Posts by nubileone58

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Public Talks- What do you think about the changes?

by Connaughty in

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what do you think about the reduced time of the public talks?.

i actually find it pleasant, it makes it a lot easier to tolerate some of the boring speakers.

but what about the service.

nubileone58

When did they change that? I have not heard anything about the talks being shorter. I have heard there are two Watchtowers now - one for study articles and one for the public - Deirdre

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did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation?

by looloo in

if so, did it bother you that he had been reprooved and forgiven rather than reported to the police?

Yes, it was years ago though. He had been the PO in our hall in a small town north of San Francisco. It turned out that he had molested his own granddaughters and two other young girls that I know of. I don't think anything ever happened to him. I am not sure how his granddaughters fared through it. They were still teens when I they moved to another town. I do know that one of the young girls, now probably in her late 20's, turned to prostitution and drugs for a long time, and has only recently got her act together.

As for the PO - his wife even stayed with him. Ugg! Turns my stomach. I had three little girls at the time - now grown. I don't think he got to them though. I had a gut feeling that just because you were a jw did not mean you could not molest, and so I did not allow ANY males to babysit or spend time alone with my girls.