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  I teachers sex abuse in I school costs 139 million settlement. LA Times

  by prologos in

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  the high cost of institutional negligence in protecting children: 139 000 000.- for one offender.. google la times miramonte school --.. .

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  89 victims since 1983. You got to wonder how he got away with it.
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  What should the WBT$ do to get on track?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  it looks as if the gb are blundering around and really showing themselves up for the buffoons they are.

  all the stupidity about tight trousers is laughable and if the general public were to see these selfmportant cult leaders blabbing this stuff then the last shred of their credibility would be destroyed.........perhaps.. the wbt$ seem to have dug themselves into a deep pit of no escape with their lies, new light(tm), paedophile protection and all the other nauseating peripherals they have.. we also suspect that the wbt$ have their spies here because they are either predictable or get ideas form forums like this.. so!

  are you listening watchtower(r)?

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  I think they have to be more open about there past as well as their present policies and procedures.

  They have to take full ownership and responsibility for the things they do and say.

  What I would like to see them do is help those victims that got screwed over by their policies around sex abuse. Just how big of a problem it is, and weather coming out and admitting to it would bankrupt them is quite a different story.
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  Feeling sad over a wasted life in watchtower

  by wannaexit in

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  2. friends

  it's been 12 years since i first read ray franz's books and the scales came off my eyes.

  by that time i was in my forties.. since 2002 i went back to school and have worked with 3 very professional organizations.

  but my biological clock is ticking away and while my peers are looking forward to retirement, i am only beginning.

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  I guess we can all understand those feeling. I physically walked out of the tower about 14 months ago. Every day that religion plays on my mind. I wasted 40 years of my life. So take comfort your not alone.
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  Tight Pants , a Bethel Bro replies

  by Phizzy in

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  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8szhnltnkme.

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  Tight arse in NZ means your either Dutch, Scottish, Jewish, or Indian.
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  Preaching is a waste of time

  by konceptual99 in

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  2. beliefs

  before anyone gives me the "bears/wood" similarities, this is a post based on insidethekh's reply on the mormon v jw thread.

  (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/287545/1/who-is-copying-who-jws-or-mormons) i like to see wt friendly posts on here as some of the wt bashing displays the same logical fallacies as levelled against the wts and it's followers so it's good to consider reasoned debate.. on the one hand i think itkh makes a fair point if you compare the worldwide success of mormons v jws but there is an overall context to the preaching work that is completely ignored by those fully "in" and has been a major factor in my move from being an active witness to one on the cusp of getting out.

  from a statistical point of view there are great headline numbers presented by the wts but if you put them in the context of the number of witnesses, conversation ratios, ratio of new witnesses to birth rates, numbers that must be leaving, growth differentials across the globe, penetration in muslim nations and so on then these numbers become meaningless.

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  ISTKHThe one thing I do admire about the LDS is their openness about the issues they are facing. Although I have no proof I would say the attendance figures for JWs would closely align with the LDS. I know when used to do the count at the meetings there we're always a lot away and very rearly did we ever get the total amount of publishers at any one meeting. On the weekends for the Sunday meeting it would be fair to say where were all the young ones. I honestly believe if watchtower was wanting to reach the masses they have to start letting their member set up independent web sites and they have to make better use of social net working. For instance would you buy a car if the car dealer told you not to look on the Internet, because of all the lies from angry ex car owners. Would you also buy that car if all the reviews on that car were overwhelmingly bad, other than the offical manufacturers web site. My argument is if you wouldn't buy a car like that then don't expect someone to choose a religion like that.
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  new neighbors

  by Theredeemer in

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  2. friends

  so, my wife and i purchased a house about a month ago and recently we met our new neighbors.

  they are an older couple.

  they are very nice and even brought us cookies.. in conversation they brought up that they were mormons and mentioned how much they loved it.

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  Just another off topic point. Its amazing how two religions can be so theologically different and yet structurally and organizationally Exactly the same.
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  new neighbors

  by Theredeemer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, my wife and i purchased a house about a month ago and recently we met our new neighbors.

  they are an older couple.

  they are very nice and even brought us cookies.. in conversation they brought up that they were mormons and mentioned how much they loved it.

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  May be this is a bit off topic, but I thought the JWs had some pretty far out and fanciful ideas. But man!! They are nothing concerning all the BS and scandal that surrounds the mormon church. You will also find that the mormon church is currently having the same problem as the JW regarding members walking out due to information on the Internet.
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  REPUTATION and disfellowshipping.....stories

  by problemaddict 2 in

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  2. beliefs

  a friend of mine is getting disfellowshipped.

  someone with a kind heart, and good rep. he knows how i feel, remains my firend, and we have respectful conversation.

  without revealing too much, lets just say the reason he is being disfellowshipped is for family problems.

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  It's just best to leave out the back door before it gets to that point. I'm sure if I stayed I would of got a JC for apostacy.
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  Montreal Gazette: 'Homosexuals like you in tight pants,' JW leader says

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  http://montrealgazette.com/life/turning-the-page-homosexuals-like-you-in-tight-pants-jehovahs-witness-leader-says-reportsturning the page: 'homosexuals like you in tight pants,' jehovah's witness leader says reportsjillian page, montreal gazette more from jillian page, montreal gazette.

  published on: november 12, 2014 last updated: november 12, 2014 11:33 pm est.

  skin-tight pants are a no-no in public, church leader says,.

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  Oh God why can't we all just move on from this tight pants saga.
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  i have a theory about the long term doctrine of wt!

  by purrpurr in

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  2. friends

  i can see no reason why the gb would want to loosen their grip on their cash cow/ cushy life.

  but what will they do in 20,30,50 years?

  well i suspect that at some point they will claim that the promised paradise is already here but that it has come in spirtual form.

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  I think they will eventually be forced to drop the 144k and 1914. Just how the will spin it and what the effects will be I guess time will tell