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  Watchtower PR Statement 8-7-01

  by silentlambs in

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  public affairs office.

  for immediate release august7, 2001 .

  sexual abuse of children is a terrible crime that can leave lasting emotional scars on its victims.

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  Esmeralda

  I am so sorry that I ate dinner before I read that!

  I cannot believe their two faced attempt to sound as if their policies are at all reasonable.

  How will the public feel when they find out that their 'harmless, friendly' neighborhood JW knocking at their door might be a known child molester? How would do the elders involved SLEEP AT NIGHT when these same offenders molest again and again??!!!!

  So sickening. SO SICKENING!!!!

  As I came the end of reading that letter, I heard, clearly in my head a line from the movie The Scarlet Pimpernel: a woman spits on a man who is sending her to the guilletine and shouts:

  "May God have mercy on your soul, monsieur, you are surely damned for what you do."

  I wouldn't want to be any of these people who will surely bear responsibilty for putting the 'rights' of molesters above their innocent victims.

  JUSTICE FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

  es
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  Happy positive lives after leaving

  by tergiversator in

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  in response to the commonly-repeated myth that all ex-witnesses are bitter angry people with nothing better to do then attack their former religion, i thought we should set the record straight.

  where are you in life right now?

  are you doing things that you always wanted to do, traveling to interesting places in your free time, making great new friends, generally enjoying life?

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  Esmeralda

  Hi circe! Good to 'see' you! Please give my best to felix. I thought about you guys a lot in the month that my Dad was in the big University hospital that is near you, if you still live in the same city!

  I am glad to hear that you are both doing so well! :)

  take care *hugs*
  es

  p.s. to Bboy...the WEST WING??!! My husband (JackDawson on the boards) and I never miss it! Did you have a speaking role? :) :) :) Good luck on your acting career!
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  Happy positive lives after leaving

  by tergiversator in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in response to the commonly-repeated myth that all ex-witnesses are bitter angry people with nothing better to do then attack their former religion, i thought we should set the record straight.

  where are you in life right now?

  are you doing things that you always wanted to do, traveling to interesting places in your free time, making great new friends, generally enjoying life?

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  Esmeralda

  Great thread, tergiversator! I'd love to put your post, or anything you care to write on this subject up on the web. I started a successful lives section of my website just because so many people said the same thing: "all ex-jw's get stuck and are bitter!" not true!
  Check out the stories folks have sent me at: http://www.wtsurvivors.homestead.com/EsmereldaLetters.html

  I am happier now than I've ever been. I am married to a wonderful (never jw) man, raising a happy and healthy child, and allowing myself to develop fully as a person despite living with chronic pain and illness (due to Multiple Sclerosis).

  I find the website writing and correspondance I do with others trying to land on their feet after leaving the tower to be the most rewarding work I've ever done.

  I could go on for hours about how much better my life is for being free of the Borg!

  If anyone wants to contribute their happy outcomes and have them up on the web, please e mail them to me. I appreciate it and will post your real name only if you explicitly tell me to: otherwise I use net aliases.

  Thanks again tergiversator!

  *hugs*
  Essie
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  Lost in Suicide

  by Stacey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am very sad this morning.. i just found out this morning that a man that i grew up with and have known since i was a very young girl commited suicide earlier this week.

  i had not seen him in 11 years, since i left the kingdom hall for the last time.

  he was about 5 years older than me.

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  Esmeralda

  Hi Stacey,

  I am so sorry for your loss. I know how deeply you can be affected by the suicide of someone who, while not an 'everyday' figure in your life, had great impact on you. I wrote something recently about a pioneer I knew who committed suicide, its at this link.

  http://www.wtsurvivors.homestead.com/Hero.html

  Also here's a touching post Doug Shields wrote about a friend who had committed suicide:

  http://www.wtsurvivors.homestead.com/DSTribute.html

  My thoughts are with you, and your friend today.

  *hugs*
  essie
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  COs, SL, Mulan, AlanF, Max,Tina,UB,Zev,&New...

  by Seeker4 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is from seeker4, whom some of you may remember from h2o.

  have been quiet for several months, and not even reading the boards.

  too busy.

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  Esmeralda

  Hi there S4!!! So good to see you here, I've often wondered what became of you! *hugs* Hope to hear updates from you now and again :)

  love
  essie
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  most embarrasing thing ever at a meeting ...

  by alliwannadoislive in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey ... i'm just getting into the swing of this great 'apostasy' thing right ... ?

  ... i thought y'all out there might well have a story or two to tell, so ... plz tell me tell me tell me about the most embarrasing thing you ever saw at a meeting ...

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  Esmeralda

  ROFL What a great thread!

  My cousin was about four or five, and he and his Mom were in service and he tells her that he has to go to the bathroom. She tells him to wait until she's done with the door they're at. Well, turns out the lady wanted to talk a bit. Finally, my cousin turns around, unzips and starts relieving himself on the ladies bushes *ROFLMAO* My Aunt was mortified, fortunately the lady at the door said "I have sons, don't worry about it!"

  When I was about four, a brother was giving a talk on Abraham. He read the scripture about "Abraham's bosom." Now mind you, all the women in my family are, uh, generously endowed to put it mildly. So here I am picturing this guy with a big gray beard and huge boobs *LOL* I laughed so hard that I had to be taken to the ladies room. For the rest of the meeting. Every time my Mom asked me if I was ready to go back out, I'd lose it again. My Mom found it amusing, thank goodness but I don't think the rest of the congregation did, because when we finally left the bathroom you should have seen the looks *lol*.

