Posts by Still Totally ADD

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I am grateful for leaving the watchtower corporation. Innit!

by punkofnice in

i dislike long topics......so here it is.. i suffered for my religion, now it's your turn.. when i first left the corporation my life exploded into a suicidal chaos.. my family broke up.

i lost my so called friends.. luckily, i had worldly friends from all walks of life that supported me, even though they had no idea why i was so suicidal.

in as much as they hadn't left cults.. i went from the corporation to a baptist church.

Still Totally ADD

Hey punk I went through some of the things you did. I also went to a local community Church for about 6 months and came to the conclusion of there being no god. The depression, anxiety and self doubt over whelm me foe a while. After about a year I started to pick myself and found a part time job. At that point my self esteem came back.

A week does not go by where I am telling our new friends how destructive this cult is. I look at the cult as slow death by malnutrition where you get weaker and weaker.

I have been reading a lot lately one of my favorite authors is Robert Fulghum. I am in the middle of one of his first books "All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten" Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things. His books consist of many 2-4 page stories. They are simple to read but have deep meanings. They are uplifting, funny and sobering. For a guy like me with ADD his books are perfect. For me I find his writings help to see were I am and were I am going.

Here in the U.S. listening to much to politics is like banging your head against a wall. Please forgive my ignorance by asking this. What are your books about? Cult did teach us one thing advertise, advertise, advertise. Thank you for your insightful post. Still Totally ADD

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We're off to the Convention this weekend!

by stuckinarut2 in

jw
friends

we are off to the convention this weekend!

the program will be full of informative and faith-strengthening information.

here is the program:.

Still Totally ADD

This looks pretty cool. Does anything like this come to the U.S.? It looks like you will learn more there than 100 JW conventions. Have a great time. Still Totally ADD

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JW.ORG turning into an evangelical clone

by Pistoff in

i clicked this link to the november 2017 tvjw video, in it they defend their 2 witness policy, though, gutlessly, they do not mention it in the context of child sexual abuse.. anyway, check out the christian jehovian song at 57:06, ugh, makes me nauseous.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksz0qiftsok&feature=youtu.be&t=53m25s.

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The next thing you will see is one of the GB out in the woods kneeling next to a big rock crying while praying to god for more money. Lol Still Totally ADD

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Is There a TV Show or Movie That You Just NeverGet Sick Of?

by minimus in

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friends

i love the rifleman!

i’ve seen it a million times and still will watch it !

and goodfellas, the movie as well as the sopranos.

Still Totally ADD

TV shows: Mash, all the Star Trek-voyager-deep space nine to enterprise, Newhart, Frazier, Two and half men and breaking bad.

Movies: Dances with wolves, Fried green tomatoes, October Sky, Under the Tucson Sun, Master and Commander and when I am down I watch something really corny " George of the Jungle". It is so silly I laugh my head off, maybe that's my problem. Lol. Still Totally ADD

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In what decade was it clearly apparent that Watchtower was a high control religion?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i'm just curious to get people's views on this.. the bible students seem to start of as quite a liberal group under charles taze russell, albeit he had some whacky teachings going on.

obviously things began to change under rutherford.

but what decade did it become abundantly clear that the society was indeed high control religion or even labeled a cult?.

Still Totally ADD

The definition many use to call certain group's cult's is they don't believe in Jesus. That is a bunch of horse pooey. You need to follow those who are experts in what a cult consist of. Steve Hassan is one of those experts. My wife and I never really knew what a cult was until we read his book back in 2008 or so. One of the method's he used was the BITE method. B was for " behavioral control" I was for "information control" T was for "thought control" and E was for " emotional control".

Just by that one method we can see the WT. fits into the category as a cult. Even though the the signs of a cult have always been there for the WT no one really knew a good tried and true method until Steps Hassan wrote his book. Still Totally ADD

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What would you do for next November 5?

by Faded in

jw
friends

i think everything has to start somewhere, and you can see the passion and commitment from those loyal 50 that showed up in warwick yesterday.

the event was not very well organized but you could see the passion & dedication from most of them.

and i think they at least touched a couple of people at the kh yesterday.. having an annual day of action actually inspires me.

