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Jehovahs Witnesses and psychiatric diagnoses?

by Marvin Shilmer in

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jehovahs witnesses and psychiatric diagnoses?.

today i added a new article to my blog sharing information from a 1983 study published in the journal for the scientific study of religion addressing religious affiliation and psychiatric diagnoses.

this article pulls information from an excellent academic study that is often misunderstood and therefore underutilized for its value.

Twitch

In some ways this is good. I saw a lot of mentally abnormal people get a lot of love and acceptance in my own former religion and I often wondered what would have become of them without the church. Many of these people were fully functioning but socially reclusive and church gave them hope , purpose and structure. This is one area where I think religion can excel and I would expect to see a higher incidence of mental issues in the same way I would expect to find more sick people in a hospital.

Agreed. In some ways.

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For anyone unsure as to whether JW's are a cult..please read...

by lostinnj83 in

if the informaiton i am posting is redundant or has been posted, please forgive me.. i know we are all at different stages of this journey.

for me i am still "in" but working towards being out and leaving.

any one in this position or who has been here knows how diffucult of a time this can be.

The music that moves you....

by FlyingHighNow in

once when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.

he named each song after a person in our family.

this is the one he named heather.

Twitch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-uh3YKXakE

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The Abused Child's Refuge: Imagination

by compound complex in

scarce in my youth had feet touched on earth,.

intent, so i was, to vanquish all that held me.

painfully fast to misery in flesh and a sorrow.

Twitch

cool vibes

My imagination was always with me, as far as I can recall

Fate, if you will and circumstance augmented it during times of duress in the wonder years

It's since served me well in creative endeavors and in problem solving, talents honed over time

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Why Worry About Stopping Comets?

by AGuest in

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given their relative size (usually), maybe we should learn to stop meteors first:.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/meteorite-fragments-are-said-to-rain-down-on-siberia.html?_r=0.

interesting.. a doulos of christ,.

Twitch

Who is worrying about stopping comets?

I would think deflecting would require less effort.

I would think that as well. Much less. Construction workers can push a heavy suspended steel beam into fine position by hand. Same idea.

The atmosphere is not really a defense; it has no effect against anything big enough whose impact would alter the global climate. Sure it prevents small stuff from getting through, but defense here is kinda moot.

The danger is from large objects of course and it's only a matter of time before the cosmic event clock hits midnight again.

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What's wrong with the way we interpret prophecy?

by EdenOne in

i've posted this somewhere else, but i think it's worth some discussion here as well.

the original thread revolves around the interpretation of the time for the great tribulation to occurr.

i've pointed out if the problems we ran into in the past and present about interpreting prophecies are troubled by the false premise that we are living in the "last days".. .