Posts by smiddy

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The West Australian: Jehovah Witness charged with historic child sex offences

by AndersonsInfo in

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/jehovah-witness-charged-with-historic-child-sex-offences-ng-b88453246z.

jehovah witness charged with historic child sex offences.

friday, 21 april 2017 3:11am.

smiddy

The man has been charged with a string of child sex offences including indecent dealing, unlawful carnal knowledge of girls under 16 and deprivation of liberty.

The man was charged on Thursday after ongoing investigations from the Royal Commission into institutional child sex offences

Hopefully this is only one of many charges that will arise from the ARC into child sexual abuse in institutions in Australia

And as I said in the above post ,surely the Elders who know of these crimes and fail to report to the appropiate authorities such as police and child protection services ,they should face criminal prosecution also..

The Elders report it to the legal department of jehovahs Witnesses who again fail to report it to the appropiate authorities ,they should all be held responsible and charged accordingly.

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The West Australian: Jehovah Witness charged with historic child sex offences

by AndersonsInfo in

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/jehovah-witness-charged-with-historic-child-sex-offences-ng-b88453246z.

jehovah witness charged with historic child sex offences.

friday, 21 april 2017 3:11am.

smiddy

Well said Finkelstein ,the elders who would have been involved in the JC and never reported it to the appropiate authorities should be jailed for obstructing justice.and being complicit in concealing a sex crime against a minor.

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exJW from Galway, Ireland

by Band Completely in

i've been reading many articles on here and other forums relating to exjws for some time.

when my mother first got involved with the witnesses back in '77, my mother's mother and my father's mother, being the "good catholics that they were", gave my father "license" to do "whatever it takes" to stop her associating with these people.. due to "confirmation bias", (i.e.

"satan will do whatever he can to stop you associating with us"), this "persecution" only convinced her that the witnesses had "the truth".

smiddy

I like that BC you have a sense of humour and we all need that.

A great first post and you have had success in helping others exit the Borg.well done

look forward to more of your posts.

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Russia forbids Jehovah's Witnesses. El País newspaper also points to complaints in Spain

by sp74bb in

source: el país newspaper.

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/04/21/mundo_global/1492792022_341557.html.

russia forbids jehovah's witnesses.

smiddy

Thanks for the link sp74bb , the more exposure the witnesses are given about their cultish behaviour and the cover ups of child sexual abuse the better ,not to mention the kangaroo courts they hold in house.

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Marry Only in the Lord

by Rattigan350 in

last night at the meeting, a local needs talk preempted the regularly scheduled part.

an elder who is the most society following elder talked about loving god and then he talked about bible principles such as marry only in the lord.

he talked of deut.

smiddy

The more cultish things they say the better I like it .

Maybe more people will wake up to it. and exit stage left.

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"Hard work never killed anyone," or "I have to give up knitting."

by compound complex in

greetings, my aging friends:.

it's not really a funny subject, our getting old and our bodies falling apart.

sure, as the saying goes, hard work won't kill you, but it can wear out your body.

smiddy

Some of these ailments just come and go over a period of time I believe.

I developed a pain in the arch of my foot that made it difficult to walk seemingly for no reason at all ,after a few months it disappeared ?

A similar thing happened with my shoulder pain when I would lift my arm a certain height the pain was severe again after many months it also just vanished , the pain not my arm.

Some years ago I lost the ability to have a " normal erection" , I`m still waiting for that to remedy itself .

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An update

by WeatherLover in

jw
friends

i told my parents that i was considering taking some college classes, (of course they think that i mean at the community college) and that it would be a good idea for me to take the act (which i took on the 8th of this month).

i'm trying to take baby steps so it won't be a big shock to them all at once.

and just to make something clear, i'm not planning on starting college this fall, but instead i have my sights set on next year.. p.s.

smiddy

The decrease in memorial attendance was that just local or a worldwide trend ?

Keep us informed on your progress especially with your aunt

Take care WL

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Russia banning JWs might not have the "persecution effect" this time

by truthseeker in

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friends

russia banning the organization might not have the same effect as the earlier ban did decades ago.. more and more people have access to the internet.

it only takes a few russian jws to start their google search for the first time to discover the truth about their religion.. questions might arise, such as "why is jehovah allowing this to happen?

consider too, the schism that happened when the romanian jws were cut off from brooklyn.

smiddy

Members of the United Nations should be monitoring the failings/wrongs / criminal activities ,abuses of children etc of organizations within their membership.

As regards Jehovahs Witnesses religion there are a number of ongoing cases dealing with child sexual abuses around the world.

Do these nations in the UN talk to each other ? Do they compare notes ?

if they did they would find that the religion of Jehovahs Witnesses fail dismally in protecting the children in their religion and even victimise them in some situations./circumstances.

country after country have found Jehovahs Witnesses wanting as far as protecting their children from abuse in their religious communities.

Spain ,America ,Australia ,the United Kingdom are just a few of the child sexual abuse claims before the courts at the present time.against the religion of Jehovahs Witnesses .

And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

When you do wrong or allow wrongdoing to go on under your watch and you become accountabile to that and are punished accordingly you cant then play the persecution card.and expect to get away with it.

Yet that seems to be the policy of the GB of JW`s

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Serena Williams Pregnant

by wisdomfrombelow in

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friends

now that she has announced that she is 20 weeks pregnant and not married, what is her status in the cult?

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smiddy

serena no doubt will be advised not to mention the name Jehovah under any circumstances in any public appearance she holds in the future,by the legal Department .

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Languages, Dialects, Accents

by LoveUniHateExams in

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friends

just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.

first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.

red, arrow, break.

smiddy

Speaking of fannys ,arent some girls named fanny ? that boggled my mind when I was young as fanny ,pussy and c##t ,all meant the same thing

Why would a parent name their daughter after her private parts ? I also thought virginia was a no-no to name a girl , I was confusing virginia ,virgin ,and vagina all in one.

Thats what happens when you get your sex education from your very young peers.

I was young.

Zeb you make a good point about how american tv /movies especially and to a lesser extent british tv and movies have influenced the vocabulary of the spoken word in australia.

We have been very influenced /indoctrinated in our language by these two countries.