Posts by NotNew

i've talked with some good friends on the board about this before and we seem to be in agreement : one reason ( among many ) that some disfellowshipped jw's go back and return to the wt organization is because they are full of uneeded guilt or uneeded fear because they haven't educated themselves about how the wt society uses mind control tactics to deceive them into thinking they have " nowhere else to go " .

i understand that some dfed ones may go back to the organization for family and friends- however- it's an exrecise in futility because once you learn the truth about the truth you cannot undo what you heard.

so some may just go back and live a fake jw life to appease family- but just think of how that can damage a person's emotional and mental health playing the fake jw game the rest of their lives !

NotNew

Great post Flipper:

I remember when I was first awakening...I would say I know they got this wrong and made an adjustment however they the GB-JWs are still Jehovah's chosen religion! It took several months for me to start to realize they may not be... then one day it just hit me and the wall started to crumble.

One too many wtf moments piled on top of each other.

It felt good but then I started to realize everything I put my trust, faith and hope in had just vanished.

I joined this site under the name SaysWho in April of 2010 and along with Jwfacts helped in keeping my sanity.

I had to re-join under notnew when I forgot my password. I think my one laptop is stilled logded on under SaysWho so sometimes I still comment with that one. ( just to keep things straight, in cases anyone was wondering why I end my post with "SW"

SW

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Is it true that elders lurk the forums?

by make yourself in

it seems like it is one huge contradiction.

but are they doing it for the purpose to try to guess exactly who in the congregation is on ex jw sites?

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NotNew

Apparently they are....THIS IS CALLED STALKING! !

Stalking is unwanted or obsessive attention by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are related toharassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them.

SW

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Do you have all your WT literature? If so why?

by KateWild in

many on this board are still in and have all the literature.

do you read all your books regularly?

do you have old magazines that you have underlined and still keep?

NotNew

The reason to keep old pubs is to have the actual documentation of Botchtower BS. So when someone fresh in the Borg says "Oh they didn't say that." you can show them otherwise

Same reason I keep mine!

SW

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Hello believers... Do you still believe in prophecies?

by suavojr in

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friends

definition for the word prophecy:.

noun [plural prophecies.].

1. the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.. 2. something that is declared by a prophet, especially a divinely inspired prediction, instruction, or exhortation.. 3. a divinely inspired utterance or revelation: oracular prophecies.. .

NotNew

Why prophesy something that causes death...would it not be more fruitful to stop it?

SW

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Hello believers... Do you still believe in prophecies?

by suavojr in

jw
friends

definition for the word prophecy:.

noun [plural prophecies.].

1. the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.. 2. something that is declared by a prophet, especially a divinely inspired prediction, instruction, or exhortation.. 3. a divinely inspired utterance or revelation: oracular prophecies.. .

NotNew

Are you able to prove one that came true?

If you can then I may give it a go...until then why waste the time hoping for something that may or not come true?

SW

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"And yet it moves !"

by Phizzy in

galileo is said to have uttered, or probably muttered these words in front of the inquisition after supposedly having reacanted his teaching that the solar system is heliocentric, as his predecessors kepler and copernicus had worked out.

(and a guy in 3rd century b.c greece !).

why was galileo unable to go back to his belief held by him in his youth, and nearly all people in christendom, that the earth was at the centre of the solar system and all the planets revolved around it ?.

NotNew

:indroctinated...

to teach (someone) to fully accept the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group and to not consider other ideas, opinions, and beliefs

get it? If we did we would be going against God himself! AND BE PUT TO DEATH

SW

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"And yet it moves !"

by Phizzy in

galileo is said to have uttered, or probably muttered these words in front of the inquisition after supposedly having reacanted his teaching that the solar system is heliocentric, as his predecessors kepler and copernicus had worked out.

(and a guy in 3rd century b.c greece !).

why was galileo unable to go back to his belief held by him in his youth, and nearly all people in christendom, that the earth was at the centre of the solar system and all the planets revolved around it ?.

NotNew

Oh my! It seems that the power of mind control is dismissed or forgotten By those who have been freed.

Anything presented by anyone except the WT approved had to be quickly dismissed as coming from satin.

My mind would not allow me to consider anything contrary to WT based beliefs!

But not now! Since I have been freed...why? I do not know however I am so relieved that I am!

Some have expressed to me how fortunate I am because most who were indroctinated arent so "lucky".

SW

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Lot's last word to his wife

by bamse in

does anyone come after us?.

NotNew

Take a short look back honey...god said don't look back longly...it will be all right.

Oops my bad!

SW