Posts by OrphanCrow

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Did the Governing Body sucessfully fend off this bad news on thier TV Broadcast??

by Wasanelder Once in

remember there was a talk about not listening to "false stories" about sexual abuse from apostates on jw's fantasy station?

did the governing body put it out there as preemptive damage control because they knew this was coming?

they must have had subpoenas giving them a heads up.

OrphanCrow

This will break some walls down. What do you think?

I agree. Especially if the Royal Commission's findings result in criminal prosecution of some of the elders and the higher ups in the Australian branch.

The ripple effect has yet to reach full tsunami proportions...but it will. The floodgates are opening wider every day. Thank goodness for people like Barbara Anderson and the victims like Candace and others who have come forward already - they truly are heroes. This Royal Commission is such a strong affirmation of all those who have worked so hard for justice.

Kudos to everybody who has given voice to the unheard - their voices are about to be shouted worldwide. I am willing to shout if I have to, and scream when necessary. I will never be silent. I will go to my grave screaming for justice and retribution for all the victims of this horrible cult.

Someone will hear...somewhere. We will not be silenced.

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Jehovah's Witnesses #10 in Yahoo trending

by TweetieBird in

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i'm sitting here drinking my morning coffee and opened up the yahoo page to see jw's trending at #10. clicked on it and the first article is about the child abuse.. did something happen lately that would get so many people doing a massive search?.

OrphanCrow

vidiot: Pretty sure the website and channel were fast-tracked in expectation of this, specifically to try and get ahead of it.

I agree. It explains why they have been flooding social media sites with their jw..org crap and trying to up the rank of their own propaganda on search engines through the promotion of their website.

It has been a deliberately planned campaign to keep the news about this commission under wraps.

I don't think it is working. Bad news travels fast.

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Dragging Jehovah's name trough the mud!

by truthseekeriam in

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listening to the first survivor testify to the australian royal commission really brought back some feelings i had put aside.. the feelings of guilt you feel for doing the right thing is extremely hard even when you know it's illogical it doesn't stop the abuse you do to yourself with these toxic thoughts of "dragging jehovah's name through the mud" i guess it doesn't help that you have the elders freaking out saying "reproach, reproach...this is bad!!

it took quite awhile for me to come to terms with how completely ridicules it is to think jehovah would want this hidden.

the truth is the religion wants it hidden and they are perfectly fine with destroying lives along the way!!

OrphanCrow

It's not redundant when by 'name' is implied "reputation".
Eden

You are right, Eden. It is a cultural understanding of "name". I think I am more used to the Chinese expression of lose "face" rather than "name".

"Jehovah's name" still sounds weird to me. I guess it is because the JWs emphasize so much that "Jehovah is God's name" that it is difficult for me to turn that around to "reputation" in this usage.

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Uh-Oh, JW's are confused by the news reporting... Getting texts from active members

by thedepressedsoul in

you can refer to me as a still in mole.

anyway, i've been getting texts from jw's about the australia news.

the general census is that the jw's are very, very confused.

OrphanCrow

I will try, Flipper...

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/28/australia-jehovah-witness-sex-abuse-hannigan-lklv.cnn

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Canada's CBC reports on Australia's Royal Commission

by OrphanCrow in

this story will not be kept silent.. thank you cbc.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jehovah-s-witnesses-church-hid-child-abuse-cases-for-decades-australian-inquiry-told-1.3168944.

OrphanCrow

Data-Dog: I imagine the GB are crapping their pants, scrambling to piece together next month's 144,000 Club broadcast! LOL!!!! 😈
Vidiot: At the very least, I don't imagine they're sleeping very well.

Maybe Bethel laundry is busy washing and ironing the GB's robes to get ready for the "rapture of the GB".

Lol! Rapture = disappearing and hiding out in some obscure place.

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Dragging Jehovah's name trough the mud!

by truthseekeriam in

jw
friends

listening to the first survivor testify to the australian royal commission really brought back some feelings i had put aside.. the feelings of guilt you feel for doing the right thing is extremely hard even when you know it's illogical it doesn't stop the abuse you do to yourself with these toxic thoughts of "dragging jehovah's name through the mud" i guess it doesn't help that you have the elders freaking out saying "reproach, reproach...this is bad!!

it took quite awhile for me to come to terms with how completely ridicules it is to think jehovah would want this hidden.

the truth is the religion wants it hidden and they are perfectly fine with destroying lives along the way!!

OrphanCrow

I find the phrase "Jehovah's name" to be odd.

It doesn't make sense. If I were to refer to a person, I would say "you should be careful about damaging that person's name"...I wouldn't say "Bob's name" because his name is Bob.

What is Jehovah's name? Well...it is Jehovah.

It is a redundant phrase.

Does that mean that God's name is Jehovah but Jehovah's name...is "God"???

Huh. Bob's name is Bob. Well, no shit.

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Jehovah's Witnesses #10 in Yahoo trending

by TweetieBird in

jw
friends

i'm sitting here drinking my morning coffee and opened up the yahoo page to see jw's trending at #10. clicked on it and the first article is about the child abuse.. did something happen lately that would get so many people doing a massive search?.

OrphanCrow

I just did a google search on "Jehovah's Witnesses".

Before this story broke, that search term would have returned almost a full page of jw..org.

Now, jw..org is holding onto the top spot, but the rest of the first page has been taken over by the abuse scandal.

I hope the JWs keep directing the public to the internet. Nice of them to alert the public that their organization is online. Most people will do a search instead of just going to their website.

I am waiting for jw..org to get knocked out of their top spot on search results.

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Taurus Investments / Lorentz Reibling

by Gorbatchov in

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after a short absence here, i read today some posts about taurus and lorentz reibling.. can someone answers these questions i have:.

- did taurus bought the standish hotel from watchtower?.

- is lorentz reibling, one of taurus owners a jw?.

OrphanCrow

- did Taurus bought The Standish Hotel from Watchtower?

Yes.

- is Lorentz Reibling, one of Taurus owners a JW?

Yes. And his brother Guenther.

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"Do you realise how inappropriate that is?!"

by stuckinarut2 in

in the australian royal commission enquiry into child abuse and the way institutions handle such is underway.. today the judge said the following in response to the way judicial committees operate:.

(not verbatim...but the gist of his comments are:).

"so a young woman, a suspected victim of abuse or someone accused of a sin, would have to appear before three older men in a 'judicial committee' and relate in detail her ordeal?

OrphanCrow

opusdei1972: Interestingly, the evil methodology of the judicial meetings is being exposed.

And not only that, but the dark underbelly of the congregations is also being exposed. Yesterday's witness, the woman who was told to bottle her tears in a skin bottle, revealed how unkind and unloving the whole congregation is, including women who accused her of lying. Her own mother was complacent in the abuse.

The judicial meetings are horribly abusive and the rest of the congregation falls in line and continues the abuse - the JW women are extensions of the male abuse. The abusive behavior is not just confined to the elders - it is systemic.

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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.

OrphanCrow

Oubilette: "Oh, really? Well, I don't know what the rules are over there."
Wow, that's lame. Really lame.

It sure reveals their lack of independent thought.

The JWs are a rule based culture. They view the world as split into "worldly rules" and "our rules". And of course, worldly rules are bad and their rules are good.

I don't think the JWs are capable of viewing the world in any other way except rule based. The JWs use their "rules" as a safety fence that protects them from that big, bad world out there. Only trouble is, those rules are what keeps the wolves inside the fence instead of keeping them out.