i just wrote about my life between 11 and 12......i am now 48 years old.
it came back to me in huge drowning waves that i cannot describe.
the anger, depression, humiliation..... do any of us ever get to recover totally?
is the soul ever healed?...
Many souls are scarred by the blatant insanity of this fraudulent and corrupt organization, passed off as a loving religion.
Scars never heal, entirely. They will always be tender. Even when no one touches them.
So "healed", ever?
No.
sKally
for those who spent many years in the jw religion, what effect did the knowledge that your friends or family could instantly be "poofed" out of existence by a judicial committee have on you?
did it cause you to withdraw emotionally?
looking back over the decades, ( i'm a 3rd gen jw in my forties, mentally out but physically in ) i can remember consciously thinking about whether a new friend was going to be around "for the long haul".
Did the DFing policy make you emotionally distant?
Seriously?
LOL!!
You elda's sure are funny.
sKally
i have been sworn to secrecy on a couple of matters that will soon be evident in this regard.
sorry to be 'cryptic' here - but timing is everything when one is trying to bring the very serious [and often ignored in the press] matter of child sexual abuse to the fore.
with barbara anderson's permission, i reproduce part of pages 66 to 68 here for discussion..
The R & F are walking through a field of land mines when they are out in service - which door will be answered by an apostate?
Surely, one of those doors WILL and has been 'mine'.
I will then present the CD and a flyer.
sKally
darn.
i can't quite recall how to submit an image from my scanner.
any help would be appreciated.
FRONT COVER:
BACK COVER:
WHY THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY, JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CORPORATE HEAD, SETTLED NINE LAWSUITS OUT OF COURT
THIS IS AN EXPOSE BY ONE OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, A LONG-TIME MEMBER OF 43 YEARS WHO WAS A RESEARCHER AT THEIR CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS.
AFTER EXHAUSTIVE RESEARCH INTO COURT DOCUMENTS, SHE REVEALS THE SECRETS THE GROUP HAS SOUGHT TO SUPPRESS.
__________
WEBSITES ON THE FLYER:
THIS ONE
FREEMINDS
WATCHTOWER DOCUMENTS
darn.
i can't quite recall how to submit an image from my scanner.
any help would be appreciated.
Phil,
The "scan" is a flyer I made, using the front and back covers of the CD Secrets of Pedophilia in an American Religion: Jehovah's Witnesses in Crisis by Barbara Anderson.
Underneath the scan is a brief list of pertinent websites.
Since the scan I have is huge andd I can't upload it here, I just gave a description of what it actually looks like.
It's a simple flyer, to the point.
So use your imagination and make sure you have lots of ink in your printer...
Happy trails in the field!
sKally
sKally
barbara anderson has just released a new book on cd that contains some 5000 pages of public court records from the nine lawsuits involving 16 victims that the wts settled secretly in may of this year, plus documents from two other cases the society settled in 2000 and 2006.. .
its called secrets of pedophilia in an american religion: jehovahs witnesses in crisis.. .
the book, and more info from barbara about it, is available here:.
~bump for newer viewers~
darn.
i can't quite recall how to submit an image from my scanner.
any help would be appreciated.
Well, I'll tell you what I did:
I took the cover and backcover of the CD Secrets of Pedophilia In An American Religion, and placed them on my scanner. They scanned fine yet I wanted to add a few websites to the flyer and was unable. To remedy that, I simply write the sites in myself. Choose any sites you wish to add to your flyer.
I also have permission to capture portions of the 98 pages, along with, of course, any other of the 5000 pages.
The cover is profound. The backcover is the crux of what lies within the CD. For me, it's the perfect, simple, targeted flyer for the public.
I will then distribute them everywhere locally and in my childhood hometown, as I did last year.
Happy trails people!
{BTW, the scan is HUGE....oops}
sKally
darn.
i can't quite recall how to submit an image from my scanner.
any help would be appreciated.
Darn. I can't quite recall how to submit an image from my scanner. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
sKally
man escapes jail for sex attacksbbc news - 1 hour, 42 minutes agoa jehovah's witnesss gets a community sentence for a series of sex assaults on children and adults.man escapes jail for sex attacks porter was put on the sex offenders registera jehovah's witness has escaped a jail term after admitting a series of sexual assaults on children and adults in clevedon.
michael porter, an elder in the religion, pleaded guilty to 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on 13 victims aged 18 months and older.
among the individuals were others involved in the faith.
http://www.secularism.org.uk/outrageasserialabuserescapesjail.html
A predatory paedophile walked free from court yesterday after admitting a string of sex attacks on children, including an 18-month-old baby. Michael Porter, 38, used his trusted position as a prominent Jehovah’s Witness to prey on youngsters, many of them children of members of the church.
In court he pleaded guilty to 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency over 15 years. But at Bristol crown court Judge Tom Crowther handed him a three-year community rehabilitation order after hearing he had undergone therapy and, according to the BBC, after being impressed that Porter was “a man of faith”. Full details of the case here:
Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, said: “The fact that this man escaped a jail term because the judge took into account that he was ‘a man of faith’ is a disgraceful abuse of the law. What if he had been an atheist? Would that have meant he went straight to jail? You cannot have a legal system that favours people because they claim to be religious. This is a very disturbing development.”
