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  Misleading The Australian Royal Commission

  by mtwtf in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  has the australian rc been given misleading assurances that jws will fully comply with laws demanding that child sex offenses be reported to the police?

  it appears that way when we look at the background to these assurances.

  several jws testified to the rc, that they would have reported all child molestation cases to the police had they had been required to do so by law.

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  You're overthinking this. They were required to report. Several states in Australia require mandatory reporting and the WT authorities (elders, etc.) still failed to report 100% of the time.

  That being said, it was brought out in the inquiry that in alll of Australia there is a legal concept know as misprision. According to this principal all citizens are required to report any and all criminal to the authorities. Again, the WT authorities (elders, etc.) still failed to report 100% of the time.

  Over 65 years, 1,006 known abusers, and the WT leadership dropped the ball every time. Every time.

  The scope of this failure is simply spectacular.
  
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  New light in new branch organxation book data protection

  by poopie in

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  2. friends

  under coodinators comitee pt63.

  you can now request your personal records from the branch check it out.

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  Marking. I'm so gonna' do this!

  We all should. You know how much trouble this would cause the borg?
  
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  Won't get fooled again ...Moon Landing.

  by The Rebel in

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  2. friends

  so i was fooled by the witnesses.

  what can i learn from that?

  not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.

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  TR: in the spirit of fair play Oubliette, I think you should post the photos in my second link

  Post them yourself. You are incredibly lazy and whiny.
  
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  Won't get fooled again ...Moon Landing.

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i was fooled by the witnesses.

  what can i learn from that?

  not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.

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  TR: A good point Viv and Oubliette, but as you can see from the link, it was not myself, but this privaliged school that referred to the topic " Did man land on the moon?" As a debate.

  I went to the school link you provided and saw nothing that mentioned any debate on the question you posted.

  I did a keyword search from the school's homepage and got this result:

  Search Results for "moon land"
  
  Nothing Found
  
  Sorry, but nothing matched your search terms. Please try again with some different keywords.
  

  That being said, the Kenninghall Primary School (KPS) does have a cute little page titled "Our Friends on the Moon" showing a classroom full of fresh-faced, little darlings with cute handmade drawings of aliens!!!

  WTF?!? Clearly, conveying accurate scientific facts, knowledge or thinking is not high on the agenda of the teacher in this particular classroom.

  To the contrary, this is obviously a class where science-fiction and fantasy are taught, not critical thinking and evidence-based argumentation.
  

  
  

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  On the other hand, in a different class at KPS, one teacher had their students build Moon Buggies, which would tend to disconfirm your thesis in the OP:

  
  

  Interestingly, many of this English made "moon buggies" were sporting American flags. Thanks, mates!
  

  
  

  
  
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  Those in Denial Hate Exposure And Being Forced To Face The Truth

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  2. scandals

  i think if you look at the governing body and the efforts they will go to cover up their crimes against humanity i can rest my case.. the governing body are in great emotional pain as they are being brought to court over these denial issues, expect to see great distortions of fact and compartmentalization going on and them getting owned for it as they are called to court to testify before a tribunal which will hang them because it..

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  Cognitive Dissonance is a bitch and she particularly hates religious hypocrites!
  
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  I had requested them to put shepherding concerns in writing.

  by quincemyles in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last week, i had requested the elders to put their shepherding concerns in writing and that only one elder visits me because i am uncomfortable with two.

  well, today they approached me and said we are not able to write to you and we are going to see you the two of us.

  i felt how inconsiderate and disrespectful of individuals the watchtower machinery is.

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  They pulled a scripture in John were the disciples asked "where shall we go to? you have sayings of everlasting life."

  No. It actually reads:

  Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, whom shall we go away to? You have sayings of everlasting life."

  Peter clearly understood he was talking about a person, not an organization or a place.

  This is one of the most commonly misquoted and misapplied scriptures in JW-land.

  Let's review: It's a cult!
  
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  BBC article comparing teaching styles between UK and China

  by RedPillPopper in

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  2. beliefs

  here is a bbc article on how a experiment compared teaching styles of china and uk.

  i thought this paragraph summed up perfectly the way the borg "teaches" their members.......(i underlined important points).

  http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-33806511.

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  Oh the irony:

  THERE is a difference—a big difference—between education and propaganda. Education shows you how to think. Propaganda tells you what to think. Good educators present all sides of an issue and encourage discussion. Propagandists relentlessly force you to hear their view and discourage discussion. - Awake!, June 22, 2000, pp. 9-11 – [Emphasis added]
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  Won't get fooled again ...Moon Landing.

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i was fooled by the witnesses.

  what can i learn from that?

  not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.

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  Viviane: It's not a debate. For it to be a debate, there would have to be valid evidence on both sides.

  Thank you!
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  Today's WT glancing at the opposite sex is flirting and therefore immortality

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in today's wt study it makes the point that just glancing at the opposite sex is flirting and can lead to sex!.

  so are jw's now to wear blinkers?.

  also jw's are told to go and confess to the elders if they have any immoral thoughts?!!.

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  What Heaven said.

  As a general rule, JWs are sexually repressed and behave accordingly.
  
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  Won't get fooled again ...Moon Landing.

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i was fooled by the witnesses.

  what can i learn from that?

  not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.

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  TR: Do you think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime or a terrible act of war?

  Finally, a serious subject for discussion!