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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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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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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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?
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I'll be speaking at Columbia University next weekend, meetup to follow....
by dubstepped inso i'll be speaking on a panel as part of the "when rights and religions collide" event next saturday, october 19. if you'd like to attend you can learn more here:https://rightsandreligions.com/.
i'm also going to host a meetup on sunday if any of you are in the nyc area.
i'm still putting the finishing touches on the details but if you'd like to join in and meet myself, my wife, and a few people that listen to the shunned podcast or that are in my facebook group called by the same name shoot me a private message soon.
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Note that I said that nobody there (at the conference) shuns to the same extent. Not nobody in the world. The orthodox or hasidic Jewish communities may shun along the same lines at times and may force someone to leave the communities, which is an extra physical burden. Some Amish (old order) may too. But they don't shun at the same scale. My apologies if I overstated.