Topics Started by Victor

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What have you forgotten you ever even knew?
by Simon in
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at a certain point, as the years tick by, you start to realize that you have forgotten a lot of things.

typically, something you learned, some knowledge or skill you used to have, that you just haven't used for so long you no longer remember anything but that you once knew it.. i saw an article about electrical resistors the other day, and how the colored bands signify the rating.

now all i remember is that i used to know it, and that resistors do something with, erm, electricity ...
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Owe Raymond Franz my life anyone else??
by Witness 007 in
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2. experiences
so imagine a governining body member faithful slave who's uncle wrote the new world translalation bible and predicted 1975 would be armagedon writes a book in 1980 that changed my whole life...thank you raymond franz for setting me and my wife free love this man forever.

true pioneer!

👍 love ❤️ .
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JW's were born and built through primitive religions dynamics
by Victor in
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russel and his followers were a byproduct of the religious orthodoxy revolt that originated in europe.

this revolution of ideas crossed over to america seeding all the fringe groups who russel then became a part of.

this resistance to the establishment is similar to what we have seen recently with the q annon phenomena.
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The Divided States of America
by Victor in
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2. beliefs
the fault lines that have always existed in america were laid bare with the current multiple crises facing our nation.

this explains in part the polarizing tribalism that cannot get the horse back in the barn of decency and common sense.

if you want to read up on this history check out this article .
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Culture Wars
by Victor in
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with things going to hell in a hand basket, i’ve taken an interest in the clashes of mindsets.

this of course takes me back to my own evolutionary mindset pre and post jw life of two decades.

if you overlay the core beliefs of memetic tribes as postulated by the authors, i’m curious what the median tribe of jwd would be?
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Randy Waters
by Victor in
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if you live in san antonio and would like to help me help randy waters please send me a pm.

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Name one POSITIVE thing you took from your experience as a Witness
by geodude in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was thinking about this at work the other day, and realized the one positive thing i can truly credit the jws with: .

i have no fear of public speaking.

i was a shy kid, fat, clumsy, with crooked glasses and worse teeth, who wore hand-me-downs in one of the wealthiest counties in all of america, who sat still while classmates got up to salute the flag or recite the pledge of allegiance.
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Anatomy of a former JW
by Victor in
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one of the respondents on my post on mental illness stated that it was the same of ex jw's.

i thought about this for a couple of days and drawing from my personal experience, i can say that this is mostly true.

if one is disfellowshipped, the act of forcibly cutting off all ties to a jw's way of life is painful and in some cases inducing cognitive dissonance.
Ex JW 12 Steps Continued
by Victor in
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step 4 make a searching and fearless moral inventory of yourself.

to err is human.

the bible (if you are a believer) has a written moral code.
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Ex JW Doctors/Lawyers/Etc.....?
by Iamallcool in
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2. friends
nobody responded so far on my previous thread.

no problem.

the last sentence i asked if you know of any doctors or lawyers, etc..that left the borg too?