i would like to introduce myself belatedly please.
i am a middle aged married female.
i am an inactive jehovah's witness.
Hi again N.drew ; glad to hear your okay!
For some reason I thought you were single with no helper, maybe that was a past reference I was picking up on?
I had mentioned that my family likes to befriend single parents, but we also enjoy couples that are honest in their lives.
Write you latter, and say: "Hi" to your family from ours!
PS: cedars, you took the high road; I like that in you!
this morning i took my dog who is a therapy dog over to the hospital and visited with several patients.
it is quite an experience, and it really helps people undergoing medical treatment to calm down and relax.. my wife was one of those patients, she is undergoing some tests before getting her gall bladder removed which will probably be sometime tomorrow.. afterwards i took the dog home, cleaned her up, and changed my clothes.
since i was alone i drove over to panara to try one of their breakfast sandwiches, several of the nurses told me that they are pretty good.
Greatings man in black and all on board!
I'd like to clarify the shuning condition from a counseling perspective so we can get a bigger picture of the problem; and thus cope better with it. Please bear with me, as I'm not trying to offend anyone; only cult hypocrites.
The reason why shunning is so powerful is that it feeds into our emotions. This tends to distort our sense of reality, or truth about the matter. It effects our moods, reactions and faculties in Christ. Here's how it works:
A) Faulty thinking of an event; 1) "If they hadn't have done it, I wouldn't have had to do what I did!" 2) Stuck in a thought, and wont see things from their view.
B) Sources of faulty thinking; 1) Sinful nature; refusal to change when presented facts. 2) Placing responsibility for actions on another person; the easy, lazy route to blame the other person. 3) Natural inclination, or inability to understand that others are not controlling ones moods, and that it really is the reactions of the self. 4) Satan's false belief system, he fathers all deliberate liars as they serve his misleading interests.
C) The price tag to faulty thinking is; 1) Everything is based on reaction to one wrong thought, not reason; and all reactionary events there-after. 2) Such ones are trapped in a cycle of delusion, where others can exploit this trait to control such peoples lives.
D) Faulty thinking destroys a person by; 1) "I must be perfect"; if not, depression may set in. 2) Striving for popularity, love and approval; this becomes more important than "pleasing God!" 3) "Personal worth equals performance", this is unscriptural competition that creates pride, envy and self righteousness in cliques to out shine other brothers, and do them harm in oder to be "better than them."
E) Use the TRUTH Model to identify healthy thinking; T = trigger event, R = wRong thoughts, or conclusions, U = unhealthy response, T = truth or reality about the situation, H = healthy reactions a) emotions under control, b) behavior thought out and appropriate.
F) Developing the mind of Christ by; Identifying the lies a person is telling.
G) Fight back with the truth; 1) keep repeating the healthy pattern, 2) this is a process to correct wrong thoughts, so be patient and don't give up.
Again, I don't wish to embarrass anyone; after all it's more an indictment against unloving users who mislead others into doing their dirty work for them.
PS: man in black; God bless your wife, you & your loving dog.
A.B.
this morning i took my dog who is a therapy dog over to the hospital and visited with several patients.
it is quite an experience, and it really helps people undergoing medical treatment to calm down and relax.. my wife was one of those patients, she is undergoing some tests before getting her gall bladder removed which will probably be sometime tomorrow.. afterwards i took the dog home, cleaned her up, and changed my clothes.
since i was alone i drove over to panara to try one of their breakfast sandwiches, several of the nurses told me that they are pretty good.
Hi man in black; nice to hear from you again. T
Thank you for sharing that awful experience with us here.
I hope you'll be feeling better about yourself knowing that your not a hypocrite like those people!
As soon as you wrote Panara , I gasped! There towards the end, the snobbiest, most controlling,
and prideful started frequenting that place. After a few trips their ourselves, being pumped by personal questions,
and missing the humbler members of the congo.; we decide it wasn't for us.
So we started taking out those who were depressed, single parents;
to places they could afford and they really saw the difference between the clique and us, and appreciated us for that.
