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  Apostate Changes?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  long time no chat.

  was there some sort of change recently in the guidelines cult hq lays out on how to handle inactive apostates?

  my parents tried to start a study with me the week after they came back too.

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  Blind_Of_Lies

  The reason I ask is that there seems to be some wishy wash on how to handle people like myself who simply dropped their books and walked away. I won't meet with them, I won't attend meetings, I openly mock them on social media and in public and I am not shy about calling them a cult and pointing out the problems with their belief system starting with Jerusalem didn't fall in 607 BCE and working forward.

  My parents insist the way they are supposed to treat us has changed/improved in years past.
  

  Another example, my wife deals with the public at work. The week before the locals went to the convention the wife of the elder I mention above came into the establishment my wife works and acted like she didnt know her. The woman was at our wedding. Anyway, she spent several hours within ten feet of my wife and talked a lot about the upcomming convention but never acknowledged my wife....
  
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  Apostate Changes?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  long time no chat.

  was there some sort of change recently in the guidelines cult hq lays out on how to handle inactive apostates?

  my parents tried to start a study with me the week after they came back too.

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  Yea despite being publicly Athiest and having had the "I don't believe in god and I don't care what you think" talk with my parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents and several cousins... my dad still asked me to check out jw.org and watch a stupid drama about the importance of being loyal to Jehovah.

  The look on his face when I cough/lauged. Yes Papa, the athiest will be moved by a low budget film on loyalty to your immaginary friend"
  

  LOL
  
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  Apostate Changes?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  long time no chat.

  was there some sort of change recently in the guidelines cult hq lays out on how to handle inactive apostates?

  my parents tried to start a study with me the week after they came back too.

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  Blind_Of_Lies

  Hi All,

  Long time no chat.

  Was there some sort of change recently in the guidelines Cult HQ lays out on how to handle inactive apostates?

  A week ago my wife and I, again, ran into a woman who I see about once a month at the grocery store. As recently as last month this person stood directly behind me in the checkout line and refused to even look in my direction. She actually stood sideways and stared at the ground the whole time we were in line. Two days ago, three weeks post-convention, this same person put her hands of my wife, called her by name and asked her how she was doing, what was going on in our lives and my wife had no idea who she was lol. I am not DF'd, I am well known to be an apostate by anyone paying attention and don't deny it. Soooo yea. This week when my wife asked who she was she replied "Im your sister" yea... as if lady.

  Anyway, similar encounters took place at Walmart a this week. In one instance an elder who works there and was coming out of the store as I went in walked across two rows of cars to sayd "hi, how are ya, nice to see ya" in the past he has gone to such great length to avoid me in teh store I actually considered complaining to his boss when he refused to help me.

  My parents tried to start a study with me the week after they came back too.
  

  WTF are they upto folks?
  
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  Religous Trauma Syndrome

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/religious-trauma-syndrome-how-some-organized-religion-leads-to-mental-health-problems/ .

  check this story out and please share on social media!

  i firmly believe 100% of jw's are suffering from the first stage of rts and a high percentage of people who are now out are also suffering.

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  Blind_Of_Lies

  Please share this article on social media. Its the type of thing that needs to go viral.
  
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  Religous Trauma Syndrome

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/religious-trauma-syndrome-how-some-organized-religion-leads-to-mental-health-problems/ .

  check this story out and please share on social media!

  i firmly believe 100% of jw's are suffering from the first stage of rts and a high percentage of people who are now out are also suffering.

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  Blind_Of_Lies

  You are welcome!

  I've thought for a long time that there is a common psychological trauma that most of us born into the cult who also leave the cult later in adulthood all suffer from.

  Until today I hadn't heard of RTS but after reading it, I can make list of people still IN the congregations that suffer from the first phase of RTS.
  
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  Religous Trauma Syndrome

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/religious-trauma-syndrome-how-some-organized-religion-leads-to-mental-health-problems/ .

  check this story out and please share on social media!

  i firmly believe 100% of jw's are suffering from the first stage of rts and a high percentage of people who are now out are also suffering.

