Hi Lobsto, welcome! You write very well and are obviously very intelligent.
Education and financial independence are the way forward especially if your parents reject your wishes for a new life. You have to eat and live somewhere so take it slow!
Xanthippe
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Introductions
by Lobsto inwell, i finally made an account.
i’ve been lurking on here for four or so years, enjoying the debates and experiences of all of you.
it really helped in that initial year after i woke up, when the frustration and betrayal felt strongest.
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Do you have a barking, snarling, vicious Brain-Dog too?
by Terry inthere is a snapping vicious junkyard dog in my head.
a dog constantly barking, hungry, terrifyingly intimidating, and above all...relentless!.
unless i feed it a constant stream of input - it threatens to eat me alive.. (it is that monster from the id in forbidden planet.).
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Strangest JW you ever knew stories
by rickroll inwe all know/knew people in the kh that were about nuts.
tell us your strangest stories.
i will start.
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Xanthippe
Strangest JWs? My mother! She made us go to boring conventions when we couldn't even afford holidays or new clothes for that matter.
Standing at the bus stop in London with four kids the Wembley JWs told us to wait at to go to the digs they'd assigned us.
Eleven o'clock and still no buses! If it wasn't for a guy who was keen on my older sister giving us a lift we'd have been there all night.
Still she believed in these incompetent idiots and booked more conventions. Edinburgh was awful, five of us in one room. Not even a drink in the morning let alone breakfast. Those were the days!
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Shunning Your Children Is No Big Deal....Really?
by The Bethelite inthe worst form of punishment for any major crime on the planet is death.. however, the second option of imprisonment is way more powerful and popular all over the world.
the most powerful form of imprisonment is called solitary confinement.
by shunning people this is what you inflict on your loved ones who no longer want to be the same religion as you, .
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Xanthippe
Shunning is an ancient way to treat people who have different beliefs or practices.
The term ostracism comes from the practice of writing a person's name on pieces of pottery called ostracons in ancient Greece and tallying up how many had voted for a person to leave Athens.
How come JWs believe shunning is from Jehovah through the faithfull slave if they did it in Greece two and a half thousand years ago and they worshipped Zeus and Hera?
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Do you have a barking, snarling, vicious Brain-Dog too?
by Terry inthere is a snapping vicious junkyard dog in my head.
a dog constantly barking, hungry, terrifyingly intimidating, and above all...relentless!.
unless i feed it a constant stream of input - it threatens to eat me alive.. (it is that monster from the id in forbidden planet.).
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Xanthippe
My brain won't shut up if that's what you mean Terry. It makes it difficult to relax or leave something alone that's bothering me.
I'm okay with it now, it saved me from a crazy cult and it's helped me learn about reality.
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Bite Model
by lriddle80 inhas anyone ever shown a jw that came to your door the bite model of a cult?
what happened?
i am thinking of using that strategy if one comes a' knocking..
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Xanthippe
At a meeting once a speaker said people say we're in a cult, so to prove it he asked the audience to give a scripture about the new system. About ten people gave a different scripture
There, he said, we're not in a cult because we have minds of our own! Sad and pathetic.
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If You Criticize A Person of Color Are You A Racist?
by minimus inseriously, it’s getting to a point that you can’t make a negative comment about someone without being charged as a racist, homophobe or sexist!
if you criticize a female, you are obviously sexist.
if you criticize someone who happens to be gay, you must hate homosexuals.
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Xanthippe
If you criticize a person of colour are you a racist?
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on the circumstances - obviously. I'm ready for the nect deliberately inflammatory question.
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Half Your Children Are Dead And Your Still Happy?
by The Bethelite inhalf your children are dead and your still happy?
i have/had a jw friend who has five daughters.. she was a born in as her daughters were also.
two of the daughters are out and have waken up.
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Xanthippe
So tell me the part again about how happy you are living in this paradise picking up the bones if not yours other people's dead children?
Honestly some parents are so controlling they would rather see their kids dead than choose a life different to their own. Whether it's a different belief system, political ideology, sexual orientation, moral code or whatever. It's do exactly as I say or you're dead to me.
Of course people like that are attracted to controlling cults but they would make their kid's lives hell whatever their choices if they weren't identical to their own.
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If You Could Pick Just One Title Of A Song That Would Describe Your Life
by The Bethelite inwhat would it be?.
mine would be "rocket man" by elton john.
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Xanthippe
'It's been a long long road getting from there to here.'
Someone's going to tell me that's not the title, but 'Faith of the Heart' is a bit naff. That first line better describes my life. Great song (Star Trek Enterprise theme).
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Bump old threads
by peacefulpete ini have tried a couple times to revive an old thread by posting a new comment.
for a short time is appears in the "latest" section but soon disappears again.
why, what i am doing incorrectly?.
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Xanthippe
Pete it will disappear if no one else posts on it because other threads that people are posting on will move up the line to latest.