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  survivors, on anger, growth and change

  by Lucky Calamity in

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  2. friends

  if you have any thoughts on that topic, or quotes, coping strategies, etc., please share.. i liked this, reading in aarp rag, this a.m., the stories of people who lost a lot and were fortunate and resourceful enough to begin the process of moving on, and taking control of their lives in the wake of enormous betrayal and financial disaster, (partly due to their own gullibility, and largely due to someone else's enormous capacity to take advantage of it.

  sound familiar?).

  in posting this, i am not suggesting that everyone can or will be able to recover as these folks have, but merely to suggest that their insights are encouraging and that having positive support, in the face of crises of any sort is extremely important to recovery - from anything.. anyway, here are some quotes:.

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  Agreed.
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  Was There a Fictional Work Helped You Realize the Truth About the (T)ruth?

  by BabaYaga in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  the pen really can be mightier than the sword, and even fiction often carries much weight and powerful messages.. did you read a book or watch a movie that made you think?

  did an "entertaining" work plant a seed of doubt?.

  the first one i can remember making a definate comparison to the witnesses in my mind was ray bradbury's martian chronicles.

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  Before I was dunked, I read Animal Farm, where some animals were more equal than others;

  and 1984, where "big brother was watching you;"

  and The Stranger (which I don't remember a word of);

  and I read two other famous French social critics of the 19th and 20th centuries, one of whom I can't recall at the moment, BUT . . . recall very well Victor Hugo, whose critique of French religious and social institutions is legendary.

  The year I was dunked, after spending a fruitless summer pioneering, I read Les Miserables, unabridged.

  I made few connections between the repression of the Society TM and the monarchical repression and resultant chaos of French society at the time, but the cognitive dissonance must have been gradually and unconsciously settling in, for I secretly (and sometimes not so secretly) completely disagreed with and defied the Society's constant oppression of reading "worldly" literature. Every chance I got, I was reading something unacceptable to the Society TM .

  I credit worldly literature with saving my life, despite the fact that at 15, I became suicidal over the cognitive dissonance that it seemed to incur; however, without the religious oppression, I doubt I would have had to endure such enormously overwhelming pain.

  Books helped me to move on to live a very flawed and authentic life. I've said that before, and I'll say it over and over again.

  I've had worse company than a good book. Said that before, too, and will say it again and again.
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  Elders no longer need two witnesses to DF you

  by bluecanary in

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  they just need google maps.. .

  might want to keep your dildo collection away from the window..

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  Lucky Calamity

  That is NOT my dildo collection! How dare you accuse me of such a thing. Anyone can plainly see that those are collectible MADONNAS!

  oops! we're not allowed to have those either? uh, er, well, i didn't realize . . . those are pagan idols? oh, my! I'll get rid of them right away!
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  survivors, on anger, growth and change

  by Lucky Calamity in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you have any thoughts on that topic, or quotes, coping strategies, etc., please share.. i liked this, reading in aarp rag, this a.m., the stories of people who lost a lot and were fortunate and resourceful enough to begin the process of moving on, and taking control of their lives in the wake of enormous betrayal and financial disaster, (partly due to their own gullibility, and largely due to someone else's enormous capacity to take advantage of it.

  sound familiar?).

  in posting this, i am not suggesting that everyone can or will be able to recover as these folks have, but merely to suggest that their insights are encouraging and that having positive support, in the face of crises of any sort is extremely important to recovery - from anything.. anyway, here are some quotes:.

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  Lucky Calamity

  If you have any thoughts on that topic, or quotes, coping strategies, etc., please share.

  I liked this, reading in AARP rag, this a.m., the stories of people who lost a lot and were fortunate and resourceful enough to begin the process of moving on, and taking control of their lives in the wake of enormous betrayal and financial disaster, (partly due to their own gullibility, and largely due to someone else's enormous capacity to take advantage of it. Sound familiar?)

  In posting this, I am not suggesting that everyone can or will be able to recover as these folks have, but merely to suggest that their insights are encouraging and that having positive support, in the face of crises of any sort is extremely important to recovery - from anything.

