Posts by infpalex

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Capital punishment, are you in favour of it ?

by smiddy in

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i certainly am , providing their are strong arguments that the perpretrator of the crime is guilty beyond any reasonable doubt of the crime he/she is charged with .. i am not religous ,however i do agree with a life for a life principle ,especially if it involves multiple victims.

somebody killing x amount of people, proven of course , have no right to live.

of course with murders of one victim their can be many scenarios which the courts of law can adjudicate for whatever an outcome.

infpalex

NO, but I think the current jail system isn't good either. All people who are sentenced to life in prison should have to become an assest to society, train them in something and make them do it forever as part of their sentence. (They should still be locked up away from the general population)

If we could find a way to make all the people who commit terrible crimes have to give back for the rest of their lives... (I'm sure you all have some amazing ideas about this could happen) ... then it would be more beneficial for society and the person.

You wouldn't be taking a life, because two wrongs don't make a right, but that person also wouldn't be a drain on society.

Just my 2 cents

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Patterson on the line: Watchtower claims that paying cash bond would cause immediate irreparable harm and hardship

by cedars in

a new article for those who are interested.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/patterson-on-the-line-watchtower-claims-that-paying-cash-bond-would-cause-immediate-irreparable-harm-and-hardship.

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cedars.

infpalex

Cedars, thank you for the article... I can't keep up on the CC case as much as I would like, but your post always tell me the important stuff!

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Long time Lurker, ready to join in...

by Blackbird Singing in

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hi all, i'm a long time lurker, ready to join in and add my two cents worth now and then!

i was in the religion for 25 years, out now for 8, along with my husband, daughter, and son!

i would have to say pretty much the whole time i was in i didnt want to be, pretty much "dreaded" all aspects of it, meetings, service, assemblies, and talks, i hated talks, man o man would i be grouchy the whole week i had a scheduled talk.. we didnt have much family in, but lots of friends and many jw employees, pretty much lost all that, down to just one jw employee left(thats a good thing).

infpalex

Hello and wecome, glad to have you! I enjoyed your story very much!

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Notes from Safeguard Your Mind assembly - day 1

by raxxxx in

it was an entertaining and incredibly sad experience... anyway!

here are some notes i have managed to take in between all of the crying and laughing as well as occasional mental breakdown.

enjoy!

infpalex

TY for your hard work... it was hard just reading it all... I can't imagine how unbearable it must have been to sit through it all!

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A Note from Randy/Dogpatch (Freeminds)

by Lady Lee in

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this past week randy was hospitalized.

he is now home recovering and has asked me to let you know that he will need a couple of days to recuperate.

in the mean time: if you have sent him emails or want to send him an email, it might take a couple of days for him to respond.. feel free to leave messages here for him.

infpalex

Randy I hope you are doing lots better!

Anyone have an update?

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Introducing Mrs Cedars...

by cedars in

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i just thought you should know that mrs cedars has finally taken the plunge and joined the forum.

she was able to log on for the first time yesterday.. though we both "awakened" at different stages, mrs cedars was very supportive and non-judgmental when i first began exploring my beliefs from a critical standpoint.

she is currently in the process of reading crisis of conscience and aquainting herself with some of the facts of witness history that were hitherto unknown.

infpalex

Welcome, nice to have you, I can't wait to see some of your recipes!

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Anonymous Message to Watchtower

by jwleaks in

http://www.bit.ly/jwleaks-anonymous.

hello citizens of the world.

we are anonymous.. dear brothers and sisters,.

infpalex

One more thing I forgot to mention... What if you WERE one of the people who was on that list but you didn't do it?

What would that do to your faith in the WTBTS?

It would completely undermine it... making you want to go and look into why they would put YOU on that list! It might be the catalyst to that person leaving, and that for SURE would be worth it all. It would mean that person would get their mind and life back that the society stole from them.

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Anonymous Message to Watchtower

by jwleaks in

http://www.bit.ly/jwleaks-anonymous.

hello citizens of the world.

we are anonymous.. dear brothers and sisters,.

infpalex

Ok, I don't post as much as all of you on this board but I know a lot of you pretty well and have followed this and a LOT of other threads on here. I thought I would pop in and give my two cents on this... but I am not going to argue with anyone because I firmly believe we all have our own way of thinking and we shouldn't need to have others agree with us to know who we are and what is right for us.

With that in mind... I personally was molested by a cousin who molested others that I know of. The problem is there was never two witnesses, and if there was, the second witness was a conspirator and wouldn't come forward. My aunt and 2 cousins were raped by one of my uncles who is STILL and elder and I can only imagine that in the 10 years I have been out of contact with them there are more things that could have happened. My aunt and the two others came forward about him but because there were never two witnesses he is still an elder.

I know some say that there may be some people who are accused wrongly, but I personally would rather have it all realeased if it protects even one person from going through what I went through and what my family members went through. The worst that can happen for someone falsely accused is they have to prove they didn't do it, and they get to move on with their lives. (Yes they may have to move to a different city etc, but hell that is a SMALL price to pay to protect somone who WAS molested)

I would rather be accused falsely in a group with people and then have to clear my name if even ONE of the other people I was accused with was currently molesting small children. It would be worth it to me as a human being with a consience and love of others to inconvience myself and/or my children to protect someone else.

That's my 2 cents... take it for what you will.

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Kinda new here. A Backstory.

by SethBridge in

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im kind of new here.

i was a former member of this site, a little over a year ago.

had planned on writing a backstory of what happened in the past year but decided to keep it simple.

infpalex

Great to meet you Seth, I too am a gay Ex-JW and my parents totally are the same as yours. This is a great place to get to know some awesome people. If you ever want to read my story you can search my posts on here!

I look forward to getting to know you better!

Alex

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Watchtower's Billion Dollars of Property Cannot Be Sold until Outcome of Conti Appeal

by Dogpatch in

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.

infpalex

Thank you Randy for updating us with this information! I can't wait until it starts affecting them on a large scale. I really hope my family hears about this, although they are so blinded they probably won't listen.