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Reblog if you are the antichrist

Reblog if you are the antichrist

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This year, Christians are invited to join this beloved annual Pagan festival.

(We won’t tell your god.)

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JW Facts

FACT: Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe bad people go to hell

FACT: Jehovah’s Witnesses are not against equal rights (religious rights, race rights, gay rights). You’ll never see JWs protesting since we are politically neutral.

FACT: Jehovah’s Witnesses accept numerous blood alternatives (i.e. thinners, volume expanders, cell salvage)

FACT: Jehovah’s Witnesses are not forced to become members with baptism (such as child baptism). They have to make that decision for themselves only.

FACT: Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t just shun people.

FACT: Jehovah’s Witnesses do not want to force their beliefs on others. (If you don’t want to hear their message…don’t answer the door. It’s that simple.)

I hope that clears up some misinformation about my faith.  We really are not crazy doomsday-ers. Most of us live very ordinary lives and enjoy hanging out, having fun, and pursuing creative interests. I know plenty of friends from school who were surprised to discover I was one. They just assume based on what they’ve heard from others that we are abnormal people. If you have further questions, try asking a JW yourself when they go knocking at your door. Promise…we don’t bite :). Our service is not “convert based” as some state. We really just want to share spiritual encouragement with our neighbors. Otherwise, try the library on JW.org which is the only official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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A NYC grad student working on food stamps for her thesis has released a free cookbook for those living on $4/day.

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Why is it sad that tumblr has implemented its policy. If people started pasting sex ads in your books in book stores, would that be okay with you? If your publisher had a policy against it would you say it’s sad? I get frustrated with NSFW tumblrs when they follow my pop culture tumblr. I know they are not interested in comics or movie reviews and when I block them I’ve had to see some pretty disgusting photos and videos.

Because tumblr isn’t a book of mine. It’s, at its best, a community, which includes a number of things, and sexuality is one of the things it includes.

I’ve got about 400,000 people following me here, and I’ve never stopped to investigate what any of them are or what they like. But sometimes I’ll click on the tumblr of someone who’s asked a good question or reblogged with an interesting comment, and found myself in very NSFW places. So assuming that people who like pop culture cannot also like nakedness, sex, or figuring out their sexuality in a safe space, would seem to me like a misguided assumption.

I was impressed by this piece on Medium today: https://medium.com/@vexashley/porn-on-tumblr-a-eulogy-love-letter-6d45e70fefff which is far more knowledgeable about these things than I am.

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Ideally, babies born into said bubbles would be raised outside the bubbles in a secular environment. Hard to implement, but I believe child indoctrination is child abuse.

The thing is I feel torn on this issue, as it feels very grinchy to come barging in all shouty when people are using religion as a coping strategy in their life or choose to adhere to particular traditional social mores in their personal life, I mean there is nothing wrong with that at all.

Except… it needs to be a voluntary activity, you know? Which sort of requires it to be something of a niche, something that doesn’t take over the whole world.

People argue a lot about the very existence of BDSM, but that argument would get a lot more heated if it used to be universal and mandatory, with no opt-out.

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At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.  At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career and landed his first movie role at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first major movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first major movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

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“I wonder if this is what binds many of us who de-converted, across denominations, across varying beliefs; what it is that allows us to easily understand each other’s experiences — we were given an understanding of the ourselves that said that we did not belong to ourselves, that to live rightly we should relinquish any sense of our autonomy, any idea that we could judge our own beliefs for ourselves. We sacrificed our internal understanding for an external belief system on the sole grounds that we were told that this was the truth of existence. Which means that the very act of de-converting is done with an understanding that we are seen as betrayers, as committing the ultimate rebellion: a rebellion against God himself. A rebellion against truth, reality, reason, morality, and goodness.”

