Posts by clarity

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How to deal with anxiety?

by BlackWolf in

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lately my mental health has been rapidly declining.

i have anorexia and deppression, and my anxiety has become overwhelming.

i have been to many doctors/therapists in the past, but because i have not been magically cured my parents dont want to get me any more help.

clarity

Blackwolf .... feel so sorry for you ...what you are going through feels terrible ...I know.

A few little tips ...slow your breathing down, do not hyperventilate. Breathe out completely and then breathe into your belly & then to your upper chest. Calm down your racing compulsive thoughts. Realize that it is normal to have many thoughts ...... but it is up to you to decide which thoughts are helpful & which ones are not. You do not have pay attention or act on any of them.........you can just let the harmful thoughts go on by.....like a leaf floating down a stream...let it float away.

Get some help, a therapist, talk to a good friend or check-out the books in the Library about how to be happy. You deserve to live free from those awful feelings, hang in there you will make it!

clarity

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Call For Children To Get Baptised From CO

by freemindfade in

so i've been pretty good at not going to meetings lately.

yesterday i went for the co's last talks.

older co. his last talk was absolutely shocking.

clarity

I could hardly read thru this .... omg feel the claustrophobia! Yes just like the "Hotel California" you can check in but ....you can't check out! What an evil trap! Watchtower is the ultimate CHILD SNATCHERS!

This organization is wrong on so many levels:

* Child abuse 2 witnesses rule! Hide the pedophile & silence the child!

* Prohibiting lifesaving medical treatment! Providing thugs to stand over you to make sure you let your children die!

* Lifetime df & shunning & spiritual stoning for made-up reasons, causing high numbers of suicides!

* Coercion (complete with threats of death) to be baptized while young!

Shall I go on.................

clarity

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IMAGE QUIZ -just for fun

by nicolaou in

first person to identify this building and its location gets to post the next image .

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and on we go!.

clarity

Because I was so off with the answer to the picture question, thought I would post a picture of my guess. Wow I was a way off, here are pics of my guess ......

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=2126

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IMAGE QUIZ -just for fun

by nicolaou in

first person to identify this building and its location gets to post the next image .

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and on we go!.

clarity

Looks like the place in Sweden or Norway where non hybrid natural seeds are saved. ;-)

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Jehovah's Witnesses - People of Integrity

by Saved_JW in

when i think of integrity, a lot of positive connotations come to mind.

i think of individuals grounded in principles, who do not operate on opinions that change based on the breeze of political or social change.

a life that is directed by a code of morality, not on capricious emotions.

clarity

Maybe the integrity of jws can be summed-up in the often heard retort...

"even if they are wrong, I still wouldn't leave!"

clarity

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A new member

by Kurteousmaximus in

hi... i am new and after nearly 20 years after being disassociated at 15 i would like to make contact with others who have similar difficulties.

my mother was disfellowshipped shortly after my rebellion and had all ties with both her mother and brother cut and that remains the case.. just really hacked off with not being able to put things in the proper place in my life after all these years.

for the record i don't know if i believe in god but am searching for some peace as i seem to self destruct on a regular basis.. any ideas anyone?.

clarity

Good morning from Canada Kurt ....a big welcome goes out to you. Glad you found jwn. All of us here are very different but the ONE thing that is the same is our experience with a high control, dangerous cult.

Start researching everything that troubles you ...if you haven't already. Many of us thought that it was ourselves who were weak, or wrong ....... we were so deluded ........ it is the other way around. Watchtower's deceit is legion .....they have blood on their hands.

Love & best wishes for you & your family's enlightenment.

clarity

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Hello to everybody!

by John Free in

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i wanted to introduce myself.

like many of you i was born-in, am married with one child.

after 36 years of this cycle: doubts-thought stopping- suppression- indoctrination-cult mode i realised enough was enough.

clarity

good for you John ...very best wishes for your family. What was the one thing that shook you awake?

clarity

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Child Discipline, new article to address Jackson's Royal Commission testimony

by jwfacts in

i have published a new article at watchtower corporal punishment, as a response to the testimony that geoff jackson gave at the royal commission.

it includes the relevant part of the transcript, along with a string of watchtower quotes to show that what he presented was not accurate, and that watchtower translates rod as a literal implement to hit children with.

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clarity

Excellent Paul ....just to quickly add, as with so many of 'watchtower behaviours' ....... there are additional unwritten motivational factors.

During a WT study it may be said that "the rod" is not necessarily a spanking, but the point is taken, especially when red faced parents drag their kids to the back for the big wallop! This ritual is 'infectious'! The WT go to answer! As mild & caring a mother as I was, it got to me. The pressure to perform all the activities mandated by WT & to keep it up was a nightmare really, and sometimes something had to give.

Looking back I am appalled that we fell for the lie of watchtower's importance ........

clarity

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THIS IS JUST CLASSIC

by Sabin in

2016 years text.. hebrews 13:1, let your brotherly love continue.. wtf!

your thought please.

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clarity

JW's are told who to love & who to hate. That brotherly love can end forever with just a half dozen words spoken from the kh platform!

Jehovah's witnesses fulfill the prophecy "having NO natural affection"

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Mass disassociation pact...

by freemindfade in

any takers?

we can pick a date and pull the plug?

lol .

clarity

Just to say ........if there had been a campaign like this & I heard about it while in my confusion from all the changing doctrines & rules, and being ignored by the cliques .........this would have saved my sanity! I would have been encouraged & woken-up a lot faster!

Glad we are doing this ......love that we have organized persons onboard.. good luck to all of us who ....."are crying and sighing over all the detestable things" ...................

clarity