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  New Child Abuse lawsuit to be filed tomorrow in Ohio against WT and congregation

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  media alert: press conference wednesday, july 31, 2013, 11:00 am .

  civil lawsuit filed against ohio jehovahs witnesses congregation and national organizations by sexual abuse victim .

  childhood victim suffered sexual abuse from congregational leader over a four year period .

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  PaintedToeNail

  bumpbity bump
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  Jehovahs-Witnesses-in-Lorain-of-sexual-abuse

  by Sobeit in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/oh_lorain/woman-accuses-member-of-west-congregation-of-jehovahs-witnesses-in-lorain-of-sexual-abuse.

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  PaintedToeNail

  bump
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  I Just Had A Big Fat Bomb Drop On My Head and It Leaves Alot Of Questions

  by TotallyADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i got home from work this afternoon my wife was standing near the door looking at me and said you need to sit down i have some hard news to tell you.

  so i sat down and she began saying my brother called and i imminently ask if my mom had died.

  she said no but my mother told my brother a deep family secrect that no one knows about.

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  PaintedToeNail

  TotallyADD-I have a half brother too, one I have never met. He was given up for adoption. I yearn to know him, yet cannot find him due to the fact that he was adopted out in another part of the world. It hurts to know he is there, and we don't even speak the same native tongue. Yet, it would be wonderful to hug him and let him know that he is a missing part of my life.

  Whatever you decide to do, I wish you the very best!
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  Role Reversal: Placing 1969 Awake with JW's Manning the New Portable Literature Displays

  by snapdragon4 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in recent weeks the jw’s here in the uk have been setting up their new portable watchtower literature displays in my local town square on a saturday morning.

  as they hadn’t knocked on my door for at least five years, and consequently feeling somewhat neglected, i thought that i would pay them a visit instead.. .

  the first thing i needed to do was arrange my literature.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Utterly and completely brilliant! Bravo, man, Bravo!
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  JW women and breast implants or other cosmetic surgery

  by Comatose in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  *first* - a clarification that needs to be made.

  this is not about all women.

  i am not against cosmetic surgery.

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  PaintedToeNail

  With the way sisters are treated in the organization, to be seen and not heard, many sisters probably feel their appearance is all that they have. Their sex appeal is their power and as they age, they lose this power. For an elders wife it is probably worse, hubby gone all the time dealing with problems and she would love to have some of the attention he is lavishing on the problem people and the congregation. She tries to get some of his time by sexing herself up.
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  The Mermaid Takes Notes at the DC...in Limerick Form

  by Cadellin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those of you who missed the dc, i thought i'd share my notes so you, too, can partake of the spiritual feast.

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  PaintedToeNail

  There was a hubby who went to convention

  With a daughter who felt it was detention

  He forced her to pack a sack lunch

  So with masses of others they munch

  Then she is ordered for part two to give attention
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  The Mermaid Goes to the District Convention and this is what She Hears

  by Cadellin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  PaintedToeNail

  Mermaid, Nice job in taking notes. Don't know how you were able to sit through all the vitrol. To me it seems that the WTBTS want their new 'truth' to be accepted without a moments hesitation, so they attack, making anyone who isn't choking the message down without reservation, feel guilty.
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  DC "Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned"

  by Separation of Powers in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  several weeks ago, i had the opportunity to attend one of the dc.

  the final drama was quite interesting as it depicted a "ban" on the jehovah's witness religion without an explanation as to why?

  i'm sure many in the audience pondered on what they had learned from their previous studies i.e that babylon the great would fall and then that gog of magog would eventually turn his attention to the organization.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Separation of Powers-Esther could hardly be said to have abandoned her belief system. She lived at a times where women had no say in what happened to them. All the attractive women in the district were rounded up and sent to the King to be bedded for a night, and if he liked them, he kept them around.

  The WTBTS will use ANY example and attempt to force it to fit a situation. They could've made an example of the Rich Man and Lazarus eating pizza, one with everything on it and one with only cheese, fit whatever they were trying to convey and everyone in the audience would comment on how fitting it was. The WTBTS makes no sense at all, never have, never will.
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  JW family trying to compensate for us being "spiritually weak" through increased activity

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi folks.

  one of the things that has been most frustrating for my wife and i since beginning our fade as been the way certain family members have responded by ramping up their own involvement in the organization seemingly in a bizarre attempt to compensate for our lack of activity.. close relatives who were once doing precious little study and weren't going out of their way to attend meetings or go on the ministry are now studying every morning and busting a gut to attend "theocratic" arrangements.. it makes no sense to me, because salvation is supposed to be based on the beliefs and actions of each individual, not on those of his or her loved ones.

  just what is the logic by which they think they can make things better by doing more themselves?.

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  My husband has been doing the exact same thing, and it is maddening!

  Yet, last night, he told me I looked radiant, and was glowing (no, not pregnant!) and that I looked happier than he has ever seen me. I told him that was true, I felt happy, and useful, liberated and at peace. He never, ever said those things when I was in...then today, he races off for the convention...something he would've tried to avoid 3 years ago...
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  Preaching work

  by Kool Jo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello folks:.

  i was just thinking...what do you think the borg would look like if they said it's no longer necessary to do the preaching work...it's voluntary?

  1. some would go tru the motions just to appear 'spiritually strong'.

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  PaintedToeNail

  My parents and in-laws would be completely lost. Their whole lives are wrapped up in their scheduled days of field service. I would have broken out the bubbly and shouted "Hallelujah", myself.