Ugh.
It is tough sitting through the WT study as an adult!
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50Don't you DARE to get up!!
by stillin9 ininteresting points from this week's wt study (dec 15 2010 study edition):.
par 12: "do i encourage my children not to view the song between the theocratic ministry school and the service meeting or the one between the public talk and the watchtower study as a sort of intermission,an opportunity for them to leave their seats unnecessarily, perhaps just to stretch their legs?".
why do they have to make such a big deal out of everything?
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What is it with all the men waking up but the wives stay in? Why is it the opposite for me?
by Cadellin inthis is something i've thought about for a while now.
it seems like the same story on this board over and over--the husband, who also might be an elder, ms, etc.--starts having doubts and researching, aka miseryloveselders and franklin massey and others.
he starts to smell the coffee and realizes that this organization isn't what it claims to be.
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alias
Maybe I've just not paid attention to the wives on board here who have husbands who stay JW.
raises hand
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It might be better to not even have the Internet. April 15th WT
by life is to short inok i was just blown away when i heard this today while driving, at first i thought it was the some old same old but then it went on and it seems like it is on a different level.. the subheading is "guard your heart by exercising self-control.
on page 27 par 17 it says "one way a person could wonder into the foolish course of the "young man in want of heart" is by aimlessly flipping though television channels or surfing the internet.
whether intentionally or not, he might chance upon sexually stimulating scenes.
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alias
She pulled me into the mother's room and proceeded to spend over 30 minutes telling me how I shouldn't dress do "sexy"
Really? You let her talk to you that way for 30 minutes?
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Emotional freedom technique to overcome JW-inspired anxiety
by JimmyPage inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyuegzqcr1c.
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alias
interesting, thank you for sharing!
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You Can Overcome WT Phobias!
by leavingwt inearly in the exit process, it's very important to begin overcoming irrational fears.
fear of the devil.
fear of god.
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alias
Thanks for this.
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Watch "Dr. Phil" on Wednesday
by JimmyPage insubject of the show: "is this a cult?".
i hope they do a good job, my wife watches him every day.. hope steve hassan is a guest..
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alias
Good show!
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The Greatest Lesson the Watchtower Ever Taught Me
by jamiebowers inthe greatest lesson that the watchtower has taught me is to give the love that has been taken from me.
our mother shuns my brother and me to the extreme.
just this morning she told me on the phone from her hospital bed that we will have to learn her diagnosis through the grapevine.. she wasn't always like this.
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What I don't get from her, I give to others.
A beautiful lesson shared, thank you!
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Insulting Terms used by the WashTowel
by punkofnice inloading the language is a propogandist tactic to trigger a reaction in the mind.
a prime example is the word 'apostate'!.
i have been called 'spiritually weak' for quitting field service, meetings etc.. how would you respond (without swearing or giving a punch up the hooter), if you were called this?.
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For me, there's no point in responding. People will think what they will of me whether we're in side the KH or out. It's a battle I don't have the energy for.
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If Your Husband (wife) is Still In - -
by Had To Go indo you vacillate between caring that he/she is still entrapped in this cult and wanting to show them everything you have learned since your awakening and not wanting to rock the boat and therefore just keeping all this knowledge to yourself?
i wonder if it is normal to go back and forth like i do.
one day i want to tell my husband something i may have read here or on another forum and maybe, just maybe i will pique his interest.
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Do you vacillate between caring that he/she is still entrapped in this cult and wanting to show them everything you have learned since your awakening and not wanting to rock the boat and therefore just keeping all this knowledge to yourself?
Yes. Hubby's in and through the years when I've tactfully (and sometimes not) tried to share things with him, a steel door in his mind instantly shuts because he has a bias filter that instantly kicks in and impacts his objectivity. Many soft discussions usually turn into emotional disagreements, so I can only unfold in my own process while hoping someday he may be ready to consider a different viewpoint.
Some JWs need the security they feel under the organization's blanket with its black and white thinking and comforting "answers" about the unknown. So many variables impact how someone moves in life... some need to live in the JW fantasy just to survive sometimes. I feel for them.
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Did having a Bethelite travel to your congregation and deliver a talk motivate, encourage, or excite you?
by miseryloveselders ini ask this, because i just got wind that at my hall, we're paying the travel expenses for a bethelite to come and do our memorial talk.
i don't know how much this is going to run us, but i fail to see the practicality of it.
he's not delivering a special memorial outline or anything.
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alias
Having a bethelite visit the congregation is treated like celebrity.