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  Russia is Smart

  by Kohanic in

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  2. current

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

  so according to the law department's meeting in feb 2016, russia has been studying the linguistics of the watchtower articles and discovered its brainwashing abilities!.

  lol it's funny now that i'm on the russian side of this debate now, ban them all!.

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  sparrowdown

  That excerpt is really interesting OC. Thanks.
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  Generation

  by Jrjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please could someone explain to me what the generation thing i keep seeing in people's threads was that had lots of people leave the wts coz it was way before i became a witness.

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  sparrowdown

  The "this generation" is now a perpetual generation a Buzz Lightyear of generations "to infinity and beyond."

  End of discussion.
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  Jehovahs Witnesses and mental illness

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i came across this video, which looks at mental illness among jws.. it is an old video, but really hits the nail right on the head as to the reasons why there is such a high level of mental illness among the jw's.. https://youtu.be/co-b65w-zqs.

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  sparrowdown

  I don't know if it would be possible to conduct accurate research on such a closed group. Particularly when the people in that group live in religious lala land are intellectually and emotionally dishonest, lie to themselves and others, and who couldn't give a straight answer to save their lives.
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  Whatever happened to the "written review"?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone know why the written review was stopped?

  i relished the half hour silence they'd give you to "write down your answers", time i spend doodling or thinking up cool song lyrics..

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  sparrowdown

  Lol yeah, the "oral" review. Always sounded like an article from Cosmo circa "Sex and the City" era.
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  Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. humour

  greetings, dreamers:.

  i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

  last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

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  sparrowdown

  I rarely dream about JWs now, but, I used to all the time. The dreams themselves were not scary just everyday JW stuff and always with a sense of dread and forboding to them, sinister even.

  I have noticed I'm more likely to remember my dreams when I'm trying to figure out the answer to some question or conundrum in my awake life.

  All that JW stuff really does seep into your subconscious though and can take a while for it to be exorcised.
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  Wierd Shunning Stories

  by VW.org in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i went to a shopping center.

  i saw a dub who was once a very friendly person.

  he was about 10 metres from me when i noticed him.

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  sparrowdown

  I don't mind saying that every post-fade encounter I've had with JWs has been weird AF.

  "Now they're just somebody that I used to know..."
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  Broadcasting january 2018: annual meeting

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for the second month no jw.org tv show, but the annual meeting this time... .

  g..

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  sparrowdown

  Wonder if the new content will include a monthly apostate hate session lol.
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  O no!!! The HQ song

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  never througt there would be a jw.org hq song.. they have become mad.. https://tv.jw.org/#nl/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-osg_40_video.

  g..

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  sparrowdown

  Next iteration of the song will just be chanting

  G..B G..B G..B...

  At least the words will be easy to remember.
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  Since leaving the JW Organization, who is believing?

  by Issa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i left the jw organization last year during summer.

  maybe some of you can relate.

  who of you are agnostic or an atheist?

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  sparrowdown

  As a witness you were expected to announce your belief like a trumpet toot to all and sundry. Witnesses also tend to believe they had a license to ask other people including complete strangers to explain even justify their beliefs, because, apparently, when you believe you are right and have all the answers you have a right to ask and know because you are on a mission from God to put people right.

  Now, I view this rather personal question as a trap. The sort of question one asks right before they give you what-for on how wrong or stupid your beliefs are. So, because of my distrust of the question I tend not to ask people what they believe re religion anymore as I feel it's none of my business and what I believe is none of theirs. The only exception to this is if they state upfront why they're asking (but even this can be a trap) or I know them very well.

  Call it once bitten twice shy, but, there you have it.
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  Eavesdropping on a home Bible Study

  by doubtfull1799 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mil held a bible study round to our place today and i was home so was interested to listen in from the next room to see what the quality of the study was like.

  and whether the new clam meetings are helping jw’s to be better teachers at all.. .

  participants:.

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  sparrowdown

  Jws are deceived deceivers.