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  What Made U Feel Special As A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  for me, it was the idea of never dying and living forever.

  plus being a bible scholar.

  lol.

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  rayelynnlee

  The idea that the congregation was a haven full of people giving unconditional love made me feel special...until I realized it was conditional love.
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  Divergent is a more complicated "1984", but still could perfectly describe cults

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  2. entertainment

  i just watched the movir divergent and all i could think about was how similat it was to describing cults.

  instead of being a black and white "us vs them" it's more of a multicolored cult vs cult vs a "overlord cult"... phrases such as "faction over family" and "we can't run the risk of everyone thinking on their own" (that one was paraphrased) brought chills to my spine.... it's such a good movie!!

  i really recommend it!.

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  rayelynnlee

  It looks entertaining, not sure my husband would be up for paying movie theater prices for it though. We rent more than go to the theater.
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  Do any ex JW' s/ God believer's, Agnostics or Atheists believe in Karma? And WHY?

  by rip van winkle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just reading a thread and the mention of karma popped up.

  ( it happens, lol).

  a lot of people believe in karma: what goes around comes around.. some months ago, while on another exjw site, karma was mentioned and i thought it a little odd, as they are atheist.

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  rayelynnlee

  I like the idea of karma. Do good and good will happen to you. But I don't believe in it.

  I think people throw that word around without really meaning it or thinking about what it really means.
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  Rewarding system

  by alwaysthinking in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  always go to meetings------lots of points.

  pioneering------lots of points.

  marrying to a jw -----lots of points (happy or not, who cares).

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  Don't forget commenting as much as possible and telling others after meeting how much you appreciated their comments. Noting someone wasn't at the last meeting and exclaiming over how good it is to see them again gets max points.
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  this is how witnessing is being done nowadays

  by losingit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a non jw friend that knows about jws only bc i related toher my experience leaving this abusive cult.

  anyhoo, she went to starbucks yesterday and there was an older man on his laptop.

  she sat next to him while she did work on her tablet.

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  Creepy...
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  Profiling of an apostate

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
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  i must admit when i was in, the idea i had of an apostate, was an angry bitter person who would picket out side a convention.

  i was looking on jwservey and found on the respondents to a servey that 54% were either active members or fading members.

  this made me wonder is the organisation underestimating the extent of apostasy.

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  My understanding is as long as you don't voice your 'doubts' to anyone, you're not an apostate. As soon as you say anything to anyone (even the elders) in the congregation, you are considered an apostate.

  The members of the congregation will likely start to treat someone like an apostate with very little evidence. Some take keeping ‘clean’ to the extreme. Not professing your love for the truth and your gratefulness to the FDS is enough proof for some.

  I’m at the point where I spout the lines and keep my thoughts to myself. Well, I do bring some things up to my husband. Turns out he agrees with most of it. He says he knows everything isn’t correct, but believes eventually it will all get fixed and he’s content to wait. (He's a born-in JW, 3rd gen.) So I wonder if he stated that opinion to the elders if he’d be in trouble (apostate!) or congratulated on respecting the theocratic arrangement?
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  Knock knock, they came by once again.

  by jam in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  this morning (sunday) i was cooking breakfast, while.

  the wife was sleeping (i'm a good husband).

  two elders , didn't have time to talk my bacon was burning.. a question for those of you that is still active.

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  Post a no trespassing sign.
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  Jehovah just wants the Deaf to stop Masturbating

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. social
  2. humour

  one vid with over 100,000 views thanks to jw.org.

  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jehovah%27s+witnesses+masturbating.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5f_yghhiss.

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  Oh it's still up there all right. http://www.jw.org/apps/E_QrYQFVTrlBBX?selLang=ASL&selPub=880
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  Born-In Girls--Did You Have a Doll at KH

  by Band on the Run in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was preschool, i had several dolls.

  meetings were so hard at that age.

  in fact, they were agony my entire life.

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  I have never seen a doll in the KH. A worn copt of my book of bible stories and a notebook to doodle in is all I've seen for little kids.

  I feel like there's a spotlight on me if I have bottle of water in the hall, nevermind a coffee cup Saturday morning. It's so weird.
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  What was your mild superpower?

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am in awe of the level of intelligence, wit and funnybones that alot of you posess.. which made me wonder, did you have a mild superpower while you were in?

  for instance was it giving talks, commenting, research?

  maybe it was pissing people off (a much underated skill).

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  I was great at talks (no 2). After my first talk the guy in charge of the school actually asked if I had ever done acting in school or anything, I was that natural on stage. It took all my self control not to tell him I acted every time I was in there...