Bad Seed

Some people are just bad seeds, bad from the day they were born and there isn't much anyone can do to change them. Those seedlings grow and grow into producing rotten fruit and need to be destroyed before they destroy the entire field of good crops, good people. Much like the Jehovah's Witness (JW) organization, they are a bad seed.

So odd being born and raised as a JW, we were always told that very soon God Jehovah would strike down Babylon the Great, the Empire of False Religion and all its hordes of followers. Their literature spanning a hundred years is filled with basically, bashing every religion not their own, bashing all types of religious belief systems and claim they are the one true religion that was chosen by God to rule the earth and spread the true gospel.

Pretty interesting that a recent Newsweek International cover story deals with the downfall of the JWs, meaning, the Russian government banning the religion and arresting anyone who has their literature or meets and practices their faith, many having to hide in fields or change locations and meet at different JW homes to worship and read the Watchtower corporation's assigned literature. 

But who really is behind this latest major cover feature? Watchtower is panicking over losing millions of dollars in assets and property in Russia, and in my opinion, the JW leadership are enraged over the banning of their cult only due to money issues and not based on any high moral beliefs. They mandate the JWs in that country disobey the ban on their religion and face abuse, arrests, and imprisonment all to stop the bleeding of cash for the phony victims called the Watchtower corporate leaders.

Watchtower hopes this cover will strike fear
into the hearts of its fading membership.

The link to the Newsweek article is here:

http://www.newsweek.com/2018/06/01/jehovahs-witnesses-939860.html

The article about the JWs is featured in both domestic and international issues, just with different covers. The American version of the magazine featured a cover of Bernie Sanders but contained the same article about the JWs.

I did blog about the Russian ban on JWs and was in support of the ban with the government basically kicking out that ungodly religion from their country much like how the Scientologists are not an accepted religion in many countries. 

Commentary on the Newsweek article can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Tb8Lpx8AY

I liked the way it was pointed out in that YouTube video about how some in the ex-JW community go on and on about the injustices of the Watchtower corporation, basically beating that same drum over and over again slamming the JW belief system and about how they protect child molesters, but when Russia placed a ban on the JWs, the same YouTubers were crying claiming it was unjust. 

Yes, this happened and continues to happen in the ex-JW YouTube community where these phonies are only out for big subscriber circles to increase their cash flow for basically doing nothing but sitting home 24/7 waiting for their family to bring home the bacon while they hog a computer screen claiming on one hand how awful the JW policies are for protecting pedophiles while on the other hand claiming that any ex-JW supporting the JWs being banned in Russia are "mentally diseased" as one YouTuber and blogger stated, skewing the facts. They are phonies who are grifting off of those who have left the JW organization.

So what happened with God destroying Babylon the Great first? It seems God is targeting the JW religion first and a quick Google search about Watchtower and hiding abuse among the membership, doing nothing to protect victims, is all over the Internet since it seems God has removed any protections from this religious movement while some YouTubers defend them when God has abandoned them. Watchtower is quick to tell people to get out of Babylon the Great when they are a part of it themselves and are angry they are being targeted first where it hurts them the most, in their assets. 

https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/salvation-only-for-jehovahs-witnesses.php

Time to get out of false religion and look to Christ as your leader instead of a god of war named Jehovah. You don't have to abandon Christianity or stop being a spiritual person. I am a spiritual person who believes in a Grand Creator in spite of the mental and emotional damage inflicted on me from my JW parents and enforced weekly at the Kingdom Hall by the endless talks and forced to read fear-based literature, having constant fear and guilt instilled in me year after year. However, I have emerged a stronger person and continue to reach out to help others via this blog and my website [link in the sidebar of this blog], as well as recommending books and YouTube channels that have helped me. 

I hope you can pick up the Newsweek magazine about the JWs and save a few copies for posterity. Oh yes, we will see the fall of this ungodly organization and supposedly, the JWs claim all other religions are harboring pedophiles and adulterers and anything else you can imagine except them when they seem to be the first target. The JWs have a victim mentality and may feel this Newsweek article is proof that Armageddon is imminent. But think of this, the Watchtower corporation is set to lose about 31.8 million dollars of property in Russia and perhaps that is the point of this article and publicity for Watchtower. To save their assets.

