the thing that broke me was that i tried to warn another mum in the congregation about a brother who was inappropriate with my son, which upset me, and so i called her to talk about it since we both knew him and i had also seen him pin her daughter down on the sofa and slap the girl's bottom.
i called it inappropriate, but i never accused him of anything beyond that.. unfortunately, word got back to him and i had to go in front of 3 elders, including the brother who i felt had been inappropriate.
because they came down on me for trying to stop the behavior, and not on him for being the cause of upset, i felt very hurt and started questioning more things.
Welcome Darlene ,I hope you didn`t use your real name here as that would certainly get back to the congregation you were in .
Newbies should be aware that the Borg as we sometimes call it does monitor sites like this for their own advantage ,that`s how paranoid they are.
hi folks.. i put this in abuse as i thought it relevant.. a physically in mentally out friend that considers our friendship greater than religion told me that on the latest broadcast steven lett alluded to satans voice being behind people that claim the organisation protects pedophiles.. my friend then went on to say they must be in damage control.. he added, but that is correct, they are hiding their internal records.
is not that construed as protecting the accused?.
if i get the inclination i may post a snippet of what was actually said.. sadly my friend is trying to protect his family relationships and so goes along with the charade.. his situation weighs on me but, as many of you here know, it can be a difficult road to travel.. jtg.
I don`t know how anyone in the JW religion can take Stephen Lett seriously ? Like everything the organization does, is they twist things around to confuse the issue.
On the one hand, while they don`t actively outright protect pedophiles ,they deny they exist and refuse to do anything about the sexual abuse against children that goes on in the organization by the perpetrators ,they, in fact by their denial are protecting pedophiles .
examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.
know ye not your own selves, how that jesus christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
- 2 cor.
If Jesus enters me , is that then really me ? Or someone / somebody else.?
when i was a teenager a younger fellow workmate was involved in the sport of judo.i got interested and went along to a number of sessions and took to it like a sponge to water ,and as a sport i was happy participating in.. not that much longer another workmate was getting re-activated in the religion of jw`s.
which i had never heard o before and then got interested in that .. conflict : was judo a sport that was compatible with j.w beliefs?
sadly i decided it was not and stopped any further involvement.. to this day i resent that decision i made back then .and i`m 82 years old now.. it was a sport i was comfortable doing and i enjoyed it.and i gave it up because of the religion .who knows what i may have achieved had i continued with it.
I only have heard of a couple that you mention Punk .
I`m more familiar with Count Bassie ,Duke Ellington , Gene Krupa ,Glenn Miller ,Tommy Dorsey ,etc ,etc.
Maybe it`s an age thing ?
what i mean is the mormon's have their own set of wacky beliefs and are a pretty insular group, engage in a form of door to door ministry but don't discourage higher education.
in fact, the handful of mormons i went to school with were pushed to excel academically and go to college.
yeah there are ex mormons but for a great many, going to university doesn't turn them into atheists.
Maybe the Mormons are a lot thicker , mentally diseased , than the JW- Witnesses are.
i am posting a link as to being legally bound to jw rules at time of baptism.
i only did a quick skim, but what i gathered is interesting, and what it says about 1985 may be of use to some hoping to just fade and not be bothered.
in 1985, the questions were changed at baptism for legal purposes so they could have causation to defend themselves should you decide to sue for whatever reason.
Anybody recall what the Baptism questions were in 1960 when I was baptized ? And what argument / discussion , I could have with a JW at my door ?
Bring em on I say.
this is the first day of the return to the d2d work, no one in the strip opened their doors or gates.
what a waste of time!.
They're too busy to do such menial work .
Besides it`s below their pay grade.
nasa plans return to moon by 2020
"this vision aims to return humans to the moon, and then to use it as a staging point for a manned mission to mars.
i wonder if jws will be required to canvas those areas too.
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we know what mentally-in jws believe they are doing when they "love one another"... and many of us here formerly participated in that culty love bombing behavior.. why?.
It`s to gain brownie points with the big J and the little j as well as sucking up to the Elders as to what a good witness you are.
.A.M.If I knew someone who was mildly interested in the JW cult I would do all in my power to dissuade them from having anything to do with them.
i thought the reasoning sound as to the wt explaination of babylon the great, ( world empire of false religion ) but have any of you knowledge of other plausible explainations?
or knowledge of other sources that are in agreement with wt?
In my time as a JW, 32 years and the amount of articles lambasting ,critisizing ,heaping crap on the Roman Catholic Church every chance they had ,didn`t they at one stage say the RCC were the most promiminent part of the counterfeit kingdom of God on earth in Christendom ?
Wouldn`t that constitute them being Babylon The Great ? According to the WT?
