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  Who is the Royal Commission?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have the english convention this week.

  a bunch of families whom i know but have not seen in a few years are attending.

  they are not assigned but got a group together to visit the city and attend a day or two of the convention.

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  Of course the Watchtower Corp. isn't going to broadcast it, and given the limited exposure of the story through international news outlets... you'd almost have to be looking for it to find it.

  I was talking to another ex-JW who, when I mentioned the RC, told me she knew nothing of it. I also know she is not plugged in to any ex-JW discussion forums, facebook, etc... I think it stands that the only people who really know anything about it are the people who have an active interest in digging up dirt on the Watchtower, along with any on the sly JWs who might rub elbows with "apostates" in various internet forums.
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  Worldly charity helps Jehovah's Witness child with life-threatening heart defect after Watchtower Society 'charity' refuses help

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  program sponsors child's medical procedure .

  indiana, usa.

  http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/local_story/program-sponsors-children-s-me_1439338349.

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  Zoos

  Years ago I found myself with an extra sum of money during District Convention season for our area. Knowing we had a few in our congregation that were struggling, I approached an elder and asked if there was a fund in place that was used for helping local brothers get to the convention city or pay for lodging, etc... I got such a look of suspicion and it almost seemed like his face went into slow motion.... "Whyyyyy...?", he asked.

  I quickly put it together that he thought _ I _ was asking for money and he was extremely uncomfortable with it. That made ME extremely uncomfortable so I quickly added, "I just wanted to pitch in to help the LOCAL brothers but I don't know what the arrangement is."

  I gleaned from that experience that charitable giving is not a comfortable arrangement or topic inside "God's Christian congregation."
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  Brother who works on JW Broadcasting gave a 20 minute talk, said something big is coming next month.

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  via /r/exjw.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7vhu8l88k.

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  Zoos

  15:45 "Some of the friends will say, 'what's the process?'... So what we do, BECAUSE THE GOVERNING BODY'S TIME IS SO VALUABLE AND WE TRY NOT TO WASTE THEIR TIME IN ANY WAY, is we'll try to get what is called a stand in........"

  I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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  Taken from pro JW forum

  by username in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  now this is embarrassing.. after being cold in the truth for many, many years, and getting back some 2 years ago, my wife and i, decided to auxiliary pioneer last year during the memorial campaign.

  we were quite impressed that we made the 30 hrs.. last month, we decide to do it again.

  after handing in our application forms, and being approved, our service overseer asks me, "how many hours are you going to do?".

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  Zoos

  "You do know you got to do 50? This is not a campaign month."

  So much for giving from the heart. There be rools 'round here.
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  Petition for U.S. AG investigation.

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  not sure if anything will come of this.

  but i signed it.. https://www.change.org/p/united-states-attorney-general-investigate-the-watchtower-society-of-jehovah-s-witnesses-re-child-sexual-abuse?recruiter=363165656&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink.

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  Zoos

  Make that 648 signatures.

  I'm happy to add my signature but I have no faith in this gaining traction. The U.S. is afraid to rock it's religious boat. These people demand the right to do just about ANYTHING in the name of religion and the gubberment turns a blind eye to it.

  Besides, I think the feds know that if they start snooping around they're going to find a spectrum-wide quagmire they're not ready or willing to acknowledge, let alone address. Religion is such an integral part of government here that the corruption is winked at, not investigated.

  Be like asking the government of Iran to investigate abuses from Islam.

  Why do you think all these whacko religious movements have their roots in America?
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  So there was a fish swimming along...

  by Zoos in

  1. social
  2. humour

  ... and it bumped into a concrete wall.

  you know what he said?.

  "dam!

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  apostrate12 hours ago

  "An Irish drunk..."

  
  

  That's redundant.
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  Article- Child checks for all religious leaders, inquiry recommends

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/child-checks-for-all-religious-leaders-inquiry-recommends/story-fngburq5-1227486717033.

  by: rick morton .

  from: the australian .

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  What comes first, the WWCC clearance or appointment by Holy Spirit?
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  Remember the two elderly sisters?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  about a month ago i posted what had happened to two elderly sisters who were reprimanded by a couple of elders for crying because the jw broadcasting was going to be stopped at the kingdom hall and it was up to each publisher to learn how to use the internet.

  if you recall the sisters got together with my mom and talked about it and it resulted in all of them declining to make meals for the pioneers.

  here is the link.

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  Zoos

  Wonder how many times this scenario plays out all over the world. This CAN NOT be an isolated incident and only adds to the growing body of evidence pointing to Watchtower's cash crisis.
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  Geoffrey Jackson's Amnesia at the Royal Commission!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at 20:00 - 21:30 in his testimony, mr. geoffrey jackson - in answer to mr. stewart's question about the governing body claiming to be god's spokespersons - claimed that it would be presumptuous of them to say that they were the only spokespersons which god was using.

  mr. jackson doesn't seem to know what he and his fellow g.b.

  members - and the providers of his lifestyle, the wtbts - actually teach as "bible truth.

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  Zoos

  SEARCHER, you may have to narrow your quotes to the time since noo lite shown down from above and bestowed the title of Faithful & Discreet Slave upon the governing body members only.

  ... if I understand the noo lite correctly.
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  GB Helper at the RC! ( Regional Convention )

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a gb helper was at the rc.

  this guy was decked out.

  fancy expensive suit and cuff-linked shirt, super fancy cuff-links.

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