  Anyway, here are some quotes:

  From Neil Friedman in "Survivors' Stories: Back From The Brink," aarp magazine, sept/oct 2009:

  "If I'm going to live with anger, then all I've got, will be lost. We're going to get through this somehow." (Madoff victim who lost a 3 million-dollar fortune and now lives with his wife on $24,000/yr).

  From Cora Lee Jckowski:

  "Even more than the money, the evilness of what our adviser did was the hardest thing to deal with. I consdered him a friend."

  And from Lois Black:

  "Believing is seeing, not the other way around. If I hadn't lost my retirment money, I would have been too afraid to start my own business."
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  Funniest Internet Site Ever

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyway, failblog shows ads and other absurdities that are howling funny.. there's a lady's purse that nearly made me hit in the floor laughing when i saw it.

  incredible............... .

  metatron.

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  fail is a favorite of mine . . . it often is howlingly funny to me, also meta
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  MY APOLOGIES TO ALL

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  looking back over the last few weeks, i think i've been unnessarily rude to some posters and i just want to apologize to anyone who has been on the receiving end of my anger recently.. i believe that i'm so angry, dismayed, devastated and heartbroken over what's happening to my brother in law, that i've been taking it out on others and that's not right.

  it makes absolutely no difference what i think of the wts as a whole, or whether or not americans have a universal healthcare system......none of that makes any difference whatsoever when someone you love and has been like your brother for 35 years is dying and there's not a fucking thing we can do about it.. my sister just called me and there's more bad news, and that's that his disease has now progressed into the acute myeloid leukemia which means he cannot start the therapy they were going to give him, as this is far more serious now.

  they want to start chemo right away, but his blood counts aren't up high enough for him to survive.

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  Your Opinion: Do You Believe In The Idea Of Having One Soulmate In Your Life?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know some couples that truly believe this.. what's your view?

  do you believe there's a soulmate out there for you?.

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  tthew 22: 23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24 "Teacher," they said, "Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?"

  29 Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' [a] ? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."

  33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching. NIV

  As was His audience of years ago, I am also astonished.

  Sylvia

  This would make a very, very good Monty Pythonesque sketch, don'tca think?
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  Your Opinion: Do You Believe In The Idea Of Having One Soulmate In Your Life?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know some couples that truly believe this.. what's your view?

  do you believe there's a soulmate out there for you?.

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  Lucky Calamity

  I don't believe in it, but it's a very romantic idea that I find charming as all get out.

  It is perhaps a wishful thinking kind of thing.

  Perhaps a few lucky people are able to make it into a self-fulfilling prophesy.

  Maybe I should try that.
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  Imputation- do you agree?

  by Lillith26 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  imputation is the concept that we are all sinners because of the original sin of adam.

  and our only redemption is found in the sacrifice of christ on the cross/stake.

  imputation implies that guilt passes from person to person from generation to generation, and redemption is passed from christ to us.

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  A great deal of research in genetics and genetic markers over recent years strongly suggests the answer to be NO.

  If there were any genetic markers for SIN, we would have found them by now. Consider the human genome project and all of its findings - no sin markers noted.

  There is no scientific evidence for it, and I doubt it will be found, for the same reason no evidence of the flying pink unicorn is likely to be found:

  it's nonsense.
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  WT Society Makes JW's Feel Bad about Themselves - No Self Worth

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have noticed this a lot in attitudes of witness relatives i've talked with over the last few years , as well as other former witness friends i have talked to.

  many witnesses feel bad about themselves due to having it drilled into them that we are all " sinners " who allegedly inherited " sin and imperfection " from adam and eve .

  that essentially humans are " born dead " or in a " dying " condition due to alleged " inherited sin " .

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  The helpless, hopeless pessimism of my own family is infuriating. The impossibility of convincing them that they could make a difference in the world through civic engagement, voting, volunteering, DOING something besides preaching -- overwhelmingly frustrating.

  Last time I had an online discussion with a witness friend of the family, I could not believe how negative he was about getting involved in anything outside of work, because every one has an agenda and it's all like some conspiracy of satan to control us . . . so frustrating . . .