to start off, i'm not saying this happens, or doesn't.
i'm just a bit confused on the subject, and what you guys are always talking about.
what exactly is it with the wt on the issue of child abuse?
I would like someone with access to the statistics for countries to report here the % of witnesses reported/recorded/convicted on this matter compared with other religions i fear the stats would reveal a most terrible thing. That is if there is a higher indication of sex offences coming out of the wt camp then there should be an enormous ..WHY?
There is no requirement by the wts to report paedophile activity to the Police by the elders unless that is a state requirement.
have you noticed how the org, and individuals are more concerned about the actual event such as the international conventions, rather than the content of the program?.
i often shake my figurative head (ok, literal one too!
), as i see the all the hype being generated by the act of attending, and think that most are not actually interested in the stuff that will be presented, but are more concerned about simply being there or getting there..... and, they are more focussed on the activity of a campaign, such as a tract work, or invitation hand out, rather than the actual content of the material.. .
the fuss and bother of getting there. By some.
"what are we to wear..(!)"
It will be wonderful because everyone says it will be.
Talks. far too long. point made and then gone over and over... . . and over.
any baptisms done requiring yet another talk.
final talk "Keynote adress" then followed by yet another talk so bad organisation.
final prayer done as a 'summing-up' of the program.
and (pet hate) perfectly able bodied jw sitting in 'invalid only' seating.
after a jehovah's witness secretly confronted a foster child, eunice spry was jailed for torturing three children; she is now set to be released from prison and re-homed near her victims.
uk.
(warning - graphic pictures and story).
Have signed the petition, i feel it is weak but better than nought. Me? ....she should be dealt with under "rule .303". Only with her death would her victims ever feel safe again.
i have scanned daniel chapter 9 as it is rendered in english by the hebrew tanakh (masoretic text - mt) and by the greek septuagint (lxx).. http://www.jwstudies.com/daniel_9_in_mt_and_in_lxx.pdf.
read verses 24 to 27 carefully.. doug.
27 ..he will cause gift offering to cease."
you maintained a level of personal decency and integrity that you almost certainly would not have had if you had chosen another direction.. sure, you would have had some very "colorful" friends and experiences if you had gone another way, but you still chose the more "edgy" people in the congregation as your friends and you still enjoyed yourself, even if there were a lot of phony constraints.. you looked for ways to be of value to others.
don't stop doing that!.
you kept the darker side of your personality in check.
When I answered at wt a bit differently to the drones who quoted the party line verbatim i was looked at with suspicion. I would answer from the expereince of life.
Later the wts told everyone to answer like that. so they did.
In my last experiences of wt the whole borg had become very defensive and evryone was back to quoting the party line or sitting like dumb s*** and not saying anything at all.
anyone else getting a bit tired of being wetted upon?.
i've sort of had enough already, suede shoes in the rain is not not a good idea.. .
on the plus side, it's fun for fish .
In a lot of drought stricken Australia we welcome the rain! Unless you are in the parts that flooded the year before last and last year too or the bits that burnt to the ground with wild fires.
could be for whatever reason.
i shall go first:.
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"I see trees are green
red roses too.. I hear babies cry.. and they will learn more'n i ever know"
Louis Armstrong
i have plenty of tips on my older site on starting ministries or outreaches.
though today they are now generally sites for public assistance, not personal blogs or opinion or doctrinal sites.
free minds has covered doctrines, news, opinions, and more for 32 years (since 1996 online).
My heartfelt thanks.
Yes the 'soup' was one of the first i came across when i was looking for answers after hearing of the sexual abuse of my youngest.
I have gained healing from this experience.
well i think the title says it all so expect nothing of any importance in the special dec. issue of the watchtower.
to put santa clause in a good light would make jehovah very sad not to mention jealous, honoring santa clause makes this childish jehovah all jealous as he considers this an afront to his universal soveignty which gives him the right to destroy all false worshippers of the minor deity called 'santa clause'.
and don't get me started about how sad jehovah gets when he finds some little kid has chosen a sparlock the magic wizzardkind or type of toy that might be in league with satan jehovah god's chief sadness maker.. jehovah wants to go on a witch hunt(smash those evil toys) and burn those sadness making wizzard toys, the governing body perhaps in the near future and still in this delusional state will pass a ban on kid toys and must pass the elder's approval list before you can even think of keeping them in your car or the holly kingdom hall owned lock stock and barrel by the watctower corporation ready to be sold out from under hard working jws to pay out child molestation lawsuit.. these criminals have no mercy for the flock and the children get santa clause taken away from them because of mean old corporate imaged jehovah..
Frankiespeakin:
Now tell us what you really think..
No toys for kids eh is that what they will be spouting? No lego, no airfix, no barbie, no electronic stuff, no skates, no blocks, no bats n balls, no frizbees, no tents. If this is announced I ask all our US in particular contributors to start phoning TV networks, newspapers. and if you are still 'in' and especially if you have kids, let it be known such an edict is wrong unhuman and cruel.
Whats next wedding rings, cosmetics, high heels? Well, they already have imasculated the men.
this new 100th memorial year of the begining rule of the imaginary kingdom of the heavens is turniing out to bring windfall profits to the watchtower corporation.
already the gb are selling real estate like there was no tomorrow and the way it looks this is just the begining as they try to liquidate assets before the "great disappointment" gets in full swing, take the money and run seems to be the new tune for these charlatans.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wcfugcollu.
faithful to what?
I am an Australian. I watched the speech by Dr. Carsen. It was moving as it was sound. He spoke of the need for education with an almost reverence.
His mother , one of 24 children was herself married at 13. They lived in grinding poverty. She saw to it that her sons were educated by insisting they read two booka a week and then right a report on those books to her. She critically studied those reports to engender ever greater desire in the boys to read more on all sorts of topics. She also could not read herself but they didnt know that.
He spoke of laws 200 years ago that said it was illegal to educate a slave particularly in reading..... why because reading liberated..
Some of the comments made of his speech criticised him for 'having a go' (as we say) at President Obama. He was not having a go at him he was openly and decently referring to the probs faced by America today and that is the use of free speech for honourable purpose.
Education is feared by those who would control. I leave this to you all to ponder.