Did Watchtower PAY for this article to feature their so-called abuse by the Russian government? I would not doubt it, especially the timing since the summer regional conventions are taking place for the JWs and they need a hot terror topic to scare the masses and get people like me, the faders, to get back to that spiritual ark, those prison camps called Kingdom Halls.

Remember, those investors, stockholders, and owners of the Watchtower corporation are not necessarily JWs, in fact, probably none of them are. They date back to the beginning and the prior generations funded this religion since the early 1900's. THEY are interested in getting the word out via Newsweek [and other news sources] to gain sympathy from the United States and the UK to what? Stop them being targeted? NO, to stop their properties from being seized and to stop them from transferring property deeds to the rank and file to hide assets. No one knows more about money and wheeling and dealing and using Satan's world to their benefit than the JW leadership.

Yes, get out of her my people, if you do not want to share in her sins. Now is the time to simply walk out of those prison camp Kingdom Halls and never look back. You are strong enough. You do not need a homeless looking man broadcasting from his basement to "help" you leave the JWs. Many of these ex-JWs were kicked out of the organization for their own disgusting behavior having zero to do with them "waking up" one day and deciding the JWs are fakes and oh, all religion is fake. Nope, myself and thousands of other ex-JWs left on our own by using our critical thinking powers and finally had to face facts, the JWs are a damaging cult that hides and protects people who are sexual predators, whether those predators use an Internet connection, meetups, or prey on their own family members, those predators thrive within the safety of a JW congregation. The ones they evict are because the membership have had it. THEY stand up to the Elders and demand justice and some Elders comply, others do not and the victims have to move on and cope by themselves. 

However, you are strong enough to leave the JWs on your own. And as I have blogged about before, no person can tell you to disobey your own government, especially a wealthy group of men sitting in the New York area living in a resort with tennis courts and wearing Rolex watches and driving Cadillac Escalades. I am guessing that the Governing Body are planning their escape and it isn't via a rapture to heaven, but a rapture to a Caribbean island. Passports all ready guys? 

Cher thinks you're strong enough and

so do I. Just believe.

#jehovahswitnesses

#russia  #newsweek

#activism  #jwactivism

Philadelphia Freedom

The Philadelphia Inquirer is interested in freedom, freedom for people to talk about the growing concern of the Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) archaic culture of silencing people who are abused by the people inside their respective Kingdom Halls, yes, Halls not churches since this is not a Christian religion. They place Jesus on a phallic symbol stuck in the ground instead of a cross which repels them and they push him off to one side as their leadership take front and center in this organization. Have you seen the vampire movies? Dracula is repelled by the cross much like the JWs. 

When I was a small child, my Catholic grandmother sent me a gold cross necklace which I cherished, but not for long. Once I finally removed it from around my neck and placed it carefully on my nightstand, by morning it was gone. My devout JW mother and father were perplexed. Hmm, where did it go? I searched for it for many days and nights until my mother finally told me she took it because "we" don't want the sign of the cross in our house, it was demonic. I never brought it up again. We were JWs and that was the rule and the JWs are far from being Christian or Christlike.

The leadership of the JWs are a star chamber of men called the Governing Body who live in the New York area after selling off their massive Brooklyn buildings for over one billion dollars, yes, you read right. It is public record they are now billionaires and, not so public is that they are finally in the billionaire boys club and have reached that coveted 33 degree level of the top Masonic elite group of men of the nation. Yes, I keep saying men since the top elite of this world are men with women as basically property and used to further their lineage. To work your way through the Masonic secret society and reach the top levels, it takes money. We are not talking about the local lodges where moms and dads meet to discuss some charity drive, we are talking about the top leadership, same with the Watch Tower corporation. We are not talking about the sheep inside those Kingdom Halls who just do the bidding of the Governing Body by doing the slow death walk into those Halls every single week, trolling around neighborhoods pushing their literature onto householders or publicizing the official JW website, they are the worker drones and seem to be truly blinded and foggy about the truth about their organization.

But finally, the JWs are getting negative press exposing their inner workings. I have blogged about this a few times before but it is worth repeating this and exposing how secretive the JW organization is and continues to be.

