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  Canadian radio station plans show re: new book re JW's being a cult

  by sosad in

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  2. friends

  the talk show host had family that was jw - he is pretty non biased when i have heard him speak about the witnesses but straight shooting.

  he is sure to get some attention from some current jws if he raises this as a topic.

  the local producer has been unable to get any response from "the local chapter" of the organization.

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  my inactive family hates that I researched why the jws are wrong

  by sosad in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  they don't want to hear it, they think i am being hurtful having so many books about cults, jws in particular etc etc.

  i never talk about it but they saw my bookshelves in my office during a recent visit and are besides themselves.

  they want to know where the anit catholic literature is - (my husband and kids are catholic, i am not).

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  I was "disinvited " to my younger brothers babies shower

  by sosad in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  because one of the jw invitees heard i was coming and was now part of babylon the great.

  just to clarify - i am part of nothing in the religious sense- my kids and husband are very catholic but i am not.. i was invited and trying to get the address after making considerable efforts to attend due to plain old busy life.. it seems "new light" says i, a fader of over 20 years is not welcome to a gathering where jws are present.

  but - not just jws - there would be many other religious denominations present in the form of aunts, grandmothers, parents etc.

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  I had a chance to mention to my mom that I heard the bookstudy was no more

  by sosad in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and she told me that was absolutly not the case.

  she laughed and said that would never happen - that they needed it and that where ever i had gotten my infomation from was absolutly wrong and that i could tell them so.

  she then told me that the public talk had been shortened - and i said that i had heard that it was 15 minutes shorter - the fact that i knew that kinda threw her.. but the book study would never go.

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  I am needing info about the Ratio of mental Illness in jwdom vs general pop

  by sosad in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i remember some studies referred to about the rates of suicide etc.

  does anyone have that link?.

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  What is the official belief about DFed ones?

  by sosad in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my understanding is that if armageddon comes when you are dfed, you are dead.

  of course there is the standard jw caveat for that "only j can judge".

  my dfed brother was committed early this morning to the psych ward.

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  ex elder will serve prison time for abuse

  by sosad in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  well, the pig will serve jail time.

  check out the star phoenix - the story was page a3.

  it's too bad but it is going to get overlooked due to our provincial election today.. the article is pretty graphic - it shows the power these guys hold over families and how naive parents that are jws really are - not to mention the wives of elders.

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  why do so many "non witness " jws not bother to find out the "truth"

  by sosad in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my siblings who have left (3/7 last count) have no desire to talk about or hear about much less read about what the deal is witht the org our parents decided would bring them everlasting life.

  it is head shaking to me - and i try not to bring it up at all- but when they ask, or it comes up and they are all freaked out about me being interested in it all i just shake my head.

  even friends i grew up with in the org have no desire to know - they are just not interested.

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  Canadian Pedophile Headline - Ex - Elder from local ChurchPleads Guilty

  by sosad in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it was front page of the saskatoon star phoenix - yes he is an ex-elder and now ex jw but as an elder he admits to "sexual exploitation of a teenage girl who was a member of the same congregation".

  she is now 25 and was 14 - 17 (yup - four years) years of age.

  no mention if she is a jw still.. the reporter had no infomation related to other cases, the two witness rule etc etc - i emailed her some bare bones info related to these background facts as well as the silentlambs name and this web site.

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  My youngest Brother (dfed) is a poster child for my jw family

  by sosad in

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  2. friends

  i have eight siblings - three hang on to being jw but live their life, one is in the circuit work, one is unbaptised, and mentally challenged, two of us are faded for at at least 18 years and one - the youngest has been dfed twice.. he is 25 now, was dfed as a young teenager originally and went back only to get the boot again.

  there was a very definite km a couple of years ago - he had been dfed for a couple of years by that point - and he was kicked out after my parents came home from that meeting.

  the funny this is, they had been separated for a few years and had recently reconciled.

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