Ingenuous
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I can't do it. Am I supposed to?
by Ingenuous inmy parents are acting loopy.
not toward me, but toward my sister.
she's not doing anything wrong, just experiencing the normal ups and downs and unplanned surprises of marriage.
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"They Told Me That If I Left..."
by Ingenuous in" these people say, "they had told me over and over, even from the early days after i first started coming ... they told me how spiritually dangerous it was to leave.
they say things like, "it is you who are shunning us!
god would have to leave the believer -- and that will never happen, for the bible says: .
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"Should We Continue To Be What We Are?"
by Ingenuous inmany persons seem to think that they should continue to be what they are, at least as far as religion is concerned.
they will tell you that their parents and grandparents belonged to a certain religion, and they see no reason for making a change....
in many of the ordinary matters of life we make changes.
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No one believes me when I tell them...
by Ingenuous inwell, here ya' go - interesting reading for your friday:.
tom foreman: your parents sent you away from the nazis when you were ten years old and your entire family died at auschwitz.
dr. ruth: that's right.
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"The Truth" vs. the truth
by Ingenuous inthe truth vs. the truth
by stephen cox.
can the truth survive the internet?.
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What's with my Mom and the NWT?
by Ingenuous inbefore i left the org, i decided to start doing my personal bible reading in a translation other than the nwt.
my mother seemed bothered by this, wanting to know why i didn't want to use the nwt, describing why she greatly preferred it to other translations, and generally adopting a worried look whenever i mentioned the topic.
i talked to her this morning and she turned the conversation into a q&a session on a bible i was looking for in a local bookstore.
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I'm sorry, but I just had to laugh...
by Ingenuous ini was browsing around the jw-media.org site in response to another poster and suddenly found parts of the site funny - sad, but funny.
baptism.
this act symbolizes one's dedication to god and is taken by those of responsible age who have made an informed decision...organization.
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"From Holy to Whole"
by Ingenuous in"... when you process religious issues, you end up processing all of your issues.
these aspects of personal health and maturity are so basic.
thus, as you make a commitment to work on these areas, you are beginning a very far-reaching journey of growth and are to be commended.".
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How to brainwash only part of your brain.
by Ingenuous ini was talking to a mental health professional (don't remember her credentials) about jws.
part of what i couldn't get my brain around was how jws (myself included, when i was "in") can seem to function so well in other areas, but so easily and completely give up their minds to others when it comes to the org.
the behavior seems so irrational and deluded, with so many cognitive distortions at work, that healthy functioning in other areas would appear precluded.
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Games the Org plays - There IS a word for it.
by Ingenuous intrying to describe the techniques used by the org to present "new light" and their efforts at "tacking" can be difficult without the right words.
i just finished robert crompton's counting the days to armageddon and thought i'd share his definitions for these actions, which are so hard to put into words.
it's also validating (read: it helps to know i'm not crazy) to realize how many others - including published authors - recognize the games the org playsto handle the complexities, it is useful to identify the range of basic ways in which millennialist systems may be adapted in response to the divergence between expectations and reality.