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  Sparlock Drives My Wife to the Brink of Apostasy

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i reported the other night that we sat down to watch the new video, and while my wife was smiling and laughing while watching the first part, she stiffened and became quiet during part two.

  it disturbed her deeply:.

  "this is ridiculous.

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  Scully

  You consider me the young apprentice
  Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
  Hypnotized by you if I should linger
  Staring at the ring around your finger
  
  I have only come here seeking knowledge
  Things they would not teach me of in college
  I can see the destiny you sold
  Turned into a shining band of gold
  
  I'll be wrapped around your finger
  I'll be wrapped around your finger
  
  Mephistopheles is not your name
  I know what you're up to just the same
  I will listen hard to your 'tuition
  You will see it come to its fruition
  
  I'll be wrapped around your finger
  I'll be wrapped around your finger
  
  Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
  Vanish in the air you'll never find me
  I will turn your flesh to alabaster
  When you will find your servant is your master
  
  Ohhh, you'll be wrapped around my finger
  You'll be wrapped around my finger
  You'll be wrapped around my finger
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  Does the "Virgin Mary" God got me pregnant story sound fishy to you?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  joe : "your pregnant.....but how????".

  mary: {lights a cigrette and takes a puff} well....it's amazing, please just hear me out, an angel came to me and........".

  {10 minutes later}.

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  Scully

  Zeus used to go around impregnating virgins too, but nobody believes in Zeus anymore.
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  Are you up and down all night?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am - every hour or so - but last night i slept for 5 hours uninterrupted, and this despite 4 cups of coffee late afternoon.

  still can't account for what was for me tantamount to a full-night's sleep .... .

  do you sleep well most nights?.

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  Scully

  Occasionally I experience insomnia - shift work has a way of disrupting sleep cycles.

  I had to stop drinking coffee a few years ago as it was making insomnia even worse. Sometimes I take a sleep aid like melatonin or dramamine. I started listening to audiobooks (set the Sleep Mode to turn off after 15 minutes) and I usually fall asleep before Sleep Mode turns off the audiobook.

  I have strange dreams.
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  Moving to Canada from France

  by cdoc5c in

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  2. friends

  hi, .

  i am an ex jw and moving to canada tomorrow, montreal exactly, anybody around to meet up?

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  Scully

  iamallcool, smarten up. If someone doesn't understand French and really wants to know what laverité wrote, they can certainly copy and paste that small amount of text to Google Translate.

  Or they could politely ask laverité if he would mind posting a translation.

  Bienvenue, cdoc5c. S'il vous plaît ne pas tenir compte du chieur.
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  How Do You Deal With The Shunning You Receive From "Captive" Witnesses?

  by Bubblegum Apotheosis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am liking don's term "captive to a concept" more and more, it explains so much about the mindset of average dubs.. to those who are being activily shunned, how does it affect you when you see former friends and family, do the sideway's crab-walk to get away?

  you are not alone, shunning is happening to weaker witnesses in the congregations, this practice is not sanctioned by the watchtower society, this trait is straight from satan the devil, it pure evil and cruel!

  as i post, this new trait is being taught to the power player's apprentices, teaching them how to do the "weak witnesses exit stage left!

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  Scully

  The only flaws in her plan are that (a) the answers to those questions are none of her damn business and (b) you aren't allowed to just "find a different Kingdom Hall™ - you are expected to go to the Congregation™ based on your place of residence and the Congregation's™ Territory™.

  It's incredible that some people's hold on the attention of others is so tenuous that they must weed out any potential competition before they even arrive. I see this "questionnaire" as part of a narcissistic attention-seeking personality. She's like the Queen Bee and everyone around her does her bidding.
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  Thank you, Scully, regarding the "24-years thread."

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thanks, captain schmideo and scully.

  didn't want to hijack the thread on the wonderful new job offer.

  somehow this is what came to mind .... .

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  CoCo

  You flatter me, sir.
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  One brother told me in the past not to worry about resolving any conflicts in the congregation, he told me to concentrate on my spirituality.

  by Iamallcool in

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  is he an asshole?.

