We couldn't fade either. Too stressful, too much work. Your wife standing by you is the biggest . Good luck!
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July 15th WT - WT Society Promotes " Freedom " by using Fear & Guilt
by flipper inof course, freedom means a lot of different things to many different people.
however- to the wt society it means controlling it's jw members through fear and guilt to promote a " conditional " freedom - which turns out to not be freedom at all - just a manipulated socially restricted condition in which jehovah's witnesses are caged animals waiting for the next bit of " spiritual " food to be thrown to them by wt articles like this.. at the start of this article on pg.
7 in paragraph 1 it states that due to lawlessness, none of us have freedom to roam around at night, there are alarms, security systems - so the wt society infers we are all living in fear.
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Several years ago there was an insert in the KM that scheduled out the publishers week. There were a couple of slots that scheduled free time/time off.
Anybody remember that? We were like WTF?
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They Don't Know dubs
by Farkel init's interesting how dubs are portrayed in tv shows.
what's interesting is how little the people who write those scripts know about the religion.
i'll give two examples and then solicit others you folks may recall.. the first example comes from the pilot episode of the tv series "lie to me.
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I saw the SUV episode. My dad txtd me and was like, "uh, jws don't bail people out of jail, lol."
There was one episode of The Practise that had a very accurate portrayal of JWs. Lisa G Hamilton's character, Rebecca, had been in an accident and was in a coma. She needed a blood transfusion. The firm was going to take over her care but her mother stepped into the picture and started insisting that she could not be given a blood transfusion because she was a JW. Dylan McDermott's character, Bobby, fought to have the transfusion court ordered. He argued that Rebecca wasn't a Jehovah's Witness. And was emphatic he could prove it because none of her co-workers ever heard her mention going to meetings (she often worked late). She also celebrated holidays and birthdays, etc.
It was very well written. We speculated that someone on the writing team was a JW or exJW.
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Avoid Testing God in Your Heart - transcript of talk from District Convention 2012
by wannabefree infor those who don't care to listen to the talk but would like to know what was said ... here ya go .... .
avoid testing god in your heart.
imagine the ancient israelites as they were slaves in egypt, under an oppressive pharaoh.. god brought nine plagues on egypt and then announced a tenth; the firstborn would be struck down.. can you imagine the cry that went out in egypt when the firstborn died, including pharaoh's own son?.
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"Doubting theocratic assignments, even in our hearts, could weaken our confidence in decisions being made."
Boy oh boy. That line of thought really causes full-time serving JWs some major problems.
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July 15th WT - WT Society Promotes " Freedom " by using Fear & Guilt
by flipper inof course, freedom means a lot of different things to many different people.
however- to the wt society it means controlling it's jw members through fear and guilt to promote a " conditional " freedom - which turns out to not be freedom at all - just a manipulated socially restricted condition in which jehovah's witnesses are caged animals waiting for the next bit of " spiritual " food to be thrown to them by wt articles like this.. at the start of this article on pg.
7 in paragraph 1 it states that due to lawlessness, none of us have freedom to roam around at night, there are alarms, security systems - so the wt society infers we are all living in fear.
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Unless one is talking about exiting the cult, Jehovah's Witnesses and freedom do not belong in the same sentence.
Good review Flipper.
eta - That paragraph on immorality is the kind of mind%*&$ that causes so much psychological damage for the JW and their natural right to a healthy sex life. And I too felt that I was always being watched and my conduct and speech being measured when around witnesses (especially in social settings).
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Serena Wins Wimbleton
by RubaDub inshe did it again.. i'm waiting for someone to come out and give a prayer.. rub a dub.
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PTD "I thought Saturday was magazine day in FS?"
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Could this SF restaurant possibly be owned by Watchtower?
by Open mind inwhat do you think?.
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HAHA.
All the evidence shows that it is indeed a WT-owned restaurant.
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Serv. Mtng DEMO from last week: How would a "real" householder respond?
by Open mind inmy wife and i call in to the cbs/tms/sm once or twice a month and only listen to the announcements.
last week the announcements included a demo of a jw woman trying to peddle mags to a female householder.
her intro went like this:.
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I would greet them, give my name and ask what they're visit was concerning. No biggie.
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Choosing which world you live in
by Terry inwe have chosen the world we live in......inside our thoughts.
the physical location of us is practically (not entirely) irrelevant.. we have selected certain thoughts to regard as....... unthinkable and ignorable.. we have cherry-picked importance like a salad bar.
we leave behind most of reality and head to the dinner table.
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Enjoyed reading this Terry.
Gives added meaning to Descartes', "I think, therefore I am".
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Hassan's Books - Question
by LV101 ini know you've answered this question before but which book do you recommend be read first --- combatting cult mind control (ccmc) or releasing the bonds (rtb)?
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thanks.
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Combatting Cult Mind Control