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  Does your PET require too much attention?!

  by Voices in

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  dude seriously........3am in the morning, my cat semone.....................meooow..............meooooooooooooooooow......meow......meeeeeeoooooooooooow.....meoooooooooooooooooooooooooow.........meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooow.

  and i gotta get up at 6?

  !i love this cat, but seriously.....3am .... .

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  I just spent a week watching my daughters 4 month old kitty and 2 dogs at her house while they went to Vegas..
  The cat slept all afternoon (as did the dogs) and she played all night..I could hear all kinds of activities while I was in bed. I heard her batting her jingle bell toys, her mouse squeakies and once in a while a small crash and I wondered what I would be getting up to in the morning. I just let her run..she has fun and I didn't lose any sleep over it.
  The dogs snoring is a different story..
  The one dog is trained (she trained herself) to ring the bells hanging on the front door when she wants out. She seems to know when it is 6:45 AM and rings the bell..

  I went and fed the kitty and by the time I was finished the doggie wanted back in and we all went back to sleep for another hour (including the worn out and fed kitty)

  I told my daughter about the playing before bedtime but it wound her up..made sense to me that it would wear her out..but it had the opposite effect.

  They are just programed to play at night I guess...

  Snoozy..who is glad she has no pets as much as she loves them..
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  Witnesses have gotten soft and spongy.

  by Paralipomenon in

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  thinking about witnesses in the past, when the witness work was banned, they went underground, continuing to meet and deliver tracts under cover of night.. all this due to their reasoning that they will obey cesar's law only when it doesn't conflict with god's commandments, such as "preach to all people".

  now we see the watchtower telling it's membership to respect "no trespassing" or "no solicitating" messages, as well as condo bylaws that prohibit door to door visits.. watching them bend more and more to comply with cesar's law to give up preaching so that they don't get fines.

  they've become more concerned with protecting their legal interests and money stockpile that the witness work is now more of a token activity to keep people busy.. one thing i don't know is, have they lightened up on phone witnesses with the introduction of the national do not call list?.

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  They can't get into my building without a key or a code ..so they sit in the parking lot and wait for victims..

  They have a sign saying it is private at the entrance of the condo's..but they ignored that. They also aren't allowed to park unless they have a permit on their window..or visiting a guest they know.

  Dingbats..

  Snoozy
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  Witnesses have gotten soft and spongy.

  by Paralipomenon in

  1. jw
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  thinking about witnesses in the past, when the witness work was banned, they went underground, continuing to meet and deliver tracts under cover of night.. all this due to their reasoning that they will obey cesar's law only when it doesn't conflict with god's commandments, such as "preach to all people".

  now we see the watchtower telling it's membership to respect "no trespassing" or "no solicitating" messages, as well as condo bylaws that prohibit door to door visits.. watching them bend more and more to comply with cesar's law to give up preaching so that they don't get fines.

  they've become more concerned with protecting their legal interests and money stockpile that the witness work is now more of a token activity to keep people busy.. one thing i don't know is, have they lightened up on phone witnesses with the introduction of the national do not call list?.

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  Snoozy

  Funny you should post this..I live in a secured condo and wondered how they can reach/try to brainwash those that live in them. Well I came home today after being gone a week and was unloading my car. I noticed a car had parked not to far away form me in the visitors parking space..they got out of their car and rushed up to me with magazines in hand..nicely spread out so I could see the titles and said" Would you like some magazines of (Not sure of word) Life or Light..
  That was a new approach to me..
  I said "NO thanks..I don't want any of that..."
  They almost ran back to their car and then continued to sit and wait for their next victim..

  I was thinking"What a easy way for them to get their time in"..

  First time in 3 years I have seen them. I think I saw someone making a return visit or going to a bible study one time as he had the little suitcase and the look..course he could have been a insurance agent..same thing right?..

  Snoozy
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  Witnesses Ban gambling using no Scriptures only stupid logic...it's greedy! What?

  by Witness 007 in

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  there is no scripture that ever said "thou shall not gamble.

  " the bible never mentions gambling.

  yet it's a disfellowshiping sin.

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  I went on our local gambling boat a few years ago with my JW hubby , even saw a few witnesses on there. It was funny watching them spit out their excuses when hubby would talk to them.. ..I guess they didn't read the articles on gambling or they did and were busted....

  "Do as I say, not as I do" would apply there I guess..

  Snoozy
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  March 2012 Awake- Why are JWs so angry?

  by serenitynow! in

  1. watchtower
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  well, that is what the title should say.

  it actually says, "why are people so angry?

  " i think it's funny because anytime i try to say anything to a jw that is not praising the f&ds and the org, i get nothing but anger from them.

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  off topic but Steve I find Freud fascinating...but do you think it is always true? (Projection)..

  According to Sigmund Freud, projection is a psychologicaldefense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else. 'Emotions or excitations which the ego tries to ward off are "spit out" and then felt as being outside the ego...perceived in another person'. [4] It is a common process. [5] The related defence of 'projective identification differs from projection in that the impulse projected onto an external object does not appear as something alien and distant from the ego because the connection of the self with that projected impulse continues'. [6]

  In one example of the process, a person might have thoughts of infidelity with respect to a spouse or other partner. Instead of dealing with these undesirable thoughts consciously, the subject unconsciously projects these feelings onto the other person, and begins to think that the other has thoughts of infidelity and that the other may be having an affair. In this way, the subject may obtain 'acquittal by his conscience - if he projects his own impulses to faithlessness on to the partner to whom he owes faith'. [7] In this sense, projection is related to denial, arguably the only more primitive defense mechanism than projection, which, like all defense mechanisms, provides a function whereby a person can protect the conscious mind from a feeling that is otherwise repulsive.

