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  Ireland: A Failure To Bear Witness?

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  feature article in today's print edition (sunday, october 29, 2017) of the irish sunday business post newspaper along with small article on the front page.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_sunday_business_post.

  jehovah’s witnesses in spotlight over their response to abuse cases.

  the sunday business post, sunday, october 29, 2017 - front page of print edition.

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  Can't seem to read it unless I subscribe.
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  My sister has a different view of shunning to my brother-in-law, but he doesn't know

  by Xanthippe in

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  my library has volunteers who run the local history department.

  they put up an exhibition last month called women at war and they asked for photos of people in uniform who aided the war effort in wwll.

  i offered a photo of my mother in her red cross nurse's uniform but then i couldn't find it so i had to write to my sister asking if she had it.. i addressed it to her and her husband explaining why i wanted it and just wrote as if this is family property and i needed it.

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  Thanks scratchme, none of us deserve it do we? Actually I feel a bit embarrassed going on about it after all this time. Normally I don't think about it but we lost my father-in-law, my daughter's beloved grandfather on Thursday and she was so upset. It just brought home to me how few relatives she has that's all. So many aunts, uncles and cousins she could have had.
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  Outside JW World They Barely Exist

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  2. friends

  is anyone else staggered by the fact that outside of the organization most of the general public seem to know very little or nothing about jw’s?

  when i was in i was led to believe that 99% of the worlds population had been giving sufficient warning, knew what it was all about and were stubbornly sticking to their immoral ways.

  the reality seems to be that the entire jw universe is barely noticeable to the masses.

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  JWs are a joke to the general population. Nutty people who knock at your door or stand in the street talking about the end of the world. They barely make a dent in the consciousness of the average person. Jokes about them on TV revolve around nuisance callers that you want to get rid of pronto.
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  My sister has a different view of shunning to my brother-in-law, but he doesn't know

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my library has volunteers who run the local history department.

  they put up an exhibition last month called women at war and they asked for photos of people in uniform who aided the war effort in wwll.

  i offered a photo of my mother in her red cross nurse's uniform but then i couldn't find it so i had to write to my sister asking if she had it.. i addressed it to her and her husband explaining why i wanted it and just wrote as if this is family property and i needed it.

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  Fascinating wiki page on virtue signalling thanks.
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  My sister has a different view of shunning to my brother-in-law, but he doesn't know

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my library has volunteers who run the local history department.

  they put up an exhibition last month called women at war and they asked for photos of people in uniform who aided the war effort in wwll.

  i offered a photo of my mother in her red cross nurse's uniform but then i couldn't find it so i had to write to my sister asking if she had it.. i addressed it to her and her husband explaining why i wanted it and just wrote as if this is family property and i needed it.

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  • I'd hate to see you miss an opportunity to keep in touch because you thought she was ignoring you. ( just sayin')

  • Thanks Pete I do appreciate it. Some people are just so screwed up by this cult it's hard to know what to do, you know? When I left I wrote to my sister and she didn't reply to several letters. Eventually I phoned her and asked her why she hadn't replied, she said it seemed like my letters were trying to get a reaction from her. What do you say to that? Eh yes they were, I would have liked a reply!
  • She said she was going to put the phone down and I started to cry. I said I don't think you'll ever phone me again. She said I will, you will just have to trust me.
  • Twelve years later I sent her a card because I heard she was seriously ill, she phoned and thanked me and soon after that it went back to 'normal'. Sorry Pete, I just don't understand people like this, it just doesn't compute.
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  A wave of momentum!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it certainly has to be one of the most exciting times to live in as an awake ex witness!.

  the wave of momentum we are part of as thousands awaken from the hold of the society is a joy to be a part of.

  the internet helps us to see that we are not alone.

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  Yes Stuck it is exciting, especially when you've been waiitng for nearly thirty years. We got on with our lives because we'd already lost our youth to that religious cult. Until five years ago, although I did know about this forum I didn't look on it.

