Posts by GrreatTeacher

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Ivana Trump grave at Trump's golf course

by SydBarrett in

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people who dislike trump will see this as an eyesore and an insult to his first wife and the mother of his 3 children.people who support trump will describe this as a beautiful natural setting, like a woodland.

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GrreatTeacher

Or just left in the ground and paved over to make a car park like Richard III was.

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Growing up as a child in Closed High-Demand Groups

by LostintheFog1999 in

i came across this fascinating article and thought it was worth sharing it with you.

i grew up in that religion so a lot of it struck a chord with me.. https://www.spiritualabuseresources.com/articles/born-or-raised-in-closed-high-demand-groups-developmental-considerations.

GrreatTeacher

Excellent article.

Many of us who have grown up in the religion leave the religion with unfinished developmental tasks that should have been completed in childhood.

That leaves a very vulnerable person who is trying to make their way in the world with the psychological makeup of a child.

No wonder suicidality is common.

Nice academic references.

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What would you change?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

i’m agnostic so maybe the universe started by chance or by design.. if it was by design (hypothetically) and the bible is the designers word, and jws seem to be the closest to it, then what would be the largest things you would change?.

here are a few ideas.

-do away with the governing body thinking they are gods only channel.

GrreatTeacher

Yeah. Love is the last attribute that I'd think of to describe Jehovah's Witnesses.

There's "love bombing" which is a fake show of love to get people to join or return, or even stay after being treated badly.

There's also "enmeshment" which keeps everyone up in everybody's business which facilitates the snitching culture.

Spend some time going down rabbit holes learning about these concepts. They both figure prominently in relationships with Narcissists. And Narcissists are all about control, control, control. Not a healthy relationship at all.

BTW, some people really miss the Enmeshment when they leave. It can feel like Unity or Real Love. But, it's not. It's a dependence on an unhealthy "everybody intimately involved with everyone else's business" relationship model that fosters unhealthy dependence and creates an environment where shunning becomes a true threat to what feels like someone's very existence. Not healthy at all. People who come out of the religion missing this are very damaged and find it difficult to live on their own without the unhealthy group.

It's very common in unhealthy family dynamics.

Love bombing features in abusive relationships in the Cycle of Abuse. It's the part of the cycle where after one partner gets hit or otherwise abused, the perpetrator realizes the abused partner might decide to leave, so they use Love Bombing to promise that they'll never do it again because they love them so much. When it works, the abused partner believes and forgives them, the relationship continues until the abuser again abuses and love bombing is deployed again and again to keep the relationship going.

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What would you change?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

i’m agnostic so maybe the universe started by chance or by design.. if it was by design (hypothetically) and the bible is the designers word, and jws seem to be the closest to it, then what would be the largest things you would change?.

here are a few ideas.

-do away with the governing body thinking they are gods only channel.

GrreatTeacher

I don't believe Cofty thinks it is any other group.

It's rather a moot point if the Bible doesn't represent anything like the highest truth about anything.

Being "the closest" to something that isn't all that great is no award at all.

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Armageddon is just beginning

by TheEndIsNear in

do you want to know what is really behind the fake coronavirus pandemic, so-called vaccines and the war in ukraine?

to understand current events, you must first learn the history.

the world's biggest secret is that there have been tremendous global disasters in the past that decimated populations and caused the collapse of empires.

GrreatTeacher

I should hope the end is near.

I've had this diarrhea now for 1914 hours.

If it's not over by 1975 then I'll head to the medical clinic at my nearest basement bunker.

Things usually end well there.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

GrreatTeacher

It seems this is the evolution of making a living on social media.

Your You Tube feed is only populated by the most popular content.

I used to enjoy what seemed like more serious and longer and more in depth content.

Now I notice that people who don't put out content nearly daily are left behind and never show up in my feed again.

It's also shorter and shittier content.

But, apparently this is what one must do to make money on social media now.

You're right. Lloyd could totally do this. Churn out some shallow 10 minute videos every day, rather than the interminably long ones he's known for and it might work for him.

Will we see a Lloyd video every day?

Probably not.

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2023-Price-Per-Publisher!

by Atlantis in

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2023-price per publisher.. .

https://imgbox.com/jshf0csu .

atlantis!.

GrreatTeacher

I notice it's now $208 Jamaican!

We once found a $10 Jamaican bill on the street.

We took it to the bank and they said it was worth just about nothing.

So, we took it home and put it on the refrigerator.

Nice conversation starter.

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I wonder whatever became of the JW 'don't masturbate' guy?

by SydBarrett in

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this guy: how embarrassing.it's also sad that when it was being filmed, no one thought to tell him "you don't have to over do it..they'll get the point.."now he lives forever in internet infamy.

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