@ ding-I am just starting to read COC in a PDF. Not too easy but I think ray franz mentions that. I think that's where I read that...maybe it was here somewhere...
joyfulfader
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New girl in town here for support
by joyfulfader inhi everyone here on jwn.
i admit to being a lurker for quite some time before joining and now i am ready to post and i want to introduce myself.
i am/was 3rd generation and daughter of the po (as it was termed at the time) for most of my life.
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New girl in town here for support
by joyfulfader inhi everyone here on jwn.
i admit to being a lurker for quite some time before joining and now i am ready to post and i want to introduce myself.
i am/was 3rd generation and daughter of the po (as it was termed at the time) for most of my life.
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@jws- that was super cool!! I would love to do that but they know who I am...... Arrrrrgh!!
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New girl in town here for support
by joyfulfader inhi everyone here on jwn.
i admit to being a lurker for quite some time before joining and now i am ready to post and i want to introduce myself.
i am/was 3rd generation and daughter of the po (as it was termed at the time) for most of my life.
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I can't recall a picture of anyone studying just the bible. I would look but I threw all my books in the trash. Was cathartic
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New girl in town here for support
by joyfulfader inhi everyone here on jwn.
i admit to being a lurker for quite some time before joining and now i am ready to post and i want to introduce myself.
i am/was 3rd generation and daughter of the po (as it was termed at the time) for most of my life.
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@ Aware! - thanks for the tips. I will look that one up (as well as others). It seems best to just go back to the basics. Read the bible. It shouldn't have to be this difficult. @ jws - I want to say I was in no way trying to give myself a compliment but women can be very insecure. I have to say that I have never understood the cattiness...there are some way more attractive women out there but that is great for them. Very jr. high-like. I was always so conscious about the length of my skirts and the modesty of my clothing. I really was trying to be the best witness I could be. Giving talks and demos at the very last of the last minutes, reg pioneering as a single mom, really trying my best to follow the rules so my daughter and I would live in paradise. Now I live for now until otherwise notified...
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Question about blood
by XPeterX insome jw's accept certain plasma fractions.if the plasma is extracted from human blood then who's blood is it that they use?jw's won't donate blood.do they let others donate blood instead?wtf.
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Btw...i am donating at the next opportunity :)
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Question about blood
by XPeterX insome jw's accept certain plasma fractions.if the plasma is extracted from human blood then who's blood is it that they use?jw's won't donate blood.do they let others donate blood instead?wtf.
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It completely bugs me that witnesses use a product that they refuse to supply. think about taxes...the government uses the money for good things that help society (jws are some of the first to take advantage of these to enable them to pioneer) and then also uses the money for corrupt and violent things. witnesses MUST pay their taxes and get in trouble if they dont (usually). So why cant witnesses donate blood realizing that another "brother" or "sister" might need one of the fractions and just let it be that the blood could be used as a whole?? Seems like the usual BS double standard to me
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New girl in town here for support
by joyfulfader inhi everyone here on jwn.
i admit to being a lurker for quite some time before joining and now i am ready to post and i want to introduce myself.
i am/was 3rd generation and daughter of the po (as it was termed at the time) for most of my life.
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@jws- I totally expect to feel the same way about churches esp the kinetic one my friend at work invited me to. The music she shared from her ipod was surprisingly heavier than the bland christian bands i have heard. lots of guitar and bass. Not bad. But i really think that the music is all the church is about so leaning toward the not going. Its interesting that you ask if someone had it out for me. My experiences involved 2 separate congregations. In the first scenario my ex was one of them...a recently appointed elder so i dont think they wanted to believe that he was doing what he was doing since he was "appointed by holy spirit" by them while he was living a double life of drugs, alcohol and women. I was easy to find. I was right there and by disfellowshipping me they could appear to be being proactive about a public situation. I suppose in their eyes i was the easy prey since my ex disappeared. I cannot say what caused the second...except maybe the matchmaking elder on a power trip realized he should get out of the business of matchmaking after he matched several disatrous relationships and mine was one of the public disasters so he had to save face by villianizing me and I was told that as an attractive woman i was trouble. What??? What was so horrible about that situation was that the entire body of elders was divided and the congregation suffered and the disunity led to one bad thing after another with other people after I left. But as I was told by someone, i can be the scapegoat because i dont go anymore. Let them think that. I can stand before God and hope there is a recording of all events during that time and feel good about my actions as a Christian. This is another time that my motto of telling the truth no matter what because lies are too hard to keep straight comes in handy. No matter how a question is worded, no matter when...the answer wont change because i dont have to think about what i said to whom. When I realized truth is not important to them that was my cue...never go back.
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New girl in town here for support
by joyfulfader inhi everyone here on jwn.
i admit to being a lurker for quite some time before joining and now i am ready to post and i want to introduce myself.
i am/was 3rd generation and daughter of the po (as it was termed at the time) for most of my life.
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thanks Poppers...i have been invited to 4 churches...a non denominational modern church, non rolling in the aisle pentacostal, liberal baptist and assemblies of god. have avoided such for the very reasons you mention. i do not want to trade one set of beliefs for another. i am a smart woman (despite the 39 yrs it took to find my freedom) and i have no intention of joining any organized religion until i am ok spiritually. my heart and spirituality are mine and mine alone. i will find the truth i need...i am positively sure of this. i am a determined, independent woman and am not about to give up.
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New girl in town here for support
by joyfulfader inhi everyone here on jwn.
i admit to being a lurker for quite some time before joining and now i am ready to post and i want to introduce myself.
i am/was 3rd generation and daughter of the po (as it was termed at the time) for most of my life.
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you guys have no idea how much your words here have encouraged me. i dont feel so alone anymore.
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of the 'Safeguard Your Heart!' 2012 Convention
by breakfast of champions into make attendance at my second district convention "mentally out" both a little more bearable and meaningful, i decided to take some notes of key points as if i were an outsider studying the thought reform methods of jehovah's witnesses.
at first, i was only going to share these notes with my therapist, but inspired by the "parsing the watchtower double-speak" thread, i figured i would share my amateur analysis with everyone.
here are some of the highlights:.
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joyfulfader
i live by the motto that truth never changes because its too hard keeping up with all the lies. when you only tell the truth you have nothing to keep track of. remembering facts is enough to answer anyone. Lies catch up with you and one would think someone in NY would realize this and just stop but they cant. now they have to keep everyone in line so they are too afraid to ask the questions about the lies. so glad i dont have to endure another DC. my heart is mine. not sharing it with a hypocritical cult.