I also saw Precious. I worked as a Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse. I saw girls that reminded me of Precious. It was a disturbing film and difficult to watch.
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What's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?
by A.Fenderson inwhat's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?.
my personal recommendation: synecdoche, new york.
it's one of those movies that words fail utterly to capture--which really is the hallmark of a good movie, i suppose.
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If You Weren't In Rapt Attention What Did You Think About During The Meetings?
by minimus ini used to think of leaving early.
at the end i started making excuses to leave (supposedly work related) so that i could just get out of there.
i wanted a drink!.
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I was a teenager and I planned my escape from the cult.
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I finally did it
by doublelife ini told my mom that i'm not going back to the meetings.
i wasn't planning on telling her that but i've been going through some hard times with my husband and just got fed up with her hounding me.
so she asked if i'll still consider going back to the meetings and i just flat out told her no and that it wasn't up for discussion.
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doublelife: Congratulations on being upfront with your mom. That's a big decision and I think you will be happy you have made it. Good luck on your new life and your new job. I think dog sitting is a great thing to get into right now. My daughter does it and her list of clients keeps growing. Keep posting and reading.
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Would You "Technically" Remain A Jehovah's Witness If There Were No Sanctions Involved?
by minimus inmany of us have drifted.
we know it isn't the truth but we might not have officially resigned as jws.
many catholics are nominal catholics and they are not shunned or avoided because of their not going to church or confession.. would you remain a jw if the organization didn't punish you for your inactivity?.
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No, absolutely not. I don't believe anything they preach.
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Where to appropriately focus and direct our anger (and more importantly - how)
by Mad Sweeney inthis is a tangent from another thread where angry responses to jws was a side-topic.. my opinion is that it is important to remember that the rank and file jw is a victim of the cult and that focusing our anger on any of them individually is doing them a disservice for two reasons:.
1. their behavior, thoughts, and feelings are not their own and are only informed by the borg.
it isn't just or appropriate to attack those who are victims just like many of us were.. 2. opposition, especially angry opposition, reinforces the false information that the borg has indoctrinated in them: that one of the proofs they have "the truth" is that they are persecuted.
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I need a book on this subject also. My anger is more directed at my parents and the other adult relatives that brought me up as a JW.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Hypochondria
by maputo95 inis there a link to jw involvement and hypochondria?
are people made mentally ill from their involvement in a cult?
i mean all those gory pictures of people being destroyed at armageddon must impinge on impressionable child-like minds.
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Yes, I know some relatives that absolutely fit into this category. But even some of my relatives that no longer attend meetings and are inactive still suffer from severe depression and cannot seem to accomplish anything in life. Depression often has all these vague physical synptoms that go with it.
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Since Leaving "The Truth" Are You Really Happier?
by minimus inwitnesses say that when people leave "the truth", they get involved in a debauched life, misery, and general unhappiness.. they give experiences of some that left the "sweet fellowship" of the "brotherhood" and the awful results because of it.
then, they come back and their lives change 100% for the better!.
have you found life to be miserable and unproductive since "leaving jehovah"?.
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Good post, Quillsky. Very true.
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Still believe it's the truth?
by IronHill ini was speaking to a friend who has also disassociated themselves as a jehovah's witness.
the curious thing to me is that this person, although having some doubts, still has the feeling that the witnesses have the truth.
they get extremely uncomfortable when the subject of religion comes up, and have a hard time coinciding what they are doing now, and their thoughts on the jw religion.. it feels like the times i have talked about the witnesses (feeling we share the same sentiments), that wall that most witnesses put up, goes up for them as well.. i dont understand...why would they still feel this way?
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No, I haven't believed it was the truth since before I left. But I do know what people are talking about when they speak of the "Walking Dead". I've definitely seen those within my family.
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No, but that's a good picture of him.
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A book on how the Bible canon was decided upon?
by dgp ingreetings.
does anyone know of a book i can buy to learn how they decided what book belonged in the canon and which book didn't?.
thanks in advance..
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Thanks, Terry. I just ordered "Who Wrote the Bible" on Amazon.