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  Hatred From My Children for Not Leaving the Organization Earlier

  by new boy in

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  i'm not proud of the fact that it took me over 50 years to realized what the organization really was and to finally leave it.

  not proud at all, i feel pretty stupid.

  however i didn't lose my children.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  As I got older and no doubt because of so many ayahuasca sessions I was able to recall past trauma as a infant/child and had to deal with feelings towards my parents who were both dead, it was helpful as it explained some of my behavior towards them and the reason for many of my actions. As I came to accept my self and I also came to accept my parents as all products of our environment and social indoctrination with no need to hate them or me because we are all in the same boat driven by the same wind etc...which lead to a new found respect and admiration for my parents.

  You did the best you could with what you had available, just as I hope your children will do also
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  Healing & Rebuilding Your Life - Feedback Wanted

  by jp1692 in

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  i have been invited to speak at an international cultic studies association workshop this fall.

  i could use your help in focusing on my presentation subject.. these workshops are for former members of any cult or other high-control, authoritarian group, not just jehovah's witnesses.

  last year, i spoke at one of their larger conferences in europe.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  Of course this rebuilding of one's life would depend on the age of the person leaving the cult and how much time he/she has left. The younger the better as the older you get the less energy and time you got to rebuild, and heal. But hey don't let age stop you from getting out of the cult and rebuilding your life it just gets a little the more harder and slower to recover the more you wait and put off the inevitable. I got out at age 48, it hit me like a ton of bricks, but gradually got better and better as my mental health improved over time and my rage subsided to a they can just kiss my ass contempt towards the Watchtower corporation.
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  Healing & Rebuilding Your Life - Feedback Wanted

  by jp1692 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been invited to speak at an international cultic studies association workshop this fall.

  i could use your help in focusing on my presentation subject.. these workshops are for former members of any cult or other high-control, authoritarian group, not just jehovah's witnesses.

  last year, i spoke at one of their larger conferences in europe.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  On the subject of authentic self I have a few comments:

  Discovering Your Authentic Self - (personal identity)

  I think that by authentic self you mean what you really are all about minus the Jdub programming, and repression.

  My take on it is finding your true self, so that one would have to do a lot of shadow work(Jungian), un-repress it and become more whole(Jungian). As one learns to accept all parts of himself he usually becomes more creative because in repressing our dark side we repress a lot of our talents as well.

  So I see a search for one's authentic self as a real challenge and worthy endeavor and a very good shrink of say a Jungian back round might help if you can afford it(dreams are the royal road to discover the unconscious). Me I just kind of search the net and read shit that gives me a better understanding of human nature.

  Losing one's self by becoming a Watchtower drone can leave one as an empty self, just a shell of what one really is and very far from reaching one greatest potential. Read a little Maslow's stuff might help a person in this regard, maybe even a little Kazimierz Dabrowski's stuff might get one there I don't know.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa2PT6Sm20Q

  
  

  
  
  
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  When You Die Would You Haunt The Governing Body? If It were Possible?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  i've been reading a lot about reincarnation these days and i'm beginning to think that it quite possibly might be true, it seems to fit in nicely with the idea that we live in a computer simulation.. anyway according to the tibetan book of the dead when we die we seem to hang around on the earth waiting for rebirth.

  at which time we could be ghosts.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bardo_thodol.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOD2ZuKQnRM
  
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  When You Die Would You Haunt The Governing Body? If It were Possible?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been reading a lot about reincarnation these days and i'm beginning to think that it quite possibly might be true, it seems to fit in nicely with the idea that we live in a computer simulation.. anyway according to the tibetan book of the dead when we die we seem to hang around on the earth waiting for rebirth.

  at which time we could be ghosts.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bardo_thodol.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  There is this house a few miles up the street from me The Winchester House built buy heiress of 51% shares of Winchester reaping arms.

  It's a good movie I got the video from the library.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDVjX2OBrwc
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  Christianity - God and the Scientists

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucz44kqphlo.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ONRJ1kTdA
  
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  Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'

  by frankiespeakin in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhw9ui.

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  Quite naturally I thought higher IQ scores would favor the young whose mind is more fertile and operating less encumbered by ingrained thought processing patterns.

  I think the dip in my estimation is perhaps due to many youths experience with growing technology and lazy brain patterns that develop from technology doing a task that used to require a lot thinking.

  Interesting to see what finally develops in this evolutionary cross roads of sorts. Also I think it is a challenge to make a good IQ test that keeps up with the momentous times of change we are living in.
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  Christianity - God and the Scientists

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucz44kqphlo.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZ44kQphlo
  
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  Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'

  by frankiespeakin in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhw9ui.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  Thanks for the update JP.
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  Revised NWT in French released yesterday

  by careful in

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  2. bible

  https://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .

  it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..

  is the german next?.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  With all these leaked accounting videos clearly the WT corporation is tightening up on money flowing out. Seems from the very simple explanation GB Lett gives. Should have been done years ago but better late than never doing anything.

  They are going digital all the way it saves money that they ain't got., attendance, contributions, are drying up big time because of their child molestations scandals, big 2014 money grab, massive bethel lay offs, branch closings, etc....

  Back 15+ years ago I was hearing of congregations being denied literature because they weren't sending enough contributions to cover printing costs.