Diogenesister

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  What Makes Someone Become a JW?

  by minimus in

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  my excuse is that i was born in the religion.

  but if someone wasn’t, why would they become one?.

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  I had an alcoholic father ,,,My father had no problem with the witnesses continuing to "study" with me and allowed me to get baptised at age 16.

  He probably thought it would be a protection against alcoholism Sailaway, against his own demons

  My father suffered from bad depression and alcoholism, my mum left when I was 7 and utterly rejected me. Dad worked away from home a lot. Our neighbours converted then and I was like their little daughter, I spent all my time there so...childhood indoctrination coupled with bad childhood.
  
  
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  What Makes Someone Become a JW?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my excuse is that i was born in the religion.

  but if someone wasn’t, why would they become one?.

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  Diogenesister

  Why do people join today? With the internet and access,

  They don't.
  
  
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  Congregation picnic time

  by Jayk in

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  i've never been completely shunned because i've never been baptized.

  my father side has always talked to me and included me in family events.

  but my mom's side is in denial of shunning me.

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  Diogenesister

  my mom physically beat me pretty bad growing up to the point the state stepped because she put me in the hospital when I was 16..

  Mandated by the cult, if it helps the anger at all toward her. I'm not excusing it, it hateful. I made a fuss even as a believer that it was disgusting. But for your sake I want your anger to subside so if it helps to know the cult encouraged beating kids, especially in the 80s, 90s. They told parents it was showing love to do so " he who spares the rod is hating his child", that's the Bible for you, 3,000 year old peasant principals.
  
  
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  So my PIMO Younger Brother Tried To Kill Himself Today

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. experiences

  we all know that this cult will drive those trying to leave to desperate measures, and today by brother was very nearly one of those statistics.

  he slashed his thigh with a kitchen knife and was bleeding out until he called the police.. i got a call on my way home from work from a police officer, coincidentally it was one of my old friends from school who's now a cop.

  he told me my brother is in hospital after an attempted suicide and has lost some blood but will be ok. but i should get to the hospital as he's asking for me.

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  PE " I even placed a book"

  (Ha ha tea went west LoL)

  Glad he's doing a little better. xxx
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  Which Things Did Your Overzealous Parents Ban?

  by pale.emperor in

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  we all know the gb like to impose rules upon the rules... but did anyone else out there have parents that implemented rules upon those rules?

  mine did.

  my mum tended to copy whatever the elders wives were doing and took it to the extreme.

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  punk Marine! oh wow did he tell you any stories? Anyway that's such a charming story by the way, he sounds like a lovely man.

  No wonder you are so well balanced.
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  So my PIMO Younger Brother Tried To Kill Himself Today

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we all know that this cult will drive those trying to leave to desperate measures, and today by brother was very nearly one of those statistics.

  he slashed his thigh with a kitchen knife and was bleeding out until he called the police.. i got a call on my way home from work from a police officer, coincidentally it was one of my old friends from school who's now a cop.

  he told me my brother is in hospital after an attempted suicide and has lost some blood but will be ok. but i should get to the hospital as he's asking for me.

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  Agree with incognito - use the fact he needs rest to get the jw hangers-on out. I suspect though most high dependency psych wards don't let just anybody visit their intensive care patient ( they're not silly, they don't want their vulnerable patient triggered by the sort of guilt inducing stuff they say).
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  So my PIMO Younger Brother Tried To Kill Himself Today

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we all know that this cult will drive those trying to leave to desperate measures, and today by brother was very nearly one of those statistics.

  he slashed his thigh with a kitchen knife and was bleeding out until he called the police.. i got a call on my way home from work from a police officer, coincidentally it was one of my old friends from school who's now a cop.

  he told me my brother is in hospital after an attempted suicide and has lost some blood but will be ok. but i should get to the hospital as he's asking for me.

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  Pale empower I'm so so sorry. Rant coming...I can't help it!

  Will these jw " carers" have access to him in the hospital? Hope not, so the poor chap gets a break.

  I urge you to reach out to his Consultant psychiatrist and fill him in as best you can with whats going on.

  If your family are in full on shun mode I wouldn't mince my words - when your mother said "he's made a promise to Jehovah" I would tell them, if your brother is being guilted "No! He's made a promise to a publishing corporation" and tell your sister straight out you don't believe in obeying "some random dead guy who made these rules in order to sell more books for his publishing corporation". Don't feed the monster and let them guilt him more, tell them straight this cult is what's killing him, along with many others.

  I might be tempted to give the hospital some info on cult programming by Robert Lifton but they might think you are telling them how to do their job.
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  Stop harassing jws

  by pomo6780 in

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  we want people to learn ttatt.

  we have numerous resources online to draw jws in so that they will wake up.

  however, i've noted some radical methods that have been used by fellow exjws, and quite frankly, this must stop.

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  Diogenesister

  I understand where you are coming from with some of this, but...

  It's not normal for a total stranger to confront a person for their religious beliefs and use emotional tactics to win them over. A strange man speaking to a woman in the street could frighten her view of strangers. It has happened

  Isn't this exactly what JW's do in the preaching work ???
  
  
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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

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  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  Am I the only one that doesn't think it's too bad?

  Oh well. Maybe I just have terrible taste.
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  Chapter 48 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 48. turn on the tv!.

  nine days after mark’s wedding, i got a phone call early tuesday morning.. “get up… get up and go turn on your tv!” it was mike, my jehovah’s witness friend from seattle.. ok so i got up and walked downstairs and did what he said.

  there it was, i saw the smoke and flames coming out of the twin towers.

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  Diogenesister

  When all the hypocrites were running back to the Org, as it delighted in death and misery, your good conscience prodded you into leaving.

  You're a mensch, Keith.

  I heard the fear and terror in one man's voice just seconds before his death and I fainted. Something primeval in my social animals brain felt exactly his terror and I blacked out.

  Even apes have more compassion than their god. I should know.