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* Do I Iive in a theocratic "hotel" where all my meals, laundry, housekeeping and utilities are provided for free and completely paid for by contributions?
how do you view money?.
a self-examination might alert you to the need to acquire a balanced view of money.
for example, ask yourself the following questions.. am i attracted to get-rich-quick schemes?.
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* Do I Iive in a theocratic "hotel" where all my meals, laundry, housekeeping and utilities are provided for free and completely paid for by contributions?
do you have feelings of hopelessness and fear for not having a religion?.
do you envy happy jehovah witnesses and living their lives carefree?.
No, I don't experience fear or hopelessness from not having a religion.
I experienced fear and hopelessness from having a religion.
anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
my wife and i just found out that our disassociation was announced last night.
we....are...free!.
i'd like to take a moment to thank some people:.
You both are an inspiration and thankyou for the front row seat with updates.
It has given me the courage to seriously consider my own disassociation.
Time to rip off the bandaid.
how do you view money?.
a self-examination might alert you to the need to acquire a balanced view of money.
for example, ask yourself the following questions.. am i attracted to get-rich-quick schemes?.
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* Does my pinky ring and gold watch blind people when I am giving talks?
i thought paradise was supposed to be a delight?
not according to the august study wt, on page 20 paragraphs 4-12 it outlines how much paradise will be exactly like being in the org today.
still following rules, waiting on jehovah and obeying those taking the lead.
The para para paradise.... with nuclear families petting pandas as far as the eye can see.
Guys in Hawaiian shirts playing the ukulele.
Women with Farrah Faucet-Majors hair and a come-hither look in their eyes as they stroke a panther.
Little girls in frilly dresses and boys in short pants and check shirts playing upon the hole of a cobra.
Nothing wrong with the American dream baby.
7/15/2010 wt says"in more recent times opposers of true worship similarly used the threat of isolation in an effort to put fear in the hearts of true christians.
sounds a lot like shunning.
2010 is sooo old light.
The 2015 new light states that opposers of true worship will now use the threat of lawsuit in order to strike fear into the bank accounts of true pedophile protectors.
per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.
i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.
report).
If they made such a list in my area there would be twice as many on the inactive list as there are going to meetings.
If they are stupid enough to think there would only be a handful they need to think again, where I live there are literally more of us than there are of them.
The task of documenting them for a file would be a mammoth undertaking, that most elders have not got the time or inclination for. I can see a lot of publisher cards going missing and collective elder body amnesia occurring.
per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.
i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.
report).
Their attempt at evil market research, veiled as loving care.
My guess. They want to make sure they have any potential future troublemakers on file.
Dossiers on the inactive.
a recent thread mentioned members who wrote their own story as a book.
you don't have to have an entire book to write your story.
as a matter of fact, you don't have to share your story if you are not up to it.
I like the idea of honoring our stories. In the borg you're stripped of any individuality and a story, any story is only ever as good as its repeatability factor in order for it go be used to create new converts or for advertising the borg. Otherwise you are treated like your previous non JW existence or your current existence means nothing.
In order to be relevant, I have seen many turn themselves and their families into human JW propoganda machines, spewing forth borg blurbs and spiels wherever they go, all in the hope to be used for that all important service meeting or assembly part.
You never see or hear their story, their real story. You only see this fake synthetic, that looks human and sounds human but is just a WT machine.