Posts by misguided

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In ref. to child abuse

by jw in

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ok all time to get real.

child abuse is not limited to jw's.. if you truly want to stop child abuse first start with the family , and be honest we all have a relative that is a pedophile.. then protect your family from stranger danger.. don't just isolate to jw's.. expand and truly stop the child abuse world wide.

misguided

Gods law over mans law and family first . You must make your own rules, because Jehovah's supposed to come first to a JW, everything/one else is secondary (I believe there's something about that in that Family Life book), and if god's law comes before man's law why are you not putting Jehovah first, and insisting on putting your family before Jehovah? God's law book also says not to associate with apostates...and here you are!

What is so hard to understand, they did. Well they didn't understand in my case, JW, I was still "encouraged" to go door-to-door. When I didn't (or should I say couldn't due to the exhaustion of keeping up with everything) they'd remind me that I was "inactive." I don't know how this could be different for you.

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In ref. to child abuse

by jw in

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ok all time to get real.

child abuse is not limited to jw's.. if you truly want to stop child abuse first start with the family , and be honest we all have a relative that is a pedophile.. then protect your family from stranger danger.. don't just isolate to jw's.. expand and truly stop the child abuse world wide.

misguided

Oh, and as a single mom of six kids, I was still required to go out in field service and submit a field service report. I find it hard to believe that you're not.

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In ref. to child abuse

by jw in

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ok all time to get real.

child abuse is not limited to jw's.. if you truly want to stop child abuse first start with the family , and be honest we all have a relative that is a pedophile.. then protect your family from stranger danger.. don't just isolate to jw's.. expand and truly stop the child abuse world wide.

misguided

What makes the Organization Guilty the organization did not molest your ex father in laws daughter he did

DUH! Because they let him remain an elder, hid the abuse from those who should have been aware, move from congregation to congregation and allowed him the opportunity to abuse other kids! The other kids who were abused were not protected either, because of the 2 witness rule!

You're very insensitive, JW, because I am not lying about any of it!

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In ref. to child abuse

by jw in

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ok all time to get real.

child abuse is not limited to jw's.. if you truly want to stop child abuse first start with the family , and be honest we all have a relative that is a pedophile.. then protect your family from stranger danger.. don't just isolate to jw's.. expand and truly stop the child abuse world wide.

misguided

This topic is really upsetting to me. JW just doesn't seem to understand the depth of the cover-up of child abuse in the JWs.

Not only did I experience sexual abuse by two "brothers" (one an elder) and left to feel like I was not believed, exposed and crazy when I told the elders about it and both denied what had happened and nothing was ever done about it, not even a bit of help or undersanding for what I'd been through, but...

My elder ex-father-in-law had a baby with his daughter, who was a pioneer.

He was never charged. And, he was still an elder when I married into the family, when the child was 15 years old.

This pedophile now lives in Creston, BC.

Do you think his congregation there is aware of his past? My ex-husband wasn't even aware of the fact that what he thought was his neice was also his sister until he was 19.

This organization is GUILTY!

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Woman with a flat tire. Would you have stopped to help when you were a JW?

by ObservingTexan in

jw
friends

in the light of the second greatest commandment, "love your neighbor as yourself", when you were an active jw would you have stopped to help in the following scenario?

you are in your car and drive by a woman who is having car trouble... a flat tire.

she's struggling to get the tire changed.

misguided

only it might have somehow got me into trouble.

It seems like every time I tried to help someone it became a case for something other than what it really was.

Honestly, It feels like I could not help someone without being accused of some sort of immorality being my motive!

I'm so glad to have got out of that insanity!

Rose

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Do you know of any JW's elders charged with "sexual harrassment"

by booker-t in

jw
friends

i have mentioned it before that i was extremely naive when i was a devout jw's.

i thought the elders walked on water.

now that i am out it just amazes me how naive i was.

misguided

1) a friend's father a JW in good standing who sexually abused me as a young teen.

2) an elder who sexually abused me as a young teen.

3) my ex-father-in-law who had a baby with my ex-sister-in-law all while a jw...and still became an elder again!!!!

4) my brother-in-law/nephew-in-law (person married to the product of the incest) who raped someone and got away with it.

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Woman with a flat tire. Would you have stopped to help when you were a JW?

by ObservingTexan in

jw
friends

in the light of the second greatest commandment, "love your neighbor as yourself", when you were an active jw would you have stopped to help in the following scenario?

you are in your car and drive by a woman who is having car trouble... a flat tire.

she's struggling to get the tire changed.

misguided

absolutely...I'd be there to help in any way I can.

I think I'd have been the same as a JW--only it might have somehow got me into trouble.

Rose

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DO SOMETHING

by ArtfulDodger in

i see this site gets thousands of postings every day .. from literally thousands of members, mostly ex-dubs, from all over the world.. rather than simply go on moaning and whinging about the big nasty org why don't you all put your efforts into something positive ... do something.. ok - the org is evil .. but it exists ... and simply whining on about it doesn't change that.

with your efforts directed at something positive, you could do wonders for .

.for anything you choose.. hundreds of real charities could do with your support - to help the really needy .

misguided

Here's someone trying to DO something...

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/111763/1.ashx

put your money where your mouth is, buddy!

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SHUNNED FATHER DEATHSUIT AGAINST THE WATCHTOWER - UPDATE

by SHUNNED FATHER in

jw
friends

the name of the trust fund is save the children.

the cheques should be made out to: save the children and mailed to:.

save the children.

misguided

bttt

110

SHUNNED FATHER DEATHSUIT AGAINST THE WATCHTOWER - UPDATE

by SHUNNED FATHER in

jw
friends

the name of the trust fund is save the children.

the cheques should be made out to: save the children and mailed to:.

save the children.

misguided

I'm sending you a cheque, Lawrence. It's not as much as I would like to give, but as a single mom of 6...it's all I can do.

I know your story well, I live in BC, and work in a doctors office, and we talked about your daughter frequently during her ordeal. One of the doctors I work for, who works in the Cancer field, just seemed to know she was handing herself a death-sentence by refusing treatment. We were apalled when the judge gave her mature status.

I even wrote the local newspaper telling them how I would have done the very same thing at her age if faced with the same situation, and that I, at that time in my life, I just wouldn't be able to comprehend the fact that my beliefs just might be wrong, and that it could prove deadly.

And, we didn't even know about the arsenic.

Rose