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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses Psycopaths?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  i have been thinking that jws display an organizationally officially promoted form of thinking that makes them psycopaths!.

  what i mean is, any person who enjoyed reading and leaning about past gruesome deaths, or who justified such things as being normal or acceptable would be deemed to be dangerous to society...a psychopath.

  (by this i am refferring to the content of the bible of course).

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  rebel8

  No. I've treated real ones. They enjoy being violent and cruel to others for its own sake, and have no remorse. They view other people, animals and things as existing for them to abuse and destroy for their amusement. Their bad behavior started and keeps happening because of something inside of them.

  Sociopaths cannot be cured.

  jws are brainwashed into being nonviolently cruel under specific circumstances because god will kill them if they don't. Their bad behavior started and keeps happening because of something external to them.

  jws can be cured.

  Granted, dubs take advantage of that, which is the opposite of prosocial behavior. But it's still different from those who have Antisocial Personality Disorder (also called psychopaths, sociopaths).
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  Mommy says no Christmas

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  daughter is 3 now, that's a little less than i've been on this forum.

  you can find my life story in earlier posts.

  enough to say that i have a generous amount of visitation with her.. i picked her up and was talking about the lights some of her neighbors had.

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  Keep presenting it as an eccentric belief of her mom's. "Mommy believes Christmas is bad, lights are bad, gifts are bad, singing Happy Birthday is bad, etc. Daddy does not." Or whatever...
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  How to traumatize your kids while baking cookies

  by rebel8 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-novel-way-to-traumatize-your-children.html.

  well dubs may corner the market on messing with children's heads, but there are other contenders.. .

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  I added a jw recipe.
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  AAWA activists burst into a Kingdom Hall in Kent!

  by raymond frantz in

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  2. beliefs

  aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.

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  rebel8

  Like you say, it's their choice. But let's not labor under the delusion that acting out angrily and illegally is a tool to help current jws wake up. It does the opposite.

  It's designed for them to vent their anger, period. I can't even call this activism because it's designed to worsen the issue they claim to be fighting against. I just call it revenge.

  

  Should they wish to help current jws, they could have modified the approach slightly and perhaps had an actual positive impact.
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  My dog just died.

  by panhandlegirl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just buried my beloved poddle, little brother.

  he died suddenly.

  i know to most people that is not an important event.

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  rebel8

  I'm sorry.
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  AAWA activists burst into a Kingdom Hall in Kent!

  by raymond frantz in

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  2. beliefs

  aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.

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  donuthole...lol...Apostate Like it's 1978! (Sung to the tune of Prince's song 1999) ITA.

  I think this could have been modified slightly and it would have been fine. (If it's your thang to try to convert current jws--I'm more interested in prevention, but to each, his own.)

  For example, dress appropriately, enter the hall and strike up conversations with people politely, expressing concerns. Or leave flyers on cars quietly.

  WTH was that weird thing at the end? I had to turn it off. So aggravating. Seemed like a lunatic. "Are you a lawyer?" What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Just a way to behave angrily like a bully--nothing else.

  Believe me, I understand the anger. Fully. But we gotta take the high road. I don't think we should be doing things designed to scare questioning dubs back to the arms of Mommie Borg.

  Full disclosure--I've posted lots of times about practical jokes. When I was a questioning teen, I did some. Here I've posted joke threads about what we could do, but I intend on doing none of them. Discussing practical jokes or other "activist" ideas can be therapeutic in itself, without carrrying them out. Like an unsent letter.

  Again, to each, his own, but IMO this "bursting in", yelling, disrupting, and demanding to know the bro's attorney registration # is irrelevant and counterproductive.
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  How to traumatize your kids while baking cookies

  by rebel8 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-novel-way-to-traumatize-your-children.html.

  well dubs may corner the market on messing with children's heads, but there are other contenders.. .

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  http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-novel-way-to-traumatize-your-children.html

  Well dubs may corner the market on messing with children's heads, but there are other contenders.
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  Window-washer is the cover of Feb 2015 WT, "How to enjoy your work!" Hahaha!!

  by EndofMysteries in

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  after all the jokes and satire on this website about jw's only being able to amount to window washers and house cleaners, the cover page of "how to enjoy your work" showing a window washer and cleaner in the back ground.

  i almost wonder if some awakened, still-in, from this site is part of the writing department or illustrations and put that in there as an inside joke for us?.

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  "How to enjoy your work!"

  So what's the answer? Whistle while you work, like the Seven Dwarfs?
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  AAWA activists burst into a Kingdom Hall in Kent!

  by raymond frantz in

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  aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.

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  rebel8

  Super childish and disrespectful. The only way to truly triumph over the evil of the cult is to be better than them. Epic fail.
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  zodiac and the bible

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have seen and read plenty of stuff on the net that implies many of the things in the bible are actually refuring to the zodiac.

  one example would be that in the new testament the 'end of the world' phrphrase is actually a miss translation and it should say 'end of the age' and that this age that is being talked about is the change to the new sign of the zodiac which occurred at about 125 ad to the sign of picees.

  has anyone done any extensive research on this theory that ma y things referred to in the bible is actually talking about the zodiac signs etc.

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  rebel8

  It wouldn't be unbelievable if one set of magical beliefs had borrowed some ideas from another.