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  Ex-Jehovah's Witness elder jailed for sex assaults on schoolgirl

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  2. child-abuse

  this is becoming more common.

  this is from the last part of the article: .

  "this was about sexual gratification and you are a hypocrite because you became an elder and you investigated a sexual matter even with this in your sexual background.".

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  rebel8

  Creepy. Pedos don't change, in my professional experience. They can't.

  I was just talking to another former therapist about treatment effectiveness. She specialized in these types of perps. She said she thinks one or two stopped offending over the course of her career, and she stipulated she can only confirm they hadn't been caught again.

  As to the remark in the OP, "This is becoming more common," do you mean media stories about it are more common, or the crimes themselves? If the crimes, what are you basing this on?
  
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  If they only had a brain

  by Sour Grapes in

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  2. friends

  last sunday i visited a hall to see a friend.

  the brother giving the talk spent the first 20 minutes talking about how bad the world is and then the next 10 minutes he pointed out how god's kingdom is the answer.

  one thing he mentioned is all of the millions of starving children in the world and how the money that we spend on just a few bombs that are dropped in the wars could feed thousands of children.

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  I was in a store yesterday and they were selling xmas cards for Unicef. There was a sign that said how many vaccinations each pack of cards would buy, how much water or food, etc.

  It would be interesting to calculate that based on the wealth the wts has. If only we knew how much that was.

  Of course, we could pick one thing they waste their $ on--such as a new building--and calculate how many people could be fed with that money.
  
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  Didn't get the Watchtower today at all

  by Pioneerbot in

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  2. bible

  i know it's dumb to think it would make sense.

  i've been telling myself to lay low because everytime i ask a question now my husband says i have a negative attitude and i sound like an apostate.

  hmmm wonder why.

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  berry is right--you have an awesome opportunity to compose and send the letter together.

  Take your time and be sure he totally agrees with what's in the letter. You don't want him going all Jezebel on you once the backlash comes.
  
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  If they only had a brain

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last sunday i visited a hall to see a friend.

  the brother giving the talk spent the first 20 minutes talking about how bad the world is and then the next 10 minutes he pointed out how god's kingdom is the answer.

  one thing he mentioned is all of the millions of starving children in the world and how the money that we spend on just a few bombs that are dropped in the wars could feed thousands of children.

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  I wonder if he realizes how much cashola the borganization has, and how many starving jws that would feed.
  
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  I just found out that my youngest brother committed suicide

  by SnakesInTheTower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my middle brother called me a couple of hours ago.

  our youngest brother, josh, who was 38, was found by his friends in his apartment.

  he hung himself.

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  rebel8

  Oh that's terrible. I'm so sorry.
  

  Shock is understandable.

  Your feelings will come, and they will probably be mixed--sadness, horror, anger, and maybe eventually relief that he is no longer suffering. These are all ok things to feel.

  He probably just wanted to be free of the pain, and now he is.
  
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  Creepy things jw's have said to you

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's mine: i'm 14 years old, just baptised and a old boy married elder of about 60 odd comes up to me and says " ooooooooooh!

  "purrpurr"!

  your getting such a lovely figure on you!

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  rebel8

  Claiming a young girl took birth control pills for a hormonal problem and grew a penis. This was a specific girl. I can imagine few more hateful rumors to start. Then they said she fell away and became a prostitute because the pill made her sex crazed.
  

  Announcing that 13-year old unbaptized kids committed immorality, and giving their names in the announcement.

  Telling me, as a 10-year-old, that I was "damaged goods, like a rape victim" because I had been given transfusions before becoming a jw. Stating I would never be clean from it unless I died and was resurrected. Stating I would probably never find any jw male willing to be my husband because I was damaged in this way.

  Sickos.
  
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  My first post

  by thewalker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, i just joined the board and wanted to present myself.. i'm active, in fact very active in congregation activities serving "where the need is great" in a foreign language congregation somewhere in western europe.

  as a young brother, i'm seen as an example as i'm doing all a good witness should do.. i had doubts years ago but i decided just to ignore them and move to another congregation to preach more.

  that worked for some years but i'm now at the exact same point.

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  This is good advice from The Society:

  Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence October 1879 (reprint) p.38 "The Ten Virgins"

  We do not object to changing our opinions on any subject, or discarding former applications of prophecy, or any other scripture, when we see a good reason for the change,-in fact, it is important that we should be willing to unlearn errors and mere traditions, as to learn truth... It is our duty to "prove all things."…by the unerring Word,…"and hold fast to that which is good."

  For more quotes from wts literature encouraging the same thing, go here. Of course you can confirm these are true quotes by searching literature yourself.

  Search out a life worth living, enjoying and using it to its fullest, contributing to your community and being the best person you can be.
  
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  Building layoffs & JW calendar 2016 theme

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the theme of the jw calendar 2016 is building, building, building.

  all the calendar pictures are about building wts property with cheap labor witnesses.. and then, just before the year approaches the building has halted.. it seems a short term decision.

  a strange correlation again.. gorby.

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  *speechless*
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  Largest BOE file in existence - updated as of November 2015

  by WTS Archive in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  courtesy of atlantis, largest boe file ever compiled has been updated (see previous version here).. to download it, visit: http://www.filedropper.com/1905-2016-boe-file.

  click on gray "download this file" button, then solve the captcha and enjoy the massive, 1.2 gb file containing nerly every secret letter and document watchtower society published since 1905 up until now..

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  rebel8

  When I saw the thread title, I thought it was going to be a list naming all the bodies of elders.
  
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  Mass disassociation December 10, 2015?

  by rebel8 in

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  2. friends

  this was discussed here..

  the mormons beat us to it..

  i see some were saying wts wont change from mass disassociation.

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  rebel8

  This was discussed here.

  The Mormons beat us to it.

  I see some were saying wts won’t change from mass disassociation. Even if that is true, the publicity would further reduce the social acceptability of being a jw, therefore restricting its growth. That seems worthwhile IMO.

  I suggested a simultaneous Twitter campaign using the same hashtags to create a buzz. Everyone could do it within the same 24-hour period.

  Is anyone doing the mass letters?