Please reference the full article from "The Inquirer" from Philadephia:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/jehovahs-witnesses-sexual-abuse-children-beliefs-rules.html

The article talks about a four year old girl who was molested inside a Kingdom Hall by a teenage boy while people were meeting for field service, which means, they were pairing off and talking about what territories in the neighborhood they would "work" by knocking on doors and trying to recruit people into their religion. The incident happened about 10 years ago but the article relates other stories about abuses inside the JW organization and nothing is done by the congregational Elders. The article goes on to relate a police detective's experience in dealing with the Elders of a congregation regarding abuse allegations, and how they refused to cooperate. Typical of this religion, they do not cooperate with anyone, they shut down, close ranks and protect the holy Governing Body who to this day, go unchallenged as to their authority over the membership of sheep worldwide. It is quite disturbing that this religious group that only worships the God of this system of things can still thrive, but hey, they are serving the New World Order of men who use God when it suits them while their real God is whomever you want to call him/it, the Devil, Lucifer, Fallen Wicked Angels, but that is what the JWs are, they thrive on this earthly system of things and are hardly spiritual.

Once you start letting those blinders fall off your eyes, you can see many situations as they really are. Don't let a faux Christian religion mislead you anymore. Start reading about spirituality, discover and explore other organizations that are non-denominational. You can read the Bible on your own, there are many translations that use modern wording if you don't like the old style of the King James Bible.

Is it important to get out of the JWs? So many are unaffected by any articles or news reports exposing the JWs for being a secret society that harbors alleged abusers, I say alleged since we don't know. The authorities are never called when a victim or the family of a victim notifies JW Elders of abuse. They handle it internally which means they do nothing and the victim either keeps quiet or moves out of the area away from their abuser. Nothing is done, it is a secret society. Have I said that enough? I know. I was born and raised in it and there are so many things about the JWs that mimic Freemasons. My grandfather was a Freemason, his daughters [one being my mother] were Job's Daughters [sort of a girl's version of the Freemasons]. As I have related on this blog and provide more detail in my book, my mother and her sisters when they were in their 20's, transitioned to becoming JWs. The JWs prey on the innocent and stupid, duping people into thinking their God Jehovah is bringing about an end to this system of things when their God is only a God of War and Destruction.

It is never too late to start your own research. So much now is online and readily available to you. You don't need to travel to the Watch Tower Headquarters in Warwick, New York, and see a bunch of old black and white photos of the founders of this religious group since those photos are already on the Internet. Big deal, right? Some ex-JWs even travel to Warwick to see a bunch of old Bibles and rusty typewriters or a bunch of old literature behind glass, which is just bizarre, and gush over it as if it means anything. It doesn't. Gee, why don't they show you the basement of occult material and their Masonic books of ritualistic practices? You know, the secret cabal of the truly anointed by Jehovah who partake of the bread and wine depicting Jesus' body and blood and then throwing the glasses in the fireplace and chanting to their God Molech. Hmmm, a mystery, right?

Jehovah's Witnesses sacrifice their children to Molech masquerading
as their God Jehovah. The children are sacrificed by their parents
 on operating tables because they purposefully refuse potentially
life-saving blood transfusions.

You also don't need to purchase any voluminous book on the history of the JWs, it is all available for free on the Internet and you can read it at your leisure and print out anything you wish and stick it in a folder for future reference. You do not need the entire huge history of JWs sitting on a bookshelf. We are beyond those days, thank God.

I envy you if you are just starting to wake up and have the courage to start your own research. I still remember when I was waking up and started going on the Internet, it was around 1999 and it was an exciting time for me. Your own discovery and research will be exciting for you too. And yes, you can do it on your own. You are strong, you really do not need anyone to lead you out of the organization. If you are an adult, you can open that Kingdom Hall door to the outside world and never look back.

