Posts by finallysomepride

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Is There Other Sites Many Members Are Bailing To? M.I.A JWN People, where did they go?

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

since i joined the forum i noticed more than a few people have not been posting, what is going on?

i received a couple of emails from other groups asking me to join their new forms with a promised technology, i wondered how they got my email address and thought it be strange.. .

people during the first year of a great change might post daily to any support chat or message board they feel is going to aid them.

finallysomepride

i came back....briefly

just been soooooooo busy

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Geoffrey Jackson of the GB to give a talk in Australia this weekend

by Julia Orwell in

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it's being piped from australia bethel to all the kingdom halls in australia.

apparently the meeting this sunday will go for 3 hours.

anyone here gonna listen/attend?.

finallysomepride

maybe i will go along and listen

then again nO

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AUSTRALIA | Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Society Appear Before Child Abuse Inquiry | Thursday 11 April, 2013

by jwleaks in

jehovah's witnesses say it is not their responsibility to report child sex abuse to police unless mandatory reporting legislation is in place.. a victorian inquiry on thursday heard that when a jehovah's witness leader hears allegations of abuse they are directed immediately to contact the society's legal department to check their obligations under state law.. jehovah's witness legal counsel rachel van witsen said elders were not expected to know their legal obligations.. "this is done to ensure elders fully comply with any legal requirements that may be applicable in the state in which they reside," she said.. "in victoria if there was mandatory reporting the immediate advice would be to report that immediately.".

the society's director terrence o'brien said the decision to take the allegations to police lay with the victim.. "without mandatory reporting we don't feel that as ministers of religion that's our obligation to do that," mr o'brien said.. however, the organisation would encourage the victim to report it and would co-operate fully with police, he said.. ms van witsen said elders would make an exception if they felt the child was threatened.. "we would report that to appropriate authorities," she told the inquiry.. "we're about stopping child abuse.".

two ministers have been removed from the society for child sex abuse in 40 years of records, the parliamentary inquiry heard.. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/04/11/20/59/jehovah-s-witnesses-stay-in-line-on-abuse.

finallysomepride

bookmarked

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Are you Proud ?

by Phizzy in

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when we were jw's pride was usually cast in a bad light, linked with being "haughty" and coming before a "fall" etc.. but taking pride in certain things is actually a very good thing, i am proud of my children, they have grown in to fine adults who everybody talks well of, they had the sense never to be baptised jw's, i am proud of that too.. i am proud of my achieving a full education since leaving, i haven't done a degree course due to lack of funds etc, but i am now very well read.. i am proud that i am now a better human, kinder, more empathetic, less judgemental, contributing to the community, voting, donating blood etc etc.

i am proud to be associated with jwn and with aawa, i am proud to know you all !.

what are you proud of ?

finallysomepride

Yes, see my name

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AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

by cedars in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

http://www.jwactivists.org.

facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

finallysomepride

The name is great, straight to the point & in no way says that it is anti jehovahs witnesses (R&F)

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David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

by cantleave in

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this is rather wonderful............... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s8osse7w9fs.

finallysomepride

nice

thanks cantleave

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When You Learned TTATT, the truth about the truth(tm) How Did It Make You Feel?

by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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i felt stunned.

i felt betrayed.. just lois.

finallysomepride

Free

oh yeah

my thoughts were 'those scumbags'

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Death

by punkofnice in

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when i was a dub i was petrified of displeasing the trademark imaginary god that the wbt$ had invented.

i feared that kind of death.. the thought of being unconscious totally forevermore seems so weird.. now that i know the wbt$ was lying (as usual), and i realise there can't possibly be a god as described in religion i am now faced with the reality that i'll be dead and gone with nothing to carry me on after in a conscious way.

just because i don't want this to happen doesn't mean it won't.. oh, darn!