Posts by smiddy

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Day 5 - Fessler vs. Watchtower – Ends: Plaintiff settles in Jehovah’s Witness Child Abuse Trial

by darkspilver in

day 5 in court - and apparently the plaintiff stephanie fessler has decided to settle..... http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02/jehovahs_witness_sexual_abuse.html.

jehovah's witness sexual-abuse-coverup lawsuit settled.

february 13, 2017 at 2:37 pm, updated february 13, 2017 at 2:44 pm.

smiddy

I think that every time a child sexual abuse case against the Jehovahs Witnesses is settled out of court with a gag clause against speaking about the settlement agreed upon by both partys doesnt bode well for the JW`s.

In their paying for a settlement , it is an admission of guilt / culpability .on their part.

If they were completely innocent guilt free why wouldnt they fight tooth and nail to defend themselves.?

Because they are not innocent guilt free .and thats why they are paying to shut the victims up.

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JW Podcast About The Shenanigans of the Borg in Australia

by dubstepped in

jw
friends

so here's a link to the latest jw podcast.

in it they talk about how the organization is structuring things in australia to get out of paying money to victims of abuse.

the short version, as i remember it, is that they are making each congregation its own individual charity.

smiddy

zeb

point taken with your pm

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Picking up the pieces

by longgone in

just needing a listening ear, so in advance thanks for being here, no one other than ex-jw's could understand.

they may try, but i think only a person who lived through it could know what's its really like.. i wish i could be supporting others here but i'm so broken myself i can't seem to do that yet.

i hope that will come in time though.. for now, i'm trying to undo the damage done to my family by the wts.

smiddy

Longgone you say your 19 year old daughter is recently married and in finacial trouble which we all know is not a good start to a marriage but hey thats youth isnt it .

I gather you are in the states ? do they have Govt assistance programs that help young people that they can take advantage of ? Charities ? religious organizations that help people in need ? Dont let her be so proud that she cant accept help from any source that will give it

Lots of young couples make bad choices in their early years of marriage and then become productive citizens in later life. I speak from experience here.

Accepting help from whatever source can mean you live a happy life in the future.

I know you want the best for your children but the bottom line is sooner or later they have to stand or fall on their own two feet. and you dont have to feel guilty about the choices they make .

Take care.

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Under 5 content.

by The Rebel in

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santa claus fact or fiction?.

the earth was created 48,000 years ago ( the finished mystery pg 139).

god will destroy all of the churches on earth including all its millions of members in 1918.

smiddy

The pink book "Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained " 1950`s also pedalled the belief that a creative day was 7000 years long so after the 1000 year of Jesus Christ rule counting back Jehovah started his creative work only 49000 years ago.

Do they still teach this now or has it gone by the wayside like most other predictions they have made.

Of course it could be passed off as a past "truth" and not a present "truth" past "truth" being an old "truth" and not a new "truth"

Its amazing just how many "truth`s" Jehovahs Witnesses believe in.

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JW Podcast About The Shenanigans of the Borg in Australia

by dubstepped in

jw
friends

so here's a link to the latest jw podcast.

in it they talk about how the organization is structuring things in australia to get out of paying money to victims of abuse.

the short version, as i remember it, is that they are making each congregation its own individual charity.

smiddy

Thanks zeb for passing this on to the ARC they need to know about .WOW. they have no shame.

Is it worth passing on to Law firms that have and are still fighting in court battles defending abused victims of sexual abuse ?

Surely courts should be made aware of the tactics WT lawyers will go to to get out of paying compensation.

Thankyou for this post dubstepped .

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February 13, 2017 BOE Re: Memorial and Special Talk

by wifibandit in

february 13, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: memorial and special talk.

smiddy

Is it just me or do I have a blind spot .

Have they failed to state the date of the 2017 Memorial ?

