Topics Started by happy@last

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Sponsoring gameshows
by happy@last in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
within the first minute of this gameshow they speak of their sponsors, what do you make of this!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yaxdra8f9q.
8
JW Parents Safeguard your children
by happy@last in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-destroyed-documents-showing-7340603.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2816630/13-5m-award-jehovahs-witnesses-molest-case.html#ixzz3hn875cel.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jehovahs-witnesses-sex-abuse-scandal-4422943#ixzz3fwm1uttl.
2
Falling Skies
by happy@last in
1. social
2. entertainment
i recently started watching this series in a boxset i bought and can't believe how similar my eldest daughter seems to behave as do the children who have been 'harnessed'.

these kids in the show have been abducted by aliens and made to believe the aliens are good to them all the while they are turned into different creatures.

it's quite eery.
10
Moving out after the borg
by happy@last in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was delighted to hear of adjustments news, but it did remind me of what i'm sure a lot go through when they leave, here's a little of my story:.

when i married as a jw, and when we moved there was always a team of willing volunteers happy to drive the van or move the furniture or decorate.

additonally when you get married you have a list of items people want to buy for you, even if some had odd taste we received lots of needed and wanted items, sometimes 2 or 3 of the same type.. as a da'd person, also seperated from my spouse i needed to move home.
18
Not willing to cooperate
by happy@last in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
just thought i would let you know there appears to still be no change when it comes to assisting the police here in the uk.

i am in the process of pressing charges against my abuser who was and is again a jw.

during my interviews with the police i did not mention jws as it was not relevant to the case, however during one if his interviews he stated that he had been 'punished' by the jws by being disfellowshipped, and now he was a jw again he had 'paid his dues'!.
41
My Window Cleaner
by happy@last in
1. jw
2. experiences
my window cleaner is a jw and as i am always working when he comes to my house i haven't seen him or spoken to him in years.

the other day i was in my local town and went into a cafe for some lunch.

who is sitting there but my window cleaner and his wife.
8
An Interview with an Apostate: happy@last
by happy@last in
1. jw
2. experiences
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. born in the 1970s in glasgow, currently married, 2 children in their early teens.

were you a born in or a convert?.

neither, my mother became a jw when i was 7, she was a single parent by this time having divorced my father.. are your parents / family jws?.
4
Small tattoo
by happy@last in
1. jw
2. experiences
so yesterday after serious consideration i decided to walk into the parlour and get a small tattoo on my wrist.

it's a small emblem/logo i created that has great meaning to me but wouldn't make sense to anyone else.

i am so pleased with it and this morning can't stop looking at it and feeling happy about it.
1
Teacher awarded after not shunning her son
by happy@last in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
here is an interesting news item:.

http://www.workplacelaw.net/human-resources/news/47830/teaching-assistant-awarded-28-300-for-unfair-dismissal.

"me having contact with my son, who has paid for what he did, posed no risk to the children.
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Dilemna on shepherding
by happy@last in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife told me of a friend of hers who is going through a difficult time in their life.

they are what i would describe as a 'blind follower' of wt teachings, but it does give them structure that would otherwise not be there in their life.

anyhow, this person is having a tough time, the elders know about it and yet not one of them has either visited or called to see how they are!.