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  In ref. to child abuse

  by jw in

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  ok all time to get real.

  child abuse is not limited to jw's.. if you truly want to stop child abuse first start with the family , and be honest we all have a relative that is a pedophile.. then protect your family from stranger danger.. don't just isolate to jw's.. expand and truly stop the child abuse world wide.

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  FreeWilly

  JW,

  I've been following your reasoning and I get the following impressions from your statements:

  1) You too are disgusted by Child Molestors.

  2) You argue JW's are no different than other religions who also must contend with molestors among their ranks.

  3) You feel no pity for the perpetrators and advocate taking actions against them to protect children.

  4) However, your loyalty to the Society seems to surpress all of your instincts.

  5) Despite your position on sexual abuse, you admit no problem with the standing 2 witnesses rule.

  6) You apparantly agree with the disfellowshipping of victims, Elders and Bethelites who have publically spoken out for changes in Society policies.

  Sadly, your loyalty to this controlling organization dominates any difficulties you have with child abuse among your members and flawed policies that encourage a cover-up mentality. The Society has counted on loyalists like you to ignore anything unflattering about them. Thankfully the word has been getting out and the Society has been forced to make changes in their handling of abuse. Thankfully more JW's know to go straight to the police regardless of what their local Elders advise. Hopefully more people are not swayed by arguements (similar to yours) that reporting this demented behavior "brings reproach on Jehovah's name". All of this from the hard work and courage of people who have been expelled for doing what you are incapable of.

  You asked what people here have done to affect change. The question is what have you done in your sphere of influence?

  -FW
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  I caught my JW parents digging in my trash + an intervention

  by LeftBehind in

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  oh where to start.

  i will start with catching my parents digging in my trash.

  my neighbor called me on the phone and thought i would like to know that 2 people were digging in my trash and asked if she should call the police.

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  FreeWilly

  Maybe you should just take the initiative. Create a Powerpoint slide-show on all the reasons you are leaving the JW's.

  Have them all over and click "PLAY".

  Do record it for us though! -FW
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  Increase of war--staggering statements from the Really Teach book

  by M.J. in

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  2. bible

  the "bible teach" book, on p.89 says:millions of people have been killed in wars during the past century.

  one british historian wrote: "the 20th century was the most murderous in recorded history...it was a century of almost unbroken war, with few and brief periods without organised and armed conflict somewhere.

  " a report from the worldwatch institute states: "three times as many people fell victim to war in [the 20th] century as in all the wars from the first century ad to 1899.

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  FreeWilly

  Great report Carla. I love the title to the last chapter:

  "Why the Dramatic Decline in Armed Conflict?"
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  Best Committee Meeting Yet - They threatened to call the police on me!

  by SickofLies in

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  2. scandals

  yeee haaa!

  i'm an outlaw now!

  the elders warned me that if any i talk about anything said in the judicial committee or post any pictures i've taken, i'm in big trouble and i don't want these people as enimies!

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  FreeWilly

  What a bunch of Morons.

  A publishing company tells them they are "Princes on Earth" and they begin to think they weild power. It's like the Grand Pooh-Bah Master of a local Dungeons and Dragons club trying to put their neighbor under "citizens arrest" for stepping on their Wizards cap.
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  Another Committee Meeting?

  by SickofLies in

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  the elders love me!.

  they want to meet with me again, tonight at 8:00pm, no explaination as to why, just that they need to ask me some more questions.they must miss me by now its been almost a week since my last committee meeting with them.

  i've picked up some interesting bits of information from listening to the audio files and i feel i might know the reason they want to meet with me.

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  FreeWilly

  You could add this little twist:

  When they ask you to meet with them say...go ahead, but only say: "I have to pray on these matters more so I think it's best if we all wait on the holy spirit"

  If they press you for your views say "I have stuggled with doubts in the past, but as I said before, I intend to wait on jehooobAAh"

  Or "I'm reluctant to draw any conclusions before I study and pray on it".

  Don't offer any comments or evidence...... what can they say?
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  New Bible Teach Book Question

  by XBEHERE in

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  *** bh chap.

  1 p. 10 par.

  7 what is the truth about god?

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  The Yellow shading is a sign of God's wrath upon you. Prepare to be smitten.

  I could never get the whole "Naked lady listens to talking snake convice her to eat fruit from a magical tree resulting in the damnation of all humans" crap either.

  It gets to sound like greek mythology after awhile.
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  There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&ssheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html

  there is a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 .

  by bob carter .

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  FreeWilly

  I'm sorry, I guess I just don't follow..... maybe you can provide a real example that you have noticed in the GW data.

  Statistics are the collection, analysis and quantification of observed facts. While there is room for error in the collection, the analysis or the quantification of the results, these errors are in no way dependant on predictions that may, or may not, be made sometime later. A peer review process looks closely for these errors before the results are considered accurate.

  With all respect, it sounds like a lazy way to dismiss the facts.
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  The world is likely to suffer a temperature rise of more than 3C

  by ness21 in

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  this has just been on the news in uk, due to happen over next 100 years.

  im scared :(

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  FreeWilly

  FEAR

  Unfortunately it is intergral part of the Global Warming campaign.

  Remember, before Global Warming the FEAR that was then being marketed was the return of another Ice Age.
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  There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

  by Elsewhere in

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  2. friends

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&ssheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html

  there is a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 .

  by bob carter .

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  FreeWilly

  Which statistics do you find in conflict? In the GW issue, there is not alot of contested data. It is the implications and forcasts made on the existing data that is disputed.
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  There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&ssheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html

  there is a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 .

  by bob carter .

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  FreeWilly

  SWALKER,

  The New Scientist article you cited made an interesting observation. Did you notice it's mention of Ocean as a CO2 adsorber? It's the worlds largest adsorbtion mechanism. It's interesting that the warm El Nino waters seemed to result in an increase of CO2. I find that telling.

  Notice too, on the above graph that Global temperature often precede a rise CO2. This trend has been observed in recent times as well.

  Warming is believed to be the cause of elevated CO2 due to decreased adsorbtion capability. link

  I found the known causes of warming pretty interesting. Still think our 0.2% addition of CO2 (in our already CO2 impoverished atmosphere) is the causative agent?

  From: http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html

  (1) Astronomical Causes

  • 11 year and 206 year cycles: Cycles of solar variability ( sunspot activity )
  • 21,000 year cycle: Earth's combined tilt and elliptical orbit around the Sun ( precession of the equinoxes )
  • 41,000 year cycle: Cycle of the +/- 1.5° wobble in Earth's orbit ( tilt )
  • 100,000 year cycle: Variations in the shape of Earth's elliptical orbit ( cycle of eccentricity )

  (2) Atmospheric Causes

  • Heat retention: Due to atmospheric gases, mostly gaseous water vapor (not droplets), also carbon dioxide, methane, and a few other miscellaneous gases-- the "greenhouse effect"
  • Solar reflectivity: Due to white clouds, volcanic dust, polar ice caps

  (3) Tectonic Causes

  • Landmass distribution: Shifting continents (continental drift) causing changes in circulatory patterns of ocean currents. It seems that whenever there is a large land mass at one of the Earth's poles, either the north pole or south pole, there are ice ages.
  • Undersea ridge activity: "Sea floor spreading" (associated with continental drift) causing variations in ocean displacement.