My wife & I saw it on Lifetime Movie channel last night . Extremely well done, Barbara was great, thanks for all of your help Barbara ! And it really exposed the JW cult for being hateful, uncaring, and inhumane. More shows like this need to keep coming out to expose the criminality of this evil cult. I felt so sorry for this lady abuse victim on the show- she definitely was having a first hand look at the callousness of the WT Society when she tried to drop her dissassociation letter off at Warwick. The response she received from WT reps was certainly predictable- yet disgusting and callous nonetheless. Good thread, thanks for posting this
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Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..
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A & E documentary - family fall-out
by Tallon injust seen this on exjw reddit - sickening beyond belief!.
long story short, we have not seen hubbys non identical twin nephews (jeremey and jerome) since we gave the middle finger to the jw's 7 or 8 years ago.
we last saw our nephews when they were 9 or 10ish.
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I'm so glad these boys have their loving aunt & uncle to care for them. Wow ! This is a heavy experience indeed. Just when you think you've heard the worst stories possible coming out of this JW cult- you hear even more horror stories that get worse . I'm glad the world is starting to hear more of these stories. People need to be informed
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A & E documentary - family fall-out
by Tallon injust seen this on exjw reddit - sickening beyond belief!.
long story short, we have not seen hubbys non identical twin nephews (jeremey and jerome) since we gave the middle finger to the jw's 7 or 8 years ago.
we last saw our nephews when they were 9 or 10ish.
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TALLON- Thanks for the link to this Reddit experience of the JW boys being kicked out by their parents. I posted a comment on that thread over on Reddit. This has happened thousands of times through the years by self righteous, uncaring JW parents all over the world. And it's disgusting. This JW cult and WT Society ROB JW parents of any empathy, sympathy, decency and causes parents to actually treat their exiting JW children inhumanely to the extreme.
I experienced this with my own son when my JW ex-wife kicked my son out of her house at age 18 because he didn't want to attend meetings anymore. He called me up sobbing that his mom had kicked him out and he asked if he could come live with me. I told him " of course son ! I don't care what religion you are you're my son , I love you !"
So he came to live with me and we cried together as he fell into my arms sobbing. It was one of the most emotionally charged experiences my son and I ever experienced. It traumatizes exiting JW children for years because they feel one parent doesn't love them anymore. Essentially the JW parent chooses the WT Society & JW cult - over the child. My son lived with me the next few years until Mrs. Flipper & I got married and he had a roomate and girlfriend by then who supported him as well. But we have stayed close all these years and are like blood brothers, we hike together in the mountains , play music together- and we both know we will ALWAYS have each others back in dealing with JW relatives.
I am so glad that A&E , Leah Remini, and other mainstream shows are exposing this freaking cult for what it is - a criminal organization that breaks up families. It's disgusting. The pain is very, very real and very , very sad. We need to support anybody- young or old who exit this dangerous cult. Especially the young who get put out on the street by sick, disgusting excuses of parents who need their parent cards taken away
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Favourite Quirky / Low Budget / Non-Mainstream Movies
by Simon inso the recent topic about film franchises got me thinking.
sure, we all love the big budget, mainstream releases that are so successful they spawn never-ending (it sometimes seems) sequels.
we could watch marvel and star-wars movies for the rest of our lives (and we might just ...).. but y'know what i love?
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DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED- Yeah Duel is a great movie with Dennis Weaver. I have that movie on DVD. The truck driver chasing him ? Awesome. If I'm not mistaken I believe that was Stephen Spielberg's first movie he produced
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Favourite Quirky / Low Budget / Non-Mainstream Movies
by Simon inso the recent topic about film franchises got me thinking.
sure, we all love the big budget, mainstream releases that are so successful they spawn never-ending (it sometimes seems) sequels.
we could watch marvel and star-wars movies for the rest of our lives (and we might just ...).. but y'know what i love?
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XANTHIPPE- I hear you. I really liked The Abyss as well, great movie ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper
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Favourite Quirky / Low Budget / Non-Mainstream Movies
by Simon inso the recent topic about film franchises got me thinking.
sure, we all love the big budget, mainstream releases that are so successful they spawn never-ending (it sometimes seems) sequels.
we could watch marvel and star-wars movies for the rest of our lives (and we might just ...).. but y'know what i love?
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This low budget film " The Big Kahuna " with Danny Devito & Kevin Spacey is really good
A great movie for EX-JW's to watch as well . Won't give anything away but watch this snippet from it and you'll get an idea.
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Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?
by Brokeback Watchtower inwhy are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?
is there something seriously wrong with society?
does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?
