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Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

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FOR THE LAST TIME

👏 APOSTASY is the rejection of a faith after having professed it;

👏 HERESY is selective belief in only some of the tenets of a faith one professes, or belief in tenets contrary to those of a faith one professes;

👏 BLASPHEMY is derogation of the honour due to God.

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i."Revelation - It's Grand Climax at hand!" Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, 1988.

ii. "Pure Worship of Jehovah​—Restored At Last!" Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, 2018.

iii. Watchtower magazine, April 1989, May 1989.

Illustrators uncredited in publications and therefore unknown. 

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So I heard there was a new video with "new light" for the JWs, decided to see what was going on reddit and read some crazy shit so I want to see it for myself and I'm live tumblring it right now

The video is titled "2024 Governing Body Update #2"

Ok first of all, Mark Sanderson with a beard, I know the beards are allowed now but it feels weird lol, all these years without and now..? WAIT people from before the Flood and the ones died at Sodome and Gomorrah + the ones who repent during the Great Tribulation could potentially be saved?????? Ok it's too slow let's go for 2x Please can he get to the point Wait so there can be more than 1 judicial meetings for someone?? And a minor can do a serious misconduct and not be automaticaly disfellowshipped?? and the have to face only 2 elders??? So they're less about judging and more about helping people to repent??? Omg they're going to go visit the people who got disfellowshipped a long time ago to get them back THEY CAN SAY HELLO TO DISFELLOWSHIPPED PEOPLE COMING TO THE MEETINGS?????? (except if they are apostates) SISTERS CAN WEARS PANTS???????????????????????? BROTHERS AREN'T OBLIGATED WEAR THEIR JACKETS OR TIES ANYMORE?????

ok finished WTFFF???

Please it's so crazy idk what to say

The other day I was talking to my jw dad about the beards and I was like "haha finally, what about the pants for sisters??" and we talked about the suits the men have to wear and I was like "it's too much, nobody dresses in full suits like that except banks managers".

And now....?? What it's going on?

You know what, I think since they moved out Tony "thights pants" Morris from the governing body they can now do all these changes now.

Idk what to think right now, after ALL these years, in 2024 sisters can wear pants.

My post must sound insane for someone who is a never-jw but all of these are big deal for us.

I don't feel comfortable wearing any dresses or skirts and part of it is because it reminds me too much of the meetings where I had to wear one.

Ok now, when are they going to drop the shunning, no sex before marriage and blood transfusions pls?

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What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (if She Wasn’t a Pillar of Salt)

by Karen Finneyfrock

Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark? When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a promise, did we worry what our friends might be doing with their tongues? What new crevices they found to lick love into or strange flesh to push pleasure from, when we called them Sodomites then, all we meant by it was neighbor. When the angels told us to run from the city, I went with you, but even the angels knew that women always look back. Let me describe for you, Lot, what your city looked like burning since you never turned around to see it. Sulfur ran its sticky fingers over the skin of our countrymen. It smelled like burning hair and rancid eggs. I watched as our friends pulled chunks of brimstone from their faces. Is any form of loving this indecent? Cover your eyes tight, husband, until you see stars, convince yourself you are looking at Heaven. Because any man weak enough to hide his eyes while his neighbors are punished for the way they love deserves a vengeful god. I would say these things to you now, Lot, but an ocean has dried itself on my tongue. So instead I will stand here, while my body blows itself grain by grain back over the Land of Canaan. I will stand here and I will watch you run.

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me?? gay???

it’s more likely than you think!

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with jw convention season being here (and by this i mean for me currently) anyone else remembering that very specific sound of like 1000 ppl turning their bibles to a specific verse all at once. and the specific way the microphone made whatever old dude talking echo in such a way. I've tried to explain those sounds to my friends but they simply do not Get It. i have forbidden knowledge they will never understand and that is so funny to me. very much wish i didn't have that knowledge but whatever lmao

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i know every religion in the world has some sort of statement about them being The one and only truth, but it’s funny to me to read about how the eastern orthodox church claims to be a “continuation of preservation” of the first catholic church - when JWs claim to be following the organization and practices of the earliest manifestations of christianity. especially when you consider the history and animosity between the russian orthodox church and JWs in that country.

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grabs you. hey. listen. one day youll get out of your parents house. you will be able to not go to church on sunday. you will be able to cut and dye your hair any colour you want. you will be able to wear crazy eyeliner and black lipstick or whatever makeup you want. you can swear and be openly queer with your friends and transition and date. YOULL GET OUT OF THERE!!!!!!!

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Ever think about how fucked up the christian God is? Like imagine being the first being to ever exist, imagine being all powerful and unable to be harmed.

