You haven't met one of the ex elders from here in the UK. He's currently doing loads of time for child abuse.
He ain't happy.
says a woman on a y!a forum.
of course no witness would say they weren't happy .
by the waaaaaay.... .
You haven't met one of the ex elders from here in the UK. He's currently doing loads of time for child abuse.
He ain't happy.
what would you tell or ask these group of men if they called you in for a meeting?.
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I would ask them the same as I ask every scientist or religious person I come across......why do I keep getting images in my head of events that later happen?
And I'd ask them about God.
Then I'd ask God about them.
Then I'd be confused.
And I'd ask them 'When did the Creator put you lot in charge?'
And.....'Do you actually have any idea what you are doing and what effect you are having?'
And 'Would you all like to buy some nice ties to go with those silly suits you keep putting on?' (No wonder witnesses have such a hard time on the doors....
when you all look like detectives.
i would like to have your opinions on what i should do about a situation please.. i have recently discovered that a 'brother' in the congregation (which i no longer attend) is a child molester.
i've seen documentation from his psychiatrist dated a few years ago, stating that he doesn't feel that this person is likely to offend again.
the 'brother' has said to the elders at some point that he has it under control but cannot be 100% sure it won't happen again.
This happened here in the UK and the child molester, now in jail, didn't stop himself. Eventually one of his young victims grew up and subsequently reporting his molestations and rapes. Following this the man was arrested, hauled through the courts and the press and hailed of a monster.
http://www.silentlambs.org/georgecockerillukmolester.htm
This man was the person in charge of checking child abuse within the congreation and carried on his assualts and rapes for 40 years until stopped. It would appear that some people who abuse kids are unstoppable without the police being involved. It would also appear that some who have paedophile thinking do not go on to attack kids but refrain themselves and possibly Jehovah will accept their non-activity in paedophilia as proof they can control themselves but I would bet this is the least likely of cases.
For the protection of the kids involved and the future victims of this crime someone in some authority must be informed but, as was discovered here in the UK, you simply cannot trust everybody. It took 40 years to unravel the assualts on kids here so potentially the JW organisation is not the most reliable place to report this since the desire to keep things under the carpet and out of the media may be too great.
Since I was at the receiving end of this kind of abuse by a completely different organisation as a child my opinion is that I 'would be marching into my local police station and reporting all of the details to them' but for the fact that it was a social worker who was involved when I was young. Trying to get any authority to listen and act is a task in itself since I found out to my own cost that NO group or organisation or authority can prevent paedophiles carrying out their acts nor properly protect our kids. Which ever way you go NO-ONE can be truly relied on to help as it simply takes a lack of tangible proof and reasonable sounding denial by the paedophile to prevent this ever going further.
However, the one person who CAN be relied on in this matter will be the mother of the endangered kids. Take care in how she is told, if you tell her, so that she doesn't suspect your motives of being unreliable. It is a child's mother who must take the ultimate responsibility for her partner and her kids and it would be or great use to her to know. If her kids were later abused by this person and the Creator knows you knew of the danger then she would have to right to ask for the reasons for your hesitation in offering this information to her.
I would definately report the elders of the congregation to the authorities. THEY are compounding the dangers to these kids with their notions of not bringing Jehovah's name into disrepute here. And their inactivity is unforgivable. In this regard they will have to answer to Jehovah himself. Our Creator created all of this universe based on love and joy of sharing it with everyone and everything.
Paedophiles don't bring joy, nor does anyone who sits on this kind of information. Jehovahis not a God if hidden shame, He is a god of openness and protection and although I cannot speak for Jehovah as a parent I can understand how I would react. I would tell the prospective partner with great urgency. Being raised infoster homes and childrens' homes I know that having no parents to protect me was the thing that lead to my being abused so please, please, please inform someone.
thoughts?
a woman named amanda started hearing a voiced telling them that a comet was going to destroy the earth.
they bought a house in the north carolina mountains to prepare, thinking the voice belongs to the dead former owner of the house.
The Mormons ssem to like getting ready for Doomsday (I was one so have personal experience). Their weaponry stockpiles resemble the US army and it seems they cannot wait to shoot their fellow man the moment they get the chance. No thought for their fellow man except bullets and blood. Let's hope the JW organisation doesn't go doolally as well.
