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  jWs Musing about the Big 'A'

  by Tallyman in

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  * http://www.witnessesonline.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/witnessesonline/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=21&t=000024

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  Mommie Dark

  "I thought Marylin Manson did "Sweet Dreams""

  Yes, the little ripoff did record a rather crappy version of 'Sweet Dreams' but in fact Eurythmics wrote/recorded the original.

  His cover blows huge chunks, too.
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  Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

  by Wounded Heart in

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  used to be called multiple personality disorder (mpd).. i have it.

  i was physically, emotionally, sexually abused.

  the tramas in my life were so great that i split into many.

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  Mommie Dark

  Yep, that's what the shrinkydink called it Tina. Later someone pointed me toward info on a similar disorder called prolonged Distress Stress Disorder, a sib illness brought on by longstanding stresses rather than one large trauma. This would seem to be more my situation than post-trauma, as I had a series of nasty little traumas and stresses, rather than one catastrophe.

  Same result, tho.

  I'm much better now...
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  curious

  by bonnie38 in

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  i wonder what the percentage is of ex-jws who become involved in other organized religions.

  i had a discussion with a psychiatrist friend recently.

  he told me that i am a "psychiatric anamoly," that most "devout" people who leave a religion will join another and become as devout in their new religion.

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  Mommie Dark

  maybe it's time for a poll? Some statistic-gathering? Somebody could maybe make a school paper out of it.

  I lost my need for Churchianity first, then the need for an imaginary Skydaddy followed, and these days the only religion I espouse is our family religion: the Church of the Fliud Paradigm, for folks whose consciousness is rising and changing so fast it feels like a ride on a cosmic rollercoaster...we have no doctrine, no dogma, no rules... we just encourage scared religioseekers to scream 'WHEE!!!' when they feel disoriented and nauseous from their changing worldview. A cheerleader 'religion' if you will...

  Life is short, and then you die. Might as well enjoy the ride while it lasts...

  people who get involved in another religion are still too scared to try to make it without some salvation package to fill the hole left by their cult exit. It's just way easier to let someone else give you a prepackaged moral code; it takes real work and effort to find an ethical baseline without the support of a peer group...overcoming the herd instinct can be really really hard to do. It's worth the effort tho.
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  Wow! The look they had on their faces!

  by ianao in

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  witnesses: "why, no sir.

  witnesses: "well, actually sir if...".

  witnesses: "ok sir, but may i just say something?".

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  Mommie Dark

  Loves asks,
  "Mommie you dont happen to have a large neon sign in the front yard that says "F.A.B Headquarters" do you? :)"

  No, but what a FABulous idea!

  LOL,
  Mommie
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  Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

  by Wounded Heart in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  used to be called multiple personality disorder (mpd).. i have it.

  i was physically, emotionally, sexually abused.

  the tramas in my life were so great that i split into many.

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  Mommie Dark

  Now here's something I don't quite understand. I guess it's a function of our individuality that we all cope so differently. I have no 'lost memories'. I remember everything.

  In my case, I made 'mental storage boxes' for things, hid them well, and tried to forget they were in my head. 'Moving on' as certain family members told me I must. But I never forgot anything really. I jsut squelched and squeezed the memories and the emotions into those cartons and stashed them in the deepest darkest places I could make inside my head&heart. Then when the present stresses piled up, the boxes sort of burst open under the pressure and I found the attic contents spilling down into my conscious thoughts and ruining my life.

  That's when I developed a startle reflex with a hair trigger. Bursting out into tears, or becoming enraged, at tiny things. Nightmares, and disturbed sleep cycles, nights with all REM sleep and vivid weird dreams nonstop. Reliving old horrors in flashback. Losing my competence to cope with everyday stresses.

  It took long patient years of sorting out the tangled messes in my mental attic before I even started on the road to recovery. But all the contents of the attic are still intact in my case. I just have to learn to ignore the nasty stuff and try to put the good stuff in neat accessible places near the front of my consciousness.

  Doesn't that sound easy? [8>]I'll let you know if I ever succeed...
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  Hate mail---hey Thinker's Wife...

  by Mommie Dark in

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  i got a fresh hate mail this morning from [email protected].

  but when i replied, i got a message saying rannie wasn't receiving mails from my addy!.

  rofl at the cowardice of these anonymous trolls!.

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  Mommie Dark

  I got a fresh hate mail this morning from [email protected]

  but when I replied, I got a message saying Rannie wasn't receiving mails from my addy!

  ROFL at the cowardice of these anonymous trolls!

  Hi Rannie if yer reading this it was real nice to hear from you, even if your message was bit childish and incredibly poorly written. Keep reading here, lovey, unless of course you're too SCARED!!!

  So, TW, has this nit contacted you yet?
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  Wow! The look they had on their faces!

  by ianao in

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  witnesses: "why, no sir.

  witnesses: "well, actually sir if...".

  witnesses: "ok sir, but may i just say something?".