Then inventing the concept of harm, pain, and suffering for your creations. Lmao who does that

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Does Jesus X Judas count as historical RPF

cant you guys ever just ask me about my day

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have you guys ever used that subreddit stats tool to look up kink subreddits and deduce which seemingly arbitrary groups of people have certain kinks. i’m a scientist

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i haven’t talked about my family in, um, quite a while, so this is a ranty update (warning: personal, kind of)

my sister was the first one to really de-jw herself (lol how do i even call it?). i don’t really remember when it started, i think around 2018-19, once her daughter was born. it’s a sensitive topic: the father wasn’t (and isn’t) a jw and they didn’t want to be together. my sister had a judicial committee and they allowed her to continue in the religion, but it was obvious that stuff changed for her. a lot of people began to soft-shun her despite everything, and it was clear that the majority of the ones who stuck by her were waiting for the child to become another worker for their doctrine. because my sister was studying a career and had a baby to take care of, she stopped attending the meetings, and i think that was the beginning of the end.

(come to think about it, my sister is the only person in the family with the proper ex jw story. i never got baptized to begin with, and i never bought into the doctrine - the older i got, the less i wanted that life. but even being as young as 8 years old i had problems with god’s way of doing things.)

ever since then, me and my sister have grown a lot closer. she’s actually the only person in my family that i’ve come out to (my brother must know i’m not straight, because i was the designated queer kid in the high school we both attended, so). she’s told me about all the things she has learned to accept about the world around her and the stuff she’s had to leave in the past, and her experiences being an active jw for so much of her teenagerhood. in return, i talked to her about my bad streak when i was 15/16 - which she caused, more or less. but i’ve also been very blunt about not blaming her, especially in those very first conversations that i was so, so careful around lol. i still remember the first time she made an atheist dig to my parents: i was doing the dishes and she leaned in to whisper it on my ear, and while we both laughed i felt euphoric. i finally had someone in my side, after so many years of feeling so ostracized from my own family. the euphoria has morphed into a tighter bond between us. it’s just great, having someone in the house i can be genuinely honest with - and knowing that i’m the same kind of person for her.

my mom came as a bit of a surprise, at least in the beginning. in the line for the taxi, she commented to me that she’d been kicked out from the group chat of the congregation. i’ve always known she has gripes with some members of the community, a highlight of those being her brother: an elder on his congregation that ran away to a town in the south when it came to taking care of their sick mother. but to hear her being alright with people soft-shunning her because of her inactivity, it was a completely different thing. it felt like a step in the right direction, which was something i was actually right about.

that conversation happened a couple of years ago (we were maskless, i think), and we had another one pretty recently. she opened up to me about her faith and her experiences with other jws, especially shining a light on their hypocrisy. i’m honestly kind of used to these stories, but this was different somehow: a story about a flirty brother who passed the line of self-confidence into manipulative charm, and how he made it to bethel before people discovered that he was gay. immediately i perked up, and i suggested a different perspective. how can you expect that a gay guy will just leave the organization, having been there his whole life? he’d lose everything, everyone. to my surprise, my mother agreed. the conversation about faith then took a turn when she talked about a trip she’d had earlier that year with one of the sisters of the congregation. i’d generously call them “family friends”, and my mother refers to the sister as, well, the sister she’d never had. but then she told me some things they shared during the vacation, most of those things she didn’t agree with on a fundamental level. said sister’s desire of marrying her early-20s daughter as soon as possible, or her nonchalant talk of the racism they’ve experienced in the congregation and the organization at large. it was almost exhilarating hearing how my mom actually spoke her mind at those moments, pointing out to her how fucked up some of those things were. i suddenly felt the need to be very careful with my speech, as this was a pivotal moment. there was also mentions of how desperate jws are to keep everyone sheltered and how weird it is how badly they deem young jws that pursue higher education. all of this stuff that she thought for herself, and i was over the moon.

it’s hard to say for sure what she thinks of her faith as of now. recently, my sister barged through my door to tell me the news: my mom was watching the tv, this one show that unmasks certain cults and organizations. and guess what they were dissecting that day lol. my dad got very mad and, to avoid discussions, my mom turned off the tv. but that got her curious, so she did some digging, and ended up knowing about the cases of child abuse. she found my sister in the kitchen, and went on about how angry she was that she’d been defending a religion that was just like the others, covering these cases instead of protecting the people at risk. it felt pivotal enough for my sister to talk to me, but this just seems like a growing trend. if anything, i’m sure my mom hasn’t identified as a jw to other people in years, and i’m sure it will stay that way.

my dad... oof. i just don’t see any situation in which he turns his back at the organization. he’s mastered the art of picking and choosing, and behaves just like that when it comes to the doctrine. i think less of him as someone brainwashed by the organization, and more like someone who’s using it to shape the worldviews he already holds. i’m afraid there’s no hope to end that situation over there, and every conversation we have about the issue is war on earth. i’ve become tired - forgive me for stop fighting. it’s just a detriment of my mental health, when i consider that i have good relationships with everyone else in my family. it pains me to say that it’s not worth the effort, if there ever is a point of return for him.

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