so the other night, my family was together and my dad brought up the recent child abuse conviction for the society.
big surprise, my sister hadn't heard anything about it, so of course she got right on to the jw.org website and emailed me the link to the watchtowers official statement.
this is my reply:.
If she's anything like my sister, who decided to "return" a few years ago, I would
rather bang my head against a wall than get into any sort of debate over anything
Jo-ho related. You simply cannot get to people who are so brainwashed. The change
has to come from them hopefully waking up to the reality of what they are in. I find
that it just causes more angst all around.
Just my few cents..
30 minutes ago i just got off the phone with some important players in this case, and some things were relayed to me concerning a lot of details of the outcome of the last two days of court.
i am passing this on.
cynthia hampton, one of the main players in the candace conti case (and a close friend of 28 years), just informed me of a further, far more powerful move by the state of california against the watch tower bible and tract society of new york, inc.. by order of the superior court of the state of california - county of alameda (see documents below), until the watch tower's appeal, which won't begin until august 13th and will take up to two years to settle due to due process of law, has forbidden the watch tower to sell any more of its $1 billion in assets in the borough of brooklyn until the appeals case is finished, to assure they won't shelter their monies in the light of this most huge and devastating sexual abuse scandal ever to hit the watch tower society, and perhaps any other single-victim lawsuit.
If they're smart, they'll drop the appeal, pay the damages and sweep this whole
untidy "mess" under the carpet. In a few more years they can deny it ever happened
and blame the Satan and the "apostates". I've been silent for years, mostly out of
respect for my family, but sometimes you just have to take a stand. Now is the time.
even when i was a devout witless, i always winced a bit when i heard or especially had to utter "jehovah".
it's just one of those uncomfortable words to say like "colostomy", "vagina", or "erectile dysfunction"..
Wow..I thought I was the only one...I cringe. When I was talking to my mother a few
years ago about the whole religion thing, I kept saying JWs. She told me that she thought
it was disrespectful, but I can't even say it without stuttering over it!
boo!.
some of the utterly ridiculous comments that i've read on jwtalk.net:.
'i pray fevently jehovah will sanctify his name.
Hey snare, how did you get around those idiotic song questions to sign up?
Can you PM the answers so I can?
form the pro-jw site jwtalk.
this is such a ronald mcdonald court case.
i can't believe what i am reading.. lie: "the lawsuit alleged that watchtower had a policy that instructed elders in its jehovah's witnesses congregations to keep reports of child sex abusers within the religious group secret to avoid lawsuits.".
I need a few good laughs...
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120621_deadlocked_or_not__the_priest_sex_abuse_jury_did_its_job.html?c=0.25315509423734484&posted=y&viewall=y#comments.
deadlocked or not, the priest sex-abuse jury did its job.
philadelphia daily news.
Does anybody have a link to watch it? I am in need of some laughs today....
i mean, i had respect for the guy, and it's obviously right to be there for the family and show support.
however, i can imagine what it will be like going back.
i was friendly with a lot of the older, tougher sisters, so i'm sure they'll get on my case.
I would. I plan on attending my grandmother's someday. She will be 88 and is still going strong and
I hope she does for a long time...but I have given it thought. The only way I will be able to get through
it is with Xanax and a cocktail. That's the way I get through most family gatherings.
i just read that at the trial they were surprised at the low turn out from the press is.
one report i read said that they had 40 empty seats in the courtroom.
after all the weeks that the news went on with the john edward's trail and the other trail that is making huge news about the sports player i thought for sure this one would be huge.. i guess i just do not understand what seems to be such a lack of interest now when this is talking about childern being abused.
There's an attorney that comes to my courtroom frequently that is part of the Sandusky trial
team. He's under a gag-non order until the trial is over. I think he's probably just doing it
for the publicity. I doubt that Sandusky will ever see the light of day though. Just my thoughts...
i copy/pasted info from this site.
i thought it interesting:.
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/gregg-braden-a-new-world-age.html.
We're enterting the Age of Sparlock! Engage the enemy, Earth People...the wizards are taking control.
if magic is so bad, then why is the bible filled with magical events, such as lot's wife turning into salt or all of the.
so called miracles of jesus?
how does the society explain that?
If magic is so bad, then why is the Bible filled with magical events, such as Lot's wife turning into salt or all of the
so called miracles of Jesus? How does the society explain that? If Jehovah hates magic so much, why does he
repeatedly use it in the Bible???
