Posts by TTATT

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It's 2015 already

by Doltologist in

it's 2015. isn't it about time man stopped believing in all of this illogical and superstitious nonsense i.e.

belief in god?.

isn't it time we grew up?.

TTATT_Paladin

Logical and analytical thought, and belief in the Divine are not mutually exclusive.

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Mormon who runs website for doubting church members ousted

by Socrateswannabe in

apologies if this has already been discussed on this forum:.

mormon who runs website for doubting church members ousted.

salt lake city (ap) a mormon man who gained notoriety over the past decade for running a website that offers doubting latter-day saints a forum to chat has been kicked out of the religion..

TTATT_Paladin

Notice there is no mention of excommunicating for fornication, adultery, etc., sexual moral sins. I wonder if they handle those and how?

If a LDS is excommunicated for adultery, that is indicative of just plain laziness.

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Roller Coater Emotions

by snare&racket in

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friends

the roller coaster ride of leaving the jw.org cult..... guilt .

fear.

anger.

TTATT_Paladin

The snare&racket model of JW-TTATT Recovery.

Spot on.

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Are you Thick Skin?

by James Mixon in

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friends

tick skin "the ability to withstand criticism and show no signs of any.

criticism you may receive getting to you".

did you have a thin skin when.

Seriously condsidering disasscoiating

by Ashley L. in

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friends

i am seriously considering disassociating myself.

i want to do this because i no longer consider myself one of jehovah's witnesses.

i no longer consider jehovah as my god and i am in a new religion now.

TTATT_Paladin

To Know

To Dare

To Will

To Keep Silent

Being true to the new path = not bothering to tell them a damn thing. Your new theocratic warfare embraces some secrecy.

Being true to your old path = playing their legalistic and cult-control game.

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Have we been affected by a "cult"?

by stuckinarut2 in

here is a great list of questions that help identify if we have been affected by a cult..... does any of it sound familiar?.

this has been taken from an interesting and informative site called:.

as a general outline we use the following criteria that defines a cult or mind control situation:.

TTATT_Paladin

"One of the easiest ways to determine if a religious group is a cult is to find out the kinds of things they do to members who don't want anything more to do with them."--TTATT_Paladin 3:16

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My first "disagreement" with standard JW thinking

by TTATT_Paladin in

about two years after i was baptized, i had this incident.

i looked at it as an isolated incident at the time, but now realize it would have had basically the same result with 99.99% of any jws not members here.. i will keep it short.

i was talking with a person who was raised in the religion.

I told a friend that weddings in our country (USA) that have anything but two people standing before an official trading promises have pagan things in them. Rings, honeymoons, etc. People crack me up thinking they are doing something by not having people throw rice, when 99% of the rest of their wedding has pagan elements.

#gnat_camel

(It's not that the pagan things are necessarily bad, it is a matter of consistency. Why are some pagan things allowed, but not others?)

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My first "disagreement" with standard JW thinking

by TTATT_Paladin in

about two years after i was baptized, i had this incident.

i looked at it as an isolated incident at the time, but now realize it would have had basically the same result with 99.99% of any jws not members here.. i will keep it short.

i was talking with a person who was raised in the religion.

TTATT_Paladin

About two years after I was baptized, I had this incident. I looked at it as an isolated incident at the time, but now realize it would have had basically the same result with 99.99% of any JWs not members here.

I will keep it short. I was talking with a person who was raised in the religion. We were talking about how the Society said not to speculate on what would happen after Armageddon. I said that one thing I know would happen, is that we would rename some of the days of the week, if not all of them. (referring to Tiw's Day, Wodin's Day, Thor's Day, and Frey's Day)

"You don't know that. We have to wait and see."

"No, I do know that I won't be using anything pagan. It doesn't make any sense to have pagan things. It is only logical."

If only the argument was actually bigger. I would have saved about seven years of JW-active-mode time, and immeasurable emotional turmoil if that would have blown up into other things that demanded opposite thinking.

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