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  If someone is benefitting from being in a cult, should we leave them there?

  by Confuzzled in

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  if scientology has narcanon, and it has gotten people off drugs (although that 85% sucess rate they say they have is suspect), and becoming a jw sorta forces you into line, would it make sense to leave someone in if they were helping them?

  if you knew somebody was a drunk, sex addict, drug addict, what have you, and they were studying, and it appeared that they were actually being helped (albeit by twisted means) would you leave them be?

  like, if uncle jim was a fall down drunk that ran around on his wife, then someone introduced him to the wts, and it all stopped, would you still try and expose the cult even if they were actually helping and it was working?.

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  OKKKAAAAYY Now I get it! Another JW Belief Screwing W/My Life "Date To Marry"

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  i have a convaluted relationship w/my jw for-lack-of-a-better-word-bf.

  we have a bizarre relationship.

  i am not his gf but must act accordingly.

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  OKKKAAAAYY Now I get it! Another JW Belief Screwing W/My Life "Date To Marry"

  by Confuzzled in

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  i have a convaluted relationship w/my jw for-lack-of-a-better-word-bf.

  we have a bizarre relationship.

  i am not his gf but must act accordingly.

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  Again debating Sipping The Kool-Aid, I'm just frustrated....

  by Confuzzled in

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  sorry if this is rambling.

  i just have some thoughts i need to get out.

  i've mentioned before my thought about faking my way through the cult, or at least pretending to, would make my life easier.

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  JW Weddings, Memories, Practices, Or Common Experiences, Please Share

  by Confuzzled in

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  so the bf is out of state for a wedding.

  when he told me it was today, the day before easter, during lent, i realized it was probably for one of his jw or lasped jw family members.

  he also happened to mention there was no booze at the function (horrors!

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  I just want to say how much I hate the f***ing cult

  by Confuzzled in

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  i posted here a few times some months back about my jw bf, and i'm glad i did because i was on the fence about the whole thing.

  i had to stop because the nature of his profession might have brought him here, and the details i had given it wouldn't have taken much to figure out who i was talking about.

  i still lurk though, daily.. i hate this.

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  I didn't disappear

  by Confuzzled in

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  i was here a few weeks back and i do continue to lurk and read everyones posts, but i chose to quit posting myself because i read a lot of the archives and i was horrified to find out that people actually read and match up stories to turn into the elders at the hall, and cause havoc in members, and non members lives.

  i felt i had given away to many distinctive details about the person in my life, so i decided to quit postiing for mine and their sakes.

  someone in another thread mentioned me so i decided to pop my head up..

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  "Escape", by Carollyn Jessop

  by Confuzzled in

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  about a year ago i read "escape," by carollyn jessop.

  it's the autobiography of a former polygamous marriage in the cult the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints, who managed to escape with her eight children.

  this was the cult that they seized all the children from in texas for child abuse.

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  Question About Tithing

  by Confuzzled in

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  some of you may have read my post about my lasped jw boyfriend, and his pressure on me to consider to convert eventually (i'm not going too!

  ) but i still would like to better understand the church and watch tower society better so i can understand this mindset he has.

  he makes much to do about the lack of an offering plate, and "the 2 boxes, one for the church, the other for the needy, nobody is put on the spot to donate".

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  I need answers to so MANY questions.....

  by Confuzzled in

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