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  What does Two witness mean for child abuse?

  by Canadian Sunshine in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i am not a jw.

  my mother in law is.

  my husband is not a jw, but he did attend with her through his child years and teen years but stopped once he was 15. his mother never made him or his siblings attend if they did not want to.i am trying to understand this organization to understand my mother in law better.

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  freddo

  Welcome Canadian Sunshine.

  Your M-i-L if typical will WANT to believe "the organisation" (AKA the Governing Body) is God's channel and trying its best as imperfect men to do what is right.

  As each court case hits their dollars and TV documentary/news item hits their image and especially since the Australian Royal Commission case study 29 into JW's - the organisation has - dragging its heels and using its considerable legal and financial clout - fought a protracted rearguard action against doing anything it doesn't want to.

  IMAGE and MONEY is everything to these bozos who have entrapped the gullible and invested into believing their every false promise of "paradise soon" or somesuch for over 100 years.

  Only this week they have put up LOOK AT US AND HOW GOOD WE ARE child protection documents that I believe are only the result of hard work by abuse victims, ex jw's and the "worldly" and "satanic" courts of decent democracies. The problem is that by sleight of hand and oral communication they will do or not do exactly what they want to using their enforcing puppet elders in the congregations.

  They are not a quirky bunch on the edge of mainstream christianity, they are a manipulative money grabbing nest feathering bunch of stuffed fat charlatans.

  And breathe ...
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  WT and child protection

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my friend has just returned from mid week meeting and emailed me to say 'this was released at meeting tonight' and sent me a 3 page document entitled 'jehovah's witness scripturally based position on child protection'.

  has anyone else had this.

  i'm in the uk.

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  freddo

  It's up on jborg.

  Type Jehovah's Witness Scripturally Based Position on Child Protection into the jwborg search box and you will get it offered for download.

  Phoebe - was it handed out? read out loud? announced as being available on jwborg?
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  My JW Elder Brother Passed Away

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he was basically a good man, just a believer in the religion.

  when we were both elders we were best of friends and then things deteriorated when i was not an elder for a while.

  then after becoming an elder again, i slowly drifted away from the religion and he drifted further away from me.

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  freddo

  So sorry to hear this bad news Minimus. Condolences on your loss and for what might have been.
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  Kingdom Halls sold.

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please list kh that you know of that have been sold..

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  freddo

  Yes 'careful' you are right ...

  NZ peak publishers 2016 14,242

  NZ peak publishers 2017 14,150
  
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  JDub with pink hair at a cart - Video from SW England

  by Wakanda in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maenrmttb-u&list=plj1cxa6hnc11blsv8iz9lzlux_zz6onyd&index=109.

  go to minute nine for the third clip.

  what is up with that hair???

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  freddo

  I believe it is Plymouth, Devon. Which is indeed a city by the seaside. It features in this dubtown lego clip EPISODE 17...

  And of course "Robert Skinner" is featured.

  https://youtu.be/cNtqfaFWb1g
  
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  Think about this! All the signs of the last days from Matt.24. That jw's point to,  happened in the 1st half of the last century!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  and now it's 2018 and we are still here.

  that's like saying back in 1930 the events of the civil war show we are in the last days!

  it has now been that long!.

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  freddo

  It all seemed to be coming to a head in the last third of the twentieth century didn't it?

  We had had WW1 and WW2. Nuclear bombs and nuclear missiles to put them on by the 1950's. Cuban Missile crisis in 1962.

  Run up to 1975 we had USSR Bloc and NATO squaring off, Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, (in the UK we had strikes, power cuts, short week working).

  Then after the 1975 debacle we still had "the generation" dream running at full steam to keep us on message. More Superpower tension, rise of China, Falklands war, Russians in Afghanistan - but suddenly in 1990 it all came to a shuddering halt - fall of the Iron Curtain - united and benign Germany.

  Early 1990's - Ooh! might this be the shout of peace and security? The generation are in their 80's and 90's now - gotta happen soon!

  Then our feet were cut from under us - Generation change! Run out of time!

  By 2000 it was all over bar the realisation.

  We had been had.
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  Shallowness in 4/29 Watchtower study

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  move forward as a spiritual person.. paragraph 2 "robert and his wife began passing time by quizzing each other on bible subjects.

  his wife, a spiritually strong person, had no problem answering the questions, but robert found himself constantly embarrassed, not knowing what to say.".

  there is no indication of how she fits the template of a spiritual person other than she can answer bible trivia.

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  When I quote scripture like Acts 1 v 8, Luke 21 v 8, or Acts 17 v 11 most jw's either shut down, accuse me of setting up my own doctrines or run away metaphorically screaming "La-la-la I can't hear you!"

  But then I can't be spiritual - I refuse to stand like a dummy next to a trolley cart.

  
  
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  Need advice/opinions about DF Husband who woke up

  by Whynot in

  1. social
  2. family

  my husband was df 3 years ago.

  i still attended meetings but not regularly and for the past 10 months i have not attended any at all.

  my husband wanted to get reinstated until maybe a few months ago when i started to help him to wake up.

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  freddo

  Some very good advice for you from the above forum members Whynot.

  May I ask what your "attachment" is?

  Is it close family in the borg?

  Is it the jw hope for the future? (Resurrection/Paradise)

  If it's the former then maybe, just maybe a reinstatement and fade out IS the way to go.

  If largely the latter then maybe you can retain a "Christian" belief and hope without going through 8 deluded men in New York - just go "direct" in your thoughts and prayers.

  If you want to reinforce and support each other for as long as you retain some semblance of christian beliefs play the "Jehovah understands" broken record out loud.

  Best of luck!
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  Kingdom Halls sold.

  by zeb in

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  2. friends

  please list kh that you know of that have been sold..

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  freddo

  This one in Raglan South Wales went in 2017 for property development. It was I believe home to Monmouth Congregation of JW's which moved to Ross-on-Wye hall. (note meeting times blanked out)

  Someone else may be able to confirm exact details.

  
  
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  Kingdom Halls sold.

  by zeb in

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  please list kh that you know of that have been sold..

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  freddo

  Clevedon, Somerset England. late 2014.

  Not sure if sold but shut up and sat empty; one congregation disbanded the other moved ten miles to share with three others at Weston super Mare.