Norcal_Sun
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by Norcal_Sun ini joined this forum a while ago and am mostly a lurker these days, don't have much time to post.
but i have a conundrum i need some help with.
i have mostly successfully faded from the organization, and i was a witness my whole life.
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Help.. was the 8/15/68 WT altered later?
by Norcal_Sun inhello, i am doing some research on 1975 again, and i came across this on a couple different sites:.
are we to assume from this study that the battle of armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of christ will begin by then?
possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man's existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of christ.
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Landmark catholic child-abuse case in Philadelphia
by Norcal_Sun ini just saw this on the news tonight.
looks like this is the first time in america that a higher-ranking church official has been charged with covering up child abuse by shuffling offending priests around.
this could set a powerful precedent.
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JW women and body image
by Norcal_Sun inyesterday i was reflecting on how being raised jw has effected my body image.
i remembered an assembly talk from a couple of years ago.
the speaker was doing your normal talk about modesty in dress.
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by Norcal_Sun ini just read this on the website reddit.com, about a teenager's experience with being kidnapped from his parents house and drove to this "academy.
" also later on he mentions that it is in the nevada desert near area 51 and so you are very isolated and can't easily escape.
also your parents sign over 51% custody to this group.
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Any ex-jw action on Google plus?
by Norcal_Sun ini have a google + account and a facebook account.
it seems that there are a lot of ex-jw facebook groups but i am wary of joining them since i have a lot of dubbie friends still.
google+ seems to have a better contact management system where you have different "circles" of friends who can never see each other (i am aware that facebook has a similar thing, but apparently its not foolproof).. so is there any ex-jw happenings on google+ ?.
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Foreclosed Identities
by Norcal_Sun inhave been doing some enlightening reading today about what the psychological community dubs as "foreclosed identities.
" this is where you never reach the identity creation phase due to another's (usually your parents) beliefs being forcefully imposed upon you.. this is a very interesting article from a psychologist's point of view.
his example is a highly religious person.
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Funny picture
by Norcal_Sun insorry for the lame thread title, its late and i can't think of anything witty .
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How did you change after you left?
by Norcal_Sun ini have been pondering how destructive cults tend to try to model a personality type for their members as described in combatting cult mind control.
i know i have a few personality traits that seem to be a direct result of this.
i was a born-in member, and now that i have been faded for a little while i am starting to see these personality traits that need to be corrected such as keeping quiet so as not to offend others and also not putting much weight in my own opinion.
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University study showing that leaving your religion may be bad for your health
by Norcal_Sun ini am coming out of hiding to post something i found (i am a big lurker on the forums.. don't have much opportunity to post, thank you 6 month old son!!).
i found a link to an interesting study where people who had left a strict religion were interviewed about their health and the findings were not surprising.
i linked it with the comments on the article also because i thought they were interesting as well.. .