PS: Best to your wife during her operation, especially with no bloody elders in tow! ( Doing the Steve Martin dance...)
in the catholic church, the pope is considered "infallible" when he speaks ex cathedra.
that is to say, he is not infallible when he speaks about things that don't have to do with religion.
for example, he may say whatever he pleases about economics, but no one will hold that catholic economists will have sinned against god if they consider that the pope is wrong.. the important point here is that the pope is thought to be infallible only when he speaks about matters strictly related to the church.. the wikipedia has this:.
Even when they speak for themselves, they include God in there!
Unusually when their ranting on about being "the faithful and discreet slave",
"God's only approved channel', and "representatives of Christ here on earth"!
They also won't interject into their tirades, their sins as an organization.
Proving that the members of WT's board are not like Moses, who's imperfections he wrote about!
Like apostate priests during the days of the prophets, they hide their bad deeds with gag orders;
local elders copy this example. But of coarse, they bring God into the argument by saying:
"We have Jehovah's spirit." Yeah, like wicked king Saul; God's spirit was strong against him too!
Well done wannabefree .
You've proved there's a pattern of deception in the WT org's theology,
and they've been repeatedly lying since before the 1950's .
What this amounts to is the opposite of salvation, a technique used to enslave believers!
First of all hat's a breach of pastoral trust, and more importantly they lead people to an eternal death!
And all for what? Control of their ivory tower and a totally paid living!
The way this GB has done so is through textbook cult manipulation; how evil and pathetic!
i put on my blog recently an article reviewing the evidence regarding whether the star of bethlehem was guided by god or satan.
as we are well aware, this is a "pet point" of the witnesses and assists the wt viewpoint with regard to christmas and all things "pagan".. .
http://www.jwstruggle.com/2011/09/satans-star-re-examined/.
JW Struggle; nice blog post! Our family decided as much a year ago.
It's the main road going through Herod's city that then leads to Bethlehem; not the star!
The shepherds saw the star, and the angels sang and danced around it.
The early christian writers, Jesus apostle's students, called it a holy star!
So it looks like the WT's teaching is out voted by the facts. PS: For more about, Jesus apostle's students;
please see: http://revelatoryawakening.wordpress.com/disciples-meeting-found-page-4/
psychotherapy specialist for jehovahs witnesses .
today i added a new article to my blog showing a licensed psychotherapist advertising a specialty in treating jehovahs witnesses.
my article is titled psychotherapy specialist for jehovahs witnesses and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/09/psychotherapy-specialist-for-jehovahs.html.
Hello Band on the Run!
Our family fully agrees with your statement:
"Mentally unstable people who are way too deferential and act like sheep are drawn to the Witnesses. A KH is not a random slice of American life. Much pathology is brought in by the people who are attracted to the "good news" of Armageddon. People-pleasing actors unable to act without being ordered. On the other hand, the Society is a toxic brew. "Normal" people are affected by the cult atmosphere. Empathy, independent thought, and love towards fellows is derided constantly."
The family head; because of similar cliques seen in corporate factories,
The mom in the family; since her brothers were also abusive, manipulative, and close minded,
The daughter, who suffered from young MS's & elder's daughters; mind games, lies, and harm,
The son; who's scared, twisted, and won't talk about what's been done to him.
PS: You avatar's name reminds me of Paul McCartney's "Man On The Run"!
the developed world is having hard economic times.
so, for a while now jw's have been voicing the familiar "it can't go on...things are so hard".
i'm in the usa, and the economics are tough, relative to this country.
Okay; xelder!
Thank you, got it.
are there any jws on this site???
i think i may be in the wrong place.... why am i only seeing atheists and other denominations of christians?.
Cool; Anony Mous ! Maybe you can start your own shockwave thread to give us the "juicy details" of their loss!
this is a personal observation and certainly not representative of all atheists.
i enjoy discussions with folks of this persuasion; in general they appear well read and somewhat more educated than many believers.
as a group most atheists cringe and become insensed when discussing the existence of a deity with believers especially fundamentalists.
Hi Jonathan; I don't have a disparaging take on life, or a fatalistic view of the earth.
I'm more happy than most, and especially so because of a hope for the future.
By the way; breaking free from an "abusive relationship"(cult-corp.),
also goes a long way in feeling better about life.
Where I was coming from in regards to religion; is that I think of it as organized by and for men.
However; when I think of worship, I think of freedom, and purity... a link to God with no man as arbiter!
Thanks' for asking.
