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  Jehovahs witnesses named and shamed for refusing to join redress scheme in australia

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://youtu.be/gdvf3t2r7bg.

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  https://youtu.be/gDVF3t2r7bg
  
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  Athlete A..... A powerful moving story

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i just watched athlete a on netflix.

  it moved me to tears.

  it was about the cover up by usa gymastics of child sex abuse at the hands of dr nassar.

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  I just watched athlete a on Netflix. It moved me to tears. It was about the cover up by usa gymastics of child sex abuse at the hands of Dr nassar.

  Despite numerous allegations made about him, the leadership turned a blind eye. Now why does all of this ring a bell?
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  Why Do You Think People Become Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  besides growing up in the religion, why do you think people turn to jehovah’s witnesses?

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  what made you become a witness?

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  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/resign/

  Unshacklethechains have a look at this article if you have not already

  Fade away 1962

  The link below shows what JW. Org purposely left out from the link above

  https://jwsurvey.org/shunning-2/news-bulletin-jw-org-asks-can-a-person-resign-from-being-one-of-jehovahs-witnesses
  
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  Why Do You Think People Become Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  besides growing up in the religion, why do you think people turn to jehovah’s witnesses?

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  what made you become a witness?

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  My mother became a jdub when I was 16. She changed from a devout Catholic to a devout jw. She constantly preached to me. At 22 decided to have a study. I was young and questioning life. The jdubs 'seemed' to have all the answers.

  I believed, I truly believed. I was ablaze with what I was learning for the first year. I had some doubts just before my baptism and wanted to allow more time before making a commitment, but my study conductor coerced me into getting baptised sooner as Satan's ploy was to put me off. Still angry about this to this day.😠😠.

  Instead, I focused on all the good stuff... You know everlasting life, happiness, paradise earth. I had no idea about all the goodies to come over the years... The cruel shunning policy, the disfellowshipping policy, the break up of families, the level of control over our lives, the judgementalism, the rules etc etc etc

  Ministerial servant for about 12 years. In for 28 years. Faded on and off over the years. Last in a kh 2 years ago. Lying low just now as can't officially leave because of their disassociation policy. Blood is thicker than water I'm afraid.

  Watchtower is a very clever manipulative captive high control group. I wish the Internet was around in 80's and 90's, as would definitely prevented me from getting involved in this bs high control publishing corporation 😔
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  Victorian Govt on the move toward institutions that don't sign up to the Redress scheme.

  by jonahstourguide in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  hi all.. just spotted this news item in melbourne:.

  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-19/vic-govt-threatens-cut-off-orgs-dont-sign-up-to-redress-scheme/12161886.

  victoria to blacklist institutions that fail to sign up to national redress scheme for sexual abuseposted about 7 hours ago a black and white photo of girls in a boarding home.photo: the national redress scheme was a key recommendation of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

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  If Its the only way to get the message through, so be it. Hit them where it really hurts.
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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

  i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

  who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.

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  The revelation book proves beyond any doubt how insular and self obsessed the society was and still is.

  The revelation book for me was a giant red flag that helped me wake up. On several occasions I remember conducting the study as a stand in and it was especially during preparation for the group study I remember thinking WTF. Sorry for the French, but I just couldn't believe how they were interpretating everything and it was always connected to either a leaflet, a book or convention.

  I always remember thinking if anyone else thought what I was thinking. Like sheep of course everyone would parrot what was written in the paragraph when a question was asked. This book is one of the craziest interpretations of the book of revelation!
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  3M Corporation-- You are Absolutely DISGUSTING - I hope you are sitting down when reading this

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was watching the local news in the background and i heard a guy talking about 3m and how florida was getting screwed.

  i didn't hear the whole report.. later, i was switching through the channels and i saw the same guy talking to tucker carlson (fox news).

  come to find out he is the federal cdc equivalent at the state level.

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  The federal govt needs to set u alternative manufacturers to get these masks out and put 3M out of business. Assholes
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  Unbelievable!

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  you gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.

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  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.

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  Apart from the very occassional interesting talk, i have always found that most speakers come across in the same manner or in a similar montone way. Boring talks parroting watchtower teachings with no real heart.
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  Unbelievable!

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  you gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.

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  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.

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  Since when did Watchtower acknowledge the “United Kingdom” was even a thing? I thought it was “Britain” (England, Scotland, and Wales) and “Ireland” (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland) in their worldview.

  Does this mean the Republic of Ireland gets a separate talk, and Northern Ireland is now covered by the United Kingdom? Or are they including the Republic of Ireland under “United Kingdom

  Imho...Having lived in Ireland (south) for many years, the conventions were always held with an all Ireland perspective. This was purely down to logistics. It was easier for people to attend conventions from all parts of Ireland in the one place. So, one year, the convention might be held in cork, the next year Belfast and the next Dublin. Of course jw's are non political, so don't look at borders and regions in the same way. They view Ireland in its entirety based purely on a geographical perspective, being as practical and logistical as possible in feeding "their sheep"

  Their reference to the United Kingdom is interesting though from a watchtower perspective
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  Today’s nauseating WT

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am sitting at home, trying not to barf as this wt paragraph by paragraph tries to character assassinate those who have the temerity to take the emblems.

  the unwritten, unspoken subtext is that they, the gb, the now distinct and separate “slave” are above all this.

  they, the gold standard are immune to this questioning.

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  I'm listening to it just now and it's turning my stomach. Control, control, control