  And my all time favorite... my little brother was about five months old at his first Memorial, and my Mom gave him a bottle to keep him quiet. Well, during the prayer over the wine, it was dead silent in the Hall and just as the brother on the platform says "Jehovah, please bless this wine." My over-fed baby brother burped, loud. All the teenaged brothers sitting in the row in front of us lost it and you could see their shoulders shaking with laughter. A young married sister next to them slapped one of them on the arm so he'd stop laughing. *ROFLMAO*

  Thanks for the laughs everyone.

  essie
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  yoga class........meditation

  by Mulan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last night i went to my first meditation class, conducted by a nice young man, teaching a yoga-type meditation.

  it is my first venture into meditating, and i thought i would share a couple of interesting points.

  i was with an old friend, who also happens to be an ex dub, but only out about a year.

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  Esmeralda

  Hi Mulan!

  I'm glad to hear you enjoyed your class. I took up Yoga last April and just LOVE it, even though I'm limited in the poses I can do because of the MS. I have tapes on meditation and have been longing to really get into them, but with my Father being ill and living with us I have only this week been able to get back to it after 2 months without it. I missed it SO much!

  The JW attitude/reaction to Yoga is hilarious. Here for your amusement is a re-posting of what happened to me when my JW family found out I'd taken up Yoga.

  Love ya!
  Essie

  Posted: Apr 10, 2001 5:54:43 PM

  Good Greif. My JW relatives really, really need to get a hobby of some kind to keep them
  busy.

  My sister Claire stopped by today (with a hilarious story of a comedy of errors and how all
  my relatives assumed that other relatives were picking up my daughter for the memorial...
  but that's another post right there)

  Anyway, she said to me "You look really good today, better than I've seen you in awhile."

  "I've started doing some gentle restorative Yoga. Doing wonders for my muscles" I replied.

  A few minutes later, she said "Dad called me up today and said 'what do you think about Yoga?'

  "How the heck does Dad know I'm doing yoga? I haven't told anyone until you just now!"

  "I asked him why he asked, and he told me that he'd called your house and Leah answered the phone.
  Said you couldn't come to the phone because you were 'meditating and doing your yoga'. He was
  concerned. I told him that stretching exercises are good for you...and..." then she paused "As long
  as you're not doing trascendental meditation or whatever..."

  I laughed out loud.

  Can you believe that! I've been disfellowshipped nearly three years and my family is still
  gossiping about something as trivial as the kind of exercise I do.

  Good grief.

  Happy Monday everybody.
  Essie
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  Wife in Surgery

  by Yerusalyim in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  prayers and thoughts for my wife, liza, who is undergoing a hysterectomy today.. she has fibrodal tumors and cysts in her uterus, she gets to keep her ovaries (thank god).. yeru (who gets cut off for six weeks).

  yerusalyim.

  "vanity!

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  Esmeralda

  All my best wishes that she'll have a quick recovery, Yeru. I'm sure you'll take great care of her :)

  (hug)
  Essie
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  My Eldest

  by TR in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is my eldest daughter, angie.

  she's 17, will be a senior in high school this fall, but is in college.

  she's an honor student.

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  Esmeralda

  Beautiful girl. I fear the day my daughter will look like that *lol*
  Of course any boy coming around here will have to get through a very determined step father, then bio father, several grandfathers and step grandfathers, uncles, and then ME *lol*

  I pity him already :)

  Boozerunner, that is just about the funniest thing I've ever seen. I'm printing it out to show my husband. He is going to love it *lol*

  Thanks for the smile today, I really needed it :)

  Es
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  Brain Surgery Possible Without Blood Transfusion

  by apostate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  brain surgery possible without blood transfusion .

  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010725/hl/blood_1.html .

  new york (reuters health) - patients who object to blood transfusions for religious reasons may still be able to safely undergo brain or spinal surgery, researchers report.

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  Esmeralda

  I can follow it up for you, Maximus.

  My father had a brain aneurysm in June. He needed a craniotomy and clip surgery to save his life.

  My JW family upheld his wishes and refused blood. He didn't need it, he was lucky enough to have the director of the neurosurgery department at a huge university hospital to perform his surgery. He survived.

  Twelve days later, my mother in law, (not a JW) had an abdominal aneurysm and bled out into her belly. She lost her entire blood volume, then from the first hospital ER, as they pumped more into her
  on the helicopter: as they pumped more into her as they put her in and through surgery. All in all she lost her blood volume four times.

  It took 23 pints of red cells, 7 of fresh frozen plasma and one of platelets to save her life. There is no doubt that if not for the blood, I would have been visiting her grave and not her hospital bedside.

  One of the first things she said to me when she got off of her respirator and was able to speak was this: "It's a good thing that your father didn't have what I had, or things would be very different right now."

  Still, my JW family refuses to accept that she needed blood at all. They insist she 'could have survived without it'. Excuse my language, but BULLSHIT! They refuse to accept that blood can and does save lives, they refuse to accept that the WTS keeps watering down the issue as people keep dying: fraction this, byproduct that, it means NOTHING. No one in my family would take blood, because they say that regardless of the society's 'new light' that it's wrong. That it should be poured out onto the ground once it's bled out.

  Interesting, though, that none of them batted an eye when my Dad, and my sister who is his patient advocate, agreed to the use of the cel saver machine if need be. Doesn't sound like pouring it out on the ground to me.

  It's all bullshit. People are dying because those old rotting, decomposing men in Brooklyn would rather let them than admit that they screwed up.

  It sickens me to no end.

  Okay, I am going to leave it here before my blood pressure goes up any more myself.

  *hugs* to you Maximus...

  love
  Es