Oh it's Mike, or is it Michael?. Nice name and pleased to meet you. Juliette with joy.
umbertoecho
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interesting stuff re the RC in my local area
by umbertoecho ini was sent a list of places i could contact in my part of wa.
i was cautious.
i always ask if they are jws.
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interesting stuff re the RC in my local area
by umbertoecho ini was sent a list of places i could contact in my part of wa.
i was cautious.
i always ask if they are jws.
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umbertoecho
Thanks it is easy to misunderstand what a state or county is from one country to another.
I'm glad that I have travelled throughout Asia, Europe and even America. It's an eye opener, although when in Los Angeles there was a strike on so I walked for miles and miles around about looking at everything and finding some amazing music...Santana were playing when I was there in 2002 I think it was then...Excellent performance. If I could find Beth Hart over there I'd go back just to watch her.....
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interesting stuff re the RC in my local area
by umbertoecho ini was sent a list of places i could contact in my part of wa.
i was cautious.
i always ask if they are jws.
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umbertoecho
Australia is not dissimilar to America. We have different states, except you lot have about 52, so laws can change from one state to another. We are modelled on your political system more than you know. We have huge American bases here. There was a time when a criminal could skip from one state to another and escape retribution from the state he or she fled from.
Today that is different, there are extradition laws that flow from one state to another. No more is there a chance for a criminal to skip a border from say Western Australia to Adelaide...sorry I did not point that out before. Our politics are based very closely upon your's as we have strong ties with America. The difference is, we are surrounded by a huge body of water from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. We are surrounded and therefore have places like Pine Gap, which is essentially American owned. Did you not know this........I suppose you would not. There was a movie once made called the Falcon and the Snowman. It was about Pine Gap, in the middle of our desert and perfect for intercepting communications globally.
Now you have some idea of the connection between these two countries. I don't expect you to know about this for America is huge. We are too in an hugest Island sort of way.
Western Australia is huge and distant, desert and snow, drought and floods. I have been all over it. I have also been to your' country and found it felt a lot like Australia.
A Royal Commission operates in all states, much as it would if held in America. It means the reach is very far reaching. No one gets out alive.........so to speak. Therefore, to see how far it had reached into my state, the state of Western Australia was important. For the WTBTS operates out of here to all the Pacific Islands and New Zealand. That is a far reaching effect. What happens here in Australia, will effect your WTBTS the ones in this region including the Pacific region and so on. This includes all the Asian regions. Therefore it is a big deal.
Sorry for not explaining fully, for I do recall whilst in America that it was centred on it;s own problems. Not a bad thing but at times limited view. The entire globe is very interconnected. This is why I like the forum. We are from everywhere.
Lot of love Juliette
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interesting stuff re the RC in my local area
by umbertoecho ini was sent a list of places i could contact in my part of wa.
i was cautious.
i always ask if they are jws.
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umbertoecho
How must I explain? I live in the West of Australia. I didn't want to feel alone but I phoned one of those institutions listed as being funded by Royal Commission. When I started to speak to this woman she was so familiar with the cases that I was surprised. She told me that many women from my area had phoned in. -
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feeling of hopelessness and fear
by 060702015 indo you have feelings of hopelessness and fear for not having a religion?.
do you envy happy jehovah witnesses and living their lives carefree?.
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umbertoecho
Get this. They are not happy. They are told they are happy....One girl I know who is very beautiful is crushed all the time by the older uglier and horrible ones. She is vibrant. She has been disfellowshipped and never looked better. Very beautiful and very loving. No one would talk to her, her father,, an elder was in all sorts of straights over this.
My advice to her..........Just don't let this religion kill off your love of life and people. She went back and "behaved". What sort of love is that, that one would want to crush the soul out of such a lovely young woman? I hate the crushing of the young ones most of all. There is a jealousy at work here. It seems one can't be beautiful and good....stuff that.
I was beautiful once and now I know what crushing my soul was about.
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interesting stuff re the RC in my local area
by umbertoecho ini was sent a list of places i could contact in my part of wa.
i was cautious.
i always ask if they are jws.
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umbertoecho
I was sent a list of places I could contact in my part of WA. I was cautious. I always ask if they are JWs. Then I ask their name again and write it down again. I rang this number and explained as succinctly as possible, what the issues were. Conversation went like this..." Don't worry we have had many women from this area call us". Me: " Really? Are you kidding me? Are you a JW?
No I am not, I'm just telling you we are being contacted by many many women. Women just like you"
Now I felt so much better and told her I felt validated for some reason. " Don't think for one second you are the first. You are not by a long shot. We are funded to assist".Good planning on the RC hey?
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I talked to an elderly lady, but she is not a Jehovah’s Witnesses
by John Aquila ini was coming out of sams club and i bumped into an elderly lady, probably late 70s early 80s.
(i wasnt about to ask a lady what her age is.
) one of the workers was pushing a cart full of rib-eye steaks.
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umbertoecho
I am ten years younger than my devout sister. She looks really old though. I mean "disappointed old". The sort of old that refuses to accept that she will die in this time on this earth and no one really knows what happens after.
Her solution is to go into it further, get more insanely defensive and avoid "evidence" at all costs.
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I talked to an elderly lady, but she is not a Jehovah’s Witnesses
by John Aquila ini was coming out of sams club and i bumped into an elderly lady, probably late 70s early 80s.
(i wasnt about to ask a lady what her age is.
) one of the workers was pushing a cart full of rib-eye steaks.
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umbertoecho
John, I really like your stories/experiences too. They are good for the soul and confirm that to be free of indoctrination, to live a good life is our right. This religion sucked so much soul out of everyone. Thank you for these important views. You sound like a very friendly person who could talk to anyone. -
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Wt contradiction
by poopie in7/15/2010 wt says"in more recent times opposers of true worship similarly used the threat of isolation in an effort to put fear in the hearts of true christians.
sounds a lot like shunning.
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The good looking one in the blue dress is a big mistake on the part of the WT. She is the shunned one and looks good for it. The rest are all colourless, just like the WT wants them to be. -
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Wt contradiction
by poopie in7/15/2010 wt says"in more recent times opposers of true worship similarly used the threat of isolation in an effort to put fear in the hearts of true christians.
sounds a lot like shunning.
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umbertoecho
Oh that 's a priceless one sparrowdown. Thumbs up to you...