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  EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Angus Stewart QC on Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission (by Lara Kaput and Louise Goode)

  by jwleaks in

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  angus stewart qc, senior counsel, has had a long and distinguished legal career, beginning with his passion for justice in south africa, fighting apartheid, then later working in the truth and reconciliation commission, and more recently acting as senior counsel in the case studies on jehovah's witnesses in the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

  angus discusses, from his own personal point of view, and not representing the carc or the commissioners, what the journey was like, learning about the internal law and policy of watchtower society, how he became determined to stand for justice for all the victims and for the whole community of ex jehovah's witnesses and how he felt about the evidence being presented to him and the people presenting it.. interview by lara kaput and louise goode for jw community podcast.. https://jwcommunitypodcast.simplecast.fm/cf4d380d.

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  An excellent interview. I still can't believe that Angus was chosen to handle the JWs at the RC, th case study could not have been handled an better.

  He cannot see the organization changing but encourages us to shine the light on them.
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  introducing * drum roll* me

  by gabcol in

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  i'm a long time lurker, first time writer on this site.

  years and years ago, i was on another ex-jw message board though i'm not sure if it's still around or not.

  i really enjoy reading all of your stories.

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  Welcome Gabcol, it sounds like you've been on a number of journeys and made it through okay.
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  Why go back to the Old Testament?

  by Lost in the fog in

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  2. bible

  why do jws insist on still quoting from the old testament to back up some of their wacky ideas?

  such as on blood, beards, abortion, tattoos, etc.

  surely if the mosaic law code was nailed to the torture stake all of its parts were cancelled.

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  My understanding is that although they are not under the strict letter of the law, they use the principle established through the law to guide their way of thinking.
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  S 147 for august 2018

  by obarac in

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  2. beliefs

  anyone have s 147 for august?.

  rumors about big announcement.. any hear about that..

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  Stillin you might be on the money. I was reading on JWTalk about one of the posters having done a tour of Bethel and there was a curtain hiding the printing guys because there was a new publication being printed. I would think that this would be revealed at the annual meeting though.
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  Request for Australian research: ban on Jehovah's Witnesses in 1941

  by JW83 in

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  2. beliefs

  i am planning on revisiting my (academic) research into the banning of jws in australia in 1941, and was wondering if anyone would have contacts i could interview?

  this is obviously a long shot (and it may be children/grandchildren) but i thought it may be worth a shot!.

  i am an ex-jw and academic historian, you can see my former published work on jws here: http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/shir/our-research/research-journals/fjhp/2008.cfm.

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  If you haven't already done so, a search in this site will give you some information about JWs history in Australia. This link is just one

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/286822/wtbts-assets-individuals-australia-1943
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  What JWs do right, and what they do wrong.

  by pleaseresearch in

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  2. beliefs

  so tonight i'm going to be having a chat with my brother and hes asked me what my thought are on the above question.. i could be wrong with what im about to say but i do think the door to door ministry is one thing they are doing right.

  i think the cart work on the other hand is wrong.

  just today i saw two sisters sat next to their cart with people going by.

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  Thanks Londo you make many valid points in your video.
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  Great news!

  by Half banana in

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  it's a case of two down and one to go.

  my darling daughter has announced to the extended family that she has left jehovah's witnesses!

  deep joy!.

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  That's great news.
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  Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  trump’s state department is having all sorts of religions and groups from around the world meet for discussions on how to insure that they have freedoms.. i wonder if jehovah’s witnesses will be there..

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  I wonder how they explain away the fact that they approach one Government claiming that another Government is not being fair as taking a neutral stand?
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  The great 1914 turn around

  by Sour Grapes in

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  2. beliefs

  i must say there is no other religion in modern times that has lied more to their cult followers than the watchtower company and no more brain dead, gullible cult members than the jdubs.. just three examples.

  when russel was in charge 1914 was prophesied to be the end of the system of things with armageddon and the earthly paradise.

  that didn't happen and poof now 1914 was not the end, oh no, it was the beginning of the end.. the second example, the generation that saw 1914 would not pass away before the end came, which meant in all jdubs minds that paradise had to be here in the late 1990's.

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  From the Watchtower 1966 10/15

  More than thirty-five years in advance, by help of God’s holy spirit, dedicated Bible students calculated the Gentile Times as due to expire in the early autumn of 1914, but the religious clergy of Christendom criticized them and mocked them for publishing such a Bible time schedule. But the events of 1914 silenced the critics, though they were not converted.
  

  
  
  I'd say that there are still plenty of critics around to this day, they haven't been silenced at all.
  
  Amongst the many problems the Watchtower faces with this teaching is the fact that there is no one living today that can testify to, or be witnesses of, whatever the orgranization thinks happened in 1914.
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  No new releases? How are the r&f taking this?

  by purrpurr in

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  2. friends

  is it true that there's been no new releases at this summer's convention?

  if so it will be the first convention in decades perhaps ever to not produce at least a new tract.. how are the r&f explaining this to eachother?

  surely they must have noticed the absence?

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  It costs money to produce new literature, it has to be translated and at least a certain amount has to be put in print. There's also the cost of having the writing committee to come up with it in the first place. It's produced at a loss.