read this relevant message on reddit, about current elders.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1eb0ees/the_changes_are_affecting_elders_the_hardest_in/.
spot on, isn't it?.
gorby.
Good post.
Since being out I've met ex-elders that were gutted and in tears for being involved with certain JC's, those thankfully got out. Dave Gracey and Roger Bentley stood up to the corporation in their dealing with CSA cases and DF'd for doing so.
Jeez what does it take to figure out "THEY ARE MAKING THIS S**T UP AS THEY GO ALONG!!!" And the path to and from is strewn with broken and dead bodies from the decisions made by MEN in JC's. Wake the f**k up!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522908/jehovah-s-witnesses-lose-last-ditch-court-case-over-abuse-in-care-report?fbclid=iwzxh0bgnhzw0cmteaar1g3qvzxlojo2szcm6xlsf2tsc_0rehd4dp4i6rda6zxafplc_v2hzvvf4_aem_pztghhvtf5to8qsjtv3m0g.
july 23, 2024. jehovah's witnesses lose last ditch court case over abuse in care report.
jehovah's witnesses have failed in an eleventh hour attempt to block part of a lengthy report about abuse in care that is about them.. .
It's amazing how we can ALWAYS count on the WT corporation to do the wrong thing, every time.
They never disappoint!
But in reality I'm glad they continue to be as evil as ever. I hate this corporation.
i just read on facebook terry, aka orangefatcat has passed.. i met her at the blow out apostafest in toronto years ago.
she was a bigger than life character in person with a great sense of humor as well as always with a kind word and positive message on facebook.. rip terry.💔😞.
Hey Rich!
That was really a fun time. I have pictures somewhere of smoking cigars out on the patio... I even met a retired mercenary cab driver. He was worried about me going to this gathering where I didn't know really anybody. He waited for me to take me back to the hotel at 2 am, and took me to the airport in the morning. And I just remembered I flew out to visit my elderly mother and elder brother the next day. Talk about about a mind snap.
We have lost a few from that gathering. Kit, Uzzah, and now OFC. May they all rest in peace.
I am always happy to see how your life has moved forward on FB.
i just read on facebook terry, aka orangefatcat has passed.. i met her at the blow out apostafest in toronto years ago.
she was a bigger than life character in person with a great sense of humor as well as always with a kind word and positive message on facebook.. rip terry.💔😞.
I just read on Facebook Terry, AKA Orangefatcat has passed.
I met her at the blow out Apostafest in Toronto years ago. She was a bigger than life character in person with a great sense of humor as well as always with a kind word and positive message on Facebook.
RIP Terry.💔😞
do you recall any?.
i was told that john denver hated jw's with a vengeance - any truth in that?.
also, annie lennox - i was told before a concert she asked any jw's present to leave?.
Carson did have JWs in his staff. No epilogue.
Jw’s do work in the industry, it’s a big industry. 🙄
i'm interested to know the age demographics here.
it must be significantly different to other exjw forums.
it would be a damning report for watchtower if most of us appear to have left for decades.. you don't have to mention your exact age, you could always say "in my 50s".. i am in my 70s.
Disneyland and I were born in the same summer.
Born in, figured out they were making it up in the early 80’s, but friends, family and social network were strong.
1995 I knew it was REALLY all BS. I did my own ministry not using mags, didn’t use NWT.
One day after a Sunday meeting I just stopped and never went back 23 years ago.
the ExJW community was vibrant locally which helped me and others immensely…I’m still friends with all I met back then, and all met here online.
Thank You again Simon for providing JWN, from the bottom of my heart. 🥂
awake 1976 - should a pocket calculator be in your pocket?.
somehow this totally zany 'bible based' article passed me by first time around!.
anyone remember it?.
So many filler articles to fill those biweekly mags for years...
Even the Bethelites got a kick of some of those crazy article.
One of my all time favorites:
"Your Servant the Pencil."
this thread currently has over 300 comments.. it shows a picture of an older man washing a window looking wistfully… then it talks all about how some may have doubts about not having planned and the situation they are in now that they are older, etc.
it refers to others who did plan and who supposedly have ‘apparent’ financial security.
in my opinion, the whole gist of this article is to make older witnesses feel better who did not pursue a career or plan well for retirement.. it tries to imply that those others who planned only have ‘apparent’ financial security - which is to say they don’t (?).
Yeah...like the corporation doesn't plan for its financial security...
Right....
i remember sitting through public talks where the speaker spent the hour discussing in great detail anal sex, masturbation (of yourself and others), sex during menstruation and so on.
.
i was a child, looking back now, i realise that they systematically stripped away our childhood innocence, we knew and heard things no 'worldly' child would have heard.. the child abuse and grooming happened to every single one of us, the feelings of guilt and shame was in all of us even if we didn't actually do anything bad, the mental images caused by these filthy men hung around in our innocent minds till there was no room for that innocence.. it has taken me 44 years to realise that what was done to us, even those of us not physically abused, is a crime.. do they still have talks like that nowadays i wonder?
I remember one of my peers in the congregation was assigned the talk on masterbation from the "Youth" book.
Remember that...they went chapter by chapter from that book for the ministry school!!!
We were all mortified!! We all felt so sorry for the bro.
I remember now at about 11 years old I had the talk "was the first sin sexual intercourse." I barely knew about that stuff!
Ai yi yi
i think someone else noticed this here recently.
i wondered when i signed on today july 9, 2024, that even the avatars were missing.
does simon know?
I noticed that also. I thought it was my computer.
