Mysterious
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cult personality type?
by Mysterious inanother thing that has been intriguing me lately is the idea that cults can help sway people towards a certain personality type more towards a judging personality for example, or becoming more feeling rather than thinking.
i know my meyers-briggs type changed from istj when i was a jw to intj after i left.
i was curious if anyone else was aware of a similar shift in their actual measurable personality traits..maybe putting on the new personality is literal?
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Were you a bathroom breaker?
by Mysterious ini swear my mother used to keep better track of my bladder than i did.
she'd sit me down occasionally for talks such as "i noticed you've been going to the bathroom a lot during the meetings lately maybe we need to cut down on what you drink on meeting nights" etc.
others would go 2 or 3 times a meeting and if i went twice a week i'd get a talk about it!
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Entertaining yourself during the meetings
by Mysterious inwhat did you do to entertain yourself during the meetings?
i always had little games i played.
to this day i have a fascination with notebooks and write almost compulsively when something is wrong.
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Demographics Poll - Age of JWD members - Anonymous Voting
by Mysterious inthis started in another thread actually and i decided to put one up.
hopefully you don't bury the thread before those that were interested get to see the trends.
voting is totally anonymous and it is hosted totally anonymously.
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Would you go?
by Mysterious inwould you go to a funeral at a kingdom hall?
would it have to be someone that is very close family or just an acquaintance?.
i dont know that jw funerals really off ther much closer and point blank i can not think of a single person i would go to the hall for.
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Do you have nightmares about going back?
by Mysterious inanyone else ever have nightmares where they find themselves in a kingdom hall.
i keep dreaming i came home and my mom laid out my clothes and just like a robot i put them on and go to the book study all the while thinking how it's wrong and i shouldn't be here but i can't stop myself.
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JWs and Dairy Products
by Mysterious inwe were reading in my health sciences class about how there are regulations governing how many white blood cells are allowable in milk, given that dairy does in fact contain some white blood cells (which are a primary blood component not a fraction) i am surprised they have never banned dairy.
(though i realize the blood policy has taken a few hits in recent years anyway).
anyone know if they have stock in any major dairy companies or a reason they aren't using this as an opportunity to take even more control of people's lives?
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Double the fun - out in more ways than one
by Mysterious ini thought i'd update.
today we got back from holidays and i decided to tell mom i'm gay.
dad got her to stop packing and sit down long enough to talk to her and i told her.
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Laptop Advice
by Mysterious ini was hoping to get some feedback from those of you that have laptops.
i know what i need primarily in terms of system specs so i am more interested in feedback regarding brands.
if you have a laptop i would be interested to know the brand, whether you bought it new or used, how long the warranty was, if you had any issues with it during or after the warranty (and whether these resulted in you having to take it in or send it away for repairs), if you would buy it again, if you recommend the brand on the whole.. i am currently leaning towards toshiba having met a few people that had bad experiences with dell.
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Bringing Children Into This World
by Mysterious insince leaving the jws how has your opinion of "bringing children into this world" changed?.
it floored me the other day to hear a 19 year old non-jw say she didn't want to bring kids into the world because of the state it was in.
it struck me as a very jw thing to say, or at least something i would not expect from a young person..