Oddly, I feel somewhat as Mommy does--that in order to evolve, we must not thirst for their blood. And you know, since I've left the organization and it's morbid apocolyptic gore behind me, I simply have no taste for blood. Even for these people. What I do thirst for is justice, if that justice brings balance, and that balance brings ultimate love. It's not that I excuse what they did, I just feel that they are probably living absolute hell. I curse them to FEEL with every fiber of their being what they did. According to the laws of Karma, they will, either in this lifetime or the next. No electric chair is going to give them what they need to learn to love.
I also curse those responsible for the teachings (the WTBTS, as individuals, and a community) to FEEL what they have done to people, and reconcile. Her blood will not wash from their hands, nor will the stench of her death leave thier organization until they've paid with apologies, love and a complete turnabout in their archaic teachings regarding children's, women's and human rights. (i.e. admit they have been wrong, and apologize and evolve).
Until they do this, Laree's death and the part they plaid in it will haunt them forever--they will know no peace in this life or the next.
Peace,
Bridgette
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Girl died after parents hit her 160 times
by Hmmm ina friend just called me and told me to check out chicagotribune.com.
below is the article to which he pointed me.
warning: it's very disturbing.. .
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Dateline NBC JW Sexual Abuse Story Coming Soon!
by mikepence infor details, see http://xjwnews.com.
peace,.
mike pence.
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Great NEWS!!! Maybe this, coupled with Laree's story will shed some light on some very dark corners of children's lives.
Thanks for the update! Great site.
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Why The WTS *IS* To Blame re. Laree
by ISP inthe wts will condemn the recent murder and do its best to distance itself from the parents.
jws will say its the actions of people who are deranged and nothing to do with jws.
they will say other religious groups harm children.
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Thank you ISP. You have pointed out just a few of the reasons why they cannot just wash the blood of this little child from their hands and walk away without the stench of her death clinging to them forever.
As I posted earlier, this case--Laree's story has left me emotionally overwraught. I want her story told over and over and over again, until every good JW sitting in the meetings witnessing or even suspecting abuse gets a good whiff of the ugliness that their policies bring. I want these decent human beings to stand up and say NO MORE! I want them to show that these children's lives mean more than the "sterling reputation" (not) of the organization and report suspected child abuse.
And maybe any active witnesses will ask why? If the organization is SOOO anti corporal punishment-drip-with-the-milk-of-parental-kindness all of a sudden---why is abuse (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, etc) an all too common theme of growing up a Jehovah's Witness? We ain't all lying here about our stories (both witnessed and experienced) of abuse.
As I stated in my earlier post, this girl's blood cries out from the ground. They will not walk away from this one. They must not only apologize for their sick, twisted teachings and record on children's and womens' rights, and they must cease promoting covertly corporal punishment.
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Roger Zelazny on Guilt
by COMF ini'm visiting my son and his wife for a week while on vacation.
for the past few evenings, after we retire to our various sleeping quarters, i've been reading an old copy of analog magazine which i found on his extensive bookshelf (their library fills two walls from floor to ceiling).
analog is, or was, anyway (this issue is dated november 1975) a science fiction/science fact magazine and served mainly to provide genre afficionados the latest offerings from both sci-fi luminaries and young up-and-comers.
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I beleive guilt is a tool. If something you've thought, done or are thinking about doing is "pricking" you, then guilt is the "pricking" mechanism. All guilt does for me is cause something to be brought up before my "mental review board". I weigh the matter. I determine whether something is unethical, or I need to make apologies or ammends for something, or it is just a vestige of the cult think I was brought up with. More often than not lately, it's something I truly need to reevaluate (the cult think hardly plays into my consciousness anymore). I re-evaluate, make ammends if necessary or possible, and release.
What guilt is NOT, is something to be carried around like a heavy piece of baggage. Once you've done what you can do, learned what you need to learn--let it go.
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Listen! Her blood cries out from the ground!
by Bridgette ini cannot forget this little girl.. ezekiel 34:12 this is what the sovereign lord says: i am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock.
i will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves.
i will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them".
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I wonder if anyone has notified the press who covered this story of the running themes they would find in silentlambs.org of growing up a Jehovah's Witness.
I just want abuse to stop. If those who'd attended meetings with Laree had only stepped up to the plate.
