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  South African cardinal suggests child abuse is illness not crime

  by besty in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/16/us-safrica-cardinal-idusbre92f09a20130316.

  johannesburg | sat mar 16, 2013 11:54am edt.

  (reuters) - a south african cardinal who helped elect pope francis this week has told the bbc pedophilia is an illness and not a crime.. cardinal wilfrid fox napier, the catholic archbishop of durban, told bbc radio 5 on saturday that pedophilia was a "disorder" that needed to be treated.. "from my experience, pedophilia is actually an illness.

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  truthseekeriam

  Exactely why I will never have any interest in organized religion again!
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  My wife buys "50 shades of grey??? How shes changed since being inactive!!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so this morning we flirt and i tell her what a "dirty girl" she is for buying those books...but i was thinking this from a girl who broke a frying pan on my car years ago because i didnt want to go to the meetings.

  slowly i wore down that rock that she is with little facts and qoutes...i would not have stayed with her if she remained the fanatic witness she was....also she now swears like a sailor...i like that..

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  truthseekeriam

  I liked it...
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  Just learned we are on the "skip that house list"

  by truthseekeriam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just about to leave to pick up my daughter from school when i opened the garage door and came face to face with one of my favorite sisters from the kh we use to attend.

  she greated me with a big hug and we had chit chat about the kids and their activities...nothing jw related.

  this particular sister is not one of those all so perfect jws.

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  truthseekeriam

  I was just about to leave to pick up my daughter from school when I opened the garage door and came face to face with one of my favorite sisters from the KH we use to attend. She greated me with a big hug and we had chit chat about the kids and their activities...nothing JW related. This particular sister is not one of those all so perfect JWs. Plus she knows what we went through.

  Anyways...she started to giggle and informed me the group tried to discourage her from walking up to our door saying we won't open the door, so don't bother.

  I love it!!! They finally got the hint.
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  Is a slow fade being selfish when you have kids?

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i got some great advice to take things very slowly with the husband and kids in order to be able to fade and still maintain contact with my parents and siblings.

  but today i got a call from my son's teacher that he was having a meltdown because he was worried about all his friends and teachers being destroyed at armageddon.... first i felt like such a schmuck for ever having allowed that thought to enter my son's head, then i thought, is it psychological torture for me not to immediately correct the situation?

  i had a long talk with him about how god is perfectly just and full of love and he didn't have to worry about that at all, but it still seemed lukewarm.

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  My advice....if you are going to do a slow fade with small children make sure you encourage friendships outside of the witnesses for them. Get them involved in community sports with children that will be in their schools..have small parties after the season ends so you children will find friendships with these kids, keep in mind always that as soon as you stop being JW's you will lose every friendship you thought you had.
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  Part 1 of the 2013 Conti and Simons interview now on YouTube (questions posed by JWN members)

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a while back we ran a "competition" whereby people could pose questions of candace conti and rick simons for them to answer in a video.. there were so many questions that we needed to do a series rather than just one video.

  this first instalment is now on youtube.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhvfefpig4a.

  here are the questions that were answered.... (to rick, asked by "exwhyzee") is there a possibility that part of the ruling, if you overcome the appeal, will be that the society must make an announcement outlining the details of the case to its members, as well as an apology to candace?.

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  truthseekeriam

  Thank you.

  I have much respect for all of you who are working so hard to protect children within this religion.
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  Re: Will you attend the Memorial this year? Why? Why not?

  by check in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you all had some interesting thoughts on that jw memorial thread.

  some of you mentioned that you are going so that you can set some sort of example.

  i gather that some of you believe that by going and eating, you are somehow showing them they can (or should) do it too.. that really confuses me.

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  Nope, we'll be living it up in sin city that day.
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  Near miss ! JW's in my neighborhood.

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  from my living room window, while i am sitting at my computer, on jw.net, a little four door car, pulled up and parked on my road.

  two couples got out.

  the two men, walked east to my place, but only went to the big house in front.

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  I remember in the first year of our escape we would get so freaked out when the doorbell would ring! Not anymore...when they come by the TV is turned up, dogs are barking and we just look out the peephole and continue with whatever we were up to. It's nice to be finally free from power they had over us.
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  just finished reading the Candace Conti court docs

  by soft+gentle in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i had been reading discussions on topix about the case and decided to go see what was actually said and not said during the trial.

  i'm left with several indelible impressions of the courage and honesty of candace and of her mother kathleen.. another thing is that the court was given the opportunity to really get a feel for the jw lifestyle.

  the close family relationships they promote which emphasizes, for me, that if the elders had been as vigilant as they said they were they would have spotted that kendrick had become alarmingly close to candace.

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  When I read those court documents I made some of those same observations.

  I have many complaints as to how the elders respond to having a known molester in their congregation, but my main one is how they take away the rights of every parent by not giving them the information to protect their children.

  I have shared those views with my JW family and they completely agree.
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  Former Elder Michael J Norris IN CUSTODY

  by Tylinbrando in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  fbi and santa barbara agents arrested michael at the airport.

  he is locked up in santa barbara county jail.

  he awaits bail hearing and i intend on presenting evidence to revoke his $250,000.00 bail.. thanks to everyone for your encouragement and support!.

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  truthseekeriam

  My daughter had just turned 11 when she took the stand and faced her molester. It was one of the hardest days of our lives but she got up there and told the truth.Yes, she left the stand in tears and it broke our hearts to she her that way...but in the end, there was a conviction and my daughter now takes great pride in knowing she helped put away a molester and in turn protected other children from becoming his next victims.

  Please pass along to the brave young lady that she is my thoughts and prayers and so is her parent...they will get through it and actually come out more powerful for it.
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  Barbra is singing...Memories

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  am i the only one crying?.

  just lois.

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  truthseekeriam

  Loved it!!!