i may be outing myself so i'm changing some minor detail but i wanted to relate a recent conversation over the sexual abuse issue.
i was at a party, er, gathering this weekend and there were several folks that i haven't talked to in awhile there.
so, i sat down at a table with several other guys and the conversation went like this:.
I run the megan's law registery every six months, you should too.
That's all well and good, but think about something. What about the molester that's never been convicted but has confessed to the elders? The Gilbert Simental trial has already proven that elders do NOT always report to the police, even in mandatory reporting states.
hubby and i da'd last year and we are so glad that we did.
however, we are hoping to meet others that have left in and around the nashville area.
we are in our 30's and have two small children, however age really doesn't matter.
I know an ex-jw in Nashville, but he doesn't post here anymore. I'll send him this thread on FB and ask if it's okay to give you his contact information.
http://youtu.be/dht3cedgg6e.
watch the right hand side of the screen.. .
i am trying to imbed it but can't make it work.
Watch to the very end. Was that the same woman coming down the steps? It looks like she took her shower cap off the second time if it's the same woman,
i find it interesting that they hired a third part (kpmg) to do a forensic examination of their files.
the scouts had to pay out 18.5 million back in 2010.. .
"the files gathered from 1965 to 1985 came to light when they were used as evidence in a landmark oregon ruling in 2010 that the scouts had failed to protect a plaintiff who had been molested by an assistant scoutmaster in the early 1980s.
"When the organization's child and youth protection policies and practices were recently challenged, Scouts Canada took an honest, open and transparent approach that confronted both the good and the bad of its history," the organization said in a news release Friday.
It would be such a relief if the Watch Tower did the same thing. But those dirty bastards will have to be forced to do it. Hopefully, the more lawsuits that are filed, the more likely courts aren't going to give the organization a choice in the matter.
this one's important, we need as many people as possible to help.
wot (web of trust) is a website rating site that is used by millions of people as a browser plugin.
no need to make anything up, tell it like it is.. http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/watchtower.org.
Marked for later.
hey people it's been a tough couple of weeks for me, my wife and i have seperated i expected this, but it has been much more difficult than expected.
my family has gotten a million times more distant because of my inactive status and questioning ofthe org.
i do have wordy friends but still feel pretty bad being alone i have even contemplated returning to meetings for the sole purpose of not losing y family and life, but i cannot fathom the thought of bowing down to their rules and sacrificing my own integrity.
I'm sorry you're hurting, but it will get better. A word to the wise, though. If you have children and they are minors, you have every right to see them on a regular basis or even have joint custody. I know of many ex and exiting jws that don't feel worthy of raising their children. If this is your situation, please don't make that mistake.
And as far as your wife leaving is concerned...she's never going to be good for you unless she changes her brainwashed state. Look man, I'm sure you didn't stop being a jw so you could become a Hell's Angel. She has to know that there are things about the WT that bother your conscience. If that's not good enough for her, then she's not good enough for you. The same goes for parents, siblings and any other family members.
i don't think the society can afford to drop this appeal.
1. if they loose their appeal it opens them up to huge amounts of liability.
they need the courts to come down on their side of the clergy-penitent confidentiality issue.
1. If they loose their appeal it opens them up to huge amounts of liability. They need the courts to come down on their side of the clergy-penitent confidentiality issue. They also need the court to rule that they cant be held liable for the actions of a member who held no position of authority at the time of the incident.
I agree that the WT probably won't drop the appeal. However, that being said, the clergy-penitent confidentiality issue was already ruled against in the Gilbert Simental criminal trial. It was decided by that judge that there was no privilege, because once the jw confesses to the elders, the information is passed onto the WT. I'm not a lawyer, but I know that the burden of proof is heavier in a criminal trial than it is in a civil one. Since it has already been established in the Conti civil trial that the WT advised elders, I don't see how in the world the WT could ever have any court, appeals or otherwise, rule that the organization can't be held liable for a congregant's actions.
we have been planning.
an unannounced visit,.
to find out your sins.. all of your sins.. we tapped all your phones,.
Genius as usual!
your wife starts wearing long pajamas and a robe to bed.......and sleeping under a different set of covers?.
Just start to sleep naked and get under the same covers as her.
No, make her live by her own damn rules and take her to the elders for not providing the marital due.
i had two new positions open up out of the blue recently and as luck would have it...for some reason i know a helluva lotta ex-jws lol!
especially with two young and popular dfd sons who also hang with a lot of ex dubs...but that maybe is another thread....we are drawn to those with similarities very often and being an exjw is a pretty small club....and we left a true brotherhood to many and a network for sure to everyone else.
so at work none of the non jws care for the jws and some have asked them to stop giving them paper crap and leave them alone...when one of them acted pissed that i had told some of the guys he would not ride with me to a jobsite lmao....of course they thought a new level of insanity had overtaken one of my normally great employees...so i told her "why would i not mention that to the shop guy/friends...im not ashamed of anything???".
Glad to hear everything is going fine.
