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  A Former Jehovah's Witness shares her me too story

  by LisaRose in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/16/a-former-jehovahs-witness-shares-her-metoo-story/.

  when i was 23 years old, i started dating a (jehovah’s) witness boy and we’d go out to some dance clubs.

  there was a night in particular where i had too much to drink.

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  Scientific reason why it's hard to get someone to change their beliefs.

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many of us have had the experience of trying to share our knowledge of the dark side of the watchtower with those we love, only to have it end badly with the person getting deeply upset and refusing to believe any of it.

  a new study might shed some light on the problem.

  this brain study looked at what happens when someone's belief system is challenged.

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  The Nurture of Nature, how to get from genes to behavior

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing i have enjoyed since leaving the jehovah's witnesses is learning about science and evolution.

  it's so great to be able to look at things without the fog of religious belief clouding things.

  of course i have learned a lot from cofty and his threads on evolution, but one thing i struggled with was what causes instinctual behavior in animals for example, what tells birds to fly south for the winter?

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  Do you think this would work?

  by LisaRose in

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  2. humour

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  Guide to Helping Other Break Free

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have come up with a guide to helping others break free of the watchtower, based loosely on steve hassan's book, combatting cult mind control and incorporating experiences of other jwn posters who have been successful in helping their family leave the watchtower.

  i posted an earlier draft of this and got some great feedback.

  here is the final version with some additional information and incorporating many of your suggestions.

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  Need Suggestions/examples: Guide to helping family & friends break free

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was going through my copy of steve hassan's combating cult mind control and it occurred to me that it would be great to have something like this specifically for us ex jehovah's witnesses.

  while this is a great book, the examples he uses are mostly from people that were moonies, as steve is a former moonie and many people that have contacted him for help were relatives of moonies.

  while cults all work basically the same, it would be nice to be have some ideas on things that are specific to jehovah's witnesses.

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  My brother died last night

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i found out this morning that my brother died last night, he was also an ex jw, 73 years old and died of heart disease and kidney failure.

  it was not totally unexpected, as he had been in poor health, but it's a blow, especially as i just lost another brother two years ago.

  there were six of us, now only four.

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  16 Jehovah's Witnesses on trial in Russia

  by LisaRose in

  1. social
  2. current

  i apologize if this has already been posted, the search function doesn't work on my kindle tablet.

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/sixteen-jehovahs-witnesses-may-be-russias-most-pacifist-extremists/2015/11/20/6e046610-8898-11e5-bd91-d385b244482f_story.html.

  as much as i hate this religion, i don't see that it does any good for any religion to be banned.

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  Interesting day yesterday

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have started walking every morning for twenty or thirty minutes.

  so yesterday i had to work and almost didn't go, but decided to get in a quick ten minute walk.

  i don't usually take my phone, but decided to take it, and i was so glad i did because a block from my house i came upon an older chinese man face down on the sidewalk and bleeding profusely from his mouth/face.

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  Ikea In Store comments

  by LisaRose in

  1. social
  2. humour

  so, apparently ikea apparently has in store comments (who knew?i don't shop there that much.

  ), where customers can write their own reviews of products for others to see.

  it seems like that would be asking for trouble, and some people are having a bit of fun with it.