**DATELINE NBC***

by zev 21 Replies latest jw friends

  • zev
    zev

    Some years ago, about 4-5 years or so, I was watching tv and dateline was airing something about a religious group based very close to where I live. Attleboro/Seekonk MA. They didn?t say who the group was for quite a while during the show. As I watched it I thought, maybe its about JW?s. could have been because there was nothing giving me any reason to think it wasn?t. but then they showed a tent in a back yard and that was the place of worship, and they were jumping around and singing something I didn?t recognize. I knew it wasn?t the dub?s. but I was amazed at first (remember, I was still in the toof at the time) in my thinking that this ?cult? could have been jw?s. J I guess that was a lead in to the things I REALLY found out a few years later.

    Anywhoo?. The news was really about how a young mother, Karen Robidoux, had let her child starve to death. (the name is ok to put here, as it?s a matter of public record, and the trail is now over. This had allot of newspaper and local tv coverage up until recently, as the case has been resolved) Her trial concluded recently. The people I mentioned above were heavily involved with her defense, and recovery from that cult she was in. dateline will be covering her story as well as others. I don?t know the ?exact? venue of the show. I just have the knowledge that this show will be about cults, and the power they have over their followers, even to the point of letting a child die from lack of nutrition, (or a blood transfution-as is the case with jw's).

  • Undaunted Danny
    Undaunted Danny

    Thanks Zev,The discovery channel also has a ,"Doomsday cults" feature that they air from time to time.

    [May 7th @ 8:00 EST] Roger that, i have 4 VCR's i'll cue them all

  • codeblue
    codeblue

    Wow......thanks for sharing that info....we definitely want to watch it...what time Pacific will it show?

  • exjdub
    exjdub

    Thanks Zev. That should be some interesting TV.

  • seeitallclearlynow
    seeitallclearlynow

    Sounds great zev, I've made a note of it - thanks.

  • nowisee
    nowisee

    hi zev,

    thanks. i am programming my vcr also.

    i remember seeing the show you mentioned -- i had the same thoughts about it, that there was a resemblance to jws. actually i think the psychology of most if not all of the cults is the same -- one gives up individual responsibility for thinking and hands it over to "the leader" (borg). then they are fair game for any instruction from "above", whether it be going house to house so many hours per month, denying ones children certain foods, shunning family, preparing to be taken away to hale bopp comet, or drinking koolaid laced with cyanide. pretty sad.

    good to see you. best wishes, nowisee

  • bebu
    bebu

    I'll try to see if the VCR will record if I set it... Never been good at doing that.

    But thanks for the heads up!

    bebu

  • five_crew
    five_crew

    Got the Tivo set, thanx

  • observador
    observador

    Thank you, Zev.

    Running to set the VCR up...

  • sf
    sf

    Excuse me, but nothing on DATELINE tonight is about Doomsday cults; as I'm tuning in right now.

    What happened?

    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/

    sKally

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