Cacky

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  The Candace Conti Case Is Now In The New York Times!

  by DT in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=1.

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  Cacky

  The St. Louis Post Dispatch carried the story on like page four, along with other news around the nation. Not a major story for them, but at least it was in there. I'm glad it's getting around the media circles. I just hope this makes a program like Dateline to decide to do another one of their pieces on the subject!
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  The Candace Conti Case Is Now In The New York Times!

  by DT in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=1.

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  Cacky

  I know, let's lots of us contact the Nancy Grace Show about it!!
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  Is The "American Dream" is over?

  by cantleave in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.businessinsider.com/the-american-dream-is-now-a-myth-2012-6.

  one of the most distressing aspects of the state of the us economy is the decrease in social mobility.. it is much, much harder now than it used to be for americans to improve their circumstances.. in other words, if americans are born poor, they're overwhelmingly likely to stay poor.. similarly, if americans are born rich, they have a much better chance of staying rich than someone born poor or middle class.. no one minds inequality as long as one's station in life is a function of one's own decisions and effort.. when inequality becomes the luck of the draw, however, if becomes much more profoundly unfair.. america's social mobility is now not only one of the lowest in the country's history--it's one of the lowest in the first world.. if that doesn't change, the fundamental promise of america for the past 250 years will disappear.

  the country will no longer be a place in which you can control your economic destiny.

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  Cacky

  Even so, I heard a professor once say that even pretty darn poor people in America today have it better than kings of medieval days did. The castles were drafty, cold, they had no electricity, no refrigerators, no toilets. So even if you're pretty poor, you still have things better than the rich people did in the middle ages, and before modern world came along. I try to look on the positive side of things.
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  JWs At My Door Today

  by TOTH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so here i sat eating my father's day brunch and the knock at the door startled me.

  i peaked and it was a man and teenaged boy in suits.

  it was already like ninety degrees outside and they had on suit jackets....jws.

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  Cacky

  That was great! I never thought of that, they believe all the earthquake reports but refuse to believe negative news reports about themselves!
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  The Fastest Growing Religion in America Is…

  by Dogpatch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the fastest growing religion in america is... .

  may 4, 2012 9:11 amcomments (54)author: the american dream.

  do you know what the fastest growing religion in america is?

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  Cacky

  How do the Mormans account for such an astounding growth, unless they baptize babies?
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  Silent Lambs or Who's Rejoicing Now?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was looking for current information on silent lambs and came upon what i thought to be recent information (but is nine years old).

  strangely prescient .... unity now amongst those "fighting against jehovah" and shock and awe in jehovah's "camp"?

  having read the exchanges between rev, bill bowen, and others involved in the silent lambs website, i honestly feel sickened.. i remember when i first started to hear rumblings that "something big" was going down regarding the society's handling of child abuse.

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  I happens in all organizations where people are involved. I have an interest in the subject of Sasquatch, and you wouldn't believe the in-fighting that goes on among researchers in that field. And it happens in the org, from the top down, too. To put it simply, it happens.
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  Link to see the hundreds of media organizations that carried Candace's story

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://news.google.co.uk/news/story?gl=uk&pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=candace+conti&ncl=d3b6euxhmn_rn2myzwhoriuisvdrm&cf=all&scoring=d&start=0.

  amazing..

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  Cacky

  I hope Dateline does another follow up on this issue. If it does, I'd go on to tell what happened to my kids. Still don't know if I'd reveal names, due to fear of reprisal from the father of the family (yes, I've contacted Silentlambs).
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  Excellent news article re Candace Conti's abuse, not for the sensitive or tender-hearted

  by yesidid in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/15/bauq1p2ph2.dtl.

  sadly there are details which may make you heave or want to commit violence..

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  OMG on that picture Rebel posted. Is that from the Paradise Lost book. I've never read it, but I had heard only good things aobut it from those who grew up with it when I was in. Those people being destroyed look like really evil people, too, a waitress just trying to get by, and even a cat! Now if that isn't to put fear in a child's heart, I dont' know what is. I know they had some pretty bad stuff that my kids grew up with, too (the 80's) and I'm ashamed I didn't follow my gut and do some research about a religion that thinks it's ok to expose kids to stuff like that. And the org says to not watch R rated movies, one reason, because of the violence!!!
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  Greetings from Candace Conti

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  candace asked me to tell you thank you for all your kind expressions of support.

  this really means a lot to her.

  she wants you to know that she is coping well with all the stress and excitement, even though she's had years of anger and frustration because of being abused for so long, first by the molester, and then by the wt.

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  Cacky

  What a brave girl you are! Thank you.

  I hate to interrupt this, but I cannot find out on here how to start a new thread! I wanted to post that www.freepress.com, I believe that's the address of the ones who are making Sparlock tees and coffee cups, anyway, they posted that the Watchtower is taking action to stop them using the images from the video, copyright abuse laws, so whatever is left to sell will still sell, but it will be taken down soon. They say those will be collectors items. I don't know them so don't know how reliable they are in what they say, but that's what was posted from them (or someone) on my facebook page.
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  Momentum Builds

  by stuckinamovement in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if possible it would be great to send a copy of the new "shepherding" book and the recent confidentiality letter to contacts in the media.

  the society will try to paint this as an isolated case and that it is in no way related to their policies.

  the documents mentioned above show that this is not the case.. what is next?

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  I tried to copy the letter you posted but can't. Why don't you send it to MSNBC since they just reported on the other lawsuit case? They should have somewhere on their site where you can submit it to.