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  Why don't parents of an abused child go straight to police, why go to an elder first??

  by FeelingFree in

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  i hope i don't come across as judgemental but having read a lot on the current child abuse cases and the different threads on here, i am left wondering why on earth a parent of an abuse victim would go to an elder with the problem first and not straight to police?.

  as a parent myself i know that if anything like that happend to my child (this applies to when i was still an active jw as well as now) i would not hesitate in going to the authorities as soon as i found out, it wouldn't of crossed mine or my husbands mind to go to an elder.

  maybe after we had reported it but definitely never as the first port of call.

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  We had an elder in our hall that seemed to always be hosting a girl's sleepover for his 9 year old newly adopted daughter. Yes, come to find out he was molesting them. One young sister went straight to her mother the next morning after one of these infamous parties. The mother called the police before calling the elders. It broke the story wide open. He was DF'ed and then committed suicide the night before his sentencing. It split the congregation. Some were really angry with this sister for all the bad publicity in the papers (as if it was her fault)

  I wish they all were like this mother!!!!!!
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  $13.5 million to a San Diego man

  by truthseekeriam in

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  2. friends

  http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html#.

  the national organization for jehovah's witnesses was ordered to pay $13.5 million to a san diego man who says he was abused as a child by his bible teacher.

  nbc 7's rory devine reports on oct. 30, 2014.

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  Makes me almost believe in God....
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  Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?

  by 3rdgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.

  break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.

  the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.

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  I remember that 15 minutes quite well......It was just enough time for my very strong Ukrainian mother to haul us five kids to the back room and give us all a good beating. It made no difference whether we were guilty of any mischief or not, the beating got delivered.
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  A QUESTION FOR JW'S who say, "The brothers were overly zealous" about 1975

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "what was the actual significance of that year, then?".

  if jw's were overly zealous, what was the exact amount of zeal encouraged by the wts for a non-event which took up.

  over 7 years of every jw's time?.

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  Trustworthy Bible chronology ...... What a laugh. One of my favorite parts of the book Crisis of Conscience is the GB discussion around changing the 1914 date to the Sputnik launch. Trustworthy Bible chronology at it's finest......
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  What will you do to celebrate Oct 2 2014?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  like most people reading this, i was convinced that by 2014 the new system would 'definitely' have been operating for at least a decade.

  now that i know this is not going to be the case i am going to have to think of some way to recognise 100 years of wts let downs and failed predictions.

  there is no point fretting over the past so i think it will be a good time to celebrate.

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  Worked, enjoyed a Scooby treat and am now waiting for the OR and AZ game. Here's to hoping the Ducks are totally humiliated tonight and Hovah does not rapture me till the game is over.
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  Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  2. entertainment

  i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

  i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

  what did you love about the 80s?

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  I regular pioneered through that decade. My memories of the 80's are district conventions, the Live Forever book, 2,600 hours of meetings and 10,000 hours of field service (minus 52 hours I was short in 1986), too many hours waiting in the car for an elder meeting to end, and countless evenings listening to a sister tell me about her ailments that will hopefully be cured in the paradise. A very FUNLESS decade for me.

  Let's pick a different decade FHN
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  October 2nd, 2014: The World Ends Tomorrow, Taking all Bets!

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on october 2, 1914, charles taze russell, founder of the watchtower, announced that the gentile times have ended!.

  tomorrow will be exactly 100 years since his historic announcment.. to commemorate this centennial occasion, i will gladly take bets in any amount of money that the world will not end tomorrow and that on friday, october 3rd, 2014 gmt, we will still all be here, for better or worse.. any die-hard jws interested in taking the other side of this friendly little wager?

  still hoping the big "a" is coming tomorrow and your loving god, jehovah, is going to commit mass genocide and execute 99.9% of earth's population because they don't follow the dictates the 7 members of the "faithful and discreet slave," aka, the governing body of jehovah's witnesses?.

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  I have a lot of money on my Buffs Saturday (cannot spare anymore $ Oubiette) and a really cute guy is coming with me to the game.

  Please hold winds back 'till Sunday Hova...........Please let me have one more weekend of debauchery!!!
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  Where Are You on The Witno Scale?

  by tresdecu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1 - still think it's the truth ...came to this site cause danger is your middle name.. 2 - concerned, smoething's amiss but still believe.

  3 - 98% sure it's bs, but still go for / with family.

  4 - anger / denial, inactive with minimal attendance (ie memorial, spec talk etc).

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  One of the marijuana shops here in Boulder is having a sale today........

  by Magwitch in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  for those on the board that are unfamiliar with marijuana, each strain of weed is given a name.

  this particular one has my attention :).

  today's special.......... save 20% off our featured strain......light of jah.

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  Magwitch

  For those on the board that are unfamiliar with marijuana, each strain of weed is given a name. This particular one has my attention :)

  Today's special.........

  SAVE 20% OFF OUR FEATURED STRAIN......LIGHT OF JAH

  I cannot wait to try it :)

  In the event anyone wants in on this sale here is the website........thefarmco.com
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  October 1914? Really?

  by sylvlef in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  km august 2014, page 3 paragraph 6(article for this week's service meeting):.

  "the month of october 2014 will see the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom.

  for this occasion a special edition of the watchtower will be on this theme.".

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