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  deep thoughts

  by lancelink in

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  2. experiences

  this afternoon i drove by an old hall i attended ( barrington illinois) and noticed that it had been sold, it is now an adventist .

  church !

  now here is my drive-home thinking.. back in the 80's when i attended i was newly married, and had a young child.

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  Ongoing sex abuse story

  by lancelink in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i posted information regarding the first trial earlier this year.

  in today's edition of the northwest herald, .

  https://www.nwherald.com/2020/11/24/crystal-lake-man-church-elder-charged-with-failing-to-report-sexual-abuse-of-child/aqqnlcw/?utm_term=autofeed&utm_medium=nwhfacebook&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=iwar3xf_d3pl9_64pon28lg2uflq0ashmq9sfimdvkzw8etchtac2v__nlir4#echobox=1606305785.

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  Birds

  by lancelink in

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  2. friends

  growing up as a witness, does this look familiar ?.

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  escaping a cult

  by lancelink in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  very interesting article about a girl who leaves her suffocating, constricting religion and how she dealt with the after-effects:.

  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldn-t-escape-the-cult-mentality?utm_source=pocket-newtab.

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  have you heard anything ?

  by lancelink in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was a witness from grade school ( 1976) until 2007. i seem to remember an important aspect that was always talked about at the hall as being a fact.they would say that "the rocks themselves would cry out" if the public preaching work was to stop,,,,, all i've seen and heard these past few months are the witnesses complaining about the witnessing work coming to a halt.but i've not heard one rock crying .. .

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  To kill a Mockingbird quote

  by lancelink in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  saw this and immediately thought of the witnesses : .

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  Another jw convicted of child sex abuse.

  by lancelink in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  for the past year, the trial for this jw has been going on.

  he was sentenced on 12/19 .. http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/10/23/13-years-of-sexual-abuse-results-in-37-year-sentence/.

  i have been following the comments on fb regarding the aftereffects of this case, and there have been quite a lot of incendiary statements about what a scum he is.. one lady posted the following comments about how the witnesses deal with abusers is quite hilarious :.

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  local, strange jw thinking

  by lancelink in

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  2. experiences

  i was reading today that the last star wars movie will be playing next week.

  doing a little searching, i found that there have been 12 movies in the saga total, ( box office, total (12 films): $9.323 billion.)..

  it got me thinking about when the empire strikes back came out, it was the second movie ( 1980).

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  Paul Harvey, A letter from God

  by lancelink in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  could it really be this simple ?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ueqsbriu8.

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  are the witnesses now considered "clergy " ?

  by lancelink in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  years ago when i was a jw, one of their cornerstone teachings was that they were nothing like babylon the great.

  i remember being taught that the witnesses not using any type of clergy class distinction was proof that they had the right religion.. well, recently we had this article in the local paper, and an elder who was no doubt the presiding overseer tried to use the clergy class excuse to get out of answering questions regarding a child abuse case.

  here is the statement that really got to me.

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