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  Dont Give Them More Power Than They Deserve

  by Tech49 in

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  2. friends

  a new montra that was recently adopted by the wife and i is this:.

  dont give them more power than they deserve.. here's why i say that, and i point this to those of you still in the congregation, still trying to decide what you want to do.. recently, our family had a little family reunion gathering of sorts, and we were in the company of some extended family that were either df or da, to varying degrees.

  we made it very clear, to any and all in attendance, that we wanted to be respectful and kind, despite any previous perceptions about our "status".... and that our feelings on a lot of things had "softened", and "changed" over the last 2 years.. i am being purposefully slightly vague, but i think you get the point.

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  millie210

  This was an awesome post Jack and I couldnt agree more!
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  Since you left, have you become more moral?

  by Coded Logic in

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  respect.

  sympathy.

  gossip.

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  millie210

  Im less judgmental.

  When I do something I do it for the reasons I deem right, rather than because someone else wrote it down somewhere.

  More moral? Less moral?

  I would say Im more accurately moral in what the true sense of the word means. .

  The JW sense of what "moral" means is meaningless to me now.
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  Leah Remini's book, "Troublemaker"

  by DisArmed in

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  2. entertainment

  just finished leah remini's book, "troublemaker.

  " very good book that easily resonates, i'm sure, with anyone who has exited a cult.

  her life in scientology and eventual exit was a nightmare.

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  millie210

  I havent read the book but did see part of an interview with her. I like that she circumvented the bad things they were going to say about her by saying them about herself first.

  That was smart and funny.
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  JWTalk Forum

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  does anyone know if jwtalk is a real jehovah witness forum?.

  are the owner bob & an admin jerry in good standing in their congregations?

  or just apostates posing as jw's?.

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  millie210

  Bob used to have an Instagram account and he showed pics of himself with friends after service and going to assemblies and so on. I didnt realize he was the owner though..I thought he was one of the Mods.

  The impression I got was that he was one of that "new breed" that are very social about their JWism but still smoozy enough that they never set off the powers that be.
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  Are we participants in this forum because of bouts of "loneliness"?

  by Wonderment in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.

  could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?

  perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.

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  I dont feel lonely but I did feel for awhile like my sanity and I were parting ways!

  I mean, this wonderful religion I spent my whole life in couldnt be wrong could it?

  Could it???

  Well turns out - yes it could!

  Finding everyone here and realizing that I was NOT the problem, gave me my steady world view back.

  You guys are my friends/therapists/sounding boards/partners in exile.

  Sanity has taken off its coat and hat and decided to stick around....
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  My new Religion is The Truth.

  by LAWHFol in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what exactly is religion?

  why all of the pain?

  you either love religion (usually the one you call home), you hate it.. or you're somewhere in between, and you say "let bygones be bygones".

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  Village Idiot
  Ideology is religion's sibling. Like ideology religion is an attempt to explain the world. By and of itself the human impulse for religion is not innately evil - Buddhists and Jains are pretty harmless

  I find it fascinating that religion persists in every culture and throughout time. There have to be good reasons for any behavior to continue. If a behavior no longer serves a purpose it dies out eventually.

  This article postulates that one reason for the endurance of religious rituals is economic in origin.

  Ironically, it also explains why the more more forceful and blunt posters among us are ineffective in their attempts to persuade their religious counterparts when the presumption is that the religious person is somehow lacking or deficient.

  How do non-believers understand religion? Simply saying that the believers are crazy or living in a different world will not suffice. The believers are also normal human beings. They are no crazier than anyone else. There is another way to look at religion, through science. Science has provided human culture with an excellent understanding of the natural world and human behavior.

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  Is religious behavior rational? Is it the mobilization of available means to achieve certain ends? The sociologists Stark and Fink (2000) argue that religious behavior is actually rational in an economic sense in spite of the fact that the believers work with unobservable actors and magical processes.
  

  http://www.anpere.net/2007/2.pdf
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  Evangelicals Lag Behind Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by the girl next door in

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  source article: http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2015/november/evangelicals-mormons-jehovahs-witnesses-church-involvement.html.

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  millie210

  Definition of highly involved...as we all know...forced baptism of born in children, going at least to the Sunday meeting and out in service once a month would meet the below criteria set out by Pew. It would however, mean you are a "weak" witness by JW standards if that was all you did.

  Pew defines as

  officially joining the church,

  attending services at least weekly,

  and attending a prayer group or Bible study at least monthly.
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  Saddest thing about being DFd

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i always enjoyed being kind.

  when someone genuinely needed a hand or what not, it felt good to help family or friends.. i don't really miss them anymore.

  i faded over two years ago, so they long ago shunned me.i think about them less and less and have even forgotten some names.i did enjoy some of the friendships and the association.

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  Kairos, the fact that you even think the way you do shows what a quality person you are.

  Oh and by the way, I enjoyed seeing your post on the music/art thread too!
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  We were shown how to google jw-org last night

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so last night i went to the meeting with my family.

  had not gone in 2 weeks.

  as usual i sat down reading the bible.

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  millie210

  LOL Outlaw

  So good to have you back!!!!!!
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  Building layoffs & JW calendar 2016 theme

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the theme of the jw calendar 2016 is building, building, building.

  all the calendar pictures are about building wts property with cheap labor witnesses.. and then, just before the year approaches the building has halted.. it seems a short term decision.

  a strange correlation again.. gorby.

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  millie210

  Its really not hard to swap out some pictures, so what gives here?

  DId they already have millions of these printed up and are too cheap to swap them out?

  Because it seems like a PR disaster to keep reminding people.