I Steve Hassan. I love the fact that he took such a negative experience and turned it into his life's work.
Mickey mouse
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Who has NOT read Combatting Cult Mind Control or Crisis of Conscience?
by Mad Sweeney ina lot of people here have read and highly recommend ccmc by steven hassan and coc by ray franz, myself included.
i don't know how i would have handled leaving the borg without that knowledge.. so thinking that got me to wondering, who here has not read them (or has read one but not the other), and how are you coping with exiting the borg?
did you get counseling?
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Who has NOT read Combatting Cult Mind Control or Crisis of Conscience?
by Mad Sweeney ina lot of people here have read and highly recommend ccmc by steven hassan and coc by ray franz, myself included.
i don't know how i would have handled leaving the borg without that knowledge.. so thinking that got me to wondering, who here has not read them (or has read one but not the other), and how are you coping with exiting the borg?
did you get counseling?
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Mickey mouse
Black Sheep, I have read both Take Back Your Life and Combatting Cult Mind Control. They are very different books, you would still gain a lot from reading the latter.
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European Court to favor the WT and condemns the French goverment
by Nick! inthis news was announced today on the journal "le monde": http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/06/30/temoins-de-jehovah-la-cour-europeenne-des-droits-de-l-homme-condamne-la-france_1543102_3224.html#xtor=rss-3208.
unfortunately, the european court of human rights has just condemned the french government against jehovahs witnesses.
if you recall, the french state was claiming 23 million euro (abt 33 million us dollars) taxes on contributions received by the french watchtower during the years 1993-96, which, by now, had climbed to about 58 million euro (abt 83 million us dollars) counting interests and charges.. it is not easy to size the wt.
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Mickey mouse
If the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one then maybe the Devil looks after his own?
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What's The Longest You've Been In A Relationship?
by minimus inand if you were dating someone "seriously", how long did that last?.
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Mickey mouse
17 years and counting.
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Danish article about shunning. Very interesting.
by worried ini just found a danish article in "jyllands posten" (yea, the ones who printed drawings of muhammed once).
i hope that my translation is ok, otherwise, please tell me if there is somewhere you dont understand it.. .
jehovahs witnesses to be investigatedmembers are encouraged by the leaders, to cease contact with those leaving the society.. .
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Mickey mouse
@HHG
Living the life you choose
You should have the freedom to live your life the way you want and to make your own decisions, within reason. This includes the opportunity to do what you want in your private life, to meet and develop relationships with other people and to participate in essential economic, social, cultural and recreational activities of the community. You should also be able to enjoy your property and other belongings without unnecessary interference. Education plays an important role in helping people achieve their potential in life. Education can open new doors for people and stop them being trapped in a life of disadvantage. So it is important that everybody in Britain has access to educational opportunities. UK law includes a range of human rights that help give you opportunities and control over your life. http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights/what-are-human-rights/living-the-life-you-choose/
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As if being at the convention isn't bad enough for children!
by Mickey mouse insomeone made it worse by doing this .
edited to add:i deleted the links as a couple of people reported getting virus notifications from visiting the 4shared links..
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Mickey mouse
Pride, impatience, ingratitude.
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Danish article about shunning. Very interesting.
by worried ini just found a danish article in "jyllands posten" (yea, the ones who printed drawings of muhammed once).
i hope that my translation is ok, otherwise, please tell me if there is somewhere you dont understand it.. .
jehovahs witnesses to be investigatedmembers are encouraged by the leaders, to cease contact with those leaving the society.. .
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Mickey mouse
I had to attend an equality and diversity training session for work today and part of it was about your human rights in the UK and this organization was mentioned http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/ I had a wry smile to myself when the slide came up listing my basic human rights and I totted up in my head how many the borg violates. But then, they're a religion therefore untouchable, in which case human rights organizations are paper tigers.
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As if being at the convention isn't bad enough for children!
by Mickey mouse insomeone made it worse by doing this .
edited to add:i deleted the links as a couple of people reported getting virus notifications from visiting the 4shared links..
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Mickey mouse
4shared is a file sharing website??!
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As if being at the convention isn't bad enough for children!
by Mickey mouse insomeone made it worse by doing this .
edited to add:i deleted the links as a couple of people reported getting virus notifications from visiting the 4shared links..
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Mickey mouse
Someone made it worse by doing this
Edited to add:I deleted the links as a couple of people reported getting virus notifications from visiting the 4shared links.
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The effect we are having on the Watchtower is HUGE
by jwfacts ini was inspired by a recent thread i know i aint gunna crumble the wt, but a girl can dream to look at the effect we as individuals are having on the watchtower society.. 3dogs1husband quoted a story to show that even helping only one person is worth it.. it is encouraging to note that the one person you may have helped has lead to millions being helped, due to the power of compounding growth.. compounding growth is well illustrated by the rice on a chessboard problem.
if you start with 1 grain of rice on square one, and double it to 2 on the second, 4 on the third, 8 on the fourth, by the last (64th) square there would be 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice.. likewise, if you help one person out of the grip of the watchtower this year, then next year you help one more and they help one, in a few years that is going to have a formidable result on the number of jehovahs witnesses.
look at the following statistics.
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Mickey mouse
And bad teeth Billy.