Quillsky
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The Hospital Liaison Committee
by Quillsky inplease post any experiences with the hlc here.
have you ever interacted with them?
are your relatives members of the hlc?
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The sexual "morality" thing
by Quillsky inmy mother got involved with jehovah's witnesses in the 1960s/70s because mainly i think she didn't believe in the sexual "morality" or "immorality" of that era.
i believe she didn't see many other religions speaking out against sex before marriage and abortion.. and so she drew relatives and her own children down into the trap, the morass, the molasses, of anti blood transfusion and end-of-the-world clap-trap thanks to her well-believing sexual morality.. anybody else with family trapped because of the "morality" of jehovah's witnesses?.
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Sunday School
by Quillsky inwhy don't jw's have sunday school for kids?
i don't want to give the cult any ideas, but it sure would help them to keep the families in, plus be more mainstream in the eyes of the public.. oh my god, the indoctrination you could do on little minds in sunday school, rather than the mind-numbing age-inappropriate stuff kids have to sit through in the watchtower study..
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Cognitive Dissonance
by Quillsky inthe term cognitive dissonance is thrown around often on this forum, and rightly so, imo.
it has been discussed before and will be discussed going forward, but another thread made me realize that perhaps now is a good time to re-open the discussion.. in brief, cognitive dissonance is how our minds work to close the gap between our attitudes and what we believe to be true, and what we do and experience to be true.
our minds want to close that gap, or reduce the dissonance.. so if what we believe doesn't match with what we're doing, we shift our minds to close the gap.
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OK, I may be about to start writing another (JW related) novel
by JeffT ini'm working on getting the first one ready to go to publish on demand, and when my historical novel gets back from my proofreader it will get shopped to agents.
i'm working up plans for a sequel to that, but i won't write until i know if anybody is interested in it.
i've received some positive reaction to "armageddon's disciples" but the subject matter - a fictitious religion that drinks the kool-aid seems to be a bit obscure.
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If you moved to do field service abroad
by dgp ini wonder if those of you who went to do field service abroad could tell me what made you go, what did you think of the prospects of leaving your home country for areas that are not the best in the world, and whether you got any compensation from the wts for your work.
i'm asking this question as a non-jw.
i'll appreciate your posts.
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Who is the Governing Body?
by God_Delusion inhi guy's & gal's,.
i've published this article; governing body of jehovah's witnesses.
please let me know if i've missed anything out, as i'm quite sure i have.. .
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I had a dream about being in a Kingdom Hall with undercover "apostates"
by Quillsky inlast night i had a vivid dream.
i was in a kingdom hall, not one i recognize, during a watchtower study.. not once in the many years since i left do i recall dreaming about meetings, field service, or anything jw-related.
so i'm sure that spending time recently on this site inspired the dream.. so i was sitting on the far right of a row near the front, near the door, with my mother.
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ANOTHER Earthquake, 6.3 Papua New Guinea
by CrimsonAshes infrom cnn.
a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck papua new guinea sunday morning, the u.s. geological survey reported.there were no immediate report of injuries, damages or deaths.. the quake struck at 9:15 a.m. sunday (7:15 p.m. et saturday), according to usgs.. the quake's epicenter was 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of lae, papua new guinea, and 300 km (185 miles) north of the capital, port moresby, papua new guinea.. the quake had a depth of 66.2 kilometers (41.1 miles), usgs said..