Tantalon

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  Blood Componenets Are The Issue

  by Lee Elder in

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  2. medical

  in a new "must read" article, a former jw hlc committee chairman explains why blood components are the real issue, and the terrible price paid to learn this important lesson.. http://ajwrb.org/components-of-blood-are-the-issue.

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  Tantalon

  "Go, and learn the meaning of this;

  'I want mercy not sacrifice' "

  Stupid hypocritical Cult!
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  Former Jehovah’s Witness jailed for child sex crimes

  by Tahoe in

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  2. friends

  https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/former-jehovahs-witness-jailed-for-child-sex-crimes-ng-b88859067z.

  a former jehovah’s witness who sexually assaulted three young boys says his homosexual inclinations were repressed by his religion and manifested in his crimes.. gavin andrew lamont, 46, was jailed for four years today for assaulting two vulnerable teenagers in the early to mid-90s and another boy about 20 years later.. lamont encouraged the teens to give him massages and suggested he needed help checking for testicular cancer.. district court judge linda petrusa said lamont, who knew he was homosexual from about age 13, had significant cognitive distortions around sex because of his religious beliefs.. .

  she said the victims, who were aged between 14 and 16, were vulnerable because of their youth and lack of sophistication.. judge petrusa sentenced lamont to four years behind bars for indecently dealing with a child and four counts of indecent assault.. lamont was kicked out of the mundaring congregation in 1997 after one of his victims complained to other members, but was reinstated after doing counselling with elders.. he was kicked out of the congregation for a second time in 2014 after another victim made a complaint.. lamont’s crimes came to the attention of police last year through the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.. defence lawyer seamus rafferty described the case as complex, saying lamont struggled with his sexuality because his religion told him it was a sin.. he told the court the church was the essence of lamont’s being and said his client tried to repress his sexuality and ended up behaving in “naïve, unsophisticated and pathetic ways”.. lamont’s parents and sister are all living with complicated health issues and rely heavily on his help and care.. mr rafferty asked judge petrusa to give lamont a conditional suspended jail term, saying he was the glue that was holding his family together.. “this is a case for the exercise of mercy, its mercy towards them (his family) and nobody else,” he said.. judge petrusa accepted a prison term would be tough on lamont’s family but said an immediate jail term was the only appropriate punishment.. in a statement to the court, one of the victims said he felt that he was “forever stained” by lamont’s crime.. he said the abuse had made him self-conscious in his dealings with his own child.. lamont will be eligible for parole after spending two years behind bars.. .

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  Tantalon

  OMFG I attended the same cong, my younger brother was one of his best friends.Our familys were/are close.Of course I never knew he had been DFed, I have been faded long time.I do feel for his aged parents, we know the Borg won't care about them. His Mum was one of the warmest loving people I remember.

  The fallout from ARC continuues. That's two from the ARC personally known to me.The other was an elder when I was a boy, same congregation!

  My BIL was also DFed for kid fiddling....another suppressed gay gone wrong. But that is another story, fortunately my sister was then able to divorce him "scripturaly"

  Maybe I know you too stuckinarut2 ?

  Edit: No stuck, the perpetrators father was never an elder, in fact he used to criticize the Borg quite strongly, his wife and kids were "in" the father tolerated it for sake of his marriage. My father however was an elder for a few years,and a near neighbor of the family, he probably knows all about it!

  Edit 2; Well that is today gone, the floodgates of memory are breached ! Wife will have to be patient now, the JW crap runs deep!
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  Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  2. beliefs

  roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.

  in one sentence tell why you left the org.

  not 2 sentences.

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  Apparently Jehovah's people love God, love " the friends", love your neighbor, love your enemy and I wasn't feeling a thing, so off I went to discover unconditional love which i did find in a "worldly" family.
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  I HATE JW funerals

  by jws in

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  2. friends

  jw funeral last night.

  it was about half an hour from start to finish.

  they opened with basic facts about the person.

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  Tantalon

  Slightly off topic.

  Not about JW funerals, but JWs at a "worldly " funeral; I have posted about this before but it still sticks in my throat.

