by jerome 49 Replies latest watchtower scandals
I personally will milk this dry...
I will use every word they typed all to my benefit.
You see I have been increasing my credibility for sometime now with my gf so she pretty much belevies me when I tell her something about the Watchtower.
But now that they have done this...
Mabe she may finally get some new light on the WT.
jerome
AFTER using children to satisfy perverted lusts, after robbing them of their security and their sense of innocence, child molesters still want something else from their victims—SILENCE. To secure that silence, they use shame, secrecy, even outright terror. Children are thus robbed of their best weapon against abuse—the will to tell, to speak up and ask an adult for protection.Tragically, adult society often unwittingly collaborates with child abusers. How so? By refusing to be aware of this danger, by fostering a hush-hush attitude about it, by believing oft-repeated myths. Ignorance, misinformation, and silence give safe haven to abusers, not their victims.
For example, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops concluded recently that it was a "general conspiracy of silence" that allowed gross child abuse to persist among the Catholic clergy for decades. Time magazine, in reporting on the widespread plague of incest, also cited a "conspiracy of silence" as a factor that "only helps perpetuate the tragedy" in families.
However, Time noted that this conspiracy is crumbling at last. Why? In a word, education. It is as Asiaweek magazine put it: "All experts agree that the best defence against child abuse is public awareness." To defend their children, parents must understand the realities of the threat. Don't be left in the dark by misconceptions that protect child abusers and not children.
Educate Your Child!
~~~Noi~~~
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Member of the: I have ~No-Idea~ class.
In various countries disturbing reports have surfaced about religious cults that abuse children with sadistic sexual practices and torture. Often, those who report that they were victims of such crimes are treated with incredulity, not compassion.Tragically, adult "society" often unwittingly collaborates with child abusers. How so? By refusing to be aware of this danger, by fostering a hush-hush attitude about it, by believing oft-repeated myths. Ignorance, misinformation, and silence give safe haven to abusers, not their victims
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GAG, they must have been up all night!
There's no way these guys could be guilty, look what they talk about on their official web site, your honour.
Members of the jury, with such an extensive report on our official website, surely you can see that it is satan that has written and put those lies about us out in the open.
Only our opposers would do such a thing. We are begging for the mercy of the court.
Boy, how do you get jury duty...
William your hard work is finally paying off!!!
You wanted change and this just may be the start.
[ Loud applaud ]
jerome
I am sorry to inform you, but due to the fact that the WT revolts me to the point of puking my lungs out, I will be unable to click the link provided.
Lara
Somebody has to make a report on this and distribute it to the anti-cult ministries while this is still hot.
If people actually knew the real story behind their putting up that info on their website then imaging the good that it could do.
jerome
Did anyone notice at the bottom of the articles on child abuse it says: "Appeared in Awake! October 8, 1993"?
Interesting how they borrow from the archives at a time like this. Too bad they didn't listen to their own advice, then this wouldn't be the huge issue it is today.
FreePeace
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ALERT: Damage control, damage control, damage control!!!! (in advance)
Makes me sick.
Did anyone catch this under the "Comfort..Stricken Spirit" secton regarding repressed memories?
If the accusation is denied, the elders should explain to the accuser that nothing more can be done in a judicial way. And the congregation will continue to view the one accused as an innocent person. The Bible says that there must be two or three witnesses before judicial action can be taken. (2 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Timothy 5:19) Even if more than one person "remembers" abuse by the same individual, the nature of these recalls is just too uncertain to base judicial decisions on them without other supporting evidence. This does not mean that such "memories" are viewed as false (or that they are viewed as true). But Bible principles must be followed in establishing a matter judicially.
Trot
You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1993/10/8a/article_01.htm
In various countries disturbing reports have surfaced about religious cults that abuse children with sadistic sexual practices and torture. Often, those who report that they were victims of such crimes are treated with incredulity, not compassion.http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1993/10/8a/diagram_01.htm
Misconception: Child abusers are usually strangers, deranged misfits who abduct children and use physical force to abuse them.Considering that this Awake! article (10/8/93) us almost 9 years old, you'd think that the JWs would be putting some of this counsel into practice. But we all know that this is just slick PR, don't we?In the vast majority of cases—from 85 to 90 percent by some estimates—the abuser is a person the child knows and trusts. Rather than using force, abusers often manipulate the child into sexual acts gradually, taking advantage of the child's limited experience and reasoning ability. (Compare 1 Corinthians 13:11 and Proverbs 22:15.) These abusers are not the drooling loners of the stereotype. Many are quite religious, respected, and well liked in the community. According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, "to assume that someone is not a pedophile simply because he is nice, goes to church, works hard, is kind to animals, and so on, is absurd." Recent research suggests that it is also wrong to assume that all abusers are male or that all victims are female.
Misconception: Children fantasize or lie about sexual abuse.
Under normal circumstances children lack the experience or sophistication in sexual matters to invent explicit claims of abuse, although some small children may become confused about details. Even the most skeptical of researchers agree that most claims of abuse are valid. Consider the book Sex Abuse Hysteria—Salem Witch Trials Revisited, which focuses on false claims of abuse.* This book admits: "Genuine sex abuse of children is widespread and the vast majority of sex abuse allegations of children . . . are likely to be justified (perhaps 95% or more)." Children find it enormously difficult to report abuse. When they do lie about abuse, it is most often to deny that it happened even though it actually did.
Misconception: Children are seductive and frequently bring the abuse on themselves by their conduct.
This notion is particularly warped, since, in effect, it blames the victim for the abuse. Children have no real concept of sexuality. They have no idea of what such activity implies or of how it will change them. They are therefore incapable of consenting to it in any meaningful way. It is the abuser, and the abuser alone, who bears the blame for the abuse.—Compare Luke 11:11, 12.
Misconception: When children disclose abuse, parents should teach them to refrain from talking about it and to 'put it behind them.'
Who is best served if the child keeps silent about the abuse? Is it not the abuser? In fact, studies have shown that denial with emotional suppression may be the least effective way to deal with the trauma of abuse. Of the nine coping methods used by one group of adult survivors studied in England, the ones who denied, avoided, or suppressed the issue suffered the greater emotional maladjustment and distress in adult life. If you experienced a terrifying assault, would you want to be told not to talk about it? Why tell a child such a thing? Allowing the child the normal reaction to such a terrible event, such as grief, anger, mourning, will give him the opportunity eventually to put the abuse in the past.
Love, Scully
Well they certainly are nervous about all this. It couldn't happen to a nicer cult could it?
bastards
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