let me start off by saying i do not presume to have the answers, i am merely offering advice.. i will preface this posting with this, cutting a long story short:.
my sister was raped by a popular jw lad wh's dad happen to be a rock star elder.
in the attempt to fight him off his face was covered with scratches and it was reported to the police ( instead of rape he was sentenced on the lesser charges of sexual battery and assault) but he confessed to having violent, consentual sex.
All those years my mom was beside herself, not because she had no communication with her youngest son, but because she could not get me under her control.
Sounds like you had a whack job mother like I did. You were fortunate to get away young. . . . I hung around for years, and it wasn't until my wife pointed out how I was being manipulated left and right by her that I finally saw what was going on and cut ties.
Very interesting story, SSC.
at 20:00 - 21:30 in his testimony, mr. geoffrey jackson - in answer to mr. stewart's question about the governing body claiming to be god's spokespersons - claimed that it would be presumptuous of them to say that they were the only spokespersons which god was using.
mr. jackson doesn't seem to know what he and his fellow g.b.
members - and the providers of his lifestyle, the wtbts - actually teach as "bible truth.
me personally.....i think....if it was meant to be mixed ...it would come in the bottle that way.. that said...bacardi gold.
In honor of the ARC, by new favorite drink is Foster's 😎
so i ran into this brother whom ive known for a while and the conversation led into me being invited to come back to the kingdom hall.
we talked for about an hour during which time i explained to him 607 being the wrong date and a lot of other stuff including the child abuse cases in australia.
but what i wanted to relate was the last few minutes of our conversation.
Yeah, that is a pretty disheartening conversation, JOHN AQUILA.
But in the end if someone wants that crap, by all means they can have at it.
"sadly, though, most [pedophiles] go unpunished by authorities today.
in australia, for example, it has been estimated that only 10 percent of offenders are prosecuted, and few are convicted.
other lands have had a similar record.
I see the public demand happening in Australia over what Watchtower has done with reports of child molestation. My hope is that the same scrutiny occurs in other societies, communities and nations. .. ..
. .. . and "lands," please don't forget the "lands." 😉
well in a month where i had a friend of 20 years tell me "we can't kick it no mo" because i no longer go to meetings, i had an even older friend who is coming to visit me, call me and tell me hes out.. currently a high profile ms who gives talks out all over the place, the elders said they are recommending him for appt to the body in sep when the co is coming through.
but nope......hes about to step down all together.. what did it?
because i am not disfellowshipped, and soft peddle my issues with the org, i was able to speak to him about things like blood, and a couple other things.
PROBLEM2 - Great great great great news! Especially good to hear his wife "is loyal to him" and not the org. Doesn't get better than that.
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hey all,.
have you seen the new video on http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/living-bible-principles/adult-survivor-child-abuse-video/ ?.
isn't this too much of a coincidence?
Wow. They have a lot of fuckin nerve to put this out there right now. . . .
So let me get this straight:
Will Jehovahs witnesses ever involve women in the decision making process in the congregation?
NO
Will Jehovah's witnesses put aside the 2 witness rule in cases of abuse?
NO
Then what will Jehovah's witnesses do in response to the royal commission?
Publish a three minute propaganda piece.
i am fuming at the moment and my wife has made me so angry.. i live in germany and an ex jw, a friend of mine is also ex jw but does not understand english so i was giving him a rundown on the friday session of the rc with gj.
my wife was in another part of the house but heard my phone ring and so she came to listen, i did not realize this, because when the phone rang i closed two doors between myself and my wife.
she opened the first door and started listening to the conversation.
Ugh, horrible. So sorry. But I think OPPOSTATE is right: your wife is a cult victim, and the screaming and crazy behavior is just a symptom of it.
I hope things get better.
straight after the commission ended today within minutes, the phone rang.
it was one of the people who are working on it.
firstly she established if i was alright and did i want to talk.. i said i was too tired and unhappy that geoffrey jackson managed to do some preaching....she said they were aware of that.
Thanks for the update UMBERTO!
Extremely interesting.
i can't believe this crap, jackson is giving a witness to stewart......oh please no...........
