Mad Irishman

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  How to deal with anxiety?

  by BlackWolf in

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  lately my mental health has been rapidly declining.

  i have anorexia and deppression, and my anxiety has become overwhelming.

  i have been to many doctors/therapists in the past, but because i have not been magically cured my parents dont want to get me any more help.

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  Mad Irishman

  Have you tried anti-anxiety medications? They can really help. Your anxiety isn't real. It is caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain. So anti-anxiety medications can balance that chemical imbalance out. Talk therapy alone won't do it.

  Exercise can help with anxiety. Also, you must manage any triggers of your anxiety, i.e., listening to sad songs or reading things that make you sad or anxious; certain people that make you anxious; certain situations that make you anxious. You have to find out what things make you anxious and manage them. Also, one of the most important things you can do is find hobbies or activities that you love and enjoy and throw yourself into them like gardening, sports, literature, skiing, etc. When you are active in those activities you mind doesn't have time to focus on anxiety and it will give your mind a breather, which will then help calm you down.
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  "New Light never contradicts Old Light, but simply adds to it"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  does anyone remember this classic quote from a society publication??.

  i remember it has been quoted many times, but i cant find the reference.. if this comment is to be taken literally, it condemns the organization anytime there has been a complete changes in teachings and doctrine!

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  To give them credit the Watchtower has corrected things it has published that were wrong in the past, so I don't think the quote from the 1881 Watchtower is what the modern organization follows.
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  Cult or Religion

  by Richard C B in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is a cult and what is a religion?

  its open to debate.

  who has the authority to say for certain what is a cult and what is a religion?

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  Mad Irishman

  People who leave religion want to call every ex-religion a cult.

  A cult is an organization with a charismatic leader like a David Koresh or Jim Jones that is wayyyyy outside the mainstream and controls every action of their people, completely isolating them from the rest of the world.

  If the JW's are a cult than so is the Catholic Church, the Born Agains, Southern Baptists, etc., etc.

  Just because you don't like a religion doesn't mean it is a cult no matter how many times you might call it that.

  I think people have forgot what an actual cult is.
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  Are logos evil?

  by goddidit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a vague memory of jws having some objection to logos of some kind in the past, which might be a contradiction to the recent addition of the jw.org logo.. please can someone enlighten me on what their stance used to be regarding logos?.

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  They didn't want symbols (that are akin to idols) like Watchtower pin type clips or something like that.

  The JW.org logo is a website. Kind of like a street address. I'd be hard pressed in the digital age to compare a website address to a symbol or religious idol. Just my opinion.

  It is the 21st Century you know.
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  The right to shun - wrong?

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many people are understandably upset and angry at the notion that jws have the right to shun people.

  it seems such an obvious "no brainer" cruel and inhuman thing to do - it must be wrong ... surely?.

  of course we look at things from the perspective of those hurt and harmed by shunning.

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  Duh!

  Do you know how many non-Witnesses shunned me when I was a Witness? Now you're going to try and regulate what they can do?

  I don't think so. It's silly to even contemplate something like that unless we turn the world into George Orwell's 1984.
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  1914 'Big A' WT Retraction/Apology?!

  by lurkernomore in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i just met with an old 'friend' who wanted a 'chat' after no contact for the best part of 4 years.

  she obviously heard about the wonderful news of my abrupt fade :d. i guess i wanted to prove to myself that any future meet ups/chats with jw's would be pointless.

  needless to say i proved myself right.

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  There's been quote a few mentions of 1914 and how the organization was wrong about what happened then. Was there an apology? I wouldn't call it that, but they've printed many times how the brothers then got it wrong about what was supposed to happen.
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  Huckabee: The US Is More Evil Than The Rest Of The World

  by ctrwtf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://youtu.be/spnxx52oesa .

  mike huckabee thinks that sin and evil, not guns, are the reason the us has so many mass shootings.. if this is true, then all things being equal, the us has more evil and sinful people than the rest of the world.

  who's to blame for that?

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  So the ISIS people who go around cutting people's heads off by the thousands and gang raping teenagers are not worse than the worst of the lot in the U.S.?

  Mike Huckabee is an absolutely loser.

  People get shot in the U.S. because they have access to too many guns. Go look around the world where guns are not available and guess what? There aren't mass shootings. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. The U.S. has made its bed with guns and thus you get these types of mass shootings.
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  Operation "Change meeting infrra-weekly" is a smokescreen

  by LaFrancia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the operation "change midweek meeting" probably was a move to divert attention of the brotherhood from layoffs to betel and the ranks of special pioneers, a smokescreen for the pedophilia scandal !

  !operation "change meeting infrra-weekly" is a smokescreen.

  what do you think ?.

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  Changing the format of a meeting doesn't really distract from anything.

  Too many ex-JW's see a conspiracy where there is none.
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  November 2015 Awake

  by username in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

  my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

  well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

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  The top photo is a photo of a Baptist Church.
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  For those of you who is contemplating leaving the Borg, consider...

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i know it's not easy for you to walk it's a big decision, family and etc.. if you are afraid consider this.

  i have been here for a few years and i can count on one hand from posters who made the statement, i can't take it anymore, i'm going back.. what is it that members here have given up their family and friends to be free.

  is it so we can have sinful fun, we are our own person and no one will tell us what to do?.

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  Mad Irishman

  "The stories of people immediately becoming promiscuous drug users after walking out of the KH are just made up from the pages of the WTS."

  I can't agree with this statement. I personally know dozens of ex-Witnesses who the second they left became incredibly promiscuous (so much so that some of them would make a promiscuous person blush) and alcoholics and drug users. You haven't seen that with people, especially those under 30? Because I have. They go absolutely nuts. One of my female friends confided in me that she slept with every guy she met after she left and she was completely reckless. I know 3 other ex-sisters who became strippers. If anything most of the younger people I grew up with who left went absolutely bonkers once they left the JW's. They had no code at all.

  I'm sure it's different with older people, but certainly not with Gen X'ers or Millennials .