Madame Quixote

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  Did Evolution Save Human Race From AIDS?

  by metatron in

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  i must admit, i hate the word and concept of evolution.

  however, to give the 'devil his due', there.

  has been an interesting development in the fight against aids.

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  I just think that Darwinian evolution defies the spirit of science itself, if you look at that spirit as reductionism itself.

  I guess it depends on the type of reductionism yoy're talking about. I like what Daniel Dennet says about "greedy reductionism." It attempts to explain too much with too little, in the same way that creationism attempts to "explain" biology.

  It seems to me that there is much, much more research on evolutionary biology, and and actual evidence for it - most particularly in the field of cellular development - than there is for "creation." However, if a creator exists, I'd be very interested for his discovery to be established because I (and a lot of scientists) have many, many scientific and philosophical questions for him.
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  Latest news of my Husband Marco (heart surgery)

  by orangefatcat in

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  so dear friends here is the latest news about hubby's heart by- pass.. the doctor spoke with us both this evening and marco will have the surgery in a week and a half.. he is holding his own and the doctor hopes he won't have another heart attack before surgery.. there are many people that are involved with a heart team.

  and so that is why we have to wait to get organized in everry way.

  marco is still weak and is constantly tired.

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  Best wishes, OFC, and Marco. Sorry to hear you're going through all this!
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  The Special Song That You Enjoy As A Couple Or Individual

  by The wanderer in

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  do you recall the song that you shared with that special someone?

  are single and have a song that has a special meaning to you.

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  "My Way"

  http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elvis+presley/my+way_20048076.html
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  Need links to information about the abuse in the arcives in Brocklyn.

  by Manjana in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i have a discussion with a witness.

  she wants to read about the 23.000 cases of abuse, there are in the arcives.

  she wants to know if they are solved and if the number goes global.

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  The only website I know of that is critical of JW policies and that claims to be by currently active JWs is Associated Jehovah's Witnesses for Reform On Blood:

  http://www.ajwrb.com

  As far as I can determine, this is the only really, really good website with active JWs critical of the Watchtower Society's policies. They are not ex-jws, but jws who want reform.

  There is an excellent link there to an article critical of watchtower's misrepresentation of secular facts to promote it's bloody policy by attorney Kerry Louderback-Wood.

  They also use the Watchtower's own literature to show its lies and misrepresentations, as well as to show the abuse and neglect of children (in need of medical care denied by JWs as result of brainwashing and deliberate misinformation).

  Perhaps that could be a starting point instead: if they'd lie about the blood issue, then why would they also not lie about the sexual abusers knowingly hidden in their midst to save face in the community and to prevent losing their (brainwashed) members?
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  They didn't know 18 to 20 years ago, that pedophiles were harmful?

  by horrible life in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/717263.htm.

  that explains it all.

  they just didn't know, that it would be harmful to a child.

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  I left a phone message for her in Maryland, asking if she was aware that her name was being used at a pedophile apologists' site.

  Oh, yeah, there are a few interesting numbers and names attached to hers (or someone with the same name) that indicate she is in a supervisory role of some sort, and/or may be involved in elderly folks' social work and/or substance abuse counseling . . . I wonder how many LCSW with that exact same name there are:

  http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search?encquery=7e4d2fe0704760a1024b485be30c30d95c0c5db53a69396b&invocationType=keyword_rollover&ie=UTF-8

  Someone with that name is listed in the US Directory of Social Workers in MD, with a phone number and address:

  http://www.healthcarehiring.com/social_workers_maryland.php

  Also listed as some sort of supervisor (approved 2004 in Maryland) with her license # at:

  http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/bswe/Supervision%20Listings/Approved%20Supervisors%20from%20A%20to%20B.html
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  They didn't know 18 to 20 years ago, that pedophiles were harmful?

  by horrible life in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/717263.htm.

  that explains it all.

  they just didn't know, that it would be harmful to a child.

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  Madame Quixote

  From the transcript, this claim has to be absolutely a lie:

  Dr. Gail Bethea-Jackson, LCSW-C, B.C.D., specializing in victimization, children and adolescent issues, and posttraumatic stress disorder . . .

  because if the woman was "specializing in victimization" and in PTSD, and studied at one of the "most prestigious" schools of social work, how could she have not studied child abuse "in all of my studying."

  This whole piece is either a blatant lie or total misrepresentation of the individual's credentials or of her statements or both.
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  They didn't know 18 to 20 years ago, that pedophiles were harmful?

  by horrible life in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/717263.htm.

  that explains it all.

  they just didn't know, that it would be harmful to a child.

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  Madame Quixote

  Okay, so this is 2007 in case the craptower society/apologists didn't know. I just visited one site on history of laws and research on childhood sexual abuse:

  http://www.prevent-abuse-now.com/biblio.htm

  Its oldest (and still up-to-date) research on the long-term effects of sexual abuse in childhood dates back to 1978, 29 years ago. I believe the feminist outcry started before that and began helping to establish research and publicity for the issues as early as the 60's.

  Unfortunately, people who chose to live in the darkness of watchtower "light" might not have known, unless they had been abuse victims themselves, like my mother, who is indeed crazy . . . and who still protects the "society," along with the rest who still live in denial.
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  They didn't know 18 to 20 years ago, that pedophiles were harmful?

  by horrible life in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/717263.htm.

  that explains it all.

  they just didn't know, that it would be harmful to a child.

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  Madame Quixote

  Okay, last point, first for me:

  Why would anyone seeking to present a credible, knowledgeable response, post the opinion of a social worker who claims NEVER to have taken any coursework in CHILD ABUSE, which is what the topic is, to begin with:

  I went to one of the most prestigious social-work schools, at that time, in the country and in all of my studying,

  we didn't have a course in child abuse.
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  They didn't know 18 to 20 years ago, that pedophiles were harmful?

  by horrible life in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/717263.htm.

  that explains it all.

  they just didn't know, that it would be harmful to a child.

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  Madame Quixote

  I hope you don't mind my posting a transcript of this craptower society "defense," so that it can be picked apart by knowledgable researchers, point-by-point:

  Transcript of Video News Release

  Dr. Gail Bethea-Jackson, LCSW-C, B.C.D., specializing in victimization, children and adolescent issues, and posttraumatic

  stress disorder

  The Progressive Understanding of Child Abuse for Society in General

  Dr. Bethea-Jackson:

  I don't think, 18 or 20 years ago, we knew much of anything about pedophiles.

  It wasn't really looked at as a criminal matter.

  We didn't publicize it as being an act that needed some criminal intervention, so to speak.

  We didn't look at it … or it wasn't … people didn't have the body of knowledge 18 or 20 years ago to say that this is something that will harm your child emotionally, if you don't address it.

  Parents didn't know the seriousness, 18 or 20 years ago, and the long-term effects.

  And as people document the work that they've done, some successes and their failures, that some of that early work did not get to the public.

  I mean, it was in some New England journal somewhere.

  But certainly it was in the process of being looked at and studied.

  That information was not released.

  We weren't taught that in school.

  I went to one of the most prestigious social-work schools, at that time, in the country and in all of my studying,

  we didn't have a course in child abuse.
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  They didn't know 18 to 20 years ago, that pedophiles were harmful?

  by horrible life in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/717263.htm.

  that explains it all.

  they just didn't know, that it would be harmful to a child.

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  Madame Quixote

  Oh! A church social worker! Maybe for a JW "church"?