Posts by cofty

So HQ want to make local elders responsible for dealing with child abuse but demand that they have control of how elders handle it. Elders are left with responsibility without authority.

Any wise elder should walk away now.

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Happy birthday smiddy

by smiddy3 in

a young 81 ,may there be many more.. but feeling about 91 at the present time ..

Joe Rogan

by Tater-T in

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at about the 4 minute mark joe mentions ex jehovah witnesses as being sensitive to cult indoctrination and how this is just like that.

https://youtu.be/tex8jhx4pss.

cofty

Joe says that his friend Kurt Metzger was raised a JW.

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I agree that wokeness is a secular cult.

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Bringing Reproach on Jehovah's Name

by cofty in

all my jw life i was reminded constantly about the importance of not bringing reproach on jehovah's name.

decisions on whether or not to disfellowship an individual often turned, not on the seriousness of the sin, but on whether the incident was public knowledge and had resulted in bad publicity for the congregation.

i recall a middle-aged lady being reported to the elders for shoplifting a sweet worth less than £1- and the elders' insistence that a judicial committee must be formed because the store manager and staff knew that she was a jw (i successfully argued that all she needed was support for her dreadful family life, but that's another story).

cofty

All my JW life I was reminded constantly about the importance of not bringing reproach on Jehovah's name.

Decisions on whether or not to disfellowship an individual often turned, not on the seriousness of the sin, but on whether the incident was public knowledge and had resulted in bad publicity for the congregation. I recall a middle-aged lady being reported to the elders for shoplifting a sweet worth less than £1- and the elders' insistence that a judicial committee must be formed because the store manager and staff knew that she was a JW (I successfully argued that all she needed was support for her dreadful family life, but that's another story)

This morning the UK Guardian carries a story that labels Jehovah's Witnesses 'an absolute disgrace' for their refusal to compensate - I suspect the real problem is their refusal to apologise to - the victims of child abuse. A few days ago The Telegraph reported on accusations that the Watchtower is 'selling of assets and moving cash to avoid sex abuse compensation'.

I can only imagine how odious the name Jehovah has become in Australia.

As a child the fear of a future period of persecution was used as an effective weapon to suppress any thoughts of disloyalty. Who could have thought that the authorities would actually come after the organisation for protecting pedophiles?

The excuses for active JWs to cling to the organisation are becoming more tenuous every day.

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Australian JW's and child abuse redress scheme

by Tantalon in

hi fellow apostates, here is a link about the redress scheme from the arc into child abuse and jws refusal to participate.

enjoy; https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/01/six-groups-fail-to-join-australias-national-child-abuse-redress-scheme.

cofty

The Victorian Reason party MP Fiona Patten singled out the Jehovah’s Witnesses for criticism, saying the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse had examined allegations that more than 1,800 children were abused by 1,006 perpetrators in Jehovah’s institutions.

“Jehovah’s Witnesses reported zero allegations to authorities or police and now refuse to provide redress to victims,” Patten said.

“The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an absolute disgrace.

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Results of the 2018 Global Survey of Jehovah's Witnesses

by Unstuck in

it's long overdue, i know, and i apologise profusely but it's tough working full-time and trying to spend time on all the ex-jw work that i want to do...... that said - here are the 2018 survey results for anyone interested and i am already working on the 2019 results.

also, i'm tweaking the survey for the 2020 release which will be soon..... hugs to all!.

sherrie d'souza (aka unstuck!).

cofty

Thanks. Will look forward to looking at the numbers later today

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FATHER OF ABUSE VICTIM CONFRONTS WITNESSES

by ThomasCovenant in

i missed this when it first came out.

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it's so sad to realize that i was part of the behaviour shown by the witnesses in the video.. this is my neck of the woods, and i recognize some of the yellow vested attendants that control the situation.i used to play football with the big french brother named guy.. if only they could see.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukiqqgfngxk.

cofty

Really appreciate that man's manner. Thanks for posting.

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Inconsistencies is the Preachng Work

by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

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with the shutdown of the public preaching work.

some take it to mean all preaching in all forms.

other take it to mean it only includes door to door and cart witnessing, but you can do phone witnessing.. what is interesting is that depending which country you live in the direction that was given what to do is different.. two countries (malta and ireland) that i know of were told explicitly not to do phone witnessing.

cofty

Eloquence stop bouncing multiple old threads to promote your campaign.

Why not start an actual thread to discuss the topic?