Ingenuous
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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.
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"Witnesses Skilled at Rebuilding Quickly" - Article
by Ingenuous inwitnesses skilled at rebuilding quickly
saturday, september 10, 2005 .
by david bergengren
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Is this love? It feels like the flu...
by Ingenuous infor anyone who may have noted my happy news of about a week ago, the bubble burst after roughly 48 hours.
after the 90% successful "let's agree to act like intelligent adults and respect the other's conscience" talk with my dad, he wrote a letter and renegged on everything.
i am once again a hard-headed, ungrateful apostate.. i'm as tired of writing about the situation as you probably are reading about it, so i won't go into too many details.
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Startin' Off Vacation with a Crying Jag!
by Ingenuous ini've been too afraid to go to my parents' place to see them since my last encounter with my dad.
my dad came by this morning to talk.. 90% of it went pretty well.. i gave him a letter i'd composed to give to the brothers in lieu of meeting with them (i don't have the emotional wherewithal to do it, besides having no intention of giving them the satisfaction).
it described the things taught by the org that bothered my conscience - not all of the things, but those things that prompted me to quit service and meetings: the org's insistence on prophesying, its insistence on jws accepting everything they teach to remain "christians", policies which cost lives then are changed (e.g., blood, organ transplants), the "no mediator for the great crowd" teaching, 607 bce, the un fiasco.. in addition to agreeing that these are important issues that deserve answers, he stated that he felt the org did too much "talking" (putting thousands of pages of their perspective into print) and that they were constantly sticking their nose into things they shouldn't be (i.e., prophesying the end of the world).
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Name One Wish You're Glad Went Unfulfilled
by Ingenuous ini'm glad god never granted my "wish" for a husband while i was still in the org.
i'd be hurtin' a lot more right now if i was married/involved.
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A Hamster named "Cujo"
by Ingenuous inok, so when i get a little down, i have a tendency to purchase animals.
the difficulties with my family and my leaving the org have been weighing on me.
yesterday, i purchased two blonde dwarf hamsters, both female.. the one is a sweetheart.
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Paperback Bibles = Prison Edition?
by Ingenuous ini stumbled across this on ebay.
is this what the paperback bibles actually are?
the prison edition?.
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Oooo, now I'm a Satan worshipper - Care to respond to Dad's latest attack?
by Ingenuous ini'm not going to answer this email from my dad.
he didn't listen the umpteen times i responded to his questions before - i'm not putting myself through that again.
i too thought about these things.