Posts by Zoos

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Contacted by Royal Commission today

by umbertoecho in

firstly, thank you to anyone who is in support of this rc.

no one has shown anything but great interest and empathy for those who were abused.. i don't know who this simonsays character is though and i find him to be very rude and ignorant.

it takes all kinds to make the world go round i suppose.. today i was contacted by a staff member of the royal commission.

Have you ever shunned anyone after leaving the borg ?

by Clambake in

this isnt particularly a jw question but if anyone knows the world of shunning it would be ex-jws.

i have a friend who about three years ago had an abortion and i havent been too friendly with since that happened.

i havent said anything or done anything rude to her.

The only way shunning really comes into play would be toward a family member, friend or workmate - people with whom you might otherwise have regular contact. All my family and friends shunned me when I left Watchtower.

That leaves workmates, and yes there have been a couple of real @$$%&!$ that I'll have nothing to do with. But unlike the JW system, I don't practice a total cutting off. I just choose not to associate. It's a pretty loose arrangement where they don't like me, I don't like them... no reason to seek each other out for companionship. We still work together professionally and respectfully.

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Just wrote my DA letter....

by dubstepped in

jw
friends

my wife and i planned on fading but the elders now want a shepherding call and we are just done.

i know that many play the game to try to stay in, but i'm not a game player and neither is my wife.

our families already shun us because we reached out to a disfellowshipped family member.

Zoos

Enjoy your peace of mind.

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Royal Commission needs to call GB to personally testify

by RedPillPopper in

the gb needs to be subpenaed to testify just like losch was.

the commission needs to subpena each one individually and make separate fines when each one refuses.

Zoos

This topic has me thinking about bounty hunters.

If a country like Australia were to summon a person from the United States and the person ignored the summons, short of requesting extradition, which is unlikely to be granted in a situation like the RC ( I think - maybe wrong), would it serve any beneficial purpose to hire a bounty hunter to snatch the summoned as he traveled to a country more conducive to being picked up?

The whole scenario is probably completely improbable and not worth the time and effort of the RC. However, such a threat could seriously limit the movements of the GB, preventing them from venturing too far from their imperial palace.

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For those of you "not baptised" and too afraid to front the RC. WT is hoping you won't come forward.

by umbertoecho in

hello to those following what is going in australia with our royal commission.. i want to let all those abused, neglected, shunned and blamed that i understand why you may not front the rc.

the wtbts is hoping you will consider yourself an invalid complainant, because you are not or were not.....baptised.

if you were abused at a young age and you told on your dad or the bad man that did it.......you would have been taken aside by the overseer and read scriptures about lying and being immoral; even if you didn't know what that word meant.

Zoos

The courage of you folks who have lived through stuff like this never ceases to amaze me. Talk about "letting your light shine".

Go get 'em, UMBERTOECHO!

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Turns out they don't care about JW children either.............

by dubstepped in

so by now most of us have seen the clip of an elder getting owned by the attorney regarding why they don't seem to care for the children outside of the congregation by refusing to report suspected child abusers.

if not, here's a link:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq9dqhb5dua&feature=youtu.be.

Zoos

All the child needs to do is pray more and go door to door. Problem solved.

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I bet the Elders are really hoping the world ends in the very very near future!!!

by BoxOfRox in

jw
friends

i cant wait for this to get bigger and bigger!!!

its sad that all of these people had such horrible things done to them, but now a bunch of crazy old perverts are going to pay for it!

Zoos

For many elders... their world IS ending.

Welcome to the forum BoxOfRox.

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JWs trying hard to hide in obscurity right now

by Zoos in

on other discussion boards where active jws participate i notice them deflecting questions about the royal commission in australia by bringing up child abuse statistics of other churches, ostensibly to demonstrate that there is nothing news worthy to see here... "move along!".

they are trying to make this story disappear into obscurity, irrelevance, as if it's just part and parcel of big institutional life, particularly of the religious nature.

oh, now they compare themselves to every other religion on the block?.

Zoos

watch the organization's literature shy away from overtly itemizing child sexual abuse as one of the evils of false religion

Armageddon better hurry up and get here or Watchtower won't have anything evil to talk about.

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JW Reaction to Royal Commission Reports

by maksutov in

has anybody confronted any jws with the royal commission reports on the news yet?

i showed my 8-year old daughter a newspaper headline about it, and when she told my jw wife that the jws in australia were in trouble for not reporting over 1,000 child abusers to police, her response was "oh, really?

well, i don't know what the rules are over there.

Zoos

I hear the sounds of a woman getting beat next door all the time.

Oh well. I don't know what the rules are over there.

(before you jump on me... think sarcasm)

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JWs trying hard to hide in obscurity right now

by Zoos in

on other discussion boards where active jws participate i notice them deflecting questions about the royal commission in australia by bringing up child abuse statistics of other churches, ostensibly to demonstrate that there is nothing news worthy to see here... "move along!".

they are trying to make this story disappear into obscurity, irrelevance, as if it's just part and parcel of big institutional life, particularly of the religious nature.

oh, now they compare themselves to every other religion on the block?.

Zoos

Great quotes, SPLASH. I'll be using them very soon.

Thank you!