2016 years text.. hebrews 13:1, let your brotherly love continue.. wtf!
your thought please.
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Just remember having one telephone conversation with my sister about what was wrong in the WTS and that we were were thinking of leaving. Before I finished she interrupted with, well if you do neither I nor my husband will ever speak to you again.
Like flicking a switch they decide who to love and who to stop loving in a matter of minutes. If that's brotherly love I'd rather have normal humanity.
none of my jehovah's witness relatives called to tell me or my family.
just found out this morning.
from what i've read, platelet and red blood cell levels are usually severely lowered during traditional treatment for this type of cancer.
is this correct?
and if so, are platelets and red blood cells now part of the watch tower approved fractions?
been reading for about 2 and a half years, thought i would take the plunge and sign up.. my circumstances... i live in uk, serving as ms. i am fully awake.
i can not leave due to family, so just treating the meetings as a bit of a social club.
i would like to give out more details, but i think you all know the drill.. complete disillusionment and i suppose natural curiosity woke me up.. don't know what else to say right now, just hello, and i hope to get to know some of you guys better.
Welcome to freedom of mind Old Major, from Leicestershire.
Old Major, Animal Farm?
had a quick look at the workbook and flicked through the sample meeting video.. the increased use of video shows the trend for more centralised dissemination of "best practice" .
sure there isn't really a "school" any more and the format is a bit different but i think those that called it as the same old crap just in new package got it pretty much right.
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had a quick look at the workbook and flicked through the sample meeting video.. the increased use of video shows the trend for more centralised dissemination of "best practice" .
sure there isn't really a "school" any more and the format is a bit different but i think those that called it as the same old crap just in new package got it pretty much right.
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i very seldom receive a call from my jw siblings, i mean seldom.
i can count them on my hand in past 10 years.
while we talk about mom a lot and i am in touch with her, i was very surprised when i received this call.
i'm not jw, so i see this all standing up and very clear from an outsider perspective (i am still seeking my path).
i joined the blog a few weeks ago.
i dated a divorced jw (jw from birth) for a couple of years recently.
If it blows up from within - all will be free.
This shows a lack of understanding of mind control cults I'm afraid. If all the branch offices had to close because of massive litigation payouts to child abuse victims many ordinary JWs would continue to believe.
They would think it was persecution and a sign we are near THE END. These people are trapped by mind control not by evidence. Some would leave but others would reform into a scattered survival cult, surviving the persecution and still waiting for the end.
that is the truth-- that's really how i think now.
so why should i tell the truth?
just look at the person i've become.
Embarrassed welcome. I was like you, I never told a lie for the first thirty years of my life as a JW but I've changed since leaving the JWs. I don't think it's wicked to tell the occasional lie, to prevent hurt feelings, to keep things to yourself when someone is being intrusive or just to make life a little easier.
I think that people who habitually lie are screwing with their own heads. It actually can become a mental illness. A person I worked with used to trump anything I said with something bigger. When my little girl had tonsillitis, her sister had died from it. When I had to have a root canal at the dentist, she had nine done all in one day. When I mentioned it to colleagues they said she makes stuff up like this all the time.
This is an extreme example of course of someone who has a mental health problem but I think that people who habitually lie to others also lie to themselves. They live in denial about all sorts of things they should face up to which messes up their life.
So whereas an occasional lie to smooth relationships is nothing to be embarrassed about I think habitually lying is changing reality in our own heads which stops us facing up to life and making the changes we need to make to be happy.
my mom especially had some go-to phrases that to this day echo in my head and piss me off.
things like, .
"don't get mad at me for enforcing the rules, because jehovah made them, so if you don't like it, you're disrespecting him.
My mum said she thought my older sisters would never go to school in 'this old system'. She's been gone 11 years and my eldest sister is a grandmother.
When I was about eight a school friend gave me a Christmas card. I was told I couldn't give her a card ' because it's pagan'. So I bought her a lovely new years card and was told that was pagan too. I had a WTF moment in my eight - year - old way and thought I'll never have friends!
Hang on to those WTF moments if you're a young person reading this. YOU ARE RIGHT THEY ARE CRAZY! Leave as soon as you can.
