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  My interview on BBC threw JWs in shock

  by Alex Bogdanov in

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  i had an interview on bbc one.

  before i write about it and the jws, just a quick reminder.

  since my book was published two years ago, jws avoid me even though i am not disfellowshipped.

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  Aussie Oz

  The best example I ever set for my kids was to live a happy life.

  Their mother on the other hand has almost literally flushed her life down the toilet.

  so much for the happiest people on earth...
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  My wife and I have begun our fade

  by James Jack in

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  i haven’t posted in awhile.

  my wife asked me after the year 2000 came and went without fanfare(because the wt organization said all the “new world” would be here within this 20th century would end), “ what would it take for you to leave the truth?”.

  my reply was “ if i turn 60 in this “system of things”.

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  I just need to come to grips that I am mortal and this will all end for me one day and that is what sucks!

  Perhaps this may help James... You have always been mortal even as a JW.

  AT any time past you could have died from illness or accident. It could have all ended already, even IF you were to attain a resurrection later. And then, according to WT you would still be mortal. Eternal life is not immortality. The eternal life was at 'jehovahs' kindness and well, could be snuffed out anytime especially in that first 1000 years if you somehow failed to please the governing body....
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  Jehovah's Witnesses commission secret report highly critical of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

  by jwleaks in

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  on 14 november 2018, australian-based barristers david bennett ac, qc and james gibson presented to watchtower australia and the jehovah’s witnesses organisation their commissioned review and opinion on the findings and recommendations of the royal commission into the institutional responses to child sexual abuse as it related to jehovah’s witnesses.. .

  the review entitled “review of the commission’s investigation into jehovah’s witnesses and its ensuing reports” was divided into four parts, as follows:.

  part one considered the history and powers of royal commissions in general.. .

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  I am asking literally, what was the point? It’s not rhetorical. If the report is internal, not for outside readership, and confirms Watchtower’s own opinions, then what was the point of it? I am curious.

  Me too.

  Was this commissioned report by a cult friendly old fart (I really don't give two squats about his age or status) part of some official rebuttal/appeal before the Royal Commission gets to bitch slap the WT into the level of submission expected by all the other institutions OR just the WT applying a soothing salve of 'that wasn't fair' to their bruised ego?

  Is the Royal Commission getting ready to hand out punishments and enforcements? OR is it all over... move along, nothing to see here?
  
  
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  My wife and I have begun our fade

  by James Jack in

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  i haven’t posted in awhile.

  my wife asked me after the year 2000 came and went without fanfare(because the wt organization said all the “new world” would be here within this 20th century would end), “ what would it take for you to leave the truth?”.

  my reply was “ if i turn 60 in this “system of things”.

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  Aussie Oz

  I’m happy I woke up, but sad not knowing what lies ahead.

  
  I was always wired to live, not die. The thought of dying had never been in my vocabulary and scares the sh_t out of me!

  I walked away 22 years ago, woke up about 10 years ago. Having to plan for the future I was told would never come, ie: old age and death, well, I was so far behind the 8 ball, still am. Worked my arse off for the last 10 years to try to get financially secure and lost sight of living in the now.

  Don't be like me.

  Make the most of every day you have with your wife and family. Your future is unwritten. You may live to 100 yet, make it a good one.

  Lately I have been tuning into a quote by Helen Keller:

  “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
  
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  Australian Royal Commission question looking back

  by Aussie Oz in

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  2. child-abuse

  after all the attention the royal commission focused on the wt and the damning report that came out, has anything changed at the congregational level or to wt policy?.

  i am getting the sense from what i have found that really it accomplished little more than embarrassing the wt and upsetting the jws for a while.. am i wrong in that thought?.

  oz.

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  I would have hoped or even expected the Govt of Australia and the Royal Commission to have had teeth but alas, it seems it was just a huge waste of tax payers money gathering information that would never be used to actually DO anything.

  Typical bureaucracy outcome

  Shameful.

