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What made you stay "in" even when you knew it wasn't the "truth"?

by mentalclarity in

so i've been thinking a lot about why i stayed a jw for so long even though i had always had doubts about the doctrines.

i was born into the religion, left and came back as an adult for another decade.

some of the things that come to mind (besides the threat of shunning-and this isn't to minimize that very real threat) was:.

Rainbow_Troll

Doubtfully Yours
I have tried to mingle and find friendships outside of the JW sphere, but it's been totally uncomfortable and even disastrous at times.

I've had the same problem. Most younger people these days are addicts of one type or another. Worldly 'parties' typically consist of binge drinking and music that is so loud it makes conversation impossible. The majority of young people today are boorish and stupid for a number of reasons: They are suffering from various degrees of brain damage from drug abuse. Most of them were forced to attend shitty public schools that groomed them to despise learning and knowledge. Also, they have to work much harder than previous generations just to pay rent and, due to youthful sex hormones, what little leisure time they have left is spent chasing ass or raising their misbegotten progeny.

What I finally had to do was stop associating with people my own age and focus on the older generation. Most of my acquaintances are over 60 and I find I have a fairly good rapport with them in spite of the age gap. They've not only acquired a lifetime of knowledge and experience, but since their reproductive and working years are over, they now have plenty of time to think and learn.

Since older people don't sleep for very long (pituitary gland shrinks and produces less melatonin as you age) the best time to socialize with them is early in the morning; not too long after dawn. Go into any diner, coffee shop or even McDonald's at that time of day and you'll find plenty of potential friends to choose from. Since they are generally ignored by the younger generations, most of them will be very open to starting a conversation, even with a total stranger. If you persist, you might even get invited to some of their parties.

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What Did You Imagine Jehovah To Look Like?

by pale.emperor in

what did you imagine jehovah to look like?

i always pictured him like this:.

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Rainbow_Troll

A clean shaven white man with grey hair, eyebrows that were so bushy you couldn't tell whether his eyes were open or closed. He wore a powder blue-grey suit and never smiled. Instead of sitting on a golden throne in heaven, he preferred to look down on us from orbit, much like Superman does in his Fortress of Solitude, except that he wasn't there to protect you, rather he was looking for opportunities to smite you for the smallest of infractions.

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A woman wearing a head covering in subjugation of men - absolutely mental

by jambon1 in

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how did they ever get away with that and how does it go down now, in today's society?.

its fucking mental.

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Rainbow_Troll

If anyone wants to see how natural male dominance is, all they have to do is observe any playground scene. Who do you see calling the shots, girls or the boys? Which sex is more aggressive? Of course, socialization changes all that and a few years later most of those intrepid, ball-busting little girls will be looking down demurely at their pretty new white shoes, praying that the boy she pulled around by the hair in elementary school will be man enough to ask her out (Yuck!).

Men keep women down because we all know, instinctively, who the dominant sex is and they (not me) are terrified of what could happen if women ever figured it out. Fortunately for patriarchy, most new wave feminists love to play victim; which ensures they will never, ever get a chance to exercise power over any but the the most weak-willed, guilt-ridden middle class white males.

I know this is futile, but I feel compelled to say it anyways: Ladies, stop frelling around! You are not weaker than men. You are not even equal to us. Frell equality! Men don't want to be your equals. You either dominate us or we will dominate you; and if you let us dominate you, we will not only fulfill your deepest wishes to be a slave, we will humiliate you and treat you with the utmost disdain because we know you could have pawned us, but chose not too! A weakling who surrenders to a superior force is smart because all he is really doing is living to fight another day; but to be strong and surrender anyways because you don't know your own strength is stupid and contemptible.

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They should show this 2 minute video about 1975 at the convention

by LevelThePlayingField in

if only there was a way to hack in and play this.

:).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bmca1qdhho&feature=push-u&attr_tag=3yku113wrp-khxdt-6.

Rainbow_Troll

That's an awesome idea and if I get the chance, I will do it. I certainly have the technical skills and I am uncannily good at going about unnoticed.

My mom confessed to me when I shared my doubts with her that she left for about a year in the late seventies, but she didn't specify why; only said that she had doubts as well. When I learned about the '75 fiasco it was the proverbial light bulb going off in my brain. Before then I had always assumed that she had been stumbled by some other witness, but now I know that she knows the GB is fallible.. and chose to come crawling back to them anyways. The strange thing is that I don't think she did it over shunning; she really seems to believe the WT theology even though she knows they were wrong.

