i know its very common for jws and ex jws to deal with depression.
maybe it's a side effect of cognitive dissonance or the whole outlook on life being a jw.
but what are some ways to cope with depression?
Just watched a program on SBS where new research is discovering how important microbes in our mouth, stomach and intestines are to our overall health.
Re-instating missing microbes was reported as curing depression, cancer etc (in certain cases)
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/234273859562/Life-On-Us
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/234273859563/Life-On-Us
two key scriptures in revelation give a description of btg, and by doing so, identify to whom the name "babylon the great" applies.
revelation 17:5,6 says, "babylon the great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth.
" and i saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of jesus".
"...it was the religious leaders of these people, who perverted true worship and persecuted all who tried to expose them!"
Indeed, and well written The Searcher.
jehovah' witnesses use matthew 24:14, and their world wide preaching work, as proof, that they are the only "organization" that is doing jehovah's will.. what if the good news that they are preaching is a false good news or as paul would call it "a different good news"?
is there any value to a world wide preaching work, that is preaching a false good news?
or should that entire work be accursed?.
The problem with Matt 24:14 and the Watchtower's reductionist interpretation of it, is that they end up with a one-ingredient gospel.
The whole gospel has at least 30 essential ingredients.
If a medicine had 30 essential ingredients, the one-ingredient version would be a dangerous counterfeit.
so many at my wife's hall have rushed to buy i-pads,androids etc for use in servicetm and at the hall.. most know little or nothing about how to use them but have joined the stampede to jw.org tm and the reinvention of the wtbts.. it prompted one elder at my wife's hall to have a seminar at his house to explain how to use them in service and at the hall.. how exciting.... one 80 year old pioneer woman will be there with her new toy.. as a distraction it seems to be working quite well.
no need to worry about 1914 or other issues.. they are all nuts and getting nuttier....
Actually using the search facility of the Watchtower library is what led to my exit.
Tech savvy dubbies may not be such a bad thing...
http://www.armageddonconspiracy.co.uk/sex-for-salvation-ii%282395055%29.htm.
judaism claims that the way to god is through obeying endless rules allegedly imposed by god.
the great philosopher immanuel kant claimed that judaism wasn't a religion at all, but a mere body of laws.
@BOTR
Yes, but maybe not the type you are referring to.
According to most Bibles' rendition of John 17:3 we are saved by KNOWING the father and son in a personal relationship.
The Watchtower however can't tolerate such a situation and instead teaches that we are saved by taking in KNOWLEDGE (supplied by the Watchtower) about the father and son. This teaching is also in evidence in their deceptive rendering of John 17:3 in the NWT. This is apostate supremacist religious Gnosticism.
The Watchtower's apostate anti-Christ agenda is advanced by four main pillars: legalism, moralism, ethnocentrism and supremacist religious Gnosticism.
i know its very common for jws and ex jws to deal with depression.
maybe it's a side effect of cognitive dissonance or the whole outlook on life being a jw.
but what are some ways to cope with depression?
There are many medicines:
xjw protests & videos.
.. i am disturbed by some of the more aggressive apostates posting videos on youtube,like "a jw memorial to remember" where a drunk man goes to a memorial and downs the whole glass of wine as a sort of protest.
this video and others like it received positive comments from aawa members.
A phenomenon I have observed is that many really need to vent in a safe and anonymous place like JWN, but show great restraint, repect and patience when face-to-face and trying to help a captive JW see the truth.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/ngo_calls_on_ministry_to_probe_closed_religious_groups_jehovahs_witnesses_under_scrutiny/7219755.
sorry i'm on a tablet so can't make the above clickable.
more at link.
The Watchtower denies "freedom of religion" and "freedom of expression" and "freedom of association" and "freedom of conscience" to current and former members.
At the same time it hypocritically goes to great lengths to secure these same rights for its religious hierarchy or clergy class.
http://www.armageddonconspiracy.co.uk/sex-for-salvation-ii%282395055%29.htm.
judaism claims that the way to god is through obeying endless rules allegedly imposed by god.
the great philosopher immanuel kant claimed that judaism wasn't a religion at all, but a mere body of laws.
Apostate Watchtower Gnosticism is supremacist and postulates that only they have knowledge about God and his son, and are saved by such knowledge.
Compare John 17:3 NWT, KIT, RNWT, and John 7:23.
xjw protests & videos.
.. i am disturbed by some of the more aggressive apostates posting videos on youtube,like "a jw memorial to remember" where a drunk man goes to a memorial and downs the whole glass of wine as a sort of protest.
this video and others like it received positive comments from aawa members.
Welcome ShempLives.
Personally I regard myself as a dissenter who could no longer go along with Watchtower apostasy or "spiritual unfaithfulness" primarily in the form of rejecting the whole gospel (or full Good News) in favour of apostate legalism, moralism, ethnocentrism and supremacist Gnosticism.
