BoC, Yes, I remember that reasoning coming out (late 70,s I think) AFTER the authorities were arresting JW's for child abuse AT the KH! For those of us who had already left home by this time the NUUU light was TOO LATE.
Posts by 3rdgen
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Since The Bible Sponsors Disciplining Your Children Do JWs Say It Is OK Spank A Child?
by minimus inis it ok to spank your kids?
is it ok to discipline them using any force?.
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ALERT: NEW LAWSUIT settlement - $13 MILLION
by Watchtower-Free inhttp://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html.
(published thursday, oct 30, 2014).
thursday, oct 30, 2014 updated at 11:58 pm pdt.
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3rdgen
It most definately IS a huge win and hopefully only the beginning of Watchtower's "pangs of distress"
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Why don't parents of an abused child go straight to police, why go to an elder first??
by FeelingFree ini hope i don't come across as judgemental but having read a lot on the current child abuse cases and the different threads on here, i am left wondering why on earth a parent of an abuse victim would go to an elder with the problem first and not straight to police?.
as a parent myself i know that if anything like that happend to my child (this applies to when i was still an active jw as well as now) i would not hesitate in going to the authorities as soon as i found out, it wouldn't of crossed mine or my husbands mind to go to an elder.
maybe after we had reported it but definitely never as the first port of call.
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3rdgen
You are asking this question of parents who are already prepared to let their child DIE if they needed a blood transfusion. (I was one of them) It is no wonder at all that a JW parent would follow the elders instructions, after all, they are representing GOD! Dubs are taught that being DFed is worse than death as death results in being in Gods memory and being DFed is complete alienation from God. This is why parents receive this threat from the elders -it works! Also many in the cong have never gone to the elders with a problem and had it go horribly wrong. They have NO IDEA the pedo won't get expelled and might even be promoted!
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3rdgen
Thanks of the info Cofty, I was clueless about what all the keep calm stuff was about.
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I am confused on the JW's 1000 year reign doctrine. Please explain it to me.
by booker-t ini have always thanked randy/dogpatch for creating free-minds because i always felt i was the only one that felt that jw's were teaching some nonsense.
i admit i still think they got some of their teachings correct but one doctrine i think is full of bologne is the 1000 year reign doctrine.
if jesus came into power in 1914 and now it is 2014 does that mean jws believe it will only be a 900 year reign?
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3rdgen
Imagine the answers you'd get if you asked todays dumbed-down JW to explain that 1968 article?!
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ALERT: NEW LAWSUIT settlement - $13 MILLION
by Watchtower-Free inhttp://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/135m-awarded-to-bible-teacher-gonzalo-campos-alleged-abuse-victim-jose-lopez-281031832.html.
(published thursday, oct 30, 2014).
thursday, oct 30, 2014 updated at 11:58 pm pdt.
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3rdgen
I agree with Lost Generation who said that the documents WTBT$ were asked to produce would be damning. The Sheparding the flock book and the general letters to the BOE discussing WT procedure in child sex abuse cases (which have been posted for us on this site) make WBT$ look bad enough. Can you imagine what a sh$!storm the specific directives in these cases would cause? Wowza! Thanks Barbara!
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Apostate with the HIGHEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE has to be this lady
by Terry inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgzcvh3rns&feature=youtu.be.
she is magnificent!
katie kitten.
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3rdgen
Londo, loved that video too. It is called "Shit" for those who haven't seen it. Can you imagine her doing a parody of the Awake articles about body parts, like "I am Joe's Liver?" Hahaah.
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I am confused on the JW's 1000 year reign doctrine. Please explain it to me.
by booker-t ini have always thanked randy/dogpatch for creating free-minds because i always felt i was the only one that felt that jw's were teaching some nonsense.
i admit i still think they got some of their teachings correct but one doctrine i think is full of bologne is the 1000 year reign doctrine.
if jesus came into power in 1914 and now it is 2014 does that mean jws believe it will only be a 900 year reign?
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3rdgen
Pose the same question to 20 active JW's. Why ask us? Likely you will get 20 different answers as well. JW's can't explain their OWN doctrines. Why should we be asked to do it for them?
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Since The Bible Sponsors Disciplining Your Children Do JWs Say It Is OK Spank A Child?
by minimus inis it ok to spank your kids?
is it ok to discipline them using any force?.
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3rdgen
Too many outsiders and neighbors were calling the police when they heard the blood curdling screams at the KHs. The WBT$ was FORCED by "Ceaser" to tone down the "dicipline" admonition.
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I am JW.ORG
by LogCon infamous quote from wuthering heights revised.. '... i am jw.org!
it's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
so don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable...'.
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3rdgen
Oh goodie! Now JW kiddies finally have a flag they can carry and salute.