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What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

by Funchback in

there were many addressed to me.

for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

Rainbow_Troll

Masturbation increases your libido and makes it harder to resist the temptations of fornication.

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Bible pssssges that are immoral - Lot offering his virgin daughters to be gang raped by homosexual males

by jambon1 in

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tell me me more about your just & loving god..

Rainbow_Troll

Aren't you begging the question here? You're assuming rape and incest are wrong. But if Jehovah is the arbiter of what is moral and immoral, how could any act, no matter how much it might repulse you, be intrinsically wrong? Morality is relative... to Jehovah's absolute fiats.

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Satirical Animal Rights Comics

by Rainbow_Troll in

over twenty-two shocking species-swapping illustrations.

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it's true what the man from mars said: humans laugh so they don't have to cry....

Rainbow_Troll

Over Twenty-Two Shocking Species-Swapping Illustrations

It's true what the man from Mars said: humans laugh so they don't have to cry...

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Dealing with Loneliness and Social Anxiety

by NoviceLocs14 in

hello, this is my 1st initiated post on this site, so i'm a bit nervous.

i did search for similar topics on this site, but a lot of them have been inactive for several years, so here goes.... a little background, i was pretty much born in "da twoof", baptized at 17, pioneered for about 6 years, was part of the rbc part time, and was even in the foreign language field for the last 3 years i was a jw.

so i pretty much had a pretty active social life within the organization due to being part of all of those things.

Rainbow_Troll

Some of the more sincere JW kids never go through the teenage rebellion stage of drinking, drugging and having fun with the opposite sex; and so when we finally do rebel against the bOrg, we find ourselves as children in an adult world where everyone expects us to know the ropes. I believe the psychological term is 'arrested development'.

Yes, it's frustrating, and I don't have any easy answers. The obvious solution of simply going through a belated adolescent 'rebellion' may work for some, but I have personally found the joys of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll to be insipid and overrated at best. I only found peace by acknowledging to myself that I really had no genuine desire to grow up and fit into adult society. That, in fact, I like being an emotionally stunted adult with the mind of a ten year old. Instead of wishing you were someone else, try accepting yourself as you are; maybe that's who you're meant to be. It may be alienating, but alienation is often the price of authenticity.

And hey, you aren't the only kid out there who is stuck in an adult body. You'll have no trouble finding kindred spirits online or even in the real world if you know where to look. HINT: It won't be at a bar or a church function. Try coffee shops, sci-fi conventions, Subgenius devivals and other off-beat venues.

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Women finds frog in salad..

by James Mixon in

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ok the first thing that come to mind, how in the hell a frog make in through all the food handlers into a salad..but when you think about it i became a jw thinking a nice spiritual meal and i ended up with crap and no one warned me, there is something ugly in your organization.......the restaurant bj's w. covina ca.

one of my favorite restaurant....ktla.com/woman-finds-frog-in-salad-at-bjs-restaurant-in west-covina.

Rainbow_Troll

I would just pretend that it's a part of the salad. Say it's a French salad.

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What woke you up?

by MrRoboto in

for me, i think it was just the right time as i was starting to wake up on other fronts as well (anyone who had went through these will know what i mean).

but it started when i was looking for what info goes on a publisher card, which led to me reading one person's story (ex bethelite) which was pretty crazy to an all-in jw but who trusts those apostates...?.

then i started watching videos on cults, as if my subconscious was trying to tell my concord mind something... when i saw a particular one about a young man in lds getting ready to start their 2 year preaching campaign, including a school, social activities etc, i realized that i couldn't tell the difference between the folks of this mormon cult and the jws (save for some religious differences) .

Rainbow_Troll

Though I am now an atheist, what initially woke me up were certain mystical experiences I had as an adolescent that simply did not fit within Watchtower theology. Of course my mom and the elders thought I was demon-possessed, but after reading Evelyn Underhill's excellent survey of mysticism I realized that there was nothing demonic or even particularly 'mystical' about what I was experiencing. Eventually I realized that the traditional religious explanation for these altered states of consciousness was just a lot of unnecessary baggage that created more questions than it answered.

Oh, and there's also the fact that WT theology doesn't hold up to any serious scrutiny and that the Bible is a mass of historical and theological contradictions. The GB should really consider forbidding JWs from reading the Bible or even any WT literature that is more than a decade old.

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