Posts by mummatron

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LOOK WHAT I GOT!

by Found Sheep in

this says "learn to think".

cult survivor.

happy ex-jw.

mummatron

Wow! Nice, love it.

BTW I love your haircut it really suits you...and now you have me considering going for the chop, LOL.

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Parallels to The Borg in movies?

by fade_away in

hope y'all don't mind if i ghost write this post for my husband.... i recently let my friend borrow my copy of the movie "the island".

for those who haven't seen it, the plot takes place in a futuristic setting in los angeles where science has perfected human cloning.

the latest rage in medicine is to have a clone made and maintained for you should you ever need it for organ transplants.

Son of Rambow - one of the main characters is part of the Plymouth Brethren. When I saw it the restrictions, Elder set-up, women wearing head coverings and how they view outsiders as 'Worldly', reminded me very much of being in the bOrg.

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Hi, Newbie Here

by Iseenow in

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well i have been lurking for the past couple of weeks and have finally decided to create an account.

just wanted to introduce myself and relate my life story in the borg, specifically from the past few weeks- which i think has been a lot easier than many on the board.

anyway, my mum began to study when i was 10 (2005) and since then has been babtized; she strongly believes it is the truth.

mummatron

Hiya!

I'm also in the UK. I got baptized at 18 because I succumbed to the peer pressure from my fellow JWs. It is the biggest regret of my life because the majority of my JW family will not have any contact with me. I also had doubts and each time I raised them I was met with explanations such as "it's demons at work trying to tempt us away from the truth" and "I don't know but I guess that's something Jehovah will reveal to us in the new system". Those doubts ate away at me and all I saw around me in the congregation was nothing but hypocrites, gossips and a distinct lack of this so called "brotherly/sisterly love". I became inactive at 19 and was eventually disassociated at 21.

Like the other posters have mentioned, it's worth waiting until you're older before making such a life-changing commitment as baptism because it will affect you somehowfor the rest of your life. After all, at 16 you can't vote, get a credit card or mortgage, marry without parental consent or drive, so you certainly don't have to let anyone pressure you into baptism before you're 18. Even if you do come across as being more mature than many adults! I definitely recommend getting a good education and figuring out what you want to do for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for the next 50ish years. I'm fortunate that I took A Levels and went to Uni as I've always had my qualifications to fall back on and never had to struggle financially like my parents did.

I'm sure you'll get good GCSE results as your English writing is articulate and displays good critical thinking. What subjects did you take? I'm nosey as I'm part-way through re-training to become a secondary ICT teacher.

Mummatron

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ex-jw-uk

by bigmac in

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i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.

i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?

i've already found several by reading older posts..

mummatron

Thanks bigmac, I must've missed this when you bumped it.

I'm in South Wales.

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New to the Board

by 30 years out in

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i am finally on board after lurking here for quite some time.

i have been impressed and depressed by what i have seen here and hope i can add something meaningful.

a little personal history: i was born the son of the then "congregation servant" and his wife.

mummatron

Hello & welcome! *Waves*

Great to hear that you found a way of living as the person you were always born to be.

Mummatron - (was a bOrg robot almost 12 years ago)

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New 3D smurf movie

by jwfacts in

there is a smurf movie coming in july.

http://www.smurfhappens.com/ they look like the avatar in miniature.. do you think this time around jws will be able to see it, or are they still considered demonised?

will there be a new generation of kids hearing about smurfs running out of kingdom halls, and will they be told about it by the overlapping generation?.

mummatron

The Smurf thing never happened in the UK. They were just used to advertise a brand of Petrol. oh and Father Abraham sang a stupid song with them. They were certainly never mentioned among the witnesses as demons!

Yeah, I certainly don't remember any furore amongst the dubs here in the UK either. As an elder's daughter I was allowed to watch it, only it was dubbed into Welsh: 'Y Smyrffs'.

I was also allowed to watch Care Bears. My mum wasn't so keen on me watching He-Man or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles though, which is daft considering there was far more violence in an episode of Tom & Jerry or Looney Tunes.

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Eve and Her Daughters Whats wrong with this picture?

by Marvin Shilmer in

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eve and her daughters whats wrong with this picture?.

today i loaded to my blog a new article that shows a set of illustrations from one publication by watchtower that lead to a question.

my article is titled eve and her daughters whats wrong with this picture?

mummatron

They're fully clothed. In theory the daughters of Eve in paradise Earth should be perfect and free from sin and so shouldn't be ashamed of their nakedness. It's daft really but I guess the WTBTS was pandering to 1940's culture. Naked = bad, fully clothed = wholesome, modest.

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What's The Longest You've Been In A Relationship?

by minimus in

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and if you were dating someone "seriously", how long did that last?.

mummatron

Just over 6 years with my ex-husband (we were married for 3).

I have been with my current partner for 4 years now. He is my best friend.

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Love and Only Love will Endure - Hate is Everything you Think it Is - Listen

by flipper in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7gyqvqlxo&feature=related.

mummatron

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around - The Prime Minister in 'Love Actually'

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Who has NOT read Combatting Cult Mind Control or Crisis of Conscience?

by Mad Sweeney in

a lot of people here have read and highly recommend ccmc by steven hassan and coc by ray franz, myself included.

i don't know how i would have handled leaving the borg without that knowledge.. so thinking that got me to wondering, who here has not read them (or has read one but not the other), and how are you coping with exiting the borg?

did you get counseling?

mummatron

I've yet to read either of them. Although I've been mentally out for 12 years and physically out for almost as long, I think it would be beneficial for me to read CCMC as my early life as a born-in still affects me to some extent. I'm interested in reading CoC for the historical perspective. I prefer to read a traditional book made of paper rather than a .pdf. CoC is quite expensive on Amazon.co.uk, so I'll probably get CCMC first.