Posts by sparrowdown

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Major changes to convention security beginning in 2017

by Edison Trent in

short info on interesting changes to the major conventions this year: there will be a new security concept that will be implemented at all regional conventions in 2017.. similar to other major events (e.g.

festivals, concerts), there will be admittance controls in stadiums.. - at each entrance, there will be a massive presence of attendants that look at each visitor.. - there will be pocket checks at the entrance.. - suspicious persons are no longer left on the convention grounds.. - suppliers to the stadium will be intensively inspected by attendants.. - there will be a special sign for attendants that must enter the stadium before 7.30 am.

all others (even all attendants) can only enter after 7.30 am..

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Security at conventions - lol. IOW WT petty tyrannists searching bags for apostate literature while ignoring suspicious packages.

Hopefully conventions become so stressful people will stop going.

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Jehovah's Witnesses: DO THEY FACE REALITY

by TerryWalstrom in

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1.the organization itself denies access to reality and substitutes its own version, interpretations, and meanings.

a.only watchtower approved publications are allowed.

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This is precisely what makes cults so psychologically damaging.

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Does The Watchtower Corporation's Teachings Of Black White Thinking Induce Borderling Personality Disorder In Many Cult member?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think the disfellowshipping abandonement arrangement in human relationships also to be a heavy contributor to this malady:.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/borderline_personality_disorder.

borderline personality disorder (bpd), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder, is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable relationships with other people, unstable sense of self, and unstable emotions.

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Whether you came into the cult with a pre-existing personality disorder or you inherited a predisposition from your parents and WT indoctrination provided the perfect storm to create one being brought up JW is not healthy for any mind.

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Where did Jesus plug in the blow dryer?

by compound complex in

greetings!.

looking at images of jesus lookalikes, i found a vaguely familiar item!.

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-does-jesus-look-like.html.

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Finklestein - is that Don Draper (Madmen) with a beard?

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Does The Watchtower Corporation's Teachings Of Black White Thinking Induce Borderling Personality Disorder In Many Cult member?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think the disfellowshipping abandonement arrangement in human relationships also to be a heavy contributor to this malady:.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/borderline_personality_disorder.

borderline personality disorder (bpd), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder, is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable relationships with other people, unstable sense of self, and unstable emotions.

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I would say the majority of JWs are born-ins these days, I would say several generations down by now from the original converts - in western countries anyway. So this "the borg attracts crazy people" defense doesn't cut it anymore.

My personal opinion is codependency and narcissism are rife amongst JWs. WT is the ultimate narcisisstic gaslighter and JWs are the codependents. And because what goes around comes around in JW families you have narcisisstic parent usually the father but sometimes both while the mother and kids are codependent. Individual JWs are both codependent and what I call religiously narcisisstic. That's my theory anyway.

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Timely article August 2017 WT - "Endurance Under Trial Results in Blessings"

by OrphanCrow in

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the wts is to be commended on their timely and prompt response to the jw ban in russia.

the august wt has an article that features the sivulsky family from russia.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-august-2017/endurance-under-trial/.

pavel sivulsky' son, yaroslav, is getting a lot of air time lately.

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No properties were being seized in Australia so not an ounce of f*cks were given by the GB.

They may start squealing persecutuon if the ARC redress scheme was made compulsory

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Australia Take 5: “I was sexually abused by a JW elder as a child”

by darkspilver in

take 5 is a popular weekly 'women's magazine' based in australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/take_5_(magazine).

the following 1,100 word story is from their website - don't know if it's in the printed version.....take 5, may 5, 2017.

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Well now we have the post traumatic milo situation sorted....

Yes, one eyed joe is right, that's the nature of PTS a sight, a sound, a smell can trigger a memory and you're right back there. I think the meetings themselves even without physical abuse were very emotionally abusive spaces where you were never good enough or spiritual enough or connected to enough of the right people I threw away all my meeting clothes for this reason they reminded me too much of that horrible place called the KH.

Hopefully more of these experiences will surface and alert the general public to JWs are just another religion and in many ways worse.

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Would You EVER Go Back To Being A Jehovah's Witness?

by minimus in

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i could never understand why some people who know the truth about the "truth" ever go back.

once you understand all the hypocrisy and negatives, i would think it's almost impossible to go back!.

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Don't you mean would you ever crawl back to Jehovah's loving organization?

Because the only way back to that bitch is on your knees, and I am not a codependent masochist for Jehovah - anymore.

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Would This Be Adultery?

by FedUpJW in

i just happened to read a news article from some months ago about doctors having performed a successful penis transplant.

the recipient lost his due to cancer, and doctors expect him to gain full use of his "new" penis, including sexual activities.

considering some of the more goofy interpretations of doctrine that the gooberning body trots out that the rank and file must obey under penalty of shunning i wonder if a man had this surgery, would he and or his wife be df'd for adultery?

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Adultery? Of course blame the woman - typical.

No, no, no the man is guilty of touching another man's penis.

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Met JWs today - they lied about who they were

by Xanthippe in

so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.

when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?

' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.

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I wonder what she would have said if you asked her about the JWborg logo? I think JWs should be asked questions about their motives and intentions more often than they are, they think they're getting away with their theorcatic deceptiveness. Sad.

I accompanied a sister once who regularly dumped huge stacks of magazines at quite a few businesses in town under some less than honest arrangement with the management about what she was doing and who she represented, like you they smiled and took them but I 'm pretty sure those mags got dumped as soon as she walked out the door. I thought to myself at the time what a collosal waste of time and paper it was and how dishonest!