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  Why Is Alcoholism Deeply Embeded In JW Culture?

  by RottenRiley in

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  2. experiences

  we get plenty of company men passing through our circuit, often filled with misinformation and lugging around a suitcase of guilt, they bring more guilt to the weak while praising the braggart pioneers and slapping the "righteous over much" elders.

  why are the wrong people getting praise in this distorted community?

  i know for a fact many of the elders i served with have issues with alcoholism, when "brother guilt" brought his emotional hurricane through our circuit, i had the chance to eat and help pay for his "seven shots of tequila", both him and his wife were not immune to over-indulgences.

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  Drinking does wonders for cognitive dissonance.
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  Thoughts After Saturday Morning Service

  by lambsbottom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  went out with a good friend in service this morning.

  my spouse and kiddos joined us.

  me and my spouse are awake jws, have gotten over the initial shock and disgust with some of the lame wt doctrine, and are determined to let god direct us wherever he may (even to another church - i'm going to a baptist service tommorow).. we have fun doing a little bit of service with the kiddos, letting them watch deer, play with sticks, and write not-at-homes down.

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  Wow SUAVOJR. . . I think you summed it up very consicely:

  "People are simply hoping for their own paradise to arrive"
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  Elder and CO just dropped by....

  by El_Guapo in

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  2. friends

  i haven't been to a meeting in over a year, and as you know as soon as you stop attending meetings/fieldservice the "conditional" love becomes more apperant.

  the coordinating elder starts off by saying how much he loves and misses me, etc.

  i ask him, when was the last time you called or texted me?

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  Oooooohhhhh. . .. . Threw that elder right under the CO bus - excellent move!
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  My Son has had two very big University interviews

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  2. friends

  one for mit last month, and one for princeton tonight.. if i told this to people at my old hall, i am sure the reaction would be the same as if i broke a big, noisy windblast in front of them.. but i have to brag about it to someone, so, i will do it here.. .

  we will not know anything about whether he is going to be accepted for a couple of months yet, but, as they say, this $%^# just got real!.

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  Very cool! Congrats!
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  Reading exJW then JW facebook sites can make you go crazy!

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  2. friends

  it's absolutely amazing what exactly the same event can do to the jw community and the exjw community.. the difference is that the jw community does not think and has the expected response... we think and, of course, have the exact opposite response as the jw's.. take for example the march km with the "will this be the last?

  here are some comments from a jw site:.

  wow it comes like that in the km?

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  "The slave asks WILL THIS BE THE LAST MEMORIAL and answers: we don't know. Well if they don't know why do they ask????? attention those who have discernment..."

  Future apostate here ^^^^^^^
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  JW.org to be banned in Russia

  by redvip2000 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my facebook was "lit up" today with all the out cries about the possibility of the organization's website being banned in russia.. as many of you recall this past august a court in russia banned the website and sought to make accessing the website in russia illegal.

  well tomorrow the appeal by the org will be heard in court.

  if the appeal is denied, jw.org will no longer be available in that part of the world, causing endless lamentations and cries of "persecution", only to bolster the idea that they are truly hated by the world because they are true christians.

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  Authoritarian High Control Groups: Sometimes it takes one to know one
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  Does Anyone Feel the Ministerial School Helped Them?

  by Band on the Run in

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  2. friends

  as a born-in, i was eager to join the ministry school.

  my cousins were also born-in but lived in different states.

  there was keen competition to see who could do mature things, such as baptism (my mom said when i was 35) and ministry school.

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  Oh, it definitely helped me in public speaking. . . unfortunately I was f'd up in every other aspect of my life by all that junk!
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  Why doesn't god do anything tangible now?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was always told that god did loads of stuff that was evidence of his existance.

  ususally very brutal things too (b#st@rd).. jesus walked on water and raised the dead we are told.. it seems to me also that the older the story, the more exaggerated it is...y'know...talking snake......global flood.. there are those that claim god speaks to them now and they alone 'know' it.

  (cuckoo!!!).

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  Tangible isn't in his budget.

  Intangible is a lot cheaper to produce.
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  Governing Body Running Scarred and 12-13-14 "Might Be the End"?

  by RottenRiley in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this went bad, i hit click before i could post my thoughts about the fear factor going through our crazy kingdom hall.

  the title of this thread was aimed at asking why the governing body is becoming so afraid and demanding the elders and rank and file to put their trust in the dukes of the kingdom hall.

  (pslams 146:3).. .

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  Wow DATADOG, that conversation is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. I would have never dreamed there would be so many "I'd do it" responses. Honestly thought they would be in the minority.
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  Super Tasty Kool Aid Flavored WT Study this Weekend!

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  would love to hear comments on what is being said on the paragraph which states that if the wt demands you drink the kool aid, you should do it - even if you don't understand why!.

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  look forward to any replies..

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  I agree with COFTY. This article sends chills up my spine

  I talked about the article and Jonestown with my wife, and she really did "get it." I think it frightened her, too - not that JWs would carry out a mass suicide - but that the thinking pattern (actually the supression of any rational thinking) is what makes a Jonestown possible at all. . . and here it is in black-and-white in a study article.