it's come out in my old congregation that, not one, but two child molesters have been hiding in my old congregation.
i knew both of them and one of them, an old man, was regularly at my house for field service meetings on a weekly basis.. in my old congregation there's an apostate who was awake long before i was.
unfortunately he cant leave because his wife and children and parents are still full on believers.
We had 3 in the hall I went to here in the North West in the state's.
Same thing the elder's kept it under wraps, even threatened to df me because I told a foster mom. this one elder telling me he had to convince the mom that brother pedophile was safe to be around, all because of me and that I was nothing more than a pure gossip.
It just makes my blood boil.
LITS
Also all the child molesters I have seen loooooove field service. Funny how that is.
i'm not sure where it is airing elsewhere, but on the a&e channel, at 7p then again at 10p est tonight, leah remini is doing a scientology special.
it looks to be a great show.
i am not sure if it is one time, or the beginnings of a series.
Thanks nonjwspoue
LITS
this is an excerpt about shunning from the royal commissions latest (final?
) report: i think it is a must read and shows clearly that shunning also needs to be considered when child abuse is discussed and how cruel it is.. here the report:.
jehovah’s witnesses are counselled against associating, fraternising or conversing with a person who has been disfellowshipped or who has chosen to disassociate from the jehovah’s witness organisation.
Than a for posting this also, I too live in the US and no one seems to know a thing or if they do they are not talking.
The hall I attended had 3 child molesters in it that I knew of, I am fairly sure in my city there are way more as we have a prison here where the state sends a lot of pedophiles and the local elder's have a prison ministry there. I know that's where 2 of the 3 we had came from.
Before I knew anything they were promoting the prision like crazy, not sure if it's still as strong as I don't go anymore.
I would love to see it break open worse than the Catholic's did as it is way more rotten. I have been threatened with being DF'ed for speaking up. I would love to see this all end in my life time.
LITS
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/28/jehovahs-witnesses-did-not-protect-children-from-abuse-inquiry-finds.
im printing this off and spending my next sunday morning doing some door to door work posting this article through all the letter boxes of the street my local kh is on.. it's shocking that none of the r&f know about this.
i have a feeling that the 2 witness rule will be revised in 2017 and made to look like it was jehovah's proper time.
Steve 2 I really hope your right. From what I have seen here in the state's they are not backing down at all. I just had a CO in July tell me pedophiles will go in service period and no one in the hall is allowed to know. he was so arrogant and so proudfull he actually had his chest puffed out.
I just can't see it ever changing though I wish with all my strength it would.
LITS
link to pdf:.
http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/getattachment/c2d1f1f5-a1f2-4241-82fb-978d072734bd/report-of-case-study-no-29.
reading it now...no comment yet.
Thank you wifibandit
LITS
lasting memory of the latter period of time in the organisation:.
i had a route call with the magazines whom i'd called on for a number of years.
eventually when i become a parent i became consumed with negativity, doubt (blood issue) & depression.
Thanks for sharing thst. it really was helpful to me.
what happens when bethelite gets sick.
Just one more point my overseer paired a sister who was my size and who he had deemed as HUGE also with sister petite, while when she was not in the closets sleeping she spent hour's on the phone with her twin sister and I had worked with her myself if work was not done it was my fault not her's.
Well this sister who was paired with her tried to lift by herself and a whole pallet of glass fell on her. It crushed her leggs and burished her and she was off work for a couple of days but all in all she was OK. The reason it happened was sister petite was on the phone with her twin for such a long time sister HUGE like me knew she would get yelled at and did the job by herself.
All my overseer said was thank goodness none of the glass broke.
John 13:35 is all I can think of right now.
what happens when bethelite gets sick.
Fulano
I totally get what you mean. I too knew many who got awesome care. It totally depended on what position you had. The brother who was our table foot had back surgery and they sent him to the best doctor's outside Bethel. He got phenomenal care. He got 6 months off work and when he came back, very light duty.
I also went to a OBGYN when I was there who was the best doctor I have ever been to. He was from Cuba and left his thriving practice in Corpus Christi to work for free at Bethel.
I am not saying they do not have good doctors at Bethel, but their hands are tied. Like I needed the pill and this brother just could not get it for me.
Bottom line was who you were and who your family was. I was a no body and throw awayable, and I got treated like that.
There were other's there that got sent outside to collage for training and got job's that were great.
In fact one of the couples that came in with us was a real brown noser. He openly admitted that his goal was to have my overseers position. He went beyond what my overseer told me. While my overseer was on vacation this brother just royally ripped into me telling me that my overseer and him had talked and that I was beyond horrible at my job. I was lazy and didn't work fast enough, and that there was no reason why I was not putting out more work. He told me I had to work by myself on floors alone. And I was not the only sister treated that way, nor person even. I had a temp brother come up to me near tears asking if my overseer was really a JW.
The brother who ripped into me had mentioned before all of this he was so thankful that his wife was on computers because he didn't want her to have to do such physical work. And Jehovah was blessing them because she would have a great skill if they left Bethel.
So yes there are phenomenal doctor's and some get extremely good care. But not all of us.
been lurking since early this year.
there are many of us out there (at least in this area, central u.s.) who are waking up and crossing the line to talk to each other about it.
in our area, several elders, ministerial servants and pioneers are actively and openly sharing info with each other daily.
Welcome. There are so many times I honestly wonder if anyone is really thinking in the religion Here in the Northwest of the US it seems everyone is just going along and accepting every change that comes along without any questions.
There are a couple of married couples that are reaching out to go to the new school, the pioneer's seem to be growing, it's depressing to see knowing that they will not have children. One couple just sold their home and are loudly drinking the kool-aid.
I keep thinking how can they be so blind.
I hope that there are one's like you in my area and I just don't know it.
Thanks you have given me hope.
i last spoke to my father in march 1990. we finished a "quick build" kingdom hall and i had a 17 year old spiritual awakening and decided to drop high school to pioneer full time.
(yes i was a dumb ass) he was not happy since my parents were divorced he was catholic.
we had a arguement and he said stay in school get a degree...and dont come back if your a witness!!
Words fail me right now, I am just so sorry for your pain. It breaks my heart. my thoughts are with you.
