Xanthippe
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Book recomend: Oranges are not the only fruit
by londonlady ini have just finished this book and cannot recomend it enough!
for most of the book i was very suspisous that the author had been secretly stalking me my whole life.. it charts the story of "jess" who is brought up in a cult like religon, its not jw's but it could be, it sounds almost the same.
its a warm hearted yet incredible story of how her strong charater enabled her to break free from the cult and find out who she really was.. theres some truly excellent lines in it, my favorite being from the mad cult devote mother "you don't need an airing cupboard when youv'e got jesus!
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Transactional Analysis
by frankiespeakin infor those who like this type of thing:.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/transactional_analysis.
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As A Jehovah's Witness Did You Never Accept Or Believe Something They Taught?
by minimus ini never believed that in 1975 or by the end of the 20th century, we would see the great tribulation occur.
some witnesses would listen to fred franz' talks where he clearly told his audience that 1975 was the end of 6000 years and the beginning of the jubilee....or something like that.. was there something that you never truly accepted that you were supposed to believe as a jehovah's witness?.
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Do they think we are going to say I told you so?
by Xanthippe inapart from the obvious reasons of being afraid of dying at armageddon, being afraid of losing their jw family by being shunned, i wonder what people think of why those who know the organization has become so corrupt don't leave.. do you think that some feel that they would rather get old and die in that religion than come out and have to admit to their family who are already out that they were wrong?
do they think that we are going to say - i told you so?.
i'm wondering because there is just so little compassion in that religion now so do they think we would have no compassion for them if they left?
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It's the 46th anniversary of Star Trek TV series
by moshe ingoogle reminds us how long ago this was, 1966 (or was it 67?
) - i was a teenager in high school and guess what?
i never saw one eposode on local tv.
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Exposing a JW to the definition of cults - good idea?
by NeverKnew infirst, i am not a jw and never was.
i ran into an old friend who had been "baptized" who "encouraged" me to consider looking into the faith he had become a part of (born-in).
i figured, "hey... maybe i'll learn something i've never known.
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My own story.
by JoelCW ini'm a long time lurker, first time poster.
i think i have a similar story to others who were brought up in the so called "truth" but after reading so many stories i thought i'd finally get around to writing mine:.
like i said, i was raised into it and almost my entire immediate family where (and for the most part still are) serious members.
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untitled
by iknowall558 inim an ex jw, out 3yrs after spending 24yrs of my life in the organisation.
i spend most of my time on fb exposing the org and having conversations with active jws.
i have recently agree to a 'bible study' with a woman, a grandmother, who is a regular pioneer and has only been a jw for 5yrs.
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Intense emotional dream
by fade_away ini had a dream last night i don't think i'll ever forget.. .
you see, my brother passed away a few months ago from an asthma attack at the age of 36. i've been learning to accept it and trying to move on, but last night a dream re-opened the wound a bit in a good way.
i dreamt that he was still alive but he knew and we all knew he was about to die...as if it was a terminal illness he had instead.