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

  by Hobo Ken in

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  2. beliefs

  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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  Has anyone tried tactics from"Captives of a Concept"?

  by Coffee House Girl in

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  2. bible

  just read don cameron's book...which was very en-light-ening (sorry for the "new light" pun)....and i agree with many of cameron's points about how to reason with a jw but i am curious..... have any of you out there in jwn land ever tried to have a witness come to your door, pretend to have a bible study & get the jw in a "teacher" setting where they have to research for you the history of jw's in the time of 1919????.

  were you successful?

  did it not work out?.

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  Hello!

  by Scooby-Doo in

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  2. friends

  i have been reading this forum for about a year on and off.

  it was a great help in discovering the real history of the jws and helped me realize what a controlling religion (cult?

  very recently i stopped all contact with my kingdom hall and have quit my study, so i thought it was about the right time to sign up here.. i am (was) the third generation of my family to be involved with the witnesses.

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  Children Learning to Think Critically Aged Six!

  by lifelong humanist in

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  2. experiences

  yesterday, i started a thread about learning how to thinking critically.. so, imagine my surprise when last night my eldest son phoned to say that his son, my grandson, wanted to speak with my wife and i about a project he had to do at his school.

  he has just turned 6 years old.

  the project involved asking his parents and then grandparents questions about how things when they were a similar age.. i said that i'd be happy to speak with him, and answer his questions as best i could.

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  Thank you, and Goodbye

  by cyberjesus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thanks once again to all of those who post in this forum.

  and good bye to those of you who choose to leave.. the healing process of exiting a cult is a slow one.

  specially if you were born in it.

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  Could Teaching Critical Thinking Abilities, End Cult Mind-Conrol Forever?

  by lifelong humanist in

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  2. experiences

  in my mind, every child that undergoes an education system, whether it be a within the family, a basic pre-school kindergarten type structure, within a monitored school curriculum environment itself, or, as part of a further education programme, the emphasis should be on teaching people how to think critically, and for the common good of all.. if this was indeed the case, probably very few would succumb to mind-control techniques later on in life.

  cults would struggle to dupe and recruit new members.

  the cult leaders themselves, would derive little benefit from their evil mind games.

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  What Are You Passionate About?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  what's your passion?.

  some people are very intense when it comes to politics, religion, jws, sex, love, the arts, music and almost anything that could get them revved up..

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  List of cult researchers and authors

  by besty in

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  2. beliefs

  not sure if this has been posted before but looks an excellent resource for those wishing to investiage the nature of cults and new religious movements.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_cult_and_new_religious_movement_researchers.

  there are almost 150 works listed and dozens of subject matter experts including steve hassan.

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  Did you have higher ed when you were in? If so how were you treated as a result?

  by highdose in

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  2. friends

  i went to both collage and uni when i was a jw, i got marked and shunned as a result.

  it seemed like every week there would be some dig made from the platform about " those that chose higher education" , my so called "freinds" were constandly on at me " why don't you pioneer highdose?!!".

  i even had the ciruit overseer denounce me from the platform as being "spirtualy weak" never mind that most of the peers i grew up with had got themselves reproved or disfellowed and that i was the only who had been good!.

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  I think an elder has sussed me out as an apostate. :-S

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. friends

  an elder phoned me up the other day to see how i was.

  he does this every couple of months, as part of his shepherding routine i suppose.

  (at least this elder takes shepherding seriously) i have not been to a meeting for a few months.

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