While the following article deals with cults in a broad brush manner, the final section on helping cult victims cope with life after leaving is very practical, especially the self assessment review questions. I found it helpful to me.
Lost in the fog
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Helping Cult Victims Cope.
by Lost in the fog inwhile the following article deals with cults in a broad brush manner, the final section on helping cult victims cope with life after leaving is very practical, especially the self assessment review questions.
i found it helpful to me.
https://theness.com/index.php/the-prey-of-cults/.
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highlights from Circuit Overseer Guidelines
by neat blue dog ini just finished looking through the circuit overseer manual, so here are some highlights.
first up, regarding circuit assemblies:.
if a brother is so extremely overweight that others would be distracted if he had a part on the program, good judgment would need to be used in deciding whether to give him an assignment.
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Lost in the fog
The C.O.'s wife always used to operate the slide projector usually because she had seen the whole thing week after week.
Give it to an alert brother who since it is his first time will probably make a mess of it. I mean the ones in my old KH couldn't work the video machines and even had trouble selecting the right songs to start the meeting. UNLESS they were sabotaging the meetings I hadn't thought of that before!
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Disaster Relief
by Lost in the fog inhere is an organisation that addresses the global problems and does something about it.
it is a worthy cause in my opinion.
thinking of the aftermath of hurricane dorian.
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Lost in the fog
Here is an organisation that addresses the global problems and does something about it. It is a worthy cause in my opinion. Thinking of the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.
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Is this really what happens?
by Theonlyoneleft inhello guys,.
long time no see.
the other day i went out with my sister.
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This is sort of the reverse to that.
We were told of a person who moved into our housing estate and had a window cleaner come to do her windows. As he was putting out his ladders he banged his arm and came out with a few F**ks.
This woman was shocked and said "I didn't think Jehovah's Witnesses swore."
"I'm not a Jehovah's Witness," said the window cleaner.
"Really?" said the woman, "I was under the impression that you must be. In fact I thought virtually every window cleaner in the county was. Because all of the Jehovah's I have ever met clean windows when they are not out knocking doors."
True story.
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I am more concerned with my deteriorating health, and my poor finances. I just want to live a normal life for a few more years.
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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?
by blondie ini have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.
i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.
it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.
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If mental health alone led to violent gun crime it'd be seen as a global problem. Strangely it isn't.
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Overlapping Generations
by Lost in the fog inperhaps this explains why the gb have a fixation with time and chronology.
also why they keep their adherents in a prison away from the real world.
lol.
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Perhaps this explains why the GB have a fixation with time and chronology. Also why they keep their adherents in a prison away from the real world. Lol.
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-fear-of-time-2671776
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Don't count on witnessing Watchtower's demise anytime soon.
by Roger Kirkpatrick inthe fact that there are pomi ex-jws who have been disfellowshiped or inactive for years who still live in constant fear of armageddon indicates that watchtower will manage to exist in one way or another for years, if not decades, to come.
watchtower, like all other religious cults, operate on the premise that "you can fool some of the people all of the time...and that's enough!
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Slimboyfat,
But closing branches or bethels is not necessarily the same as selling the property. The one in Ireland ceased as a Bethel Home but is now used as a translation centre and a location for their new Kingdom Evangelisers training hub. The Bethelites have been thrown out onto the streets and the Bethel might have finished its role as the Ireland branch office but the building is still in use. Just saying.
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Refuting Russell and his Bible Students.
by Lost in the fog ini recently came across this reprinted book in a friend's library.
i hadn't seen it before, but it appears to be a refutation of the teachings of russell and also of the seventh day adventists.
some interesting logic is used by the author mainly around the bible chronology used by russell in his books.
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Lost in the fog
I recently came across this reprinted book in a friend's library. I hadn't seen it before, but it appears to be a refutation of the teachings of Russell and also of the Seventh Day Adventists. Some interesting logic is used by the author mainly around the Bible chronology used by Russell in his books. Even then he recognised the Bible Students were teaching falsehoods.
Interestingly (although elsewhere he says he is not being dogmatic but only suggesting) Mr Oppy concluded that the Kingdom of God would be established on the 20th day of September 1945.
I am attaching a couple of screenshots to whet your appetite if any of you want to look into it further.
https://archive.org/details/jehovahsfinished00oppy/page/6
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No 2019 Conventions in Ireland ?
by Phizzy ini may have got this wrong, but using the dreaded jw website, they seem to be directing the irish j.w's to go to birmingham in england this weekend.. is this correct ?
they always used to hold two conventions in ireland, are there none in 2019 ??.
probably the irish ones actually, truly, made a loss, but think of all the travelling, including a flight or sea ferry crossing if i am correct.
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Ireland already had its convention on the 2nd week of July. A time when the chosen hotel charges their highest summer rates and queues for food are literally out of the doors. I heard that if you went you had to take all your breakfast items off the buffet table at the same time, so by the time you got to your cooked breakfast it was stone cold. The hotel also I was told charge all children over the age of 2 as adult rates.
This is why a lot of Irish JWs find it cheaper to go to our English conventions in Newcastle, Manchester, and yes probably Birmingham, because even with the airfares added on it works out cheaper than what the WT has organised with one of the most expensive hotels in the Dublin area.