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  Returning to the truth.

  by Justmeok2 in

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  hi i am just starting to rebuild my relationship with jehovah.

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  i would like to hear from people who may be or have been in similar situations and now want to dedicate their lives to him..

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  jp1692

  Justmeok2,

  If by "truth" you mean an absolute commitment to trying to objectively understand things as they really are using a scientific approach, then good for you.

  If, on the other hand, you are confusing the expression "the truth" with the religious organization known as Jehovah's Witness due to the way the WTBTS conflates the two terms, then that's not good. Not good at all.

  By the way, you should know that most cults, particularly religious ones, claim to be the sole possessor of "truth" to the exclusion of all others. With just a little thought you should be able to figure out how illogical that is.
  

  Truth is not a physical thing that any one or any group can possess exclusively, if at all. Also, if you or anyone else learns something that is true--even if you learn it from another person, a particular book, teacher or group--you will know that forever. There is no need to "return" anywhere or to anyone.

  Belief in invisible beings is a delusion, and it is one which is generally unhealthy.
  

  
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  New Cringe Worthy Music Video From July Broadcast

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the song is supposedly about marveling at god's creation but instead includes over the top adoration of the elders, conventions, and family worship.

  lol getting a brother who sounds like a wannabe josh groban only adds to the cheesiness.

  https://youtu.be/tzxf25gvs_m.

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  The male vocalist sounds like Phillip Ingram.

  He's a pretty well-known session singer and has done singing for the WTBTS before.
  
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  Homophobic "story" in June 2017 WT

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  Sam Herd is definitely obsessed with lesbians.

  I remember once about 15 years ago at an elders’ school Sam Herd went on-and-on about lesbians. He just kept ranting for about 1/2 an hour. It was completely off-topic and very bizarre. A friend of mine that was also there (and who coincidentally has also left the organization) talked about it with me afterwards. We were both like, “WTF was THAT all about!”
  

  While I understand labeling this kind of propaganda as “homophobic,” I actually think it’s more accurate to say the GB are obsessed with the subject because they are afraid of their own sexuality. I don’t know if there’s a specific psychological term for this other than sexually repressed. Steve2, any comments?
  

  Some of you might find this article from Psychology Today enlightening:
  

  • Sexual Repression: The Malady That Considers Itself the Remedy
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  How appealing is this?

  by Half banana in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  would you join a religion which says everyone who is not a member will be killed by god?.

  would you join a religion which you know that statistically if you stay in it long enough, there is a high chance that it will split your family apart?.

  would you join a religion which demands that you preach to your neighbours that they are soon going to die if they don’t believe your message?.

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  Would I? In fact I did, but it was only after joining that I began to discover the real truth about the cult known as Jehovah's Witnesses.

  “Nobody joins a cult. Nobody joins something they think is going to hurt them. You join a religious organization, you join a political movement. Most of all you join a group of people you really like!” These are the words of Deborah Layton on the PBS Home Video: “Jonestown” (copyright 2007).
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  Terrorist Attack in Paris

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  a car has struck a group of soldiers in paris, injuring six, two seriously, police say.. a large and urgent police operation is now under way to find the vehicle and driver involved in the incident in the north-western suburb of levallois-perret.. the local mayor, patrick balkany, said he had "no doubt" that it was a deliberate act.....

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  DOYKL: But then, we went to a train station to take a train to the south of France, and we boarded the train with our luggage, and no one asked for our tickets or even looked our way the whole time. We just got on and rode for 4 hours. Go figure.

  My wife and I thought exactly the same thing when we were on the Metro.
  
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  Terrorist Attack in Paris

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  a car has struck a group of soldiers in paris, injuring six, two seriously, police say.. a large and urgent police operation is now under way to find the vehicle and driver involved in the incident in the north-western suburb of levallois-perret.. the local mayor, patrick balkany, said he had "no doubt" that it was a deliberate act.....

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  I was in Paris last month and was really struck by the huge police presence, particularly around historic sites.

  One afternoon about 15:00, my wife and I witnessed a brawl of four or five men at the park adjacent to the Eiffel Tower. It was immediately broken up by about a dozen police which came running from several directions.

  There were at least a dozen police in full SWAT gear near the Arc de Triomphe. Many of the police officers had assault rifles. The Champs-Élysées was barricaded on both ends and every side with police checkpoints at every possible entrance of its entire 2km length. We were denied entrance because I had a bottle of 2014 Rothchild's Mouton Cadet. Who would have thought wine was contraband in Paris.

  The #1 Metro line, which runs under the Champs-Élysées, was closed. As a result, connecting lines were extremely overcrowded.
  

  The whole experience was very disappointing. But at least my wife and I survived unscathed.
  
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  A disturbing reaction.

  by longgone in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  earlier today i was listening to a you tube video about brain plasticity, how our minds aren't hardwired, and that by changing the way we think it can make actual physical changes in the brain.

  which is cool for many reasons.

  one in particular for me and likely any ex jw is that the way the wts has programmed us, especially those born in, can eventually get past it.

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  Longgone: Is this just me?

  No. It's not just you. What you experienced is called an indoctrinated phobia. It is the result of your experience in the JW cult.

  Those phrases "new personality" and "serve" are triggers for us that are ex-JWs.

  These induced phobias are difficult to overcome, but they can be by learning about them and by (ironically) engaging in mindfulness practices. The trick is to learn how to be mindful without getting pulled into another cult.

  You can do this. Learn to trust yourself. You need no one else.

  You're gonna be okay.
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  opportunity for fornication

  by road to nowhere in

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  2. beliefs

  ever see brother ugly who is 86 being taken to the doctor by sister frigid who is 65 and also not good looking?

  they have to have a chaperone or at least sit in back and front seats.

  or a man who can't bring the freezing daughter in the house when he stopped briefly by because hubby is not home.

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  Da-yum, I read the thread title and thought you wanted to hook up!
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  Jw mummies boys

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've had the misfortune to encounter quite a few mummies boys in the cult.

  men aged 20-40 who although in men's bodies think,act and behave like children.

  their mother's had them tied to the apron strings tightly.

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  It's tempting to blame the cult for everything that is wrong with every current and ex-JW. But that's not right. The fact is, there are a lot of messed up people in the world that never belonged to this or any other cult.

  What is important, and actually quite difficult to do, is to try and isolate personality and/or emotional problems that are specifically and uniquely caused by the experience of being in a high-control environment (cult), which for us on this forum is Jehovah's Witnesses.
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  So, would we call the GB our Uncles, Aunts, Sisters or Cousins???

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok, so try and follow me here.... according to jw doctrinal teachings, the gb are "christ's brothers".

  humans are all "god's children".

  so does that make the gb our "uncles"?.

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  I like referring to them as "hypocritical assholes" and "con-men."

  Although "religious frauds" also works.