#jehovahswitnesses

#JWs   #watchtower

#abuse  #twowitnessrule

#molech

The Truth In Four Parts

The Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) have what they call a scriptural reason for demanding that there be at least two witnesses to any wrongdoing to convict one of their brothers [or sisters], and one of those scriptures is found in Deuteronomy 19:15. However, what the JWs refuse to acknowledge, is that even if there are two witnesses to such an abhorrent crime as sexual abuse of a minor, no conviction will be sought against the perpetrator, even if that person confesses. This is the sneaky way the Watch Tower leadership avoid their own so-called Scriptural policy. The Watch Tower corporation's goal is to protect themselves from having their corporation's name smeared in the press, in the court systems, in the congregations, and protect their belief they have a clean religious order that was chosen by God himself about one hundred years ago.

As you may be aware, a small group of ex-JWs participated in their own form of activism at the JW headquarters in Warwick, New York. A quick YouTube search will bring up many of their own video diaries on that event that happened last November. What many may not be aware of, was that a Canadian news team followed them around and documented what happened on their quest to awaken people in the township of Warwick, and finally approached the Warwick headquarters and asked to speak to a member of the Governing Body [the top religious rulers of the JWs]. Of course, when they approached the guards at the compound gates, the police were summoned and the ex-JWs holding up signs and banners, had to congregate on the opposite side of the street from the actual compound because a guard at the gate stated that it was "private property".

The Canadian news team has released their four-part video series exposing the JWs for allegedly having a long history of covering up sexual abuse against minors and revealed the truth behind those Watch Tower walls at Warwick, that they are simply hiding behind a few scriptures so they don't have to deal with sexual predators within the congregations worldwide. If they are forced into the court system, the Watch Tower attorneys have a history of simply paying victims to go away and placing a gag order on all parties in the case, so nothing can be revealed in the press about the details of the matter.

As many of us who were born and raised in the JW organization, we know first hand that they throw the burden upon the members themselves, upon the victims, when dealing with any abuse and must suffer in silence. They tell victims to read a few benign Watchtower-published materials, or face being evicted and labeled as a trouble maker if you speak up and go to the Elders in the congregation and reveal what happened. Many victims are often forced to leave not only their own congregation, but the religious movement, since the alleged perpetrators rarely if ever are removed from the congregation. The victims have to run and hide and feel ashamed, while the alleged perpetrator can continue to be welcomed in the congregation. Sometimes, a perpetrator may confess, so what, they may be on what's called restriction for a short time, not able to engage in the door-to-door ministry work, or have duties within the congregation. All this is temporary, and they can be restored to having all their privileges back while the victim is there suffering in silence, and this is especially dangerous when the victim is their own child. The abuse will never stop.

There is no justice for the children inside the walls of the Kingdom Halls, masonic halls of injustice, non-Christian halls of stoic men and women who have their personalities and basic human emotions stripped from them as their God Jehovah demands that they be silent when facing crimes against minors. Even adult victims of abuse must suffer in silence, never taking that abuser to court unless the victim wants to be shunned and ousted from their congregation, and even from the religion itself.

I hope you take the time to click on the link below and watch this incredible broadcast from Canada about the JWs and their two-witness rule.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/sex-abuse-survivors-allege-coverup-by-jehovah-s-witnesses-for-failing-to-report-assaults-1.3854274

To see the series as one video without commercials, you may access it here at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjatriVR0aQ

If you have suffered inside those Kingdom Halls and were abused, no matter if it was yesterday or 50 years ago, talk with a trusted non-JW friend, a non-JW relative, a counselor, your teacher, a supervisor at work, look online at various associations in your city and talk with someone. Many therapists offer low cost counseling services and it helps to just talk about it. No one is forcing you to speak publicly. You don't have to do a YouTube video, nothing is required. It is just helpful to talk to a licensed therapist, a physician, and perhaps when you are ready, you can take that next step and seek legal advice on how to proceed with bringing to justice the person(s) who victimized you. It is never to late to be happy. Your life is yours to live and you cannot be afraid of some God called Jehovah. No loving God will destroy you for seeking truth, justice, wisdom, and love. I hope that you can and will find the courage to take one small step and reach out and share your story with a friend, and perhaps it can lead you to finding lasting personal peace and happiness.

#jehovahswitnesses  #jw.org

#twowitnesses

#watchtower

Undercover

I've always wondered why the Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) are all basically very rude and mean people when not dealing with their own indoctrinated membership of sheep. I am speaking generally of course since you may find  a rare JW who is friendly and genuinely nice to people, not just to other JWs, but that is a very rare occurrence. 

