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  Latest News on Charity Commission Investigation into WTBTS

  by gonzobear in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this has just been published on the government's website regarding the charity commission's investigation into wtbts in the uk.

  it sounds a little like a backward step, and also like the society are playing clever legal games - as to be expected - but hopefully the information provided by people who've left and been affected by the society will help them reach an informed conclusion.

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  BBC Radio Four Comedy Centering Around Leaving the Witnesses.

  by gonzobear in

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  2. entertainment

  i heard this on the radio last week and thought it was really powerful, amazingly radio four referred to the witnesses as a religious cult, which i thought was progress.

  it's a strangely tough listen, i'm sure many of you have been through similar, i know i was, and to hear it presented as comedy seems to add an extra punch.

  it's great to see true life stories gaining some media traction.

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  Witnesses and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

  by gonzobear in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm researching a piece on the witnesses, as an ex born in witness now writer, and would really appreciate any thoughts.. as most of you all know the witnesses rely heavily on article 20 of the above act - everyone has the right to peaceful assembly and association.

  but they also contravene several other articles of the act with their policy of disfellowshipping, causing mental distress to people who leave, they split up the family - a protected unit- and don't allow members to vote or to partake in national service, things protected by the act.

  here's the link to the act, read it though and see if you can spot things witnesses aren't allowed to do that every human should be allowed to do freely - .

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  Jehovah's Witnesses and language worlds.

  by gonzobear in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was born in as a witness, left at the age of 28, and have been out for many years now.

  i'm a writer and am writing about witnesses but from the perspective of how they control followers through the use of language.

  it's only after studying a lot of literary theory that i've realised a lot of their mechanisms of control are through using language in a particular way.

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