  Projection can also be established as a means of obtaining or justifying certain actions that would normally be found atrocious or heinous. This often means projecting false accusations, information, etc., onto an individual for the sole purpose of maintaining a self-created illusion. One of the many problems with the process whereby 'something dangerous that is felt inside can be moved outside - a process of "projection"' - is that as a result 'the projector may become somewhat depleted and rendered limp in character, as he loses part of his personality'. [8]

  Compartmentalization, splitting, and projection are ways that the ego continues to pretend that it is completely in control at all times, when in reality human experience is one of shifting instinctual reactivity and emotional motivation in which the "I" is not always complicit. Further, while engaged in projection, individuals can be unable to access truthful memories, intentions, and experiences, even about their own nature, as is common in deep trauma. [9]"

  I wonder if that's why the JW's are so suspicious of the world and negative in their speech ...?

  Snoozy(why did my words get so tiny?...
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  A letter arrived in the mail

  by truthseeker in

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  my wife received a letter in the mail from a jw she had known from school.

  we have seen this sister about twice in the last ten years; the last occasion was 4 years ago.

  she lives in another congregation a few miles away.. this sister heard that we had been "recently discouraged" - those were her words.

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  truthseeker, maybe they all think the other guy is calling on you..

  That's the excuse they used when my JW hubby was dying and no one was visiting him.

  In reality they were remodeling the Assembly hall for the overseer that was coming to visit and had to hurry to finish..when questioned they gave the excuse of the other guy..

  The assembly hall was less than 5 minutes away from us..

  Snoozy
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  Text message from a bro at the hall I got this morning as I woke

  by shakyground in

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  we miss you, hope to see you soon.

  your dad will be wondering where you are at the resurrection.

  love, bro.

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  shakyground..yours is a typical response..the JW's are so good at brainwashing they can make you feel like you are the one with a problem..only after you are out for a long while can you even hope to return to some sort of normalcy..

  Coming here and venting/questioning can really be benificial for those with family /friends still in the religion..the JW's can really do a number on you and coming here makes you realize it is all a brainwashing scheme..(many don't even realize they are being brainwashed). They also don't realize how very hateful and hurtful they are..

  Then you have those that use it to deliberately hurt people..

  Snoozy
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  Text message from a bro at the hall I got this morning as I woke

  by shakyground in

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  we miss you, hope to see you soon.

  your dad will be wondering where you are at the resurrection.

  love, bro.

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  Welcome pghdjmarty..
  That was very well said:

  Quote:Isn't the reason to be a JW is for the sanctification of Jehovah's name? If you're going to do it for selfish reasons, like seeing your loved one after Armageddon, you're not going to make it anyway."

  That was what I used to tell my jw hubby and his mom before he died. They used to tell me that my hubby would get a new wife in the new system if I didn't come back..I told them that would be selfish reasons for going back and not right according to what they teach..( I liked to say "What they teach" because just because they say it doesn't make it "The Truth".)

  Snoozy
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  More and more shunning going on?

  by Snoozy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it just me or does it seem like there are more posts about shunning than usual?.

  i take it that between the ex jw's and the internet the jw's are having a hard time holding on to their people.

  of course they don't want their people anywhere around someone that might wise them up to what the jw's are doing to them..striving to keep them as isolated as possible.. if that isn't a cult i don't know what is.. i feel so sad for family member that are going throught this and unable to be with their loved ones because of some idiot religion that seems to appeal to some ..it must fulfill some need in their life.

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  I think I have only really been shunned one time that I can remember. That was when I was disassociated and hubby was not regular and the grown kids had all went their way..

  JW Hubby's mom and dad were having a surprise anniversary party thrown for them by the people at their KH (they were both witnesses). Hubby's sister in NY decided that it was not a good idea for me to come and so consulted one of the brothers up there to go along with her decision. She called my hubby and uninvited me..said I may stumble someone if I come to the party..

  My hubby and the grown kids and their families and non jw aunts and uncles and cousins would still be going..even tho they had studied for years before leaving the religion they were never baptised.

  Since I had disassociated myself I would be the only one that would not be welcome.

  What was funny was I had received a invitation with my name on it a few days earlier as it seems no one at their hall had any problem with me going as I knew many of them from working on my JW MIL's farm and helping them.

  She was the only one that thought I may stumble someone..

  I might add that my hubby and the kids all refused to go if I couldn't..which surprised me.

  When we finally went up to his mom and dad's farm they asked why we didn't come..hubby told them. They just said 'Oh" and proceeded to tell us how nice it was and they had never had any kind of party like that before..then showed us some pictures and we went on about our business like it was no biggy..

  But it left a big impression on me and I haven't talked to them since hubby passed away.
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  More and more shunning going on?

  by Snoozy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it just me or does it seem like there are more posts about shunning than usual?.

  i take it that between the ex jw's and the internet the jw's are having a hard time holding on to their people.

  of course they don't want their people anywhere around someone that might wise them up to what the jw's are doing to them..striving to keep them as isolated as possible.. if that isn't a cult i don't know what is.. i feel so sad for family member that are going throught this and unable to be with their loved ones because of some idiot religion that seems to appeal to some ..it must fulfill some need in their life.

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  Talespin, I tried to approach her on the subject but she won't share with me..I do know she is into pain pills and has gambled on her lunch hour..and she does have vodka and 7 up almost if not everynight..so it could be anything. She does hold down a good job and makes very good money.. but the money goes somewhere besides on her biills..I tried to help her work out a budget but she doesn't want anyone to know what she does with her money. That way I figure she can suppport her addiction to whatever without anyone knowing....I cut her off because it was getting to be more and more each month..like she was seeing how much she could get..she always changed her stories of what she needed it for forgetting what she had told me before..

  Snoozy