Having been born and raised in the organization, I know first hand the phony facade they present to the world of "satanic" people. Yes, if you are not a JW you are viewed as a part of Satan's world and are under his power. Some of that programming did seep into my own brain of course, it was unavoidable what with the constant rhetoric from my JW parents, relatives, and persons in the Kingdom Halls where we would hear constant indoctrination talks from the platform every week and enforced by the membership after the meetings and in social situations with other JWs.

Notice the non-Christian
symbols at the top corners
of the magazine.

JWs are taught to fear looking into the past of their own religion. They only want to point fingers at other religious groups but you must ignore their Masonic past, along with their use of the term Kingdom Hall which are just Masonic lodges. Some persons who have done research in this area suggest that modern day JWs are simply a faction of the Masons, another belief system with roots in the Masonic teachings. I have touched on this topic before on this blog and the evidence is plainly there and available to anyone who wishes to do their own Internet search on the topic. Others suggest that it is a subversive and secret organization working against democratic governments. Well, anyone who truly is or was a JW can tell you honestly that you are instructed to not go to war, not voluntarily enlist in the military, do not vote for local or national elections, do not carry firearms [notwithstanding those who own hunting rifles to kill animals for food or for fur coats or leather goods], and to generally be a pacifist and not engage in violent conflict of any kind. You are also told to directly disobey your government if it conflicts with God's law, which actually means if it conflicts with Watch Tower's laws. So interesting that the word Watch Tower has many occult and Masonic roots if you care to spend an afternoon researching that too, you won't be disappointed.

The Watch Tower leadership push their own agenda of making their sheep have a defeatist personality, and to keep sending money to their worldwide headquarters or "Bethel" that is located at Warwick, New York, since you the sheep will gain nothing from amassing riches on earth. The sheep have no ability to handle money or a lot of possessions so they are instructed to give it to the ruling class of JWs at the world headquarters so they can manage affairs, not you. This falls in line with the elitists who are in control of worldly affairs that the dumb masses of people can't manage their own lives, but to give up their rights to the ruling class. In this case, that is the JW leadership of men in control of its functions, not simply the figureheads called the Governing Body who handle the religious dogma and insist the sheep die on demand by refusing certain medical procedures involving the use of blood. The JW sheep are only recruiters and are expendable either through illness, disease or from by being a blood sacrifice to Watch Tower by refusing a potentially life-saving medical blood transfusion.

The JW leadership carefully instill blind fear into their followers and that if you leave their own version of what is the truth about the Bible, you can go nowhere but into Satan's world. This is their own belief system, it is not the truth about the world itself. There is truth found all around us and we have to look for it and decide for ourselves what we will hold as our truth or respect others for their truth. The Watch Tower has its members so frightened and hypnotized to their own beliefs that when you leave you feel defeated without even trying.

So what is the Watch Tower corporation? What is their purpose in the global world of other religions? We know governments use religion to control its membership and push and agenda depending on what country you reside in. A CIA document has just been uncovered and was declassified in 2016 where they mention the JW organization in Greece. We know Russia has had its battles with this subversive religious group for decades and has recently banned them from continuing to operate in their country. Even in the U.S. they can be labeled as subversive since you must obey them over the government, oh except in the area of paying taxes. Yes, you must pay your taxes but Watch Tower does not, so better you pay than them while they amass great fortunes in real estate and in the stock market.

On a YouTube Channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JnGgoW6KEU ] a declassified CIA document has been found that states that certain political party members have joined the JWs to carry on their activities under the guise of being pacifists, where JWs are prohibited from fighting in any military conflicts. The imagination wanders to America as many of the membership are taking over as having their own agenda. We see it everywhere, the JWs have basically stopped walking from door to door to hand out print copies of their literature and stand at carts displaying random books or brochures. The ones that still go door to door hand out a card directing the householder to go to JW.org, their official website. They refuse to answer even the simplest of questions and will divert you by reciting rehearsed rhetoric about how violent the world is and God will turn the earth into paradise. Nothing of substance will be discussed by JWs anymore. This is a major turn of events in their recruitment activities, probably since about 2006. Yes, they are being infiltrated by people with their own agenda.

