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Royal Commission into Child Abuse Report available now (Australia)
by Thursday in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/getattachment/c2d1f1f5-a1f2-4241-82fb-978d072734bd/report-of-case-study-no-29.

for those that were following the australian royal commission into child abuse in institutions - case study 29 jehovah's witnesses, the report is now available.

the summary findings were:.
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JW Tattoos
by bradford in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm sure there are countless opinions on whether you should get a tattoo or not.

my personal view is that if you were to get one it should mean something.. anyone get a tattoo to remember their jw roots?

i was thinking of getting a tetragrammaton somewhere.
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Reduce people's religosity through transcranial magnetic stimulation...
by Thursday in
1. social
2. current
found this interesting article in the december 2015 issue of the australasian science journal, on whether it might be possible to change a person's beliefs by stimulating their brain via transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms).. "the study by us and uk researchers recruited 38 undergraduate students, with each reporting they held significant religious beliefs and conservative political views.

participants in the experimental condition received tms to the pmfc for a period of 40 seconds, a process that reduces neural activity in this region for up to an hour.

control participants underwent a similar process, but with a low level of tms that has no effect on the functioning of the pmfc.. the researchers found that those who had received tms reported significantly less conviction in their beliefs concerning god, angels and heaven following a reminder of death than those in the non-tms control group.
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Instagram witnessing
by Thursday in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sorry if this has been covered, but are they now counting time by linking to their website on instagram accounts of jws?.

i keep a casual stalk on my niece and nephew on insta, and have found links to all their local jw youth insta accounts, even their parents have accounts, it seems quite acceptable.

99% of them are private but every single one has a link to the website in their bio and a thing saying "jw" and often a scripture or god reference.
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Told a JW about ARC in August, finally got a reply - Return to Jehovah booklet!!
by Xanthippe in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
so i've mentioned this friend of my husband's who started writing to me out of the blue about three years ago, decades after we d'aed.

last august i wrote to her about the arc and jackson's summons.

i gave her the website details so she could see for herself.
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2015 10-20-BOE!
by Atlantis in
1. watchtower
2. bible
2015, 10/20/boe.. .. re: making wise use of printed magazines.. .. page 2: .

this postscript should neither be read to the congregation nor be posted .

on the information board.. .
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Help Me Undertand...
by DarioKehl in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
according to the 2014 annual report:.

"worldwide, there are 115,416 congregations of jehovahs witnesses and 8,201,545 publishers.".

i don't understand how the borg is facing financial difficulty.
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As a Matter of Conscience, I Am Resigning from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
by Sail Away in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
after listening to the hearings of the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, i am no longer content to have simply walked away from the organization.

as a matter of conscience, i do not want my name linked with the organization in any way.

i know this letter has been posted previously, and i thank the author.
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How many Jehovahs witnesses do you think watched the royal commission
by Sabin in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
do you think any jws watched the hearing to lend soupport to their gb member.

brother jackson?
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Guardians of the Doctrine... Illustrated
by ILoveTTATT2 in
1. jw
2. friends
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