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,
jamiebowers
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Woman jumps into pool during Long Beach DC!
by puffthedragon inhttp://youtu.be/dht3cedgg6e.
watch the right hand side of the screen.. .
i am trying to imbed it but can't make it work.
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Scouts Canada About To Release Report Regarding Sex-Abuse Related Firings
by Wolfy ini 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.
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jamiebowers
"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.
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Let's work together to make the internet a little less JW friendly!
by Miah inthis 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.
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jamiebowers
Marked for later.
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Missing family dearly
by Freeof1914 inhey 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.
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jamiebowers
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.
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Why the Watchtower Can't Drop Its Appeal
by Diest ini 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.
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jamiebowers
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.
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A Kingdom Parody--Conditional Love
by sd-7 inwe have been planning.
an unannounced visit,.
to find out your sins.. all of your sins.. we tapped all your phones,.
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jamiebowers
Genius as usual!
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is it a bad sign when........
by outsmartthesystem inyour wife starts wearing long pajamas and a robe to bed.......and sleeping under a different set of covers?.
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jamiebowers
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.
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I have hired 2 more employees this week that are DF'd to go with my several jw employees...i am giving an amazing witness!!
by oompa ini 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???".
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jamiebowers
Glad to hear everything is going fine.
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Where is LeavingWT?
by Magwitch inhe has always been one of my absolute favorite posters.
where has he gone?.
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jamiebowers
Still no response from Zid on Facebook.
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Remember the Story about a Month Ago RE the Woman Who Murdered Her Two Children?
by jamiebowers ini have received correspondence from a jw in ontario canada.
the following is background information regarding the sinclair family and their adult children.
their son, scott left the cult and committed suicide.
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jamiebowers
I have received correspondence from a JW in Ontario Canada. The following is background information regarding the Sinclair family and their adult children. Their son, Scott left the cult and committed suicide. Their daughter, Felicia Boots also left the cult, married, and moved from Ontario to London. She had two children, who sadly, she recently murdered. Here is an article about this terrible situation:
Reporters are investigating this story and are learning about the negative results of shunning. The Ontario JW also said:
She, (Felicia) was in a depressed / mentally sickened state prior to having children - all related to her exit from the church and her strained relationship with friends and family because of it.
A reporter visited the kingdom hall in Oakville and was yelled at and told to get off the property. More interviews are taking place. An active elder in Oakville reported - who wants to remain anonymous,that a newspaper reporter from London visited the Oakville KH to ask some questions related to the suicide of Scott, Felicia's relationship with her parents, and the churches policies on shunning.
At Scott's funeral the guy giving the talk tried to blame the suicide on back pain - there was never any mention of the fact he wanted out of the religion of course. This deception may irk a few of the JWs even. Nobody likes to be lied to when it comes to the reasons for suicide. Imagine an auditorium filled with people - only there because a young man couldn't handle the pressures of leaving his religion and decided to kill himself - and ironically they are all drawn together and are comforting one another with the religious teachings... the same religion that actually caused the young man's death. Tragic..
Felcia's mom didn't even come to Felicia's wedding because she was marrying a worldly man. Please. She also told friends in the congregation that she doesn't have children left. Scott was dead, and Felicia had left the truth so she was as good as dead. She may have visited her in England when she realized her depression was serious - but they are foolish and evil parents for allowing the WT to guide their thinking to such an extent that they would inflict mental abuse on their own children. Shameful.
I'm afraid that people even on this board are not realizing the huge impact the WT and its harmful policies have had on this poor family, and justice cries out that this be corrected.