— When You’re Taught Autonomy is a Lie, on somaticstrength (via speakingwhentheworldsleeps)

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“Trauma is a wound. Complex trauma is thousands of wounds inflicted on already existing ones. You’re not weak. You’re made out of wounds. You deserve to retreat. You deserve to rest. Just existing with so many wounds is exhausting and a torture.”

— you don’t have to explain to anyone why you can’t get out of bed today. (via furiousgoldfish)

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shoutout to those who are trying to get better.

keep it up. i’m proud of you.

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People in my congregations loved doing this shit lmfao.

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“It may be the last video I make.”

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This is the full 40-minute video made by Princess Latifa and recently released by her friends. 

WARNING: TRIGGERS. THIS IS DEEPLY DISTURBING. 

“If you’re watching this, I’m either dead, or in a very, very, very, very bad situation.”

The first time she tried to escape, she was only 16. They stopped her at the border, put her in prison, and tortured her. She narrates the failed escape of one of her older sisters, who was also kidnapped and tortured. 

IF YOU’RE A WOMAN IN THIS FAMILY, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS. 

“They made my adopted sister live in a cage inside the house.” 

“The first time they tortured me I didn’t feel any pain, because I was in so much shock.” 

“Your father told us to beat you until we kill you. Those were his orders.”

She tells the story of a female relative from Morocco who was killed just for being loud and outspoken.

Latifa was tortured in prison for three years as punishment for her first escape. She tells the details of the torture, deprivation, and total isolation. She was in a dark room with nothing except to wait for them to come and torture her again. 

“They will not give me my passport. I’m not allowed to leave Dubai and I’m not allowed to drive. We have assigned drivers who watch us and report back to our father.”

“Now my sister Shamsa has a psychiatrist with her, and nurses. They watch her constantly. They watch her when she sleeps, and write down everything she says and does. They take notes on what she eats, when she eats, when she takes her pills–these drugs they give her that control her.” 

“They’re not going to take me back alive.” 

“He [my father] covers up a LOT of murders. He;s the worst criminal you can ever imagine in your life.”

“I have 30 brothers and sisters. He has this public image like he’s a family man, and it’s all bullshit. It’s PR. He has a son in Lebanon whom he’s only ever met twice. And he just gave him a handshake. The way he lives his life, and the way he treats other people, it’s not what’s being portrayed by his media.”

“There is no justice here, they don’t care. Especially if you’re a female. your life is so disposable.”

“I think it’s time that [my father] faces the consequences of everything he’s done in his life. And he will. No matter what he does to me. All the torture, everything; I’m not scared of him. He’s a pathetic human being. And he will face the consequences.” 

“If I don’t make it out, I really hope that some positive change will come of this.” 

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My heart goes out to ‘Princess Latifa’ (Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum) who is the daughter of Dubai’s ruler/ President of the UAE-  Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.

I was seriously hoping with all my heart her escape would be successful and she would escape to a better life and be free to live her life.

It breaks my heart that she had planned her escape for years and that she didn’t manage to escape and all she wanted was the simple thing of freedom. Freedom from her father, her family, theocracy, sexism, misogyny. 

Why is it so hard for people to listen to Ex Muslim women and women who are forced to live under a religious regimens/ theocratic governments against their will who are clearly screaming for help and simply demand human rights and basic freedom?

It actually makes me sick how hardly anyone is talking about this..Why do so many feminists only want to pick and choose what causes they want to care about. I find it so disappointing and disheartening.

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If you ever find yourself asking, “why doesn’t my kid tell me any of their problems?” look back and think of how you treated them when they did. 

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What people think perfectionism is: I’m going to do this 1,000 times until it’s completely perfect, and it doesn’t matter how tired I am or how many times I fail. Everything I do is super precise and I have absolute confidence but also am super pedantic about getting it right.

What perfectionism actually is: If I don’t get this right on the first try I’m going to cry in a corner and call myself a failure for the rest of my life. I’ve gotten nothing productive done because of this.

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Me, refusing to leave tumblr: sir, this is my emotional support hellsite