Posts by leavingwt

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Hello, I Am New Here

by arrakis1 in

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friends

was a jw for 40 years.

stopped attending 2010...resigned officially in 2011. still a little shell shocked but beginning to feel much better now.

awesome revelation....people in the world are not all that bad.

Is "full-time service" a cult within a cult?

by brokethechain in

according to the bite model, mind control groups keep their members busy, tell them they are special, have special lingo, etc.. doesn't that make "full-time ministers" into a deeper level of mind control?

it's a "special privilege" to be among those "ranks", there are extra meetings "anual pioneer meeting", "pioneer school", and a whole other level of guilt/indocrination/control for keeping pioneers/bethelites busy.

as "examples", they shouldn't socialize too much, they shouldn't miss field service groups, they should start their time early, they should study all the publications, etc.

leavingwt

Yes.

The attitude at Bethel was that those in full-time service are better than everyone else.

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Would YOU Have Died For The Witness Religion?

by minimus in

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friends

would you have not taken a blood transfusion or a transplant because the gb said it was bad?.

would you have imitated the jws in concentration camps and died for your beliefs?.

leavingwt

Absolutely.

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Discover FREEDOM!

by Wonderment in

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friends

i just posted the message below in another thread, but decided to make it a separate topic.

would like to know your experience with operating systems, linux, or other related material.

i left windows and microsoft behind years ago for linux.

leavingwt

The reason that Apple is a multi-billion dollar corporation is because their products "just work".

If you simply need to (1) Surf, (2) Email, (3) Shop, and (4) View photos/videos with your computer, then Linux is a great idea. You can install Ubuntu or Fedora and you're done. It's extremely stable and pretty darn secure.

Visit your local Walmart or Best Buy and ask a salesperson to show you the selection of Linux software titles available (for any price). This is where the rubber meets the road. The applications!

The hardware and the operating system should be invisible and irrelevant. It's the applications that we need. (Also, it's support that is needed. View this from the aspect of a 65-year-old who is new to the Internet. Who do they call when Ubuntu is not working?)

But, yes, it's fun to play around with Linux and learn new things.

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