has any jw said anything to you about the eunice spry evil jehovah's witness foster mother case?.
are you in a congregation still and heard anything said by the rank and file jws?.
i visited my jw parents yesterday.
In the article it mentioned that the foster mother has a biological daughter who is now 25 - this 25 year old had actually in the past thought about reporting her mother but had changed her mind. Wonder if she too is a witness? The article doesn't say.
If she is a witness then deciding not to report would just be typical.
has any jw said anything to you about the eunice spry evil jehovah's witness foster mother case?.
are you in a congregation still and heard anything said by the rank and file jws?.
i visited my jw parents yesterday.
Hi Gill
A witness and I were in a waiting area today and I picked up the guardian newspaper. I said to the witness 'what a cruel woman'. He was immediately interested, I read bits out to him. As soon I got to the bit that says she is a witness, he turned away and didn't want to know anymore.
I shut up - the point was already made - she is discribed as a pillar of of her religious community in the paper.
i have not tried to hide my past as a victim of this, but this is always an area that i have to fight my personally feelings as to what should be done to child molesters.
they ruin lives, scar an individual for a lifetime!.
should they be incarcerated for life, castrated, turned over to the family member(s), public humiliation like a branding everywhere they go, tortured and or death penality?.
Yes, I was naive AND stupid. I honestly thought I was so flawed that I was the only one he would do that to
frannie, I think that when you are being abused and life goes on as normal around you, in your child's mind, its inevitable that you are going to blame yourself and feel like the guilty party - everything around you is fine and 'normal' only you know that you arn't - so it must be your fault. I can see why it would be unimaginable to consider that it could happen to anyone else.
Now that society is looking at the subject in such minute detail means that eventually we will do what is needed, and we'll do it together, which is how it should be.
love
bernadette
hi guys, .
well i think i am coming down with something.
i have had this feeling recently that something bad is lurking in my body and is just waiting for the appropiate time to make itself manifest.
(((((((needproof)))))))
You sound very rational to me - glad that you have been able to post about how you are feeling - it definitely stuck a chord with me.
We are here for you.
hope that your family member is alright.
bernadette
dunkin' donuts is offering free iced coffees today to celebrate the first day of spring.. i'm buying for everyone on jwd!.
who doesn't love spring?
!.
http://www.honoluluzoo.org/images/mandarin_duck_male2.htm
saw my first last week - symbol of spring this year for me - gorgeous arn't they
so....do any of you believe in some person in the sky floating around called jesus?
or having a relationship with that person (or god) who is in some other dimension apparantly?
being a witness, they stressed so much having a relationship with "jehovah" and all that.
Hi the monster
I think its important to feel inspired, purposeful and connected but at the same time to feel free to continue exploring - to me Jesus and God represents that in an imaginative way - just as a picture tells a story. The important thing is not to feel confined but to feel a sense of expansion and space.
bernadette
when i came to this board, i thought that it was for encouragement amoung people who had been treated badly by the wtbts, i did not understand that people were going to come here and bash god, his son and the bible.
i could understand some embitterment over religion but some of you people are down right insulting.
not to mention the fact that i have tried to contact others on the board and have had my messages ignored.. .
nvgnbk this is love ...just keep your head down welcome to the family
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/6449027.stm.
two decades of abuse went unseen the foster children of eunice spry face a lifetime of counselling, after suffering years of physical, mental and sexual abuse at her hands.
the abuse was not spotted by health professionals over a period of 20 years.
Hi blondie
folkyc has also started a thread re the above but thanks anyway
sorry double post
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/6449027.stm.
two decades of abuse went unseen the foster children of eunice spry face a lifetime of counselling, after suffering years of physical, mental and sexual abuse at her hands.
the abuse was not spotted by health professionals over a period of 20 years.
Hi blondie
folkyc has also started a thread re the above but thanks anyway
my wife 'rowan' was born and raised a jw, her father being an elder -a very gentle loving person, but an elder.. some years ago, she was betrayed by a close friend, subjected to a jc and was disfellowshiped & shunned.
the proceeding was completely void of mercy and love, it was much like a violation, a rape.
finding herself df'd was of course terrifying, but the most disapointing outcome was that her father sided with the elders.. eventually she discovered through select books, articles and this board about the fear-driven mind control ways of her religion.
Rowan I'm very sorry over what the wts has done to you.
Nature, time and rest are the best healers
best wishes and hugs to you both
love
bernadette