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Both my wife and I have developed in the last 6 years several dozen friends and many more acquaintance. All know about Jw cult. We have also given 3 sermons at our local UU congregation on cult's in so many years and how Jw's fit into that mix. I know our friends talk to others about our experience's because when they introduce us to their family and friends they often say these are the ones we been talking about.

For us on Nov. 5 of next year we will be doing the same thing as we have been doing. For us this is our protest that we are involved in. Education is we feel the best way to inform people. Still Totally ADD

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November 3, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS IN THE US BRANCH Re: Update on Recent Natural Disasters

by wifibandit in

november 3, 2017 to all congregations in the united states branch territory re: update on recent natural disasters.

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flipper I think Trump took lessons from the WT. Who else is there to study than the Wt. in making you look like a asshole? Lol. Still Totally ADD

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Hugh Hefner died a few weeks back but no post on it. Interesting.

by Still Totally ADD in

jw
friends

i bring this up because like me i sure many of the men who was kids in the wt cult got their first taste of what a nude women looked like.

it was the adolescent male sex education for most of us.

one friend i had who's dad was a elder told me they always had playboys in his house because his dad subscribed to them.

Still Totally ADD

Thank you for all your comments. Simon I am sure Hugh Hefner was a slime ball. I realize sex could be a hot topic for many. As a elder for so many years I saw a lot of sexual dysfunctional young men. They was either over sex or so guilt ridden about having sex. I just tried to use the death of Hefner to bring up the topic.

I found it very interesting the reactions that came up. From jokes, anger and serious comments. Maybe Playboy had a bigger effect on all of us than we thought. But if it wasn't for sex none of us would be here talking about it. Thanks for the opportunity to bring this up. Still Totally ADD

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Hugh Hefner died a few weeks back but no post on it. Interesting.

by Still Totally ADD in

jw
friends

i bring this up because like me i sure many of the men who was kids in the wt cult got their first taste of what a nude women looked like.

it was the adolescent male sex education for most of us.

one friend i had who's dad was a elder told me they always had playboys in his house because his dad subscribed to them.

Still Totally ADD

Thank you flipper I could not say it any better. I remember back in 1971 at the D.C. they had a big part on masturbation and how bad it was. I was 17 at the time and had no idea what masturbation was even though I was doing it. My parents never said anything about it to me so all was still the same about sex don't say don't tell. Lol. You may ask why I didn't know what that word was it was because I only knew it by the slang term that was used in my youth.

Another reason I feel how this cult hurts people is how they expose children who are to young to such information. In early 1973 I was 18 years old my mom and I went to the ministry school and service meeting that night without my dad. He was sick with the flu. During the service meeting a talk was given on the evils of oral copulations. I then knew what both those words meant. On our way home from the meeting my mom ask me what that talk was all about. So here I am 18 years old explaining what oral sex was to my 50 year old mother. These are things no one should have to do. Lol. Just like all religion they make sex dirty so they can control others. Take care. Still Totally ADD

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Hugh Hefner died a few weeks back but no post on it. Interesting.

by Still Totally ADD in

jw
friends

i bring this up because like me i sure many of the men who was kids in the wt cult got their first taste of what a nude women looked like.

it was the adolescent male sex education for most of us.

one friend i had who's dad was a elder told me they always had playboys in his house because his dad subscribed to them.

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Thank you 1010, that is the kind of comments I was looking for. I agree with all you said. The idea I was trying to bring out does the cult messed us up all of us sexually or is this common everywhere in religion. True all ii do understand is being a male not gay, not a women and not having a major disability. If I am guilty of anything, I a am just trying to understand and learn a little more.

Thank you for all those who commented. Still Totally ADD