  You get used to just ploughing on and we'd made a new life for ourselves. We were happy but it's been amazing to find hundreds of people on here, YouTube and other sites who've been though exactly the same things I have. It's helped me enormously. Now seeing this cult starting to shrink is very encouraging. It might be too late for my family but where there's life there's hope.
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  My sister has a different view of shunning to my brother-in-law, but he doesn't know

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my library has volunteers who run the local history department.

  they put up an exhibition last month called women at war and they asked for photos of people in uniform who aided the war effort in wwll.

  i offered a photo of my mother in her red cross nurse's uniform but then i couldn't find it so i had to write to my sister asking if she had it.. i addressed it to her and her husband explaining why i wanted it and just wrote as if this is family property and i needed it.

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  ToesUp, yes very frustrating.

  The text was delivered, Pete.
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  My sister has a different view of shunning to my brother-in-law, but he doesn't know

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my library has volunteers who run the local history department.

  they put up an exhibition last month called women at war and they asked for photos of people in uniform who aided the war effort in wwll.

  i offered a photo of my mother in her red cross nurse's uniform but then i couldn't find it so i had to write to my sister asking if she had it.. i addressed it to her and her husband explaining why i wanted it and just wrote as if this is family property and i needed it.

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  MrRoboto and Punky maybe he is waking up, I hope so. They both use to moan like crazy about the stuff that went on in their congregation, until we left. Then everything was rosy.
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  My sister has a different view of shunning to my brother-in-law, but he doesn't know

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my library has volunteers who run the local history department.

  they put up an exhibition last month called women at war and they asked for photos of people in uniform who aided the war effort in wwll.

  i offered a photo of my mother in her red cross nurse's uniform but then i couldn't find it so i had to write to my sister asking if she had it.. i addressed it to her and her husband explaining why i wanted it and just wrote as if this is family property and i needed it.

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  Yes he's JW, been a MS for decades.Thanks punky, it did look good.
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  My sister has a different view of shunning to my brother-in-law, but he doesn't know

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my library has volunteers who run the local history department.

  they put up an exhibition last month called women at war and they asked for photos of people in uniform who aided the war effort in wwll.

  i offered a photo of my mother in her red cross nurse's uniform but then i couldn't find it so i had to write to my sister asking if she had it.. i addressed it to her and her husband explaining why i wanted it and just wrote as if this is family property and i needed it.

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  My library has volunteers who run the local history department. They put up an exhibition last month called Women at War and they asked for photos of people in uniform who aided the war effort in WWll. I offered a photo of my mother in her Red Cross nurse's uniform but then I couldn't find it so I had to write to my sister asking if she had it.

  I addressed it to her and her husband explaining why I wanted it and just wrote as if this is family property and I needed it. They did send it and my sister put a note in saying we think this is the one you mean. I was delighted and it was good to see my mother's face every day at work for a month doing something useful for the world before she became a JW. It made me proud.

  Then I thought I would like to thank my sister so I used the mobile phone number I've not used since my parents died and sent her a text telling her how good the photo looked enlarged in the exhibition and thanking her. She didn't reply, absolutely nothing and yet in the card she sent with the knowledge of her husband she was fine, even chatty.

  This confirms what I've suspected for a while that the reason she makes a point of kissing me and my daughter at funerals and trying to engage me in conversation is it's all for her husband's benefit. I thought it was for the nonJW relatives but they know how she treats us.

  Years ago I remember him phoning me offering to mow my lawns when my husband died and I said this is a surprise! He said well his wife, my sister, phones me regularly doesn't she. I told him she doesn't you know, she doesn't keep in touch. He didn't believe me, she's convinced him she contacts me regularly.

  It just seems so two-faced to me! Again I wonder if some of these people actually believe in god, who do they think they're fooling. Also why so many different attitudes to shunning? Who is following the correct rule as I'm disassociated, her or him? She has never taken advantage of the family business thing to keep in touch. I'm sure she could if she wanted to.

  Anyway rant over, thanks for reading.