Thank you Finkelstein, you have just described my Mother, my sister and my estranged husband none of which were Witnesses and then the "Elder ". Now do you have a description for those of us who seem to attract those liars.
rebelfighter
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Sociopathic Liars ?
by Finkelstein inthe sociopathic liar beware of this dangerous sociopath.
the one behavior that characterizes the human race is so widespread that most of the time we dont even notice it.
it is extremely hard to spot and it is even harder to stop.
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Conti v WT court documents
by umbertoecho ini don't know if this has been read by any who are on this forum.
i have only received it in the last few minutes.
it is a good document in that, it is easy to understand, it's not full of legal jargon.
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rebelfighter
How many of you caught this line:
Substantially monetary damages could be assessed against the elders or congregation.”
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Anthony Morris III goes on an eight minute rant over child abuse
by Richard_I inthis is in the july 2015 monthly program on tv.jw.org cedars wrote about it too.. starting at around 42:30 in the video, morris talks about the child abuse situation for almost 10 minutes.
link to video.
i'm writing a transcript right now.
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rebelfighter
Joe Grundy,
I work with a youth group and I am a Certified Adult Volunteer trained to recognize emotional, physical and sexual abuse we are told to report to authorities without any questions. You are 100% correct.
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Anthony Morris III goes on an eight minute rant over child abuse
by Richard_I inthis is in the july 2015 monthly program on tv.jw.org cedars wrote about it too.. starting at around 42:30 in the video, morris talks about the child abuse situation for almost 10 minutes.
link to video.
i'm writing a transcript right now.
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rebelfighter
As many of the posters have covered the sexual abuse, I will not rehash that point.
I found this line in the text interesting:
As an organization, we view all such abuse of children, whether physical, sexual, or emotional as deplorable.
I think he or the WT might need to figure out what "Emotional Abuse " for example as recently as the February cartoon about paying attention during meetings. How about what age groups should be (the little ones) talking about Armageddon I am pretty sure that is pretty scary stuff for those little kids (OH, why don't you just take them to the next horror movie). I have not seen it but seen enough comments about a children's book that is totally inappropriate! Of course this horrid shunning thing they do to teenagers I sure would classify that under emotional abuse.
In summary that sentence alone was all cow manure!
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Gwinnett Daily Post: See article and reader comment to Watchtower Convention PR piece about JW happy families
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2015/jul/02/jehovah8217s-witnesses-convention-to-feature/ .
the 2015 imitate jesus!
convention of jehovahs witnesses will be held july 3-5 at the arena at gwinnett center located at 6400 sugarloaf parkway in duluth.
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What Road Would You Choose---IF?
by John Aquila insay you could go back in time to when you were 15 years old.
no watchtower in your life.
but the experience you have now you could keep.
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Would not have gone for the money but for a career as an artist which I am now looking into. Never to late to go back to school, at least that is what my daughter says. I definitely would have had my kids earlier in life, I was 34 and 40 when they were born. We all have a great sense of humor and great genes, we all look younger then our age but I still get taken for my daughter's grandmother LOL and my kids call me old but that's ok. I still would be a child's advocate. And I would still believe in God but not Religion. -
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This just happened within last 15 mins......
by Lied2NoMore ini saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.
the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .
i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.
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In my parting email argument with the Elder I pointed out and requested that I was totally done hearing about Satan. My statement to him was "you are not to mention Satan at all because I am totally done with you and Satan". He did not use the word Satan he put "------" at least 30 times in the email not once did he mention Jehovia. In one of my earlier emails I asked the JW's worshipped Jehovia or Satan because the ratio was running about 1 to 30. -
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Change to dress and grooming rules for JWs in USA soon?
by RayPublisher inmy guy with the lurk account on jwtalk (where all the kool-aid drinking jws go to talk about how wonderful 'the twoof' is) sent me some more interesting threads, here's one:.
spoiler: starting new the new service year september.
"there will be new directives from the branch through the circuit overseer on dress and grooming that will disqualify one to be a congregation publisher.
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rebelfighter
This whole thread is crazy.
But will someone please explain : Soon, JWs won't be able to wear wool and linen together... Oh, wait... That's been done..This was mentioned by someone above. So you are saying, I cannot wear a thin wool sweater under my $400. linen suit, oh and I always wear heals and very tasteful makeup.
How in the world did you all ever put up with this level of control? I am really not getting this.
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Where are the Young Elders?
by James Jack ini was appointed as an elder when i turned 30, 25 years ago.
which was the norm back then.. now, i very rarely here of a young man becoming an elder.
in our town we have 2 english congregations.
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The Elder and I never had a single disagreement in five years because he never discussed his religion. See the first part of my name that is who I have always been. My first job out of college was store manager of a store that only men could possibly handle. Since it was home office orders the district manager was not to happy with this arrangement and was determined to make my life miserable but I am pretty tough. I won he ended up in forced retirement. Before leaving the company a few more of these men with this "old" attitude would come tumbling down. If the company wanted to keep it's federal contracts it had to have female managers.
Your young Elders are wearing SKIRTS!! There was a recent thread by Bonsai (sorry gentlemen) had that call been placed to a female elder, her motherly concerns about someone in need would have kicked in not that male ego attitude. I know some of the elders care but mothers tend to ignore rules when caring for their flock, then they go back and look at the rules. We are going to protect are kids first. Just think how all those child abuse issue would have been handled. Recently there was a tape recording of a young lady telling an elder off for not looking after her son when she had been d/f. One brave lady. As jwstruggle said they had tried to get him deleted as an elder on several occasions. He was down right rude to her throughout the phone call.
Gentlemen, women are your equal.
Children need to be raised as independent individuals learning to make their own decisions. My children made their own decisions in middle school with a little oversight on my part. By high they were making their own decisions. Thus by the time they were ready for college mom did not need to hold their hands. Mom was not making decisions for them.
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I disfellowshipped my parents this week..
by fulano ini just wrote them a mail, telling them to not contact me any more under any circumstances, illness or death (79 and 83 years old).
unless they leave the cult and would apologize for our f*'.ed-up upbringing which ruined our whole life.
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Fulano, I support you 150%, you will find plenty of love outside of the JW community. I am 64 years old, I am not a JW but a year ago I disowned both my mother and my sister. 63 years of emotional and physical abuse is far to much from a mother. A sister who is only there for you when you are willing to write her a paycheck otherwise she thinks you are scum.
Two years prior in my home, I was actually trying to care for my mother till the County Sheriff and the lady from social services took me for a walk and explained that for my safety and all members of the household this lady needed to be placed in a much more secure environment with 24 hour surveillance.
Best friends are sometimes closer then blood will ever be to you in time of need.
Stay strong there are a lot of people who truly you.