Wow, I had not heard of this story.
Marked to follow up.
Gypsy Sam
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Kelle Jarka Murder trial
by truthseekeriam inis being followed daily at www.swrnn.com for those interested.. this afternoons coverage said he was an elder at the time of the murder.. i think when the story first came out no one was sure if he was or not..
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Jehovah's Witness 70, stripped of all privileges, jailed for historic sex abuse against his young stepdaughter prior to being a Witness. Nelson, New Zealand
by Sol Reform inhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9458000/man-70-jailed-for-historic-sex-abuse.
man, 70, jailed for historic sex abuse james greenland last updated 13:00 29/11/2013.
share a nelson man has been jailed for six years for historical sex offences against his young stepdaughter.the victim spoke in the nelson district court at the sentencing of stephen robert carter, 70, this week.. she described the deep psychological trauma she had lived with as an adult as a result of his controlling and manipulative sexual abuse in the family home.. she explained the difficulty of living under a "burden of secrecy", unable to tell anyone about what carter did to her because of the effect it would have on his high standing within the nelson jehovah's witness congregation.. carter had admitted seven charges, including representative charges of rape, sodomy, inducing a girl under 12 to do an indecent act, permitting a girl under 12 to do an indecent act on another male, and counts of committing an indecency with an animal, and being party to an indecency with an animal.. the court heard that carter converted to christianity about three years after ceasing the sexual abuse, which he initiated under the false pretence of sexual education when his stepdaughter was 10 and 11.. in one of the first instances of "grooming", carter showed the victim his semen under a microscope, the court heard.
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Gypsy Sam
I missed this one when you first posted it. Thanks for sharing.
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My Daughter Begins to Reason on Her Own About the Witnesses
by losingit insuccess!.
today my oldest daughter attended her first birthday party ever for one of her best friends at school.
we actually crashed because we didn't get an official invite or even an email, but it ended up working out and the mom was happy to have us there.
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Gypsy Sam
Great update! Nice to hear she is thinking on her own!
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The Last BOE!
by Atlantis inthis is the last boe we will be able to provide.
our informant or source, was caught, disfellowshipped, and thrown out of bethel.
we knew that sooner or later the watchtower would find him out.
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Gypsy Sam
Thank you both so much. Hope he is ok! I guess I shouldn't be surprised there are security cameras.
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Jason Cobb's posts documents on Internet
by Rufus T. Firefly inbe sure to read timelines 1 & 2 which include some interesting documents.
jason doesn't seem to realize that the course he has chosen has placed him completely at odds with the wts.
as much as he hates to admit it, he has become the thing he despises most...an apostate.
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Gypsy Sam
Is this guy still not on here?
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Has anyone found comfort/encouragement from "worldly songs"?
by awakening ini remember reading a thread when my exit was starting, about inspirational songs.
someone posted a link to the "shins" for a fool.
this was a surprising help to me.
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Gypsy Sam
John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change
Madonna - This Used to be My Playground
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Maybe moving! Need some advice
by Jon Preston inok so we might be moving to fl.
wife wants to get away to start over.
i also want to move but at the right time and to the right place.
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Gypsy Sam
I'm in FL! PM me :)
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Scriptures for brother taking field service group
by FL_Panthers ini have recently been given the privilege of taking the field service group.. .
can anyone give me some scriptures i can use to encourage the group?
can you also give a reason as to why these scriptures are helpful to our ministry.. .
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Gypsy Sam
Welcome, FL Panthers,
If you're still reading, I'm in Florida, too and joined the site one year ago. We've had quite a situation in my former hall, involving a jw elder pedofile who molested 7 boys. He was just sentenced to life. I mention this as you mentioned someone else who sounds like they abused a child. Googling "jehovah's witnesses child abuse" a little over a year ago is what eventually led me here. Does the lack of a policy to protect jw children from pedofiles bother you, too?
As to your opening question, no scriptures come to mind. I seem to have filled that area of my mind with learning about cognitive dissonance, logical fallacies, information about science and art history.
Keep reading. There's a lot to learn from this site.
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Gypsy Sam
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WT wants members to auxiliary pioneer in place of vacations now!!!
by EndofMysteries inthe may 2014 km, posted in another thread is a link to download it.
page 2, for week starting may 19th under the service meeting:.
discussion.
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Gypsy Sam
We had groups vacation pioneer since I was a teen. I was always encouraged to pioneer during school breaks. The young ones were definitely out in service more on breaks. In my last hall, a group of 10-12 would make quite the slides how up from their recent pioneer vacation. The gulf in our hall was rather big regarding finances. Looking back, there were quite a few who probably weren't uplifted by the clique that traveled well and boasted about their work for Jehovah.
I'm totally using DD's idea when I take a little staycation the end of this month :)