The link to the document I am referring to, can be accessed here:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp82-00457r002100830008-3

Numerology also played a huge part in the formation of this pseudo religious movement. They hide behind Scriptures that they carefully construct in their own translation called the New World Translation, yes a new world order pushing the agenda of the elite ruling class of this globe. It's interesting how they came up with the 1914 date of destruction of all earthly humans who did not serve this god Jehovah. Pastor Russell, the founder of the International Bible Students [now owned by the Watch Tower corporation], first said the end of this system of things would occur in 1914 based on some miscalculation of the measurements found at the Great Pyramid of Giza, it didn't make much sense. But when the end didn't happen he changed it to the Gentile times have ended and God's kingdom now rules with Christ over the earthly belongings, failing to explain how Satan and Christ can rule the earth at the same time. The JWs have claimed that Jesus returned invisibly to the earth in 1914 and is guiding the Governing Body of anointed men who feed the sheep food at the proper time. To this day, the JWs refuse to give up that 1914 date based on a jumble of confusing calculations using random Bible verses and refuse to face facts that Jerusalem was destroyed in 586/587 B.C.E. and not in 607 B.C.E. However, the arrival at that 1914 date actually has simpler roots as follows:

The JW organization has turned a corner. It is no longer a kind and gentle organization where they love to engage in long discussions over doctrine and defending their version of the truth about the Bible. Those days are long gone and it bears emphasis here to please look into the religion you are devoting your life to. For decades the JWs have spouted their rhetoric at their circuit and regional conventions urging their membership to give up their jobs, to get a minimum wage part-time job so they can recruit people to join the JWs so they can have a life of servitude with nothing to gain from it but making this faction of the Freemasons very wealthy for generations to come. Not your generation, your family will suffer from your life of being a sheep without a shepherd. A true shepherd wants the flock to grow and prosper in every way, not lead a life of forced servitude or risk being thrown out and shunned and discarded like garbage. The blind sheep will soon grow old in this world like we all will do, and they will have nothing to show for it but a lifetime serving a billion dollar corporation with an agenda to move up in the ranks of global wealth and manipulating the sheep, the rank and file, who have no clue what masters they are really serving.

#freemason  #occult  #jehovahswitnesses

#jehovah  #activism

Male Dominated Societies

I am not sure there exists any culture in the entire globe that is not male dominated. If you go back to the cave man days or even to the Bible times of mans' creation, the male of the species was generally physically stronger and provided for his family while the females gave birth to that family. 

So whatever grand creature(s) created all this and put all this into motion felt that there needed to be a dominate male and a submissive female in order for life to flourish and have generations of humans always inhabiting this planet. Now, in the animal kingdom everything is sort of out of control, with female lions hunting and providing food for the dominate male lion and amphibians changing sex to suit their environment, and a host of organisms that procreate no matter what happens. But with humans, we've basically got a dominate male over a female. However, in our modern times females are not bound to this rule. They can survive and flourish on their own without a male telling them what to do to function in this world. Even in the gay communities it is the males who take the leadership roles. I know, there are exceptions, but especially in the entertainment industry it is no secret men control it, whether they are straight or gay, it is a male dominated society.

It is also no secret that [being born and raised in the Jehovah's Witness (JW) Society] the JWs are a male dominated society in the shape of a pyramid. Recently the JWs have been getting attention for publicly reiterating their two witness rule in cases of sexual misconduct, there must be two witnesses to the act in order for a congregational committee to take action. Normally, it is two men forming a fact-finding committee. If they believe there is guilt they can place on someone, then the official Judicial Committee will be formed consisting of three men. 

The basic scripture they use for the two-witness rule is from Deuteronomy 19:15 where it states that no single witness should rise up against a man respecting any error or any sin...At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses the matter should stand good.

The JWs also quote verses in Leviticus about how sexual immorality was handled in Bible times:

The JW leadership say that they do not enforce the rules quoted in the scriptures above from the Old Testament about stoning a person who is guilty of sexual immorality and somehow they think they are lofty in this decision, yet still enforce the two witness rule for any sexual misconduct, whether it's egregious crimes against minors or not. Why? Because if the JWs started stoning wrongdoers, they would be put into prison for murder. It's that plain and simple. [Not counting some countries that uphold severe penalties relating to sexual misconduct and rules about women being virgins upon marriage.]

