#ex sda

[fairiencarnate]

I never had a favourite song. There were too many amazing songs in the world by too many brilliant artists to pick one. Until I heard this song and it healed something deep inside me I didn't even know needed to be seen and heard and danced with

Ethel Cain || Sun Bleached Flies

[iscariotapologist]

"when you were a kid what did you want to be when you grew up" i didn't want to be anything because i thought jesus was coming back in the next few years and i wanted to die before that happened so i didn't have to get tortured by the government. lol!

[fairiencarnate]

I hate when christians try to christian-splain me as if I didn't spend 18 years devoting myself to it and believing nothing else. Like quote any bible verse at me and I'll tell you 5 different interpretations bitch. But also don't cause you're wasting my time and energy

[ivebeenmade]

Watched cartoons on the sabbath day

Why are you lgbtq+? wrong answers only GO

[that-cunning-witch]

Seventh Day Adventists want to be Jewish so bad but the SDA isn't ready to hear that

[late-moonie-thoughts]

I think the irony of my mother sending me to SDA schools from primary school to university is I ended up seeing so much bs that I'm an atheist now

[luniceity]

-- Ellen White

"none of these words are in the bible" you're not even reading the secret part of the bible. with all my posts in it

[chasinghalebopp]

So....I reapplied to work with Adventist Frontier Missions

Stupid, I know... but I found myself at the application page for some reason, and I was curious what one had to fill out (it had been a few years since I applied), and I started to fill it out somewhat sarcastically. Before I knew it, I hit submit and got an email from one of the top brass of AFM! I imagine to myself what the world would have looked like for me had I just pretended to believe and went along with everything. Could have I put my morals aside and told others that Ellen G White was inspired, that the Sunday law was a real thing, and that reading fiction leads to insanity? Could have I put my dignity behind and told others that it is not good to play cards/checkers/chess, go bowling, or have too much sex with one's spouse? I don't know... I could have lived an easier life like some of my ex cronies do. But, I could not get myself to do it. Even at the start, I could not get myself to raise donations. It seemed strange and deeply immoral to me. And then I started to read about Ellen White and it all fell apart. So, I don't know if I should have applied to work with AFM again. The person who looked over my application could tell I was not serious, and no, I am not serious. Then he tried to get me to accept Jesus. I don't think so, tiger. Not today. Not your Jesus. Not Ellen White's nasty Jesus. I don't want anything to do with that person. That person didn't die for me. That person wants me to live a life of death. No cards, checkers, fiction, cheese, entertainment, laughing, joking, or spending my earnings on enjoying life? No thanks. That sounds like a hellish existence. Not being able to swim on the Sabbath. Screw that! Nah, I'm glad to be free of that Jesus, and I am so glad I can joke around about being a part of AFM. Will. Never. Ever. Happen.

[spurgie-cousin]

if you're still interested in seventh day adventists, knowing better on youtube just put out a nearly three hour video on their history. i'm about two hours in and have found it really interesting.

i will check that out, thank you for the recommendation!! i'm definitely still interested, but because they're a smaller church it's definitely been a little bit harder to find ex-SDA stuff just compared to some other groups.

[iscariotapologist]

hi, sorry if this is too personal but if you dont mind, will you let us know why did you leave SDA?

sorry i took so long to answer this, i've been trying to come up with a better answer but i think i will just be blunt: i value science and facts that are true in real life and not pulled completely out of someone's ass or their awful fundamentalist interpretation of the bible, and i don't appreciate religion being used as a tool to subjugate and instill fear. it was extremely fucked up to grow up wanting to die asap because i was taught the sunday law was imminent and i would be tortured and killed for going to church on saturday if i wasn't "lucky enough" to be dead first. i was barely educated as a child and when i went through the sda education system in high school and college it left gaping holes in my knowledge and cost exorbitant amounts of money to do so. "the health message" destroyed my relationships with food and (aided by lethal levels of misogyny) my body. they barely let women preach much less be ordained. i couldn't act normal about saturdays until recently. also i'm gay. also the constant pushing of missionary bullshit is evil. dude you get the side eye for wanting to drink coffee or use black pepper or eat pickles. they will go to the ends of the earth to "prove" the world is 6000 years old. why would you stay

