Simon, Thanks to you and this site, I learned about the Silent Lamb cause. As a victim of child molestation at the hands of a Jw, I can say you and all the great people on this site have really helped me.
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Am I damaging the silentlambs cause?
by Simon inone of the few unfounded (i think) accusations that have been thrown at me by certain people is that i have caused 'untold damage' to the silentambs cause.. i don't know quite what this is supposed to mean or what i'm suppoed to have done or whether it is anything more than just 'mud' flung by people who find it easier to criticise rather than actually do anything.. over the last year (is it?
) i've been happy to promote the silentlambs cause and have hosted links to bills site and vidoes / sound files of tv programmes, radio reports, photo's of the march etc... as well as providing a place for people to meet and arrange things.
i hope it has been useful and helpful to at least some people.. if i have inadventantly held things up in some way then i unreservedly and wholeheartedly apologise.. all i can say is, i do my best and may not always get things right.
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shunning
by musky ini have heard a lot of stories of how ex-witnesses are shunned by their witness relatives.
i assume that if it were not for the watchtower rules, most anyone would not be shunned anymore, because our relatives love us.
my question is, are there any who think they are shunned by relatives who don't really like you anyway, and are using the "watchtower rules" to justify it?
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mommy1
I have relatives I do not care for, but I talk to them when I see them. the only relatives I shun are the JW's in the family. the reason I have done this is because I couldn't take the hot and cold behavior.
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mommy1
Damon was making fun of the witnesses on his show "My Wife and Kids" a couple of months back. I do not remember what exactly what they were saying, but it wasn't positive.
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What JWs are passing out in response to Silentlamb
by Joyzabel ini was outraged when i read what a friend of ours was given him by 2 jws yesterday when he asked them the question about the child molestation issue.
i can't belive the jws have the guts to pass this stuff out.
the people we were with at lunch today all looked at it and was replused at the wt's reply.. what do you think?.
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mommy1
It makes me angry. I wonder if my own father is passing this crap out, knowing his own child was molested.
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Tinkerbell, wishing you the best for your surgery
by LyinEyes indearest tink and cc, .
we all know you two will be going thru alot this week with tink's surgery.
it is a scarey thing to go into the hospital and i know your nerves must be getting to your right now.. tink, i am sure everything will work out fine and i hope that you have a speedy recovery.
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mommy1
Tinkerbell,
wishing you a speedy recovery and good health.
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Living the JW 'simplified lifestyle'
by truman inthough i haven't heard as much about this concept in the last few years, during much.
of my tenure as a jw ('74-'01) there was frequent mention in the pages of the wt urging.
witnesses to live a simplified lifestyle.
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mommy1
I know my JW family do not live the simplified lifestyle. The have every new thing that comes out, they just charge it on the credit card, second mortgaged the house and then cry we have no money to my non witness Grandmom. My Grandmom called me one day saying how much my Dad was in debt. She couldn't figure out why they where so far in debt. I said Grandmom they think the end of the world is coming, so they won't have to pay it. My Grandmom still doesn't believe her own son could be so irresponsible, or that he actually believes in armeggedon is coming any minute.
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Where were you?
by joannadandy in.
sorry if this has been done to death, i only did a quick scan and didn't see a topic like this, so i appologize in advance if this was started someplace else.. this morning i woke up and thought about where i was last year, and the complete shock i felt at this same time last year...and i was just wondering if any of you had those same feelings this morning.. so where were you?
i always find stories of what people were doing at the time they heard to be really interesting-please share if you'd like.
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mommy1
I was driving my kids to school, we heard the news on the radio.
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Shunned - a cycle of pain and hate
by refiners fire inguess what?
shunning isnt just a dub problem, it goes on out in the" world "too.
its used as a weapon to punish and hurt people.
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mommy1
My neighbor accross the street from me is a "born again christian" she has that I am so good attitude, when I first met her one of the first things she said was what church do you go to? I said no church and she invited me to hers. I said no thank you and two years later she still "shuns" me.
Her little daughter used to play with my daughter and then all of the sudden she says her daughter is too old to play with my daughter. The daughter didn't say this the mom did.
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The WT "Pedo-Files" Who can open them?
by Eric inthe silentlambs and barbara anderson say there are 23,000 files at wbts brooklyn headquarters of jw pedophilic activity or reports of pedophilic activity.. j.r. brown, wbts spokesman allows that such files exist but says the number of files is much smaller than that, but never says how many there actually may be.. j.r. brown says the files may also contain mere reports of sexual activity between minors.
in that case there may be a file with my name on it, as i confessed to a judicial committee of elders of sexual activity at age 15.. j.r. brown says there is no directive or restriction in place prohibiting a jw from going to the police or other legal authorities to seek an investigation into a report of pedophilic abuse or activity.. if j.r. brown means what he says, then there should be no problem in opening these files up to a proper investigative authority with the intent of seeking legal justice.. so, who is such a legal authority?
the brooklyn district attorney's office?
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mommy1
These are just the cases that were written down it makes you wonder how many weren't even recorded.
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How did you view your congregation?
by haujobbz in.
when i was in my congregation i found it to be a very selfish self spirited congregation,i also found many witnesses to be very easily offended and hyper sensitive oh and i forgot the gossip ohh the gossip was horrendous, this hyper sensitivity really got on my nerves because it was starting to rub off on me and i started to get paranoid and easily offended and i was never like that b4.. and what pi@@ed me off was the fact how brothers on the stage said how loving our congregation was and what a good reputation it was known to have.. but now i have left and im back to my down to earth happy personality.
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mommy1
It was a pedophile's paradise when I was there. The Abuser is dead now, but the elder who new about the problem is still there.