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  2015 10-20-BOE!

  by Atlantis in

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  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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  well THAT explains why my parents are posting me books, and sending links to the jw.org website every single email. they're counting it as preaching lol
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  Told a JW about ARC in August, finally got a reply - Return to Jehovah booklet!!

  by Xanthippe in

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  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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  Xanthippe, similar with my family, I reached out to my fanatical father with the ARC info, several months of emails later, not one single email asking how I was or asking anything at all about my life (it's been like 5 years)... I get the prodigal son dvd and return to j-man book AND an email request to my partner (non religious non JW) to get me to look at the November broadcast. yeah, nah. kthxbai. I'm only keeping in contact with them (implying Im interested but never actually saying so) to try and get to my nephew and nieces, who are on social media and look like they may need someone to talk to someday when they figure it out for themselves.

  hugs.
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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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  I meant to bookmark it, apologies, but can someone link me to the thread where it linked to the exhibit from the RC on requesting a copy of your personal file from your country's headquarters?
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  Geoffrey Jackson Royal Commission update

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hello people.

  the rc will still go ahead with it's live stream on friday 14th august.

  however, it seem that it will be a video link.

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  Angus is my hero.
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  How many Jehovahs witnesses do you think watched the royal commission

  by Sabin in

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  2. child-abuse

  do you think any jws watched the hearing to lend soupport to their gb member.

  brother jackson?

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  I'm fairly certain they've been pre-warned against the persecution and lies, and not to watch apostate television. So I'd say close to none.
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  Geoffrey Jackson - Royal Commission Live Hearing Now!

  by LostinJapan in

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  2. child-abuse

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  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.

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  Thursday

  With the scripture they use about the woman being raped and she is not sinning if she screams, Deut 22:23-24 I believe, I remember growing up being told that that scripture meant that if (and it was implied that it was very likely as all non-JW men were good-for-nothing evil rapists) I did not scream, whether or not it was because I was physically incapable due to fear was not the issue, but that if I did not scream it was not rape, it was consensual and I would be brought in front of a judicial committee for sinning.

  My sister was raped in her late teens, date rape from what I was told, and my parents took that to mean that as she was on a consensual date with a worldly man when it happened that she consented to potentially having sex, and she put herself willingly in that situation, therefore it was not rape, and she was not allowed to move back home as she was unclean. They even went as far as to say that she would transmit disease to the family.

  Oh the memories. If someone is still forward our accounts to Angus, I'd appreciate that being sent.
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  Guardians of the Doctrine... Illustrated

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  huzzah
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  Geoffrey Jackson Royal Commission update

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hello people.

  the rc will still go ahead with it's live stream on friday 14th august.

  however, it seem that it will be a video link.

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  Such preaching. I kind of want to puke.
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  Leaving the org and marriage possibly ending

  by atacrossroads in

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  2. friends

  i was raised a witness, baptized at 16, vacation pioneered, got married, etc.

  i was very much your typical witness and believed it was the truth until last summer.

  a very close relative of mine left the witnesses.

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  Thursday

  Welcome atacrossroads :)

  Many hugs for you.

  I was married to a active-but-not-super-fanatical JW, and I was not a believer but baptised and didn't do research as I was pretty good at doing what I was told, I was just miserable. I eventually started researching, including reading CoC etc and online, verified what I had always thought about the religion, expressed some views delicately to my husband, and he knew I had the CoC book even though I hid it.

  He refused to talk about it, I stopped going to meetings, he would just say I was sick for months and no one really bothered me as I was not close to anyone in the congregation anyway, I kept my distance always and never made close friends.

  Although he never seemed very devout, he would still refuse to talk about anything related to the religion that wasn't study for the meetings, and was very upset when I posted my DA letter (I did it more as a symbolic thing, not because I had to, and I wanted to make sure I didn't get home visits by elders). While I was at home he would look over my shoulder when I was on the computer to make sure I wasn't looking at apostate sites and wasn't chatting to my work friends about him. He wouldn't let my worldly work friends in the house, and if they dropped me off from work, or picked me up (I didn't have a car and car pooled sometimes) we had to talk outside and he refused to meet them.

  We weren't close anyway, not sure there was ever love there (I married young dutifully to get some independence from my parents), so eventually after our problems escalated and he refused to go to counselling with me or on his own to try and talk about our different beliefs and how we could make it work together, I left him.

  It was too hard for me to try and make it work if he wouldn't also try and make it work from his side. He didn't want the divorce, and made the property settlement as difficult as he could (we had a house that we both owned). But he didn't want to be with me either as an 'apostate'. So I feel that I had no choice but to leave, and all things considered since, it was by far the best decision I could have made for myself.
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  Jwfacts tv appearance

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  shout out to jwfacts.. just saw the drum.

  excellent job !

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  Thank you Paul