Excellent article, Lee Elder.
Would you mind sending me a PM and in that PM giving me a safe email address for you, so I may ask you a question?
Thank you!
LoisLane looking for Superman
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My Story
by Lee Elder inthis is the first of a multi-part article that tells my story, and how ajwrb got started.. https://www.openmindsfoundation.org/saving-thousand-lives-year-reform-watchtowers-policy-blood-transfusions-part-one/.
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Pale.Emperor And The Hypnotists
by pale.emperor ineven as a jw i was fascinated with hypnosis and seeing people like derren brown putting people under almost instantly.
in the last 2/3 years when i was a jw but beginning to wake up from the bullshit i read up on hypnosis, watched a few youtube demos and explanations etc.
but never actually studied it seriously until about a year ago.
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LoisLane looking for Superman
Hi PaleEmperor, I received your PM BUT I cannot answer any. I haven't been able to answer any PM's for 6 months. I can read but not answer back. Sorry.
I have an important question to ask you but I need an email address from you to ask it.
I hope you don't mind but this is the only way I am allowed at this time...
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Pale.Emperor And The Hypnotists
by pale.emperor ineven as a jw i was fascinated with hypnosis and seeing people like derren brown putting people under almost instantly.
in the last 2/3 years when i was a jw but beginning to wake up from the bullshit i read up on hypnosis, watched a few youtube demos and explanations etc.
but never actually studied it seriously until about a year ago.
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LoisLane looking for Superman
Pale I would like to ask you an important question but in private. I can read PM's sent to me but I cannot send any PM's back from this site, so, would you be so kind as to PM me here with a safe email address of yours, so that I might converse privately with you?
Thanking you in advance.
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Translating accurately is really f*&%$ing hard!
by TTWSYF ini wanted to relay an example that i heard about translating difficulties.
take the 5 word phrase.
"i didn't eat your sandwich".
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LoisLane looking for Superman
David_Jay and everyone else in Nature's Path. Please stay safe!
Big hugs of concern for all!
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The Dub At My Door (is back for Return Visit)
by TerryWalstrom inthe dub at my door ___________________i’d rather have a root canal than agree to a sit down with an active jehovah’s witness.i’m an ex-jw.
for good reason.
fool me once....i’m an activist and an author of a book or two exposing and vilifying the destructive jw cult organization.yet i agreed.
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LoisLane looking for Superman
This was interesting to read about your return visit and how you set a predetermined trap for him.
To help him in his reasoning, you got him off of what he thinks he knows (automatic robotic answer learned through high controlled meetings) to start to think outside the box.
Brilliant!
PS I have no idea who would give you a thumbs down. If I could give you a thumbs up, I would. Looking forward to reading about your next RV with this fellow, and hopeful for him, that he does return.
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Counter-protests to Free Speech Rally in Boston
by Anony Mous ini never thought i would see that in the us, a "free speech rally" (which has distanced itself from and organizers have nothing at all to do with the right, republicans or extremism) is being counter protested by thousands in boston today, the counter protests being organized by a coalition of black supremacists and sjw's.. on the other hand, google is building a database of speech that doesn't align with the left-wing political values.. i'm not sure what youngsters are thinking these days, but free speech used to be the cornerstone of american civilizations only a few decades ago.
the only way to drown out "bad" free speech is more free speech..
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LoisLane looking for Superman
@hothabanero: Can you summarize the Professor at the University of Toronto's video? I only have time to watch 10 minutes. He sounded very sincere. He was trying to make some sound points. Can you tell us what those are please?
Thank you.
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I wish I had not gone to the meeting last night
by stillin inthe first thing i saw when i went in was the two video screens having the watchtower singers chorus doing a number.
the sound wasn't up enough to make out the song, but the video was grotesque.
the singers were swaying to the music, all independent of each other, no discipline, actually sloppy-looking.
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LoisLane looking for Superman
@stuckinarut2: In hind site, looking back at what was happening at KHalls I attended and visited as husband gave talks all around is that maybe 1/2 or less are real Believers. Possibly only 1/4. (It is all debatable, yes, of course). I think there are more people sitting at the KHalls that would leave in a New York minute if they could leave without losing loved ones and friends and or inheritance.
No one who is staying in for the above reasons is going to jeopardize their loved ones, friends or inheritance by doing eye rolls during any part of a WT/JW..org meeting. They will nod their heads and act like they need to. They will clap at conventions. They will say the meetings are great. They will say the convention is the best one ever. They will say and do what they need to do. They are caught in a trap. WT/JW..org knows this. Ultimately, WT/JW..org wants people to sacrifice their life and money... to them.
It is hard to hear about how this religion has changed so drastically in just a few years. What hypocrites they all are! Penecostal "up beat" music? Swaying and clapping? Sounds like WT/JW..org is going the way of American mega churches... to rake in the money from poor innocents that are not educated to question anyone or anything. They are just mere slaves, doing what their human master thinks up and tells them to do. Disgusting on GB/WT/JW..org's part.
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Chapter 18 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower Slave
by new boy inchapter 18. my privilege of service.
it was moved there in the spring of 1969 from the basement of the 124. why is it that people like to put laundries in basements?
the 119 was the newest of all the society’s properties.
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LoisLane looking for Superman
new boy, This has been a hard read but also a very important one. You were subjected to a slave labor camp. I can't help but think WT/JW..org puts you into a Stockholm Syndrome situation. Your family, friends and congregation think, wow, so-in-so made it to Bethel! But no one really tells you what happens there. Once you are there they tell you to write home about your field service or the weather, but never talk about The Home. You experience the abuse first hand and told to keep your mouth shut. All of this strict, structured, Bethel life, must give people PTSD.
Thank you for defying WT/JW..org rules and telling us about how life really was at Bethell.
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A Short Life Story - Part 4 (Finale)
by pale.emperor ina continuation from part 3, which is here: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4807117397557248/short-life-story-part-3#!#4918071166763008.
my wife had settled into a routine of waking up at 6am each day, cleaning (so no chance of a lie in for me or our daughter with the vacuum cleaner going), eating very little, picking the skin off her lips while she sits there in a trance obsessing over things that are out of our control and dont matter anyway.
she never did return to work.
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LoisLane looking for Superman
So happy you are free!
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LoisLane looking for Superman
Of ALL the names that WT/JW..org writers could come up with, why would they use the name Rose, in this context?
In the movie "Citizen Kane", the writer has the male lead playing a fictional William Randolph Hearst. In it, he has this character use the word "Rose Bud" as his pet name for his mistress, Marion Davies.
Inquiring minds wanted to know? What does Rose Bud mean???
Do other adults need to draw a picture for you?