without revealing names, for i do not want this person to be alerted, i have a few questions about how one would go about making sure an abuser is made public, even if not prosecutable after several decades.
i have several family members that are stil jw's.
after many many years they have decided to locate a person/plural, who molested them.
Maybe a Web site could be set up in Malaysia to out people in situations like this...just a thought. Then emails from an anonymous account to local JWs should be enough to make it public.
What an excellent idea.
What about sending letters to the neighbors of the pedophile? Since the JW molesters are rarely taken to court the general public has no chance at finding out about these guys. At least the JWs get the benefit from the ever present rumor mill.
nuclear attack in new york on june 9 or 10?.
the lord's witnesses press release is headlined: "bible scholars predict an 85 percent probability of a nuclear terrorist attack on the un complex in manhattan on june 9 or 10"
robert duncan
Apparently, New York is not out of the woods yet. Update from the truebiblecode website:
We had deduced from the true bible code (not the Da Vinci Code of Dan Brown, and not the Hebrew Letter Skip code of Michael Drosnin, but the symbolic code of Jesus' parables and Daniel's visions and Joseph's dream interpretations etc.) that the United Nations complex in Manhattan will be destroyed by a terrorist nuclear bomb on the following 3 incorrect dates...
2006Iyyar21 (May 19/20)
2006Iyyar28 (May 26/27)
2006Sivan11/12 (June 8/9/10)We did everything we could to warn people in NYC about the 2006Sivan12 date, really thinking that we had it right. But of course we did not. We must apologise for getting it wrong, but we cannot apologise not for trying to get it right. we had to issue the warning. We see a very real scriptural threat and that has not gone away, it just has not come to pass yet. We have to improve our symbolic interpretations and try again with the benefit of hindsight. Anyone who heeded our warning did not make a mistake. In our understanding this is going to happen. Think of it as merely a practice run. We are trying to get the date, the place and the method from the scriptures. That is not easy.
The revised possible dates for the nuclear strike on the UN are now the next 5 sabbath days. These are...
2006Sivan19 (weekly)
2006Sivan26 (weekly)
2006Tammuz1 (monthly)
2006Tammuz2 (monthly)
2006Tammuz3 (monthly)The last of these, 2006Tammuz3, (Sundown Friday June 30 to Sundown Saturday July 1) is by far the probable in our understanding.
train crash victims spreading word about jehovah's witness faith
fifty-six-year-old annie johnson of somerville, 54-year-old rosa jones ... waff
2 hours ago
What a sad and awful tragedy for the families and for the driver of the vehicle.
while traveling down thru new england, i happened across one of the new district convention "invites".. how dumb can the watchtower society get?
for the moment, let's ignore the fact that they expect people to drop everything.
within a radius of one, two or even three hundred miles and attend an inner city convention over a weekend.
that the assembly will show you , "How to attain a happy family life"
That's rather amusing considering that my family is shunning me because of the Watchtower. Flippin' hypocrites.
its not until you are out of the religion that you notice how unhappy a lot of witnesses are.
through family i still have contact with quite a few and hear of stories of whats going on.
i am like a different person now i am out.
I drank heavily when I was a JW because I couldnt cope with the 'nothing is ever good enough' mentality.
My husband and I once found a bottle of Scotch in a JW's bathroom. You've got to be pretty messed up if you can't go to the bathroom without having a drink.
Most of the JWs I run into look tired, worn-out and depressed. The only ones that seem happy are the new recruits.
i went to my first kh 3 sundays ago and was quite suprised that they we'ren't pushy.
in fact, no one even spoke except the man in front who let me borrow his songbook.
i am a christian and always have been to church.
I am a Christian and always have been to church. I went because I'm involved with a JW (we're both married)
Forgive me if I'm wrong but are you saying that you are having an affair with a married man?
ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.
i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.
how in the heck could i make these people up??
Just curious how you found that out?
I saw her do it. It was on one of those rare occasions where JWs get together and help the elderly with housework and home repairs. There must have been an article in the WT or a local needs talk.
the cycle never ends even when you leave the wt.
you go from one set of fears to another set of fears.
i used to be terrified of armageddon when i was a jw and just knew i was going to get hit by a lightning bolt from jehovah on that day.
I bet if you ask most ex-JW's or born agains why do they serve 90% of them will say because they don't want to be destroyed or go to hell.
As a born-again Christian I have no fear of hell.
I attend church because I enjoy being there. No one is saved by attending church. You are only saved by God's grace. All you need to do is to admit that you are a sinner, believe that Christ died on the cross for your sins, repent of your sins and accept Christ as your personal Savior.
Anyone who says that they attend church because they don't want to go to hell is not a true Christian.
ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.
i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.
how in the heck could i make these people up??
How about when JWs use to leave mags as tips at restaurants. That was so embarassing!
I knew one brother who used to pocket the tips that were left for the waitress.
I knew one strange sister who preferred to use a pot in the kitchen pantry instead of the toilet in the bathroom.
There was another sister who attended the meetings sporting a beard. Her chin hair was about 4 inches long.
we went to lunch at our local cafe on saturday, and there were two families - still jws, also dining there, (in different parts of the cafe).
we expected the usual shunning treatment, but surprisingly they initiated the "hellos and how are you" and seemed genuinely pleased to see us (we have been out of the org for over 3 yrs now and we are always shunned whenever we see former jw friends) it was such a surprise to us and we couldn't help wondering if the governing body have issued "new light" on the treatment of disassociated ones.
especially as these two families have completely avoided us for a long time, even though we personally wrote to them to explain our reasons for leaving (un involvement etc+) .
My FIL just gave us this issue.
