Posts by freddo

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Australia Evidence List is public and contains Elders Book

by Skidmarks in

there is so much information on the website of the hearing.

you can find the full transcripts of each day there as pdf.. but also the evidence list is very interresting.

it contains many confidential letters from congregations but also from the hq to branch offices.. the full list can be seen here: http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.

freddo

Fantastic - read the "Guidelines to Branch Office Service Desks!"

Rated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL and only to be seen by Branch Committee Members and Service Desk "Deskmen".

So this is stuff CO's and DO's don't get to see. Just brilliant.

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Highlight this fact: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

by Lemonp in

i have discussed this with a few jw relatives.

all have tried to pass this off as a case to review a few bad cases.. highlight to them the name of the inquiry:.

royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

freddo

Ruby456 - that article is absolutely brilliant. It explains so much in relatively few words and makes much sense. Thank you!

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[Day 2 - 28/7]The Royal Commissions investigation of child sexual abuse within Jehovah’s Witnesses. + VIDEO

by C0ntr013r in

i decided to take one for the team and stay up to record day 2.. part 1 has been uploaded and part 2 and 3 will soon be available.. part 1: .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxspcullksa&list=plpq6kz-aghvqbadlzmqn26dvmpzddxlui&index=4.

playlist where the other parts will be added as i upload them, it also contains day 1 recorded by barbara:.

freddo

I love the guy presiding over the whole thing - he politely cuts right through Jackson's uselessness. He knows the difference between uncleanness and loose conduct better than the ex D.O.!

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Why are none of the 'Governing Body' being summoned to any of the abuse commissions?

by GodZoo in

i'm not sure if this has been covered but i'm wondering why none of the gb are being requested at or formally summoned to any of the australian abuse commissions or other investigations that are taking place around the world?

they after all are the ones single handedly responsible for making and enforcing all the rules that are the sole cause of all these abuses and problems.. why are they just keeping their silent distance and leaving all the ill-equipped and sadly incompetent local elders exposed to take the full public blast, criticism and humiliation for all that is now being brought out in these investigations?

how are they seemingly able to sit cosy in their ivory tower immune and unaccountable?.

freddo

Wrong country I guess?

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Update on Royal Commission

by umbertoecho in

paedophiles repeatedly promoted to positions of authority in jehovahs witness church royal commission told.

1 hour ago july 27, 2015 12:45pm.

counsel assisting the royal commission, angus stewart sc has told the royal commission that church elders could now face criminal charges.

freddo

The two witness rule will unlikely change but I think the farthest they will ever go is;-

Victims will be "encouraged" rather than "allowed" (previously discouraged and previous to that threatened with disfellowshipping) to report to the authorities.

A woman will be permitted to have a female "confidant" with her - not to testify but to support.

Children/minors can already have a parent present throughout and this should be mandatory.

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If you "chose" this religion, as I did, do you remember the moment you "bought" the religion?

by Muddy Waters in

if you "chose" this religion, as i did, do you remember the moment you "bought", or believed, the religion?.

for me, it was during one of my studies with a knowledgeable, lovely pioneer sister who looked like her life was so perfect and wonderful.

i was coming out of a terrible situation in my life, very vulnerable, being abandoned by a husband during my pregnancy and with other little children to look after too.

freddo

My grandmother (mother's mother) died relatively young (early 50's) when my mother was pregnant with me. My mother bought into the resurrection hope from "two nice ladies" - who were so confident they would see their dead loved ones soon - at the door. She was baptised when I was one year old ...my father followed five years later when his brother died. Just as Freddie Franz's ramping up to 1975 was in full swing ...

Then the failed 1975 prediction morphed into the generation that saw 1914 that wouldn't pass away ...

I don't know that I ever "bought it" or really loved Jehovah God, I just believed it was true and that I should love him. It just made sense to me as a mid-teenager when I went for splashdown.

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