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Why so many Jehovah's Witnesses suicides

Most  Jehovah's Witnesses will know of many suicides within their ranks . I know of 6
personally .

As many know,  what happens is a individual is shunned or disfellowshipped by the
decree of 3 unqualified Jehovah's Witness elders . For any one of a long list
of perceived transgressions . Some biblical some not .

If the person was born a Jehovah's Witness then their whole Jehovah's Witness family will
immediately shun them . As will all friends in the cult .

Mother
Father
Siblings
Children
Grandchildren

This many times leads to depression and suicide .

When confronted with their unchristian application of shunning most Jehovah's Witnesses
will dishonestly misrepresent the realities of it .

Here are the common lies they tell .

"We only disfellowship for biblical wrong doing ."

"Only people who are stubbornly unrepentant are disfellowshipped ."

"Disfellowshipping is loving. "

Since Jehovah's witnesses disfellowship people for smoking tobacco its obvious
that they don't follow the bible . Its also a fact that a high percentage of
shunnings occur for the "sin" of changing one's mind about the teachings
of the cult .  Or even just asking forbidden questions about the sordid history
of the Jehovah's witnesses or their doctrinal scandals  .


The following links are of  EX Jehovah's witnesses and current members
discussing the prevalence of suicide .

 http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/221220/1/Suicide-How-many-do-you-know-within-the-JWs#.UmZnrRAweFl

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/239182/1/SAD-news-about-OOMPA#.UmZoCxAweFk

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/medical/236892/1/Jehovahs-Witnesses-Watchtower-SUICIDE-How-many-JW-suicides-can-you-recall#.UmZmrhAweFk

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/121987/1/The-Great-Taboo-Discussion-Suicides-among-former-Jehovahs-Witnesses#.UmZnGxAweFk


DR Jerry Bergman PHD his book "Jehovahs Witnesses and the problem of mental illness"

In Memory of Eric Reeder

Are you thinking of leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNxO8Nj-JPo

From JWsurvey.org

 

Governing Body breaks its own name-calling rules in “Human Apostates” convention talk

The Society is contradicting its own condemnation of “name-calling” in its latest convention rant against so-called “apostates”

Jehovah’s Witnesses around the globe are currently attending the 2013 “God’s Word Is Truth” District Convention. One feature of Saturday’s programme that is causing a stir on YouTube is a talk that condemns “human apostates” – former Witnesses labelled by the Society as “mentally diseased.”
The Teaching Committee of the Governing Body is tasked with preparing material for conventions and assemblies, and it is these men who will have carefully worded the manuscript on which this controversial talk is based.
Having approved this material, the Governing Body will not be pleased to discover that one clever YouTuber has put together a four-minute video that uses their own words against them. Specifically, the Society has been shown to be hypocritically flouting its own condemnation of the spurious form of argumentation widely known as “name-calling.”
The video is based on a 2000 Awake! magazine entitled “Should You Believe Everything You Hear?” Under the heading “Name-Calling” page 6 says…

“Some people insult those who disagree with them by questioning character or motives instead of focusing on the facts. Name-calling slaps a negative, easy-to-remember label onto a person, a group, or an idea. The name-caller hopes that the label will stick. If people reject the person or the idea on the basis of the negative label instead of weighing the evidence for themselves, the name-caller’s strategy has worked.” (g2000 6/22 p.6)

The new video brilliantly contrasts the above with the words contained in the venomous “Human Apostates” talk, which includes recorded statements such as the following…

“Like Satan, human apostates are unruly men who cook up wicked reasonings and season their brew with poisonous lies that deceive minds. Their preference is to partake of falsehood at the table of demons. Human apostates are part of the seed of the serpent spoken of at Genesis 3 verse 15. If we wish to please Jehovah, we cannot be feeding at his table and at the same time be nibbling at the table of demons, eating from the hands of Satan’s helpers – human apostates.”

The video itself can be viewed below…
Sadly, this is not the first time the Governing Body has resorted to underhand tactics in suppressing those who dare to oppose their authority. Earlier this year I wrote an article entitled “Secrecy and deception: Watchtower fights dirty in its war against “apostates”,” which outlined the vilification, mud-slinging, secrecy and outright lies that have been successfully used by the Society for decades in fighting dissent.
Many who like me are known among Witness friends and relatives as disagreeing with the Society will be cringing that their loved ones will be exposed to such overt propaganda during the convention – deliberately intended to stir up hatred and suspicion.
It can only be hoped that some loved ones will see through the manipulation and comprehend what it really means – that the Society is desperately trying to hide something. Sadly, the reason that name-calling and denigration is now being employed so freely by the Society is because, as they themselves recognize, such tactics work only too well.
 http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/governing-body-breaks-its-own-name-calling-rules-in-human-apostates-convention-talk

