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  Be effective or people will die

  by Odrade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my husband and i have been out of the org for quite some time, but still find that old ideas and values come up and bite us on the ass.. lately, i've been plagued by an increase in the frequency and severity of my nightmares (which have always been an issue,) so i've begun to dream journal.

  in just a few days, this realization cropped up.

  i can't save people.. i've been blogging again recently.

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  NeverKnew

  In my conversations with individuals in their 50's and 60's who were raised as JWs and left (w/o being baptised), they seem to have been adversely affected by the "fact" that the huge buildings they could see in the distance were going to be destroyed and all the non-jws were going to die. I have limited contact with JWs but the striking similarities of childhoods being affected by the fear of death that was going to befall non-JWs seems to be a common theme.

  I'm sure that my imagination of this type of childhood couldn't possibly create the physiological effects from which you suffer.

  I hate that you still suffer.
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  Australian cult leader - A former Jehovah's Witness

  by Hidden-Window in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a documentary states that this cult leader, who claims to be jesus, used to be "a jehovah's witness pastor".

  i guess they mean elder.

  does anybody from australia recognize him?.

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  NeverKnew

  Guess I should have been paying closer attention. Had it playing in the background and missed the JW connection. :(
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  Interesting conversation today with a very sick JW

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was talking to a jw friend of mine who is going for tests to see if she needs evasive surgery.

  she was describing to me the look on the surgeons face when she told him she won't except blood.

  i just felt sorry for her.

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  NeverKnew

  Welcome Myjourney. :)

  I started off with the vaccination policy quotes after a JW friend of mine insisited I get a flu shot. They weren't happy to see that. Moved onto organ transplant quotes and they were appalled. Somehow, they couldn't see the correlation between those misstatements and the potential for a doctrinal change in the blood policy.

  I was told, "Unlike those policies, the blood doctrine is scriptural."
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  A Non J-Dub paying a visit to KingDumb Hall!

  by J-DUBBED in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was thinking of doing a pop-in visit when they're doing their thing(what ever that might be).

  to just see what it is that lures and hooks people, like our son.

  i was worried there is some sort of subliminal messages in audio or video that start to brain-wash a person.

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  NeverKnew

  Once dunked, she was abandoned like nuclear waste.

  OUCH! That made me laugh... :)

  Actually, it feels kinda creepy to have people ask "where were you last Sunday, we missed you!"...

  "uh... you just met me once two weeks ago in a 30 second exchange. I didn't really feel that we had THAT kind of connection. Did you?"

  When and if you go, please pay attention to the spirits eminating from the children. All ages. That's what told the truth for me.
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  A Non J-Dub paying a visit to KingDumb Hall!

  by J-DUBBED in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was thinking of doing a pop-in visit when they're doing their thing(what ever that might be).

  to just see what it is that lures and hooks people, like our son.

  i was worried there is some sort of subliminal messages in audio or video that start to brain-wash a person.

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  NeverKnew

  I'm a non and never have been a jw observer. 😄 No need to tell them any more than you need to but THEY WILL ASK. My recommendation is to say that you are looking for a new "church"* and decided to be open and consider ALL denominations. That's it. End of story.

  i don't know how often you've attended church if at all. In mainstream churches, depending on congregation size, visitors are so commonplace there's no more greeting towards them than the regular adherents. In my experience in KHs, there are NO VISITORS. It's the oddest thing to me. All that walking around passing out literature and nobody is motivated to see what the fuss is about. SO, you will be such an anomaly that people WILL notice your existence.

  When you go, prepare to be insulted and know that you will have to forgive them... Several times.

  *Stay in your own terminology.
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  AUTISM and JW children

  by apostatekate in

  1. social
  2. family

  i was a jw kid.

  i remember having to sit still through long, boring meetings.

  i remember being taken to the book room for numerous spankings.

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  NeverKnew

  This was one of the things that struck me when I sat through a few meetings at the Kingdom Hall. I see children, but none speak. They don't even smile. The children look so... I think the word might be ...somber. It seems like women and children do not move except to walk to the bathroom and return.

  To be honest, seeing a child shift in his/her seat would make me see them as "normal." Making an autistic child sit through those meetings is unimaginable.
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  Why do self-righteous hypocritical people ...

  by hoser in

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  2. friends

  why is it that people who display self-righteous hypocritical behaviour are so blind as not to see what kind of people they really are?.

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  NeverKnew

  Just read this today...

  Generally, our judgment of others is an extension of self-judgment; and the self-judgment is so ingrained, so normal, we don’t even recognize it.
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  Fibroids UK.

  by quellycatface in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have just had a radiology appt where i was told i had fibroids.

  great.. i had a mirena coil fitted 2 months ago to control heavy and prolonged periods, suffering for about 14 months.. i wonder what my gp will suggest now??.

  i'm gutted.. thanks for listening.

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  NeverKnew

  Look to see if a uterine embolization is possible. Totally worth it.
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  "You have to find out her fears and exploit that. What is her worst fear?"

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  literally, a text message to my husband from one of his "friends".

  he also wrote, "it's in her hands.

  it's her move now.

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  NeverKnew

  Exploit your fears?...Cognac, can you imagine what HIS significant other would be dealing with? ... "Threaten to tell her parents?" Are you guys in your early 20's?

  With friends like that, your husband doesn't need enemies. Going through a divorce ain't easy whether you're the person in the right or wrong. Don't reduce your standards of right and wrong nor bow down to the same level of immaturity.
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  Dallas-Ft Worth Fox 4 News TV Report about six kids molested by JW elders

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n4mb_owtpq&list=uuruqg25yvbppuwjza8alyza.

  fox 4 news is a fox-owned station serving dallas-fort worth and all of north texas.. .

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  NeverKnew

  "...because this particular faith requires that there must be at least two people to attest to an incident ...there was never an internal investigation."

  Six kids and nobody followed up.