The title is not misleading. I can prove that monsters really exist, although genetic tests of the species of these monsters might frighten and alarm you.
Tests will reveal human DNA. This should not surprise many who have kept current in the news.
At bedtime parents often assure a young child who is afraid a monster is lurking under the bed or in the closet, that monsters don't exist in "real life." They assure the frightened young child that monsters are "figments of our overactive imaginations."
However, parents who have kept abreast of the news lately, and especially parents who are baptized Jehovah's Witnesses, must struggle with their consciences when telling children that monsters don't really exist. Many others simply believe they are telling the child the truth, that monsters don't exist. That is to say, they who believe their congregation and place of worship is a safe haven from the abberations in nature that prey upon young children filling the news of late.
Often we tell our children lies to protect them. We rationalize that telling them monsters don't exist is just a "little white lie" justified to protect the innocence of the child. Some of us even believe there are no real monsters, and that our children are safe amongst our spiritual brothers and sisters and literal family.
One little girl who represents many other children found out that monsters really do exist. She learned through firsthand experience the world today hardly resembles the world that existed as recently as a decade ago. The world today, she discovered, is a strange, hate-filled and dangerous place that is alien to concepts of human decency and dignity. The world today resembles something out of a terrible nightmare or science fiction horror movie. The problem is that she is not having a nightmare from which she can awaken.
She is wide awake.
She cannot wake up from a terror that will haunt her well into her adult life.
- "CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a Bible-quoting man who sexually abused a young girl, starting when she was 4 years old and ending when she was 10.
Paul Berry, 46, was convicted of 17 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault two years ago. He was sentenced to 56 to 112 years in prison, possibly the longest sentence ever given for sexual assault in the state.
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The assaults included Berry hanging the girl by her wrists from hooks on a barn wall and, on another occasion, tying her to a tree, according to court records. The girl testified that Berry, a Jehovahs Witness, quoted Scriptures while forcing her to perform sex acts.
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Ordinarily, we would report to both the elders and authorities someone or rather some thing who terrorizes a child in our congregation. Naturally, in the process we might say something critical of the crime. It is only natural to express outrage at any crime especially those against innocent children.
Unfortunately, it is as if we are suddenly behind the looking glass in Alice's wonderland. As we seem to travel deeper into the rabit's hole, we feel an increasing sense of disbelief in recent disfellowshippings of those who have expressed outrage against the very type of crime reported in the Associated Press above, and who also reported these crimes to the elders and/or police.
This can't be possible, can it? Could the Watchtower Society sudden turn on a dime and persecute those who protect children from rape and sexual torture? WHY? The fact it doesn't make sense has caused many Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide to simply shutdown emotionally, and deny these news reports and hard facts behind the reports.
To do otherwise and face these facts could possibly imply we are either closer to the "end" than we thought, or worse, that the Watchtower Society has been completely rejected by Jehovah God and Jesus Christ!
The facts about the current epidemic of disfellowshippings of those who criticize and/or report sexual crimes against children in the congregation, seems to demonstrate that those wishing to remain in good standing with the Watchtower Society MUST REMAIN SILENT. Why draw this conclusion? Because a rash of disfellowshippings is occurring; those who refused to remain silent, and made these crimes known, have been called before judicial committees and disfellowshipped in recent weeks.
Did I prove that monsters exist in real life? You be the judge.
Derrick
aka CogentMinded
Note: Originally posted at another forum; see this link: http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=311102&CategoryID=2967&startcat=1&ThreadID=233091