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  Oxfam sex scandal - Remind you of anyone else?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  top of form.

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  uk official warns oxfam to hand over all info on sexual misconduct scandal in haiti.

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  Charities need comprehensive review. Seems as if they have become the hiding places of dubious characters with hidden agendas. Rather like the JW abuse scandal etc , many other charities lack effective structures in place to protect and expose such individuals. It grates also, to realize that charities and religions enjoy privileged tax status, which means in effect, that all of us are subsidizing them. Why? Why should religions and humanitarian organizations receive financial benefits? Surely their supporters should be fully supporting them. A friend of mine told me recently that he was approached to subscrbe a 'small monthly amount' for charity, and when he explained that he wasn't a tax payer, he was told that they'd still get tax relief etc tax payer or not..How???
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  Fear of Dying

  by SplaneThisToMe in

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  did anyone else develop a weird fear of dying and death after leaving jw?

  i recently left and have realized for the first time in my life that i’m not going to live forever.

  anyone else have these same feelings toward discovering your own mortality?

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  What is death, but everlasting peace?. In life, I am what I am within my body, why therefore, should death be any different?. When this fragile carcass decays, so will I with it.

  My thoughts , feelings, hopes, regrets and loves will cease. I know nothing of life before I was born, why should I know anything of life after I die? Yes, I fear dying. I fear the pain of dying...but equally, it's seeming inevitability is something I have to 'live with'. To live forever as we were originally taught, but not shown, seems just a deceptive carrot..a ploy to exercise control by exploiting the natural fear of death and the equally understandable desire to keep alive.
  

  All we can and should try and do, is to leave the world a better place than we found it.. to hope that others speak well of our stay here, and that our offspring live long and healthy lives.

  As for JWs, there are many in JW world who are bitter and disillusioned at facing their own deaths ..alone, having lost husbands, wives , and children before them..
  
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  The book burning has started

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  don't know if this is a global thing but i've just been told by a pimo member of my old congregation that a min servant has been given the task of destroying all old books/literature in the kh library prior to 1992.. could be the elders (or even one of them) on a mission to stamp out dissent as my ex-wife used the same reasoning to her elder dad that i used in my jc: rutherfords books containing failed predictions.. anyone else heared anything?.

  the ms who's been given the task is a company man.

  no hope of him keeping them or selling them on ebay.. they have some russell books in that library too.

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  Attempting to destroy footprints. To try and rewrite history is a mistake and will backfire.
  
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  Has Watchtower taken the joy out of 'the good news of the kingdom'

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i ask this question for the following reason.

  i was sitting at the kingdom hall thinking about all the rules, procedures, policies, teachings that each member must follow ......or else!.

  at the watchtower study we are reminded of the paradise earth where we will all be the same and happy.

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  Very true Prefect. Years ago meetings were focussed on the positive, the upbuilding, the application and study of really quite deep things which , whether true or not in hindsight, did leave you well fed after. In those days I feel people at the hall really did want to understand and make sense of things. These days I see those who still attend meetings bearing miserable faces and disillusion. I know of two or three widowed sisters who are struggling to understand why the system is still here...when they at one time firmly believed that they would see the new system as a couple...so sad. Youngsters too, seem trapped in a family cult not of their choosing, with no way out without suffering isolation.
  
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  Thanks For being helpful

  by Jrjw in

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  2. experiences

  to the person who reported me to the elders from here - thank you for making me be able to leave the organisation a whole lot easier and sooner than i'd planned.

  you did me a huge favour 😊.

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  I have learned of several local elders who have access to this site. Aside from this being a no no site for JWs it shows their true nature...and their unsuitability to be elders.
  
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  I've Disassociated. It's getting announced tomorrow.

  by Heathen Dan in

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  2. friends

  this is my first post to this site, im pale.emperor's brother:).

  first of all, i've left being a jw in june.

  since then my family have tried to convince me it's "the truth" and force me to go back even though it's my own decision.

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  Wish you well and hope things work out for you.
  
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  Sister may have had a slight heart attack, do I text her?

  by Xanthippe in

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  2. friends

  so my cousin phoned and told me my jw sister was taken to hospital with chest pains and it may have been a slight heart attack or possibly she's starting with angina.

  now as some of you know my sisters and brother have had little to do with me for 29 years.

  we've met at funerals, or arranged them, but i just thought today what if she did die?

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  westiebilly11

  Do the right thing. Be true to yourself. Remember that you have to live with yourself. Blood is thicker than water...Be kind.
  
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  The hypocrisy of today's Watchtower

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't really need to explain anything really.

  all i can say is that i was gob smacked at the sheer audaciousness of the entire study article.

  i'm still speechless.

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  westiebilly11

  Yes, pale emperor, those three chairs, arms folded, expressions hardened, hearts dead, prejudged, fate sealed. Pointless exercise...serves only to humilate the 'accused'. An exercise in voyeurism.....More love in an abattoir..
  
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  Reveal- Trey Bundy: New documents about Jehovah’s Witnesses’ sex abuse begin to leak out

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. child-abuse

  new jehovah's witnesses document dump provides a grim play-by-play of how the religion deals with sexual abuse.

  https://www.revealnews.org/blog/new-documents-about-jehovahs-witnesses-sex-abuse-begin-to-leak-out/.

  by trey bundy / january 10, 2018 .

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  shocking, and very disappointing....sighs.
  
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  "This Assembly Hall in Denmark was designed and built by the Watchtower Bible and Track Society" by NoOneSpecial JW Published on 30 Sep 2017

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this assembly hall in denmark was designed and built by the watchtower bible and track society before drones and google earth were around.

  the governing body did not count on this being exposed from the arial view.

  according to the 1993 year book on denmark assembly hall.

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  westiebilly11

  Of course it was done deliberately..nothing is left to chance. More to this than meets the eye..literally. But why? What is the real truth behind the public image of a charity...?...Were I still in, I'd be alarmed...but then if I was still in I'd never look at anything that would challenge my conditioned beliefs...would I?..