LostintheFog1999
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Watchtower Doublespeak on Tolerance
by LostintheFog1999 inthis story is about a person who chose modern day paganism over jehovah's witnesses for obvious reasons.. it's the usual watchtower doublespeak at the end of it about what a tolerant religious group they are that annoyed me!.
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-02-21/why-are-more-people-choosing-to-follow-paganism.
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CSA VICTIM SPEAKS OUT.
by LostintheFog1999 ini happened to come across this video at the beginning of the week.
you feel so sorry for this poor woman who experienced csa and then the hardheartedness of the elders (what's new there) when she needed genuine love and help.. https://fb.watch/j1qacgxphi/.
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Stress of Going to a Summer Convention
by LostintheFog1999 inspotted this picture on a friend's page, he was highlighting the mental health issue.
however,we thought the magazine on stress was deliberately placed in the summer months because for any jw going to a convention, paying high season hotel rates for themselves or their whole family to stay near the convention centre, fighting coworkers and managers to get the time off work, travelling expenses, buying their own meals for the family, buying new shiny suits and dresses to impress (particularly if you have teenage girls who are looking for their prince), and more.... by the time they come home again and straight away back to work, their nerves will be so frazzled that their stress levels will have sky rocketed!.
as brother elder says to them, "don't worry.
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Divisions deliberately caused by God?
by LostintheFog1999 inassuming that you don't dismiss genesis outright as a collection of myths, i was musing about the actions of god as recorded in genesis 11:1-9 regarding the building of the tower of babel.. this origin story for the multiplicity of languages in the earth has god getting annoyed with humans for staying in one location instead of filling out across the whole world.. yahweh could have stopped the tower being built by collapsing it by means of an earthquake, sinking sand, or an extreme gale.
even using an angel to kick it over when everyone was tucked up in bed asleep.
but no, instead he muddles up the vocabulary and grammar and made brand new languages creating division and confusion.. what's more he didn't scatter them and send them off in mixed multicultural groups, but instead he lets them wander off in tribes and family groups.
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Religious Trauma and the Fear of Armageddon
by LostintheFog1999 inapparently it isn't just jw children who live with a fear of dying at armageddon, kids from born again families live with a similar fear, as this article explores.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/rapture-films-left-behind-evangelical?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab.
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I wonder what the real JW attendance percentages would be?
by LostintheFog1999 inmost churches in the usa are in decline according to pew research.. i wonder what the real jw attendance percentages would be?
mind you from what i hear there's still a lot of them attending meetings on zoom.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/22/us-churches-closing-religion-covid-christianity?.
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Prophets other than the FDS.
by LostintheFog1999 inwhat does anyone think about the "famous people" who allegedly predicted the future?
edgar cayce, nostrodamus, etc.... are they just as much whack jobs as the wtb& ts?.
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New Book by an ex-jw
by LostintheFog1999 inamazon is showing that i could pre-order this book based on my previous purchases.
another ex-jw memoir.. hoax: a woman's journey to reveal the indoctrination of the jehovah's witness cult, addiction, and mental health diagnoses..
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Love - the Identifying Mark of Real Christians?
by LostintheFog1999 inthe jws are fond of quoting john 13:35 that love is the identifying mark of the true religion claiming that only they have this love among themselves.
they love each other.. i was reading the gospel of luke today and thought about the words of jesus luke 6:32-35 niv, “if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?
even sinners love those who love them.
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"Beyond the Wound" - Healing from Religious Trauma.
by LostintheFog1999 inthe symptoms of religious trauma are similar to those suffered by people who have lived in a war zone or in abusive environments.
beyond the wound is a new online conference on religious trauma that begins sunday (jan. 15).
including, but not limited to, jehovah's witnesses.. https://religionnews.com/2023/01/12/religious-trauma-conference-beyond-the-wound-equips-survivors-for-recovery/.