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  I want to understand violence

  by Chook in

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  tell me your thoughts ?.

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  Tell me your thoughts ?
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  Whats changed since you were baptized????

  by karter in

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  i was baptized in 1986.. 2 generation changes..

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  I go to toilet more during the night. Also I realise that no person ever really knows another person until they have to live with them.
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  My thoughts on our online community.

  by The Rebel in

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  i will start this o.p by a review of the mental conditioni i find many former or current witnesses at when they join the board :-.

  1. broken relationships.. 2. lonliness/ depression.

  3. guilt / shame .

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  We are just damaged sheep, we all have been half slaughtered emotionally from the cult. If I think I can speak for most even though I haven't been here long , is that people as a rule do what they want. It's just some people take longer to break free from different control factors. All victims of a war zone have some emotional damage .Ours was a religious war ( we all remember the pictures in the old revelation book ). In conclusion we are all united in our unique religious torment from a slick book publishing company turned realestate mogel.
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  Moving to warwick: 1 Billion dollars in profits so far.

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  2. scandals

  at one point, the witnesses held 4.5 million square feet over 30 buildings.

  they’re down to nine buildings, having made about $1.25 billion on staggered sales since 2004, according to the co.. http://therealdeal.com/2016/09/22/the-secret-to-jehovahs-witnesses-real-estate-success-maintenance-and-patience/.

  warwick is 1.6 million square-foot.

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  With a billion bucks they could buy a decent remote island invite the whole brotherhood there, with free labour they could build housing and every other comfort that communities need, buy uniforms with badges for the elders, introduce there Judical system and save the world of heart ache and of being woken Saturday mornings .DFing can be a public execution, similar to ISIS , there's plenty of bible zealot execution examples for this loving brotherhood.
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  When you were fully in, would you lie about how loving your congregation was?

  by TTWSYF in

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  2. scandals

  not long ago my elder brother got very sick.

  he was hospitalized for a few weeks and his jw wife and children were at his side often.

  also, his non jw family was also bedside with him, siblings and parents.. his recollection involves asking us "don't you remember all the jws that came visiting me when i was sick?".

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  The whole problem with the " is the cong loving" is , that their version of love never extends to the general population. If you only have friends in one social group , of course that is the only place you may experience love. Real love exists outside of the org. The good man was right when he said more happiness in giving.
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  RIP dad, who introduced me to this fairytail of everlastin life and paradise :(

  by Frezia in

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  2. friends

  less than 5 hours ago my great dad fell asleep the last time :( still in a bit of a shock and sad that i will not see him again...i promised myself that once he is here no more, i will somehow make my move out of this organisation who kept us all captive believing in a fantasy of an everlasting life :( i am in a tricky situation, since raised as jw, still in, married to an active jw, and pretty sure that all in my social and family circle will turn their backs on me if i finally say goodbye to a fairytail ;(.

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  Our thoughts are with you in this darkest hour. All freedoms come at a price.
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  Has anyone here run for a political office now that they are out of Jws ?

  by troubled mind in

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  i am thinking of running for alderman on my city council .

  the mayor had a meeting with me yesterday and is anxious to replace the alderman in my ward .

  she liked what i had to say at a council meeting a few weeks ago during public comments .

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  In Australia they had this absolute crazy xjw who had never been linched(DF). This man had been in loonie hospitals ,I knew his sons. This happened in the 80s first thing he did was he rang Rolls Royce in Britain and impersonated as a leader at bethel and ordered a brand new roller for our dearest brothers, the craziest thing about the story is that Rolls Royce actually sent one to Sydney. Second mad thing this guy did was he ran for local election with a placard that read local representative of Jehovah's Witness.
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  "Coping with Shunning" by Barbara Anderson

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://watchtowerdocuments.org/coping-with-shunning/.

  by barbara anderson.

  when my husband and i left the religion of jehovah’s witnesses (jws), we, like countless others, lost family members and friends because of the witnesses shunning doctrine.

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  If I ever met anyone in the ministry who was really angry with JWs it was always followed by the accusation that we broke up families. The WT wrecking of families will be and is its legacy. I just hope your son resumes family ties before you or your husband pass. I've read stories where cult affected children only leave after death of parents and the emotional guilt trips are nearly to traumatic for them to cope with .

  When a " wordly" person hears about how some children don't attend funerals of parents, they in their wildest dream can't work out the reason any child wouldn't show final respects.
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  The control of humans

  by Chook in

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  every relationship, every government ,every religion , the application of different control factors always take place.

  are we as human adverse to this control factor or is rebellion a part of our make up?

  can someone ever be free from some control?

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  Every relationship, every government ,every religion , the application of different control factors ALWAYS take place. Are we as human adverse to this control factor or is rebellion a part of our make up? Can someone ever be free from some control? I know we can control our heart beat to a certain degree walk fast speeds it up ,rest slows it, jump off tall building stop it. It's just that I was thinking ( which is dangerous) not to many activities don't have a control factor.