I just finished reading the last volume of Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan.
Now I'm starting my second reading of Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan.
doublelife
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What Are You Reading?
by zoiks inok, here's my current list:.
i just finished the greatest show on earth by richard dawkins, and am almost finished crisis of conscience by...some guy.. currently in hand, i have:.
the power of myth, joseph campbell and bill moyers.
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Free Emergency Wallet Medical ID Card to Print Online
by Hapgood inmy husband is a jw, he has his "no blood" card prominently displayed in his wallet when he opens it.
i am no longer a jw and i am terrified that if an accident should happen to me and i am unable to speak for myself, my wishes that a blood transfusion is acceptable won't be respected.
i found an on-line emergency medical identification card that you can fill out with your medical information.
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doublelife
Hapgood,
Thanks for the link. Lately, I've been having the same concerns regarding my husband. I'm considering asking my non-jw aunt to be my proxy. It's so messed up that we have to think about this. I feel like I'm betraying my husband by going behind his back and doing this but I know what will happen if I don't and then end up in an emergency situation.
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I when back into my jw mindset today
by doublelife ini sneezed at work and one of my customers said "bless you.
" i wrote down a list of goals i want to accomplish and saying "thank you" when someone tells me "bless you" is on the list.
i froze and quickly censored myself and said "excuse me" instead.
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But only for a second. I sneezed at work and one of my customers said "Bless you." I wrote down a list of goals I want to accomplish and saying "Thank you" when someone tells me "Bless you" is on the list. But I just couldn't do it. I froze and quickly censored myself and said "Excuse me" instead. It's so frustrating.
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Cautious Newcomer
by undertheradar ini am still a member of the jw's organization.
i have been puzzled over some of the teachings for many years but as i seemed to be the only one querying things among my local jw's i felt as if i was going crazy.
i was very relieved to find this site, a few months ago, full of evidence to back up my findings, and so much more.. i am so grateful to you all.. i do not want to leave the organization until i have planted some seeds in my family to open their eyes.
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doublelife
Welcome!
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Pioneering !
by iknowall558 inquestion :.
why is 'pioneering' a 'privilege' when every jw goes out in ministry anyway.
even those who have lost privileges, or been disciplined, or been reinstated after being disfellowshipped are still expected to go out in the ministry.
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doublelife
When I was pioneering I was always told by the elders and CO that pioneering was the closest a sister could get to being a MS. It made all of the women pioneers feel really special. But something about that never settled well with me.
The month I was baptized the CO assigned a family from a different circuit to move to our congregation because there were no complete families(both parents plus children) in our cong. We only had single parent families or married couples without children. Anyways, I always felt like everything was a competition between us. (I won't lie, I'll accept the same amount of blame that I accuse her of). We were talking about signing up to pioneer and I got the feeling that she was trying to talk me out of it because she didn't want to do it herself. So after I turned in my application I told her and the first thing she did was turn hers in. My mom watched the whole thing and told me later that night that she could sense the competition that girl had with me. Of course, I had my mom fooled. She thought the competition was one sided.
Wow. That's the first time I admitted to being that type of person. I didn't like myself back then.
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Grr!
by doublelife inmy mil just left.
she came over to discuss why i don't want to go to meetings anymore.
i didn't go into too much detail but every time i would say something she kept responding with circular reasoning.
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My MIL just left. She came over to discuss why I don't want to go to meetings anymore. I didn't go into too much detail but every time I would say something she kept responding with circular reasoning. At the beginning she got very emotional and started crying. I was upset but held it in. I could pick up on the mind control tactics and I wanted to scream it out whenever she did it but I didn't. I stayed calm and at the end I just told her that I've listen to everything she is saying and I'll think about it but it's ultimately my decision. At the end she told me to just wait on Jehovah and in the mean time go to meeting with my husband. She tried to get me to agree to go to the meetings but I wouldn't. I just told her I would think about it. One thing I did bring up was about the pinata and she claimed that she knows for a fact the witnesses don't approve of the pinata. I told her that they did and that I have the watchtower cd and I could show it to her. Just as I thought that I was making my point she said we didn't need to look it up because she knows that's not true. I realized that I couldn't reason with her so I just let her talk and didn't say anything. It made me mad when she accused me of not sticking with my vow that I made when I was baptized. She said I made a vow to stick with this organization and that I also married into it. Right before she left I decided to see if my husband had told her that he feels God might also being working through other organizations. It started a 15 minute debate between them two. I didn't understand anything that was said because they talked in spanish but his mom looked nautious. After she left I asked him what she said. She said that that may be true but she doesn't think about those other religions because she's not apart of them. It made me made when he told me that. How can she make I big deal about me not going to meetings anymore if she admits that God might be working through more than one religion!
