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  west Virginia outcasts

  by infernosdante in

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  iwas given my leper status(df)12/1/2011,i was in princeton wv,was curious if anyone i knew from west virginia was on here.

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  Mum

  Welcome to the forum! I'm from the hill country, too - East Tennessee.
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  Article on Religious fundamentalism may be a mental illnes

  by sherry11 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the table turned.

  found this article in regard to religious fundamentalism may be a mental illness which can be cured.. "someone who has for example become radicalised to a cult ideology we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance.".

  http://refreshingnews99.blogspot.in/2013/05/leading-neuroscientist-religious.html.

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  Mum

  So almost all of my relatives and neighbors I grew up with were mentally ill? My grandmother was one of the most sane people I ever met, but she was uneducated and never exposed to the larger world.

  Apostates are "mentally diseased" too, ya know.
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  Due to Ongoing Concern about Dwindling Meeting Attendances, IS THE BOOK STUDY ARRANGEMENT GOING TO BE RE-INSTATED NEXT YEAR?

  by steve2 in

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  i have some family and friends still in the organization.

  i don't actively seek updates - my lovely contacts provide me with them unsolicited.

  so far the updates have been reliable and confirmed sooner or later by subsequent developments.

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  Mum

  Do they still meet at the book study sites before going out in service, or does everyone report to the KH before service now?
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  Are your emotions your own?

  by Stauros in

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  have you ever wondered, why do i feel this way?

  are the feelings we have our own or are they being influenced by satan?.

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  Mum

  Emotions don't make sense. I love Elvis, and my friend loathes him. We have all been "domesticated" to react in certain ways to certain stimuli. We all have variations in body chemistry that makes us react differently to things. I don't see how anyone outside yourself could influence your emotions. If that were possible, I wouldn't care about certain people who do not merit my concern because of their attitude and behavior.

  Maybe you need professional counseling. As far as "making sense," very little in life does.
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  Big Revolt Among CO, DO, Bethelites, and Branch Servant Likely

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as the information age is apon us and it doesn't take that much information to easily prove this new light by the governing body granting them absolute loyalty and power is a blatant power grab by a bunch of over the hill ego maniacs i see a revolt in the making..

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  Mum

  If things worked that way, there would be no Roman Catholic Church today, there would have been no Nazi Germany, no genocide in Cambodia, etc. etc.
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  College Update

  by noni1974 in

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  so, in 2010 i recived my ged with the goal of going to college and getting a degree.

  in the mean time i have been an active member of my schools honors program and have finished all of the requirements for graduation from the honors program.

  they were 15 credit hours of honors classes, 12 hours of volunteer work in my community, and 16 hours of cultural activites offered by the honors program.

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  Mum

  Congratulations! Let's have an apostafest graduation party when you graduate!
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  For all my Liberal/Progressive Friends

  by Jomavrick in

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  i am going to be unplugged while i gallivant around europe for a while, which means there will be one person short of holding up the conservative banner on this site.

  so you can all pile on your leftist views of society, obama, health care, benghazi, irs, union thugery, socialism, redistribution of wealth, racism, sexism, gay marriage, right wing conspiracies, talk radio, fox news, wall street, the national debt, the educational system without my counterbalancing your neurotic views.

  but i do love you non the less by brothers and sisters.

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  Thanks, Tater. My father-in-law used to remind his conservative wife that the real welfare is at the top of the ladder, not at the bottom.
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  My name is Michael.

  by new hope and happiness in

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  2. experiences

  research has shown that " generally" the best way to challenge someone is to use their first name.

  to me being addressed by my name " michael" and addressing someone by their christian name is more friendly than using a title.

  i think it would also make it easier for elders to accept someones different point of view if they referrd to the brother by therir christian name.

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  Hi, Michael. You may not realize it, but a lot of fundamentalist Christians refer to one another as "brother" and "sister." My early childhood years were spent attending such churches in the woods in east Tennessee. I think these folks did consider themselves different from "the world" and acknowledging one another as brothers and sisters kept them aware of their dependence on one another and their rejection of worldly pleasures and pursuits. They were honest, sincere, good people, with a few exceptions of course.
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  Another Newbie

  by Skinnedsheep in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i recently came to the realization that the organization is corrupt and is false.

  my story is similar to many i think.

  i was raised in the religion, pioneered and served as an elder for a number of years.

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  Mum

  Welcome, SS.

  My exit did not come because I woke up. I was bitterly disappointed about 1975 because I had not planned for old age and retirement. I was only 27 in 1975. I was losing what mental health I still had; i.e., I was bat crap crazy, without hope or anything to look forward to.

  I wanted to go back to college to at least learn some job skills, but my elder husband was against it. Family members gave me enough money to take two classes at the local state university. We had a fight about it every day.

  My cousin, who lived on the other end of the U.S. told me I could come and stay with him while I sorted things out. Little by little I came to realize that it was not evil to get an education or plan for the future. I also knew that I did not want my daughter to have the kind of life I had.

  Fortunately for me, I did not come from a family of JW's. So I did not risk losing family by my choices.

  Best wishes with your roller coaster ride. If you can move to another location, I recommend it. Otherwise, just keep up appearances.
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  Is it proper to kneeling before adults?

  by KSFernando in

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  as per the sri lankan customs, sri lankans kneel before adults (such as parents, grand parents, teachers etc) to show their respect.. i have quoted some writings from jw literature,.. in some parts of the world, it is the custom for young children to honor adults by kneeling respectfully when in their company.

  in this way, they do not stand taller than those who are older.

  in these communities, it is also viewed as an act of disrespect for a child to turn his or her back to an adult.

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  Mum

  Welcome to the forum!

  Customs and propriety are not as big a deal as people make them. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, etc. Just stay out of trouble.