Steve Hassan, bless his little cotton socks, wrote about just this phenomenon in Freedom of Mind, in the section on the recovery process from cult involvement. He said a good way to neutralize this phenomenon is to consciously create new associations to the words or things that trigger the flashbacks.
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Is my mind still controlled???.....Is yours????
by KateWild inwe are all set for a lovely xmas week and nice holiday, but this image is indellably printed in my brain and i cannot erase it.. .
it's from the bible teach book, chapter 16 para 11. i did that many bible studies and trained them how we need to make a stand for true worship and not ever return to pagan practices.. so now over this season of good will, and fun i have a literal bitter taste.. are you having flash backs?
how can we remove these images from our brain?
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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Julia Orwell
We have a lot of welfare here in Australia too, but it's not easy to get anymore. Most jws on welfare are on a old age pension. There are sole I know on disability which is very very hard to getnowadays, but they got on it years ago when adhd and chronic fatigue syndrome were accepted by the government. Single mother jws are on benefits like non jw single mums. All these welfare categories are below Australia's poverty line, but jws on it manage to keep themselves and their crappy poor people housing neat and tidy. You gotta credit the cult for instilling good hygiene and personal presentation habits in its members.
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New video of interviews with Famous active and former Jehovah's Witnesses
by jwfacts ini have put together a mash up of active and former jehovah's witnesses, including a number of interesting interviews.. http://youtu.be/ozwvh57erro.
as a side note, i hope it does not get removed for copyright violation, as software automatically scans for pieces of music and i have already received some violation messages.
the video does comply with fair usage laws, as the music is relevant to the commentary..
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Julia Orwell
Cool, I'll check it out later. Hope you're having a great Christmas day with your wife n kids :)
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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Julia Orwell
Individual jws may help others and give them a hand up if they're jws themselves, but the org as a whole has no charity for its own members. According to them, Jehovah will look after you and if you're poor and destitute, it's either a test from Satan or you're not 'putting the kingdom first". If you were, Jehovah would give u all u need, right?
The wt couldn't have a charity for unfortunate jws because it would undermine their promise that if you always go witnessing and to the meetings, Jehovah will provide.
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I'm Really Disappointed
by mrquik inhaving been out 5 yrs.
& attending numerous christmas parties & family get togethers, i can't tell you how disappointed i am.
i was led to believe wild debauchery, drinking & fighting was the norm.
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Julia Orwell
Yeah Christmas has been a breeze: my family is happy, we enjoy good food, the children and adults alike love giving each other gifts, and none of us has gone into debt, get drunk or fight.
Oh a couple of years ago a JW I know had a party on Christmas night and it got so wild the police were called, people were bashed and drunk, and someone damaged the property. The house owner didn't press charges though because that person had powerful friends in the congregation.
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If You Were Still "In The Truth" What Type of Life Would You Have?
by minimus indo you think you would be just going thru the motions?
would you be an elder, ms, or pioneer?.
i think there are many that stay in the religion simply because of family/friends considerations.
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Zeb wrote:
- the wt stupid wims as to dress. (Coats in the Australian summer
I used to live in Cairns which is the wet tropics of the far north, and brothers would stew in their own sweat on the territory in ties and long pants. We women could wear shorter skirts, sleeveless tops and open shoes so we fared better. The locals must have thought the men were nuts though.
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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Julia Orwell
You got that right. More JWs than any other group I know, when they retire, go on the government pension than have retirement accounts. Even now, in my early 30's, I'm having to think about retirement for the first time. My non-Jw parents were always encouraging me to invest in my financial future but I always brushed it off, thinking Armageddon would take care of that. So, for all the JW oldies retiring and retired, they too thought, decades ago, that planning for retirement wasn't necessary as Armageddon would be here. They got sold down the river to the WT's lies.
I know of JWs who are planning for retirement, you know, superannuation accounts, investment properties and the like, but they are going against the counsel of the WT. They're not stupid though- they can see all the oldies around them with nothing and no one.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses treat Watchtower publications like Idols
by Watchtower-Free ina facebook page that really needs to be trolled.
i believe this pic is the administrator of the page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/jehovahs-witnesses-poems/187324991392156.
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Julia Orwell
Argh that page made me want to puke!!!
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They are Definitely Attacking "Higher Education"
by XBEHERE ina friend of mine recently had his co visit and in the elders meeting the co out-right asked the question: how are the friends doing in your cong.
as regards pursuing higher education?
the co continued...you know in view of all the counsel from the slave regarding the dangers.
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Well, let's keep spreading the word to the non jws we know. Jws might not listen, but my family, co workers and therapists are horrified to find out how jws ban education. The more people know about this, the better. The slogan of my local university is Know more- do more. Bring it on.
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How do you guys feel during the holidays?
by Joliette inthis is a very lonely time of year for me i admit it.
i'm suppose to be going over my aunties house wednesday after work.
but going to christmas/holiday parties and get togethers, i still kinda feel out of place.. i really wish i grew up celebrating the holidays more.
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Julia Orwell
I grew up with holidays but turned on them with such a vengeance when i became jw and spat out so much anti holiday venom for so long I feel right awkward about them now, even though my family are very understanding of my post cult jitters and are trying to ease my transition. I figure, I've been without celebrations for so long, I'm in the habit of not caring about them. I also am coming up against the annoyances associated with them that I could easily avoid using religion as an excuse.