Vidiot

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  Circuit Overseer to Answer My Questions + Concerns...or Not

  by Research in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.

  a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.

  so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.

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  Vidiot

  Expect to DFed for “brazen conduct”.
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  News Reports are "Apostate Lies"

  by truth_b_known in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  with the most recent investigative news report show entitled "the witnesses" i noticed a number of posters whose family members are pimi refer to such shows as "apostate lies.

  " even the governing body (possibly loesch) made such a statement (possibly on jw broadcasting).

  i was thinking of how to reply to such a statement.. first, ask "who is the apostate?

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  Vidiot

  Technically, Stephen Lett called them “apostate-driven lies”...

  ...so, even if the information is actually true, loyal JWs are expected to disbelieve it because of its alleged origin.

  Which is, of course, stupid.
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  Why the Oxygen Special will not work like we think it will...

  by HiddenPimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  within the very documentary is a reason i think that jw's for the most part will not wake up even if they watch this program.

  the one lady actually saw as her family sat behind the abuser in court supporting him despite the established fact that he had abused their very own child.. this shows how deep the indoctrination is.

  i am not saying that some won't wake up, but the majority will carry on, not even because they think these things are lies but because they will look past that at all costs to side with jehovah.

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  Vidiot

  A pale, whispery shadow of its former self...

  ...that I like to call the Branch Jehovians.
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  Name one POSITIVE thing you took from your experience as a Witness

  by geodude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was thinking about this at work the other day, and realized the one positive thing i can truly credit the jws with: .

  i have no fear of public speaking.

  i was a shy kid, fat, clumsy, with crooked glasses and worse teeth, who wore hand-me-downs in one of the wealthiest counties in all of america, who sat still while classmates got up to salute the flag or recite the pledge of allegiance.

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  Vidiot

  Thoroughly inoculated against any other form of religious expression...

  ...and as such, feel zero urge to burden myself that way.
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  What scripture or scriptures did the cult use to imply animals vegetarian?

  by Crazyguy2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but i don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?

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  "Messy compromises with reality"... that's good, I like that.

  I recently read a very appropriate quote (in a work of fiction, no less), that's stuck in my head like almost nothing else...

  …"ideological purity never survives contact with the enemy".
  
  
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  Mental Illness among JW's

  by Victor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  disclaimer: this article has some broad generalizations that will have exceptions to what is stated.

  this is the only way i can even attempt to address the topic.

  i've looked for scholarly articles published on peer reviewed journals for years.

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  Vidiot

  Don’t kid yourself.

  There’s nothing “new” about the so-called “prosperity gospel”.

  It’s been around for decades.
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  Watchtower issues take down notice!!!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7jloq/breaking_watchtower_issues_dmca_takedown_to/.

  zing.

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  Vidiot

  Seriously though...

  ...I think at this point, the Org no longer gives a hairy blue fuck about the “public eye”.

  Discrediting XJWs in the eyes of the loyal rank-and-file, though?

  Top priority.

  And I suspect the vitriol and rhetoric is only gonna sound increasingly shrill (not to mention batshit crazy) in the near future.
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  Watchtower issues take down notice!!!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7jloq/breaking_watchtower_issues_dmca_takedown_to/.

  zing.

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  Vidiot

  Wrong.

  Next up...

  ...Scientology is gonna sue the WTS...

  ...for stealing their playbook.

  
  
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  Mental Illness among JW's

  by Victor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  disclaimer: this article has some broad generalizations that will have exceptions to what is stated.

  this is the only way i can even attempt to address the topic.

  i've looked for scholarly articles published on peer reviewed journals for years.

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  Vidiot

  @ Victor...

  Ah, okay, so you weren’t actually being critical per se... it was more of an observational conclusion?
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  Anatomy of a former JW

  by Victor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one of the respondents on my post on mental illness stated that it was the same of ex jw's.

  i thought about this for a couple of days and drawing from my personal experience, i can say that this is mostly true.

  if one is disfellowshipped, the act of forcibly cutting off all ties to a jw's way of life is painful and in some cases inducing cognitive dissonance.

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  Vidiot

  Ostracism is a fundamentally cruel and punitive act in the extreme, and only someone who's actually experienced it can truly understand just how much.

  Only the very worst types of people deserve it.

  Definitely not someone who is simply unable to subscribe to an ideology anymore.