Posts by Introspection

Well that's good, that you recognize that anything is just a possibility and judge only yourself. Bottom line is, we don't know do we? We don't know what's going to happen in our future, let alone what's going on with someone else, present or future.

Of course, being able to relate is really something else. Nobody said it would be easy, but I figure if we want to compare, there's gotta be people who have a harder time than JWs, (yes, even those who were raised one) and some of them must have been able to overcome it. Don't mean to belittle your identity as an ex-JW, but I simply believe you're all more than that.

Now this part may rub people the wrong way, but even if you think I should go get TP for my bunghole hear me out. Most people will renounce being a JW or whatever, but TRULY renouncing the identity and the behavior is not as simple as writing a letter or whatever. I'll just share one idea that I've found useful, and that is to renounce the need to be the star in your own movie. Now don't go thinking I'm judging the people who posted in this thread, I don't even know what's playing in your theater. But one of the points made about this idea is that it IS your movie, and your story, but you are just not seeing yourself as the main star. This may sound funny, but I think it's worth some consideration.

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The philosophy class

by Scorpion in

a college student was in a philosophy class which had a discussion about god's existence.

"has anyone in this class seen god?

"has anyone is this class heard our professor's brain?

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It's no fun to spell it out but.. Bottom line - both the professors argument and the comeback was simplistic and frankly kind of dumb. It has nothing to do with the point they're trying to make, the argument just stinks.

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We can't get real.

by KJV in

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we can't!

there are issues we all have in our lives and i know that belonging to a cult has fucked us up more than we realize.

but we attack each other, call each other names, hate each other, and yet there is not a one of us who would not come to my resuce if i needed your help!!

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What are you talking about...? Issues, schmissues. I don't have any subscriptions. You're right about the caring, but the never changing stuff is your own belief.

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HELP

by forgetmenot in

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help!

is fire!

would you run faster?

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What are you, a Beatles fan?

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I am falling into my old habit

by rekless in

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when i studied jw stuff at first i coundn't get enought of it.. then i got overloaded with the same old crap lost interest then got bored then started liking fluff.. then .

two years ago when i started to really question everything about the wts i read everything i could find, did research, read ray's book, studied the chonological data on 607 etc, etc, etc.

now i have lost interest in trying to prove them wrong.when i see a long winded post about the organization and what we can do to damage them ijust can't read it.

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Are you experiencing earthquakes, famine, war etc. and at the same time? It can't be individual occurances, it has to happen at the same time..

Funeral idea

by Introspection in

the "what if somebody from the board dies" thread got me thinking, what kind of funeral service i would like.. now this isn't for everyone, so if you're one of those people that really is serious despite an occasional joke by the book then it's probably not for you.

just don't project anything into it - i'm not depressed and i'm not gonna kill myself, if you need to project something just assume i'm stupid or whatever.

for the rest of you, i'd just like to share this because chances are we'll never meet and it's unlikely that you'd even find out i died.

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The "What if somebody from the board dies" thread got me thinking, what kind of funeral service I would like.. Now this isn't for everyone, so if you're one of those people that really is serious despite an occasional joke by the book then it's probably not for you. Just don't project anything into it - I'm not depressed and I'm not gonna kill myself, if you need to project something just assume I'm stupid or whatever. For the rest of you, I'd just like to share this because chances are we'll never meet and it's unlikely that you'd even find out I died.

So here's what I have so far - theme music - so far all Spinal Tap songs. First, I figure I'll have a few words recorded, in the background can be "Listen to the Flower People". When the casket is lowered the last half of "Hell Hole" would be playing, and at the reception of course you have to have "Cups and Cakes".

If anyone is interested in lyrics they can look it up here: http://www.getlyrics.com/alphabet.php?Letter=S&Artist=Spinal+Tap

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SEX TEST

by WildTurkey in

instructions: .

get out a piece of paper to keep score.

answer each question with a number between 1 and 10.

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"I can't get no... Satisfaction.."

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Rumors that they spread about you. When you left.

by jerome in

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for some time now i have been reading numerous indivisual life stories relating to their experience with the jws and one obscure ( or at least not directly elabourated upon) detail keeps popping up.. it would appear that whenever a person leaves the organisation by da/df/ia that people take it upon themselves to start spreading "nasty rumours" about the person in question.. it always seems that so much of these said rumours that were frabicated and then propagated throught the local jw community that the poaster almost never seems to have time to goint any detail about what exactaly was said about them in detail.. i would like to invite the posters here on the board to shed some light on their experience regarding their reputation after leaving the kh.. it would appear that once disfelloshipped that the jw community must make it abundantly clear that the person is of absolutely deplorable character inorder to justify their inhumane treatment of the df'ed indivisual.

saying that there is no honourable way to leave the oragnisation this seems to be rather common place.. i am also informed that even if the df'ed person were permitted to return that their reputation within the jw community would never be the same due to the tarnishing of their name and the stigma attached to being df'ed.. i may not be entirely too shure about this one but it would seem that if while still in good standing should the indvisual to become "publicly reproved" or "marked" that this would also be an invitation for the local jw community to begin the same process of defaming the character of the person in question.. would anyone care to discuss your personall experience relating to any private information which became public knowledge after you left the jw community or any half truths that were deileberately propagated to tarnish your name in the vacinity of the kh.

and even worse yet blant lies that were imagined and promoted about you inorder to permanatently damage your character.. i would also be interested in who exactly you think were responsible for the iniation of these rumours.. was it the elders?

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I'm with you Goph, there has been times where I know there is gossip of a positive kind (not in the WTS) but I don't bother finding out what it is, even when someone tells me point blank people are talking about me. I figure if they really want to know what I think, they can talk to me.

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Working on a cure for the WT virus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by D wiltshire in

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working on a cure for the wt virus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

what can we do to fight this virus my friends.. do we have any free thinker here?.

pray to jesus children pray to jesus!!!!!!!.

Introspection

Well, lets keep in mind that leaving doesn't mean you've overcome the virus though, it only means you see there is an illness..