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Mrs. Fiorini
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Is everyone sick of me and Cameo'd being "Armagedon Junkies"?
by Witness 007 inme and my friend cameo'd have a condition known as "armagedon junky".....we enjoy speculating on catastrophies ending the world...yes we are ex-witnesses with a problem, we love the thrill of doom.
it was taught to us as kids and we still do it now.. the last few months we brought you "yellowstone park is about to blow"......."foxnews = solar flare will end life"..."mass desease epidemics".....sorry my friend cameo but me and you need to check into a clinic to stop scaring people....but i have to say it was fun for some reason, the thought of throwing it out there to accidentally predict something apeals to me..
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Mrs. Fiorini
I've never thought about it until now, but I think it's true. Being raised a JW can leave a person with an "Oh my God, what's going to happen next?!" mentality.
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Tarot & Rapid Brain Change When Getting Out of JWs
by og inabout six years ago, when self-extricating myself from jehovah's witnesses, i decided to follow robert anton wilson's advice in cosmic trigger, a life changing book for me, and explore taboos as a way to rapidly deprogram myself.
tarot was a great way to do that, as few things are more odious in the jw world.
i wrote up my remarkable experiences in an essay on my blog, tarot & rapid brain change which will probably be interesting to jw forum readers.. .
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Mrs. Fiorini
Interesting story. I have never used Tarot cards, but I do believe in intuition. I think many of these types of tools (tea leaves, crystal balls, runes, etc.) are just ways to draw out our intuition. I read a very good book about this a few years back that really changed how I saw my life. It was called "Practical Intuition" by Laura Day. You might enjoy reading it.
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OUR guilty sins...use disabled toilets and don't always pay train fare! Yours?
by Witness 007 innot much of a sinner but i'm ashamed and must confess...sometimes i use the mens disabled toilets as an "executive washroom"...i don't like peeing in front of others and feel traped in those horrid cubicals but otherwise am not disabled.
{the shame, i check for disabled folks first!
} also if i don't have change i don't pay the train fare on my short trip home so i don't miss the train....feel abit bad and i'm trying to quit these awful pratices.. whats your sin fess up???
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Mrs. Fiorini
I like to eat Spam.
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Mrs. Fiorini
The term "ones" to describe anybody and everybody. "Honest hearted ones" "spiritually mature ones" "unrepentant ones" and on and on. I don't know anyone else who talks or writes like that.
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Ironclaw needs our support.....
by alamb inhis mother passed last month and he is hurting.
i told him our little family here would support him through this.
he will be following this thread.
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Mrs. Fiorini
My condolences on your loss. Please take good care of yourself during this difficult time.
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Our JW Friend told by Elder "Satan is using a Pedophile to Break your Faith"
by flipper ini was given permission by a jw friend of my wife and me to post this experience.
she's anonymous and posts on the board.
she is married to a witness still but is fighting on behalf of children in her congregation to not be a next victim of a pedophile who attends her congregation.
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Mrs. Fiorini
If she isn't already doing it, she should document everything. Every conversation she has with the elders and CO about it, every conversation she has with the pedophile. She should keep extensive notes of eveything she sees, hears and all concerns she has, including how she feels about it. This information may come in handy later.
Bless her for doing this and best of luck to her!
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coheedandcambria
by isaacaustin incoheedandcambri.
care to share your story with us?
i would be interested to hear.
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Mrs. Fiorini
coheedandcambria,
Welcome to the board. I live in Lacey. If you would like to get together sometime, just PM me.
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Big Love does the Mormon Temple ceremony this Sunday
by FormerMormon inhttp://www.salamandersociety.com/temple/ (shows a pic from tv guide).
damn... i gotta get hbo.. i wonder which version they'll do.
the throat and intestine spilling oaths or the more sanitized ones they have been using since 1990. they can't show the whole endowment ceremony in one episode.
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Mrs. Fiorini
FormerMormon,
Thanks for all the info. I have never known quite what to think of the LDS church. I appreciate hearing from you.
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Vote:DO you think the WTBTS will end with a BANG or a WHIMPER
by superman inpersonally i think it will end with a whimper.
i think that they will always have members, but after the "system" continues and more and more people get discouraged, df'd, da'd, or fade after a long enough time they will slowly continue to consilidate halls (lose members) until it finally get so small they eventually go by the wayside or switch to something like e-meetings or web-meetings or once yearly conventions.
any takers??
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Mrs. Fiorini
That's a good question and one I've thought about over the years. I don't think it's going to end any time soon, but it could become a shadow of it's former self, at least in modern Western societies.
It seems to me the WT has to decide if it wants to be a mainstream, or even slightly odd fundamentalist religion, or remain a cult. Either way, it's going to have to start coming up with some new light and excuses pretty quick with 2014 on the horizon and no Armageddon in sight.
If it wants to mainstream, it might need to brace for a lot of defections. An earlier poster mentioned the Worldwide Church of God. They mainstreamed within a short amount of time, 10 or so years if I remember correctly. They ended up losing over half their members in the process. Of course, if the statistics are right, the WT loses over 60% of their membership anyway, so who knows how it would actually work out for them.
There's an interesting aspect to the WCG story. It turns out that there are some former members who want to go back to the old, nutty ideas about the end of the world, even predicting actual dates. They have advertized for former members, trying to pick up those who left the group. I don't know how successful they have been. I do find it interesting that there seems to be a market for this stuff among certain segments of the population.
If the WT wants to remain a cult, I think there are some natural limits for them. To try to maintain that kind of control over an organization and it's followers has to have its challenges. And while cults manage to attract some people, they will never become more than a fringe group that's easliy dismissed.
I would be surprised if they tried to pull a Jonestown. They are just too big and have been around too long to make that seem plausible to me. I also see no way in which that would be to their advantage, and at this stage of the game, everything the WT does is for its perceived advantage. Jonestown, and other similar situations, happen when there is a deranged leader that followers worship like a god. (I know what you're thinking, but the GB is still a group of mostly faceless men that the average JW wouldn't recognize if they passed on the street.) IMO if they were going to do something like that, they would have done it when Russell or Rutherford ran the show.
While the WT is similar to other odd groups and predatory religions, they also have their own unique situation. I guess we'll just have to watch and see what happens.