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  Caleb and Sofia used to brainwash children

  by shattered_origins in

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  okay, i need to vent.

  as a newly awoken individual, i have yet to "come out" to my hard core jdub parents.

  my plan was to lay low and use my unbelieving husband and baby as an excuse for my "inactivity", it has worked for the last few months.

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  What sparrowdown said. Be firm about it, too.
  

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  We talk a lot about conditional friends on here

  by cappytan in

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  so, when people post about being shunned by their friends, i've heard several posters say things like, "their friendship is conditional.

  real friendships aren't conditional.".

  i'm sorry, but that just isn't really true.. if you and i were friends, there are conditions.

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  Yep, "conditional" vs. unconditional friendships is yet another one of those "let's put things into neat little boxes" oversimplifications.

  Here is what I state regarding JW friends:

  I had many associates, some were OK, most I could live without. It would not matter if any of these folks learned the TTATT. They would not necessarily be a better "friend" because of it.
  

  I had 4 true JW friends. I do not consider any of these "unconditional" or "conditional". The degree of conditional response is the degree to which they are "mind controlled", which really translates into the level of cognitive dissonance they experience ultimately. The greater the CD at a given moment, the more likely they are to respond with a controlled response, since doing anything else would betray their belief system. They cannot help it. If/when they learn TTATT, and are ready to accept it, our relationship will pick up where it left off.

  And of course, there is a threshold for what will be tolerated in any relationship. A friend doing your wife obviously crosses that line for both relationships. That is not the same thing as being shunned by JW friends, (although I am not excusing that behavior at all).
  

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  It's official - JWs have least common sense of any religious group in US

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  some fascinating results in the latest pew research.

  (how did i miss this before?

  ) including that jws rely on their religion the most of any group to tell right from wrong and rely on common sense the least.

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  Splash - Interestingly there continues to be an equal split between JW's who believe the Bible should be taken literally, and JW's who believe that not everything in the Bible should be taken literally. If JW's can't even agree on this basic thing then the GB have failed entirely in their role of 'steward'.

  The reason for this has to do with how they interpret the question. JWs often do not process these types of questions according to the same context as joe/jane public.

  In this case, JWs were taught to believe that they are not "fundamentalists", even though everyone else knows they are just precisely that. The only difference between JWs and other fundies in this manner is what they chose to take literally, not if they do take things literally. It is a matter of confusing their JW vocabulary and semantics with the question as posed.

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  EPIC!#%* NOVEMBER 2015 WT VIDEO "Welcome Home My Friend, Now Your Life Can Start Again"

  by NoMoreHustle in

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  2. beliefs

  well i just watched this "epic" video, i would have to say this is probably the most disturbing video yet.

  there campaign to get people back is just pathetic in the most mind-manipulating way.

  "welcome home" or "come back home" are they serious?

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  LevelThePlayingField - It goes back to how religion plays a major and general role for people in their lives. It provides COMFORT. And emotion is involved in that. So the society has been playing their trump card heavily lately with their music videos to play upon peoples need for comfort. It goes with the territory.

  
  

  ^^^This.

  
  

  This is precisely why reasoning with believers is, (almost), a fruitless endeavor. This is not unique to JW either. Most/all religions, (especially very fundy ones), are doing exactly the same with respect to emotional manipulation. Yesterday driving home from work, I just noticed a billboard from some fundy group that showed a baby with the headline "Proof that God Exists", or some such nonsense. There is no reasoning with that type of manipulation, for those predisposed to accept it.

  
  

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  So this Cute Chick at the KH ...

  by brandnew in

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  2. friends

  thought she was gonna take a pic of me on the sneak.

  im df'd...been df'd for over 19 years already.

  so she probably would have gotten away with it without anyone knowing.....except that her flash was on.

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  In a JW kind of way it is almost normal social interaction, (for anyone else, not really...)

  Oh, and they like the bad boys more than they will ever admit.

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  Taking bets on how long this cult will last and what will happen to it

  by macys in

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  i wanna make a poll here.

  how many years do you think the jdub cult will exist as is and what will happen to it?.

  i say the growth stops this year and starts to decline.

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  mrmagic, nice extrapolation of the principle of Moore's Law, and the potential this could have on the organization. Information is power, and ultimately this power is released due to the sub-processes at work beneath Moore's law, (which are really laws of physics). While Moore's law in of itself is not a law of physics, it is those very laws, (especially in the quantum realm), that serve to govern what can be done with chip and processing technology, since electrons are as small as they are and travel at the speeds they do.

  A 19th century end-times movement is no match for this long term.

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  Heroes

  by done4good in

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  in jw land having such was verboten.

  who are some of yours and why?.

  1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.

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  Interesting stuff, kaik!

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  Heroes

  by done4good in

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  in jw land having such was verboten.

  who are some of yours and why?.

  1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.

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  Lots of good additions here...I particularly would agree with Voltaire and Paine.

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  Heroes

  by done4good in

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  in jw land having such was verboten.

  who are some of yours and why?.

  1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.

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  done4good

  Great comments everyone. Many people mentioned are a good deal more altruistic and perhaps better role models in some ways than the examples I given, which is good to see. I drew mine from a more introspective look at how/who influenced me personally, but all is good.
  

  The way I look at this is, humans are all we have to draw any sentient influence from. Oubliette hit the nail on the head with respect to authoritarian groups not approving of such, since they don't want any person or concept threatening their influence. This is the real reason the WT labels such as "creature worship".

  Wasa/Rebel8 - Jimmy Carter was a very underrated and under-appreciated president.

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  Heroes

  by done4good in

  1. jw
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  in jw land having such was verboten.

  who are some of yours and why?.

  1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.

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  7. Steve Wozniak - The engineering mastermind behind Steve Job's early success.