Anders Andersen

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  Branch Co-ordinators letter re the Australian Royal Commission

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this letter was posted on the aust and nz facebook group this week.. it is self explanatory!

  wow.... it seems to be their attempt at controlling the situation after the arc fallout.. .

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  Anders Andersen

  For those who cry fake: apparently letters from branches to HQ do not carry the letterhead.

  See this example: letter from branch Australia to HQ:

  Letterhead

  

  Ending:

  
  

  Source: official evidence of Royal Commission: https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/WAT.0004.001.0010.pdf
  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/WAT.0004.001.0014.pdf
  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/WAT.0012.001.0009.pdf
  A different example:
  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/WAT.0012.001.0011.pdf

  Even HQ doesn't carry a Watchtower letterhead when writing to branches:
  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/WAT.0012.001.0016.pdf

  Yes I see it still looks different than the letter discussed in this topic, but at least the missing Watchtower letterhead doesn't mean it's a fake.
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  Branch Co-ordinators letter re the Australian Royal Commission

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this letter was posted on the aust and nz facebook group this week.. it is self explanatory!

  wow.... it seems to be their attempt at controlling the situation after the arc fallout.. .

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  1. for those who find the letter is blurry: that's because this forum resizes pictures depending on your screen size. If you're on a mobile device, check the option 'get desktop site' or 'desktop mode' if your browser can do that, it will help.
  2. I think this letter was around a long time ago already?
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  JW’s do NOT shun... (apprently)

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my quora campaign of answering all jw related questions truthfully with evidence is going well.

  however, one jw had the audacity to claim that "jws do not shun".

  they seem to want to present a fake, squeeky clean image to non-members and seem to get angry when answering questions regarding shunning.. like this asshole, dennis cybulski.

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  I'm deliberately becoming the bane of their Quora presence.

  They block me from commenting one by one. It's like a badge of honor.

  I have the same...whenever I find a new zealot I poke the bear a bit. But what really irritates me are those who already disabled comments on everything, and are clearly out to recruit new victims for their cult instead of simply sharing their POV. Preying on the sad and downtrodden, whitewashing their despicable policies.

  Ah well. Every now and then I manage to help someone rethink their association with Jw, and that is worth quite a lot of annoyances.

  Confirmed score so far: 1 elder, 1 Bible study working towards baptism, 1 Bible study.
  
  
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  JW’s do NOT shun... (apprently)

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my quora campaign of answering all jw related questions truthfully with evidence is going well.

  however, one jw had the audacity to claim that "jws do not shun".

  they seem to want to present a fake, squeeky clean image to non-members and seem to get angry when answering questions regarding shunning.. like this asshole, dennis cybulski.

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  Ugh Quora is overrun by overzealous JW who think the internet is their preaching ground. Some of them are really, really Fing obnoxious.

  Won't be long before I quit the whole site.
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  The Football Game Illustration.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  run!!!

  run!!!

  just run .

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  I heard this very same illustration at the international convention in Dortmund 2009. Also by Geoffrey Jackson. Back then I was quite touched by the illustration lol.

  I guess he noticed this thing works well in keeping folks attached and donating a bit longer, and he's recycling it.
  
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  192-page books

  by Fred Franztone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is my 192nd post, so i thought it'd be fitting to ask a somewhat banal question which i've occasionally pondered over the years.

  does anyone know what's behind the wt's penchant for 192-page books?

  is there some kind of logistical reason for this?

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_%28bookbinding%29
  
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  Public prosecutor's office starts investigation in the Netherlands

  by fulano in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/5416472/openbaar-ministerie-onderzoekt-seksueel-misbruik-bij-jehovahs-getuigen.html.

  i hope someone could find an english translation.

  i have no time at the moment..

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  Anders Andersen

  To clarify: these comments are about the DA offices in several regions investigating individual cases where victims pressed charges against their abusers. The context of the abuse (JW community) will be taken into account during the investigations

  This is not an investigation into the JW organisation.
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  London Protest 2018

  by josephus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.

  we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..

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  @Simon

  I agree. Google search volume doesn't necessarily indicate traffic to jwfacts either.

  The only way to have definitive numbers is to get them from jwfacts.com.

  But while the trends don't tell us what the actual volumes are, or whether people really visited jwfacts, the spikes indicate that the protest has made some people curious enough to do some googling.
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  London Protest 2018

  by josephus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.

  we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..

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  @morpheus,

  Afaik the graph doesn't show absolute number of hits, but a percentage.

  Which means during the convention days the UK googled for "jwfacts" about twice as often as before.

  That could mean 2 hits instead of 1, or 1000 instead of 500.

  At least there was a 100% increase in interest in "jwfacts"

  Edit: here's a link that explains those graphs a bit https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-interpret-Google-Trendss-search-volume-index
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  London Protest 2018

  by josephus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.

  we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..

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  Google trends for the search term "jwfacts" in the UK only.

  First image is last twelve months, second image is last 7 days.

  Guess what the faithful were doing after convention day ended?