Posts by smiddy3

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My son graduated last Friday

by Captain Schmideo2 in

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i have talked about him before on this forum.

he is now a graduate from mit!.

it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.

Film about a Jehovah's Witness with leukaemia

by Amelia Ashton in

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=83t1gmazgsm&feature=youtu.be#menu.

a trailer for "the children act".

smiddy3

I`ve put this on my must see list and I have shared it on FB.

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I Think It’s Great That ExJWs Have Gotten Politically Involved!

by minimus in

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remember when we could never say an opinion regarding politics?

it’s refreshing to see that we can tell everyone what our political stances are and have no fear of shunning .

smiddy3

Its nice to know that we can have a say in what our Govt`s do whether it goes the way we want it to or not at least we can have a say in it and voice our opinion.

And not be dictated to by religion and the Governing Body of J.W.`s

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Former Jehovah’s Witness jailed for child sex crimes

by Tahoe in

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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.. .

smiddy3

Hi,stuck ... I have sent you a pm

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"Daddy, is the the scale model of the new UK Bethel?"

by Fay Dehr in

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...are we having financial issues watchtower?.

smiddy3

Thanks Terry for that tip however I went to the xtreme of making it too large thankfully I still have some active brain cells left to use control and minus sign

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Jehovah's Angels will protect you out in the ministry. Except from Dogs Pit Bulls

by Not_Culty in

2018 dog attack .

https://www.whio.com/news/national/pit-bull-attacks-jehovah-witnesses-front-door-police-say/rlreicdww8bkpzjjepxlhm/.

2013 dog attack .

smiddy3

Where was Jehovah when Christians were killed in the Roman arenas for sport and entertainment ?

Where was Jehovah when two missionaries were beheaded in the Phillipines ? a few years ago.?

That`s only two that come to mind off the cuff.

Their are plenty more .

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Former Jehovah’s Witness jailed for child sex crimes

by Tahoe in

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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.. .

smiddy3

If this prosecution has resulted from the A.R.C. into Child Sexual Abuse by Institutions then I hope that many more will follow suit.

Do any of you guys from the Perth area know of a Ron Sandilands ?

sorry nothing to do with the O.P.

Just that people from Western Australia might respond to this thread.

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Death's in Noah's flood

by Are you serious in

has the wt ever come out with an article that indicates how many people died during the mythical flood?

i searched on their site but couldn't find anything.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

smiddy3

What pisses me off is why did Jah have to kill off all of the land animals and bird life

because of humans ?

Obviously he never killed off any marine life did he.

He was biased and selective .

This story and also the rest of the "Old Testament" / Hebrew Scriptures contradicts the scripture that says

" For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten son in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life "John 3:16

For the first 4,000 years of human history according to the Bible Jehovah God was hell bent on destroying anybody who wasn`t an Israelite.

Kill man woman child and old man and old women ,let not your eye feel sorry for them.

And God is love ?

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Is it clergy privilege?

by StarTrekAngel in

just wanted to pose the question to the group and see what the general opinion is vs what the wt may have claimed in other cases.. we all know that they have argued over clergy privilege when elder learn of a crime but keep quiet about it.

regardless of what one may feel about this, lets assume for a minute that they are correct.. all elders are directed to contact the branch when they learn of a case of child abuse.

would the conversation between the elder and the branch be considered under the "clergy privilege"?

smiddy3

In all of my 33 years as a Jehovah`s Witness I was always of the belief that the J.W. religion claimed it had no Clergy Class.?

That was just one other factor that distinguished them from false religion Christendom who had a Clergy/laity class distinction.

And for them to claim Clergy/Penitent in a court of law is hypocritical

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JW Parents in bad shape with no retirement.

by blownaway in

my wife's parents are in very bad shape.

they are both 2nd gen jws.

my father in law worked for a large american manufacturing company in the 60s and early 70s.

smiddy3

Many of them that criticized Christendom as the Harlot that rides the Beast are now living in their Church funded Aged Care homes.