This may seem simplistic but surely the Creator didn't create us to be his 'hit men' nor his avenging army. The prophesies about the end of the system state that an army of angels are poised to help clean up this mess. The weapons will be ripped from the hands of the armies of man, not to be placed in to hands of Christians, but swords must be turned to ploughs and the nations must come to their end in order to end this nonsense on this planet.
An army of nutcases all trying to destroy their fellow man is not what the Creator has in mind. The end of warfare is His aim.
i am looking for your best jw comeback- the kind that makes a jw's jaw drop.
ok, even two pithy sentences will do.. here's one i have used before on jws,.
moshe: " do you know what an oxymoron is?
'Send me up another little boy....this one has just burst.'
We really shouldn't take the p out of these poor people....ahahahaha
Actually the rapture did happen yesterday but we all failed the test.
Love the catapult.....'wheeeee.....hello God......ooops......bye bye God'.
Andrekish (Chapter 3 Verse 1): 'What goes up must come down'
Shame that.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/former-witness-taking-on-watch-tower/story-fn6bfmgc-1226036543156.
former witness taking on watch tower graeme hammond from: sunday herald sun april 10, 201112:00ama former jehovah's witness is to launch a private criminal prosecution against the religion's world headquarters.
his action is in protest at its refusal to require church elders to submit to working with children police checks in victoria.
This seems to be a major problem internationally.
http://www.silentlambs.org/GeorgeCockerillukmolester.htm This article talks about a guy who is the grandfather of my neighbour's kids....George Cockerill, a guy I thoguht I knew quite well.
But this isn't unique.....
This happened when I was ward clerk as a Mormon elder, when it was my job to minute all of the meetings and what went on behind those closed meeting doors was so shocking it caused me to realise that the Mormon church was corrupt and therefore antichristian. And when one of the granddads in our congregation did exactly the same thing there was lots of embarassed coughing among those elders at the private meeting discussing it. It was only because one of the Mormon elders was a decent man and a copper that the old guy got investigated properly and prosecuted that the young kids involved could feel any sense of justice. But that doesn't undo the hurt and embarassment for the kids involved. That I do know from personal experience.
Doesn't look like the GB of Jehovahs Witnesses are any better than the general running of the Mormon chruch at the moment. Just as well it isn't an organisation that will enter God's Kingdom, however it arrives, or God's Kingdom will be very short lived indeed and we will all end up disfellowshipping each other until we've all got the strops.
I went through this kinda crap as a kid, but that was done by social workers of all people. It really doesn't give me any faith in any organisational ability among tosspot humanity. There are creeps and crooks in every direction anyone looks and hiding under every rock. We humans just don't want to behave ourselves.
Although I don't believe in the current 'child worship' that seems to be prevalent these days no kids deserve to be subjected to any of this abuse and molestation. Neither should they be subjected to religious slavery on anyone's behalf. If a kid cannot vote then that kid cannot decide to be baptised. If that kid cannot be baptised then that kid cannot be forced to work for that religion.
Maybe we should just send all the kids back down the mines or into the cotton mills. We knew what they were up to then and you can't be evangelising on a cold street corner when you are stuck up a chimney, just ask Oliver Twist.....they knew how to treat kids in those days.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/former-witness-taking-on-watch-tower/story-fn6bfmgc-1226036543156.
former witness taking on watch tower graeme hammond from: sunday herald sun april 10, 201112:00ama former jehovah's witness is to launch a private criminal prosecution against the religion's world headquarters.
his action is in protest at its refusal to require church elders to submit to working with children police checks in victoria.
This seems to be a major problem internationally.
http://www.silentlambs.org/GeorgeCockerillukmolester.htm This article talks about a guy who is the grandfather of my neighbour's kids....George Cockerill, a guy I thoguht I knew quite well.
But this isn't unique.....
This happened when I was ward clerk as a Mormon elder, when it was my job to minute all of the meetings and what went on behind those closed meeting doors was so shocking it caused me to realise that the Mormon church was corrupt and therefore antichristian. And when one of the granddads in our congregation did exactly the same thing there was lots of embarassed coughing among those elders at the private meeting discussing it. It was only because one of the Mormon elders was a decent man and a copper that the old guy got investigated properly and prosecuted that the young kids involved could feel any sense of justice. But that doesn't undo the hurt and embarassment for the kids involved. That I do know from personal experience.
