I don't. But there is a book called Jehovah's Witnesses and the Problem of Mental Illness by Jerry Bergman you might find helpful. I haven't read it, only heard about it.
Mrs. Fiorini
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I NEED INFO
by elder-schmelder indoes anyone have any stats on jehovah's witness and suicide or depression vs other religions?.
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elder-schmelder.
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My multiple personality disorder is gone!
by outofthebox inhey!
remember when i first started posting (scared to death) in this forum?.
i told you then that i was writing in behalf of others too.
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Mrs. Fiorini
That's great! I hope your friends and family sign up here on their own and join us.
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I guess we are all heretics.........
by awildflower init always amazes me how expendable we are to this organization.
especially if you are the mom of unbaptized children and the wife to the 'unbeliever'.
in my experience, i was let go and forgotten quite easily (although i get the feeling it might not be over!).
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Mrs. Fiorini
"We need to attract converts, we don't need to chase after heretics."
Yes, it's true. Just like a political ideology, it is more about the movement than the individuals. Kind of expected with politics. Pretty disappointing from a religion.
But as we all know, this is no ordinary religion. And it's not about worshipping God or living a Christian life of love. In a cult, it's all about the organization and its needs, interests, goals, ambitions, etc. That's why they are more than willing to use people up and throw them away when there is nothing left to get from them.
A sad situation indeed. And nothing like the ideas and truths Jesus taught 2000 years ago.
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Mrs. Fiorini
I think more information is necessary to fully understand your situation. How long have you been married? Do you have any children? How old are they? How old are you and your wife? How long has this problem been going on? Has the relationship been better in the past? Have you tried counseling? Do you love her? Are there other aspects to the relationship that you like or benefit from? How does she feel about the marriage, or do you know?
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Does the Governing Body require a minimum number of members/quorum?
by yadda yadda 2 inthe governing body presently comprises nine members.
some decades ago it was up to about 18 members, i think.
how low can the number go?
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Mrs. Fiorini
Very good questions. I don't know any answers though.
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the A-word.....are you a threat?....do you try not to be???
by oompa inand that means to your wife/family/friends/congo??
?.........and if you are...... don't you think maybe it is best if you just go away anyway?....either df...da...di or disappear?.
funny how they all start with d..........oompa.
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Mrs. Fiorini
Lets take that one step further. Jehovah's Witnesses are an apostate recruiting machine. They insist that before baptism one writes a letter officially resigning from their former faith, in effect, making them on the record apostates.
I wonder if they do that to break the bonds and make it difficult psychologically for ex-JWs to return to their original faith. Or is it just a way to try to insult "Christendom" to their face. I see no real reason for it. People change religions all the time simply by deciding to attend and join a new church.
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Blondie and Witchtower study death threats.
by hamsterbait ini now find the dub only koolaid edition so awful i can only read so much.. blondie does a great job of proxy-studying for us all, we owe her a great debt of gratitude.. i vote that when her task finally drives her barking mad we all club together to pay for her electro-shock therapy, just to help get her back here real soon.. anyway, i digress.. an interesting feature of the studies is the number of death threats, or threats of initiatory force, that are being put in the studies nowadays.
even in titles such as "what will you give to continue living?".
do you think it would be worth posting a "death threat" count for each week?
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Mrs. Fiorini
That's an interesting idea. I like it. It just makes clear how much manipulation is in every issue.
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It's not fair
by Luo bou to incut off from my family rejected by my wife ( spiritual endangerment ) and there was and still is not a damn thing i can do about it.
pisses me off.... no justice.
hey i am not looking for sympathy my life is pretty good its just frustrating to have family that are not dead yet might as well be..
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Mrs. Fiorini
You're right. It's not fair, just, or right in any way. Nor is it loving, though they say that is the mark of true Christians.
I hope and pray that some day this is healed, both for you and your family personally, as well as for JWs across the board.
In the mean time, may you have peace about it.
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Former fundamentalist 'debunks' Bible
by insearchoftruth inhttp://www.cnn.com/2009/living/05/15/bible.critic/index.html.
he was also interviewed about a month or so ago on npr..
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Mrs. Fiorini
I have one of his books. It's quite good.
IMO spirituality is a journey. He has certainly been on one. And so have most of us on this board.
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Growing up in a communist country ...
by Albert Einstein ini lived for the first 20 years of my life in a communist country.. .
great .... .
we were told we lived in the best regime, had best medical care, best election system, best goverment, no criminality like in the western countries, no unemploymence like in the western countries, not all the problems like people in the west ..... .
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Mrs. Fiorini
Interesting comparison with the WT. High-control, authoritarian groups seem to use the same techniques, whether they are communist countries or cults.