One more point before you try to throw out another straw man saying YET AGAIN that I hate all the book or as you posted in my thread on post #2184
(The thread title clearly intimates that the GB "ultimately" (i.e., in the end) places the onus on the victim to stop the abuse. Nothing in that article supports that contention.
I distinctly remember the book's release because, at the time, I had two young daughters. I reviewed this very chapter with them repeatedly. The information was almost identical to what they were receiving contemporaneously at school. The picture is dramatic, but it merely shows a child in an empowered position.
LITS's argument is specious. S/he has explained herself since, but that does not change the fact that the information she originally posted did not support her argument.
The WTBTS makes enough errors. Making arguments against it consisting of tenuous links at best does nothing but make 'apostates' look 'hysterical.')
Or your post #2185 (I am not just DESPERATE TO BRING DOWN THE JW"S!
I suspected the above. Unfortunately, desperate people rarely make reasoned decisions or put forth logical arguments, as evidenced by your most recent posts.
Lady Lee: I appreciate the work that went into your response; I simply disagree with many of your conclusions.
"How can you protect your body from people who do bad things like this?
LL wrote: Yes they are placing the responsibility on the child... So on top of the abuser telling them it is their fault this incomplete message places another layer of blame on the child.
It's an incomplete message because you have culled it from the rest of the paragraph that specifically says 'it's not their fault' if they do get abused. I agree that the opposite message would likely be given the reporting child by the elders/WTBTS, but the article itself is not a problem...in my opinion. However, if this article is a problem, then everything my girls were receiving at school was a problem also. And, I doubt that was the case.)
If at school your girls were being told Satan and his demons and the Devil and his demons try to get us to have sex as Chapter 10 of the book "It is important that we know what bad things the demons will try to get us to do. So think about it. What bad things did the demons do when they came to earth?- Before the Flood, they had sex relations with women, something that was not right for angels to do. Today the demons like it when people do not obey God's law about sex relations. Let me ask you, Who only should have sex relations?- You are right, only married people.Today some young boys and girls have sex relations, but this is wrong for them. The Bible talks about the male "genital organ," or penis. (Leviticus 15:1-3) The female genital parts are called the vulva. Jehovah created these parts of the body for a special purpose that should be enjoyed only by married people. It makes the demons happy when people do things that are forbidden by Jehovah. For example, the demons like it when a boy and a girl play with each other's penis or vulva. We don't want to make the demons happy, do we?-"
There is nothing being culled from this part of the book. It is very clear so that was really taught at your daughters school????? What was it a privite school?
You picked and choose what you wanted from my posts to make me look crazy as in this post of yours here #2188 (I am DESPERATE to have PEDOPHILES stop interacting with kids in this religion!
Desperation nonetheless >bad decision-making >illogical arguments.)
I am going to cut and past the book yet again here for all to read because I know you will say that I culled it from the paragraph to desperately try to make my point. Some of the paragraphs are OK in what they say but the parts that are wrong are POISON.
The GB who wrote this book did a good job because they have convinced ones like you that it is OK. It is like servicing a nice meal with just enough poison in it so kill some, not all and some are not affected at all or at least they think they are not like you.
Answer me why the picture of the child in the bedroom with the rapist coming at her? Why not a park or a store or some public place? Why her bedroom? Who is the man coming at her?
The ones who wrote this are not stupid, they know fully well that they are blaming the child. Why the words in paragraph three on page 170? Why? "However, sad to say, some grown-ups like to have sex with children. When they do, boys and girls may begin to do bad things that they have learned from these grown-ups. They also begin to use their sex organs in a wrong way. That is what happened a long time ago in the city of Sodom. The Bible says that people there, "from boy to old man," tried to have sex with men who had come to visit Lot.-Genesis 19:4, 5."
That is not culling anything it is very clear that the blame is on the child/
LITS
