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  Really don't feel like a JW anymore

  by snare&racket in

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  it has been a good 8 years away from my area, a good 10 years + since i was regularly at meetings.

  a good 12 years since i was hesitantly active.. it is a slow process but it does happen.

  i now feel no connection to the belief system beyond memories.

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  Thanks so much snare for taking the time to look back and remind us that it is indeed worthwhile to keep pushing forward. There is light at the end of this ex-jw tunnel. You are living proof of that. 
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  I'm studying with Jehovah's Witnesses!!

  by Kulotti79 in

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  hello all... i currently studying the bible teach book and i'm just curious what information does the study conductor record about the student and is it passed on??

  and they keep on saying "the truth" which is starting to get on my nerves.

  lol.

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  sparrowdown

  Billy is right, they will try and "fix" you! 

  Ask them directly, point blank if you will have to give up your gayness to become one of them.

  
  
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  Just ask simple questions and make street witnesses move along

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  you don't have to know much to talk to jw's and show them they don't want to really discuss the matters.they consider a discussion on the matter they are pushing to be "confrontational.".

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfw_txpmsj8.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lqtadagucq.

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  If JWs choose to set up shop in public places they need to be ready for questions. After all they turn up at stranger's doors uninvited and ask (what some would consider to be) very personal questions, just so they can tell the householder how wrong they are. That's rude!
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  Thinking about thinking and upbringing

  by ballistic in

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  i was thinking about being "brought up in the truth" as opposed to joining.. as a child's brain develops, it builds connections based on what it is taught.

  these connections are inseparable from the person in that our thoughts and memories actually become part of our personality (who we are).. a very simple example, might be being taught *not to do something* because it "displeases jehovah".

  the understanding of right and wrong is then set in the child's mind and built upon.. there are several points of thought i have about this fact.

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  I have also given this some thought. I came into the truth, so I do have a point of reference as to what I was before, during and after the truth. I don't know how born-ins answer the question of "who am I ?" How is it possible to know what your natural personality is - minus the childhood indoctrination.? Stuff in life has habit of "regressing to the mean" as in - the average. So there would be an average you there somewhere underneath all the layers of cult-think.

  It can take some time and patience for it to emerge but I am confident it is possible to find a new normal.
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  Insistance on legal contracts

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just asking those who still attend or keep up with the latest magazines.

  there was a wt study not too long ago that insisted on studying every pact that god made in the past, but adding the spin of calling them "legal contracts".

  this week's book study concentrated on the same thing.

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  Yeah the covenants, but I was thinking more like anything Jehovah promised or decreed  could be considered and referred to as "legally binding" simply because Jehovah said it. But maybe that was my interpretation . I'll try and find an example to illustrate.
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  Search for GB Fan Name

  by sparrowdown in

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  justin bieber has beliebers.

  benedict cumberbatch has cumberbitches.

  surely the ego-stroking gb worshipping fans deserve a name.. gbsters?

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  Rockstar Popes= Ropes - luvin it!

  C.H hookers - very funny!
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  Search for GB Fan Name

  by sparrowdown in

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  justin bieber has beliebers.

  benedict cumberbatch has cumberbitches.

  surely the ego-stroking gb worshipping fans deserve a name.. gbsters?

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  Muthaf#*ked ( too crude?)
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  Search for GB Fan Name

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
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  justin bieber has beliebers.

  benedict cumberbatch has cumberbitches.

  surely the ego-stroking gb worshipping fans deserve a name.. gbsters?

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  Geebers?
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  Insistance on legal contracts

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just asking those who still attend or keep up with the latest magazines.

  there was a wt study not too long ago that insisted on studying every pact that god made in the past, but adding the spin of calling them "legal contracts".

  this week's book study concentrated on the same thing.

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  sparrowdown

  I have not been to a meeting in a year now, but I do remember phrases like "legal contract" "legally binding" etc in reference to "agreements" Jehovah made.
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  Search for GB Fan Name

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  justin bieber has beliebers.

  benedict cumberbatch has cumberbitches.

  surely the ego-stroking gb worshipping fans deserve a name.. gbsters?

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  sparrowdown

  Gov booties - funny.

  Governing Boob lover?