Posts by cha ching

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UK: Paul Shields "abused girls after luring them with video games"

by darkspilver in

fyi from north-east england:.

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/johovahs-witness-abused-girls-after-12538877.

jehovah's witness abused girls after luring them with video games, court told.

cha ching

I am so glad that these women decided to come forward and have this man face the terrible actions and heavy memories he burdened them with.

Perhaps people don't realize how hard it is to face these events, especially after being mentally made to feel "it's wrong to sully Jehovah's name" or "we wouldn't want to bring reproach on the congregation".... all those subtle phrases and pressures that dwell in the back of all our minds... carefully planted, carefully grown, knowingly impregnated into our subconsciousness... with hopes of corrupting our consciences.... by the WT's years of finely honed experience.

Yes, it is great when people report these crimes, it helps, that is what they should do.... The WT knows this, the WT dreads this.... When police and courts and investigators are involved, the dark curtain of the WT gets taken apart, reality is discovered, justice has a chance.

For people who have been abused by predators, by pedophiles, by the sad systems that support them, I send my love, I send a hug, I send my understanding.

If only more would report. Perhaps...... perhaps.... this is the beginning.

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My families shunning has gone to a whole new level

by pale.emperor in

8 months df'd.

loving a life of freedom.

however, my family are all shunning me.

cha ching

Dear Pale Emperor, thx for posting this, and letting all know what it is like in JW world. As many others here have testified, they have experienced the same.

I will put my two cents in here too, and say my mother sounds a lot like yours. As Wing Commander, Toes Up and JustFine have noted, "having a dead child" is a way to get attention, get love, be noticed. That's what my mom is all about.

When my family was "in", she could brag how nice her daughter was, her kids, her elder son-in-law.... but now that we have left?..... her narcissistic self has no use for us, SHE is now better than us... something she craves, yet has never had.... to be 'on top.'

I agree with them all, cut her loose, and live... make her come back to you.

hugs, cha ching

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JW guilty on all accounts & bond revoked for sexual abuse in FL

by LevelThePlayingField in

this news article has a news video inside it straight from the station.

finally the judge doesn't hold back.. http://wjla.com/news/nation-world/jehovah-witness-teachers-aide-sex-scandal-guilty-on-all-counts.

cha ching

Does anyone know if he was an MS or elder?.....

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So, I watched "The Founder" today, and had a minor Revelation

by Captain Schmideo2 in

jw
friends

in the movie's story, ray kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising mcdonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract.

he gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.one aspect of the business jumps out.

the stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores.

cha ching

I can totally see it... "I want it my way"...... or....

as the WT says....... "the highway"

;-)

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Elders getting burnt up.

by biblexaminer in

the elders in this area are getting burned out.

i have overheard comments that demonstrate this, but in my dealings with them, i clearly see it.

they can't keep it straight.

cha ching

Did Watchtower used to say people become like their gods?

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ARC Analysis Summary of Case Files

by Richard Oliver in

i have been doing research on the arc as some people on here have suggested.

i find it interesting on the case file analysis some of the findings.

it looks like queensland and new south wales had the biggest problems with this.

cha ching

However, how DO laws, actions, people's rights get changed?

Money.... doesn't it boil down to money?

So, take them to court, make them pay, change the laws... That is how history has shown that things change.... persistence.... money...

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ARC Analysis Summary of Case Files

by Richard Oliver in

i have been doing research on the arc as some people on here have suggested.

i find it interesting on the case file analysis some of the findings.

it looks like queensland and new south wales had the biggest problems with this.

cha ching

Like Data Dog asked: What does Jehovah & Jesus think?

That is what the WT should be thinking about.... IF they are the TRUE religion..... IF they want to PLEASE God...... IF they want to SHINE as RIGHTEOUS people..... IF they want to give a good name to God...... THAT should be numero uno, right? No law should HAVE to tell them what to do. They should do it BEFORE the law tells them what to do.

