Posts by aSphereisnotaCircle

5 Elders die and you people feel sorry for the familys..If a plane full of Apostates died in a plane crash.There`s not a JW on the planet that would give a shit.

I was thinking the same thing...

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God help me - Just finished Crisis of Conscience

by Orgull in

i don't know whether to laugh or cry.. a friend lent me coc yesterday and i stayed up most of the night reading it.

it took me 13 hours and i skipped the meeting today to keep reading, i couldn't bear to put it down.. i am shocked but not surprised at how closely ray's thinking mirrors my own in some ways.

the part that hit me hardest was.... "conviction, it has no meaning or validity unless it is individual, personal.

aSphereisnotaCircle

After reading CoC, I feel like I just died. I also feel like I've just been born.

A while back I said I felt no resentment, but I'm beginning to. The first half of my life was spent living a lie. That bothers me and will probably go on bothering me for the rest of my life.

Welcome to the other side Orgull!

The next few months are probably going to be pretty rocky for you. You will feel exhilarated because you are free, and you will feel rage over the betrayal.

Hang in there, it gets better, I promise.

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My dad hid our Sept. KM from us!!!!

by changeling in

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when my dad went to the meeting today, i looked through his room for the sept. km so i could make a copy.. i had told him awhile back to be on the lookout for it and said "a friend from another cong.

got his early and found the question box very intersting".. just last week i asked if he'd received his copy, and he said he had.

i asked what he thought of the question box.

aSphereisnotaCircle

I was dissapointed that a man as intelligent as my dad would not be horrified by this matter. I know I had built myself up for this dissapointment and I'll just have to get over it.

You made him embarrassed about his own religion. I think that is a significant impact. Even though he appears to brush it off.

It takes baby steps.....

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was there a 1975 "scare"

by Lotus65 in

ive heard through different research ive done along with people ive talked too that there was a 1975 "scare" in which the time was supposed and the end was at hand

is that true

aSphereisnotaCircle

I would love to hear someone give us a narrative experience of their day, if they can remember it, of December 31, 1974. I can't imagine believing with such certainty that the world is about to end and you know when and how it will end. Does anyone remember? How about January 1, 1976?

John, I was there. It was not like other times when people dressed in white robes and wnet up on a hill at the appointed time.

Actually the last year or so prior to the end of 75, the society just stopped talking about it. They never said another word about it until about 77, and then they made a statement in the WT that "some" people, because of their love and zeal for Jah, probably said a little more then they should have.

Yep that's right, they hyped it up, then they stopped talking about it, and then they put the blame on "some" people.

I remember assemblies pre-75, every one was bigger then the last, there were hordes of new recruits coming in. The 75 debicle was no doubt a huge money maker for the org.

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Why Do People Have Children?

by hillary_step in

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i ask this with serious intent.. evolutionary imperative?

selfishness?

boredom?

aSphereisnotaCircle

I plead temporary insanity.

My sentence is constant insanity.... at least until they move out.

LOL, do I hear a Amen!

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Why Do People Have Children?

by hillary_step in

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i ask this with serious intent.. evolutionary imperative?

selfishness?

boredom?

aSphereisnotaCircle

people have kids because the humans that don't want to have kids, die off and don't pass along their genes.

The people that want and/or are able to have kids, tend to have kids, and those kids have that fertile and/or kid wantin gene.

Sorry, I don't think it's any more complicated then that.

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Awake magazine - Statements Made Minimize Children's Feelings

by flipper in

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i recieved the august 2007 awake from a man i anti witnessed to about child molestation.

couldn't help but see a disturbing paragraph about acknowledging children's feelings.

it went , i quote: .

aSphereisnotaCircle

Growing up JW, the message always came through loud and clear.

Parents=good

Children=bad

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Awake magazine - Statements Made Minimize Children's Feelings

by flipper in

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friends

i recieved the august 2007 awake from a man i anti witnessed to about child molestation.

couldn't help but see a disturbing paragraph about acknowledging children's feelings.

it went , i quote: .

aSphereisnotaCircle

Parents may worry that acknowledging a child's negative feelings or thoughts amounts to condoning them. "

Notice how they suggest that some things you "should" feel, and that some things you "should not" feel.

They also suggest that you might not want to acknowledge your child when they are feeling "negative"

I'm sure someone here can break this down better then I can, but that is one effed up statment, on more then one level.

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As a JW, Did You Exhibit An Attitude of Superiority???

by minimus in

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looking back, did you conduct yourself in such a way that you really did feel that you were better than others?.

aSphereisnotaCircle

No, I was a female married to a bro who never became a MS, much less an elder. he wasn't even good enough to handle the mics.

So I was pretty low on the social latter.