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  Fear leads to becoming uneducated

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  the other day my wife and i listen to a talk about making the planet and it's people better.

  one of the things the speaker brought out was on education.

  she brought out studies show that fear causes a person to keep from learning.

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  Apognophos thank you for the information. Like I said at the beginning everyone raised in this cult went through diffrent degrees of fear. For me it was very great and yes my parents was very adbusive towards their extreme view of what the Wt. taught. Of course the PO who live next to us who tried to kill me because I caught him sexual adbusing my friend most likely brought on more fear than I could handle. I was almost 8 years old at the time this happen. Most likely that had alot to do with it. I just thought it was interesting the effect fear can have on a person when they are young. Make Lemonade I agree there is diffrent levels of fear and what could result from it. I just feel this is just another tool the Wt. uses very successfully to control the flock. Thank you for your observations. Still Totally ADD
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  Putting on the NEW "New Personality"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we have often heard about the need to "put on the 'new personality'" as a jw.... but i have realised something in these last few years of awakening to the ttatt...i dont like what i had become as a 'good' jw!.

  i realised that being a 'good' jw made me very:.

  critical of my fellow man,.

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  Faithful Witness you have nailed it on what happens. I saw this with my parents as a child. It lead to a very lonely life. Still Totally ADD
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  Fear leads to becoming uneducated

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the other day my wife and i listen to a talk about making the planet and it's people better.

  one of the things the speaker brought out was on education.

  she brought out studies show that fear causes a person to keep from learning.

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  Thank you Giordano, Make Lemonade and pbrow. All good points you have all made. I am beginning to see how fear is one of the biggest tools cults use to control there people. The Wt. has cornered the market on fear factor. Even right now there is still some things I will not do because of the fear the Wt. has instilled in me. (Anything that deals with hardcore demon stuff, movies, ouyja board anything like that) Maybe one of these days I will overcome this fear. But it is not my biggest worry in life. Learning is the number one thing now. Still Totally ADD
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  Fear leads to becoming uneducated

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the other day my wife and i listen to a talk about making the planet and it's people better.

  one of the things the speaker brought out was on education.

  she brought out studies show that fear causes a person to keep from learning.

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  The other day my wife and I listen to a talk about making the planet and it's people better. One of the things the speaker brought out was on education. She brought out studies show that fear causes a person to keep from learning. That is a big problem for children who live in big cities where they are in fear of their lives. That made me start thinking about my childhood in the JW cult and all the other children who were raised in this cult. Speaking for myself only I remember how afraid I was of everyone in school. After all they were all part of satans world and they were out to get me. In fear of the holidays because god was going to kill me if I took part in it. In fear of even education because satan controls all the wisdom of the world and we don't want to be part of that. As I look back I can see how this sponge of a brain I had was made into a rock unable to absorb anything. It was not until I finally woke up about this cult did my mind start to work again because I was not afraid to learn. I was not afraid to expand my knowledge of many things. So this is one big revelation for me and all I can do is shake my head in disgust on all the things I could have learned if I was not so afraid. Still Totally ADD
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  The WT and GB compared to Catholics before the reformation.

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i just read this article about luther and i'll quote a paragraph.

  it's interesting how you can substitute a few words and see it identical to the wt.

  now let me substitute pope and catholic church for governing body and watchtower...... .

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  Good one EndofMysteries. I always love information like that. Working for the Historical Soc. for awhile the one thing I learned was "We need to know the history of the past so we don't repeat the mistakes people made back then." I know this will never happen for most people but I can only hope. Still Totally ADD
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  What happens to marriages upon the arrival of Armageddon?

  by insearchoftruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a couple of paradise earth questions: .

  1) if you are a married, baptized witness couple (both people being baptized) and armageddon arrives, will the couple still be married on paradise earthtm?

  2) if you are married to an unbelieving mate (ubm) and armageddon arrives, will the witness be free to remarry on paradise earth?.

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  So what if a sister or brother heard another sister or brother say a GB member said the big A is in the next few years!!! I was born in 1954 into this cult and from the time I was old enough to understand the Wt. has been saying the Big A is very near, just around the corner, 1975, before 2000, in just a few years. They have been crying wolf from the beginining. Misleding 1000's of people into thinking the world is about to end. The truth of the matter is for most of those on the GB their end is in just a few years. It's called death from old age. It's good to talk about this but sometimes this just sickens me when I hear about it. It is one of those cult teaching that will most likely stay with me until I die. Still Totally ADD
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  Aposate crashes the memorial!

  by Batman89 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i should have posted this a few weeks ago, anyways this guy tony prime has guts!.

  check it!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uadqh8-3qa0&list=uu7urkksine92mtdj2s33gwq.

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  blondie that happen to me over 20 years ago. A Sister fell over of a heart attack about 15 mins. into my talk. Everyone in the hall got up or turn around to watch her. So I stop talking. After a few mins. the PO told me to keep on speaking. At first I refused but he kept after me to talk. So all I did was read word for word from the outline. It took me about 5 mins. to do that and I finished. I was so upset over this I complained to that body of elders about it. At this time they had no direction on this so they could not understand why I was upset. About 1 year later a letter came from the GB on this. It stated if someone becomes very sick or has a heart attack or something of that nature that disturbs the meeting then the meeting should be stopped and everyone is to go home or whatever. Still Totally ADD
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  My first post: Pet Peeves from my JW past

  by BarHarborBarbara in

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  2. friends

  first post here: longtime lurker but hesitant to take the leap.

  my story is pretty much like everyone elses with little variance, but i thought id add a few details that especially tormented me when i was in.

  im sure these are familiar, im afraid this is a bit of a rant.. --paradise: the constant chatter about a perfect world when most in the hall were not even slightly interested in taking care of the earth now.

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  Welcome to the bright side Barbara. You went out just enough to hate it. LOL I hated FS because I did not like bothering someone on Sat. morning. I wish after a hard week at work I could stay home and rest. Great first post. Keep up the good work. Now for your next post we want more information. LOL Just kidding. Thank you for coming on board. Still Totally ADD
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  An important difference between atheists and true believers

  by Hortensia in

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  2. current

  true believers, whether christian, muslim or whatever, want to convert you, they want you to believe what they do, and they're willing to go to extremes to make it happen.

  atheists don't really care what you believe, and don't go out of their way to convert someone.. http://ow.ly/vn1jz an example of what believers in power do to suppress any difference in thought.

  http://ow.ly/vraeo an example of why believers want to suppress different ideas (because they can't win in a fair fight, that's why).

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  James Brown, It could be the Ex-JW's who have become atheists still cannot get out of the I am right thinking that was beaten into them while a JW. It takes time for all of us to get out of that thinking. I don't believe in anything but sometimes I fall into that trap of trying to convince someone that I am right. The one thing that does hold us together is we all know that Wt. is a cult if not a cult their teachings are all wrong or whatever. LOL The point is just give them all time and ask for proof if you want to debate them on the subject. Still Totally ADD
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  Did you count the time for your "hour talk"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi fellow speakers (sorry, brothers only!):.

  my first public talk, given in my early 20s, was actually a twenty-minute part of a symposium talk.

  my pioneer partner friend and i each had twenty minutes and a "servant" had the concluding part.

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  Yes. Still Totally ADD