Although I was told that was true thousands of times, it obviously wasn't. It was an atmosphere that promoted paranoia, guilt, and fear. I find now that sometimes I cannot even bear to walk into any sort of room that resembles a B school without experiencing severe anxiety symptoms.
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JW environment and emotional well being
by greendawn inhow many of you felt that the jw environment you once lived in was accepting, warm, supporting, nourishing, and wholesome, a place where the emotional world of man could flourish experience a blissful state of well being and attain inner fulfillment?
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Is it possible to hijack your publisher card from cong. records?
by watch the tower ini wonder if anyone has any ideas on how to remove your publisher card from the cong.
secretary?.
i've completely faded but ppl in my former cong.
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I have wondered this very thing many times. I shouldn't care, but it gets me riled up thinking about the fact that they have records of me. I had even thought of getting a PO box and placing a fake call, but I got worried that there might be something I don't know about the procedure.
Plus, in my situation, they would know it was a ruse, because my wife is still active at the meetings.
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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.
by AndersonsInfo inif i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!
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Sorry, swalker is right. It's just hard to keep sticking to the subject because the anticipation is killing me!!!!
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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.
by AndersonsInfo inif i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!
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No, beep beep is not dumb, just trying to be obnoxious. Everything you need to know about 1975 is in your own watchtower cd-rom. Try looking up an article called "Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975". If you read that and still say there is nothing, then Minimus is right.
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Is it all downhill after leaving JW's?
by lynnmelo ini know many people will get angry at this, but i had to share some observations i've had since i discovered this board a couple of days ago (see my original post under "why all the venom?").
i'll be very honest and say that i was hoping that i would discover that the jw's were wrong about some things, including the so-called "apostate" sites (i have been recommended to some internet sites and some books that i plan to investigate further).
i was hoping to find that people really didn't need the jw's "spiritual food" to remain true to god.
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At the risk of making myself unpopular, I will have to say that right now my life is very rough because of trying to fade away from the jws. But let me qualify that statement - It is because of the jw culture that my life is difficult right now, not because there is no life outside that religion, as they would have you believe.
I think they have created a self-fulfilling prophecy. They will tell you that there is no life away from the organization, that people who leave end up unhappy and lost, etc. So what happens when someone tries to leave? They are condemned, their friends are taken away from them, they live in constant fear of a harsh judgment of death, they are made to feel trapped and alone. Is it any wonder that some who leave end up self-destructing? And once they do, what do the witnesses say? "See what happens when someone leaves Jehovah? Aren't we glad that we are safe inside the organization?"
If life is downhill after leaving the jws, it is only downhill until one can manage to come out from under the complicated web that the religion has cast over their life. Once that has been accomplished, one can learn to think for themselves, and life should only be uphill from that point.
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Service Meeting for Week beginning December 5, 2005
by TheListener insong 38.
10 min: local announcements.. 15 min: local needs.. 20 min: "what our ministry accomplishes.
" * when considering paragraph 5, include comments on the february 15, 2004, watchtower, page 32.. song 32 and concluding prayer.. * limit introductory comments to less than a minute, and follow with a question-and-answer discussion.
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Our local needs ( I was not there, but my wife was) was on communication. The brother talked the entire time about the dangers of teenagers using their phones to text message each other.
Spiritual Food?!
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Jehovar or not to Jehobar: WT -vs- Awake
by DaCheech inwas looking at the jan 15th watchtower and reading it side by side with the january awake.. jehobar is mentioned probably hundreds of times in the wt (anytime god is referenced), instead in the awake --> god is used instead!!.
the only 2 or 3 times it is used in this awake is when quoting scriptures directly and jehobar is in that scripture!.
they are using cute tactics to sway the nieve
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atypical
I think that's called the "bait and switch" in the sales world.
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I think a lot of them want to escape from their present life. The thought of a world without their current problems, coupled with the fact that they are allowed to ignore their current life responsibilities as long as they go to meetings and turn in time, becomes like a drug.
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Collateral damage
by dinah inhello folks, this is the first topic i've started, so bear with me please.. i had searched the internet to try and find my way, made a stop here a couple of years ago but just now decided to join.
anyhoo, in all my searching i've realized that many ex-jws aren't dealing well.
that raises a question for me, because after finally reading the gospels i realized jesus would never treat people the way the gb does even in the interest of keeping a congregation clean (which is a joke, btw).. the anger seems to come out of nowhere.
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I totally agree with Dave. Read for yourself, learn for yourself. Stop reasoning with emotion, and start making decisions based on reality. That's what I have been trying to do. When I started having doubts about the "truth", I thought the answer was to research and prove to myself that it was really truth. I found nothing but the opposite. At that point, I had the choice either to ignore what I had learned and choose convenience, or act based on what I knew to be true.
After you have proved to yourself what is the truth about this particular religion, then you have to figure out how to be true to yourself. My wife tells me that I have got to start learning to be "selfish". She says not all selfishness is bad, sometimes you have to protect yourself or you will be used up and thrown away.
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The most important thing in my life right now is to figure out what's the most important thing in my life. I'm not trying to be cute, I've only recently walked through the mental wall that kept me from criticizing the watchtower, and it has left me sort of spinning, trying to figure out what to do next.