Doesn't look like the GB of Jehovahs Witnesses are any better than the general running of the Mormon chruch at the moment. Just as well it isn't an organisation that will enter God's Kingdom, however it arrives, or God's Kingdom will be very short lived indeed and we will all end up disfellowshipping each other until we've all got the strops.
I went through this kinda crap as a kid, but that was done by social workers of all people. It really doesn't give me any faith in any organisational ability among tosspot humanity. There are creeps and crooks in every direction anyone looks and hiding under every rock. We humans just don't want to behave ourselves.
Although I don't believe in the current 'child worship' that seems to be prevalent these days no kids deserve to be subjected to any of this abuse and molestation. Neither should they be subjected to religious slavery on anyone's behalf. If a kid cannot vote then that kid cannot decide to be baptised. If that kid cannot be baptised then that kid cannot be forced to work for that religion.
Maybe we should just send all the kids back down the mines or into the cotton mills. We knew what they were up to then and you can't be evangelising on a cold street corner when you are stuck up a chimney, just ask Oliver Twist.....they knew how to treat kids in those days.
2011 yearbook-pdf!bookmarked, searchable, reduced.
(credit to bbs, he can reduce files better than i can.
)http://www.sendspace.com/file/js26i9atlantis
Many thanks.
connecting the dots on the scandal of the century.
ok. so we got osama bin smoked killed dead a few days ago, right?.
here are some weird things:.
The death of Osama Bin Laden does not improve anything.
There are no less guns and no fewer missiles. Just groups of people everywhere who want to rip each others' guts out. While destitute people sleep on the streets of Pakistan the United States and European cash pays millions for military attacks by the US and NATO on those they hate. Meanwhile civilians are littered all across the earth in bloody heaps. And while destitute people sleep on the streets and in the parks of the US their government gloats about how clever and powerful it is....it only took the strongest military power on the planet ten years to find Bin Laden right under their noses. And the moment they say they have found him what happens? Blood and more blood. Men women and children attacked with helicopters and massive gunfire.
So where are the real terrorists? It won't take ten years to find them. They reside in positions of power in Washington, in Downing Street London, in Al-Queda and in France and all across Europe in ALL of their governments. It exists in the halls of the Vatican where silence reigns again and gold drips from every archbishop's fingers and the pope is carried on an obscene golden throne paid for by the Vatican hoards of cash.
These are the real terrorists who claim to protect civilians yet blast their way through every home and housing estate that gets in their way. No care for those kids and families who suffer the 'collateral damage' or murder by military. Not one jot of concern for anyone or anything other than their monetary policies and how to make sure they can keep robbing everyone whilst highlighting the villainy of their enemies.
Whilst the death of Osama Bin Laden may go some way to satisfy the bloodlust dripping from the US media it solves nothing else but to re-inforce the old saying: ' Violence leads to more violence,'
How many of us will allow the death of Bin Laden to be an end to things? I think very few. How many of us seem to want only more blood? If the globally controlled media is to be believed ALL of us. So lets wait for the next waves of violence as the pentagon acts upon the data it got from Bin Laden's compound and demonstrates to the world what big explosions it can make.
None of the reasons for Bin Ladens murderous attacks on the United States have been addressed, resolved or even noticed by the militaries of the world....and now NATO is getting its claws into the oilfields of Libya, (has anyone noticed that Libya isn't in the North Atlantic or Europe nor does it pose a threat to either). NATO is a military machine set up to protect Europe against the USSR not play kingmaker in Africa. But the west now has Gaddafi's gold in its hands and can now give the rebels military aid and advice in recompense. Not one penny of Gaddafi's stolen hoards will beneift the ordinary people of Libya. It will line the pockets of the western bankers instead. And the bloodshed continues.
The death of Osama Bin Laden changes nothing but simply gives the United States reasons to gloat. Whatever happened to American pride in its ideals? Blown away with the twin towers along with all the tens of thousands killed by military interventions as western forces continued their attempted economic global takeover.
And so today all our strings are being pulled and manipulated by words and thoughts of blood.
Just as the Bible says.