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  How do I handle this?

  by Phoebe in

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  a little advice please.. it's now 7 months since i stopped going to meetings.

  we still get regular calls by elders - at least every 2 weeks.

  i can handle them.

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  just fine

  Best advice I was given is to separate my emotions from it and see it for what it is - emotional manipulation at its finest. Once you can see that it’s all BS, it frees you from their reach. When they do things like this - see it for what it is.

  Refuse to engage, my husband says that people make the mistake of treating JWs like they are normal people, they are not. They do not think like normal human people, it’s always about manipulation, to get you to come back, to get you to view the elders as relevant to your life etc.

  Dont fall for it.
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  How do I handle this?

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a little advice please.. it's now 7 months since i stopped going to meetings.

  we still get regular calls by elders - at least every 2 weeks.

  i can handle them.

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  Throw it away. They are using a child to emotionally engage you. It is a manipulation.
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  Are You Spending More Money This Year With The Economy Being Better?

  by minimus in

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  i see more people this year in an optimistic mood because of the economy.

  will you be spending more money 💰 this year, or less or about the same as last year?.

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  But you’ve got to have some fun sometimes too.

  Retirement savings - check

  emergency fund savings - check

  paying off debt on an accelerated plan - check

  Spending a little extra every now and again doesn’t hurt 😀 🎁 🎄I missed so many Christmas’s due to the cult. It is fun to buy gifts for people, when you find something you know they are going to love.
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  Are You Spending More Money This Year With The Economy Being Better?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i see more people this year in an optimistic mood because of the economy.

  will you be spending more money 💰 this year, or less or about the same as last year?.

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  just fine

  For Christmas - spent a little more :-)

  In general spend the same, I don’t have any large purchases planned for 2018.
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  What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !

  by flipper in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.

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  just fine

  Super stressful at work right now - so trying to soothe myself with some ABBA and BeeGees. 😀
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  Hee Haw was not clean

  by The Real Edward Gentry in

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  so, my son bought me a device that allows me to look up and watch anything i want.

  i remember years ago , i enjoyed the television show hee haw on sunday evenings.

  i naively thought it was wholesome family entertainment.

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  Hee Haw is hardly the cause of moral degradation of the free world. I would suggest hiding in your bunker without television if Hee Haw has you this tangled up.
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  You may PRETEND to care - in reality you are SELFISH!

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that;s what my wife (and all jw's) gets to hear about us at the kingdom hall today, (hmmmm, i wonder if she'll raise her hand to answer this one) ... .

  watchtower study ... today, apostates and others who create divisions in the congregation use “smooth talk and flattering speech.” (romans 16:17, 18) they may pretend to care about others, but in reality, they are selfish.. (the watchtower - study edition (simplified version) 10/17 page 4 paragraph 7).

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  just fine

  My sister said the same thing about one of her disfellowshipped children (when she was still speaking to me)That he was being selfish because he didn’t want to return to the JW idiocy.

  To which I replied, so it’s selfish if he does what he wants to do, but you’re not selfish for insisting that everyone live their life the way YOU see fit?!?!

  JWs are master manipulators.
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  What Makes Someone Become a JW?

  by minimus in

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  my excuse is that i was born in the religion.

  but if someone wasn’t, why would they become one?.

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  The JWs got my parents when they were in a vulnerable emotional state and the rest is history. Neither of my parents home life’s were ideal, throw in Vietnam and some other emotional upheavals and in come the Witnesses to offer their false hopes.
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  Stop harassing jws

  by pomo6780 in

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  2. beliefs

  we want people to learn ttatt.

  we have numerous resources online to draw jws in so that they will wake up.

  however, i've noted some radical methods that have been used by fellow exjws, and quite frankly, this must stop.

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  just fine

  People get to have their own viewpoints and live their own life now that they are out of the cult. I might not confront every JW I see, but if someone else feels the need to, it’s not up to me to decide what’s right or wrong for the whole wrold anymore. Plus the JWs do come to peoples houses to tell people they will die if they don’t join the witnesses, so I don’t feel too bad for a little confrontation. No violence though.
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  What do Jehovahs Witnesses do about stalking and intimidation

  by Peer Barber Meyer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the official line of the witesess vis a vis stalking and illegal wiretapping.

  do they ever report the officials to the police or is it just accepted as normal?.

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  More than one person I know has been stalked by elders.