What was Jesus like? Did he need a LAW to tell him to help the Samaritan on the side of the road?
(Matthew 15:3-11) 3 In reply he said to them: “Why is it YOU also overstep the commandment of God because of YOUR tradition? 4 For example, God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Let him that reviles father or mother end up in death.’ 5 But YOU say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother: “Whatever I have by which you might get benefit from me is a gift dedicated to God,” 6 he must not honor his father at all.’ And so YOU have made the word of God invalid because of YOUR tradition. 7 YOU hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about YOU, when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’” 10 With that he called the crowd near and said to them: “Listen and get the sense of it: 11 Not what enters into [his] mouth defiles a man; but it is what proceeds out of [his] mouth that defiles a man.” (Can you say WT lawyer????)

(Luke 16:14-15) 14 Now the Pharisees, who were money lovers were listening to all these things, and they began to sneer at him. 15 Consequently he said to them: “YOU are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but God knows YOUR hearts; because what is lofty among men is a disgusting thing in God’s sight.

(Luke 10:29-37) 29 But, wanting to prove himself righteous, the man said to Jesus: “Who really is my neighbor?” 30 In reply Jesus said: “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jer′i‧cho and fell among robbers, who both stripped him and inflicted blows, and went off, leaving him half-dead. 31 Now, by coincidence, a certain priest was going down over that road, but, when he saw him, he went by on the opposite side. 32 Likewise, a Levite also, when he got down to the place and saw him, went by on the opposite side.

33 But a certain Sa‧mar′i‧tan traveling the road came upon him and, at seeing him, he was moved with pity. 34 So he approached him and bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine upon them. Then he mounted him upon his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And the next day he took out two de‧nar′i‧i, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him, and whatever you spend besides this, I will repay you when I come back here.’ 36 Who of these three seems to you to have made himself neighbor to the man that fell among the robbers?”

37 He said: “The one that acted mercifully toward him.” Jesus then said to him: “Go your way and be doing the same yourself.”

No laws needed.... nothing more to say..... You want to be the right religion? Put your money, put your actions, put your hearts where your mouth is!

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NY Daily News: Gov. Cuomo unveils plan for Child Victims Act that would do away with statute of limitation

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-unveils-plan-child-victims-act-article-1.2943920.

cuomo unveils plan for child victims act that would do away with statute of limitation .

cuomo wants to get rid of statute of limitation for child victims.

cha ching

yes, yes, there is always the "reality check".... but THIS is the way things BEGIN to change. ;-)

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NY Daily News: Gov. Cuomo unveils plan for Child Victims Act that would do away with statute of limitation

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-unveils-plan-child-victims-act-article-1.2943920.

cuomo unveils plan for child victims act that would do away with statute of limitation .

cuomo wants to get rid of statute of limitation for child victims.

cha ching

YES! Finally, someone who cares more about really helping people than they do about statistics, rules, and statutes.

So proud of that guy!

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ARC Analysis Summary of Case Files

by Richard Oliver in

i have been doing research on the arc as some people on here have suggested.

i find it interesting on the case file analysis some of the findings.

it looks like queensland and new south wales had the biggest problems with this.

cha ching

The reeeeeeaaaaaaaallllllll issue is: why is there a "sex offenders list"?

So that people have a chance to protect themselves. At least they have a chance.

As seen from the Australia Royal Commission, WT headquarters DOES have a 'sex offenders list' of their own, that the GB COULD make available and INSTRUCT elders to warn & inform to protect children, as they repeatedly say "we abhor child abuse".

They abhor it? What do they do about it? They don't comply with court orders, and turn them over.

Even if the law does not require it, they are morally & spiritually responsible to protect these children from being stumbled and protected from offenders.

(Matthew 18:6) 6 But whoever stumbles one of these little ones who put faith in me, it is more beneficial for him to have hung around his neck a millstone such as is turned by an ass and to be sunk in the wide, open sea.