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  More Silentlambs Pics

  by jst2laws in

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  2. child-abuse

  i will try to come back later and give editorial comments.

  a familiar family.

  group growing as we get ready.

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  All right! Boy, what I wouldn't have given to be there. (I'm a photojournalist photographer.)
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  What part of the bible is most disturbing to you?

  by crownboy in

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  2. friends

  for me, it's actually the book of job, which happens to be one of my favourite books.

  the way job steadfastly maintains his innocence, and questions god, as well as rebuffs the three comforters (who proffer arguments along the lines of mordern apologist, although in this book they are "bad guys" ) made him my hero of sorts throughout most of the book.

  if most people today questioned god the way he did, they would probably be condemned for it.

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  A few months ago, I decided to read the Bible without the aid of the WT.

  Well, there's yer problem. Don't you know that you can't understand the Bible without the faithful and discreet slave breathing down your back, telling you what such-and-such means?
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  Bach Rocks!

  by Farkel in

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  we had a small thread about the french swingle singers a few days ago.

  go back 300 years.

  take one very devout lutheran man who was employed as choir director for the church and who received a modest salary for he and his 19 or so children and wife.

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  Hope you enjoy this!

  I am! Cool beans!
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  Please welcome my brother!

  by Valis in

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  2. friends

  my brother ambush22 is sitting next to me and has registered as a new user.

  please take a moment to say hello and welcome.

  he's had it a bit harder than i ever did in jwland by far.

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  Hi, Ambush, and welcome to the board. I'm still relatively new here myself. But I know that I speak for all when I say feel free to post your feelings, opinions, and thoughts. (You can find a lot if you search the archives.) WELCOME, says I! Others: I command you to follow suit!
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  DID ANYONE EVER ENJOY GOING IN SERVICE?

  by minimus in

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  i was raised with a bookbag in my hand.

  every saturday and sunday our family was out in service.i vacation, temporary and auxillary and regular pioneered.

  i never enjoyed it but did it because i was supposed to do it.

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  I too am a hater. I'm a very shy person from the get-go. But having to preach about that nonsense ... geez, no wonder no one ever listened to me. I sounded like a lunatic! "Resistance is futile." No, it's not! "Resistance is ... not futile?" That's right, Hugh. Now go turn in your time.
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  Amazon.com a Pedophile's Paradise ???

  by Xandria in

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  2. friends

  this is what was found on amazon.com they sell this book freely and just read the ill reviews!!!!

  this book openly invites pedophiles!

  boycott amazon and make them take responsiblity for offering this book for sale.

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  I'm sorry, but this reviewer is a freakin moron!!!

  Actually, if you look above that paragraph, you'll see that this is a "

  Book Description submitted by the publisher SafeHaven," not a review. Just a claification.
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  Amazon.com a Pedophile's Paradise ???

  by Xandria in

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  this is what was found on amazon.com they sell this book freely and just read the ill reviews!!!!

  this book openly invites pedophiles!

  boycott amazon and make them take responsiblity for offering this book for sale.

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  I can't believe that! (Shudder ...) Unbelieveable!
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  Paradise Earth A Very Selfish Idea

  by larc in

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  2. friends

  now according to the witnesses, people will live for ever in a paradise earth.

  i think that most of you knew that already.

  now, this is a really selfish idea.

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  The idea of a paradise Earth is full of paradoxes and contradictions that you simply "trust in Jehovah" to work out. You are right about limiting life. Of course -- new light?! -- Jehovah could open the heavens to us. Perhaps, despite science's protests, faster-than-light travel is possible and we'll find several nice M-class planets to roost on.
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  Barbara Anderson article - outstanding!

  by waiting in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  mikepence posted this article over at bboy's forum and it's well worth bringing over here.

  if i offend anyone - it's not my intention.

  it is my intention to continue with helping to shed new light on this hideous crime.

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  Here is another article:

  Source: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/4163522.htm

  Posted on Sat, Sep. 28, 2002
  Abuse charge against Church gets Jehovah's Witnesses ousted BY BOBBY ROSS JR. Associated Press TULLAHOMA, Tenn. - 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. For more than 40 years, Joe and Barbara Anderson were faithful Jehovah's Witnesses, preaching door-to-door and winning more than 80 converts to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. But now the Andersons are outcasts, excommunicated from the religion they served. The couple's transgression: Sowing discord in the faith by alleging that the denomination has protected pedophiles and concealed hundreds of child molestation cases. ''Our son and daughter-in-law think what we've done is so horrible,'' Barbara Anderson, 62, said at her sycamore-shaded rural cottage about 65 miles southeast of Nashville. DEALING WITH SCANDAL Like the Roman Catholic Church, Jehovah's Witnesses are dealing with their own sex scandal that involves rank-and-file and leaders of the faith. The Jehovah's Witnesses shun the outside world in many respects and refuse to participate in secular government. Critics fear that child-sex allegations are generally not reported to police because of the church's insistence on handling problems internally. Four Witnesses, including Barbara Anderson, were excommunicated after NBC's Dateline aired their concerns in May. Joe Anderson, 67, was disfellowshipped, as the church calls it, in July over a letter to headquarters questioning his wife's treatment. Barbara Anderson worked as a researcher at Watchtower headquarters in the early 1990s and a church official asked her to look into the handling of sexual abuse cases. She said she found hundreds of allegations on record, but kept secret, in church files. She said church elders used Scripture to argue ''you're not to make an accusation against an older man unless there are two or three witnesses,'' she said. ``No molester is going to have any witnesses, that's for sure.'' Watchtower spokesman J.R. Brown defended Jehovah's Witnesses' policies. ''Clearly, with us having 95,000 congregations around the world and three to five to six elders in each, mistakes may have been made,'' he said. ``But that does not mean that we don't have a strong and aggressive policy that shows we abhor child molestation.'' Brown said that anyone found guilty of molestation by a church judicial committee is removed from all positions of responsibility. Undeterred, Barbara Anderson co-founded Silentlambs, a support group for church victims. Headed by former Kentucky church elder Bill Bowen, Silentlambs claims the denomination keeps molestations secret, won't let victims warn other members about abusers and shuns those who speak out. The church puts its membership at six million worldwide, including one million U.S. residents. Silentlambs has received calls and e-mails from 5,000 Witnesses reporting mishandled molestation cases, Bowen said. CONTACT CUT OFF In the closed society, anyone who is a Witness must cut off contact with disfellowshipped members, even relatives. The Andersons' son, Lance Anderson, 41, a church elder in Mishawaka, Ind., said the intention isn't to punish his parents but to lead them to repentance. The son said pedophilia is a global problem but that only God -- not man or government -- can stop it. ''I love my parents dearly, but the message they have chosen to accomplish this is harming good people,'' he said. ``They are putting themselves, really, in harm's way.'' For the first time, Joe and Barbara Anderson say they're reading religious books and trying to draw their own conclusions. ''It's not that we don't believe the Bible or don't believe religion or don't believe God,'' Barbara Anderson said. ``But we're having fun . . . having the freedom to look around and to think about it.''
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  well. i just lost my last family member to the org

  by willdabeerman in

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  2. friends

  i just lost my last fleshly brother to the borg.

  i am moving this weekend and i need his help.

  and i asked him whats up?.

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  Geez, I'm sorry to hear about this.