Branch visit this weekend - I expect the hatchet men are sharpening their axes.
Posts by freddo
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Mill Hill - Chelmsford, reduced capacity, any news on Chelmsford plan revision
by Lostandfound inchelmsford looks to have much less work than in mill hill complex, if gb spirit guided why did they allow massive plans for new site when such significant changes must have been in discussion, planning , or contemplation.
knee jerk reaction to things looks to indicate someone or more on gb has instituted changes almost overnight.
my dog plans his day better, get up, walk, sleep, eat, walk some more, eat some more, and sleep again.
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Catching up on the A.R.C.
by The Searcher ini haven't been here for several days, so apologies if similar comments have been posted regarding messrs spinks' & o'brien's "spiritual & scriptural" replies to the australian royal commission last week.. perhaps this line of questioning by mr. stewart could have helped exposed the org's corruption of the "two witness" rule:.
mr stewart: mr. spinks, does the jehovah's witnesses' leadership base their "two witness" rule solely on the bible?.
mr. spinks: yes.
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freddo
HOW CAN WE GET THAT VIDEO TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE? EVEN ANONYMOUSLY?
Sorry - did I shout?
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ABC News Australia Report: Jehovah's Witnesses accused of failing to adopt abuse inquiry recommendations
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5wn5hfmeas.
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freddo
I'm glad my small amount of correspondence to the ARC highlighting my dealings over child abuse reporting with the London Branch as a congregation elder went towards those "Over 1,165 items of overwhelmingly critical correspondence from across the world." (My paraphrase).
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Way to make me look stupid . . .
by Coded Logic inwhen the arc made their recommendations to the society last year i genuinely thought we'd see some real changes.
oh sure, i expected a lot of feet dragging, double talk, and general nonsense - but at the end of the day i was certain the society would do what they legally had to and then run around claiming:.
) these new policies and procedures aren't really new we've always done them.
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freddo
slimboyfat said "If they were facing the situation in the United States and the GB were compelled to attend the response may be different."
This.
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freddo
University students. The brainy type who like to play tricks on people. Quite a few turned up in the fields within an hours drive of Oxford and Cambridge. (Brainy students with good farmland nearby.)
They sneak out in the middle of the night with boards and scythes, carefully walk to the middle of the circle and work outwards using a stake and rope to give the radius of the circle. Then they walk back out in single file carefully putting the stalks back up if they have trodden on any.
In Devon there is a stone circle of nineteen stones about 30 metres across in a field near Seaton - all the stones are about the height of a small man and weigh about half a ton. It looks authentic but it was put there by a "character" farmer in the 1980's with his digger and tractor. After a year or so the soil bedded down and the grass grew and if you stumble across it you'd think it was "real" at first glance.
Edited to add - Just saw punkofnice's video - sorry punky, I should have watched it first!
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The reality of "shunning" and character assasination highlighted at the Australian Royal Commission
by stuckinarut2 inonce again, the arc has brilliantly highlighted the reality that any witness who either fades or disassociates is subjected to active official shunning by the organization.. the "brothers" tried to state that it was the choice of the indiviual who steps away from the organization to shun them!
they actually tried to make it out to be the fault of the one who leaves!
then they tried to say that those who fade are not shunned!.
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freddo
I noted Eunuch Toady O'Brien saying those who get baptised "know the consequences" (of DA'ing) and that they are adults or near adult age when they get baptised.
Shame the March broadcast mentioning a 10 year old getting baptised wasn't highlighted.
(Also a shame that Jackson and any other of the Seven Spiritual Dwarves were too busy doing the Lord's work
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What's your degree of anti-JWness?
by Landy inso, on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is absolutely pro-jw, 5 is neutral and 10 is youtubing nutjob apostate, where do you stand?.
i'm probably around a 6. i have the view that jws are a nothing marginal religion.
if i hadn't been brought up as one i doubt they would have ever entered my consciousness.. the reasons it's a 6 and not a 5 is that i have some concerns over their child baptism and safeguarding procedures, but i think it's down to them being a bit dim rather than any pro child abusing ethos.
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freddo
I'd go 8.
They are Hypocites. And they shun their own members who truthfully point this out an they run away from those on the outside who truthfully point this out. (Unless they are dragged screaming and kicking to court or commission.)
The two main reasons they do not put the needs of victims of abuse as a high priority are -
1. They are white-washed graves - all about appearances. (They obviously don't believe Satan is laughing and saying to Jehovah "I can see through the antics of your so-called people.")
2. They love money as their source of power and luxury and do not trust their God Jehovah to support them. (So they will never apologise for the damage they have done and they fight financial claims tooth and nail.)
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Pedophile JW Elder Louis (Lou) Daigle sentenced to 11 years
by Trevor Scott informer jw elder and now convicted pedophile/rapist is (finally) behind bars.
i knew the bastard personally and can't tell you how happy i am to see this sick sob behind bars.
just wish it could have happened sooner.. http://www.blumbergs.ca/articles/81-year-old-ontario-man-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison-in-a-1953-historic-.
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freddo
Hope you and other victims are doing "OK" misguided.
Thanks for the "BTTT."
Is he still in jail/deceased?
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The Bible Texts Watchtower has never commented on
by ILoveTTATT2 inthe watchtower library is a great tool to learn more about the watchtower itself.
for example, answering the question "does the word "organization" ever appear in the bible"?
is easy to answer using it.
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freddo
WT doesn't say a lot about Luke 21 v 8.
Just saying ...
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How did you feel when you got baptized?
by Schnufti inback in 2005, i remember sitting in the stadium in the special rows with 42 others.
8000 people were looking at us - maybe even with a binocular - while listening to the speech.
my family and my friends among them, being all proud of me.. i don't remember being enthusiastic.
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freddo
Flat.