You see, the JW leadership of men are cowards. They want zero responsibility for taking action against anyone in the congregation who commits sexual abuse or misconduct and places the responsibility on the victims to seek any justice. Even the no-blood policy is not the responsibility of the JW leadership of cowards, no, that is a decision of the person rejecting the blood for medical purposes for themselves or their family. Each individual refusing a potentially life-saving blood transfusion for themselves or a loved one is blood guilty, not the JW leadership who made up the policy and enforce it by shunning or disfellowshipping the flock for disobeying this edict. Yet when cornered by the press, they say it's a conscience matter on the part of the membership and their no-blood policy is Biblical, etc., yet if you kill yourself, you are at fault, your family can take no legal action against the JW leadership. I think you get the message here. The JW leadership of cowards run and hide from responsibility even if it involves crimes against children and it's extended to their no-blood policy where they mandate genocide of their own membership.

However, what the JW leadership fail to reveal is that any Judicial Committee ruling does not mean justice is done in any matters brought before that committee. Yes, they follow instructions given in their "Shepherding the Flock of God" book, which is an Elders' manual on how to handle problems brought before the committee; however, it does not mean justice will be done. A side point is that any alleged misconduct by Elders themselves are always handled privately, where no public announcement will be made to the congregation, nothing happens basically, if it involves an Elder and his own family. I know this, my father was an Elder for almost my entire life until he finally stepped down from that position due to age-related health problems. So there are nuances to the JWs' two-witness ruling no matter if it's stealing petty cash to molesting a child.

The general public may not be aware that the JWs view crimes against a person as "sins". However, if an Elder comes home to find his home has been broken into and he's been robbed, does he form a fact-finding committee of two Elders to handle the problem? No, he immediately calls the police. 

However, if a woman reveals to an Elder she had been attacked and violated, what happens? A two man fact-finding committee is formed and they determine if the matter should proceed to a three-member Judicial Committee [all men] to determine her measure of guilt in the attack and formally charge the victim and decide her fate. Does she have at least one witness to her attack [as she can be the second person as the witness in the two-witness rule]? No? Then she will be put on trial for her sin and most likely will be disfellowshipped [expelled from the congregation and shunned] or at the very least, put on public reproof where her crime will be of conduct unbecoming of a Christian and she will be shunned. If by chance her attacker confesses, he will again face the same outcome. But both the attacker and the victim can work their way back into the good graces of the congregation by sitting in the back of the Kingdom Hall and the membership will treat them as invisible for at least one year. By that time the gossip mill is in full force and they will be humiliated into leaving the congregation and then they have to try and find a congregation that doesn't know them and be reinstated back into the flock and most likely will be damaged goods and marked anyway and they will fade away from the JW religion. Again, this is a general overview as it matters if the male involved has a lot of friends who will welcome him back to the flock and he will say the woman was at fault, etc., but the female in any case is the one who will shoulder the blame. Same with a child, they shoulder the blame as a victim of a crime that happens against them.

So, why would an Elder immediately call the police if his own home were robbed? Why not handle it within the congregation as they do with sins of the flesh? Because it's all about establishing guilt. The Elder has to prove someone robbed his house, he calls the police, they gather evidence and he hopes to get his stuff back. If a fellow JW robbed his house, same scenario, even though a brother is not supposed to bring another brother into court, somehow that is lost on the membership when it involves money and possessions. In crimes of the flesh, well, too bad, but the victim is responsible for the "sin" [not a crime] first, then the attacker comes second.  

The JW leadership claim that if there are reporting laws in their region about any crimes against persons under legal age, then they will immediately contact law enforcement authorities. In most cases I can assure you, this is a fallacy. They say they will inform the authorities when it's up to the victims to do this. Again, how do I know? My father was an Elder and as I have stated before on this blog, I read his notes from his Judicial Committee meetings and my mother shared information with me of her private conversations with my dad about everyone in the congregation, especially what goes on in the committee meetings. Not once was law enforcement involved when dealing with molestation against anyone, whether they were adults or children. It was deemed a family problem and they needed to deal with it. There are also countless testimonies on the Internet from JWs involved in these matters that can tell you that it's up to the victims to seek out law enforcement, not the congregation Elders; they will not help you, you are on your own.

