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Posts by larc
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26They SLAUGHTER KIDS in JWdom, don't they, Mom?
by Focus inhere the prime sources of data are watchtower publications.. the data.
fact one (from watchtower magazine 15 october, 1993 p32).
doctor x, sympathetic to the jehovah's witnesses, stated that to forego blood transfusions increases the mortality rate for a standard operating procedure from c0.5% to c1.5% (in the advanced world).. fact two (from awake!
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Up for grabs: The Rutherford Award!
by expatbrit inhow do you get your grubby little apostate fingers on this wonderful award?
simple!.
just predict what you think will be the next bit of "new light" coming down the heavenly cable modem to brooklyn.
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larc
Logical,
Thank you for finding Trevor's excellant words. I think you folks will enjoy this one.
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If you went back...
by LovesDubs inive not been to a meeting in five years probably.
yet my husband still goes and i always envision him going in and the hardy handshakes he gives, greeting and being greeted, sitting there with all those suits with the secrets hidden inside, and all those pretty dresses hiding the pain.
if i wasnt disassociated, i wonder if i would be bolder, speak up, be honest with the "friends" instead of toeing the company line.
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larc
Mim,
I admire your spirit and your constructive use of anger. I think your work could make important contributions. As they say, "You go girl".
Thank you for telling us more about yourself. If you want to know more about us, there is a "Hello, hello" thread where many of us have written brief bio's.
Folks,
I have been out for a long time, and I had no idea that there was such a high rate of anxiety disorders and chronic fatigue, especially among the women. One thing that struck me is the resiliency of the human spirit - how people become healthy once they leave and unhealthy environment.
I don't know, but I think that it affects women more than men, because the women, I think, have a greater feeling of powerlessness. There is a parallel here to job burnout. One of the key factors in job burnout is the feeling of being trapped and being powerless to change anything. Just some thoughts.
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If you went back...
by LovesDubs inive not been to a meeting in five years probably.
yet my husband still goes and i always envision him going in and the hardy handshakes he gives, greeting and being greeted, sitting there with all those suits with the secrets hidden inside, and all those pretty dresses hiding the pain.
if i wasnt disassociated, i wonder if i would be bolder, speak up, be honest with the "friends" instead of toeing the company line.
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larc
Mim,
There are some really fine women here who can elaborate on the woman's experience that I am sure can validate your own. Waiting posted a particularly eloquent post on the subject. Unfortunately, I don't know how to retrieve it. I know she will be here tomorrow and I think that she will give some assistance. On your particular work in Australia, there are several people who post here from the land down under who might be able to help you.
On the blending of the Quantitative and the Qualitative, there is a method called content analysis where qualitative information like narratives or interviews can be scored quantitatively for different themes. David McClelland used this method to measure motivation.
Anyway, those are some ideas off the top of my head. Be glad to discuss it further.
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If you went back...
by LovesDubs inive not been to a meeting in five years probably.
yet my husband still goes and i always envision him going in and the hardy handshakes he gives, greeting and being greeted, sitting there with all those suits with the secrets hidden inside, and all those pretty dresses hiding the pain.
if i wasnt disassociated, i wonder if i would be bolder, speak up, be honest with the "friends" instead of toeing the company line.
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larc
Mim,
I would like to hear more about your research and your hypotheses. Regarding your comment on qualitative versus qualitative analysis, I agree with you that often the statistical, quantitative analysis is over emphasized at the expense of real meaning. However, I believe that good research is an artfull blend of both the quantitative and the qualitative.
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If you went back...
by LovesDubs inive not been to a meeting in five years probably.
yet my husband still goes and i always envision him going in and the hardy handshakes he gives, greeting and being greeted, sitting there with all those suits with the secrets hidden inside, and all those pretty dresses hiding the pain.
if i wasnt disassociated, i wonder if i would be bolder, speak up, be honest with the "friends" instead of toeing the company line.
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larc
No Mim,
I don't know you from a hill of beans. I am glad to learn about your background and your preparation. I found your initial post here to be flipant and trite, just as you found mine to be condescending. Anyone who is happy that their work will make the members of their former culture "psychotic" is not very objective when going into their research.
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So What Tipped You Out, Then?
by Englishman incan you remember that distinct moment in your life when you suddenly knew that your time as a jw was truly over?.
for me, that moment came several years after the removal of my privileges in the congregation when i admitted to having known my then fiance in a way that was not fitting for a ministerial servant.. i was quickly stripped of my 2 servants jobs, group study conducting, pioneer status, public talk giving and praying in the kh.
i was also forbidden to ever be alone with the lady concerned.. about 15 months later i was assigned a public talk, after 30 minutes i dried up.
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larc
Well,
As I mentioned earlier, I found the most intelligent young women in the Org., married her, and together, we got out of Dodge.
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If you went back...
by LovesDubs inive not been to a meeting in five years probably.
yet my husband still goes and i always envision him going in and the hardy handshakes he gives, greeting and being greeted, sitting there with all those suits with the secrets hidden inside, and all those pretty dresses hiding the pain.
if i wasnt disassociated, i wonder if i would be bolder, speak up, be honest with the "friends" instead of toeing the company line.
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larc
Mim,
Perhaps I should have provided some elaboration. In a doctoral program, there are several years of course work that are required before one could ever write the kind of paper that you are suggesting. There is a great deal to learn about research methodology before one can successfully embark on the kind of resarch project you have in mind. Also, there is a great deal to learn about the Psychology and Socialogy of women in a paricular cultural context before you can determine what is unique to the JW culture and how that culture is, in fact, embedded in a larger culture, and to at least some degree, part of that larger culture as well. Although your research question seems straightforward, there are many varialbles to consider when conducting valid research.
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If you went back...
by LovesDubs inive not been to a meeting in five years probably.
yet my husband still goes and i always envision him going in and the hardy handshakes he gives, greeting and being greeted, sitting there with all those suits with the secrets hidden inside, and all those pretty dresses hiding the pain.
if i wasnt disassociated, i wonder if i would be bolder, speak up, be honest with the "friends" instead of toeing the company line.
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larc
Mim,
What is your general field of study before you do your dissertation on JW women?
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Any substitute military service was NOT acceptable
by MacHislopp indid you remember this one?.
** yb91 166 sweden-1991 yearbook report ***.
in the early 1970s, a governmental committee was appointed to.
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larc
JT,
You, I, now Focus and many others are appaled at the lack of insight of people like Friend and Xandit who spout legal Bull, and do not understand the unwritten rules of conduct, the subtle and not so subtle pressure of an organizational machine that has ground up human lives as the machine protects itself at all costs. Why they can't see what is so patently obvious to everyone else here is beyond my comprehension.
They are good PR men for the machine, but they are in the wrong place here to try to "Advertise, Advertise, Advertise"