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My bible study conductor deceived me with this point.
by cyber-sista in
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this is something that has always bothered me and now i can see what a deception it was.

a jw woman studied with me on and off for about 3 years before i got baptized.

eventually i got baptized at a weaker moment in my life (suffering from major post partum depression) you don't want your child to die at the big a do you?-- was one line of thinking that was used on me.. the deception was this: during the time i was studying she never told me the truth about the whole unbelieving mate situation, though i specifically asked what would happen to my mate if the big a came and he never became a joe witness--?
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WT expansion and enslavement of the 3rd world...
by cyber-sista in
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2. bible
as some of you know i still receive some of those dopey jw forwards from those who are trying to encourage me to come back to the organization.

this recent one i received was a bit more informative as to the workings of the organization.

i don't think this sister knows who passed this one on to her and i'm sure it wasn't meant to go out over the whole internet.
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Another weird JW forward that drives me further away
by cyber-sista in
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ok, so all the jws know i am "inactive" now.

now, as we all know, this is not a term that means lack of physical exercise, but that jw term you get labeled with when you are not participating any longer in jw activities (spiritually weak and sick or "discouraged" are other terms used when applied to others in my situation.

) one of the prices i must pay for being away is the well meaning encouragment i recieve in emails such as the one below, which i recieved today.
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Circuit assembly wolf tale
by cyber-sista in
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just got this one in the email.

someone already posted this one, but it was sent to me by a "friend" who no longer communicates with me and then sends me something like this from the circuit assembly.

guess she thinks that now that i am "inactive" i may need this little wake up call.
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Encouragement to get back to the meetings
by cyber-sista in
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i keep getting these forwards from certain ones who i knew in the org.

they know i have left because i was "discouraged".

they are keeping their distance by not writing to me anything personal, but keep sending these "encouraging" forwards in hopes that i'll be re-awakened, dust off the book bag and head on back to the old kh.
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Where did they get their brainwashing tecniques?
by cyber-sista in
1. jw
2. experiences
what is really the most disturbing thing to me is that i really do feel that i was brainwashed in those 20 + years in the org--i mean seriously brainwashed.

i am not an idiot, but there were times that i look back on now where i was a radical jw, though this is not really my personality to be such.

i remember after assemblies (while greatly relieved it was over with aching back and all) i would feel different--sometimes i would start donating more money to the wt and at one point i seriously thought of puttingthe wt in my will.
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THE BLAME GAME--need help with this
by cyber-sista in
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just commented on recent topic titled: who do you blame for the time you wasted as a dub?

this questions got my brain tweaking in some different directions.

some who i admire and respect the opinions of said that they no longer blame anyone and that blaming is a waste of energy.
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A slave is obedient even to a cruel master?...
by cyber-sista in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
just recently sister x from the kh where i recently attended had another meeting with the elders there to try and help she and brother x with their abusive marital relationship.

they are constantly meeting with the elders and have done so for many years over this and everything other decision they need to make in their lives.

they are very "elder dependent" but their lives never seem to improve and in fact it just seems to go from bad to worse.
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% of JW women versus % of JW men
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does anyone know the stats on this or have an idea?

in all the congregations i have seen seems like the percentage of women is always higher than the men, though it was never information the org let out to us.

also the women are the ones who are most involved in the preaching work--pioneering, etc.
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APOSTATES AT THE ASSEMBLY...
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