It has been all over the news here in Australia so those who do not know about it are remaining ignorant on purpose.
The GB has already said they will not change the two witness rule and I cannot see them changing their disfellowshiping policy.
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Royal Australian Commission - Recomendations for Jehovahs Witnesses
by curiousconfused inthe report is finally out.......... ————————.
recommendations to the jehovah’s witness organisation.
recommendation 16.27. the jehovah’s witness organisation should abandon its application of the two-witness rule in cases involving complaints of child sexual abuse.. recommendation 16.28. the jehovah’s witness organisation on should revise its policies so that women are involved in processes related to invesation and determining allegations of child sexual abuse.. recommendation 16.29. the jehovah’s witness organisation should no longer require its members to shun those who disassociate from the organisation in cases where the reason for disassocia on is related to a person being a victim of child sexual abuse..
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Can't believe we are still here
by moreconfusedthanever injust this week i had the jws knock on my door.
sisters from my old congregation.
we exchanged the usual polite conversation.
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As a person who is fading I didn't think it wise to enter into a debate with them.
Maybe one day in the future I will be in a place where I will have no need for restraint.
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Can't believe we are still here
by moreconfusedthanever injust this week i had the jws knock on my door.
sisters from my old congregation.
we exchanged the usual polite conversation.
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Just this week I had the JWs knock on my door. Sisters from my old congregation. We exchanged the usual polite conversation. Some more of the group came up the driveway. Some would not set foot on my property but waved from the sidewalk and still others looked at me and turned away.
During our chat one of the sisters pipes up and says "I can't believe we are still here. We were not meant to go to high school, get married or have children this side of Armageddon.". This sister is now a grandmother.
I bit my tongue and said nothing other than to nod in agreement. I felt bad for her. Why would this evidence alone not wake them up?
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Good Works by "worldly people".
by Lost in the fog ini have friends who are called "worldly people" by jws.
these people are actively involved in feeding the homeless over christmas.
managing thrift shops so they can send financial aid overseas to poorer children.
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moreconfusedthanever
It always bothered me that we were supposed to view our witnessing as charitable work.
Just recently the watchtower encouraged JWs not to give monetary or material aid to refugees but that we help them spiritually. BUT Jehovah needs your money. Please give generously.
Being charitable and actually helping and caring for the less fortunate is something foreign to them.
When we found ourselves struggling, our worldly friends checked in on us and brought us supplies and genuinely cared. NOT the "brothers and sisters" who supposedly love us unconditionally.
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Do you or did you experience too much intrusion into your personal life by the elders in your congregation?
by UnshackleTheChains ini ask this question because i have personally experienced first hand the control and intrusion into my personal life by the elders at our hall; and for virtually trivial things or non issues!
what's more, i regularly hear of individuals moving to other halls because they were stumbled by the thought police....er, i mean these elders.. have you had any such experience?
have your elders been a bit ott over trivialities?.
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They only get as much power as the individual gives them.
Growing up in the cult my mother was friends with elders and COs and DOs and their wives.
Our family business was discussed with these ones and their opinions sought on many issues that were really none of their business. For this reason we as youths were constantly spoken to by the elders.
To mum's shock sometimes the elders would not agree with her point of view in dealing with us but when it came to supporting us in a time of distress one of these trusted "friends" had our family marked in order to show us and the congregation that we were "faulty".
They had this power over us because they were too involved in our business. JWs are too quick to trust ones just because they come to the kingdom Hall and that is why it is a Haven for paedophiles.
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How and Why the ARC into Child Sexual Abuse In Institutions Came About.
by smiddy3 ina program is to be aired on abc tv tonight called : "undeniable :the advocates and agitators who fought for justice" to be shown at 9:30 pm aust.eastern daylight saving time in victoria.. while it doesn`t show anything from what i can gather, about jw`s ,it mainly concentrates on the catholic and anglican churches and if you want to make a comparison the abuse in the jw`s pales by comparison as an institution .. having said that their were some/one champions of jw child sex abused that made sure by their arguments that the jehovah witness religion should not be excluded from this royal commission as they wern`t initially included in this enquiry.. the full/final report of this arc is to be handed down later this week..
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Thanks for sharing. I look forward to watching it.
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Whole families leaving the Org has increased
by pomo6780 ini have noticed in the uk a few families i used to know while in the borg have exited together.
some include former elders and ministerial servants.
i observed on social media pages that the kids have 'worldly' boyfriends and girlfriends and they look so much happier than they did in the org.
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moreconfusedthanever
I know of 4 families including mine.
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Actually I also do not find it creepy. I find it lovely that a man of "his standing" is actually giving the little boy the time of day.
Growing up we had all the COs/DOs and their wives come for free services from my mother in our home and yet if I said hi to them at the assemblies and conventions they would ignore me and walk away. Too important to waste time on children.
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WT property confiscated in Russia...
by mikeflood inrussian court seizes $15mn worth of assets from banned jehovah’s witnesses ‘extremists’.
published time: 9 dec, 2017 02:44.
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Good thing they are not singling out the JWs so they can't say it's persecution as predicted.
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What's destroying Watchtower!
by UnshackleTheChains infor me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, it's the extreme shunning policy.. at a recent sunday meeting, i listened to a complete brainwashed sister saying how important it was that we stick to the shunning policy even if it is a close relative.. i just thought.
wtf.
there is a big difference between the brainwashed and the awoken class!.
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It is easy to make comments like that sister until she finds herself at the shunned end of the situation. They think you need to be evil to get disfellowshiped when in reality you can get disfellowshiped quite easily for nothing serious at all.