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MORPHEUS- Your assertions are completely false too, since you want to play the " I'm totally right, you're totally wrong game " . Your " all or nothing " reasoning - or - " black & white " reasoning is not the way the real world works. Some of what you stated was correct, some incorrect . You took a little of what I said about " poor and underprivileged " and blew it into an exaggerated version of what I stated.
You totally ignored THIS part of my post which stated , " It's the sickness in society where youths abandoned by non existent support systems fall through the cracks in this world and take their anger out in violent ways . " That is a FACT.
The mental health system is depleted , especially since many mental health facilities have been closed down , so families are left to deal with situations by themselves by housing either young mentally unstable teenagers or adult kids in their 20's or 30's and trying to assist monitoring their meds. Even older adults like the Vegas shooter was off his nut and roaming around in society waiting to explode like a time bomb. Very true, MANY thousands of people are walking around like ticking time bombs , various ages, various social statuses- I get that- but even middle classed Americans are seeing that their finances and money do not go as far as they did before.
We see people's stress levels of suffering injustices pushing them over the edge. And we see these mentally unstable people arming themselves to the tooth to get even with what they perceive ( incorrectly I might add ) that in desperation they see no hope ; so their mental state is so unbalanced and skewed that they try to take out innocent bystanders with them.
It's wrong, yes it's sick, it's unethical, and criminal these actions they take - but it's just a symptom of deeper problems within our society of how people deal with oppression. To say that many folks only get to this state of mental imbalance all on their own , only within their own minds - is ridiculous denial that outside influences and life experiences with others can accelerate their pain. It's black & white thinking to reason that way- dare I say " cult " type thinking. O.K. Thanks for listening, I think
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School Shooting in Indiana Middle School 5/25/18
by humbled inthey are still burying the children in santa fe, texas.
and it happened again today in indiana.
no one killed but some injured.
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BLOWNAWAY- The left does NOT want a total gun ban. They want responsible gun control laws that make it mandatory to have background checks on unstable mentally sick people who have medical records indicating & documenting their condition. And then restrict such persons from purchasing guns on the legal market. I know, I know - some will buy them illegally off the black market, but at least it would be a start.
Arming teachers is insane. Better to have 2 to 3 trained law enforcement officers at each school than arming teachers. Teachers are there to teach kids, not shoot and defend kids. THAT is the state & federal governments responsibility to work in cooperation with local officials in towns & cities to MAKE that happen. Would the federal government pay teachers more to defend kids on top of teaching them ? Doubtful.
Hey- here's a thought- Why doesn't congress pour some of those billions of $$$$ into providing armed protection for American school children - than say trying to get into a pissing match with every Tom, Dick, and Harry foreign power that doesn't fit into this particular president's game plan ?
Of course we have responsibility to protect our children. But so does the federal government by not allowing the NRA to financially hold Republican congressmen in a stranglehold where they are unwilling or impotent to do the ethical, correct, and moral thing- like protect children ? It's not as difficult as you say. Once these congressmen swallow their greed and stop enabling the NRA's power. O.K. Slings and arrows time
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Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?
by Brokeback Watchtower inwhy are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?
is there something seriously wrong with society?
does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?
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It's not the media. It's because of the inequality and frustration in society between the haves and the have nots . It's the sickness in society where youths abandoned by non existent support systems fall through the cracks in this world and take their anger out in violent ways. If you look at history in many societies, unfortunately history will teach most people absolutely nothing - and throughout history it has taught us that the oppressors eventually defeat the downtrodden, then it goes " rinse & repeat " until somebody else in power defeats and unseats those oppressors and on and on.
The craziest and most borderline personality types who are unstable - since they get hopeless and can';t take it out on their oppressors - therefore then take it out on innocent people or each other who they come into contact with as they feel hopeless in their lives. Very sad. I'm not saying it's right that it happens- it's awful that it happens , however people feel lost in a lost world like this Moody Blues song states and they act out their anger in disgustingly violent ways.
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Leah Remini to tackle JWs in new special
by betterdaze inthe star has a previous first-look production deal with the network to produce unscripted series following the success of her emmy-winning show “leah remini: scientology and the aftermath.” according to the hollywood reporter, remini will produce a special for the network during the break following season 3 of the acclaimed docuseries.. it notes that jehovah’s witnesses, while based on biblical teachings, have come under fire over the years for similar practices to the church remini left years ago.
for example, practices of ousting or shunning members who have dissenting views, a blanket refusal to participate in politics and government as well as not celebrating christmas or birthdays are all things that the special will reportedly cover.
additionally, the religion has predicted the literal end of the world several times, obviously to no avail.. .
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BTTT, Peace out, Mr. Flipper