Posts by Solzhenitsyn

>Defecting is individually a "long story" and usually thought about for a long time. Including how to get my family out as well. Lots of thought before the actual defection.

>When you leave you are a criminal and there is no communication with relatives still in

>Somebody should do something to effect change

>Afraid of the regime AND afraid of each other

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Why are they still so obsessed with Dr Spock?

by purrpurr in

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comment in today's wt, was about dr spock, and his book "that every parent in the world read" apparently (!).

if it wasn't for the wt's obsessions with the guy i would have no idea who he was, neither i suspect would the vast majority of the congregation.

there has been a mass of parenting books written since and yet they keep harking back to this one.. do they have no idea how out of touch this makes them seem?.

Solzhenitsyn

Dr. Spocks book "baby and childcare" was revised like 15 times over the years. This is the angle the WT capitalizes on...."Man made books need revision and the Bible never needs to be revised."

Funny...the NWT HAS been revised more than once.

Such a load of crap.

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Faithful and Prudent slave? read somewhere that the discreet was going to change to Prudent.

by goingthruthemotions in

read on one of the forums, and maybe this one that the gb are going to start calling themselves the faithful and prudent slave.

my pimi brainwashed wife wouldn't bat an eyelash if they started calling themselves this.

to her it would be new light and they could do nothing wrong.. but, how the not so brainwashed flock take this change?

Solzhenitsyn

Prudent? No, no....its Prudish. F&DS changing to Prudish.

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Does anyone think that Dubbers buy up old publications to destroy?

by rockemsockem in

i see that there is a lot of people bidding on and buying the more controversial publications.

it could be all due to people who have left the cult and want to read it as published the crazy things or prove it to a family member.

but i wonder if anyone has ever heard of individuals buying up to remove something from the public.

Solzhenitsyn

JWs treat doubting, faded, and d/f'ed members just like all their old publications.

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Have you ever gotten a straight answer? If yes, what was it?

by Tenacious in

the light continues to get brighter, yada, yada, yada.. but, the bottom line is the watchtower claims everything comes from jehovah.

books, magazines, videos, assemblies, to jw broadcast, to gb appointments, to dramas, even the music and sophia and caleb.

heck, they would claim jehovah provides the toilet paper if they could.

Solzhenitsyn

What I used to tell dissenting, doubting, apostates was.....drumroll...."the Truth never changes but our understanding of it does.

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READ: Watchtower's SCOTUS petition

by Corney in

on june 25, 2019 watchtower ny filed petition for a writ of certiorari in the u.s. supreme court.

the society asks to reconsider a $4 million judgment against it in a california child abuse case.

docket: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-40.html .

Solzhenitsyn

SCOTUS

7000-8000 cases filed per year

75 cases taken up last year

When cases taken, they reverse lower court decisions 70% of the time.

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Heartbroken that my parents are so blind...

by HiddenPimo in

so i sent a letter outlining the scriptures that support shunning versus the 3 times as many that support not shunning.

this is the below response that i received.

i will be announced tomorrow night and wanted them to know since that is the fair and adult thing to do.

Solzhenitsyn

My wife and I faded off into the sunset with the upmost precision yet our 4 parents shun us and their multiple grandchildren with the upmost prejudice.

The sadness ran high in my home until the realization set in that if the tables were turned, we would do the exact same thing to them. I know though it doesn't take away the frustration and desire for things to be different.

Our parents brains are just as programmed by an ever-changing 135 year old Pennsylvania corporation as ours were.

Sorry that you are dealing with this Jared but your worst day outside the JW cult is better than the best day you ever had in it.

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Love never fails,, Interesting UK video

by Lets Think in

https://youtu.be/shdoreaahmq.

Solzhenitsyn

Wow. Theocratic warfare in action.

Not shocked but wow.

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Any Dogs Returning to their Vomit Here?

by Solzhenitsyn in

i was wondering if any long time jw's that are now pomo's here on the forum now act in a leadership role within another religious organization?.

i do and would enjoy a bit of conversation with this (i assume minority) "sub-culture" of ex-jw's.

.

Solzhenitsyn

Agreed on the religious framework. It just seemed like the path of least resistance for well coordinated community efforts with the added bonus of non judgmental and what we have found...non Jesus freak association. Dammit, its just a bad habit to follow others direction.

Contrary to my JW upbringing, the vast majority of everyone we have met in "Christendom" are really good people. Between youth group and athletics, all my kids have been happier and grown up more than we have ever experienced with them. And I simply have lost count of how many others within our 'church' that have come out of dogmatic, box checking, high control groups.

I thought JW's were the MOST f#$%ed up until I had new friends around our dinner table that came out of:

http://www.remnantfellowship.org/Our-Leaders/Gwen-Shamblin

https://brotherhoodofthewhitetemple.com/

http://www.theway.org/index.php?page=home&lang=en