For some activists, it’s all about the cause. For others, they are the cause.
Posts by jp1692
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Charging $150 To Tell Your Stories
by Bangalore inhttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/how-to-escape-from-jehovah-s-witnesses-religion#/.
for $150: collaboration with the backer so that their story of successfully escaping an abusive belief system (300 words max) features along with others in the final pages of how to escape from jehovah's witnesses.
the text will be written by the author but will include a minimum of one quote worded by the backer.
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Do they officially give marking talks without telling the one marked?
by Wakanda inmy pimi (physically in, mentally in) friend believes she was marked without them telling her.
i believe her, and she has been making work for the elders.
she is a pain in their arse, and they are a pain in hers, which is great.
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jp1692
I was an elder for over two decades in several congregations with “friends” in many more. This question came up from time-to-time.
The subject(s) of a “marking talk” would NEVER be told about it before or after. If they were bold enough to ask if it was about them, the usual answer would be something like, “Why do you ask? Did it seem to be about you?”
And yet the talk had to be specific enough so that—without actually naming names—everyone in the congregation would know exactly who it was about and why without leaving any doubts.
It’s such a humiliating and manipulative way to publicly shame a person leaving them with absolutely no dignity or chance to defend themselves or correct any false accusations.
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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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jp1692
Well, that's soft and gentle. No teeth anywhere to be seen.
I predict absolutely nothing will change as a result of this. Nothing.
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Punctuation within and without quotation marks
by compound complex inhttp://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .
would someone please make this link clickable?.
cc.
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jp1692
There IS prescriptive and descriptive ways of viewing grammar ... and politics and religion too, I suppose!
I'm definitely a descriptivist.
Here's another article I think you'll enjoy by one of my favorite language mavens, Harvard professor of psychology and linguist, Steven Pinker:
For your edification I have excerpted a juicy tidbit:
Though bad writing has always been with us, the rules of correct usage are the smallest part of the problem. Any competent copy editor can turn a passage that is turgid, opaque, and filled with grammatical errors into a passage that is turgid, opaque, and free of grammatical errors. Rules of usage are well worth mastering, but they pale in importance behind principles of clarity, style, coherence, and consideration for the reader.
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Romans 2:21,22 Matthew 23:3 and the hypocrsity of the November 2017 Broadcast!
by stuckinarut2 inhypocrites!
i know we have spoken of this before, but in light of the appaling november 2017 jwdotorg broadcast, these scriptures just need to be highlighted!.
please re-read them, and tell me if they don't apply to the society !?!.
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jp1692
ttdtt: All you have to do is Google the quotes to find them in their original document, and see for your self,
Which quotes are those?
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Romans 2:21,22 Matthew 23:3 and the hypocrsity of the November 2017 Broadcast!
by stuckinarut2 inhypocrites!
i know we have spoken of this before, but in light of the appaling november 2017 jwdotorg broadcast, these scriptures just need to be highlighted!.
please re-read them, and tell me if they don't apply to the society !?!.
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jp1692
SBF: Maybe it was the last ever broadcast and they felt like going out with an ironic bang.
If only ...
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Punctuation within and without quotation marks
by compound complex inhttp://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .
would someone please make this link clickable?.
cc.
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jp1692
Hi CoCo!
I saw this article and thought of you and some of our recent conversations:
Of course it's by a British writer and language geek, but he does discuss some of the differences between American and British English, both with formal and informal writing.
Enjoy!
jp
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"Each a glimpse and gone for ever"
by compound complex inhere is a cart run away in the road.
lumping along with a man and load.
and here is a mill and there is a river:.
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jp1692
Life is like that, a fleeting series of images and other sensations: sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings--both physical and emotional.
Some are beautiful, others painful. Most are quite mundane and ordinary in most ways, but all are quite extraordinary when one comes to know more about the biological and electro-chemical processes involved in our sensations and cognitive processing of the vast amount of information that comes into our brains moment by moment.
It is truly astounding.
Stevenson expressed it simply yet eloquently.
Thanks for sharing.
jp
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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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jp1692
This is absolutely a major problem with this religion. If you're not careful and stand up for yourself, the elders can ruin families.
Here's an old post on the subject that you might appreciate:
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Tight Pants Tony and the 1st international broadcast started a chain reaction that woke up an uber pioneer
by Bad_Wolf inhopefully more are on the same path.
here is the story..... this person i know was the model jw, and them and their spouse could have really moved up.
they knew i was gone and awhile ago started asking me questions.
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jp1692
If God has nothing better to do than worry about the fit of my pants or the color of my socks then I'm not interested.
Thanks Tony, you've helped countless people see just how incompetent you really are!