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  bad experiences with C.O.s?

  by startingovernow in

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  i am still trying to recover from an experience that i had with a c.o.

  reading other discussions has helped me to start getting other bad experiences into a better perspective and since the experience with the c.o.

  was really the final straw i was hoping that reading that i am not alone would help me in moving on.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  In 1976 I was sexually assaulted by my stepfather when I was fifteen. The elders said there was nothing they could do becauese it was his word against mine, and they forbade me to talk to anyone else about it.

  About three years ago I talked to a CO who claimed that the elders who had handled it had been wrong and that the society always reports accusations of child abuse to the authorities and always have.

  I told him that the elders had called the society for instructions, so obvioulsy they were following policy. But he refused to believe it.

  I described to him how horrible it was to sit by myself in a room with three old men firing sexually explicit questions at me. I said that that interrogation was a rape in itself and no young child should ever have to sit through that. I then asked, "is that still how they handle sexual abuse accusations?"

  He wouldn't look me in the eye, he looked away, hemmed, hawed, and mumbled "i'm not sure, I'll check into that"

  So he lied about that Society always reporting, either that or he doesn't have a clue as to how the society handles those matters, which i find hard to believe. And as far as the "I'm not sure comment", well he was obviously a little embarresed how the socieity handles it and is ashamed to admit it.

  Yep, fine christian he is.
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  31 Years A Watchtower Slave

  by truthseeker in

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  my other half has accepted this.. after many years of fading i have stopped going altogether.

  i still have friends and family in so i'm happy to remain inactive.. .

  i was never a very good watchtower slave to begin with.. i was raised in the truth but i never really put my heart and soul into the religion.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  I probably come under the category of "good for nothing slave

  The Society is diligent in it's efforts to make all the rank and file feel this way.

  I grew up fourth generation JW, I didn't leave until my 30's. I've never met a JW with good healthy self-esteem.

  They can't control you unless they make you feel worthless.

  Welcome TruthSeeker, it's a bigger, better world out here.
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  smoking in uk?

  by John Doe in

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  sorry, don't know the original source for this.

  thoughts?.

  a painter and decorator who received a 30 fine for smoking in his own van has warned that british civil liberties are "going up in smoke".. .

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  Teabags? They use teabags in the UK?

  I was under the impression that they only used loose tea, and teabags was an american thing.
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  How to install a home security system in the south.

  by John Doe in

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  how to install a home security system in the south .

  1. go to a second-hand store and buy a pair of men's used size .

  14-16 work boots.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  John you left out one small detail.

  Nail targets to every tree in the yard, be sure that every one of them have a couple dozen bullets holes in very tight clusters.
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  How Can people talk to Children like that....

  by Hope4Others in

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  i was coming out of the grocery store with a few items, and a round the corner comes a woman with 2 young.

  boys about 7 or 8. she seemed a little clutsey, she raises her voice, the whole damn parking lot could of heard.. they were walking a head of her, she says "if you trip me boy, your going to sit in the truck all day.

  like a lot but geez its 29 degrees celsius and extremely humid.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  So you think that it warps the child to discipline them?

  The best discipline is to give them a cookie?

  MsMcducket, I don't think anyone here is saying that you shouldn't disipline your child.
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  How Can people talk to Children like that....

  by Hope4Others in

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  i was coming out of the grocery store with a few items, and a round the corner comes a woman with 2 young.

  boys about 7 or 8. she seemed a little clutsey, she raises her voice, the whole damn parking lot could of heard.. they were walking a head of her, she says "if you trip me boy, your going to sit in the truck all day.

  like a lot but geez its 29 degrees celsius and extremely humid.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  So now we're going to label things parents say to their kids in a fit of rage as abuse?

  Yes Keyser, that is abuse!
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  How Can people talk to Children like that....

  by Hope4Others in

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  i was coming out of the grocery store with a few items, and a round the corner comes a woman with 2 young.

  boys about 7 or 8. she seemed a little clutsey, she raises her voice, the whole damn parking lot could of heard.. they were walking a head of her, she says "if you trip me boy, your going to sit in the truck all day.

  like a lot but geez its 29 degrees celsius and extremely humid.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  Yeah missinglink,..... some dumb kids do believe what there parents say.
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  Message from John Cleese

  by Big Tex in

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  well i thought it was funny .

  message from john cleese.

  to the citizens of the united states of america :.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  Andie Mcdowells british accent isn't real?
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  One Paper Towel

  by DT in

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  the district conventions i went to always had signs in the restrooms asking people to only take one paper towel.

  i've heard other people mention this too.

  is this typical at conventions?

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  Your right Carla, it is insanity, but that is how we were trained.

  I would take two paper towels and then put a little extra in the contruibution box. Such a drone i was.
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  Did You Believe That Gambling Was A Sin?

  by minimus in

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  i never did!

  i thought it was in the long run, dumb to do, but i never felt a person should be expelled from the congregation for "greediness" just because a person buys lottery tickets or raffles.. (by the way, i enjoy moderate gambling.

  keno is a favorite pastime)..

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  As a dub i thought it was a sin, I thougth thats what the society taught.

  Until the day I heard a group of bros (elders among them) talk about gambling on vacation.

  I stood there stunned as bro after bro talked about stopping at a casino playing slots etc. as if there was nothing wrong with it at all.

  It was wierd.