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  Who am I? - How to find the well lived life after undue influence

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i was added fairly recently to the aawa network (thank you richard e. kelly ) and have been a lurker/fader for many years.

  the ex-jw community, from a far, has offered me so many ways to help go through my own thinking while awakening and working through my own crisis of conscience.

  however, i do have a critique of our community.

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  sohatnow,,,, The answer to the question of you who are you is not so much a destination but the experience of who you are as you go through life. Personality tests should not be viewed as a definitive answer but merely a signpost or indicator of who you are.
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  Witness Punk and Metal Band Names

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. social
  2. humour

  here is what i would name my band(s) let see if you can list some funny ones as well.

  here is my list:.

  local needs.

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  Who would understand "Local Needs"?
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  EXJW's in Mensa?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any exjw's or faders out there in mensa?

  any online groups for this niche?

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  Thank you all for your posts "under the radar" I agree and have never put it on my resume. Really Mensa is just a social club for people who have like interests. Great Teacher, your assessments not only sound possible that are more likely probable. I had to secretly go to school and hide my books. I didn't get baptized until I was in my late teens because the brothers who studied with me said that I asked too many questions or that I was complicating things. Maybe they were right because one of my undergraduate majors was Philosophy.... lol
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  Witness Punk and Metal Band Names

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. social
  2. humour

  here is what i would name my band(s) let see if you can list some funny ones as well.

  here is my list:.

  local needs.

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  Spear of Phineas HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
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  EXJW's in Mensa?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any exjw's or faders out there in mensa?

  any online groups for this niche?

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  I joined Mensa just to test it out... its mostly for social reasons. I have a fun time while I participated and met interesting people.
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  EXJW's in Mensa?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any exjw's or faders out there in mensa?

  any online groups for this niche?

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  juadefiero, I am just curious of the experiences of those with higher IQ's have different experiences than others as JW's. Do we have different challenges and concerns? For me the most stifling thing was having to hide my books. and being restricted on the types of conversations that I could have as a result of my "worldly" or "Apostate" sounding subjects. hmmmmmm waffles or steak.... I think you are on to something lol.
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  EXJW's in Mensa?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any exjw's or faders out there in mensa?

  any online groups for this niche?

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  Luther bertrand

  Any EXJW's or Faders out there in Mensa? Any online groups for this niche?
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  Who am I? - How to find the well lived life after undue influence

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i was added fairly recently to the aawa network (thank you richard e. kelly ) and have been a lurker/fader for many years.

  the ex-jw community, from a far, has offered me so many ways to help go through my own thinking while awakening and working through my own crisis of conscience.

  however, i do have a critique of our community.

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  Luther bertrand

  Hello, Everyone! I was added fairly recently to the AAWA network (Thank You Richard E. Kelly ) and have been a lurker/fader for many years. The ex-jw community, from a far, has offered me so many ways to help go through my own thinking while awakening and working through my own Crisis of Conscience. However, I do have a critique of our community. It seems that many of us, though not all, often talk more about what they don't believe and what we see wrong, a reactive way of thinking, and less more about how to make things right, a proactive way of thinking, while in our respective paths. So, I hope to fill that gap. I want to share two things that helped me considerably. However, before I share these tools I need to talk about the big question, "Who am I?" I agree with Stephan Hassan when he says that even if we are born into a cult, which I was, we are all born with an authentic self. It is my opinion that discovering our authentic self unhitched from the the undue influence that some of us grew up under is key to discovering a life well lived. It is in that vein that I would like to share two psychological questionnaires that have been critiqued via peer reviewed journals and validated statistically and scientifically to have value for many people. The first tool is called the Myers-Briggs, this tool allows you to see your strengths and faults and gives you the broad strokes of your personality type! In the psychology classes I took the full version, which actually costs money to take, I took a free version that gave me just about the same result and will share the link below, though the free version just has a tad less detail. I scored an INTP/ENTP, let me know what you scored! The next tool is called the VIA, it is rooted in positive psychology, which basically focuses on the positive or healthy aspects of ones psychological states to improve the short-comings. We all have strengths that we can use. My strengths, for instance, "strengths are "Love of Learning" and "Creativity", My two lowest are Humility and Perverseness. So a way I plan on becoming a better version of my self is to use my love of learning and creativity to research what it means to have Humility and to have Perverseness. Here are the tests that helped me understand my self and hopefully they will be of benefit to you as well. I would also like to suggest to the admins that we have a subject area for Recovery in this, the greatest board for exjw issues on the entire internet.

  
  

  For the Myers-Briggs go here .. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

  
  

  For the VIA go here...

  
  

  https://www.viacharacter.org/www/

  
  

  If you have difficulties or would like someone to walk through what your scores mean, feel free to pm me.

  
  
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  Raw Footage of Australian Royal Commision

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i see alot of youtube channels that have footage of the hearing, however i can not find the original footage?

  can anyone point me in the direction of where the original footage is?

  i am working on a project and do not want to strip footage from someones channel or steal someones work in terms of editing it or downloading it and uploading it with changes.

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  FYI Here is the response I got from the royal commision

  Dear Mr Bertrand,

  Thank you for your email to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 3 February 2016 in relation to the webcast for the Case Study 29 (Jehovah’s Witnesses) public hearing.

  The webcast was live and only accessible at the time that the public hearing was held, and there is no facility for members of the public to view an archived copy of the webcast.

  You may wish to view the transcripts for the Case Study 29 public hearing which are available on the Royal Commission website at www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.aspx.

  Thank you again for your email and for your interest in the work of the Royal Commission.

  Yours sincerely,

  Philip Reed
  Chief Executive Officer
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  Witness Punk and Metal Band Names

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. social
  2. humour

  here is what i would name my band(s) let see if you can list some funny ones as well.

  here is my list:.

  local needs.

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  Luther bertrand

  ok I came up with some more...

  Private Reproof

  The Mentally Diseased

  The Troof

  The Kinnim Hall Blues

  The Bloom of Youth.

  Blue Balls and the Chaperones

  The CrotchTowers

  Theocratic War Doctrine

  The Friends

  The Underliner's

  The RBC

  The Spiritual Orphans