Posts by dedpoet

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not sure what to do about this...

by dobbie in

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friends

so sis in law father has been on dialysis for yrs and is elderly and hubby just got a text from his bro 'just so you don't put your foot in it ******'s father is stopping dialysis this wk and has 2 wks to live' (hes a jw too).

so i said to hubby he should reply and mention how sorry we are but he said why as they're treating me(dobs) like dirt and he doesn't see why he should.

but although they have cut me out now totally it seems i still think i should do something.

dedpoet

(((dobbie)))

Do what you think is right. It's them that are doing the shunning,
not you. You don't have to live by their warped rules any more.

I'd send a card, it seems like the right thing to do.

Trev

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I'm new here

by mind my own in

jw
friends

i'm so glad to be a member, i have been reading this site for a while now and finally joined.

i just love reading all your comments, how enlightening!

this site has been a source of great comfort for me in the past few months.

dedpoet

Hi mind my own, and welcome.

I look forward to reading your story.

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UK- JW MINISTERIAL SERVANT SERIAL RAPIST

by DannyHaszard in

man escapes jail for sex attacksbbc news - 1 hour, 42 minutes agoa jehovah's witnesss gets a community sentence for a series of sex assaults on children and adults.man escapes jail for sex attacks porter was put on the sex offenders registera jehovah's witness has escaped a jail term after admitting a series of sexual assaults on children and adults in clevedon.

michael porter, an elder in the religion, pleaded guilty to 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on 13 victims aged 18 months and older.

among the individuals were others involved in the faith.

dedpoet

I e-mailed my mum this story about Mr Porter, and do you know what her response was???
"Jehovah will judge him in his own time".

That, I imagine, may well be the response of the dubs if they get
questioned about this case on the doors, which some most likely
will. It's how jws are taught to think, and I could have seen myself
using similar terminology at one time.

Though I don't believe in any of that now, I find myself wishing
sometimes it were true so that people like Michael Porter do
eventually get their just deserts, because he has certainly
escaped justice for his crimes in this "system".

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UK- JW MINISTERIAL SERVANT SERIAL RAPIST

by DannyHaszard in

man escapes jail for sex attacksbbc news - 1 hour, 42 minutes agoa jehovah's witnesss gets a community sentence for a series of sex assaults on children and adults.man escapes jail for sex attacks porter was put on the sex offenders registera jehovah's witness has escaped a jail term after admitting a series of sexual assaults on children and adults in clevedon.

michael porter, an elder in the religion, pleaded guilty to 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on 13 victims aged 18 months and older.

among the individuals were others involved in the faith.

dedpoet

I am appalled that this man is able to walk free and, if the jws choose
not to df him, will have continued access to young children. I just
wonder what his wife, who has publicly supported him, really thinks?
My guess is that her world has fallen apart now that this case is
a matter of public record.

We read about this in the paper while we were away, and people
in our hotel were talking about the case, and were as stunned as
we were that this man was not sent to prison. I have a feeling that
the ministry could be just a little difficult for the jws for a while.

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My granddaughter 5 mos old passed away today...

by Tatiana in

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friends

she was beautiful.

her name was aliyah.

she would have been 5 mos tomorrow.

dedpoet

(((((Tatiana)))))

Words fail. I am so sorry

Trev

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Mental Illness - diagnosed for me

by Crumpet in

i've long known, and most of you probably have as well, that there was something not all there with me.

mostly i put it down to me being bad.

questions i've never been asked before.

dedpoet

(((((((Crumpet))))))

I am so sorry to hear this. I know very little of this illness, so
I have no advice to offer regarding treatment, but I will be
thinking about you.

love

Trev xxx

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We've been invited to a JC

by besty in

for those of you don't know our story sweet pea and i stopped attending all meetings quite abruptly about 4 months ago.

since then we have had a few ill-advised conversations with jw friends and family stating our reasons - sometimes in emails.

also sp emailed a new friend on another forum her experiene with going to a new church.

dedpoet

am minded for both of us to go along and hear/see the evidence/witnesses and then produce prepared DA letters. That way we can have some saving face with current JW's who we are fond of - its sounds better saying we DA'd ourselves for conscience reasons rather than we were disfellowshipped for apostasy

That sounds like a plan Besty, even though it is playing their
childish game. If I were you I'd post/email letters to all your
friends within the congregation with the reasons why you don't
want to be jws any more as well. I did that when I da'd, as did
Linda, and once the post-announcement gossip and character
assassination by the elders started, at least some people knew
that the elders weren't being truthful about why we had left.

If you do attend, good luck to you both. Is there any way that
you can record the meeting and post it on here? If so, you could
then direct your friends to listen to it.

Trev

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UN + Watchtower as an NGO + conspiracy theory?

by cyberguy in

has anyone reviewed this material?

i think the writer is mistaken on a number of issues!.

http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/.

dedpoet

The material on that site was written by a jw apologist
who used to post here under the name of thirdwitness.

Like the information on his site, the majority of what he
posted here was utter bs. He liked to pose plenty of
questions, but like most of the apologists who come here,
didn't or, more likely, couldn't, answer any.

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