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  Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i was looking over the notes on my old elders book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.

  "when you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told.

  when i went back to school, i learned this quote in one of my world history classes..

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  It's a truism. Repetition and emphasis. Reminders. These become mental habits that seem stronger than hypnotism.
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  I never realized how boring I was.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

  thats what happened this morning.

  i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

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  I'm still boring. Of course, I never pretended to be anything else. :)
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  OSCE (The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

  by Paul Bonanno in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have noticed that the jws are participating in meetings organized by the osce.

  they are registered or participate under the "european association of jehovah's christian witnesses".

  one point highlighted in this organization is tolerance.

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  I wish us ex-JWs could also be represented in the OSCE and other like organizations.
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  Washington Post in US: Jehovah's Witnesses Face Child Sex Abuse Investigation in Australia

  by cultBgone in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it's finally hit mainstream media in the us!

  let's hope some savvy investigative journalists see a pulitzer for opening up this story to cover the us and worldwide cases.. jehovahs-witnesses-face-child-sex-abuse-investigation-in-australia/2015/08/14/.

  everyone who is able should hurry up and post comments on their website as the pro-jw forces have rallied and are trying to squash this as libel.

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  Finally? It's been a month or so. :)
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  Canadian Bethel among the secretive charities

  by gone for good in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/11/15/audit_of_charities_encounters_resistance.html.

  interesting canadian information on popular charities.

  regarding the "cushion" factor that mentions how many years these charities could continue to function without a single donation remember that the wt brranches download all proceeds directly to new york.. classic cult conduct in handling donated fundswith minimal transparency.

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  "All who do wicked things hate the light and don’t come to the light for fear that their actions will be exposed to the light."--John 3:20
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  For Those of You Who Still Serve... How Do You Do It?

  by Kingdom Evader in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new here... been lurking for some time now.... i still serve... but with each passing day, it gets harder and harder.

  i'm slowly... slowly working on my wife (i call her mrs. hardcore) and even my m-i-l (who taught my wife how to be hardcore).

  making some amazing progress... they are still hardcore... but unrecognizable from a couple years ago!.

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  Welcome!

  I wish I could give some input, I've been faded 3 years...I know I couldn't do any of that!
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  The new 'classes' jehovahs-witness.net has created. Which one are you?

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  over time a number of different 'classes' of members have arisen on this forum.

  1] apple watch watchers - this group takes a great interest in watches worn by members of the governing body.

  2] cult escape consultants - one who freely offers advise on how to flee from a cult - mainly the wt society.

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  4] Class categorizers –everybody must go into some box.
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  Conditioned to fail

  by Jordandemm in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just want to say hi and a big thank you to all that post in this site.

  it has been extremely tough waking up as a born.

  but in slowly removing any doubts about leaving this man made religion.

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  Yes, if you are shy, have social anxiety, this is very difficult. For an extrovert, it would likely seem easy to start over.
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  Conditioned to fail

  by Jordandemm in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just want to say hi and a big thank you to all that post in this site.

  it has been extremely tough waking up as a born.

  but in slowly removing any doubts about leaving this man made religion.

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  This is likely the number #1 problem for former JWs.

  I find that the older one is, the more difficult it is to make new friends, real friends. Other people already have established social circles and have no room for newcomers. They are at capacity.

  As a JW, all you had to do is show up. You are automatically trusted and "good association". Of course, this sort of 'friendship' is the equivalent of Monopoly money...once the game ends, it ceases to have value.
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  What The Hell Couples

  by Clambake in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  penny and leonard.

  billy bob thorton and anglie jolie.

  lyle lovett / julia roberts.

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  I think we should be happy for any guy who lands someone traditionally "out of his league". We should all be as lucky. Why would we feel anything else or be so judgmental?