We both concluded that she went right from one controlling relationship into another.
As many people do ... from the hated to the familiar.
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Big eyes- jw's all excited about the movie
by purrpurr infor those still attending.
have you seen an excitement go through the dubs about the tim burton film big eyes?
they reckon it will give a "fine witness".. i've seen it and found it really irritating, basically margaret keane is such a timid mouse that she allows her husband to take all the credit for her work.
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June 2015 Watchtower equating Apostates with The Antichrist!
by nicolaou inshit!
it finally happened.. years ago i speculated on this happening but can't find the posts.
anyway, this is a tactically aggressive move by wt.
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For centuries, the antichrist has kept millions in spiritual darkness. - w2015, 6/01, p. 15
Yes, and for the last three centuries--the 19th, 20th and now into the 21st--the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has also kept more millions in spiritual darkness.
Let's review: It's a cult!
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June 2015 Watchtower equating Apostates with The Antichrist!
by nicolaou inshit!
it finally happened.. years ago i speculated on this happening but can't find the posts.
anyway, this is a tactically aggressive move by wt.
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Ok, so this WT says, "The apostle John understood the antichrist to be all who deliberately spread religious deception"
I disagree that that is what the John "understood" according to the Bible (a book which I have become convinced is full of delusions and nonsense).
But, if the WT is right about what "John understood," then by their own description the WT leaders are "the antichrist," because they "deliberately spread religious deception."
Let's review: It's a cult!
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June 2015 Watchtower equating Apostates with The Antichrist!
by nicolaou inshit!
it finally happened.. years ago i speculated on this happening but can't find the posts.
anyway, this is a tactically aggressive move by wt.
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As jwfacts commented, they're actually casting the net much wider than that.
Who cares what "they" (the WT writers) say?
Go with the Bible. It says the "antichrist" is one who denies Jesus, whatever THAT means. So, unless you actively go around "denying" that Jesus is "the Christ" you are NOT the "antichrist."
It's all bullshit.
Let's review: It's a cult!
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June 2015 Watchtower equating Apostates with The Antichrist!
by nicolaou inshit!
it finally happened.. years ago i speculated on this happening but can't find the posts.
anyway, this is a tactically aggressive move by wt.
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"Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.”
I don't deny Jesus, I just deny the Governing Body. So I guess that makes me, not an AntiChrist, but an:
ANTI-GOVERNING BODY!
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-Sex Determination and Sex-linked Inheritance
1. How is the genetic determination of sex established in humans?In the diploid genome of human beings there are 46 chromosomes, 44 of them are autosomes and two are sex chromosomes. The individual inherits one of these chromosomes from each parent.
The human sex chromosomes are called X chromosome and Y chromosome. Individuals having two X chromosomes (44 + XX) are female. Individuals having one X chromosome and one Y chromosome (44 + XY) are male. (Individuals 44 + YY do not exist since the chromosome Y is exclusively from paternal lineage.)-
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Steve had a divine gender reassignment.
So Eve was the world's first transgender human.
Cool!
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The "Final Push" before the GT!!! I think they REALLY believe it!
by DATA-DOG ini don't know if i have shared this with everyone, but there seems to be a new theocratic term, at least in my circuit.. the term is "final push.
" wtf does it mean?
well, an eldub said that the gb are "all in" with warwick and they might spend all their money on the project.
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JW's are Egomaniacs and the Org is an Ego machine
by freemindfade ini've been thinking a lot lately about ego vs self.
i have also been trying to differentiate freudian model of ego, super & id, but more of a ego=false self vs soul=true self.
while there are many ego institutions out there, the witness reality buries its victims in a avalanche of ego.
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FMF, your OP is very confusing, which is not too surprising considering the mental ordeal you have been through and the process you are now undertaking after waking up to TTATT and making a life outside of and after being in a highly authoritarian, manipulative and destructive mind-control cult.
Do you know that, although we owe a great deal of debt to the pioneering work of Freud, no one in the mental health fields today practice his methods of psychoanalysis.
Also, what he meant by the term "ego" is very different from its use in common parlance today.
We use words to label and thereby (hopefully) understand things both concrete and abstract. You are using terms (ego, soul, etc.) that are not particularly clearly defined to try and understand concepts that are fuzzy at best. Don't let the jargon further confuse your thinking.
Really, what we all need to do after realizing that we were in a manipulative cult and coming to understand what was done to us is this: figure out who we really are. Get to know, understand and love our real, authentic self.
This is probably a lot harder for someone raised in this religion because that self was always supressed.
Get to know who you are. This includes who you have been in the past, who you are at this moment in time and who you want to be in the future.
Also, don't confuse WHO YOU ARE with WHAT YOU DO. That is a common mistake made by most people.
You have your work cut out for you. We all do (or did). It takes time, thoughtful introspection and an openness to confront a lot of things about ourselves that aren't always that pretty.Hang in there. It get's better!
Oubliette
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WHY DO ONLY A FEW START TO QUESTION DOCTRINE CHANGES AND NOT EVERYONE?
by disillusioned 2 inthere are many on here who state specific changes in wt publications have caused them to start questioning (understandably you would think), and yet the majority don't.
why is it only a few individuals that do this?
curious as to what others think about this.
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sparrowdown: When I was studying they praised me for asking questions, then, after baptism questions became a sign of weakness. I shoulda known this was a bad sign.
Yes, you should have. We ALL should have!