One time in one of the congregations where we were assigned, a Judicial Committee matter involved an Elder and his daughter, the Elder simply said his sin against his daughter happened many years prior, and she was dredging up old stories that had nothing to with his life now and that she is emotionally unstable. End of story. The gossip, however, got around in the congregation forcing the Elder to move out of our area and transferred to another congregation miles away from us so hopefully no one knew of his past "sins" with his daughter, and yes he remained as an Elder. No sanctions were taken against that Elder, it was swept under the carpet. He eventually divorced his wife and he never saw his wife and daughter again until many years later when the daughter re-united with her abuser [her father] as an adult and forgave him. Such is the sick warped view of a person whose father molested her, sometimes the victim somehow becomes dependent on the abuser and tries to reconcile. But maybe that is just my viewpoint.

But what if the victim is male? There is a buddy system in each congregation and it depends on the clout of the victim. If it's a random child, then the mother deals with the incident and will be marked and ousted from the congregation if she dares bring the alleged abuser to court. If it involves men, sometimes the men take action and have the alleged abuser arrested and have the governmental authorities deal with him. If the alleged abuser is friends of the Elders, well, the victim is out of luck. Again, the same scenario as described above. The victim and the family will be marked and shunned, and will have to move out of the congregation and keep silent if they want to remain a JW. Otherwise, they will need to handle matters with law enforcement, but either way, they will be shunned and ousted from the JW organization.

If you feel trapped, lonely and depressed for being ignored by the Elders in your congregation because of suffering abuse, you must first seek help from a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist. They can guide you on how to heal yourself first, and then help you to bring the abuser to justice if that's what you wish to do; some victims do not want to proceed in that direction, but that's a personal decision. Do not bring the matter before a group of men in your own JW congregation. They are not on your side. They are protecting the congregation from getting a bad image, protecting themselves from lawsuits, and they don't want bad publicity either by word of mouth or if the matter would actually get into the news because the victim decided to take her abuser to court to seek justice.

Will adding women on the JW Judicial committees make things better? Not really, since they would have to follow the rule book published by the JW leadership on how to handle all matters brought before the committee. Change starts with the top ruling class of this organization and that is not a likely scenario. They are protecting their global wealth and want to sweep problems under the rug. If an individual wants to seek justice, they need to go to the "worldly" authorities and they will be marked and shunned by the JW Society and will be forced to leave.

So the solution to all this is to recognize a victim will get nowhere inside the JW society unless they have some clout in the congregation. Are you wealthy? Do they have high level business ties with the Elders or within your community? Do you have Elders who are relatives? If you answer no to all of these questions, you are isolated and will be alone in your battle. The solution is to leave the JW male-dominated organization that cares little about your well-being and a lot about their bank accounts. 

Not all religious orders, even though many are male dominated, treat victims as responsible for being attacked or abused, it is truly all about the people you are dealing with inside of any organization. In contrast, the JWs are very vocal about being a male dominated society and are proud of it, where women and children are to be seen and not heard and can serve the male leadership as they see fit. The JWs are very vocal about their policies that protect abusers and not victims. They are vocal about their mass genocidal policy on refusing medical blood transfusions. So it is very plain that the first step you can take to not be victimized is to walk out of those prison camps called Kingdom Halls of JWs.

So as stated, seek help for yourself first from licensed professionals, then decide on how you want to proceed to feel empowered and to move forward with your decision. If you are in any religious group that tells you to keep quiet because there are no witnesses to your assault, to feel guilty for being a victim, then walk away from those people, they are not there to help but to place blame on you and victimize you further. 

There are no easy answers, but the first step is to realize there is a way out, there are medical professionals to help, and you are not alone with whatever decisions you make in your life but a good start is to realize you have been victimized first by the JW leadership of cowards and that my friend, is a big first step. The rest is easy, it gets better once you get out and start exploring your options in life, and the best time to start is right now.

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