i'm new to this board and just wanted to share my story with everyone here.
i used to live in arizona.
i was very shy and quiet when i was younger.
Thanks for sharing your heart breaking story.I hope you are successful in pressing charges against your abusers.
I know you are telling the truth about the JW school because I knew JW kids in the 1970s who went to one in Arizona.
I remember being jealous because they didn't have to face the persecutin that I did in my elementary school in Texas.
ChiChi
here is yet another article with a great interview with barb.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4111321&brd=1614&pag=461&dept_id=161052&rfi=6.
(hey simon when did you do that 2 post limit .
WoW,This is a great article that covers alot of groung on this issue.
Thanks Ven, for pointing it out.
ChiChi
http://www.kgoam810.com/complexshowdj.asp?djid=3284.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/us/05/09/jehovah.witnesses.ap/index.html.
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2002/05/08/ke050802s203205.htm.
Thanks Ven for doing this and to others for supporting this thread.
I was looking for something like this.
ChiChi
when did she work for the wt?.
why she left hq?.
when was her daughter molested?
Barbara Pandello,aka Aroarer never worked for the WT.Her daughter was molested by a JW relative.
I think you are confusing her with "Barbara Anderson" who worked in the Writing Dept at Bethel.Barbara Anderson who is the one who worked for WT does not have a daughter or any child who was molested.
There are two different Barbaras in this issue.
ChiChi
, http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2002/05/08/ke050802s203205.htm.
jehovah's witnesses act against abuse-policy critics .
by peter smith .
The goal is not to expel a member, but to follow the Apostle Paul's injunction to ''try to readjust such a man in a spirit of mildness,'' the statement said.
Their goal is to expel all who speak out on WT Policy on child abuse but they try every way possible to "readjust" a person guilty of child molestation!
How sick!!!
ChiChi
now i know what "reining in children" means....i thought it referred to getting them to listen....no, according to the just jw page, it refers to putting them in reins during field service.
general : field ministry (with children).
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This thread just brought back memories that I had totally forgotten.
Before I had my first child I used to run into mothers at malls,
district conventions,and such who had their kid in a harness.
I always just hated how it looked and I selfrightiously thought,"if they trained their kid right they wouldn't need that horrible thing!"
Well, my daughter was destined to be a "wildchild" and test every last nerve I had from birth on.
I was paid back dearly for those earlier thoughts.
She was so hard to keep up with! But I still refused to use the dreaded harness.
Instead I really thought I was smart and bought a different device.
I don't know what it was called but it had a cuff on each end which you and your child wore as a braclet connected by about 3-4 foot of a springy plastic rope.
This was so much more humane, I thought.I wasn't about to walk my child like a dog.[8>]
LOL,Looking at it now, I guess it looked like I was walking a criminal instead!
Anyway,I took this new device to the district convention and atached my daughter and I to it.
It was a nightmare!!!She took off running and streched this thing as far as it would go which was well beyond my reach, then she wrapped around two or three people! I was so embarrassed.
I decided not to give it up yet because I spent money on the darn thing!
She took off again and got wrapped aroung the metal chairs on the floor and was dragging them!
That was it!
I was so relieved that my daughter and I didn't trip an elderly sister or something like that.
I went back to something old fasioned,cheap, and safe.
HOLDING HANDS
ChiChi
now i know what "reining in children" means....i thought it referred to getting them to listen....no, according to the just jw page, it refers to putting them in reins during field service.
general : field ministry (with children).
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I guess they want to make little ponys out of those poor kids.
ChiChi
the purpose of a preemptive strike against those involved in dateline is to throw them into the "enemy camp.
" any bad pr can be countered as: it's them against us ; persecution; enemy attack.
this tactic has worked in the past to their advantage.. their aim is to keep the r & f in the pen.. mulan has a good suggestion.
Your right the WT has been NOTORIOUS for starting their own persecution by their stupid behavior then claiming that it is a fullfillment of Bible prophecy!
I'm sure they will do this along with all their other old tricks.
One example that makes me ill is to remember how many times I had to listen to and read that the bros getting thrown in prison in 1919 was fullfilment of Bible phrophecy!GAG!!!
They did this to themselves with the inflamatory and antigovernmental things they said in the literature at a time of war when nationalism was at an all time high.
They knew better.
They loved every damned minute of it just as they will in this situation.
A pissed Chichi!!
ChiChi
well now we have it, what appears to be the pre-emptive strike from wt.. as of this friday three families who appeared on the dateline program have been informed judicial committees have been setup with a one week notice and it is alleged that they have been causing "divisions" within the organization.
i got my letter today, barbara anderson got hers yesterday and the other family earlier this week.. if you were a pr firm would you think it to be a good idea or a bad idea to df everyone a couple of weeks before the dateline program airs?
what do you think the american public will think of such a move?.
Farkle,
I knew someone would make a remark on that statement of mine.
Why am I not surprised that you were the one?
All I have to say is there must be a few thinking JWs or none of us would be here or escaped in the first place.
Lets be positive and HOPE there are more like us.
ChiChi
i spent an hour or two going through my 'meeting clothes'.
they were second-hand when i got them, so no use to anyone else, and anyway, who else dresses like that?did you chuck out/pass on your jw uniform when you stopped going?
it's silly really , just about everyone hates to wear those clothes and would change out of them at the earliest opportunity.as i am not exactly tiny in frilly dresses i looked like a badly mis-arranged bunch of flowers!
YES!!
This was such a wonderful and freeing experience for me.If you haven't done this yet I highly recomend it.
YEA!!TIME FOR SPRING CLEANING!!
ChiChi
