“the christian witnesses of jehovah are the best oriented, happiest and most contended group of people on the face of the earth.
so why on earth would any good follower need the help of a mental health professional?” the society tells about the evils of seeking help from outside their organization.
"as a rule, for a christian to go to a worldly psychiatrist is an admission of defeat.
One of the reasons I hardly ever brought it up in therapy. When I have, they have not 'gotten it'. Why bother.
Ive been the one educating the therapist on it. I should get paid , not the other way around.
New therapy coming.
Also I have made leaps and bounds in my mind in 4-5 months on this site than a decade of therapy.
Much thanks to the owner of this site and many many others here. You have all done what no therapist I have seen has been able to do. YOU ROCK!
alright, so what is the deal with the thousands coming to the states right at election time seeking asylum?
i'm not up on this, usually try not to be, but how can this not be manipulative?
it's either manipulative in the size of the group and pressure that creates, or in where it started or who started this, etc.
Hyped up media bullsh#@.
On both sides.
in the real world, very few parents would disown their own children simply because they read a magazine that told them to do it.
very few people would forever completely ignore their own parents because an elder got up on a platform one day and announced that they no longer follow the same religion as you.. in the real world it just doesn't happen.
and yet, for 8 million jehovah's witnesses it's very a normal part of their world to treat "other people" differently than they'd treat each other.
Simon- It doesn't really come anywhere close to the barbarism that has happened in history.
Considering that the number of disfellowshipped per year is around 30,000 or abouts since the 80's thats over a million people, Id say its comparable.
I highly doubt an ex jdubs life would be completely destroyed over not being invited to family bbq.
Edit: comparable was a bad choice of wording on my part. It doesnt compare to mass killing off of entire lots of people.
Am grumpy this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.
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backstory:.
so my born-in cousin who recently left the org is looking to start an ex-jw / group instagram based in socal.
he asked me if i had any ideas for a photo that can used for the instagram page and this is what i made for him:.
backstory:.
so my born-in cousin who recently left the org is looking to start an ex-jw / group instagram based in socal.
he asked me if i had any ideas for a photo that can used for the instagram page and this is what i made for him:.
so canada has legalized pot / marijuana / cannabis and you can go to stores today and buy some.
the local news is covering it here in calgary with crowds of thousands expected at one of only 2 stores licensed in the city but last i saw, there were only 7 people in the line so who knows how popular it will be.
i imagine all the people who really wanted to get it could already get it easily so this is more about expanding the market to new users who will be less inclined to queue for hours on day 1.. apparently you'll also be able to purchase online with discreet delivery by canada post.
I'm in favor.
I live in a state were it is legal. I have heard SO many stories from folks that have kicked pharmaceuticals because of Cannabis.
The dealers- I knew (past tense) several marijuana dealers when it was illegal. Its cheaper at the dispensary now than it was when it was illegal here. Much to my own amusement because this one dude I knew thought he was big stuff until it was legalized. Then he had to get a real job because he couldn't compete.
The town Im closest to has a population of 18,000 people. There are 24 dispensaries in that small town. The only thing that really changed here was the local marijuana dealers went out of business.
I cant believe how many grandmas I see going into the dispensaries. That is a funny site to me.
It ought to be interesting to see how it goes for Canada.
so after much emotional struggle out into the open comes why my dear wife continues to want to stay with the wt organization.. i simply couldn't understand why someone so intelligent would suffer from such confusion wether to stay active or fade away when she has faced and accepted the anti-jw facts.
simply put: she was raised with such sick instability that jw life was the only thing that provided stability, the only thing she felt she could count on.
to this day this remains the primary reason she stays "in".
Solzhenitsyn- She was raised with such sick instability that JW life was the only thing that provided stability, the only thing she felt she could count on.
Hmm.... thats a tough one.
Professional counseling if she is willing.
Find things you both can do together that is fun and fill your time with that.
Surprise her with something awesome that requires you to go somewhere on a meeting night, just every so often to start. Perhaps that might make your wife feel even more 'safe and stable' with you, and 'stable' within her own skin.
Find books on childhood trauma and abandonment issues ect, read them and leave them laying around.
Perhaps, patience and sticking to your guns in a way that is loving will accelerate the process.
one of their mothers burst into the jehovah's witness church in swansea and publicly accused him of being a paedophile only to receive a letter from solicitors warning her not to harass.
judge geraint walters...described collins as a "devious, arrogant and self-righteous man" who had lived behind veil of respectability partly through his contact with the jehovah's witness church.
full story: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/devious-righteous-christian-raped-two-15274172.
I'm afraid if someone touched my child I would probably be in jail and plead temporary insanity, because there is no telling what I would do.
It makes my brain hurt to think that someone would have ripped the innocence right out of my child.
I was so protective of my son that even when I was still in the borg this cocky elder tried to spank my son for crying. "?" We were near the door because my son was crying like kids do.I literally shoved the elder out of the door and put my hands around his neck during the meeting. Two other elders pulled me off. I got no reprimand from this, ironically.
Dont F%^# with my child!!! ...... Deep breaths, grrr
i resigned from the jw's in my 20's over 30 years ago, i was immediately shunned by my entire family and it's remained that way with a few exceptions ever since.
one of those exceptions was being contacted by a cousin a few years back and during that conversation i discovered that my mother had been and still was the prime mover in my complete and continuing shunning.
i then used what contacts i had left to confirm it.
Totally agree!
" Standing Ovation "