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  Mommie Dark

  We've lived here in Corntown for almost 7 years. In that time the dubbies have been to our house once, when we lived further up the hill in a 'nice' neighborhood. We currently live at the very edge of a pretty rowdy neighborhood, and we never see them around here. Mormon boys occasionally come thru, but the JWs are conspicuous by their absence.

  Perhaps Jehoober IS protecting them, and keeping them away from the feelthy apostate beetch waiting to pounce upon them...:)
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  Final Observations

  by Esmeralda in

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  i'm an observant person.

  i became that way back in what i call the 'wallflower years' of my life, when i could very easily blend into the woodwork of any room i walked into without anyone looking up.

  i became a student of human nature and watched how people interacted, and that study has come in handy at many points.. sometimes, though, i don't realize when i'm opening a can of worms.

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  Mommie Dark

  Waiting said, "There's only a literal handful of us who've been here for one year now. Anybody else for less time than that. How long were/are some of you at H20? Witnet? I've read where some of you have been on these boards for 2,3,4 even 5 years. "

  When I first went online back in '94 on AOHell, I found the religion message boards right off. Once we got off the censored AOL version of Internet/Lite, I found the newsgroups and the Philia mail list. There have been a diverse bunch of message boards in that time; some are now defunct, some have evolved and changed and grown (or dried up and shrivelled), but all serve a necessary function: to provide a forum where people in various stages of doubt or confusion can share their concerns, ask their questions, and get mad as hell safely as the enormity of the fraud foisted on them becomes real to them.

  Learning balance is part of coming out of JWdom. Unfortunately, Internet communication does not lend itself readily to balanced thinking. If you haven't already learned critical thinking and logic skills, you may get a derisive and sometimes vicious crash course. The lack of face reaction and the anonymity of the keyboard can lead to further depression and insecurity in unsuspecting and unprepared participants.

  Mommie's caveat, ad nauseum: this is NOT the 'real' world. You can learn here, but you can't live here full-time. This is a bell jar that magnifies and distorts subtly. The air is hot and thick with ideas and emotion. You can't take others' responses to heart. (Trust me, I learned this the hard way.)Use the info you glean here but don't make this your new KH.
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  Oh ewwwwww

  by LovesDubs in

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  suspect in alaskan school stabbings ignores judge.

  anchorage, alaska, may 8 (reuters) - a man arrested for allegedly slashing the throats of four anchorage children outside their school refused to answer a judge's questions at a court hearing on tuesday, then urged onlookers to kill themselves and their children.

  jason pritchard, 33, was arraigned in state superior court on four charges of attempted murder and four charges of first-degree assault.

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  Mommie Dark

  Oh get REAL!!! JWs proclaim loudly that they are the happiest, sanest, most well-adjusted people on the planet. It's hardly 'grasping at straws' to bring to attention the weirdos that are influenced in their latent insanities by the cult doom messages.

  This guy tried to kill four little kids because of his religious indoctrination. If you had bothered to go read the Anchorage news articles, you would find that his obsession with the three meetings and constant Bible study were a concern to the stepfather he lived with. His irrational behavior was definitely exacerbated by his cult involvement.

  He may be an extreme case, but his religious obsessions are definitely a product of JW Bible teaching methods. I'm sorry if you somehow feel 'invalidated' by someone sharing the facts, but displaying the worst effects of cultic thinking is never ridiculous.
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  Oh ewwwwww

  by LovesDubs in

  1. jw
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  suspect in alaskan school stabbings ignores judge.

  anchorage, alaska, may 8 (reuters) - a man arrested for allegedly slashing the throats of four anchorage children outside their school refused to answer a judge's questions at a court hearing on tuesday, then urged onlookers to kill themselves and their children.

  jason pritchard, 33, was arraigned in state superior court on four charges of attempted murder and four charges of first-degree assault.

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  Mommie Dark

  I did some searching about this case this morning. I found this portion of an Anchorage PD report:

  6 December 1998; APD report #98-67757; court case 3AN-M98-10400

  APD officers were dispatched to the Kingdom Hall Church on 6 December 1998 reference a suicidal man. When police arrived, they saw several men restraining Pritchard. Police interviewed church members, who said that Pritchard entered the church about halfway through services. Then, he stood up, and began shouting that "everyone must commit suicide to see God." Officer Fifer's report. Pritchard continued for about five minutes, and was asked to leave. When he refused, he was escorted off the property. He returned, would not leave, and was removed a second time. He returned as police arrived. Sergeant Webster noted in his report, that, as police arrived, he was attempting to return to the church a third time.

  The laundry list of crazed behavior from this guy is almost unbelievable. His cult experience has fed his insanity in the most horrible ways. I wonder which came first, the cult indoctrination or the insanity?