Topics Started by dissonance_resolved

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new member- my story
by AndDontCallMeShirley in
1. jw
2. experiences
"that which can be asserted without evidence, can.

be dismissed without evidence.

" - christopher hitchens.
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Not doing good things for bad reasons
by dissonance_resolved in
1. jw
2. friends
so someone made a comment on one of my other posts that got me thinking- they said "the non-jw you is better than the the jw you.

" that made me think of all the good things i've never done for whacked-out jw reasons:.

1) contributing to charity- united way (religious origin), red cross (has the word cross in it so it must be wrong), salvation army (forget it), greenpece (political), donating to food banks at the holidays (why help someone celebrate a pagan holiday?
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Is a slow fade being selfish when you have kids?
by dissonance_resolved in
1. jw
2. experiences
so i got some great advice to take things very slowly with the husband and kids in order to be able to fade and still maintain contact with my parents and siblings.

but today i got a call from my son's teacher that he was having a meltdown because he was worried about all his friends and teachers being destroyed at armageddon.... first i felt like such a schmuck for ever having allowed that thought to enter my son's head, then i thought, is it psychological torture for me not to immediately correct the situation?

i had a long talk with him about how god is perfectly just and full of love and he didn't have to worry about that at all, but it still seemed lukewarm.
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Todays Watchtower Study ---------------------- Give Me A Break
by BlindersOff1 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is so a made up example .

written as ifs it was real .

whats your opinion ?.
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How do I tell my husband?
by dissonance_resolved in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm a born in, baptized as a young teenager, whole family is jw.

i just recently woke up after the new understanding of the fds was announced and it seemed to me to smack of power-grabbing.

i started looking at all the websites we're not supposed to, and now i know why.
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How Long has it Been since you Last Attended Meetings and What Caused...
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
..... you to stop attending ?

injustices ?

disagree with the teachings ?
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Psychoanalyzing the Governing Body as a Collective Body by what they cause to be written in literature and private letters:
by frankiespeakin in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
now would any "psychologist" on the board and i use the term loosely as i am not one professionally , and have a very rudimentary hazy knowledge of analysis.. but one of the things jung had to do with the subject is the shadow to be properly analyzed one needs to recognize the shadow we all have we all have one.

and what happens when we repress a lot of things and stuff them into ones personal shadow, they get stronger and cause projection on the outside world that make one respond certain ways that might be termed as phobias or neurosis and even psychosis.. im sure we can spot a lot of denial and repression surfacing in what they cause to be published either publicly and in private correspondence.

perhaps even some phobias or out right neurosis.. i bett you a really skilled psychologist could have a fruit picking holiday with the stuff they find on the net already published far and wide for all to see.
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Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs
by Lady Lee in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories
by RunningMan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
over the years, i have posted all of the chapters from my atheist's book of bible stories on this site.. however, since the original posting, many of the chapters have been polished and updated.. the complete book is now available for downloading, if anyone is interested: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qwpjol.
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What will it take for me to stop this?
by sibboleth in
1. jw
2. friends
i have lurked for over a year.

i keep coming back here - everytime i do - it's like witnessing a car wreck.

the things i don't want to read or believe are right here before my eyes - it's like a drug.