while preaching this past saturday 3-16-13 the following conversation took place in my car with an elder from my cong, my wife, a retired sister and myself.. me: addressing my wife i asked her: do you know how is brother (moron) that crashed his car into a fire station while drunk?
wife: don't know.
last thing i heard was that he was in a critical condition.at this point the elder chimes in.. elder: poor guy!
It's exactly what happens! Molesters are given all the rights and treated as if they themselves are the victims of some lying child.
I will never forget the elders telling me that our child's molester had every right to be in the same KH as his child victim. Makes me just ill thinking back:(
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20130319_11_0_twowom831238.
So sad:(
i saw a movie about this guy, it won awards.
he was a bit like jesus huh?
lincoln, so i gather from this film.
My son went to see it over the weekend with some friends and really enjoyed it.
i am very angry, pent-up rage call it!
so you will understand why and with great ease this subject is able to flow off my tongue onto the keyboard, because this time of the year is worse than your christmas time jitters!
anxiety, stress, compulsive babbling nuts are invading our service groups!
She seems to be saying out loud what many JW's really think of this glorious occasion... In my opinion.
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.
Exactely why I will never have any interest in organized religion again!
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..
I liked it...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?.
Thank you.
I have much respect for all of you who are working so hard to protect children within this religion.
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.
Nope, we'll be living it up in sin city that day.
