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  Thinking of giving it all up!

  by eyeslice in

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  i am sure this isn't a mid-life crisis i have done that and got out of the jws.

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  but i am seriously thinking of just leaving the west with its rat race, emphasis on money, senseless tv and media, cars, shopping malls, pre-packaged food, supermarkets, etc, etc, and moving to india to live in a small cottage near a beach somewhere.. anyone else got the urge to get out of the rat-race?.

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  I just watched "Into the Wild" last weekend. It kind of made the idea of "giving it all up" less romantic, at least for me. Anybody else see it?
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  JWs and Mormons--One of the Same?

  by OMG! Now What? in

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  check this out!.

  http://www.cephas-library.com/jw/jw_jw_lds_same_origin.html.

  and this is just as interesting, if not more!.

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  I read this much, "by David Icke" and it was enough for me.

  He thinks JW's and Mormons are the same thing but he also thinks that Jews and lizzards are the same thing.
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  I never heard of myself until I googled me up . . .

  by Happy Harvester in

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  and found out that i have been a famous australian singer and actress, and a world class body-builder, and the owner of an employment firm.

  funny, none of that matches the "me" i know.

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  I'm a fitness model and I am a, um, "artistic" photogapher. With my married name, nothing - even in quotes.
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  Another method of witness time-wasting

  by ldrnomo in

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  yesterday as i was getting ready to go out i noticed from my bedroom window two women dressed in witness garb heading toward my house i didn't recognize them so when i answered the door they asked me if i was spanish speaking i said no and they then asked me if i knew of anyone the the neighborhood that was and i said no they thanked me and went off to the next door (doing the pioneer shuffle) to ask the same question.

  so this must have taken up a whole morning.

  my wife and i thought they could have spent their time so much more affectivly sitting in a coffee shop and saying olaaaa to each customer that came in and when one answered back they could have spewed their bs on them in spanish..

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  A friend of mine used to be in the "local" (half hour drive for Spanish, 5 minute drive for English) Spanish congregation. Goodness! The time and gas that they would waste. The Spanish congregation's territory was practically all of southwestern PA. They would meet in the morning, pile into cars and drive all day to some house that was reported to have a Spanish speaking person there. When they got there, nobody was home. Then they would drive for another 2 hours, looking for another reportedly Spanish speaking person. Joining the Spanish congregation is called "going where the need is great".
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  Watch a mind controlled cult member, Tom Cruise on Scientology

  by Layla33 in

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  catch it, it's some wild stuff, like watching a bethelite after a talk.

  ugh!.

  http://defamer.com/344987/the-tom-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientologists-dont-want-you-to-see.

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  I didn't really find it creepy, just awful. If you are going to spend the money to make a video and hire Tom Cruise at least tell him to use more types of words other that pronouns. He really didn't say anything at all. It was ten minutes of him saying "I have to help them. We have to do things. We are the only ones that can change it. It won't get better without us". What is "it", who are "them", what is your plan? But I guess that is how to make an effective pep-talk video. Leave it up to the individual to fill in the blanks - makes it one size fits all. Obviously this wasn't a recruitment video.
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  Why the Watchtowers "War" argument is totally bogus

  by drew sagan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from my own personal experience the watchtowers position on war always appeared to be one of the most difficult issues to navigate.

  a number of times when i was first leaving the wts i spoke with jws who all used this argument to show me how "wrong" i was about the "truth".

  while i knew the watchtowers arguments where wrong, i had a very difficult time figuring out exactly why it was wrong.

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  Well Proplog2,

  Are you going to bother to support any of your criticisms?
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  Undoing the Damage

  by Amber Rose in

  1. watchtower
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  so, i was reading this thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/150394/1.ashx about psychological damage caused by being raised as a jw.

  most seem to agree that yes, jw indoctrination is damaging to children.

  so here is my question: what do we do about it?

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  Evita,

  It has been extremely difficult to shake the belief that all "worldly" endeavors are dangerous and futile.

  I think this has been my biggest obstacle also. I quit attending meetings just over one year ago, and I have shed alot of the of my cynicism about the world in general, but there still sometimes is a nasty residue. I'm going to be starting school next week. Being around people and learning stuff should help me feel like a real person, I hope.
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  Undoing the Damage

  by Amber Rose in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i was reading this thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/150394/1.ashx about psychological damage caused by being raised as a jw.

  most seem to agree that yes, jw indoctrination is damaging to children.

  so here is my question: what do we do about it?

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  So, I was reading this thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/150394/1.ashx about psychological damage caused by being raised as a JW. Most seem to agree that yes, JW indoctrination is damaging to children. So here is my question: What do we do about it? I'm not looking for one-size-fits-all answer because that would be absurd. Looking at the list in the first post of that thread, I see a lot that I can identify with. (Learned helplessness, low self-esteem, denial, guilt etc.) What have you personally done to heal yourself? How far have you come since leaving the group?
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  jw's view of dress code for women

  by megaflower in

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  the dress code that the society imposes on the women has been a thorn in my side ( manner of speaking).

  theses old men dictate how a women should dress and i do mean "a dress".

  i can remember when i lived in connecticut and the temp would be in single digits and when it came time for field service you must put on that dress.

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  Not only is it stupid to go out knocking on doors in sub freezing weather, it is very rude. Saturday morning people come to the door in their jammies and slippers, holding the door open letting all that frozen air in. And of course, they don't want to invite you in, even if they weren't wearing jammies.

  But oh, those awful pioneer days. All the girls and I would come up with the worst combinations of clothing and so many layers, stockings, leggings, long skirt, 2-3 pairs of socks and boots, topped off with a long coat that almost touched the ground. Then there was the problem of getting in and out of the car with so much bulk... What the hell were we doing.
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  Soup Recipes Needed

  by skeeter1 in

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  i'm in the mood for a good bowl of homemade soup.

  please share your recipes.. skeeter.

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  Amber Rose

  I made Hoppin' John this week with the leftover ham carcass. So yummy!