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  How Suicidal Thoughts can take over your Life.

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. friends

  how suicidal thoughts can take over your life.. i lived most of my life thinking about suicide.

  i have clear memories when i was 8 years old thinking about what it would be like to die.

  i went to sleep every night of my young childhood saying the prayer:.

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  The religion prey's on anyone with low self-esteem and fuels the negativity that drive's people into self-loathing.

  When is it time to disconnect with loved ones? I think if they repeatedly bring you back into depression hell", or leave your head spinning for weeks after talking to them, it's a good idea to avoid them. In the last Hall I was in, we had a couple with seven kids who had no part of the religion. They had not talked to any of their kids in twenty years, out of seven kids, not one would talk with them! I will blame this on the parents who are self-righteous and refuse to visit their grand-kids who never knew them. It's the beauty of the cult, that shredds innocent grand kids from every seeing their grandpa and grandma, don't you think?

  I can only say what works for me, I avoid anyone (including family) that rob's me of my job or attempts to start touble. Life is short, big hearted people open themselves up to having their hearts ripped out, by those who are suppose to love them. I hope you can adjust your expectations with your daughters by not expecting anything from them, in time maybe they might see the "light'?

  keeping busy with art or helping with the community sounds like a good way to keep the overactive mind busy! God bless you Lady Lee!
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  When You Were A JW Were You Disturbed By "Apostate" Literature or "Apostates" At Conventions?

  by minimus in

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  i was always curious about what they had to say.

  (i guess i was an apostate in the making)..

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  The loud ones scared me as a child, remember how inculcated the young ones are.
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  How Suicidal Thoughts can take over your Life.

  by Lady Lee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how suicidal thoughts can take over your life.. i lived most of my life thinking about suicide.

  i have clear memories when i was 8 years old thinking about what it would be like to die.

  i went to sleep every night of my young childhood saying the prayer:.

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  Lady Lee you made yourself vulnerable for the sake of others on JWN, that's real love and compassion!

  Please accept my apologies for the atrocious conduct of your youngest one, it's her loss! God Bless you ladylee!
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  The VAT- please explain all about that tax to us in the USA

  by moshe in

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  2. current

  i am expecting a vat tax to become the solution to raise revenue in the usa- all the talk from both romney and obama has been holding the line on tax income tax rates-- so everyone will be blindsided by a vat tax..

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  How did the United States Federal Government fund their opperations pre-16th Admentment? (1913)

  Tarriffs, valued-added-taxes, played what type of rule in early United States Colonies? After the Revolutionary War, the war of 1812, income to fund Federal opperations came from what sources until the Civil War Act 1865 (I think)

  US has collected revenues longer from types of VATS than income taxes that came and went.
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  Annointed JW Website Responds to "New Light" on FDS

  by Eustace in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on october 7, 2012, we received the following comment and inquiries:.

  today there is a new post [on another website] commenting on the "new light" of the governing body about the identity of the "faithful discreet slave.

  " i think this "new light" from the governing body is intended to weaken the new stand of witnesses who are partaking in the emblems.

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  Different small churches use the Society's material to teach, easy access and even the Witnesses will brag the minister uses the Watchtower for Sunday services.

  The link has "C-U-L-T" all over it, if JWs are hard pressed to donate for Momma Org, they won't donate for a break-away cult leader!
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  Mark 3:5, "And he looked at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart..."

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is a quote from the book continue follow me:.

  15 we can be sure that the king is angry when he sees the lovelessness that prevails on the earth today.

  we might recall how the pharisees criticized jesus for performing cures on the sabbath.

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  I ask the question "What if all the Christians from 100 AD were replaced with modern day followers of the Watchtower Society?

  What if early Christians only displayed love to their congregation and ignored the plight of the rest of mankind?

  Would the Watchtower Society (christianity) fall into obsolescencia the way of the "Mystery Cults", Mithra cults that focused only on their own (if that) and left their fellow mankind to die?
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  Would a JC turned violent get any publicity or covered up?

  by Lied2NoMore in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  lets say you meet with a jc and in the midst of it you snap because you feel intimidated or bullied and start swinging chairs at the heads and limbs of elders and actually break bones or send one into a coma or worse accidentally kill one of them.

  you think they would press charges?

  think they would be advised by legal to keep it quiet to avoid negative publicity?

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  Violent elder meetings are covered up, i saw my share of tempers, slapping, hitting the walls, wrestling, diving over the oblong conference-table. It would be covered up, I saw things covered up from the highest levels.

  Hoser the PO or COBE is often backed by his cowards, anyone who reports his violence or obsense nature are asked to move. I watched five elders leave while the CO did nothing, giving donations are "get-out-of-jail cards" handed out to the highest bidder.

  You can slap your father in front of the entire elder body, and each elder when investigated by a "special judicial committe" says "I don't recall", or "I must have been sitting on the toilet". When you put a bully into the position of COBE, add a cowardly 2nd and 3rd, absolute congregation power exists!
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  In Jehovah's Witnesses- Elders Have Rights- other JW's Don't- 10/15 WT

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the 10/15 watchtower study edition on pg.

  12 is the article " what kind of spirit do you show ?

  " right away this article starts drawing the line of demarcation in the sand between who has the right to make decisions within jehovah's witnesses and who does not have the right to do so.

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  Constant reminders to evoke the condition response "Pavlov's dog", "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".

  The Watchtower tried this strategy with child-abuse (keep quite, don't rock the boat) and look where that lead them. Depression was ignored or denied from the 1940s to 1990s and even now, Watchtower and Awake have down played "depression", "bi-polar disorders" with insulting, weird quick fixes and quackery prescriptions of (field service for schizo's) to the detriment of their own sheep!

  The goal of the WTS is to keep the same amount coming in as are heading out the doors. The growth of publishers means nothing when you look at the revenue shortfall from donations. Something in the heart of the dub is not willing to sacrifice their hard earned funds, that might be fixed with a "tithe program", their badgering for money is not working.
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  MITT ROMNEY'S TAX PLAN EXPLAINED HERE!!!! :D

  by shamus100 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.romneytaxplan.com.

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  ziddinia are those maple leaves? I love trees, we don't have the decidious trees with the extreme color changes Fall brings with her. The Fall is when my Yemenese Etrogg Citrons are growing fast, not as large as this one. During the "Festival Of Boothes" I can get up to $25-$50 for a very large Yemen Etrogg Citron, they are rare in the United States. The Jews find this dry pulp fruit to bring them good luck and make candied rhine.

  
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  In Jehovah's Witnesses- Elders Have Rights- other JW's Don't- 10/15 WT

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the 10/15 watchtower study edition on pg.

  12 is the article " what kind of spirit do you show ?

  " right away this article starts drawing the line of demarcation in the sand between who has the right to make decisions within jehovah's witnesses and who does not have the right to do so.

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  Elder's are under the same pressure-cooker, elders are not to call their local traveling O on his malarky and sisters can't say "bull puckey" either, it's "trickle-down religion", the pent-up anger and rage and frustration are showered upon the lower men on the totom pole.

  I've seen my share of bullies come and go, causing friends to throw their book bags into the trash and never return to meetings. The Watchtower can keep telling themselves it's ok to keep holding the avereage dub down, eventually their going to pop and take a few people with them out the door.

  Flipper you witnessed this during your tour de organization, the WTS is having trouble keeping their sheep muzzled. The time for them to answer for their heavy-handed tactics is on the way out the door. I would enjoy seeing their "road map of continuity" for the hell of it. ty flipper for pointing this out!