i have some family and friends still in the organization.
i don't actively seek updates - my lovely contacts provide me with them unsolicited.
so far the updates have been reliable and confirmed sooner or later by subsequent developments.
X, actually in reality there isn't much at all they "can't do" according to those who are controlled enough to believe everything is true and good spiritual food coming out of the WT.
It would likely be seen as advancement and proof they are in the last days! The twisting never ends.
there are some things that i wish the local congregation knew about my husband but i am not sure how to inform them.. my husband was a jw in a previous marriage but none of his family are jw's except for one half sister who he recently met for the first time.
his ex wife is no longer a believer either and their three adult kids want nothing to do with the jw's.. i met my husband 8 years ago on eharmony.
i should have been leary when he stated his religion as "christian".
I finally got my born in, inactive 30+years, then resuming studies husband to read Combatting Mind Control by explaining to him tearfully, that it describes why I feel as strongly as I do and why I have been reacting as I have. At first he flat out refused to read it, saying I '"have no right to ask him to read that" . But one evening, shockingly, after I asked once gain telling him it was about helping him to understand what was happening within ME, he agreed, and agreed to discuss it with me. We did discuss it, but not much. I have to be satisfied that he did read it. He has since quit going to meetings, and studies claiming it was due to my health (extreme stress is a nasty thing). Maybe a planted seed took root? Who knows.
Whatever you do, don't out him , or even speak with the people at the hall. You must never interfere unless you wish a divorce.
Just try to make his non jw-life with you enjoyable, be there for him, listen to him if he ever does want to talk.
the wbts teaches that in 1919 jesus inspected all of christendom and appointed the wbts "over all his belongings" in fulfillment of matthew 24:45-47: "who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.".
impressive Yadda!
1945 black and white photo of beth-shan (now hand colored):.
beth-shan house built in 1939, ten years after beth-sarim on adjacent property.
beth-shan, which means "house of security" in hebrew, was literally a house of security -(cult compound)*- it was accessed by a single dirt road that was guarded and gated.
I agree pistoff, and this created by non other than the "direct and only mouthpiece for God, the FDS" according to the WT society.
i recently came to the realization that the organization is corrupt and is false.
my story is similar to many i think.
i was raised in the religion, pioneered and served as an elder for a number of years.
I admire you all. You have strength, courage and integrity.
"the aim of propaganda is not to try to pass judgment on conflicting rights, giving each its due, but exclusively to empahsixe the right which we are asserting.
propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favorable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side...... the broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form a reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly waveering between one idea and another....the masses are not in a position to discern where the enemy's fault ends and where our own begins..... the great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning.
this sentiment, however, is not complex,but simple and consistent.
yadda, I have. I also think it is cricial for impressionable older teens should be exposed to it with a critical review of what they read.
Teach them before they are ignrant and vulnerable to those type of dangerous leaders.
mcmillan & wife with rock hudson is what i just saw on tv.
watching rock hudson kiss his wife while smoking a cigarette is pretty funny.
and he solved a murder case as he lit up another cigarette at some wealthy person's party.....good stuff!.
I absolutly loved Get Smart
"the aim of propaganda is not to try to pass judgment on conflicting rights, giving each its due, but exclusively to empahsixe the right which we are asserting.
propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favorable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side...... the broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form a reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly waveering between one idea and another....the masses are not in a position to discern where the enemy's fault ends and where our own begins..... the great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning.
this sentiment, however, is not complex,but simple and consistent.
Ok Yadda, makes a lot more sense.
and yes, reading about the techniques, the teachings, the charisma and ability of these insane but extremely effective leaders is the only way to be educated about them. History will repeat itself if people have short memories or don't learn from them.
Nepoleon is another example of a an insanely sucessful leader with massive desusions of grandure, as these all seem to have in common.
Education is the number one defense. Ignorance of these control methods is the number one trait of the victim.
...sneaking into my hospital while i'm there and leaving magazines in all my waiting rooms?.
it's like they have predator suits or something.
pesky boogers.. by the way, if the person or persons who are doing this ever read on this site please know that i pick them up within 30 minutes of your leaving them.. .
Instead of removing them, place stickers in them with good website information like JWfacts.com etc. .
Warning stickers that this is a Cult.... have fun with them ;)
"the aim of propaganda is not to try to pass judgment on conflicting rights, giving each its due, but exclusively to empahsixe the right which we are asserting.
propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favorable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side...... the broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form a reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly waveering between one idea and another....the masses are not in a position to discern where the enemy's fault ends and where our own begins..... the great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning.
this sentiment, however, is not complex,but simple and consistent.
yadda, marylin manson? isn't that a pop music singer? How off topic is that! Do people follow that person?
Yes people should read about Jim Jones, how he taught and how people willigly submitted to mind control. Those who read and critique dangerous ideas, and learn from them are the ones who hopfully ptotect themselves from such dangerous "leaders".
