Posts by stillconcerned

i've finished writing my novel (50 thousand words) about my years spent in federal correctional prison when i was an obedient little jw.. the editing and rewriting stage now commences.. i need your help!.

here is how you can help me.. i can't know what an outside mind wants to find out concerning this experience.

i can only conjure up what seems interesting to me.. tell me what you want to know about such a personal experience.. that will give me a checklist to compare to what i've written already.. i may have missed many little details which are very important to a reader.. i may have neglected essential questions which must be answered in order to satisfy the mind.. please offer me your curiousity.. thanking you in advance; i appreciate your taking the time to advance my novel to the finish line.. (i wrote it as a fictional work because i could not honestly write about myself without the distance of this device.. so, i made myself into a character with a different name.. the identity of everyone else is non-fiction.

stillconcerned

Terry-

The legal process that got you there, and the attitude/demeanor of those inforcing the process, are of interest to me. (Perhaps as a lawyer, mainly.)

Are you writing the book aimed at ex-JWs, non-JW, current JWs or all of afore-mentioned?

If aimed at non-JWs, you'll need to do a lot of explaining of the basic mindset etc of average (or rabid) JW. Otherwise, the non-JWs will be lost (and uninterested).

I've never been JW.

In the course in interviewing literally thousands of JW and ex-JW fact witnesses and abuse survivors, I got a "JW education". I have found that many ex-JWs have a hard time explaining their JW experience in terms that others can grasp or process adequately.

Before you 'go to print', I'd consider having an 'other' read/edit the entire work for readability as to non-JWs, if that's one of your audiences.

I am a fellow Fort Worthian, so references to my 'home turf' and courthouse are interesting to ME.. :)

kimberlee d.

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Elder Pedophiles that you personally know of . . .

by JK666 in

after the ambiguous response by the wts to the nbc broadcast, i would like to know how many of you had an "elder chester molester" in your own congregation?.

we had an elder that molested his daughter's best friend when she was 14 years old.

the elders in the congregation tried to keep the matter quiet and handled the matter privately.

stillconcerned

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I think was was taken today

by Elsewhere in

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i was walking to my car after work, it was very cold (low 40's f) and getting dark and a beggar woman walks up to me sobbing and crying about being cold.

she didn't want to go through another very cold night light last night (low 30's f) and she needed money to get into a local shelter.

yes, it costs $12 per night to get into a homeless shelter... that's texas for ya.

stillconcerned

So WHAT, Else, you did it with your heart in the right place....

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A JW's Reaction to the Colorado Church Shootings

by fattire5010 in

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just to show you the mindset of the typical jw.

i was talking with my mother-in-law who lives only 15 miles from one of the colorado churches where the shootings took place yesterday.

when i expressed my sympathies for the victims and the community, she basically said in a cold-hearted, remorseless way; what do you expect for babylon the great, especially in a church where the priest is a sexual deviant!.

stillconcerned

Sad stuff....

Amazing that those 'in' can't see any wrong/sin/difficulty in their own pasture.

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thirdwitness.com

by besty in

has this site been critiqued elsewhere on jwd .

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http://thirdwitness.com/childabuse/default.html .

stillconcerned

Amy B never 'closed her case in Texas'; it was pending in Amarillo, Texas when her case was resolved.

Watchtower New York remained a defendant in her case up to the end.

Third Witness is a nabob who has tried to support the opinion that the abuse cases filed against WTS were settled for little value, and therefore the WT 'won'.

Wonder what spin he puts on Barb's financial information?

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Elder Pedophiles that you personally know of . . .

by JK666 in

after the ambiguous response by the wts to the nbc broadcast, i would like to know how many of you had an "elder chester molester" in your own congregation?.

we had an elder that molested his daughter's best friend when she was 14 years old.

the elders in the congregation tried to keep the matter quiet and handled the matter privately.

stillconcerned

btt

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Barbara Anderson is on NBC Nightly News Tonight 11/21/07

by AndersonsInfo in

a producer with nbc in new york called within the past hour to tell me that the segment i interviewed for (once in nashville, tn in august and once in washington, dc in october) is set to air tonight on nbc nightly news with brian williams, that is, if no huge calamity takes place to bump the feature.

this piece will be two minutes and 45 seconds long, the longest slot nightly news has for topics of interest, and will feature a discussion about the court documents that are found on the cd i recently produced, "secrets of pedophilia in an american religion, jehovah's witnesses in crisis.

in addition, nbc's internet site, msn, will follow with a detailed story.

stillconcerned

Good job, Barb!!!!!!!!!!

You've said what i can't.

kimberlee d.