as you probably know, this is me and you can imagine that the old brainwashing sucks for me sometimes.
i don't believe anything wts says about medical care, i don't agree, and i have seen the proof they are wrong.
i've been out for a long time.
Thanks to all.
they still have control
Yep. I had an automatic thought recently: "I should take a smaller dose because I'm being greedy." WTH!
Thankfully I banished it immediately, but it kept popping up into my head!
Some people say cults are equal to all religions. I am not saying any religion is right or morally good, but brainwashing only occurs in cults.
as you probably know, this is me and you can imagine that the old brainwashing sucks for me sometimes.
i don't believe anything wts says about medical care, i don't agree, and i have seen the proof they are wrong.
i've been out for a long time.
As you probably know, this is me and you can imagine that the old brainwashing sucks for me sometimes.
I don't believe anything wts says about medical care, I don't agree, and I have seen the proof they are wrong. I've been out for a long time. Yet, there are those old rusty thoughts hiding in the hidden corners of my brain.
Lately, while having medical care, the thought, "Using blood products is greedy," kept popping into my head. (I hate that.) I couldn't remember a specific teaching, only that it was told to me.
The naturalist Pliny (a contemporary of the apostles) and the second-century physician Aretaeus report that human blood was a treatment for epilepsy. Tertullian later wrote: "Consider those who with greedy thirst, at a show in the arena, take the fresh blood of wicked criminals … and carry it off to heal their epilepsy."
Dumbasses. Creeps. A big middle finger up for messing with my brain.
few realize just how wicked some of the most revered people in history were.
helen keeler (1880 to 1968) was a wolf in sheep's clothing, no hero.
keller was a communist.
i've been out about 9 months.
and yes i am still obsessed with anti-watchtower material.
i've been married 23 years.
Of course--it's part of the normal grief process.
You can't recoup lost time. All you can do is make the most of what you've got to work with now. Build yourself a life worth living.
http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/.
on january 6, 2015, the paso robles police department in california charged a jehovahs witness, steven martin lindhorst, 51, with the following offenses:.
lewd act with a child under 14 years of age (felony), possession of child pornography (felony), possession of explicit child pornography (felony), posting intimate photos of another without consent (misdemeanor).
rachael de vienne is one of the authors of separate identity, a history of the watch tower's earliest years.
she's received low grade harassment from the watchtower for years.
she posted about it on her personal blog.
That blog post is very confusing.
The main gist is they are "harassing" her by visiting her blog. The purpose of blogs is to bring people to it. If you don't want people reading your writings, you use a diary, not a blog.
Also, visiting your blog is not harassing at all.
Secondly, this:
I've even had them try to change my lesson plans for my school classes
What now?
anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
Mentally ill people cannot help their actions or often even realize them.
True in some cases at certain junctures when symptoms are at their worst.
As a behavioral health clinician, I had a patient confess murder and another violent crime to me. I asked him why he didn't kill the 2nd victim and he said he stopped because he knew it was wrong. This was a person who was very obviously mentally ill by anyone's observation--always acting and dressing bizarre. I talked to him about turning himself in to the police. He agreed he should be locked up and acknowledged his acts were wrong.
That is my most "not cognizant" example of a patient-criminal. My others had a greater awareness of their wrongs and ability to stop them.
There is a saying in AA that is good. "You are not responsible for your disease, but you are responsible for your recovery."
True, the difficulty with mental illness is getting the person to be aware of the problem and accept help. This is true of most humans who need to change something big about themselves--we don't like change or admitting something's wrong.
This guy reportedly had persecutory delusions and command hallucinations, indicative of the most serious level of illness. He refused help--not unusual. It's unfortunate no one forced him to get help before he became violent.
anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
Felons can't get guns. Period.
They can't legally possess guns.
They absolutely can get guns though--easily. In my state, people can sell each other guns on Craigslist, in their garages, or anywhere else. They are not required to do any background check whatsoever. It's up to the felon to not buy the gun, not the other way around.
FFLs require a background check, but they are not the only way guns are legally sold.
Here, no license is required to purchase a gun, and business owners cannot even stop you from packing heat unless they go through extra hoops to accommodate you by providing a gun locker and posting special signs.
anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
Well if we're going to go into gun control, then I'll say this. And I say this as a former behavioral health clinician.
All gun sales should be subject to FFL plus a mental health/substance abuse screen.
It would not stop everything, but it would pick up some glaring mental health cases, and reduce the opportunity for felons to get guns.
the past week has been hell for me.
my mother started feeling ill and we went to seek medical assistance.
we live in the mountains and the nearest large hospital is about 150 kms away.
Good job! (( ))
Been there, done that. It completely sucks that irrational brainwashing causes easily avoidable problems.
I hope the underlying cause of the anemia has been resolved too.
Please keep us informed about what the elders do.
