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  Toxic Christianity - Clergy abuse of women - An ABC (Aust) story

  by fulltimestudent in

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  this is a feature story today on the australian government owned abc media site:.

  "women who were married to abusive priests are for the first time revealing their experiences of sexual assault, control and fear.

  they say the church has known for decades that some clergy abuse their wives but has done very little to fix the ongoing problem.".

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  Might just want to check the date.The story was published over a year ago. Still relevant though. Thanks for the link.
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  Hilarious article on Sentinelese in today's Guardian

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. current

  i say 'hilarious' because it shows the guardian's ridiculous bias.. this article is dripping with noble savage hippy-ness.. nearly all contact with outsiders have been violent.. here's an excerpt about one of the two 1991 visits that were non-violent: “they are a peace-loving people,” tn pandit, an anthropologist who conducted one of the first successful meetings with the tribe in 1991, told an indian news outlet this week.. and here's what wikipedia has to say about it: 'on later visits, pandit's boats were confronted by sentinelese who turned their backs, which pandit took as a sign their visit was not welcome; but they were able to leave gifts, which islanders came to take.

  he observed that the men carried bows and arrows, but the women did not.

  on one visit in 1991 the islanders took coconuts from the hands of pandit's party, but would not allow them to enter the island'.

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  Simon: The big threat to the Sentinelese is likely disease and viruses - if they have been so isolated some numpty showing up for a photo op could decimate them.

  JW preacher: But the Good News MUST be preached to all the inhabited earth and THEN the end will come.

  And just like that some numpty JW missionary spread disease and pestilence among the Sentinelese and they perished with a Watchtower magazine on the end of their spear.

  JW preacher: See, proof we are living in the Last Days. Jesus foretold there would be pestilence in one place after another. Who else on earth today is fulfilling Bible prophecy?

  And just like that some numpty JW preacher died from blood loss in hospital after refusing a blood transfusion following being pierced in the side by a Sentinelese spear.

  And there was silence.
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  New Academic Paper “Shining a light on Reproductive Coercion White Paper” includes references to religious coercion and Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by jwleaks in

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  2. current

  shining a light on reproductive coercion white paper.

  “the jehovah’s witness religion i grew up in made me feel immense pressure to maintain my virginity.

  i dreaded the prospect of being trapped by a lifelong commitment to a husband in a community that would dictate what we did in the bedroom and i started to realise that i did not belong because i didn’t want to be married or have children in that stifling community.” – ella, victoria, australia.

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  Shining a light on Reproductive Coercion White Paper

  “The Jehovah’s Witness religion I grew up in made me feel immense pressure to maintain my virginity. I dreaded the prospect of being trapped by a lifelong commitment to a husband in a community that would dictate what we did in the bedroom and I started to realise that I did not belong because I didn’t want to be married or have children in that stifling community.” – Ella, Victoria, Australia

  Reproductive Coercion is a hidden form of violence and control that can have life altering consequences.

  Reproductive coercion is behaviour that deliberately prevents a person from making decisions about their reproductive health. It includes:

  • contraceptive sabotage including “stealthing”
  • Pressuring another person into pregnancy
  • Forcing a person to have an abortion or continue a pregnancy
  • Forcing a person into sterilisation.

  When recalling her experience of life in a high control Jehovah’s Witness community, Ella highlighted that women in particular not only experience reproductive coercion driven by the culture of the community*, there are also economic drivers that perpetuate and compound reproductive coercion. Ella outlined that decisions of when to start and end reproduction rests with the typically male provider as the woman is expected to be silent or “in subjection”. Ella describes how lack of income, coupled with lack of control over one’s own body results in fear, obligation and guilt and increases reliance on the public health system. In her recovery, she needed psychological counselling, visits to specialist physiotherapists to relax her shallow breathing and to women’s hospitals for a vulva disorder caused by hyper-contraction.

  Ella’s full story as a female raised within the Jehovah’s Witnesses is found on pages 49-51 of the White Paper. See link below:
  

  https://saysorry.org/2018/11/27/shining-a-light-on-reproductive-coercion-white-paper/
  
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  Is it POSSIBLE that Mars is filled with delicious CHEESE?

  by Nathan Natas in

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  perhaps not, but some of my posts may be!.

  prepare for touchdown on mars!

  good luck, mars insight probe!.

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  Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission | Video Story No. 1

  by jwleaks in

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  2. child-abuse

  https://youtu.be/n1yhyszyevg.

  www.saysorry.org.

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  Allison Trudy’s story of Child Sexual Abuse within Jehovah’s Witnesses in Australia

  Transcript:

  https://saysorry.org/stories/allison-trudy/
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  Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission | Video Story No. 1

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://youtu.be/n1yhyszyevg.

  www.saysorry.org.

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  Thanks Smiddy. We work hard and never give up until we get justice.
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  Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission | Video Story No. 1

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://youtu.be/n1yhyszyevg.

  www.saysorry.org.

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  https://youtu.be/N1YHyszyEvg

  www.SaySorry.org
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  #100 Women

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the uk the bbc has been celebrating the role of women who have made a difference to the world.

  they have focused on 100 women in particular who have taken a lead in various professional jobs.

  isn't it sad that we'll never see a jehovah’s witness woman appearing on such a list because of the misogynistic attitude within their organisation.

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  Chelsea Clinton???

  What about Chelsea Manning? American activist, whistleblower, politician (ran for the senate in 2018), and former United States Army soldier.
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  "Governing Body Procedure," a secret rulebook

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in crisis of conscience, raymond franz reproduces a letter sent to him from someone representing the governing body in which they thank him for returning the text, governing body procedure.

  franz says nothing about this text any other place in the work, but i've been trying to track it down, because it sounds like another confidential manual like shepherd the flock of god.

  i doubt it's been leaked (i'm shocked, pleasantly, that we even have circuit overseer guidelines, the confidential manual used by circuit overseers) but you never know.. is anyone else familiar with this work?

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  Thank you F&DS @ the Watchtower Corporation! Thank you! Thank you!

  by Solzhenitsyn in

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  2. beliefs

  this sundays 11/18 wt p.18 pp.3.

  / happy are those who serve "the happy god".

  "stressful events-such as when a loved one dies or is disfellowshipped...".

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  LINK to Watchtower quote