Muddy Waters

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  Tutorial for Making Donations Electronically

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  tutorial for making donations electronically video will be considered the week of october 16, 2017.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_z32hlqw-0.

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  Muddy Waters

  Wow.... just.... unbelievable...
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  New Song to be sung for Warwick Dedication on Oct 7

  by Drearyweather in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a place that will bring you praise.

  https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201801_8_video.

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  Muddy Waters

  LOL, Sparrowdown! Those Lizards in Warwick can take a flying leap!!
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  Waking up to TTATT: Blessing or Curse?

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if you take the red pill, you'll have knowledge, you'll be awakened, aware of reality, you'll have freedom.. if you take the blue pill, you stay in your bubble, wearing rose colored glasses, and feel security in an illusion.. taking the red pill isn't something that's easy to do.

  to accept that everything around you is an illusion built up on lies or half truths.

  but hey, it might feel good to be aware and break free from this illusion.

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  Muddy Waters

  It is both a blessing and a curse.

  I mourn the loss of my past, over 25 of my healthiest, productive years spent in useless cultish busywork. (Was a stupid, bloody CONVERT at the age of 20, woke up, or started the slow process of wakening up, when I was nearly 50!)

  I think about the show The Matrix a lot sometimes, and I understand why the guy wanted to be plugged back in....!

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  And I have also bawled my head off at their stupid emotional videos... It feels like being a little kid who just lost Santa Clause all over again.

  We are innocent, trusting Drones no longer.

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  (("... and this is what it sounds like, when doves cry..."))

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  It's been over 5 years since I woke up, and I had been in it TOTALLY - "whole-heartedly" - and I hate their words now. They sicken me, literally.

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  You are going through a loss, and a growth.

  It is a process.... Yes, a journey. Look how many people post here, some even after being out for decades. Nobody else (unless having been through a similar experience) "gets" or understands what being a JW is really like. We may make new non-JW friends, yes, but they will never understand quite how .... surreal/ controlled/ fear-inspired (Armageddon, doing something wrong, being disfellowshipped, losing family thru shunning, facing persecution, on and on it goes) was our existence.

  Becoming free is a process... A discovery... There will be some bumps and hurts, but there will also be magic and wonderful things too.....

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  DesirousOfChange: THANK YOU! Your words are SPOT ON!! I was almost getting morose there, your words shook me out of it!! Red pill (unless too old or fragile for such a rude awakening) all the way!!!
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  New Song to be sung for Warwick Dedication on Oct 7

  by Drearyweather in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a place that will bring you praise.

  https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201801_8_video.

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  Muddy Waters

  Ugh.... and they always have to find a way to say something about people giving, giving, giving....
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  Post -Cult After Effects

  by Seven in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have been reading alot of margaret lately-thought i'd share this.. seven.

  post-cult after effects .

  psychological manipulation, cult groups, sects, and new religious movements .

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  Muddy Waters

  This is great info, she describes the indoctrination process perfectly... It was just like that for me (not born in, but a convert when I was around 20....)
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  Random thoughts of an ex-JW on a coffee break

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  lately i have been finding myself doing a lot of thinking.

  not that i am smarter than the keurig coffee maker in my office, which lately has made me reevaluate the perception of my professional career.

  somewhere along the way between winding down my relationship with my now ex-boss and starting a new one with my current boss, i noticed that the machine complaints with a message on a touchscreen….

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  Muddy Waters

  Cool thoughts.... I see the connections you've made... a life of almost repetitious boredom likened to a living hell, and then what sorts of circumstances would be a living hell, such as the fate of the woman you described.

  Witnesses (and many other groups, tribes, nations, sports fans?) are trained to be so cold and dispassionate about the fates of anyone "not one of them" - the "other" - that a disconnection takes place in their minds which makes heinous acts acceptable, yet if a person really put themselves in the "other's" place, they might have to really stop and question what they are doing/ thinking/ believing.
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  Courtroom Gaffes

  by individuals wife in

  1. social
  2. humour

  collection of courtroom gaffes - all true, unbelievably.... q: what is your date of birth?.

  a: july 15th.

  q: what year?.

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  Muddy Waters

  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! omg, I so needed a laugh today.... Found this and even though I've heard some of these before, these are great!!
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  Famous Last Words

  by Blueblades in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sooner or later it happens to all of us.the time comes for us to draw our last breath and pass from this life into the next.over the years history has recorded some fascinating "famous last words"...here are a few.. "i've never felt better".douglas fairbanks,sr.,actor.. "iam about to----or i am going to-----die;either expression is correct".dominique bouhours,french grammarian.. "don't let it end like this.tell them i said something.

  "pancho villa,mexican revolutionary.. "all my possessions for a moment of time!

  "elizabeth 1,queen of england.. "everybody has got to die,but i have always believed an exception would be made in my case.now what?

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  Muddy Waters

  Have gratitude... Recognize and appreciate your blessings...
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  Jehovahs witnesses that believe its "The Truth" vs JW's who know it isn't

  by Christian Gutierrez in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey guys!

  what do you think is the percentage of jw's believe that it is the truth and the percentage of those who think it might be some false or all false??

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  Muddy Waters

  Vidiot, re: "negro man" -- I think this is a generational thing, as I grew up thinking it was a perfectly acceptable word as well. It became politically incorrect at some point and the new approved term was "colored" or "black" and now I don't think you're supposed to say even those words, you are now not to mention skin color in any way.
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  Shunned jpg Cartoon

  by oppostate in

  1. social
  2. humour

  saw this on instagram tagged with #ttatt.

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  Muddy Waters

  The JW doctrine of shunning is so sad, so unnecessary... So very wrong.

  "... By this they will know that you are my disciples.... " (for the love you show? By the hard line you take? By following man-made dictates from modern-day Pharisees?)

  George Orwell wrote "1984", where peace was war, freedom was slavery, love was hate...

  Gee, it sounds so familiar....