Having your life programmed by the WTS is like being in a play and saying the same lines for your character over and over day after day with the firm assurance of outcome at the end.
It's all laid out for you.
Groundhog Day writ large.
TerryWalstrom
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Self Exam for your Mind: Are you really "Free" from Watchtower mentality?
by TerryWalstrom inimagine a knock at the door.who is there?it is an optometrist offering free eye exams!come in--come in.within months, you're wearing a new pair of specially prescribed glasses...and seeing things differently.____.
jehovah's witnesses wear "those" glasses.we all wore them.the lenses colored what we saw and the feedback from the governing body "explained" why things didn't look the same.
"only now--are you seeing the truth," they whisper.. _____.
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Self Exam for your Mind: Are you really "Free" from Watchtower mentality?
by TerryWalstrom inimagine a knock at the door.who is there?it is an optometrist offering free eye exams!come in--come in.within months, you're wearing a new pair of specially prescribed glasses...and seeing things differently.____.
jehovah's witnesses wear "those" glasses.we all wore them.the lenses colored what we saw and the feedback from the governing body "explained" why things didn't look the same.
"only now--are you seeing the truth," they whisper.. _____.
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I forgot to mention, I've known several people (well, 3 at least) who disavowed Watchtower living, then-- went out and wrecked their lives because they had zero idea how to make practical personal decisions.
One of those persons was my first wife.
Slightly off-topic, but relevant...
During the time JoAnn was going off the rails, no JW visited her and tried to set her back on course.
No effort was made to sit her down with a Judicial Committee.
No effort was made to DF her.
It is my personal opinion that she never CONSCIOUSLY intended to NOT be a JW. She had been rattled by the failure of 1975 and lost faith.
Consequently, without an alternate strategy and with no confidantes to advise her--she died in a chase with the cops, drunk at the wheel. (Her driver's license had been suspended. -
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Self Exam for your Mind: Are you really "Free" from Watchtower mentality?
by TerryWalstrom inimagine a knock at the door.who is there?it is an optometrist offering free eye exams!come in--come in.within months, you're wearing a new pair of specially prescribed glasses...and seeing things differently.____.
jehovah's witnesses wear "those" glasses.we all wore them.the lenses colored what we saw and the feedback from the governing body "explained" why things didn't look the same.
"only now--are you seeing the truth," they whisper.. _____.
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Damn! I've been hacked.
Can I un-hack the hack?
Neurotic means life isn't working because of _____.
You wash your hands too much.
You start arguments.
You are hoarding.
You are superstitious. You make excuses. Blah blah blah.
I become a friend to the man I wish to be.
My JW self is an injured person on the side of the road.
My efforts are guided toward kindness, healing, and restoration.
Each day, I select an important vocabulary word.
I write down what the JW Terry would say followed what
the best new version of ideal Terry would say.
If I leave this world a better place through individual acts of kindness, I am part of the healing and not the wounding of mankind.
I learn to identify others as persons, NOT categorizing them in group Identities or attributing characteristics of a collective to unique individuals.
I avoid Politics.
I don't join movements.
I've proven in the past, I am a god-a-holic.
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Self Exam for your Mind: Are you really "Free" from Watchtower mentality?
by TerryWalstrom inimagine a knock at the door.who is there?it is an optometrist offering free eye exams!come in--come in.within months, you're wearing a new pair of specially prescribed glasses...and seeing things differently.____.
jehovah's witnesses wear "those" glasses.we all wore them.the lenses colored what we saw and the feedback from the governing body "explained" why things didn't look the same.
"only now--are you seeing the truth," they whisper.. _____.
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Imagine a knock at the door.
Who is there?
It is an Optometrist offering free eye exams!
Come in--come in.
Within months, you're wearing a new pair of specially prescribed glasses...and SEEING THINGS DIFFERENTLY.
____Jehovah's Witnesses wear "those" glasses.
WE ALL wore them.
The lenses colored what we saw and the feedback from the Governing Body "explained" why things didn't look the same.
"Only NOW--are you seeing the Truth," they whisper._____
Hang on to that analogy for a moment or two, okay?
