Hi MUNKAFATS!
Well, I've personally never been a JW. It is a tactic to control information to label anyone who has become an ex-JW a tool of the devil. That's probably why your battling the most. You said you were confused and had questions...what kind of questions do you have? Questions about the organization? It is scary to look at things that seem to contradict what a practising JW so firmly believes.
There are many religions that claim to be the truth, and that to question them is the work of Satan. www.howcultswork.com,,,The WT is not unique in this...
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for any of you that have read my threads(im a struggling one)
by MUNKAFATS inthey way im seeing it is that jw seem to teach only honesty which i dont see as being a bad thing at all so why are some of you on here using **** this and **** that or im going to do some fornication now blah blah blah , i dont mean to be offensive at all but some of you say you are christian????
or is it that you have been repressed for to long ?
help me as i feel stuck in the middle , dont know what to do
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Are ex-JW still gullible or serpent-like?
by BEROEAN injust wondering if ex-jws find it hard to trust others since their bad experience or are they still gullble souls?
just wondering because some of the stories i read about past experiences are off the charts!
some of you, your childhoods, your parents are seriously jacked up!
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"Maybe because my background does not allow for me to "blindly follow" anyone."
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Kill them with KINDNESS!!! And a great big HUG!!!! LOLOL!!!
by Lady Liberty inhello and good evening all!!.
just thought i would share a funny story that happened to my daughter and i the other day!
we were shopping and ran into a jw who had always been very friendly when we were active.
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Very cute story Lady Liberty, nicely played
If I ever feel like hugging a JW and there's not one around, I guess I'll just wrap my arms around a freezer.
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Where do I Find Out about the District Conventions???
by smellsgood indates, times, venues??
can someone help me out.
i think i might like to go experience the magic.
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Where do I Find Out about the District Conventions???
by smellsgood indates, times, venues??
can someone help me out.
i think i might like to go experience the magic.
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Dates, times, Venues?? Can someone help me out. I think I might like to go experience the magic.
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For all you tree hugers out there.
by whereami ini you have some time, this is a very interesting video.
reminds me of the way the wts likes to scare everyone, the sky if falling, the sky is falling!!!!!
enjoy.
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Dave,
I can see you and I think alike in alot of ways. I do have an open mind to the evidence that is presented, and I can see that it could be warming. I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that, but I think the frenzied pontificating and disaster mongering is over the top and borderline religiousity. Why is it so dangerous to say the FACT for example that the earth has historically had warmer periods? I think one very positive thing that will come out of this will be cleaner fuels, and hopefully reduction in oil consumption which is always excellent.
Isn't it funny how a person like you has to feel concerned about posting what they believe since it is controversial? I say we need the controversy. I hate political correct bullshit, that's what I'm mainly spouting off about it, it gets under my skin and makes me feel bound and gagged. I wanna anti-correct revolution. Bring it.
"Besides the alarmism, I see many other very WTS-like tactics in use, guilt and shame come to mind."
You forget the us vs. them. I feel there is a heavy dogmatism as well. Don't forget the villification of the dissident and superiority complex. They should realise that not everyone will completely embrace everything the Scientific community espouses. If I'm not mistaken,,,Scientists have been wrong before??? Or are they infallible gods not to be challenged?
"Temperature goes up, it's global warming Temperature goes down, it's global warming."
I got a sunburn last year. I'm pretty sure it was global warming.
Like I said, I care about the environment, but the zealotry and alarmism really bug me. Hell, you know I'd love to have a hybrid car, but it's new and can't afford it. You know, I'd love to have solar energy powered house. Don't have the capitol for it. Why don't the rich celebrities understand the common people don't have millions to go buy the newest car and completely rework their homes?
"Believe what you will about the issue, but take note of the tactics, anybody who has successfully escaped from the WTS would benefit themselves by recognizing zealotry in any form and resisting the heady satisfaction it can bring for fear of being swallowed whole by another mindset that may not be doubted or debated."
Why forsake honesty and truth for bondage?"
Brilliant Dave. Why forsake honesty? OMG no kidding. Just to illustrate, the modern day Mayans protesting Mel Gibsons Apocolypto. I saw it, and of course it was dramatized, and the Mayans were made into Cinematic villians, because that was their stage the CINEMA. Now, they were saying it was racist or something. It's like, what? How does a movie set hundreds and hundreds of years about a group of people that you are NOT, make it racially motivated against Mayans? Should we change the facts of History? Is a movie made about Hitler portraying him as the mass murderer psychopath that he was an account that is based in history, or an account that was constructed only to relieve a filmmakers radical anti-Germany and German peoples sentiments? I mean, it's beyond ridiculous. That captures it a bit how I see and how you said we forsake honesty,,,so we can be offended.
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The wisdom of Metallica---Leper messiah
by Anti-Christ inone of my favorite metallica song.
"spineless from the start, sucked into the part.
circus comes to town, you play the lead clown.
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Caught Wife Cheating
by roflcopter inso i posted a while back about my marriage problems.... whole new gambit thrown into the mix.
i've had suspicions all along that something like this might be happening... but only just not confirmed that she's been cheating on me... with another jw that she works with!
she could have been more discreet about it rather than leave all the text messages on her phone.
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Do you lick the lid of life??
by ilovegravy inok, so there`s a tv ad doing the rounds in the uk about yoghurt and its strapline is "do you lick the lid of life?
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to my knowledge, and i could be wrong here, but as far as i know, yoghurt in cartons is the only food in which our instant reaction is to lick the lid...i can`t think of any more ...can you?.
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Anyone here have experience in Native American culture/worship?
by Angry_Kangaroo insince leaving behind jw beliefs, i have been interested in learning other belief systems.
i am really interested in native american beliefs as i have native blood in my background, and i feel more at peace and closer to god when i am in nature.
from what i have read, it is not a set religion with rules and such, but more a cultural/community based faith.
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er..I owned a dreamcatcher when I was 10.
I think it's alot of animism and pantheism. The Great Spirit and the power animals and the ancestors. That's all the information I've collected about it from school and like...Pocahontas. Don't have any personal experience with it though, so why did I bother you with this reply you ask? Because by not adding anything I accomplish nothing. It's so relaxing.
Good luck, you should go google it. There's probably online community somewhere.