Posts by Rather Be the Hammer

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Guide to Helping Other Break Free

by LisaRose in

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i have come up with a guide to helping others break free of the watchtower, based loosely on steve hassan's book, combatting cult mind control and incorporating experiences of other jwn posters who have been successful in helping their family leave the watchtower.

i posted an earlier draft of this and got some great feedback.

here is the final version with some additional information and incorporating many of your suggestions.

Rather Be the Hammer

Hi LisaRose

thanks! I think this will be very useful. I am reading Steve Hassan's Free Mind book now, but it's nice to have a manual that is more pointed towards dealing with Jehovahs Witnesses.

I appreciatie that you point out that NOT everyone will be happier outside. I think you are right. Some people need the routines, the idea that they do something 'the right way' and being respected for being a 'better' JW (pioneer, MS, Elder, or even when they are allowed to stand next to the litterature-cart).

I observed and think that some men would be considered a 'nobody' outside the cult, because of no education, humble jobs, no style, while they are highly respected (and even have power) within the cult - and maybe that's why they cling to it.

I saw some things I did not try yet, so I will!

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My daughter graduated Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours yesterday.

by Xanthippe in

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Rather Be the Hammer

Woohoo! Congratulations!

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Yoga. Evil practice?

by Darkknight757 in

as our fade continues, the wife and i have decided to take up "the forbidden practice of.......yoga"!!!!😱.

i was quite skeptical at first but so far it has really de-stressed our life in quite a spectacular way!!

not to mention the physical benefits.. anyone else try yoga or a similar discipline?

Rather Be the Hammer

I love yoga, but it's the one thing that my still in husband cannot handle. He thinks it's evil . Even went to the elders for help. They came up with a watchtower or something from 1980 or so . I pointed out that my yoga class was nothing like the description in th WT but they can't believe that it's not all about religion any more. ☹️

Also they thought that the wt article would change my mind about yoga within seconds and were surprised it didn't.

'But you would not make Jehovah unhappy, would you?'

'please show me in the bible that Jehovah will be unhappy when I do yoga?'

'but you know he doesn't like that kind of things'

'no I don't.'

I think it's idiot how JW all 'know' what Jehovah thinks, likes, not likes ...even when there's nothing about it in the bible.

But there's youtube so no need to go outside for lessons 😁

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Blondie's Highlights of the 7-17-2016 WT Study (Personal Decision)

by blondie in

blondie’s highlights from the july 17, 2016 wt study (2016) (how do you make personal decisions?.

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/.

excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

Rather Be the Hammer

Thanks Blondie!

I think the whole idea is silly: a lesson about

'How to make PERSONAL decisions'

Let US tell you how you should make PERSONAL decisions and let stumbling OTHERS affect your decisions

What's personal? And is there anything left to decide personally , after reading this WT?

it should have been titled : 'Let us influence every thought you think and every decision you make don't you dare to do or think anything by yourself!'

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Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

by redpilltwice in

this is what happened.

i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

Rather Be the Hammer

The things Orphan Crow says I do agree with. I know that pain, even when original caused by a wrong movement or accident (but WHY did THAT happen in the first place?!) has a function...the body and mind want to be in balance. (I suddenly remember how my dad ALWAYS had a sore troath before he had to do bible reading on the stage...his body gave him what his mind needed ... a way out) (And my husband, who is not a social person always has a cold sore at the convention/circuit assembly. So he doesn't have to kiss people. ;))

So when pain stays for a long time it can be there for a reason...what things are different now that you have pain? IN what way would your life be worse if that pain was not there?

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Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

by redpilltwice in

this is what happened.

i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

Rather Be the Hammer

I also believe in Placebo & Nocebo effect. But that, too, is about energy. Who believes what? Even what your DOCTOR believes can affect YOUR healing. Thoughts are energy... I read a book on these effects. Some people 'need' injections to heal because the believe in the 'magic' of an injection. Some people 'need' surgery. They even did placebo-surgery on not life-threathening occasions such as knee-pain (make an incision and close the wound), and the patients got better, exactly like the people who got the 'real' surgery.

So everyone believes in something. And the magic of a healing hand or thought is not MORE magic than the magic of an injection, homeopathy or surgery.

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Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

by redpilltwice in

this is what happened.

i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

Rather Be the Hammer

I can feel pain of other people.

Took me quite some time (years, litterally) before I realised that a lot of things I feel are NOT my own pain.

I also 'knew' three times someone died (unexpectedly!) before I was told.

I can sense or 'know' that people are ill. A few years ago it happened that I could not think of anything else but cancer, and feeling a large dark cloud coming over us. Within three months my husbands brother had cancer and died. And the same feeling happened again, and now it was a friend of me who had cancer. (Only last week I saw the CO and I said to my husband: he is sick.... A few days later my husband told me: "You were right. The CO told me he has a weak health and will not get old." )

Sometimes I feel pain OUTSIDE my body. Like if the pains has gone, but it's still around me. That puzzles me!

So. I wish I could DO something...just feeling these things is so useless. I wish I could help people and ease their pain instead of just feeling it. I DO believe there are people who can do such things. And in my opinion this has nothing to do with demons.

Just energy. If there is a God that can create with energy, and act with energy, and heal with energy why can humans, small part of God's energy, NOT use their energy to heal?

And if there's no God, it's just energy. :-)

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Kevinly Class Activism - Brilliant!

by konceptual99 in

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this is great.

i'd love to see this at brighton in a couple of weeks.... "i'm of the kevinly class" or "praise kevin" would be a great way of letting any activist know there are those awake that know what they are doing.

https://youtu.be/ld0-jvn98aa.

Rather Be the Hammer

@ Island man: thats my kind of warfare! Right now I am planning on doing such things regarding the convention program, for example the music in the last video (from Audiomachine) ... i'm going to play it and show the album cover somehow... So husband will recognise it when he sees the video. Maybe will think: what, wordly music?!

Sadly it doesn't always work out. I remember that I knew ahead of him that pioneer hours would go down, and that bookstudy would end. So I talked about the 'possibillity' of such things and he said: 'They would NEVER do that! It will never happen!' And that he would be really shocked if it did.

Well...it did happen. But he always finds excuses for the Borg no matter what he said before. ☹️

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At a regional convention today....

by Nobodyspecial in

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friends

it really stands out to me just how phoney the bonds of forced brotherhood are.

the smiles are paper thin when they see each other in hotels.

the laughs forced.

Rather Be the Hammer

@WTwizzard...exactly my experience... Always had a bad back, but since I know ttatt I developed nervous pain in my back/legs that is triggered by sitting... Just sitting in KH for an hour and I have so much pain! So I have to walk a lot, or be in the kitchen...

I know this is no coincidence. Whenever I quit going to these meetings, my back pain will be over, I am sure.

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The facts on crucifixion, stauros, and the "torture stake"

by Leolaia in

finally, i will look at biblical and patristic evidence bearing on the crucifixion of jesus in particular.

we need to examine the earliest known descriptions of the kind of crucifixion adopted by the romans and the specific terms they used to refer to it.

apparently the society believes that crux still meant "stake" in the second century a.d., when tacitus composed his annals.

Rather Be the Hammer

One of the recent jdubvideo's showed a drawing of Jesus hanging on the stake. However, because of the large 'sign' on the stake, it looked just like a cross!

I remember that before that sign would be pictured much smaller.