Posts by soft+gentle

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Ultimately it is the child who should stop the abuse according to the GB!

by life is to short in

on page 171 of the "learn from the great teacher" book published in 2003 it shows a picture of a very cute little girl holding a ragged ann doll.

she is sitting on a chair in her bedroom with her hand out toward a man that is coming toward her.. the paragraphs say "so just as jesus needed protection, you also need to be protected from grown-ups-and even from other children-who may try to have sex with you.

usually, these people will pretend to be your friends.

soft+gentle

I' glad you took those actions life is too short. i made my assumptions about your methods based on your posts on page 8 and for this i apologise.

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Ultimately it is the child who should stop the abuse according to the GB!

by life is to short in

on page 171 of the "learn from the great teacher" book published in 2003 it shows a picture of a very cute little girl holding a ragged ann doll.

she is sitting on a chair in her bedroom with her hand out toward a man that is coming toward her.. the paragraphs say "so just as jesus needed protection, you also need to be protected from grown-ups-and even from other children-who may try to have sex with you.

usually, these people will pretend to be your friends.

soft+gentle

at least the children are safer now - this does not appear to be the case with your methods life is too short.

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Ultimately it is the child who should stop the abuse according to the GB!

by life is to short in

on page 171 of the "learn from the great teacher" book published in 2003 it shows a picture of a very cute little girl holding a ragged ann doll.

she is sitting on a chair in her bedroom with her hand out toward a man that is coming toward her.. the paragraphs say "so just as jesus needed protection, you also need to be protected from grown-ups-and even from other children-who may try to have sex with you.

usually, these people will pretend to be your friends.

soft+gentle

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Ultimately it is the child who should stop the abuse according to the GB!

by life is to short in

on page 171 of the "learn from the great teacher" book published in 2003 it shows a picture of a very cute little girl holding a ragged ann doll.

she is sitting on a chair in her bedroom with her hand out toward a man that is coming toward her.. the paragraphs say "so just as jesus needed protection, you also need to be protected from grown-ups-and even from other children-who may try to have sex with you.

usually, these people will pretend to be your friends.

soft+gentle

my experience of warning parents has always been positive. They take on board my warnings and discreetly curtail activities that involve the pedophile. some have warned other parents too. we try not to sacremonger.

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Ultimately it is the child who should stop the abuse according to the GB!

by life is to short in

on page 171 of the "learn from the great teacher" book published in 2003 it shows a picture of a very cute little girl holding a ragged ann doll.

she is sitting on a chair in her bedroom with her hand out toward a man that is coming toward her.. the paragraphs say "so just as jesus needed protection, you also need to be protected from grown-ups-and even from other children-who may try to have sex with you.

usually, these people will pretend to be your friends.

soft+gentle

fleaman uk - for what its worth i understand you and agree with you, Justitia and cult classic. It is a huge stretch to say that the quote from the Great Teacher book in the OP utlimately makes the child responsible for the abuse. It does not but what it draws attention to is the huge problem we have in society in general when it comes to protecting child from molestation and abuse. The sad fact is that children cannot be completely protected whether they are JW children or whether they are not. There comes a point when children themselves have to be educated for their own safety. There is no easy way to do this and I agree with those who say that the quote represents one of the most postive steps the society has taken on this issue. Parents were also at the same time encouraged to use the book to talk to their children in as loving and compassionate an environment as possible. The issue was not meant to be tackled by children on their own.

But I agree that in general the society's child protection policies are inadequate and often downright criminal. Plus there probably is at least one pedophile in each congregation but I think this is probably lower than the world at large - I offer this heuristically though based on how many of those who become Jehovahs witnesses have already been abused before they join and on how many people in general have experienced some sort of unwanted sexual contact as children.

However I do understand your passion life is too short and it must have been horrendous to have three pedophiles in one congregation. I also think that ultimatley it is the children who will stop the abuse - when they are grown up that is.

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What does faith mean to you?

by exwhyzee in

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friends

we all memorized the definition of faith... faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for...yadda yadda.. it seems like more and more as time goes by and our scientific knowledge base grows, we need less and less faith and fewer things can be attributed to god.. do you think we need faith or is faith just a word we use to feel ok about being too lazy to keep looking for the answers ?.

what does faith mean to you now?.

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soft+gentle

amno i really enjoyed reading the god delusion. hope you do too. tell us what you think when you have finished. richard dawkins is a great wirter and speaker.

cofty - you were on fire last night man - I so agree with your 3rd para in post 4106 (obviously not with the other paras )

edit: on vacation form later today too - away for five weeks. see you all in august

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How can one be a witness of events unseen and unheard?

by kepler in

back in the 13th century, the rumors coming to western europe of things happening in central asia could have been much worse.

events then were about as apocalyptic as anything we have experienced in our own day.

much of the world was coming under new management, that of the descendants of genghis khan.

soft+gentle

well i just had to look up the other event, kepler, and found that there were many eyewitnesses, if you are talking aout the Lady of Fatima. Most supernatural phenomenon have involved something verifiable by the senses and then catatrophic events occurring in the milieu of world at the time have been taken as corroboration and as suggestive of great change ahead. But jehovahs witnessess have an event they did not see or hear to witness about. they must on all counts rely on the authority of their leaders to tell them what is happening invisibly rather than engaging their own hearts and thinking ability. this is trap - to rely on authority to tell you what and how to thing, that is.

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