i came across an xjw post on redditt from a rn.
she states that nearly every jw she ever treated was on anti-depressants or anti-psychotic drugs:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f35vaa/just_about_every_jw_i_come_across_is_on/ i once read somewhere that 1 in 5 jw's were on anti-depressants, but i couldn't find any documentation.
I rephrase from:
- you have to control your words because if you express a personal idea in contrast with the religion you risk a judicial committee, disfellowshipping, and shunning;
to:
- you have to keep controlling your actions and words because if they are contrasting the religion you will risk a judicial committee, being disfellowshipped, and being shunned;
i came across an xjw post on redditt from a rn.
she states that nearly every jw she ever treated was on anti-depressants or anti-psychotic drugs:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f35vaa/just_about_every_jw_i_come_across_is_on/ i once read somewhere that 1 in 5 jw's were on anti-depressants, but i couldn't find any documentation.
I would not be surprised since you are regularly and constantly (at least twice a week) reminded that:
- you are mortal because of Adam and Eve;
- you have to suffer all life, missing your goals and making mistakes being imperfect, because of Adam and Eve;
- you are under daily attack by Satan and demons, perfect spiritual creatures more powerful than you;
- you have to be ready to be persecuted to death if needed as a martyr;
- you have to be ready to die avoiding a blood transfusion;
- you have to prepare an emergency bag, keeping it updated and being ready to escape;
- you have to ring door bells of angry people who could even attack you physically;
- you have to control your words because if you express a personal idea in contrast with the religion you risk a judicial committee, disfellowshipping, and shunning;
- you have to be ready to go through a great tribulation never experienced before;
- after one thousand years of paradise still in imperfect conditions, you have to pass a final test where the number of rebels (who could be your family members, relatives, friends you made in the meanwhile, etc.) will be as the sand of the sea...
Do I forget anything?
Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety... Which leads to depression, depression, depression...
mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.
at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.
single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.
https://philippfusz.com/about-me/
Is that him who wrote a book as well?
(source: https://avoidjw.org/news/killing-spree-kingdom-hall-jehovah-s-witnesses/)
i remember having read somewhere, but i cannot find it anymore, that it is possible to debunk the 1914 calculus using only jw publications, like "insight on the scriptures" (chronologies) for example.. do you have any sources about that to suggest to me?.
thanks..
I remember having read somewhere, but I cannot find it anymore, that it is possible to debunk the 1914 calculus using ONLY JW publications, like "Insight on the Scriptures" (chronologies) for example.
Do you have any sources about that to suggest to me?
Thanks.
i am a pimo, inactive, parent of an underage child.
i was wondering what rights i have in regards to avoid that my child will be baptized when still underage, not having read the entire bible and before being able to clearly evaluate all the alternatives and consequences (like it happened to me) whereas the other pimi parent has all the rights to do it.
any experiences about children in a pimi vs pimo parents situation?
I am a PIMO, inactive, parent of an underage child.
I was wondering what rights I have in regards to avoid that my child will be baptized when still underage, not having read the entire Bible and before being able to clearly evaluate all the alternatives and consequences (like it happened to me) whereas the other PIMI parent has all the rights to do it.
Any experiences about children in a PIMI vs PIMO parents situation?
Thanks.
after creating the first human couple, god had 100% of not submitted human creatures (0 out of 2).at the time of the flood, he had 99,9% of not submitted human creatures (8 out of thousands if not even more).. nowadays, he has 99,9% of not submitted human creatures (8 millions jws out of 8 billions humans).. but he is considered a "good" god or father of his human creatures: why then is having submitted children a requirement for christians or for being considered "good" parents as jws?.
i mean: if he does not have more than 0,1% of submitted humans, how could i do better?
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After creating the first human couple, God had 100% of not submitted human creatures (0 out of 2).
At the time of the Flood, He had 99,9% of not submitted human creatures (8 out of thousands if not even more).
Nowadays, He has 99,9% of not submitted human creatures (8 millions JWs out of 8 billions humans).
But He is considered a "good" God or Father of His human creatures: why then is having submitted children a requirement for Christians or for being considered "good" parents as JWs?
I mean: if He does not have more than 0,1% of submitted humans, how could I do better?
2022 december s-147 announcements and reminders.. without all the high-lighting.
a clean copy.
the other copy was a bit hard to read.page 1.----https://postimg.cc/jh8xchtypage 2.----https://postimg.cc/2bkb1n3v also, you might want this kingdom ministry school program for congregation elders.page 1.----https://postimg.cc/3k3t58qgpage 2.----https://postimg.cc/bj7wyjfzpage 3.----https://postimg.cc/ywpqh4xxcookie thief!
Thank you! 🍺🍺🍺
being born-in and raised as one of jehovah's witnesses i remember a common theme or phrases used by the watchtower in its theory of why things are the way they are -.
jehovah created humans.
jehovah created humans as free moral agents.
It is still difficult for me to think about mind equals brain in terms of physical causes-effects.
In physics a cause, like electricity presence, produces an effect, like a light on or an engine movement.
Whereas, the absence of electricity produces another effect, like a light off or an engine not moving.
In the brain, an effect like a psysical movement of an arm is produced by an electro-chemical stimulus (the mind thought "I move my arm"). But an effect like an arm not moving is still produced by an electro-chemical stimulus (the mind thought "I do not move my arm" or "I (just) think of moving my arm without doing it").
In the latest case, think about the thought "imagine a pink elephant" which should correspond to the electro-chemical state X (visualisation of a pink elephant) and then think about the thought "do not imagine a pink elephant" which should still correspond to the electro-chemical state X (visualisation of a pink elephant), because it is impossible not to think about a pink elephant without thinking it...
being born-in and raised as one of jehovah's witnesses i remember a common theme or phrases used by the watchtower in its theory of why things are the way they are -.
jehovah created humans.
jehovah created humans as free moral agents.
It depends...
We have different schools and paradigms both in Psychology and Philosophy.
One of this is: our mind equals our brain. In this way you could think and reason in terms of our "psysical" universe and accordingly Neurology equals Psychology and Psychiatry.
But the psysical explanation of the mind (that equals the brain) does not explain other fenomena.
For example, a thought (something we cannot explain psysically) can move an arm (something physical). This means that we could have physical effects from not psysical causes...
Other examples are optical illusions and the stroboscopic movement. In the first case, our mind sees what psysically is not in the stimulus that the brain receives. In the second case, the mind perceives a movement where there is not psysical movement in the stimulus that the brain receives. In these cases, you could consider the results or effects like more than the simple sum of the single parts of the perceveid psysical universe concluding that mind and brain are not exactly the same thing...
Quite complicated... 😊
2022-08-09-announcement.. click image to enlarge.. .
https://postimg.cc/th27pzyh.
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How could the publishers know that "no one should feel pressured to partecipate in any specific method of preaching" since this sentence will not be announced?
