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  What keeps a JW in the religion? A new angle.

  by Hobo Ken in

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  there are many reasons why but i wonder if there could be a dominant mental mechanism at work?.

  i've done a bit of research and written this article on the subject.. the comparisons between stockholm's syndrome and jw behaviour are striking.. what keeps a jw in the religion?.

  matt.

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  1) It's a guaranteed friend base all over the world.

  2) The bad J-Dubs have the best (FORMALS) parties.

  3) The GOOD J-Dubs parties are sooo sooo good they aren't even called parties; they are gatherings!!!!!!
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  Over 40 Lady and want a tatoo, What do you think?

  by lovelylil in

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  i've always liked tatoos and disagreed with the wt's stand on them.

  i just turned 42 on may 14 and think its about time i get one.

  nothing drastic, just a small lilly flower on my left shoulder.

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  Always get a tatoo that you can cover up as needed. No tear-drops on the eyes or Mike Tyson style eye symbols. You are only as old as u feel. As I approached my 40's I thought that life was over. I connected with a group of worldly classmates that live to the full!! They were a very bad, I mean good influence on me!!

  I personally like the "Tramp Stamp" with G-string panties (not on me though) that looks good on any woman (except for the nursing home I guess)

  Enjoy!!!!
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  Are YOU Drastically Different Since Leaving The Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  or are you pretty much the same, as a person?.

  do you still worry about doing everything just so?.

  do you still suffer from depression and angst?.

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  I love the Tim McGraw song, "Live Like You are Dying!!!"

  I know that I will die one day and I wanna enjoy my life to the full!!!

  Before, the end is coming tomorrow, so I had to go out in FS!!!

  lol
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  Are most JW families dysfunctional?

  by 21stcenturywoman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  based on certain families who i've known personally in the "truth", there was infidelity which resulted in children out of wedlock, drug abuse, abortion (involving an elder's teenager), verbal, emotional, & physical abuse (by parents and spouses), and dependence on public assistance.

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  No, I have to disagree whole-heartedly on this one. My parent were married 49 years and I have almost 20 with my wife. I emphasize family over the orgazation though. I miss field service for baseball games and gymnastics. I comment at the meetings, but will never serve again.

  I am known but witnesses and evil worldly people as a husband and a father FIRST...,.Then a publisher, as was my father!!
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  Lack of true friends as a Witness

  by stuckinamovement in

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  it was kind of a sad realization i had the other day that as a witness you are conditioned to not have friends.

  i realize that most of this fact is related to my own stupidity and arrogance.

  when i was in my teenage years i had a great group of friends that i ran around with.

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  Great Post. Yes, I srealized this early on. I was a pioneer in high school, on assemblies parts and kinda set the standard for youths in my area. At 21 I had a job that was demanding of my time. It was funny how MY FRIENDS who had fornicated and did vile things would not talk to me because I was not going to assemblies and meetings. I HAD NOT FORNICATED, but my friends had and they ostracized me. I learned that my friends at work were real friends. We literally put our lives on the line for each other.
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  Most Overblown Examples Used at Assemblies

  by What Now? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at a recent assembly, there was a talk highlighting the dangers of higher education.

  the brother used an example of a young girl who went to university, began going to bars, and ended up getting drugged and gang raped - as if this happens to every young jw who chooses to get higher education.. .

  what ridiculous examples have you heard used at meetings or assemblies?.

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  Someone always used the example of a person who committed fornication just one time and caught AIDS!!!

  Then the audiance would gasp!!!!!!

  ahhhhhh!
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  assemblies; how times have changed

  by Evidently Apostate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife mentioned our circuit assembly was this weekend, she looked at me and i let out a chuckle and said "the kids are too sick right?

  " (they weren't) but it was what she wanted to hear, an excuse from me to blow it off.

  it got us thinking about how they were kind of tolerable when we were younger.. meals with ice cream, lots of volunteering to get you out of your seat.. there was more room at past assemblies.

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  The theocratic direction now is to keep you suit on for 16 hours during conventions.......NOT!!! I change immediately after on the only day (Sunday) that I go. I refuse to make a vacation out of the District convention.

  I also refuse to stay at their crummy hotel. I go where I get free points...Hilton or Marriot ONLY. Not very theocratic....but we smell good and sleep well AWAY from the J-Dubs.......

  Funny thing is, the J-Dub hotel sells out quickly, so everyone says that the J-W Hotel had no rooms so they had to stay at the Hilton like me.....lol
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  assemblies; how times have changed

  by Evidently Apostate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife mentioned our circuit assembly was this weekend, she looked at me and i let out a chuckle and said "the kids are too sick right?

  " (they weren't) but it was what she wanted to hear, an excuse from me to blow it off.

  it got us thinking about how they were kind of tolerable when we were younger.. meals with ice cream, lots of volunteering to get you out of your seat.. there was more room at past assemblies.

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  I drove 50 miles to an assembly in Woodland Hills, California. We were there 15 minutes early. The parking was so bad we that the entire lot was full. We were forced to park on the street. We literally could NOT find a spot on Ventura Blvd for at least 1/2 a mile. We just drove to breakfast, went shopping and stole an idiots parking spot that foolishly left for lunch.
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  Do You Blame Your Current Life's Issues Because You Were A JW?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  do you tend to blame your problems on the fact that you were a jehovah's witness?.

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  I did it 100% as it come upon me.....(talking about life)

  I did my best as a JW, pioneered at 13 and stopped at 19. I went to the meetings, but dedicated my all to my job and my family thereafter...

  NO REGRETS

  Great career and Haphazzard meeting attender.

  Life is good, I tell the elders that I am an EXPERT on why I won't let my 15 YO get baptized, I did it at 13.......lol
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  How is it that well educated and financially stable people become Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by 21stcenturywoman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was growing up most of the jws around me were poor and lower middle class.

  some were middle class, but very few were upper middle class.

  only (maybe) about 1% were college educated.

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  I grew up in one of the worst neighborhoods in America......I now live in one of the 25 safest cities in America. Many (40-50%) of the people in the hall are college educated. People in the hall comment and pioneer, but it's almost amusing at times during the meeting. Most brothers own their own businesses, so many miss the meetings. I have learned that it is all a game.....