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  Scully

  He wants you to put personal conflicts aside and focus more on Meeting Attendance™ and Field Service™. He's trying to distract you.

  Think about it this way: What if you were someone he met while going Door-to-Door™, and you were telling him about being dissatisfied with your church because of personal conflicts within the congregation. Would he be singing the same tune? No, he'd be telling you that the conflicts within your church are evidence that the people there are not really Jesus' true disciples, and he would encourage you to leave your church and Study™ the bible with him.

  So, yes, he's an asshole, and he's a hypocrite.
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  After twenty four years of loyal service, I am about to commit treason...

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  2. friends

  of a sort.. i have been with the same company for 24 years, and the last 5 have not been very enjoyable for me.

  i like the owner of the company, but the management team is terrible, and the dept.

  i work in (tech service) is demoralized.

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  Scully

  I don't consider it treasonous to move to greener pastures. Twenty-four years of service is a long time, and being taken for granted is an unpleasant feeling. You have a tremendous amount of responsibility, and you are not being compensated fairly for your skills and experience, given the job market.

  Your employer will have lost a good employee, and he has nobody to blame but himself. Clearly he feels no loyalty to you by compensating you appropriately. (You do realize that the people who sit back and accept the we-can't-afford-to-give-raises excuse are perpetuating their own mistreatment, right??) You may be doing what the employer needs: giving him a kick in the butt and scaring him by costing him a valuable employee, one whose credentials make them attractive to other employers.

  If your current employer wants to have an exit interview (probably not), be honest and say that you gave the company a more than fair chance to do right by you, as far as fair compensation/training etc. goes, but you need to be thinking about your own future in terms of pension and such, and the new place made you an offer that you couldn't turn down. Say that you have no hard feelings, understand his economic constraints, and perhaps your leaving will allow him to more fairly compensate the people in similar positions to yours (again, he probably won't).
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  How I am like so many soldiers and gays...and you prob are too..."not that there is anything wrong with that"

  by oompa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been in quite a bit of therapy and was once on 6 psych meds at one time!...got off them too...but i took two psychiatric tests by two docs and they both diagnosed me with ptsd...like we think of with soldiers who have been traumatize and have trouble dealing with it....and there are certain triggers they may have to avoid...and yep my jw triggers are still right in my face everyday.... and if you don't think there is a reason many gays "stay in the closet" it is because they have sooooo much to lose by "coming out" sometimes....(just like us)...friends, family, jobs, prestiege, others respect....and not only that but they are part of the few that really "get it"............oompa.

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  Scully

  There's nothing that can destroy your soul more effectively than meanness of spirit / being inflicted with emotional pain by someone else for 'sport'. Make no mistake, the way JWs bully other JWs to climb to the top of the dogpile IS "sport" for them. There's a competitive spirit, a desire to be better than others, and a very creepy intrusiveness to find out what others' weaknesses are. They may pretend to be your friend as long as it is convenient for them and serves their interests, but once they are ready to move on, whatever intel they have about your shortcomings can be exposed without a second thought, as long as they can benefit from it.

  I believe lots of us former JWs have PTSD to some degree. It doesn't take much to trigger a terrible memory of our time within the JWs. I'd probably have committed suicide a long time ago if I hadn't left.
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  Funeral etiquette - Is crying allowed or seen as a lack of faith?

  by usualusername in

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  2. friends

  i have been to a few funerals and recalled that at many the cloest family members did not cry.. .

  ok cultures and a number of factors may explain that, but could crying mean you don't believe in the resurrection?.

  is it social compliance?.

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  Scully

  FWIW, I have never cried at a JW funeral. There was nothing of substance regarding the dearly departed, no eulogies were permitted, no memories of their real personalities were shared. Just a basic wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am notation of their years of service and responsibilities to the Organization™, then fast forward to the Infomercial.

  At normal funerals, it was all about celebrating and remembering the life of the person. Tears flowed freely and it was an emotionally fitting rite of passage.