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  Update to UK “Child Safeguarding Policy”

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a known poster on this site (anon) says:.

  i have just received a text from an elder i've known for decades in my circuit who has some sympathy for my feelings and who is aware of the arc, the uk charity commission, etc., etc.

  here it is verbatim, and my reply.

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  @Richard Oliver

  The two points of your first sentence go hand in glove. A flawed policy that wasn't even coherently written in one document to be adhered to - coupled with elders (by and large) who only followed what the next man up the command chain told them to do.

  I believe that the policy is only in place because of the last twenty years of outcry by brave souls against this self-preserving, money grubbing organisation.

  This document is only in place because of the hard work of the ARC and the fear of the forthcoming UK Charity investigations.

  Read it carefully - look at the puffed up wordiness of it - e.g "abundance of information and spiritual advice" and the cherry picking of ass-covering scriptures in e.g. using Deut. 6 v 6,7 - Prov 22 v 3 - Galatians 6 v 5. Then over 60 pages of magazine articles attached.

  This document is only there because Satan's legal system put hooks in the legal department's jaws and dragged it out of them.

  And why is it only available "on request"? Why no letter to be read informing the congregation of its existence?
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  December 28, 2016 BOE Re: One Study Edition of The Watchtower in Languages Other Than English

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  december 28, 2016 to all congregations re: one study edition of the watchtower in languages other than english.

  dear brothers:.

  for several years, the simplified edition of the watchtower has been produced in french,.

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  Conductor: "So let's look at paragraph one and ask the question. Who lives in the sky?"

  Kid of three: "Jeeehovah!

  Conductor: "Well done! Next paragraph."

  Reader: "So Jehovah lives in the Sky. Now who does he use to look after the Earth today? Yes. The Governing Body! Aren't we happy that he does? Because He is "The Happy God!" And to make Him happier we obey the Governing Body."

  Conductor: "Paragraph Two. Who does Jehovah use on the Earth and why should we obey them ... hang on I'll split that into two questions to make it easier ..."

  
  
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  "Historical" Announcement This Week?

  by headisspinning in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter asked if anyone has heard anything about a 'big announcement' being made sometime this week in congregations in canada and possibly beyond... in her words "it's like a biggggg long thing, they cut out part of the book study for it and people heard it was a historical thing"... any ideas?

  could it be the mexican branch closing or the theme of the convention?

  or something else?

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  @DATA-DOG

  You said: "OMG!!! One of the Gibbering Buddies and a Gibbering Buddy Helper?!?!?! Why can't I live in Canada??? 😩"

  I say: Let it be Lett! Please, please, please! In Jesus name Amen!
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  "Historical" Announcement This Week?

  by headisspinning in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter asked if anyone has heard anything about a 'big announcement' being made sometime this week in congregations in canada and possibly beyond... in her words "it's like a biggggg long thing, they cut out part of the book study for it and people heard it was a historical thing"... any ideas?

  could it be the mexican branch closing or the theme of the convention?

  or something else?

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  "How happified and thrilled we are to receive ... "
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  Mexico branch......Now closing!!!

  by krismalone in

  1. social
  2. current

  a circuit overseer friend of mine serving in latin america called me today to say hi.

  i asked him what's new and he dropped the news that they have received notification that the branch in mexico will be closing!!

  this branch also called the central american branch (although located in mexico) oversees all of mexico's 800,000+ publishers plus all 7 countries of central america of over 100,000 publishers.

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  freddo

  No reason why one CO couldn't cover two circuits with a substitute CO doing every other visit. This would save the borg $$$, keep control, and incentivize the brown-noser sub-CO's and any wannabees by giving status and recognition.

  So 40 congs has one real CO visit per year and a different one of half a dozen or so sub CO's per year.
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  EX JW art

  by aintenoughwiskey in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  best use yet for old light.

  i have no vested interest in her art venture, just an fyi her name is sarah riches hall.

  in australia.. .

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  freddo

  The zipped mouth is appropriate.
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  Happy New Year! My personal success this year...

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we've just got finished banging the pots and pans and screaming on the front porch.

  a few shotgun shots ( i hope they were blanks!

  ) and we can hear the low rumble of the fireworks in baltimore about 25 miles away.

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  @GrreatTeacher.

  You wrote "Ps. I finally earned my name."

  You'd already earned the first half of your name by being you and especially by getting away from jwland! Well done on making the second part of your name come true.
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  Mom died, How and When I found out

  by 3rdgen in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi friends,.

  it's been awhile since i've been talkative.

  thought i'd give you an account of my latest family dysfunction.. a brief backstory is that i am an only child whose parents were born in jw's.

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  freddo

  So sorry you've gone through this 3rdgen.

  Some mothers are very spiteful and very selfish. Add the WT Babble and Trick Society into the mix and they take it to a whole new level.

  Hugs.
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  Honest Questions About Child Abuse

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i have two honest questions for everyone here.

  i understand that most here want retribution from the courts against watchtower for child abuse allegations.

  but let us take away the instances where someone was accused of child abuse and then later put back into a position of authority, such as an elder or an ms. let us just take the cases where a regular publisher or even an appointed person, with no previous accusation of child abuse has come up against that person.

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  K99 Nails it. Again.
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  Girls are unpredictable, materialist, and use us, men, as a toy - Part 2

  by will-be-apostate in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  well here am i, a couple of years passed since my original post (link here), somewhat less mysoginistic, more open to relationships, heartbroken again.

  this is an official "fuck my life" thread.. being chased by the elders makes one arrive at the conclusion that there is nothing better than not being chased by the elders.

  i had a pre-jc meeting a week ago.

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  What could possibly go wrong?

  Crazy loon woman (CLW): Don't contact me ever again.

  2 weeks later

  "My knob is red and itching ... I wonder how that happened?"

  4 weeks later

  CLW: I'm pregnant! My baby will need financial support!

  or ...

  BOTH!

  If you have dodged a bullet then if you want a serious girlfriend go to where sensible forward thinking women hang out. Some sort of evening class might be good - languages perhaps?

  If anyone on here knows a better plan then let us know.