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  WHAT IS YOUR "AFTER MEETING RITUAL? "

  by brandnew in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  me ?

  my after meeting ritual, is getting my suit off, and a beer in my hand....in less than 2 minutes from entering my door.

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  OneEyedJoe

  porn and a wank to get that brainwashing out of my head...
  

  I've heard it called a lot of things, but brainwashing is a new one.
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  The multitude that no man can number

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how can protection from destruction at armageddon be solely with the jehovah's witnesses when the great multitude is one that no man could number while the jehovah's witnesses put great effort into cooking statistics of how many jws there are worldwide?

  the unscriptural scare tactics they use are blatantly insulting to anyone who can read a bible.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Haha, yeah I think I wondered that myself at some point. I justified it by including in the "great crowd" the unrighteous that would be resurrected, but I'm not sure if that has any basis in the bible or JW doctrine.
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  WHAT IS YOUR "AFTER MEETING RITUAL? "

  by brandnew in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  me ?

  my after meeting ritual, is getting my suit off, and a beer in my hand....in less than 2 minutes from entering my door.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Hopefully, my after-meeting ritual is a thing of the past...but most of the time it was get undressed and get 3 fingers of scotch in a glass.
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  DC2015 New Release: Brochure "Return to Jehovah" for those who faded/left

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it appears that a new 16-page brochure, with the title "return to jehovah" is to be released at the regional convention (dc) this year.

  it would be written specifically for those faded or da/df.chapters are:a letter from the governing body1.

  the lost one i will search for2.

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  Ugh...this is (hopefully) going to be my first missed convention. I'm not looking forward to dealing with this brochure...
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  Thoughts: Convinced that my wife will never awake from the brainwashing

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello all, it's been a long time since i have posted.

  well, things have not changed on my end.

  i am still going thru the motions.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Don't give up hope completely. It may just be a matter of finding the one thing that she's clinging to. Everyone has their points of doctrine or culture or whatever that are important to them personally and the rest is just like a bullfighter's cape - it only serves as a false target for you and doesn't impact their faith even a little.

  Or it may just be a matter of piling on the straws until the camel's back breaks. Either way, there's always an ounce of hope. As long as your marriage is working, keep trying to live a genuine life for yourself and hopefully (probably) she'll eventually be caught in your wake.

  Asking questions doesn't always work. Even though my wife woke up, asking questions made her upset. She said I was being condescending by asking questions. She said it felt like I was trying to teach her.
  

  We might be married to the same woman.
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  "Jehovah's people as a whole can never be corrupted..."

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zgds4z-h2i.

  transcript below (with key points of interest bolded):.

  please open your bibles to phil.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Just like Jehovah's organization in the past (the nation of isreal, and later the christian congregation) could never be corrupted. Oh....wait...
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  I'm my favorite type of JW - Double Life

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the borg's tactics on most jw work.

  they put fear into their mind, they guilt trip them and basically make them scared to do anything when they are away from the kingdom hall.

  it allows them to control every aspect of their life.

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  I guess the part that I find so objectionable is the tacit approval that simply being in the seat (and apparently you're an elder, too?) gives. For about a year I prevented myself from finding TTATT because there was an elder in our congregation that was really intelligent and I liked him very much personally and I told myself "If he doesn't see a problem with it, then maybe I'm fooling myself." I never talked to him about my doubts, just held him up as an example of a sane, normal, intelligent man that clearly saw it as the truth.

  If I found out that he had been faking it for over a decade, I guess I'd be pretty upset.

  Just another perspective in case that's something you might worry about. It's impossible to know how you may be negatively impacting the lives of others just by your mere presence. Especially if you're an elder.
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  I'm my favorite type of JW - Double Life

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the borg's tactics on most jw work.

  they put fear into their mind, they guilt trip them and basically make them scared to do anything when they are away from the kingdom hall.

  it allows them to control every aspect of their life.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Wait, you've been awake and remained in for 16 years, or you've been in for 16 years total, and only recently woken up? I can't imagine what could possibly make someone stick around for that long if they're awake. All the wasted time, the implicit support by your mere presence, etc would drive me insane well before that.
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  I'm my favorite type of JW - Double Life

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the borg's tactics on most jw work.

  they put fear into their mind, they guilt trip them and basically make them scared to do anything when they are away from the kingdom hall.

  it allows them to control every aspect of their life.

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  OneEyedJoe

  I hate to break it to ya, but you're definitely an apostate by their definition. Just because you're still going through the motions doesn't make it not so.

  How long have you been doing it, if I could ask? I was able to do it for a while, trying to plant seeds in my wife, but over the last year it's slowly ramped up to the point where I'll do just about anything not to go to anything cult related.
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  How long do JW study the bible with someone? Until baptism?

  by Lynnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a 35 year old cousin who got baptized last year after rejecting the jw since she was 13. not sure what happened to change her mind, i suspect it's all about family since her dad is an elder and her two sisters are very much in.

  her oldest sister is married to a middle management guy in bethel.

  so she studied for about 2 years until she decided to get baptised.

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  OneEyedJoe

  That's been the trend for a while - though studying for 2 years prior to getting dunked is on the long side. Usually 6 months to a year is considered normal. Pre-baptism they study one book (draw close to god, I think it is now?) Then post baptism they go to the next book (keep yourself in god's love?) And sometimes a third book, I think.

  As they say in the baptism talk, it's not the end, it's the beginning. The beginning of a life enslaved to the cult and pressured to constantly be up on your indoctrination.