We didn't just get glasses.
We were hypnotized and told to do something as ridiculous as
"Quack like a duck".
Except--it wasn't all in fun as entertainment.
No.
We were hypnotized and told lies about ourselves and our entire world.
The quacking wasn't animal noises--it was propaganda messages.
We were transformed into a kind of Pizza delivery service of weaponized "Jehovah-flavored" meals.
The meals were laced with mind-altering ingredients!
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Still with me?
____Until we "woke up" and found our life down around our ankles, that hypnotic trance hijacked everything we are and everybody we know.
ARE WE AWAKE--really awake now?
DID WE REMOVE those glasses prescribed by the GB?
Have you ever been asleep and dreamed you were awake?
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This may be the most important question you'll ever answer.
_____I was hypnotized at a party once--for fun. In my head--I was just "going along with the gag" and "pretending" to be hypnotized.
Guess what?
That tiny surrender IS hypnosis.
You give yourself a reason for quacking like a duck.
Then--you "wake up" and people are laughing. At YOU.What just happened?
Every time you hear the word "elbow" you start quacking again!
(Post-hypnotic suggestion.)I am NOT a believer in hypnosis but that didn't save me
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______What is the point of my story?
Here it is. Ready for it?We don't EASILY escape!
We may still be wearing those glasses.
We may still feel an uncontrollable urge to "quack."_____
Is there an EXAM for that?Here is a quick one I made for myself.
It's up to you whether you use it and how you feel about it.
_____SELF EXAM
1. Do you see the world in terms of Good and Evil, Friend or Foe?
Either this or that?
Or is there a whole lot of grayscale in everyday life?
Or is there a color spectrum?2. Do you still wonder what the Bible "really means?"
Do you find yourself plunging into debates?
Are you intrigued by conspiracy theories?
Have you wandered off into fringe areas and discussions?3. Have you substituted Political beliefs for religious obsessions?
Do you argue for your side and damn the rest?
Find yourself regarding different viewpoints as "stupid"?4. Are you able to relax and enjoy a day to day life or do you feel compelled to pick at troubles, making complications, puzzling at mysteries
constantly?
Do you Pray? Chant? Mumble?:)5. If somebody asks you, "What do you believe?" What is the urgency of your emotional response?
Is it defensive or casual?
Are your personal opinions robust or measured and relaxed?6. Do find yourself challenging the opinions of other people with a slightly unfriendly tone?
Or can you allow the views of others to wash over you without strong emotions...live and let live?7. Do you find yourself asking the question:
"But what if JW's really DO have "the Truth?"8. Have you found a new central source of information?
A guru? An expert? A spiritual advisor?
Or do you perform wide-ranging skeptical inquiry from a great many sources?____
The answers you now give might be red flags.You may still be wearing those glasses!
You may still be offering a "Quack"!I leave you with this one thought:
The same brain that got you into a Kingdom Hall in the first place does not magically disappear with a fresh, reboot automatically.
No.
The Jehovah's Witness way of seeing the world REMAINS until you do the work to clean out the cobwebs, dust, dirt, grime and spider's eggs.Life doesn't come with an Owner's Manual.
Nobody has all the answers.____
(Self-examination takes years of effort. After all, it is your MIND doing the inspection of...ITSELF!)
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And now for something you might be able to hear without repulsion
by TerryWalstrom ini won't give a long preamble other than to say this.
listen and see how you respond.
and now i'm passing it along to get your feedback.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28i3lwxw5xs.
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"Brilliant" as to strategy.
Newman's technique is a weaponized mischaracterization.
"The sun is shining and it is a beautiful day" becomes
"So you're saying those of us who enjoy night time are deluded fools?"
1. The interviewee is seen to be gobsmacked AS IF guilty and fumbling to cover their ass.
2. The interviewee is put on the defensive (a bad place to be.)
3. The interviewee can't move on until the fires lit in his communication are put out.4. A constant barrage of separate questions lights new wildfires leaving the interviewee scrambling.
In other words, it is a shooting gallery and not an interview.