  At aunt's funeral, a secular service and very beautifully done, my parents who are aged staunch JWs refused to sit at the place reserved for them at the front with surviving family, showed no emotion what so ever and the best thing my Dad could say to me afterwards was " of course it was the blood (transfusion) that killed her". Aunty was an elderly women who had complications from heart surgery for f*** sake!

  What is wrong with these people?

  Oh yeah it's a cult.

  I dread having to go to my folks funerals, maybe I wont.
  
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  not a new topic - really a pet peave

  by Moster in

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  makes me crazy:.

  there: go over there!.

  their: they own it; belonging to etc.. for the love of pete - use them correctly!.

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  I work in a school and some of the younger teachers' errors really grind my gears. And I am just the groundsman.
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  Poisonous chicken

  by zeb in

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  2. friends

  last night my wife prepared dinner.

  chicken and veg.

  as she was cooking the chicken it gave off the most vile smell.

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  Tantalon

  Zeb, it is my understanding that all commercially processed chicken in this country (Australia) is washed in chlorine solution. Sometimes the residue/aroma is quite strong in my experience. I was in the meat industry for 21 years.

  I try to avoid commercially processed food but that ain't easy even tho we have a semi rural lot with fruit veges and chickens grown on site.

  Hope you stay well
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  Do you think the general public cares about former Jehovah's witnesses?

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  2. friends

  i was wondering if you guys think if the general public cares about our stories or if they even care what the watchtower does to people??

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  Just WOW, that last post from Outlaw with a photo of a group of brothers in front of KH; one of those ol geezers is my Dad! I swear it is him or a doppelganger! That's all just wow.
  
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  JW Cart encounter

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i've seen very few carts in western australia.

  the only one i have seen is near the front entrance of the perth royal hospital and on the several occasions that i have seen it, they are there all day, at least during the week.

  i've stopped and had long conversations twice now and both times when i have approached them they've told me to take whatever publications interest me and then we've started talking.this last visit i brought up the royal commission.

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  Tantalon

  Thanks for your post Listener.

  Great anti-witness. Not surprised at their ignorance of the actual findings of the ARC, of course they would not have looked for themselves, just blindly accepting out of context half truths.

  Just to let you know, unfortunately I have seen the carts at Malaga Markets, Midland Markets and Mundaring farmers market, all weekend venues. Great to see another West Aussie on here.
  
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  "We dont mourn the dead"

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i remember a brother making the above statement in regards to an elderly sister who had passed.

  he stated we don't mourn or even visit grave sites because we have a hope that jah will resurrect the dead.

  it seemed really creepy at the time, hell, even jesus wept when lazarus died.

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  Tantalon

  Well that's bizzare I have just re-read my earlier post and it says wedding instead of funeral, not sure wether to blame interweb or strange workings of the brain! most peculiar, obviously too late to edit! LOL
  
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  "We dont mourn the dead"

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i remember a brother making the above statement in regards to an elderly sister who had passed.

  he stated we don't mourn or even visit grave sites because we have a hope that jah will resurrect the dead.

  it seemed really creepy at the time, hell, even jesus wept when lazarus died.

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  I attended my not JW Aunt's wedding a couple of years ago. My aged parents, JWs, attended, the deceased being Mums sister. It was a secular memorial service They reserved seats for her up the front with other blood relatives, the deceased's children. She declined and sat up the back.

  It was a really nice service, lots of family photo's and talks about Aunty. She was a really good community minded well liked and respected lady. Lots of tears and hugs, but no tears from the last sister my Mum. My folks came across so cold it embarrassed me deeply, especially as I had attended primarily to support them. Aunty had died from complications following heart surgery. When I tried to discuss with Dad some of Aunty's good works which I had previously not known his response was "it was probably the blood transfusion that killed her".

  I am still angry. Still it was this which finally woke me from 40 years of being a JW apologist. I could never quite make the mental break until this moment.

  Not looking forward to attending Dad's service when he goes, I will have to be good, I promised wifey.