Hi Balder! If you want to learn about the lifestyle, because it's not like regular church, I recommend you listen to the podcast This JW Life. You don't have to listen to the whole thing but I detail what that life is like. The meetings, the organizational structure, and how they manipulate people. Listen to episode 4 and 5 to get a better understanding. You can listen to 2-5 for even better understanding, or all of the episodes, but 4 and 5 might really help your assignment.
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School task on Jehovas Witness
by Balder ini am writing an essay on jehovas witness and i have a question for you.
what does a normal day of a jehovas witness consist of?
how is your day different from other's?
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Mental Health and Ex-JWs - My interview with ICSA
by dubstepped ini was interviewed by the international cultic studies association and the video from the live stream a few weeks ago has been released.
if you're an ex-jw i'd encourage you to watch and share.
the objective of this video is to help those that leave jehovah's witnesses to identify patterns and psychological problems that may be present in their lives and to help professional therapists and coaches to do the same.
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I'm hoping that it helps others. So many struggle to find a therapist or someone that understands. They don't want to have to basically indoctrinate their therapist to help them understand so that then they can help them untangle it all. If we can educate the therapists at scale we can help the helpers, so to speak. And if we can help those suffering to have the verbiage to use when they go in, to know what patterns might be playing out in their lives, it gives them a running start instead of having to go backward in order to go forward.
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Mental Health and Ex-JWs - My interview with ICSA
by dubstepped ini was interviewed by the international cultic studies association and the video from the live stream a few weeks ago has been released.
if you're an ex-jw i'd encourage you to watch and share.
the objective of this video is to help those that leave jehovah's witnesses to identify patterns and psychological problems that may be present in their lives and to help professional therapists and coaches to do the same.
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I was interviewed by the International Cultic Studies Association and the video from the live stream a few weeks ago has been released. If you're an ex-JW I'd encourage you to watch and share. The objective of this video is to help those that leave Jehovah's Witnesses to identify patterns and psychological problems that may be present in their lives and to help professional therapists and coaches to do the same. These insights are gleaned from my own experience personally, my observations in years of interactions in ex-JW communities including my own, my interviews for the Shunned Podcast, and from professionally coaching individuals that have reached out to work through their past and to work on building a better future.
This can be used to help your therapist to understand where you're coming from. This can also be used to help you understand and identify roles that you're playing out in your own life and some of the reasons behind it.
My current projects:
https://thisjwlife.com/ - this is my story
https://shunnedpodcast.com/ - listen to the stories of others
https://shunnedpodcast.com/shunned-recovery-project/ - online meetups for those who are shunned
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Fast and Furious Actor, ex-JW.
by Lost in the fog inluke evans still finds birthdays ‘weird’ after being a jehovah’s witness.
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https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/13/luke-evans-still-finds-birthdays-and-christmas-weird-after-being-a-jehovahs-witness-for-16-years-11097283/.
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Michelle Rodriguez of Fast and Furious fame is also an ex-JW.
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ALJ denies refund to tax-exempt to Watchtower
by Rattigan350 inhttps://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=8bdcae82-b20f-4ac4-9c04-4b1cf1191aab.
alj denies refund to tax-exempt religious organization .
finding that a tax-exempt religious organization failed to meet the requirements of the statute providing for exemptions from the motor fuel tax for exempt organizations, a new york state administrative law judge has upheld the department of taxation and finance’s denial of a refund.
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dubstepped
So they don't like strict interpretations of written words.... first I've heard of it.
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I'm Awake!
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JW's ransom sacrifice DOGMA
by The Fall Guy init-2 p. 735 ransom - “the real ransom (a) sacrifice.....would have to correspond (b) to the perfect adam......and enslavement into which their first father adam had sold them.
only thereby could he satisfy god’s perfect justice (c) that requires like for like...(d)’”.
a) can a ransom redeem something which wasn't lost – i.e.
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Once I started thinking for myself this stuff didn't add up. Two imperfect people sinned yet one coming from his sky daddy could fix it all and somehow balance the scales of justice? Is this just because women don't count?
And what did it really prove? Jesus wasn't some ordinary human. He had magic powers and Adam nor Eve had those. He had a prehuman existence and relationship with god and still asked why his father had forsaken him while going through this, not the bastion of strength one expected, not a fair comparison with those that failed.
I guess justice was on a BOGO sale that day and didn't truly require a true like for like exchange.
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Very weird "orb" experience last night....and i don't believe in paranormal
by Bad_Wolf inso i got this night vision/security camera.
wyze is the brand.
this only happened once last night.
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I told you what it probably was. Likely just a gnat. I get them with my Wyze cams. It's nothing magic.
This feels like the time I saw the post circulating on YouTube about the ufo sighting in Louisville. I knew what it was because I was at the football game that night and saw them parachute out of a plane and float down with flames coming out the back. Just a cool aerial show. But no, it must be something supernatural. I told people what it was and my posts were erased because people don't want truth, they want to be special.
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Very weird "orb" experience last night....and i don't believe in paranormal
by Bad_Wolf inso i got this night vision/security camera.
wyze is the brand.
this only happened once last night.
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dubstepped
Looks like a gnat or something. We get the same issue around late summer and early fall. Tiny flyers like that seem to be attracted to the IR on the Wyze cameras that we have. We see them on the porch often, unfortunately in the house too occasionally as they pop in from the screened porch.
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What doesn't ring true? She's been on many tv shows, radio programs, wrote a book, was invited to the TED stage. Obviously not everyone is who they say they are, especially on the internet, but why cast non-specific aspersions?