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  How to plant the seed and create some serious cognitive dissonance??

  by Bells in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey :).

  for a while, i've sort of been wondering why i always check in with this board... i mean it's filled with great people of course - and is my only link to what's happening in the jw world, but i shouldn't care that much... i'm not a jw, neither is my husband - it's only his batshit crazy family who are and it shouldn't bother me that much.. however it does interfere with my life and when i'm around them, they do somehow manage to make me feel like crap.

  i think it's all mad and they are most definitely stuck in a cult, however my husband - who grew up as a jw just sort of shrugs his shoulders and is a bit 'it is what it is' - it doesn't seem to offend him as much as it does me.... every time that i hear about a new change or scandal on here, i think 'surely this will be what wakes them up'!

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  Transfusion Experience from France

  by Bells in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  long story short - my in-laws know that i strongly disagree with their blood doctrine.

  i received 3rd degree burns as a toddler and without blood, i would have died.

  no doubt this is much of the reason that i feel the way i do.. my mil sent me an article, saying that i might find it of interest - in other words, it is an example to 'refute my contradictions about blood transfusions'.

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  Convention in Canberra Aus this weekend....

  by Bells in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm just wondering whether there is anyone on this forum who may have attended the convention in canberra this weekend.

  all of my husbands family went and i'm interested to hear what was talked about - especially in regards to members who have 'fallen away from the truth' or references to worldy people.... i find that how we are treated pretty much depends on what articles have come out in the watchtower (study edition usually) and what talks are being given at the meetings - so knowing what is being said helps me to be prepared.... palso - unrelated but can anyone help me - is the teaching that the anointed will all be gone / dead / in heaven before armageddon comes?

  if so, how do they teach that a is 'just around the corner' when the gb are still alive and kicking - as well as other anointed ones... just wowondering.

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  The happiest people on earth... Yeah right

  by Bells in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am looking for some advice - or maybe just some moral support.. i can't find the link to my previous thread... but in a nutshell... husband and i got married a couple months ago after 10 or so years together.

  he was never baptised, but grew up 'in'.

  i never had any exposure to the craziness til i met him and his family.

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  What is the WT's definition of an Apostate...

  by Bells in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't mean the 'unruly men who cook up wicked reasoning and season their brew with poisonous lies that deceive minds' definition.... i mean - who are they actually referring to when they are doing these awful talks at the conventions about the mentally diseased apostates etc.. specifically - is an 'apostate' someone who was actually baptised (baptized for you american's ) ?

  or can someone who was simply raised in "the truth" but left and was never baptised be classified as this lying, deceiving, mentally diseased apostate also?

  or am i considered to be an apostate - even though i wasn't raised in the cult, never went to a meeting etc.

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  The Witnesses stance on seeing a psychologist?

  by Bells in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can anyone clear this up for me?.

  i was under the impression that witnesses were strongly discouraged from seeking help from any therapist / psychologist outside of the organisation.

  this always made sense to me because i'd imagine that many psychologists would realise that a witness belongs to a very high control group once they start speaking to them.. .

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  Mosaic Law - Can anyone help to explain

  by Bells in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm hoping someone can shed a little light in regards to the witnesses stance around mosaic law?.

  as i understand it, they don't follow the law, however do take some principles from it.. .

  so - do they think that the mosaic law came directly from god?

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  So... what's being studied at the moment...???

  by Bells in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm not the most proficient user of computers, so excuse my ignorance - though does anyone know of any websites (the non-complicated ones - you know, no downloading special software etc.

  - yes, i'm that hopeless) that explain what is the 'hot topic' week to week and month to month.. i'm interested in knowing what agenda is being pushed at a particular time, especially in regards to conventions and that sort of thing.

  i find the witnesses that i have to associate tend to be more or less opinionated on certain things depending on what the wt is telling them to think at any one time.. if i am able to understand what they are being told, i think it will help me to avoid getting involved in certain conversations and therefore 'keep the peace'.. does such a site exist?

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  Why do I even care!?

  by Bells in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those of you who dont know my story here it is in a nutshell: im not a witness and never have been.

  in fact i barely knew anything about witnesses (other than they come and knock on your door when youre trying to have a sleep in!

  ) until i met - and fell in love with - a boy at school who happened to be a witness.

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  What do the Witnesses say about this...???

  by Bells in

  1. social
  2. current
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