over many years i have been pondering how mental illness has impacted upon jw's due to the effects of indoctrination.
in my case; when i was 21 i had a breakdown and was hospitalised for 6 weeks.
i was diagnosed with anxiety tension state disorder.
Thanks for sharing that, NJWS.
My family, Lord, where do I begin?
Impoverished, illiterate, ignorant Luddites.
My father was a stone alcoholic, my mother a neurotic-bordering-on-psychotic mess.
Add to this mixture a dose of Jim Crow and other oppression, stir long and well.
Do you see why I was a prime target for the JW's teachings?
Sylvia
someone on my twitter timeline has retweeted posts that contain the hashtag youdon'tknowevangelicals.
it surprised me how familiar a lot of the comments felt to me and i was struck that some of what i think of as jw behavior, mindset and attitude is shared by evangelicals.
there are differences too of course by read the list of tweets below and see if these sound familiar.
We are all more alike than different.
Same hopes, same fears, same needs, same dreams.
Sylvia
one of the "elephants in the room" which j.w.
's will not and cannot question or discuss, is the org's dogma that a person's own death wipes out their sins!..
when active, i asked two c.o.
Ha Ha Ha.
Another one bites the dust ...
Our death results from sin, not pays it off.
Sylvia
good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
4-28-17
Good morning!
Sylvia
with respect to christ being the "redeemer" and of having "paid the ransom", i would like to know:.
(1) what is your technical understanding of each term?.
(2) what is the watchtower's understanding of each term?.
My limited understanding:
Through sinning or falling out of favor with God, the first human pair, and by extension the whole human race, was condemned to a life of despair, ending in death. This was due to the influence of a certain Evil One.
Redeem - Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, chose to Redeem or buy us back from the Evil One's hold.
Ransom - Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, paid the price or Ransom for this redemption with His Life.
First Adam sold himself and us
Threw everyone under the bus
Second Adam came to redeem
Those who choose to be on His team
He paid the price with His own life
As a loving husband would for a wife
This may all seem needless and foolish
But, it is God's way for evil to abolish
The WT teaches that Adam and Eve sinned willfully; therefore the Ransom doesn't cover them; no redemption, no resurrection.
I do not believe this teaching.
Sylvia
can he be sued for violating clergy pertinent privilege by the person that confesses to him?.
What happened to ecclesiastical privileges?
Sylvia
i dont know where to start so why not at the beginning.
i was seeing this girl and we hit it off great chemistry.
it went from a physical to a deeper relationship.
James87
just had to look them up last night.. they seem to have done all right for themselves.. sylvia.
Village Idiot.
Kept staring, knew I remembered something about them.
Sylvia
so lloyd evans aka cedars says on his facebook page when he attended a reveal jw child abuse event.. .
interesting stuff but no details!.
I hope it happens, too.
Sylvia
i know this has been discussed many times, but i was watching a news story about female genital mutilation (not female circumcision) and segued mentally into why the hassle about male babies having to be circumcised, christians especially.
even the wts flipflops on this...... if adam, the first perfect man, not under the jewish law code, was given a foreskin by god as an aspect of his physical perfection, why then do so many "christian" people have their boy babies circumcised?.
if a health issue....why did god create the perfect man, adam, with a foreskin?.
This circumcision requirement, along with the Red Heifer, is a head scratcher.
I love trying to get to the reasoning and symbolism behind them.
Sylvia
