M*A*S*H

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  Steven Unthank: What do we really know?

  by SweetBabyCheezits in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i'm gonna play the skeptic today on a topic that is painful for a lot of people on this forum.

  my intent is not to stir anything up but to make sure facts are confirmed.

  bear in mind, i'm sickened by the wt's role (and the heirarchy down to elders) in child molestation cover-ups.

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  Here's something to help finish this thread off...

  )xxxxx[;;;;;;;;;>

  ...I think it may have come to this.
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  Higher Education compared to sacrificing your child to Moloch!

  by Vidqun in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  forthcoming attraction at the next circuit assembly.

  for those that are interested in attending.

  if you encourage your child to pursue higher education, you are sacrificing him or her to molech (cf.

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  I wonder how many of the writing committee at the WBTS have letters after their name? What about the legal team?
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  Higher Education compared to sacrificing your child to Moloch!

  by Vidqun in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  forthcoming attraction at the next circuit assembly.

  for those that are interested in attending.

  if you encourage your child to pursue higher education, you are sacrificing him or her to molech (cf.

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  I can't wait to tell the kids!

  From now on, there is no 'University Fund'... it's the ' Molech Fund'!

  Embrase change brothers
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  Steven Unthank: What do we really know?

  by SweetBabyCheezits in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i'm gonna play the skeptic today on a topic that is painful for a lot of people on this forum.

  my intent is not to stir anything up but to make sure facts are confirmed.

  bear in mind, i'm sickened by the wt's role (and the heirarchy down to elders) in child molestation cover-ups.

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  Bump.... lol
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  What could trigger a large proportion of JWs at once that this religion is a scam

  by Mr Facts in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am just thinking if there could ever be anything that would raise consciousness in the minds of millions of jws that this a completely hoax.

  what could spark millions of them at once, any thoughts?..

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  Aliens landing on the White House lawn?
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  Family shunning - I finally had to give it my parents

  by jworld in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

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  Well played jworld!

  I wish I'd said more as you did when I had the opportunity. My father once asked me if I thought he'd been moral, what kind of question is that!? All I could manage was "I think you're religion has coloured your judgement, and led you to make some bad decisions". I too, thought that, that had upset him - didn't change anything though! Too late now though.
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  A “Born ins” challenge to develop a "post cult" personality.

  by stuckinamovement in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a born ins challenge to develop a post cult personality.. mentally leaving the organization can be traumatic for a number of reasons.

  one of the biggest challenges for born-ins in finding their pre cult personality is that our entire personalities are based on the religion.

  there is no such thing as a pre cult personality for us.

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  There's hope Siam! Honest!

  Sure for a long time after the borg, I settled comfortably on being a bitter and twisted antireligious militant atheist, blaming my dub upbringing for all manner of ills (some justified I think) and being bitter at my family still 'inside' . It seems odd to me now, but I filled that void in life by being as 'antidub' as possible. Safe to say this made me miserable :o(

  Soon after I took up a hobby and a sport... the friends and experiences I've had through this have enriched and moulded my little world. I'm now almost normal! I suppose my personality has been formed along the way.

  You will always have hangups - I'm sure we all do. For example, I can get emotional even now at Christmas when I see my two little monkey's excited faces and I wonder, what Christmas would be like as a kid, you just can't get that magic back (IMHO)

  Posting in here is great too! Or not... I'm more of a reader than poster, but I think it all helps!
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  I need your advice to reach my daughters!

  by Cirkeline in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i just spoke to my eldest daughter (i'll name her liv here) on the phone.

  i am still shaking all over my body.

  partly cause i'm scared to death, partly cause i feel there is a small hope.

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  Hi Cirkeline... I truly am sorry to hear about what you're going through.

  I agree with Ding, I think you need to go slow. Too much too soon will put the barriers up.

  It might be worth trying to act subordinate to your daughter, rather than attempting to give her information directly? Does she live close enough to have a bible study with you? You could perhaps say, you've got doubts and need some help; a family study might be just the thing? Perhaps then once your study is established, you could introduce some debate points "you are unclear\worried about", like the 1914, 1925, points etc... and ask her to help you make sense of it?

  Whatever path you take, I hope it works - I expect many in this forum will have their fingers crossed for you.

  Good luck
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  You make it to Paradise you are 80yrs. old, then what.

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the scriptures says you will never grow old but what.

  about reverseing the process.

  if the big one comes.

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  Personally I doubt I'll notice much difference after being reverted back to perfection.

  I know this is a little off topic, but I always used to wonder when everyone got resurrected where would they appear? On top of the gravestone in a puff of smoke? Would they have to dig their way out from the ground? As a kid I remember going to a crematorium, that blew my mind!
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  What's Bad About Us (ExJws)???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is there anything bad about us?----- we know how to disect jw's quite well.

  (i'm a surgeon).. i'm just thinking out loud.------are we that much better or do we still think like them at times?.

  sometimes, i still think i'm in the kingdom hall and i'm at my computer..

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  Apart from spending too much time reading ex-dub\dub forums late into the night, 'religiously' checking jwfacts and other websites for new content, scouring Youtube for Borg info?

  Well, apart from that, which seems common... personally, what's bad about me? I come out in a nasty brain rash when I hear any religious apologetics. Just at the mention of "absolute morality" or "slavery doesn't mean now, what it meant back then" (for example) will cause an almost uncontrollable desire for me to "throw my toys from my brain pram" and twitch, jerk and stammer my way into fruitless longwinded brain achingly laborious debate. The place, time or circumstance almost irrelevant, I'll be there like moronic rabid dog chasing it's tail round and round, never stopping from the pointless exercise to notice nobody but I gives a flying crap.

  I find it almost impossible to not to get involved in these weird adhoc debates people have in everyday life. How ever facile or involved I'll be there, acting like a nincompoop, drivelling out the same old tosh that will ultimately be ignored. I like to wear this face during these tirades....

  

  I can't be the only one... (oh please... don't let me be the only one).

  My dub family members don’t speak to me much, not sure why?

  Oh god... I've even just annoyed myself reading back my own post. I've got issues... 'Bad' issues.