Posts by dubstepped

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The new personality

by longgone in

i've been thinking about the changes we make within ourselves after leaving the wts cult.

i'm not referring to how we spend our time now that we actually have some, but who we have become, or working to be?.

the gb carries on and on about "stripping off the old personality and putting on the new one.

dubstepped

The "new personality" is the inauthentic cult personality that they want you to put on to be under their power.

I'm a far better person out of the Borg than I was in. I'm accepting, far less judgmental, loving, happy, helpful, etc. I have genuine interest in others, not just so that I can preach to them. I try to understand others instead of thinking that they need to understand what I understand from the cult that indoctrinated me. Life is amazing now. The results of the "new personality" were ugly, caused dissonance, and subsequent mental issues that all dissipated once I woke up and found freedom. The "new personality" is a prison of one's own making at the behest of the governing body of overlords.

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Lawsuit Settlement Amounts

by Richard Oliver in

i have a legitimate question and i am not trying to start a fight.

i keep reading that there were 6 child abuse lawsuits that settled for 13 million dollars.

how do people like barbara anderson or jwsurvey or jwfacts come up with this number?

dubstepped

Thank you Simon!

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Lawsuit Settlement Amounts

by Richard Oliver in

i have a legitimate question and i am not trying to start a fight.

i keep reading that there were 6 child abuse lawsuits that settled for 13 million dollars.

how do people like barbara anderson or jwsurvey or jwfacts come up with this number?

dubstepped

Why don't you get so butthurt over factual lies that Jehovah's Witnesses tell in their propaganda, not just doctrine, but actual factual lies like omitting information through ellipses? Why only this? Do you hope that these victims of horrific things got less? At least the word "estimate" was used. Who cares if it's estimated high or low other than you?

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Lawsuit Settlement Amounts

by Richard Oliver in

i have a legitimate question and i am not trying to start a fight.

i keep reading that there were 6 child abuse lawsuits that settled for 13 million dollars.

how do people like barbara anderson or jwsurvey or jwfacts come up with this number?

dubstepped

Have you tried writing any of them to ask?

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JW's And Yoga

by pale.emperor in

this was partly discussed in this thread: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4853755331739648/these-common-jw-beliefs?page=2#!#5701815683252224 but i wanted to delve into the topic of yoga even further.. it seems watchtower have no clue what yoga actually is, or what it can achieve.

i myself dont practice yoga, but i do meditate and see the benefits of that.. here is an artical from watchtower 2002 with my commentary:.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002565#h=1.

dubstepped

I'm not going to read all of that idiocy, but they are so out of touch. JWs like to define things from yoga to evolution and paint it with their distorted brush. Then again, for the brain dead followers, the GB's definition of anything is truly all that matters.

My wife went to a yoga class on Suturdays for a while and loved it. It is a great workout, and there are so many varieties.

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Does The Watchtower Corporation's Teachings Of Black White Thinking Induce Borderling Personality Disorder In Many Cult member?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think the disfellowshipping abandonement arrangement in human relationships also to be a heavy contributor to this malady:.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/borderline_personality_disorder.

borderline personality disorder (bpd), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder, is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable relationships with other people, unstable sense of self, and unstable emotions.

dubstepped

Disclaimer: I'm no expert in any of this, but I've listened to podcasts about such things by other people ;), and I don't care enough to battle with citations.

With that out of the way, from what I understand even genetic conditions like mental illness are often expressed due to environment.

I know that I'm likely on the ADHD spectrum and that I have a natural level of anxiety. I also know that as a JW those things were nearly crippling. I always had suicidal ideations as well. Since disassociating, no more ideations, not a one, my social anxiety is down to a dull roar and I've gone into lots of new situations, and I focus much better. I did things to work on all of that prior to disassociating, but it practically went away afterward.

BPD isn't actually something that is diagnosed in much of the population anyway, but I think that in general JWs do bring out mental illness in various ways.

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The Ultimate Conversion

by Etude in

one thing that surprised me shortly after joining this site was the number of individuals who, after experiencing the deception of being a jw and the hypocrisy of the “truth”, switched to being catholic or “born-again” evangelists.

it seemed to me like jumping from the hot pan into the fire.. i don’t want to piss anyone off for his or her choices.

i feel everyone is free to believe what they may.

dubstepped

Doubtfully Yours has to try to find justification for remaining in because she doesn't have what it takes to leave. She has to believe that it's for the best, the only problem is that it then makes her pick and choose examples to spin in the dubs favor by any means necessary, just like the cult that she's in does.

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So poopie decided to go to meeting today so poopie now say

by poopie in

jw
friends

after a long long time after today's wt i can finally say hello to df ones because they are made in gods image yes i can even ask how they are doing without feare i will get df because if an elder walks up i will pull out trusty wt that says fellow humans deserve hover and respect..

dubstepped

Poopie is one obsessed little turd.

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Does The Watchtower Corporation's Teachings Of Black White Thinking Induce Borderling Personality Disorder In Many Cult member?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think the disfellowshipping abandonement arrangement in human relationships also to be a heavy contributor to this malady:.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/borderline_personality_disorder.

borderline personality disorder (bpd), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder, is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable relationships with other people, unstable sense of self, and unstable emotions.

dubstepped

Wow, this got away from the original question. Yes, I do believe that the treatment of people under the spell of the JW society can absolutely influence one to develop something like a borderline personality disorder, or I believe today it is called something like "emotional dysregulation disorder". Let's face it, the cult both attracts people with various mental illnesses and creates it on the back end. BPD is just one of many.

I was listening to a podcast the other day and this guy that has struggled mightily in life was describing his horrible childhood and his mother who eventually "broke" and then, you guessed it, it came out that she was a JW. His dad would have the elders over to rip them about what they were putting in his wife's head. She was terrified of Armageddon and that her husband and son wouldn't be with her in paradise. She was eventually diagnosed as schizophrenic, and her life ended prematurely at her own hands as she couldn't bear the paranoia and delusions anymore, encouraged by JW teachings. So sad, and sadly not a one time occurrence.

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Outraged After Watching The May 2017 Broadcast

by pale.emperor in

ok, so i've just put myself through another months broadcast so i can see what bull they're feeding my still in relatives.

all was going fine... well, i say fine, i mean the usual cheesy videos, rehearsed reactions from jeffrey jackson (you remember him, the one who told half truths and lies at the royal commission) and propaganda from jw land.. the last feature brings up 9/11 and the paris 2015 attack at the bataclan.

just as im thinking "how are they gonna spin this in their direction" i hear these words:.

dubstepped

I'm just thankful that the Borg are such awful people that they only care about their own. Imagine if they actually cared about people, if they used their resources to help people other than their own (if you love only those that are your brothers and sisters, of what advantage is it to you, to paraphrase), then they might convert more people. Thankfully they're such narcissists that they really only care about their own. That's it. So instead of doing good deeds and attracting people with love and empathy, they put off other people by being so absorbed in themselves.