I am not an active witness, but have fairly regular contact with active witnesses, not so active and even elders and their wives occasionally. I have yet to hear any one of them mention anything whatsoever about the subject of paedophilia, However, I'm not so sure that it's not the case of just sweeping it under the carpet or not!
bay64me
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Dateline/Panorama/Silent Lambs, Whats Changed?
by conoroberst inso now in the space of a few short months television programmes on national networks in the us, uk, canada and australia.
we see regular newspaper articles and radio phone ins on the subject.
but is anything changing?
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Living life on the outside!!!
by haujobbz insince leaving the jws faith i have become a very naughty boy.
since i left i have started to lie and not care,i swear a lot,i have even stolen something like a choccy bar or drink,.
i suppose i feel mislead and have become a very rebellious boy, i wonder if any of you have experienced these changes in your personality.. but what pees me off , is say there is a god and hes watching me, i suppose im dead meat in his eyes due to being an unrepentant sinner.. so what would you do lead a life independent of god and do what you like when you want or would you take a chance and be good and assume there might be a god and hope to go to heaven or wherever.. but i am very happy thank goodness.
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bay64me
Lead a life independant of god and take my chance!
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Very Bad News Re: Post Yesterday
by Celtic ini'm not sure how to put this news gently to the community here, but regarding my post yesterday regarding chantelle.. thankyou for all of your kind messages and warmth displayed on your parts.. chantelle was only 16 when disfellowshipped.
only 18 years old with her whole life in front of her.
she took her own life this morning at 0400hrs.. i am so sorry not to have been in a better position to get your letters to her in time.. take care all of you & kindest regards.
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bay64me
I'm sorry.
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why did you leave?
by showme ini am not a jw so i don't have any stories about the organization.
but i would love to hear about your reasons for leaving.
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bay64me
I left because of all the hypocrisy, lack of love, outright lies and quite frankly I got worn out with it all!
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MORE STUFF JW'S CAN'T DO.......
by minimus inawake of 10-8-02 brings out a number of things that good christians would avoid due to god's view of how precious a gift , life is.
here's some of the things on the list....no bullfighting, no running of the bulls,no motorcycle stuntmen, no climbing of skyscrapers without safety equipment, no steep snowboarding,bungee jumping,parachuting from airplanes with another strapped to you, no climbing ice-covered cliffs, no sky surfing,no base jumping, no rock climbing,no car-surfing,no climbing mt.
everest, no thrill-seeking.....any that do such things show contempt for the marvelous gift of life......did i forget anything else??
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bay64me
What about isolating yourself from anything that is to be considered normal aside from what a minority of self-righteous, bigoted few say?
Is it not detrimental to one's health to continually strive to change the real person into something somebody else deems it necessary to be?....Putting on the new personality? Continue putting up with one another? etc, etc!
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Witnesses DO NOT Love Each Other
by metatron inthe watchtower claims that witnesses love each other - and that this love marks them.
as being the true religion.. nonsense!.
witnesses love each other?.
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bay64me
At the last big assembly I attended............(I was already getting pissed off with it all by then),I was trying to find seats near the "mothers room", in such a caring and loving organisation you would think this would not be such a hard thing to do! Ha, wrong.! Every single seat in that area had bags and books strewn across the aisles and travel rugs right along the rows! No evidence whatsoever that these seats were taken by other mothers with babes in arms, but rather glitzy hand bags and accessories and food bags.
I was really pissed off, the people that had 'booked' these seats were obviously friendly with the attendants or whoever else had got there early enough to save them. So I moved the books further down the row and plonked myself and children right there. I was confronted at the start of the opening song by a gang of teenagers but refused to move.
Another thing that annoyed me was the environment that mothers and babys had to endure during those torturously long assembly days. We were usually relegated to mens changing rooms that had no sound, we had to tune in a radio! (second thoughts maby that was a blessing!)
I also thought it was a bad show that the end seats were never available to mothers and babys yet if we had to get up to take our children out, what a bloody commotion having to squeeze past all those ignorant people. All those tuts and sighs used to drive me mad.
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HAS THIS PLACE HELPED YOU?
by minimus insince so many post and chat here,and most here do not go to meetings, have you found this board to be a place that can help and refresh you?
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bay64me
Yes, I enjoy coming here. This place has given me a sense of perspective outside the organization.
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DO YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF?
by minimus inare you pretty much satisfied with yourself or do you feel unhappy, as a rule?
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bay64me
Windchaser...
I also am a wednesdays child!
And I grew up with that erm....Endowment?....bestowed upon me. Did you live upto it?
I am trying soo hard not to!
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PLEASE READ
by IMA_PALLED in.
before my dad went into surgery he asked that i contact the people on this board and let them know how much it ment to him much it ment to him over the past month or so to be able to talk with all of you.. this is one of the few things in his life he could still enjoy.dad wanted to especially thank craig (ona ) for accepting him and apologies for anything he said that might have offended you.. my father was in so much pain over the past seven years ,god must have thought it was time,dad passed a few houres after surgery.. dad asked not to have a service and will be cremated than placed in an urn ( as he said "so he can keep an eye on mom" ) we all loved him deeply and he will be missed.
i will leave the company email should anyone want to,i will print them out for mom and the family to read.. again thanks to all, our love is with each and every one of you.. matthew mc cune [email protected]
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bay64me
Don't know what to say really, words don't come that easy really when your emotions are so involved.......................I am so very sad that you have suffered this loss and I want you to know that I was very moved, reading your post.
bay64me.
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I Know A Lot Of DUMB ELDERS
by minimus inin over 4 decades, i have gotten to know a number of people in the organization.i have met governing body members, very prominent bethelites, co's and do's.
i also have come to know countless elders.the majority of elders that i have known are not the brightest human beings on the planet.
most thought they knew it all.
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bay64me
In my old congregation there was this elder who was so sexist. I used to cringe during his talks when he'd try and raise a laugh about understanding women and "womens issues".
Of course he had his followers that would that would comply and yield an obligitory laugh whenever he cracked a sexist joke. They mainly consisted of wanna-be-elders and zombie-wives.
But for the most part he was very much out of order and came across like Bernard Manning at a convent!