So after all that was over she wanted to attack me for getting into acting. She told me not to get too involved in acting and to not let it take time away from my husband. How dare she! I set her straight on that. I remained calm when she wanted to attack my beliefs because I understand how she feels and that she is under mind control. But to attack my acting in the same session is just too much. This woman needs to learn how to pick her battles!
That's my rant for the day. Thanks for listening. I feel better now.
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JW parallels in an episode of Spongebob!
by Mickey mouse inthis episode of spongebob squarepants put me in mind of jehovah's witnesses.
watch from about 5:30, the storyline is that mr krabbs has retired and has sold the krusty krabb to a large chain.
the part that really made me laugh was right near the end when mr krabbs starts ripping the restaurant apart and the manager says "code red, free thinker" over the radio.. .
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doublelife
wha happened?,
Yes, it's true.
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JW parallels in an episode of Spongebob!
by Mickey mouse inthis episode of spongebob squarepants put me in mind of jehovah's witnesses.
watch from about 5:30, the storyline is that mr krabbs has retired and has sold the krusty krabb to a large chain.
the part that really made me laugh was right near the end when mr krabbs starts ripping the restaurant apart and the manager says "code red, free thinker" over the radio.. .
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doublelife
Lol. The creative director of that show is my cousin. His mom is a jw.
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Philosophical question: What is humour?
by yadda yadda 2 inwhat is humour?
how do you define it?.
what is the purpose of it?
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doublelife
This is what humor means to an actor. This is taken from Audition by Michael Shurtleff, page 74:
"Humor is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the Fifty-ninth Street Bridge.
Humor is not being funny. It is the coin of exchange between human beings that makes it possible for us to get through the day. Humor exists even in the humorless...
One would sometimes think actors are trying to reverse the life process by what they do onstage. They take humor out instead of put it in. That's what makes acting unlifelike. I have trouble believing in the seriousness of a scene in which there is no humor; it is unlike life. And yet actors will say to me, "How can I find humor in this scene? It's very serious!" For the exact same reason one would be driven to find humor in the same situation in life: because it is deadly serious and human beings cannot bear all that heavy weight, they alleviate the burden by humor.
Sometimes we lighten the burden for others because of the weight we are dumping on them, which we know is more than they can possibly want. Sometimes we lighten the burden for ourselves. Either way, the heavier the situation, the more we are needful of humor to endure it."
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Minors going door-to-door
by doublelife ini just went to the silentlambs website and there is a link to criminalcheck.com where you can find registered sex offenders by zip code.
so i typed in the zip code of the territory from my old congregation and i was surprised at how many people popped up.
there was three pages of names and on almost all of those names i recognized the street address as one that i went door-to-door on.
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doublelife
I just went to the silentlambs website and there is a link to criminalcheck.com where you can find registered sex offenders by zip code. So I typed in the zip code of the territory from my old congregation and I was surprised at how many people popped up. There was three pages of names and on almost all of those names I recognized the street address as one that I went door-to-door on. I looked up the address on google maps street view and some of those houses I actually remember going to. I was only about 17/18 and would go in service with a girl that was 14/15. It angers me to think about how easily we could have been snatched up. I remember lots of teenagers used to go in service without adults. It should be illegal to send minors door-to-door without adults. I've never heard of any young people being attacked or kidnapped when in service but just knowing how easily it could have happened upsets me.