in jdub days coming home from the coventions the car discussion would always ask "what are you taking home with you from the convention"- meaning what part did i like or how was i encouraged.
to be honest, answering that question has always been a struggle.
i asked myself this question as i sat in traffic for 2hrs on my way home from the march.
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well, it looks like it's going to be cloudy with some light rain (only 1/4" predicted for the entire day).. very comfortable temperatures in the 70's.. get out your umbrellas and show them how lambs can be, should have been, ought to be and will be protected.. we're with you!
Well, it looks like it's going to be cloudy with some light rain (only 1/4" predicted for the entire day).
Very comfortable temperatures in the 70's.
Get out your umbrellas and show them how lambs can be, should have been, ought to be and will be PROTECTED.
We're with you!
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for witnesses who are currently going to the meetings, or anyone really for that matter, who may have friends still going i have a question:.
what are the active witnesses saying about the molesting issue that has come quite apparent lately?
"Well, it might happen in some congregations, but NOT HERE. No, definitely not here."
i have followed the silentlambs issue for awhile now.
i saw the special on dateline, and read a few things on newspapers and online links.
i have a question though and wonder if someone could answer it for me, as this was asked to me by someone "outside of the organization" and i did not know.. .
I can only speak for myself. In my opinion, this religion cannot fall far enough, fast enough.
They lead people AWAY from God. Away from truth. Away from goodness. Away from freedom. Away from love. And that is evil.
Edited by - Dia on 26 September 2002 23:48:9
brown said that anyone found guilty of molestation by a church judicial committee is removed from all positions of responsibility and cannot evangelize door-to-door without being accompanied by a fellow jehovah's witness.
i was just reading another thread and started thinking.
and i am not happy at all about where this thinking took me.
And all of these things will be made so much easier now that the WTS is working to draw more single parent families into their clutches, er 'flock'.
I guess if you're a JW, the only thing worse than a pedophile is a bored pedophile.
bill and his family arrived safe and sound in nyc.
here is a picture of bill and i at the hotel: .
peace - larry .
Sleep well. Many prayers will be said for you tonite. All over the world.
May the Lord's blessings be upon you.
Goodnite hero. Goodnite friends.
Our hearts are with you.
i wanted to give everyone who came to my trial a great big "thank you".
it was a very difficult 2 and a half weeks.
the support from this board was overwhelming.
What a joy for you to come out and talk to us! What a nice surprise.
It was a wonderful opportunity to give you whatever support we could.
You know that even if you lose, you win, don't you? They can't turn back from this, no matter what happens. Right, Oprah?
Still, we all hope you do win, because there is so much more that could follow you until children are safe and protected as they should be and not at the mercy of the kinds of folks who did you so much wrong.
Glad to hear you've some chance to get back to normal again. I hope wonderful things await you in January. You have touched all of us, very deeply.
We'll be with you, all the way.
Thanks!
what if everything that is done by and for the wts is done for the secrecy, protection and sake of a power-hungry, sexually perverse, women and child hating bunch of psychologically twisted men, the governing body?.
they are, after all, untouchable.
and kept safely in hiding.. it is at their behest and at their direction and with their knowledge that all of the horrible things we hear and know of, happen.
...then would the organization not be sinfully evil?.....and would the R&F just honestly be pitifully NAIVE and nothing more?
Scarey. Scarey like Hitler was scarey.
thursday september 26, 2002 6:40 am .
tullahoma, tenn. (ap) - joe and barbara anderson have been abandoned by their peers.
their son won't talk to them, and won't let them see their 3-year-old grandson.
They could both be pedophiles. And neither of them aware of it.
some of you may remember my son's struggle with his beliefs about a year ago.
benjamin was brought up as a jw and was heavily involved, used extensively on the platform as a good jw role model.
however, about a year ago (when he was 13) he started to have doubts and went through a cycle of depression, even contemplating suicide.
They don't have any real 'power' to do anything. What do you fear? That they could cut him off from his friends or his mom? Yes, probably, they will try to do that. And they have a good chance of succeeding, too.
All over these boards are the stories of people who have survived this crap and are so much the better for it. Shame on them for haggling with a young teen-ager. BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY DO!!! He's not the first and until we make more headway, he won't be the last, either.
Get him some copies of the books people have written about leaving and he can count his blessings that he's so young and able to do this before he's wasted his whole life.
Hurrah for your wife for taking a stand and allowing her God-given maternal instincts to kick in. Let her know how much you appreciate this. Lots of witnesses do manage to walk that double line, being true to themselves and still doing the witness performance thing.
Some people who have been harrassed about leaving have gone as far as to take out a legal injunction against the witnesses to force them to leave them alone.
It works, I hear.
Good luck. Have I mentioned how lucky he is to have you?
He won't be 'underage' forever. Four more years and he can say and enforce whatever he wants. It's his life now but it will really be his life then.
Stick by him.
