belinda Cranston ยท September 16, 2011 7:40PM
THE industrial umpire has told the Church of Scientology to hire an external expert to review its work practices after an 18-month probe into whether church workers were paid properly.
The Fair Work Ombudsman investigation was sparked by an ABC Four Corners program in March 2010, which raised allegations about the mistreatment and exploitation of some of the church's most loyal members.
A number of allegations made by witnesses came outside the statutory time limit for consideration, so they could not be pursued, the ombudsman's final report released today said.
Other allegations fell outside the ombudsman's jurisdiction and needed to be referred to other authorities, the report said.
The ombudsman called on the church to conduct a comprehensive audit to ensure all parts of the organisation complied with the Fair Work Act and to redress any cases where workers had been been underpaid.
"It would be prudent for the Church of Scientology to proactively undertake this self-audit process at the earliest opportunity," the report said.
The church was directed to hire an external consultant to undertake an audit into whether its employees were underpaid and to rectify any shortfalls.
A draft report released by the ombudsman earlier this week found some workers were paid as little as $10 a week by the church, despite it earning more than $17 million in 2009.
It also found the church had incorrectly classified as volunteers or voluntary workers, people who were entitled to be classified as employees.
The church described the payments as "a small amount to enable (workers) to perform their duties by covering the cost of travel, babysitters, food and other expenses ... not a reward for services rendered", but the ombudsman's investigation found otherwise.
"However,the investigation found several features of the arrangements within the (Church of Scientology) were not consistent with volunteer or voluntary work," the ombudsman said in a statement.
"In particular, witness evidence indicates that significant hours of work were imposed on workers."
Further evidence indicated a significant level of control and direction was applied to workers by more senior church members who held positions of authority, he added.
The investigation found the Church of Scientology was "a bureaucratised organisation"which "appeared to have imported practices and procedures into Australia with little thought to workplace relations laws".
However, the church said it had been vindicated by the report.
"Staff of Scientology churches signed agreements to work as volunteers and are doing so freely, wishing to help their church and the wider community," its Australian president Vicki Dunstan said.
Asked if the church intended to hire an external consultant to review its workplace practices, a spokesman referred AAP to the ombudsman's full report.
In the report, the ombudsman said workers for religious or other organisations who believed they were subjected to intimidation or other illegal pressure to provide their labour should contact police.
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My father's funeral
by jwfacts inlast week i attended my father's funeral in hobart.
i was the first time i have been in a kingdom hall in several years, and many years since i had attended the hall of my childhood, but felt like it was just yesterday.
the funeral talk was quite a departure from normal, so worth writing about.
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Paul I'm very sorry to hear of your father's passing but glad that you were able to find some comfort in the funeral service.
It is truly awful that instead of being able to go through the normal rituals and grieving processes that come with the death of a loved one, exjw's have to go through all this disgusting shunning, awkwardness, feeling left out etc on top of the terrible grief they are dealing with. It is so very wrong.
I remember when my mom died of cancer 6 1/2 years ago I was left out of much of the planning for the funeral service (and I was still a JW at the time but becoming inactive). It really hurt me, and the funeral service itself, while attended by over 400 JWs, was to me so impersonal about my mum. Just the usual JW service with a few minutes talk about mum and using her beliefs as a sales talk to the audience. I felt like shouting out "this service is supposed to be about my mum". That funeral service really sped up my desire to get out of that horrible cult.
My sincere condolences on your loss Paul and I hope you find comfort in the lovely memories you have of your dad.
Best wishes
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Favourite Poem? Post it here ...
by talesin inhere's one of mine .... .
he is dead.
stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,.
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These are two of my favourites:
WHEN YOU ARE OLD
by William Butler Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing faceAnd bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.---------------
and this one (found it nicely illustrated on sapphyr.net)
WHAT IF YOU SLEPT
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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This is not the loon you're looking for. You can go about your business.
by SacrificialLoon inso i figured i'd try using my new jedi powers on you all.
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May the Force be with you Loon wherever in the galaxy you may now be.
RIP
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COUNTRY MUSIC THREAD
by sizemik incountry's not to everybody's taste.
others secretly like some of it, but daren't admit it.
i'm not a fan .
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Lifesaving Work
by mankkeli inknowing that we are living deep in the time of the end, we keep focused on the main work of true christianspreaching and disciple making.
(matthew 24:14; 28:19, 20) like our exemplar, jesus, we want to be intensely occupied with this lifesaving work.
how can we show that this work is important to us?
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If the WTS truly believe it is a life saving work then why aren't they using the latest technology to get this warning out to as many as possible.
Like the local government do in our area if there is a flood or fire event coming. They send out SMS messages to all mobile (cell) phones registered in the area, they broadcast the warning on tv and radio, they put it on Facebook etc. They certainly don't send workers out to walk the streets handing out bits of paper hoping that those who need the 'lifesaving message' will get it.
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Movies that resonate with you as an ex-JW or awake JW
by RayPublisher inthe matrix - "do you want the blue pill or the red pill?
", "all i offer you is the truth", "ignorance is bliss", "the matrix is all around us".
shutter island - creepy, is it real or isn't it, it turns out the whole thing is a dream.
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As well as the ones you have mentioned Ray two more that come to mind are
The Village
The Island
I watched The Truman Show as a JW a couple of times and it didn't register but when I watched it again after I left I immediately thought of the make believe, manipulated world of JWs.
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I decided not to go back to the KH
by Bucholz inwell, as i mentioned before in one of my few other posts, i've been lurking here for some time now and finally decided it was time to face the facts and take action.. i was raised a jw (4th generation) and my parents were quite zealous when they got married.
mom was a regular pioneer and dad was a ms. i was the little jw 'rockstar' in my congregation, got baptized at 10, was giving talks and serving as an attendant at the hall and at conventions at such an early age.
auxiliary pioneered whenever i could.
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Bucholz well done on waking up. As you say today is day one of the rest of your life so make the most of every single day of your freedom out of the JW cult.
All the best
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