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  Blind_Of_Lies

  http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/religious-trauma-syndrome-how-some-organized-religion-leads-to-mental-health-problems/
  

  Check this story out and PLEASE share on social media!

  I firmly believe 100% of JW's are suffering from the first stage of RTS and a high percentage of people who are now out are also suffering.

  Spread the word.
  
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  What hell was unleashed last night?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i got up this morning and checked the ol' facebook and i found that it had really blown up overnight.

  the remaining witness friends/family i have on there are all riled up and foaming at the status box of the wonderful blessings and other stupidity they have been bestowed.

  while they all seem to be talking in code it appears (and confirmed by other threads) that they released a new version of the bible and possibly an app for ishit.. i have a few questions.... first... any idea why they are talking in code?

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  I don’t know any Witness parents who actually let their kids watch Sparlock. Most witnesses that I have seen watch it are horrified and several different people have actually tried to convince me that it was an apostate movie made to trick people into thinking Witness parents were insane control freaks. Shocking.

  Now that said, yea it got a lot of the old folks attention because “the young people need his loving control and control”. My in-laws for example all but got off on it several times. We were subjected to Sparlock’s advances for weeks after release.

  The people I am talking about here are all under 30 and they come from a broad range of “activity levels” one is inactive but went out of her way to say how proud she was to be a JW and of course people everywhere chimed in. On the far end of the spectrum I saw someone who dropped me like a hot knife years ago and is living in all but abject poverty so they can serve the greater need…in Florida… is also babbling on about how wonderful it all was.

  This seems to have picked up most of them and swept them along in the current. Heck.. .it even brought me back to the forum
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  What hell was unleashed last night?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i got up this morning and checked the ol' facebook and i found that it had really blown up overnight.

  the remaining witness friends/family i have on there are all riled up and foaming at the status box of the wonderful blessings and other stupidity they have been bestowed.

  while they all seem to be talking in code it appears (and confirmed by other threads) that they released a new version of the bible and possibly an app for ishit.. i have a few questions.... first... any idea why they are talking in code?

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  Blind_Of_Lies

  I got up this morning and checked the ol' Facebook and I found that it had really blown up overnight. The remaining witness friends/family I have on there are all riled up and foaming at the status box of the wonderful blessings and other stupidity they have been bestowed. While they all seem to be talking in code it appears (and confirmed by other threads) that they released a new version of the bible and possibly an app for ishit.

  I have a few questions...

  First... Any idea why they are talking in code? I have not seen a single one of them come out and say what they are all excited about but there are several threads with multiple people talking about the new blessings... do they even know what they are?

  Second... Was it a new bible and app? I am more curious about the bible. I see multiple threads discussing revised scriptures and from what I have seen it looks like an obvious dumbing down in general but I have also seen a couple threads where it looks like they are backing off the whole "slay the gays" thing.

  Finally... What was the purpose of this release? There has to be "official" reasoning. My guess is the truth will never be known but it seems like a straight up rebranding with the intent of trying to coax people who either left or would never take a look at all into coming in.

  Thoughts?

  Was anyone actually AT the meeting?
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  New Light?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have the faithful followers been informed of the new light yet?

  i know its going to be in the july wt (i think) but i dont remember how far in advance those get released.

  would someone who doesnt read this forum know about it yet?.

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  Have the faithful followers been informed of the new light yet? I know its going to be in the July WT (I think) but I dont remember how far in advance those get released. Would someone who doesnt read this forum know about it yet?
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  An apostate goes public

  by Borges in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i mentioned in a thread some weeks ago ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/244078/1/first-public-talk-as-an-apostate ), that i was invited to give a talk at a symposium about cults.

  this will take place at the first weekend in may.. i'm going to talk about the difficulties you have to face when leaving the jw.

  yesterday i've got an another invitation to speak to a senior year class in a middle school.

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  Blind_Of_Lies

  A high school is having you come in and give a speech to the students about a certain religion and cults in general? You must not be in the United States?