SJW's watching this assassination are on Newman's side already; waiting to view any pushback as aggression.CULTURAL MARXISM is upon us and has been for decades
The people who are fighting it are being marked by people like Cathy Newman. That's her ideology at work. Divide and conquer.
https://archive.org/stream/FreudianTheoryAndThePatternOfFascistPropagandaByTheodorW.Adorno24/A%20Brief%20History%20of%20%20Cultural%20Marxism%20and%20Political%20Correctness%20%20Jefrey%20D.%20Breshears%20%20PART%201%20&%202%20-43_djvu.txt -
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How Many People Here Still Believe In “God”?
by minimus inbecause of this site i realized that there were many people who were active jehovah’s witnesses really didn’t believe in god at all.
i’m curious how many people believe in god?
i’m not interested in debating why you shouldn’t have a belief in a god or should.
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"Worship is a human being's natural reaction to an encounter with the living God."
It comes down to a rather simple observation, it would seem.
In what way do we each "encounter" the living God?
The definition of "encounter" is that of an UNEXPECTED meeting.
Like bumping into Elvis.
If you've never heard of Elvis...no big deal.
However, if you are a huge fan...a VERY big deal.
Why the term "living" God?
Is it because a dead God would do us no good?
Meeting a hero in sports can be transformative if you follow the athlete's
career. A sudden face to face with Peyton Manning might give football fans a heart attack and stimulate hero worshipping :)
All of which is my (customary) long-winded way of answering the question.
When was I the truest of True Believer?
The answer is pretty simple: when I was in prison trying to serve Jehovah, my god of choice. I was scared, vulnerable, and in way too deep to help myself. I NEEDED God and the imagined protection a living Jehovah might offer.
At my worst moment--I cried out for that (promised) assistance.
The encounter I had was NOT with the living God, but with a rapist.
So, my answer is this.
As far as belief in a living Jehovah God, "NO!"
I HAVE encountered living Godly people who helped me when I needed it most simply because they embodied the qualities God (one might well believe) espoused and commanded.
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And now for something you might be able to hear without repulsion
by TerryWalstrom ini won't give a long preamble other than to say this.
listen and see how you respond.
and now i'm passing it along to get your feedback.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28i3lwxw5xs.
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Cathy Newman is laying cuckoo eggs!
JP makes a statement.
Cathy Newman replaces JP's actual words with her cuckoo straw man.
Dishonest but highly effective in playing to her crowd and
throwing off the interviewee, in effect making JP defend against a doppelganger JP. An Evil Twin version of himself.
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Gordon Nehemia - Finding God's holy name with full vowels
by Da.Furious ini was just sent a link to a jewish scholar that apparently he has found 1,000 manuscripts with yehovah and latest discovery is one with vowels that supports the spelling yehovah.
so this pits the myth that jews have forgotten the name into rest.. i got excited jws about the finding in support of the nwt showing the name as it should be.. just wanted to share this with you guys.. link to the blog and podcat: https://www.nehemiaswall.com/1000-manuscripts-yehovah#more-13611.
also link to michael rood (blog:https://www.michaelrood.tv/) interview who is his friend:.
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Are these Jews for Jesus people to be believed?
Where do we find such an announcement in
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/magazine/
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And now for something you might be able to hear without repulsion
by TerryWalstrom ini won't give a long preamble other than to say this.
listen and see how you respond.
and now i'm passing it along to get your feedback.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28i3lwxw5xs.
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Well, most of the cognitive sciences are crammed like a Thanksgiving turkey full of dressing with terminology, jargon, and such.
Jordan is an Academic required to utter the approved language of semiotic, psychiatric, Jungian, Freudian, philosophical patois.
To the extent a non-academic dips a toe in such a pond--the depth seems too profound for casual swimming.
I've watched about nine of his varied interviews and he can be very disarming, eloquent, pointed, precise, and illuminating when confronted about his opinions.
It appears to me most Professors are all huff and puff yet cowardly when it comes to taking a stand against prevailing establishment policies.
This guy has a backbone.