Love,
Bridgette
p.s. just for the record. Neither I nor anyone in my family buys or owns anything Nike (for that very reason), I am a member of Amenesty International that defends human rights everywhere (even those of JW's--I may not agree w/what you say, but I will defend your right to say it and not be tortured). And me and my husband report suspected child, animal and elder abuse. The point is, I do those things on the other side of the org. While in, I was both abused, and witnessed abuse, and felt helpless to do anything about it--I tend to make up for it now. I have to say I'm a much better human being now that I'm not a Jehovah's Witness. -
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Listen! Her blood cries out from the ground!
by Bridgette ini cannot forget this little girl.. ezekiel 34:12 this is what the sovereign lord says: i am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock.
i will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves.
i will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them".
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them"
What else can I say Whiz? I do always enjoy your comments.
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Listen! Her blood cries out from the ground!
by Bridgette ini cannot forget this little girl.. ezekiel 34:12 this is what the sovereign lord says: i am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock.
i will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves.
i will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them".
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Now, what Hillbilly? Can you elaborate on the actions you are requesting?
I have taken the action of sharing this story with a school official with whom I'd already shared the letters to BOE about not reporting child abuse. I would love to do more. I want abuse to stop. I could care less if consenting adults want to be witnesses--more power to them. But I will not stand by while children are being not only physically but spiritually abused.
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Listen! Her blood cries out from the ground!
by Bridgette ini cannot forget this little girl.. ezekiel 34:12 this is what the sovereign lord says: i am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock.
i will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves.
i will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them".
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I cannot forget this little girl.
Ezekiel 34:12 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them"
You can try and try to scrub her blood from your hands, and stifle her screams out of your ears, Mr. Brown et al. But you will answer for your sins of commission AND omission. COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY!
Genesis 4:10 "The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground."We live in a world filled with such beauty, when you know where to look. But we also live in a world filled with imbalance and at times horror. We have heard Cassiline’s heart wrenching story of childhood abuse. We have heard about Tatiana’s abuse and her sister, Kelli, who finally put an end to her pain the only way she knew how. There are millions of others of us, with stories with only slightly lesser degrees of horror. Want more stories of blood and gore from being raised in the Watchtower world? See silentlambs.org. The organization is laying eviscerated with all her dirty, fetid secrets oozing up to the top for all to see. And now we add little Laree to our morbid sisterhood. I want to talk about Laree. Yes, we’ve heard and read her story over and over again—it will be heard until this changes. Something about this girl’s story has touched me to the very core of my being. To quote a scripture, her blood cries out to me from the ground. I did something I have not done for a LONG time last night. I cried. Then I prayed. I do not know to who, or what, but I tearfully and humbly invoked justice and community responsibility from any deity or Just Being that would hear the cry of the lowly and crushed.
What goes through the mind of a 12 year old girl as she lays dying; young life seeping out of her core. We can only conjecture, but as so many of us have had the experience of being both abused, and being the child of a Jehovah’s Witness (at the same time), we can perhaps fill in the holes. She has been taught from infancy, probably that this organization is the closest thing to god on earth that there is. Obedience to it and her parents has been pounded into her skull at every meeting. This organization (god’s spokesperson on earth) gives her parents full sanction to do the horrific things that are done to her and her siblings at home. If she ever questions even internally whether or not her treatment is just, she is reminded at yet another meeting that it is. This is her universe. The only reality she has ever known. She is probably a model student, etc. so teachers are clueless—her parents seem strict and authoritative, but concerned, shiny, “happy”. She wouldn’t dare risk bringing reproach upon Jehovah’s Name (remember in her universe, Jehovah = Organization) by telling a soul what goes on at home. So, this is her existence. There are no friends in the neighborhood to play with, so they can know the dirty little secrets that go on behind closed doors. And a blind eye is probably turned at the only place where allowable help could come—the Kingdom Hall. There are probably a few who think these parents are too strict, perhaps a few have seen the abuse, but they are too afraid to stand up and say anything, and some, god help them think it’s a GOOD WAY TO RAISE CHILDREN—they’re probably doing the same things at home to their children. And god forbid, ANYONE WOULD REPORT SUSPECTED ABUSE TO THE AUTHORITIES. We all know this is NOT DONE by order of the governing body. To any who have witnessed and not reported abuse in your vestiges of “spiritual paradise”: may your god have mercy upon your souls. Do JW’s hold the market on physical, spiritual, sexual, and mental abuse? No. But they claim to be god’s only spokesperson on earth. Often the abuse is perpetrated under the auspices of “god’s love”. So, let me hold your head down to the fetid stench of the WT’s ulcerated ugliness—get a good wiff, all you shepherds and ask yourself: when this girl died; when her final rasp of desperate breath finally exited her little body, did she exit this world knowing, if nothing else, that god’s merciful, fatherly love and grace awaited to embrace her? Well, remember what she’d been fed all her little life. If she’d been taught in true, hardcore, JW fashion, likely no. She probably died thinking with the last fiber of her being that she was getting what disobedient children deserve. As her parents administered blow after soul crushing blow, she probably died alone, and frightened and crushed.
