from the november 2019 watchtower study edition.. how many of you would like to know what the brothers and sisters would respond to this question.
also, if you went into a hall how would you like to respond to the question.. 8. how should we respond to lies?.
8 satan, “the father of the lie,” uses those under his control to spread lies about jehovah and about our brothers and sisters.
We do not allow anyone or anything, including curiosity, to draw us into arguing with them
JWs aren't allowed to have curiosity. Don't research anything, don't question anything. But we're not a cult!
Curiosity is the life blood of sentient animals, without it we're just insects.
admit it, we all have things that we reel off when people ask what our favourite music is, just the same as if people ask what our favourite movies are.
we're meant to say "citizen kane" and "casablanca" and not "battleship" or "pacific rim" but we know what we're going to watch if they are ever on tv at the same time (and which ones we've never actually seen).. so how about some confession time?
what do you listen to when no one else is in the house?.
So many here I'd forgotten about. Karen Carpenter did have an amazing voice, an incredible range.
Roger Whittaker singing Dirty old Town. Yes and Andy Williams singling Home Loving Man. Omg now I feel ancient.
I love Katie Melua but hardly ever say so because everyone cringes when I do. I even like Nine Million Bicycles. Yup, afraid so!
it's easy to get bogged down with life and think you're not getting ahead or progressing.
but regardless of where we think things may be going, pretty much everyone who's come through this site is an achiever who's done an amazing thing in one way or another even if they may not think about it.. so think about it!.
you got past and over your programming and indoctrination.
Does it still exist Xanthippe? I studied for a bit at LSE.
I don't think so Diog, I did an online search for it the other day but didn't find anything.
My late husband was asked to give a talk about JWs at a seminar at the LSE. People who'd left other cults also spoke. It was really interesting seeing the similarities.
Then for a few years we were a phone contact for ex-jws who wanted someone to talk to. After that INFORM found a married couple who'd left the JWs and also had counselling qualifications to take over. That must have been over twenty years ago.
Yes I keep meaning to do more research on Confucius. It's interesting that he wrote a version of the Golden Rule in his Analects 500 years before Jesus was supposed to have said it.
it's easy to get bogged down with life and think you're not getting ahead or progressing.
but regardless of where we think things may be going, pretty much everyone who's come through this site is an achiever who's done an amazing thing in one way or another even if they may not think about it.. so think about it!.
you got past and over your programming and indoctrination.
Well said Simon! My husband and I volunteered for a charity called INFORM based at the London School of Economics for a while after we left the JWs. It helped people learn about religious cults of all kinds.
The people who ran the charity said to us the amazing thing that you've acheived is that you left the JWs, leaving a cult is so hard.
They reacted as if we'd done something almost miraculous because they studied JWs, Moonies, Children of God etc and they knew the hold cults have. We should be proud of ourselves.
drip, drip.
drip the erosion continues.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-10/jehovahs-witness-abuse-exposed/11561776.
Just makes you weep, all those poor people. All those little children suffering, ignored by this monstrous cult.
i was with my brother in law when we were in service and given this book.
i have posted on this before but it got me to thinking.
it was taken from us by the local elder we talk to about it.
If you mean Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave I read it when I was sixteen. My sixteen-year-old true believer self at the time thought the author was very bitter. I haven't looked at it since so my view might be quite different now.
My mother was horrified I brought it home from the library but it's just a shame it took me another 14 years to leave.
i saw this sign (i'm sure the bride must have bought it) at a wedding rehearsal dinner yesterday.. yes, the smiling bride was there ordering her soon to be groom around as they were setting up their party decorations.
i'm sure today october 5th will would be the happiest day of their young lives.. have you ever noticed that many movies end at the wedding ceremony?
because for the vast majority of marriages that is the best it ever gets!
I've been in love a few times and l was married for 27 years. Apparently apes are not naturally monogamous. It's true relationships don't stay the same and marriage can be hard work. I may be lazy now but I just don't want to work that hard anymore.
how would you answer:.
how can you change or improve an individuals dominant mental attitude?.
zing.
I agree with dubstepped, you can't change anyone. I also agree with Simon, keep away from people who lurch from crisis to crisis.
If you can't keep away, if they're work colleagues make it clear that you won't put up with them dumping their drama on you. They will learn to moan about their 'terrible' life to someone else.
hm of you with a divided house have to put up with this?
in this house its walking a mine field.. also our little cat has been gone for some 24 hours and her absence is also my fault apparently..
Oh sorry your partner is being so miserable Zeb. I hope your little cat comes home soon. I have a sixteen year old cat who's not very well so I never know what I will find when I come home from work.
leaving today for rome, and then a mediterranean cruise.
will not be online, i will miss you all.
hopefully, when i get back, the wt will have declared bankruptcy.
Welcome back Punky, I hope you had a good time.