  IMO it goes to show that the Govt here only pays lip service to the whole issue of child abuse.
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  Do you have dark tinted windows on your vehicle?

  by Iamallcool in

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  if you have one, do cops stop you to make sure it is not too dark?

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  On my pony, as dark as I could get. No trouble so far...but then again, I drive it like grandpa and don't draw attention to myself
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  Australian Royal Commission question looking back

  by Aussie Oz in

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  2. child-abuse

  after all the attention the royal commission focused on the wt and the damning report that came out, has anything changed at the congregational level or to wt policy?.

  i am getting the sense from what i have found that really it accomplished little more than embarrassing the wt and upsetting the jws for a while.. am i wrong in that thought?.

  oz.

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  Aussie Oz

  After all the attention the Royal commission focused on the WT and the damning report that came out, has anything changed at the congregational level or to WT policy?

  I am getting the sense from what I have found that really it accomplished little more than embarrassing the WT and upsetting the JWs for a while.

  Am I wrong in that thought?

  Oz
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  Hellooooo! 6 years since i posted

  by Aussie Oz in

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  so... it has been six years since my last post.

  i wonder who still remembers me?

  a lot has changed and then again, a lot has not.... i'm still out of course as are my children who are doing very well.

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  Hello Familiar names!

  For some inexplicable reason while searching for new podcasts to listen to i stumbled upon an ex jw one. cant recall the name off hand but i know a Lloyd ran it and cedars? familiar name on here. older episodes from 2014. sort of raised my curiosity. Then randomly my daughter posted the old Don Dunstan story of the tsunami that was supposed to wash Adelaide off the map in the mid 70s. I googled the nutters name and lo! the result turned up, would you believe.... an old post by Aussie Oz on here. So a password hunt later and I discovered i had been gone 6 years.

  Those bloody aliens have a lot to answer for.

  Still... I recently found my old facebook to discover i had been gone near 10 years!

  Older, no wiser. in midlife crises 2.0 and its going pretty well. This time round instead of getting a new wife i got a new sports car. This time round I am equipped with the skills to navigate it.
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  Hellooooo! 6 years since i posted

  by Aussie Oz in

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  so... it has been six years since my last post.

  i wonder who still remembers me?

  a lot has changed and then again, a lot has not.... i'm still out of course as are my children who are doing very well.

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  Aussie Oz

  so... it has been six years since my last post. I wonder who still remembers me?

  A lot has changed and then again, a lot has not.... I'm still out of course as are my children who are doing very well. I'm still married to the woman who helped wake me up and the other day i came across paper files from what first started to wake me up, the child custody material from the WT.

  My boy lives in Sydney now and is very normalized to life. He was down for xmas and I know he did drop in on one old jw friend who's small son might (due to the blood policy) be going to die soon. My son manages a gym and the gym had a fundraiser for the JW family. He went to deliver it to them in person.

  My daughter is well and truly out. Out of the JW and the closet. Currently she is in a polyamorous triad. She came out to her mother as gay a couple of years ago. Her JW mother just said ''Don't blame you... I'm sick of men too". My ex might be have been or may still be a mean woman but at least she is doing a good job of not shunning her kids. I am not pleased to say her life has gone to shit, including booting out her JW husband for something my kids wont tell me. (but don't worry, he never touched them)

  My business is still growing and it still consumes more of my time than I like.

  So Hi! Whats new? I see the WT is STILL defying the legal system with its stalling nonsense, abuse cases are mounting and the WT seems to win some appeals.

  Any new batshit crazy teachings?

  Oh, and since that last post 6 years ago, no JW has set foot on our 'farm'...

  cheers

  Oz
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  Been away a long while...

  by Aussie Oz in

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  it has been 5 months since my last post here.

  it has been very nice to have forgotten jehovahs witnesses.

  my life got so busy running my biz that i just had no time to concentrate on anything else for a while.

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  Aussie Oz

  I shall endeavor to pop in a bit more guys.

  should update on the kids ...they are doing well

  cheers for now, it's past my bedtime!

  OZ