i'm pissed that i got scared the other day and didn't just tell my mom i was celebrating halloween.
i was caught off-guard when she asked what i was doing and felt that fear they instill in you.
hate that i still feel that way when i shouldn't.
Cognac, don't be mad at yourself, just congratulate yourself that you want to move forward!
We've all been-there-done-that over different topics at various times during our fading, it's just part of the process. But good for you for wanting to move on!
i hold kindness in high regard; it separates us from the drudgery of life and elevates those who practice it as well as those who receive it.
my family has been going through a big crisis for several weeks now and i've noticed a few things.
several of the elders have expressed their concern for us, shared a scripture and then back out to field service or whatever.
Stillin, sending long distance love and hugs to you at this time, and hoping you find much support.
Ssn, it's good to vent from time to time, helps clear out the negative dregs and free us for forward movement. Very happy that you and your daughter don't have to live with the jdub conditional love anymore. Wishing you all the best.
i think we all have some time a weaker moment and miss the times we were regular witness.. to admit, i have some of these moments a year.. for these moments i have this point "i can't accect being part of.
a religious organisation that structural apeals child abuse cases".. then i'm finished with the moment.. the path is narrow.. g.. .
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Hmmm, sorry Gorby but I have ZERO of those moments. I don't miss it and am extremely pleased to be out. But it may be the strong personal feelings about their desire to protect child rapists that makes it so easy for me.
$13.5m award in jehovah's witnesses molest caseby associated press.
published: 21:45 est, 31 october 2014 | updated: 21:45 est, 31 october 2014. .
san diego (ap) the jehovah's witnesses were ordered to pay $13.5 million to a southern california man who said he was molested as a child by a church member.. a san diego judge ruled wednesday that the church's governing body covered up years of sexual abuse by a member who later became an elder.. superior judge joan lewis said actions of the watchtower bible and tract society of new york were "reprehensible and reckless," u-t san diego reported friday (http://bit.ly/1uf519r ).. jose lopez, who was awarded the money, sued the group, alleging that he was molested in 1986 at age 7 by a member of the spanish congregation in the linda vista area of san diego.. lopez said the elders suggested gonzalo campos as his bible teacher even though they knew he had molested at least one other boy, the suit contended.
Let's hope that many others come forward and that the horrible lying wts crumbles under the lawsuits and public disgust.
today i was sat in a car full of jaydubs on the way home from the circuit assembly, and the discussion turned to halloween and how to avoid trick or treaters!.
seriously, there was talk of pulling curtains shut across front doors and how disgusting it was that parents let their children knock on doors , and how annoying it is to get a knock on the door knowing it's an uninvited person!
had to bite my tongue... .
Someone shared a FB post today that said Halloween was the one day of the year when the jws did what everyone else did all year...they were HBH!
famous quote from wuthering heights revised.. '... i am jw.org!
it's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
so don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable...'.
Remember when the catholic church had their campaign called Come Back Home or something similar? That seemed so out-of-place and commercial, but this button and pin nonsense is so much worse. At least the catholics were just trying to get lapsed ones back....this is trying to get anyone to get on the internet and check out a website.
They get more disturbing every day...the jdubs, I mean.
honduras bus crash leaves 14 dead and 55 injuredbus veered off road and crashed into ravine.
by ruth doherty, nov 1, 2014. updated: november 1, 2014 8:10 am.
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How terribly sad for these families. Yes, maybe some will wonder why they weren't protected, but that's really not the point. Death is tragic no matter why it happens.
as if we needed any further evidence that the minds of christians are not all that they should be, the shenagins in the christian segment of the christian segment of the singapore population once again demonstrated that each time they fart, they blow some of their brains away, and sadly they fart so much that there's not much brain left.. i guess most people have heard that time cook (boss of apple) publically stated this week that he was gay and proud of it.
in most of the western world, it barely caused a ripple, but not so in singapore where christians are always lobbying the government against sin.. but, tim cook as a gay man provoked the ire of the singaporean church leadership.. i have not heard that anyone claimed that using an apple iphone would make you gay, but prominent church leader lawrence khong, was commissioned as an apostle by dr. peter wagner, of the international coalition of apostles, in 2000. .
on hearing the news about tim cook, lawrence khong stop using iphone and even denounced technology altogether.
Sounds as if Mr Aini has done extensive research on the male anatomy...
jehovahs witness hq must pay abuse victim $13.5 million penalty; snap responds.
for immediate release: friday, oct. 31. .
statement by david clohessy of st. louis, director of snap, the survivors network of those abused by priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]).
Yay! This needs lots of publicity, it's high time that the wicked WTS has its misdeeds and criminal actions publicized for the world to see. Thanks for sharing this, Barbara. Thanks especially to Jose Lopez for coming forward and toughing out this lawsuit. HUGS to you both!
the premier bassist of his generation, his songs made many love babies.
rock on forever jb..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwdo0juekqm.
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Takes me back to a better time and place. RIP, Jack. And of course now I'm on iTunes buying some more of their music.