They give the date for 2018 and 2019 but not the date for 2017 . LOL

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GOD /Jehovah didnt just punish humans with death , He lied , He has also tortured us with Pestilence .

by smiddy in

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friends

my wife was talking to her sister today and apparently our adult niece who has cancer is not doing to well lately and it doesnt look good for the future.. i cant say we ever had a very close relationship with her but when we did see her she was very affecionate and just a very loving girl with a great personality .. she was never a jw and we lived in different states but from time to time we crossed paths with each other at family reunions etc and sometimes funerals and weddings.. when it hits close to home thats when you feel it.. no doubt many of you have gone through similar experiences yourselves , this same sister my wife talked to lost her 14 year old son to cancer many years ago and i being a new convert tried to comfort her with scriptures .. dickhead that i was then ..

smiddy

My wife was talking to her sister today and apparently our adult niece who has cancer is not doing to well lately and it doesnt look good for the future.

I cant say we ever had a very close relationship with her but when we did see her she was very affecionate and just a very loving girl with a great personality .

She was never a JW and we lived in different states but from time to time we crossed paths with each other at family reunions etc and sometimes funerals and weddings.

When it hits close to home thats when you feel it.

No doubt many of you have gone through similar experiences yourselves , this same sister my wife talked to lost her 14 year old son to cancer many years ago and I being a new convert tried to comfort her with scriptures .

Dickhead that I was then .

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I would like to rant about how I get really upset when I get some weak invitation back to the cult.

by schnell in

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my mother wanted me to know that the co gave a talk that kinda-sorta reprimanded an elder in her hall.

he is not the reason i left at all, and this does not address anything to do with me or our family.. my mother-in-law sent me texts which i ignored and now she has sent a picture to my wife on facebook just for me, and it's a prodigal son meme that says, "you see the signs, come back it's not too late".. yeah, it's not too late to accept a global flood in 2370 bce, or that man was created in 4026 bce from a golem spell, or that an us-and-them cult mentality is at all healthy or loving, or that religion is going to be banned by the un, or that i should expect anyone else at the door to accept these stupid ideas in the information age.. what am i supposed to say?

i usually just ignore them, but before i do that, i see that shit and i storm into this weird internalized rage where i start writing a response and deleting it.

smiddy

Village Idiot

Are you for real ? did you really do that ? Well that would have been a memmorial I would have liked to have been there LOL

You must have been young a teenager no doubt.?

I did witness a young teenager give the finger to the whole congregation at one meeting I attended one of the exits was at the front side of the hall and as he went out he made sure everyone saw his gesture during the meeting.

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1 day Assembly Woodburn, Oregon 2/11/2017

by Spoletta in

attendance: 1,2037 cost: approximately $12,000 baptised: 2 born ins.

smiddy

ttdtt

They expected me to pay the brother who performed the wedding at the KH but because it was impressed upon me how JW`s were so different from christendomd who did charge for weddings I never gave him anything

My wife and I were only relatively new converts 14 months approx. baptised before our wedding at a KH.

I sometimes feel a little bit guilty about that now when I think of it , what a cheapskate I was .then I think no bugger it , it was the principle of the thing. They dont charge for weddings,

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Day 1 - Fessler vs. Watchtower – Opening Statements and Motions in Jehovah’s Witness Child Abuse Trial

by AndersonsInfo in

news bulletin: fessler versus watchtower – opening statements and motions in jehovah’s witness child abuse trial – day 1. .

posted on february 12, 2017. city hall, philadelphia, pennsylvania.

on a cold philadelphia morning the 7th of february, 2017, stephanie fessler walked into the court of common pleas of pennsylvania, first judicial district, civil trial division.

smiddy

Zeb

Just wondering would the ARC take this case " Fessler V Watchtower" into consideration in their proceedings ? Does whatever happen in other parts of the world going to influence the Australian investigation? Would they be looking at how the Jehovahs Witness religion handles Child sexual abuse cases around the world ?

I think it would be excellent if they did ....but I just dont think so .

Maybe its just wishful thinking.