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Ex-inlaws are trying to JW indoctrinate my daughter....need some advice
by James_Slash in
1. jw
2. experiences
could do with some help please.. i found out last week that my daughter is being taught how to pray before meals "dear jehovah" and taken to meetings by her mothers family (that are jw's).. myself and her mother are divorced - we live over 100 miles apart.

neither of us are jws anymore (i haven't been for 5 years - not d/f or d/a) and i am contemplating my disassociation letter as we speak.

her family played a part in separating me from my daughter during our divorce in 2007 - they even wrote lies to support her.
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Watchtower stance in Australia - a few thoughts to ponder
by James_Slash in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
"we don't typically work with children....so [any mandatory child protection] law doesn't apply to us" - watchtower spokesman.. if this is the case, then how have so many children been abused?.

also, in james 1:27 it instructs 'elders' to "look after orphans and widows" - how can they do this when they "do not specifically work with children"?.

thoughts anyone?.
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Ex-JW kills 12 people in school massacre
by James_Slash in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
rio de janeiro - as family members mourned their loved ones and kept vigil at hospitals for the injured, this city searched for understanding thursday after a shooting at a public school left 12 students dead and 12 others wounded.. enlarge this image.

ricardo moraes/reutersa woman with a photo of her niece, a student at a rio de janeiro school attacked by a gunman, waited for news on thursday.. enlarge this image.

marcelo sayao/european pressphoto agencya wounded boy was taken to a hospital after a mass shooting at a school in rio de janeiro on thursday.. brazil is no stranger to urban violence, especially the kind of violence in gang-controlled slums that have given this city one of the highest murder rates in the world.
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Ministerial Servant prosecuted for fraud in 2001 is made up to Elder
by James_Slash in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
sorry guys, i can't link the full article (as i don't know how) but this is the address.. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1g1-111236724.html.

this is the news article (only in part as it is now archived) but this guy i know personally and he was made up to an elder a couple of years ago:.

a birmingham technician who went bankrupt after losing almost pounds 100,000 on rash speculations on the stock market has been ordered to do 200 hours' community punishment.
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Delroy Grant
by James_Slash in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
started his reign of terror in 1992...... .

baptised as a jw in 1994..... .

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current JW tagged in pictures in Xmas and Birthday parties on FB
by James_Slash in
1. jw
2. experiences
had to laugh when i saw this.. a current jw who i know on fb was tagged in photos showing him at a christmas party a few days ago.

within minutes of them landing he removed the tags because obviously these would have been seen by other jw's on his page.. when i asked him why he'd removed them he said: "i was off work sick and i didn't want my colleagues seeing me on the razzle".

lol.
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Jehovahs Witness evaded prison for 25 years due to JW coverup finally jailed
by James_Slash in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
you are herenews>localrapist evaded justice for years.

published on tue dec 07 08:12:05 gmt 2010. a rapist evaded justice for 25 years because jehovahs witnesses did nothing when told about his child sex abuse, a court heard.. anthony burns, aged 54, was confronted with his crimes against a young child in the 1980s but no action was taken by the religious organisation.. burns repeatedly abused a girl as young as nine years old, from 1977 until 1984 when she revealed what had been happening.. burns, of back road, wisbech, in cambridgeshire, denied four charges of indecent assault, attempted rape and rape but was convicted after a trial.

the abuse took place in the 1970s and early 1980s in eastbourne and northamptonshire.
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Here in the UK - a £3 fee charged for going to JW assembly hall
by James_Slash in
1. jw
2. experiences
i cannot speak for other countries, but it has become evident of late that more and more talks are being done by presiding overseers at kh's (especially in the west midlands) and they are making it quite clear that they are expecting 3 from every publisher (per day) who visit the dudley assembly hall, west midlands to contribute towards the upkeep of it.. the quote from the po's who have done this talk have said that "it is expected that each publisher will put 3 into the box on each day".. what do you think of that then?

as the world hits an economic breakdown the jw's seem to maximising their income from struggling families.. dudley assembly hall holds about 600-700 people.

i'm sure people are capable of doing the maths.. so much for voluntary contributions !!
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Did you ever know any JW's/Pioneers who frequented popular nightspots and got drunk?
by James_Slash in
1. jw
2. experiences
it used to make me sick at these hypocrites.. they would be at the meeting the next day or out in field service, obviously still intoxicated from the night before but putting a show on before the congregation.

i knew a couple of girls who would be regulary doing this over a weekend yet they would be pioneers all week, answering up at the meetings yet would be heading into popular nightspots and coming home at 4am drunk.

their dad was an elder (surprise, surprise).. i remember telling an elder about this once.
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talking to my Mom about the JW's - I need some help
by James_Slash in
1. jw
2. experiences
firstly, i left the jw's about 5 years ago.. my mom is still in.. i've spoken to her on a number of issues and even though she has doubts that the jw's are the 'true' religion, mainly due to the paedophile scandal and the generation changes, she said to me today that "if the jw's are not the true religion, then who is?

" she also stated that it was jesus' command in the bible to "preach the good news of the kingdom - only jw's do that".. what can i come back with?.