i have posted my story on here before.
i was dfed at 22 for sleeping with an 18yr old girl in my cong.
i was married and me and my "mistress" were both dfed.. i admit i was wrong by even the worlds standards.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery , only we can free our minds -Bob Marley
Why struggle so hard to satisfy the criteria set forth by a group of people that hijack religion as a means of gaining authority over other people. If you are estranged now why would it be different when you are doing what they want? We can support and love you if you do what we want? Real love< the kind talked about by (ahem) JESUS doesnt need conditions to operate .
yearbook 75 p.223-224 witness couple and their 6 day old cheryl, who needed blood.
"darell and rhoda correctly viewed blood transfusion as a violation of god's law, and thus oposed it.
they were concerned about the babies welfare, for everlasting life is only the prospect of those adhering to god's laws.
you know medicine only postpones the inevitable so why bother , right?
in a cult, the society of the cult tries everything in their power to keep one in that society, as well as keeping one ignorant of any information that would sever the guise of legitimacy.
given a version of the bible, not being able to read any other version of the bible is just one example of this kind of inflicted ignorance.
in a cult, it's impossible to get out without a fight.
Raping of the mind is even more heinous than raping the flesh . Sick acts of domination are purpatrated by people preaching "man dominates man to his own detriment" That is truly foul and sickening Having that kind of mindset foisted on a helpless trusting child makes me feel queezy and angry and I wish I could do more than post my opinion GOOD LUCK You have my support for your journey into freedom
some have pursued an independent group study of biblical hebrew and greek so as to analyze the accuracy of the new world translation.
they have also held conferences and produced publications to present their findings and to supplement what is provided at our christian meetings and through our literature.. throughout the earth, jehovah's people are receiving ample spiritual instruction and encouragement at congregation meetings, assemblies, and conventions, as well as through the publications of jehovah's organization.
rather, the claim is implicit.
Has anyone read 1984 by george orwell? lol really not jw material I think but his description of double speak and truthspeak and that whole language is power thing seems fully implimented in that pirated transcript.
tonight, my 9 year old and i are going to dig our hands in the pumpkin brains.
i love carving pumpkins again.
here's one of them we made last year, our 1st one since out of the borg:.
I live in florida and if you carve a pumpkin here it is so hot and humid it starts to spoil before the next day
i hope it worked.
my intent with the title of this thread was to attract both believers and non-believers.
whenever a thread appears promoting the wonders of jesus, it will inevitably develop into a back and forth discussion ad nauseam.. i was born into a family that believed there was a god, he had a son jesus and his word was the bible.
I still believe we are all here so I would have to say not much was changed ,,,,,although my eyes were opened quite a bit by reading the posts here I cant seem to go a day without atleast reading everything new Im not really sure Im a believer or a nonbeliever Im still forming an opinion but I've been doing that for about three decades so what does that make me?
about a month ago we were invited to an old friend from our old congregation to attend a bonfire.
this was before we finally started telling people were weren't going to meetings.
at any rate, my husband was talking to the guy who took over the accounts when my husband left and he was saying that donations have dwindled significantly.
A fool and his money will soon be parted.
why should we define ourselves by what the fds defines us?
our enemies who seek emotional control over us even after we left their destructive cult have invested a lot of effort to demonize us with the word apostate and when we use the term ourselves we do their work for them.
most so called apostates simply thought about things deeply and came up with many questions that the jws instead of answering in a logical manner labelled these inquiring minds as demon inspired apostates doubting the god appointed fds and expelled them from their org.
Labels are always used to dehumanize any percieved enemy Uncle Sam trains the military during brainwashing training using this technique and so do all extremists when introducing threats or maintaining a staus quo.You know being on this forum has stimulated my peabrain I feel fortunate to be here
why should we define ourselves by what the fds defines us?
our enemies who seek emotional control over us even after we left their destructive cult have invested a lot of effort to demonize us with the word apostate and when we use the term ourselves we do their work for them.
most so called apostates simply thought about things deeply and came up with many questions that the jws instead of answering in a logical manner labelled these inquiring minds as demon inspired apostates doubting the god appointed fds and expelled them from their org.
Maybe the " I SURVIVED MEMBERSHIP TO A CULT AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY HEADACHE" club
i have been hear for about a week now, and have not been is such a strange mental place since i was a witness.
it has been good, the programming still kicks in however, but i'm getting less and less afraid to reason with it.
i got my coc book yesterday.... i sat looking at it and thinking of all the years i avoided it, mischaracterized and marginalized it, w/out having any specific knowledge of what was actually in it.
I havent been here long either and certainly never was in the organization but what what your talking about ,that feeling in your brain? That also happens when you suffer from post tramatic stress disorder or what used to be called shell shock it happens to victims of abuse and people that have been through experiences that were uberstressfull and it causes fragmentation of your personoality and thought proccesses as a means of spreading the stress among seperate "people" in your mind. Extreme cases can develope multiple personality disorder and schitzoid personality .
