i was given permission by a jw friend of my wife and me to post this experience.
she's anonymous and posts on the board.
she is married to a witness still but is fighting on behalf of children in her congregation to not be a next victim of a pedophile who attends her congregation.
Another thing that has been recommended by some experts is to approach the pedophile herself and let him know that she is watching what he is doing. The elders should do the same. This lets the pedophile know he could get caught.
I saw an interview with a pedophile once. He said he would try things to see what he could get away with. If no one said anything, he kept it up and went further.
please read the text at this link.. .
religion and state are separate, although historically a special partnership exists between the state and those religious communities that have the status of a "corporation under public law.
" if they fulfill certain requirements, including assurance of permanence and size of the organization, and do not demonstrate disloyalty to the state, religious organizations may request "public law corporation" (plc) status, which, among other things, entitles them to levy taxes on their members, which the state then collects as part of the overall taxes.
By the way, wouldn't some of the WT doctrines qualify as disloyalty to the state? They claim to represent "God's Kingdom" which will soon destroy all governments, including Germay's.
please read the text at this link.. .
religion and state are separate, although historically a special partnership exists between the state and those religious communities that have the status of a "corporation under public law.
" if they fulfill certain requirements, including assurance of permanence and size of the organization, and do not demonstrate disloyalty to the state, religious organizations may request "public law corporation" (plc) status, which, among other things, entitles them to levy taxes on their members, which the state then collects as part of the overall taxes.
This is amazing. Please explain more. Is this voluntary or mandatory?
happy square root day!
tuesday is square root day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year.
numerically, march 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as 9 = 3, or 32 = 3 3 = 9.. .
Hope you're having a very happy birthday!!
i've been thinking about this for a while.
i hear people say god will judge you by your heart condition.
what gives you your heart condition?
I think you are asking some very good questions. Unfortunately, I don't know the answers either. I do agree with the poster who said this is a good reason not to judge others.
i was given permission by a jw friend of my wife and me to post this experience.
she's anonymous and posts on the board.
she is married to a witness still but is fighting on behalf of children in her congregation to not be a next victim of a pedophile who attends her congregation.
One of the best things the JWs could do is make sure they are well educated on how to spot inappropriate behavior. As alluded to earlier, inapropriate touching and seeing how far he can get is one of the first moves a pedophile will make to try to set up a situation where he can offend again. ALL Jws should be aware of this so they can identify and prevent problems before they get very far.
The Catholic Church has really learned their lesson from their past problems. The JWs could learn from them. They now have mandatory films and classes for all parishioners who deal with children or other vulnerable populations through the church. Since JWs do this in field service, all of their publishers should be educated too. And the posters who said call the police first are right. Consulting with elders and NY on how to best prevent a scandal and then do only what they are legally "required" to do is pitiful and creates an environment that allows these problems to flourish.
If the WT was really concerned about preventing scandal, they would implement reforms as soon as possible. Refusing to do so not only allows their members to be hurt, it also ruins their own reputation and increases their own risk. The WT is really creating their own problems in handling this issue.
listening to this is like eavesdropping on a group of old men at a donut shop on a wednesday morning.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tivvcfsbvsm&eurl=http://www.newsfromme.com/&feature=player_embedded.
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Mr. Fiorini and I went to see Frost/Nixon last night so this thread really caught my eye. The film was quite good by the way.
Nixon's last statement on the YouTube clip about how they will be better at running things than people from the left because they are honest is just incredible. I am always amazed at people's ability to believe their own lies, especially about themselves.
If you were a fly on the wall, you could hear some members of the GB say the same: even though our doctrines aren't always right and some of our prophecies didn't actually turn out to be true, we are God's chosen organization because we are more honest, sincere, accurate (take your pick) than "false religion."
my mother retired from her full-time job recently and has started attending meetings again.
she also has plenty of time to think about her wayward children, including me.
one night, we were talking and she asked me, again, why i wasn't going to meetings.
I loved your comment about trusting God's judgement of you. I think that the WT has used the "fear of God" for far too long to their advantage. Once we overcome that, we are out of the WT for good.
i don't get this...my mum pioneered for 25 years and in the last few years she at 69 is claiming to be anionted and taking emblems.....well you should see the back stabbing!
some claim she isn't since she doesn't work at bethel or contribute to the litrature???
it becomes a big debate, is she or not?
When I was in, I also knew some, even elders, who questioned the claims of those who said they were annointed. I wonder if this is because the previous belief was that the annointed would be diminishing in number, not increasing. If so, an increase in annointed threatens their belief that "the end is near," causing them distress.
I understand that teaching has been adjusted somewhat since I left. But I wonder how much the R & F really change what they believe every time there is a 2 or 3 sentence comment buried in a WT paragraph making changes in the doctrines.
at the kh before the meeting with the elders.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enb0nzybt8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duxbf1-xumw.
may the force be with him.
Wow! I will keep him in my prayers.
Having lost my JW family too, I know exactly how much it costs to leave the WT. But as much as I miss my family, I would never go back. Leaving the mind control cult of the WT is still the best thing I ever did. For all the pain he is suffering, it looks like he feels the same.
My best wishes to him!
