i posted this on a pro-jw site:.
this is the official policy sanctioned by the governing body.
it's not about indivuals being molesters/deviants.
But .... "Anna Kotas" has read it (a mere sister I presume - sarcasm - has read it. She can't spiral bind the elders book and yet she has access to this much more "highly confidential" document.)
Also your post is "allowed" on a pro-jw site.
These are good things. They are the thin edge of the wedge.
i always sit in the same spot, just outside starbucks in a vestibule area with a table in the air-conditioned space.
i say "always," but not today.. somebody with two laptops and a table filled with business ledgers was in "my" favorite spot!.
so, i took a tiny wooden table inside the coffee shop on a long padded bench next to 3 other identical tables.. as the clickbait banner ads like to say: "and what happened next was simply unbelievable!".
while i'm glad that the practices of the wts are under review and the australian commission is taking them to task, i'm not really expecting huge changes in the long run.
oh, they may have to agree to some changes in how they report crimes brought to elders' attention, but this excitement over the supposed expose of wt practices shall pass, and jws will soon be canvassing neighborhoods and rolling their carts, looking for converts.
conventions will go on.
It is nice to have the moral high ground. God's one and true religion is being held to account, shown to the world and found wanting IN HOW IT CARES FOR CHILDREN. Look at that slimebag Bowditch on the RC who says he would warn his worldly friend but goes silent when asked about warning worldly children?
Instead of people leaving in shame because they've shagged each other or had a cigarette or wanked to porn they can take the moral high ground and go up to the trolley dollies and their minders and embarrass them and say "How can you profess to be a representative of the creator when your leaders are defending child abusers? You white washed grave!"
Sorry for the rant.
i was raised a witness, baptized at 16, vacation pioneered, got married, etc.
i was very much your typical witness and believed it was the truth until last summer.
a very close relative of mine left the witnesses.
Okay. You have far more self control than I do but you have not communicated with your husband for fear of being DF'd for apostacy. Understandable but maybe counterproductive now.
1. Using ONLY the society publications show him the generation that will not pass away WT (May 1984?) stick to that as one reason. Do NOT show him anything on the net from sites such as this one. Show him the 1969 Awake about not having a career in this world because in a a few years it will be gone. Show him Luke 21 v 8 and stress "anyone saying the end is near is not to be followed". If you can get a scanned copy of the original Jan 1st 1989 Watchtower page 12 paragraph 8 then do so. Show the difference between the preaching work ending "in our 20th century" and "in our time" (on the website and in the bound volume).
2. Handling of child abuse. Get the Royal Australian commission Website up - research the documents and the testimony and tell him this has made you want to wait on Jehovah. Tell him a governing body member has been called to testify.
3. Tell him you love him and want to be with him and be the best wife ever. (not a doormat though)
4. Prove by your lifestyle that you haven't gone crazy apostate. Don't go celebrating Xmas etc. (yet) Win him over quietly.
Play the long game and good luck.
let's pretend jackson actually takes the stand to be potentially interrogated all week.
when would be the soonest we could see this?.
i'm hoping with all my might that he does and ttatt goes global....
I think the UK will be 2 AM Friday when the RC starts at 11 AM Friday.
I might be too tired for field service on Saturday if I watch it through! LOL!
the royal commissions public hearing into the jehovahs witnesses will recommence in sydney on friday 14 august 2015 at 11:00am.. it is anticipated that the hearing will hear from one witness, mr geoffrey jackson, a member of the governing body of jehovahs witnesses.. .
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www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/2015-08/public-hearing-into-the-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-to-rec.
Those who know how - get this to the world's media please.
Those who have still-in family can then innocently say."Wow a governing body member is testifying at the Royal Australian Commission into child abuse - it must be ok to watch mustn't it?"
hey guys.
this was just put up on the rc site.
rc will recommence on the 14th august.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/2015-08/public-hearing-into-the-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-to-rec.
I wonder if GJ's dad will take a turn for the worse? I mean if he (GJ) has been in Oz since "before July 14th" as Angus Stewart put it then his gravely ill father seems to be taking his time about either passing away or making a miraculous recovery.
Other musings ...
I also wonder if GJ was actually in Oz to show up at one of the conventions. Confident his back was covered by his yes men whose only thoughts are "how do I keep my board and lodging and my (relatively) powerful position?"
O'Brien "didn't know" how long GJ had been in Oz - unbelievable - he was just trying to stop him appearing on the stand. And he offered an affidavit or a Doctor's report so he must be in constant contact with GJ.
Tokley (WT brief) "he (GJ) can't your honour" as in show up. Well it appears he can you toady slimebag!
I still wonder if he'll appear but it looks far more likely now.
i popped into town this morning to buy an anniversary card for mrs cofty.
it is market day on a saturday and it's tourist season so the town was very busy.
here is a picture of the scene from a year ago... two cult carts were in their favourite place being guarded by none other than one of the elders who was on my judicial committee, his wife and another jw woman in her electric disability buggy.
sorry as this topic may have been covered many times but any thoughts or links to other topics on how the pro-jw websites are commenting on this.. rub a dub.
Many will be reading but afraid to comment for fear of being ostracised by the herd. They are like the iceberg under the surface.
Think about it. Those that frequent these sites and who are hardcore jw's will post all "good things" and yap on in their cult mindset. Those that aren't hardcore will be fearful of posting. But their cogs will be turning. They will grind slowly but they will grind fine.
And then they will be reminded about contributions to build new KH's... and the cogs will turn. And then their kingdom hall will close ... and the cogs will turn. Eventually some of them will wake up.
there is a reddit thread that has been put up that has direct youtube links to highlights of the royal commission.. .
reddit link click here.
hope it is helpful.
