Bleep.....It seems you take a familiar response to information like Bona provided. Just because a person calls to account JW beliefs doesn't mean they have shut their eyes to the problems/ challenges of living in this world. Yet one usually gets that from Witnesses. When I continued to seek and receive 'outside' help for a problem, I was told, by an elder, ' You can't expect to have a lah-lah life in this system '. Lah-lah life? I just wanted a bit of REPREIVE from a miserable condition. All and all, I too am familiar with the encompassing dynamic of fear. It will close our mind, heart, and soul, and will leave us intolerant of anybody or anything that might rock us out of denial...respectively, SloBoy
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Before you open that door....
by Bona Dea inthings that you definitely will not learn upfront: (and again, this is just a few...).
fight against independent thinking.
6-8-1986, page.9 would that all were prophets!.
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This is Sloboy's spouse responding to Brother Anderson's letter:
Dear Joe Anderson:
How heartening! Thank you! I am so sorry for the betrayal of Barbara by the Society. I am so glad you support her and see the inconsistencies in the so-called "policy on child molestation" of the organization. I have stood by friends assuring them that the elders would handle matters properly in molest cases only to have the wool ripped right from our 'lil lamby eyes! Policy? Please! It is more a case of who knows who, who's son or other relative did it, who's position needs to be protected, and how crazy or apostate can the victims and their supporters be made to look. I have known Jehovah's name for 40 plus years. I gave my youth, my heart, my assets and my stamina to the organization and to Jehovah. My God is still Jehovah, a God of love. I currently cannot have anything to do with an organization that does not "look out for widows and orphans in their tribulation." I have been quoting that scripture to elders, elders wives and many other friends for the last 5 years in the context of asking them to step up and do what is right and scriptural in behalf of molest victims and their families. The result? We were viewed as having a personality problem with the perpatrator and his family. I have been shunned and ostracized by the majority even though there has been no marking or disfellowshipping or disassociation of myself. It's a long and horrible story, as are many I have read here and heard first hand. I cannot do it justice in a short email and it drains my energy and spirit to rehash the betrayal by my brothers.
Again and finally, Thank you Joe and Barbara, the Pandelos, Erica, Heather and her Family, Bill Bowen and Sister Bowen. I pray so often for Jehovah to show me the way. I cannot imagine what would have happened to us if we had not found this website.
Much love. Sloboy's spouse.
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Hardline on disfellowshipped ones
by eyeslice inonce again a hard line is being taken on shunning disfellowshipped and disassociated ones.
perhaps this is some sort of backlash against the recent adverse dateline publicity in the us, the forthcoming pananorama programme in the uk and problems with a number of influential ones leaving the organization.
the text below is from the august km insert and the meeting part is to be handled by a "well qualified" elder with the paragraphs being read by a "capable reader".
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Paragraph 1 states this applies to both the disfellowshipped and the disassociated, and then Paragraph 5 speaks of these as those who' give themselves over to sin and has to be disfellowshipped '.I know it's been covered, but what a blatant literary mind screw. They always want to convey the idea that anyone who leaves that organization does so just to have sex with farm animals. I still hope that many thinking JW's will see the dishonesty in this twisting of words, and like an elder and his wife said to me, recently disassociated cuz it is a dangerous place, ' you are welcome anytime at our home '.
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What One Elder Is Saying About Dateline
by silentlambs ini recieved this email today i thought you might find it interesting.. dear bill: i have a question for you.
at book study last week, the conductor said that dateline's web site apologized for their show on jehovah's witnesses pedophiles because they had learned that the people interviewed on the show were "not who they claimed to be.
" i tried to find dateline's web site to see what they said but i was unable to do so.
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Yeah, right, elder integrity.....like the one at my book study two years ago who said ' and remember, Armeggedon is only a matter of weeks '. Fast forward to present...him asking me to 'fess up' to the details to some bizarre,fabricated accusation by Brother Mighty Unstable. They can say all the B.S. they want and when called to account it's the same old saw ' we're just imperfect men trying to help out'. Just another cumulative nail in the coffin.
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LETTER READ TONIGHT
by biblexaminer inwell, the wts has directed all elders in canada to read a letter concerning the child abuse issue.
it is the same whitewash as read in the us a while back when dateline aired.
it seems that on the 'eve of destruction' (ie bbc and panorama) the wts has decided to read a letter that was obviously penned weeks ago.
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Here's an example of the R& F's mindset re: abuse.......Sister A, whom I know well and whose husband recently disassociated (said he doesn't like what they teach and doesn't like how they act ), told me that Sister B ran into Brother Pedophile and Brother Father of the Victim chumming around at the District Convention. Brother Father of the Victim told Sister B that Sister A's husband dissed because ' he got involved with some apostate web site '.....sick people in that org. So regardless what the hierarchy do, you're dealing with a great number of people who have liked it that way, we're attracted to it, and will have a whole lot of personal work to do to accept any healthy changes.
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DO YOU APPRECIATE THE CONVENTIONS??
by minimus inthis gem is from the aug.1st wt.
it tells about how in one south american country, every year witnesses walk for miles through the jungle and then travel for hours by canoe just to make the convention.
it is not uncommon for someone to fall into the river or to snag his garments on a bush,therefore their appearance is not quite appropriate.they look somewhat disheveled.
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Would the WBTS ever distort or perhaps embellish 'experiences' ?.......there was a person in our area who studied, got baptized, and before you knew it was a book study reader. Since the person had a history of a dysfunctional drug life, his 'experience' was going to be used at the next district convention. I had known the person previously. You see, we met in one of those devil controlled 12 step groups. As the speaker at the convention was giving the experience there was a bit of distortion and embellishment. The person was sitting just a few rows away and as our eyes met you could see the hurt,fear, and disappointment they were experiencing. Within a few weeks, that person was GONE and left his 'witness life' behind. YES, THEY LIE ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES.
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You gotta LOVE this forum!
by Sirona ini love this forum.
at the moment, there are lots of people saying bad things about it.
i want to set the record straight.
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THIS SITE HAS HELPED SAVE MY LIFE.............thanks Simon and to all you great posters..you're family.
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Teen wins fight to refuse blood transfusions
by blondie inhttp://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/07/02/mia020702
cbc news.
teen wins fight to refuse blood transfusions .
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AngryXJW.....right on..they're always looking for a rock to slither under. What dispicable contempt they show for the true feelings of their ' flock '.
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Nitpicking the JW Brotherhood
by IslandWoman inthe jw brotherhood is composed of people.
you know people right?
people are the ones we work with, the ones we live next to, the ones we share this planet with.
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Hi all.......I must have missed the occurence of ' bashing of regular good folk witnesses ' that I W started this topic with. I W, could you please give an example of what your talking about, and I don't mean this preceeding bit of hysteria.
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My surreal district convention
by RunningMan inwell, i just got back from yet another summer ass-marathon.
seventeen hours of sitting in hockey arena seats that were made for three hour games, trying to stay awake, while not losing contact with my extremities.. needless to say, the program was dull and boring.
in fact, i'm not completely sure that they didnt just re-run last year's.
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Yo Running Man......Why can't I ever find YOUR KIND to sit with? At our last kunvinshun, we were cutting-up in a most irreverent manner. The bro. sitting next to us spent a great deal of time glaring, and afterwards kept dogging us to find out what ' cong. do you two attend ? ' ....anyhoooo thanks for the keen report.