For those who say this is an isolated case, ask yourself why. Why is abuse such a common theme of those who grow up in the “truth”. Is this what god wants? For those of you still in the organization, I call upon anything and everything that is good and loving and human inside of you to watch out. You could be going to meetings with a Laree and her siblings. What have you been taught about community responsibility? Can you imagine that god looks upon the abuse of a child with anything but disgust? Will he not call you to account for lost innocence? Remember the scripture where Jesus said he remembers even the little sparrows? If he exists, I know he is LIVID about Laree. Do not think Laree will be forgotten. Laree. Laree. Laree….that you could live again and be free and know the life of a normal, happy child.
And in calling for justice, I call for the those responsible for the teachings that aided, abetted, and assisted these parents to feel justified for every life destroying blow they administered to this child. YOU are called to, no you are cursed to feel with the humanness and decency of your heart (for I still believe it exists there), the remorse, the weight, the culpability before your god for absolute MIND and SOUL rape you have perpetrated or allowed to be perpetrated against the humans you have entrusted yourself with—especially the little ones. Only when you FEEL these--- Truly FEEL them, will you know peace in this life, or the next.Report suspected abuse to the authorities. For the love of God, if you cannot, will not protect your children, let someone else. It is the law. Period.
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Girl died after parents hit her 160 times
by Hmmm ina friend just called me and told me to check out chicagotribune.com.
below is the article to which he pointed me.
warning: it's very disturbing.. .
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One of the most grotesque things about this case is, that the WTBTS will immediately distance themselves and attempt to wash the blood of this girl completely off their hands. No doubt, these parents were unbalanced individuals, but this organization and it's abysmal record on children's rights fed this. Fed, aided, abetted in EVERY LIFE ZAPPING BLOW. I only wish their angry, punishing fairly tale god existed. He would make them answer for their community responsibility in this. Alas, all we can hope for is that the American justice system will, and that these little people being raised this way, and dying this way can find healing.
Not one more broken child---NOT ONE!
I'm sick. I have been having Braxton Hicks since reading this story. It's bringing back all the abuse that we suffered as children. My brother and sister and I weren't the only one in the Hall who were abused. AND THEY KNEW IT. they knew it. and no one gave a damn. I'm leaving early from work.
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Why Nazis Won't Save the Watchtower
by metatron inyep, here we go again --- yet another article about a .
witness surviving nazi persecution (awake dec.22, 01).
the society seems obsessed with nazis - i would think.
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I used to buy into the "ain't we great, we stood up to the Nazi's", (in fact, it's one of the few things, I still admired about them after I'd been sickened by all their other lies and hypocrisies) UNTIL I read the hateful, antisemitic remarks made by Rutherford. They can be read in detail on Kent's site. JW's are nothing but pandering, opportunists. This Nazi thing has played out quite well for them, but it wasn't out of any sort of noble principal (one really MUST read the comments made and propogated by Rutherford regarding Jews).
And what about people such as my mother-in-law? A Dutch Catholic during the war and occupied Netherlands. She is loathe to discuss her experiences. You have to pry them out of her, because, you see, she is not on a crusade to prove Catholicism is the true religion, or that she, her family, and her neighbors are saintly bastions of the only true religion on earth. Among the morsels I have pried out of her, are seeing the execution of her neighbors. Nazi storm troopers storming the house where they were hiding people--stabbing their bayonettes through the baseboards all throughout the house. Clothing and aiding people who had no where else to turn. All this because she was Catholic? Maybe part of it. Mostly because she was a HUMAN BEING. Oh, but according to the WTBTS, she and others are bird food. They are not baptized Jehovah's Witnesses. And when the storm troopers left her house without finding the obvious, does she explain it in miraculous terms ("their eyes were blinded by god, because we're god's chosen people). No. They had no agenda, other than to help her fellow human beings.
And you can't tell me those witnesses didn't want to just bow down to those soldiers who drove in and liberated those camps. Young soldiers. Boys (c. 18). sweethearts. brothers. sons. Soldiers who'd watched their buddies' lives seep out on the battlefield. Yes, the same soldiers (human beings) condemned to death and to be eaten by birds, because (say it with me) THEY AREN'T BAPTIZED JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.
This is quite possibly one of the most ignoble, dishonorable, dishonest, opportunistic to the absurd, vomitous religious corporation on earth.
Their spin on the Nazi's should only be accompanied with Rutherford's quotes about Jews.
Bridgette