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  advice please/data protection

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have just received an email from an elder's wife regarding the new data protection laws.

  between the lines it sounds like she has been asked to contact me.. she says they 'don't want to leave me out' so they want me to fill out the form as 'i'm still part of the congregation'.

  also, my blood card needs updating, apparently.. the elder in charge will be in contact.. obviously, i'm not doing either, but what do i do?

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  Phoebe

  Thank you, everyone!

  you all gave me amazing advice, I’m so grateful.

  xxxx
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  advice please/data protection

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have just received an email from an elder's wife regarding the new data protection laws.

  between the lines it sounds like she has been asked to contact me.. she says they 'don't want to leave me out' so they want me to fill out the form as 'i'm still part of the congregation'.

  also, my blood card needs updating, apparently.. the elder in charge will be in contact.. obviously, i'm not doing either, but what do i do?

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  Phoebe

  I'll ignore then. Thank you.

  The 'elder' doing the forms parks his car outside our house every week to go on the ministry with someone else.

  If they press me, I just say: 'sorry, thank you for informing me, but I won't be filling out the form or the blood card.'

  Is that okay??
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  advice please/data protection

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have just received an email from an elder's wife regarding the new data protection laws.

  between the lines it sounds like she has been asked to contact me.. she says they 'don't want to leave me out' so they want me to fill out the form as 'i'm still part of the congregation'.

  also, my blood card needs updating, apparently.. the elder in charge will be in contact.. obviously, i'm not doing either, but what do i do?

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  Phoebe

  I have just received an email from an elder's wife regarding the new data protection laws. Between the lines it sounds like she has been asked to contact me.

  She says they 'don't want to leave me out' so they want me to fill out the form as 'I'm still part of the congregation'

  Also, my blood card needs updating, apparently.

  The elder in charge will be in contact.

  Obviously, I'm not doing either, but what do I do? Just ignore is my first reaction but this is a small community it is nigh on impossible to leave the house without bumping into a witness.

  I thought as I was now inactive I'd be left alone but obviously not. I only stopped going a year ago. Interestingly, they don't want my husbands. He hasn't been to a meeting for over 20 years.

  Can any of you tell me how to handle this, please?

  Thank you
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Scripturally Based Position on Child Protection

  by humblepotato in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  news room > legal developments > legal resources.

  jehovah's witnesses scripturally based position on child protection.

  i am having trouble understanding paragraph 5. it says: .

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  Phoebe

  As JohnCedars and CovertFade just said on Twitter, read that policy back and substitute murder for child abuse and you see how utterly disgusting it is.

  As a victim of child abuse myself, when you are abused it’s as if your life is over. I can’t put it into words but you are ripped apart emotionally and mentally and you never ever get over it.

  The WT disgust me. They are making the name Jehovah synonymous with child abuse.
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  How many people have been woken up by the A.R.C??

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know of 1 that watched the video and never went back.. i think for some it was a the sum of the total or the "last straw" if you like.. karter..

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  Phoebe

  I don’t know anyone here in the U.K. that has even heard of it.
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  WT and child protection

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my friend has just returned from mid week meeting and emailed me to say 'this was released at meeting tonight' and sent me a 3 page document entitled 'jehovah's witness scripturally based position on child protection'.

  has anyone else had this.

  i'm in the uk.

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  Phoebe

  Freddo

  She didn't say, just said it was 'announced' so that doesn't sound like it was handed out, does it? Maybe they just referred them to the website and she sent me a copy
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  WT and child protection

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my friend has just returned from mid week meeting and emailed me to say 'this was released at meeting tonight' and sent me a 3 page document entitled 'jehovah's witness scripturally based position on child protection'.

  has anyone else had this.

  i'm in the uk.

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  Phoebe

  My friend has just returned from mid week meeting and emailed me to say 'this was released at meeting tonight' and sent me a 3 page document entitled 'Jehovah's Witness Scripturally Based Position on Child Protection'

  Has anyone else had this. I'm in the UK
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  Overcoming A Servile Mind And A Slave Mentality

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  overcoming servile mind and a slave mentality.

  "care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

  " —lao tzu.

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  Phoebe

  Thank you for sharing P.E I totally relate to this too.

  It's only recently through a year of counseling that my psychologist made me see that I was locked into this mindset of going out of my way to please people and hence people saw me as weak and just walked all over me.

  I have spent my entire life thinking I wasn't good enough so I had to make up for it by going out of my way to make people like me. I had no confidence in myself yet somehow I could chat to strangers, go on the platform without nerves and put myself out of my comfort zone in many ways. But I felt so bad about myself and I'm sure people sensed that and could push me around and they did.

  I'm sure it's a result of years or indoctrination where we are told we are never good enough and also for me, a family telling me how rubbish I was all the time.

  The good news is I'm breaking free of it and beginning to like and accept myself for the first time in over 60 years. So, we can change if we need to.
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  Craziest Speculations You’ve heard about the end and paradise

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we’ve all heard them all our life.

  my two biggest stupidest ones i think are, “ we can really tell the end is almost here with the way people drive on the highway.” and a girl who said she wants to hurry up and marry her boyfriend because she’s scared if the end comes before their married, she’ll have to wait 1000 years to marry him.

  oh and also a poor old lady saying that she hopes jehovah wipes away the memory of her disfellowshipped sons that he will have to destroy.

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  Phoebe

  Oh, just remembered...my super duper uber JW sister told me once she can't wait to meet David in the paradise. Apparently, he's very handsome and she has a bit of a crush on him ;)
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  Craziest Speculations You’ve heard about the end and paradise

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we’ve all heard them all our life.

  my two biggest stupidest ones i think are, “ we can really tell the end is almost here with the way people drive on the highway.” and a girl who said she wants to hurry up and marry her boyfriend because she’s scared if the end comes before their married, she’ll have to wait 1000 years to marry him.

  oh and also a poor old lady saying that she hopes jehovah wipes away the memory of her disfellowshipped sons that he will have to destroy.

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  Phoebe

  One sister said Jehovah will make her forget she ever had her DF children.

  Heard of sisters say they will stockpile mascara and lipstick because it won't be readily available in the paradise.

  Picking out houses they want after Armageddon.

  So many.....