Jehovah's Witnesses Hate speech advocates killing their critics

World renowned cult expert Steve Hassan ranks Jehovah's Witnesses as a harmful Cult

http://freedomofmind.com/Info/index.php

How to identify a Cult

 

 

Jehovah's Witnesses Hateful shunning of family

Hateful shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses

Grandma pleads with Jehovah's Witness Granddaughter 

 

Jehovah's Witnesses  hate speech 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DbfC4RcLAY&feature=c4-overview&list=UUenab9g4_7GpD10EWd4LVIA

Jehovah’s Witness elders stonewalled a police probe into church member’s sexual abuse

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Barry Duke– August 24, 2013

 

 THREE  Jehovah’s Witness elders refused to co-operate with police investigating child sex abuse claims against a fellow JW who was yesterday jailed in Newcastle Crown Court for 13 years. Gordon Leighton, 53, was found guilty on two counts of indecency with a child, and six of indecent assault after a six-day trial.



In 2010 Leighton broke down and admitted the abuse to the three church elders when confronted with allegations. He confessed to Simon Preyser, Harry Logan and David Scott but they refused to co-operate with the police.
Their barrister Richard Daniels claimed they had a “duty to God” not to breach confidence. He said: “Privileged communication between members of the congregation and ministers is an absolute right and there is no power in law to breach such a confidence.”
But Judge Penny Moreland made an order, saying:

They are in possession of relevant evidence as to a point which is of real significance.

The court heard David Scott, an elder of Washington’s Lampton Kingdom Hall, made a telephone call to the church’s London HQ.

The JW cover-up team: from left, Harry Logan, Simon Preyser and David Scott

He was instructed, with other elders, to carry out an investigation into the sex abuse claims against Leighton when they first emerged in December, 2009.
A meeting was set up in April 2010, to see if a “sin” had been committed. Leighton confessed after Bible verses were quoted which said “God sees everything”.
Despite confessing he was not “disfellowed” by the church until further allegations were made against him.
Prosecutor Katherine Dunn told the court:

The elders conducted their own investigation. After initially denying the allegations the defendant broke down and admitted sexually abusing the complainant.

But Leighton, of Washington, Tyne and Wear, refused to answer any questions when interviewed by detectives and claimed his confession at the meeting was limited.
According to this report on JW Survey – a website launched “to give voice to millions of Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world who would not normally have the opportunity to say what they really think about the Watch Tower Society, or the teachings and practices of the Governing Body” – it was only after the victim, now an adult, broke her silence by making a complaint to the police in 2009 could the authorities investigate. However, the elders refused to cooperate with the police investigation for three years.
Even after the case was brought to court and the three elders were issued with subpoenas, they refused to cooperate. Preyser, Logan and Scott went so far as to legally dispute their summonses on religious grounds, but were ordered to testify by Judge Penny Moreland after months of legal wrangling.
In denying the motion to withdraw the summonses, Judge Moreland said:

Public interest is clearly in favour of this evidence being given. What was said by the defendant on that occasion is of great significance in the trial.

Despite this ruling, the elders refused to give evidence until hours before they were due to appear as witnesses before the jury.
In passing sentence Judge Moreland told Leighton:

You manipulated her [the victim] with a combination of affection and attention and violence and threats.

She jailed him for 13 years. He was also given a sexual offences prevention order and must sign the sex offenders’ register for life.
Leighton was at the centre of an infamous case when his first wife Yvonne, 28, died after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds. After giving birth to a baby boy in January 1993, she needed surgical intervention and developed further complications and blood loss.
But she had signed a form during her hospital stay, stating she was not to receive a blood transfusion. She died as a result.
John Cedars, writing on JW Survey, said:

If the Watch Tower Society is found to have had a hand in this cover-up, it would only constitute further evidence of their long history of protecting pedophiles by keeping their heinous crimes wrapped up in a cloak of secrecy under the auspices of the ‘two witness rule’.
Despite the blatant cowardice and lack of accountability shown by the elders and the defendant in this trial, it is heartwarming to note the fortitude and resilience of Judge Moreland in refusing to be duped by Watchtower’s men in suits. We can also be grateful that the unnamed victim in this case had the bravery to come forward and see that justice was finally served on her so-called ‘brother’.

http://freethinker.co.uk/2013/08/24/jehovahs-witness-elders-stonewalled-a-police-probe-into-church-members-sexual-abuse/

Jehovah's Witnesses Child Abuse

Advocates for the Awareness of Watchtower Abuses (AAWA).