[briar-rolfes-research-oubliette]

Oh my god not me as a young adult knowing so many people in cults that I accidentally invented a version of this. Mine was:

Shunning anyone who leaves

People have to marry within the church, and they had BETTER have children

Strict dress codes

Allocating something mainstream society does as The Most Evil Thing. Usually this is “do not drink alcohol, do not drink coffee, do not go dancing, do not celebrate (holiday)”—this prevents members from socialising

Allocating something mainstream Christianity does as The Most Evil Thing, so there’s no risk of members getting deprogrammed by making “safe” Christian friends from other denominations (JWs will not interact with Christmas or imagery/discussion of the cross; Seventh Day Adventists think Sunday church services are a sin; churches like LDS and my mum’s church believe the Bible should only be interpreted through the text of their church)

Of course, a very intensely charismatic leader either in the present or in the past of the church, with this idea that they did receive some direct communication of Truth that is hidden to everyone else (usually a direct revelation about what the bible “really means”)

The BITE model covers wayyyy more than this and is way more effective but I think it does miss the one that I now am very interested in:

Obsession with member’s health and diets; what they can and can’t eat, what medicine they can and can’t take, with the church drawing direct parallels between spiritual health and physical health

Connecting this spiritual/physical health to reproductive health, with the goal of producing the healthiest possible children; a belief that disability or disobedience in a child is evidence of a parent’s failings

After reading about Seventh Day Adventists and Christian Scientists the parallels between their doctrine and eugenics are kind of impossible to ignore. Cults are pretty obsessed with preserving “””the white race”””” and it’s interesting that the LDS, SDA, JW and Christian Science churches all began roughly around the same time of American history and had the same broad focuses and approaches. I really recommend a waltz through the sexual teachings of the SDA church founders if you ever want to feel just absolutely and bizarrely disconnected from reality.

(I’m not even going to start thinking about it but it’s Interesting how the thought and emotional control stuff is present in parts of fandom. Keeping that Pandora’s Box closed for now).

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

[fairiencarnate]

My mum didn't like my obsession with fairies as a child because the only fantastical things that were ok to believe in were biblical. After church every saturday I would play fairies with my best friend in the church garden. It was my little fairy rebellion.

[marabarl-and-marlbara]

Olá!☺️

Sou adventista do sétimo dia. Encontrei seu blog recentemente e me chamou atenção. Li que você gosta de frequentar a igreja. Do que você mais gosta na IASD?

hello liradasilva,

i do not speak portugese(?), i used translate, though;

i really enjoy going to my SDA church, partially because i just have a lot of love for both my pastor and the peoples there who have shown me really nothing but kindness and generosity--partially, also, because i used to go to school there when i was fairly young, and the schoolmistress there (she was the only person working at the school, actually; there were only ~8 students) helped physically rehabilitate me (i had spent a period being homeschooled that left me unable to stand for longer than ~8 minutes because my legs atrophied; i didn:t really leave bed for a few years while homeschooled). as a consequence of the rehabilitation, i learned i liked playing sports incidentally (we mostly did soccer but i learned to like softball later on);

there is also just an *interest* factor with the SDA -- while i had known them from being a child and attending school there, i actually had very little idea what made an Adventist different from a Baptist (or any other denomination); just three-or-four years ago i decided i wanted to back to church and reconnect with what i felt was "my religious background" after painfully trying to find some acceptance within scientology by trying to graft myself onto the religious background of someone i loved (who was an ex-scientologist, born and raised). anyways, i basically learned SDA just-nearly could be considered a cult within Christianity depending on who you ask, and has some idiosyncrasies that i really like: i like that they have a modern prophet, i like their dietary laws, i like their segregation from the other denominations via observance of the sabbath, and: i like that i am tied to them.

i think those are all the reasons why i like going to the SDA church; take care!

[masquerade-v]

Might have already asked about this before so forgive me if I have!

To my knowledge/understanding, and correct me if I’m wrong, Katherine Nyx and Tomas have become independent characters separate from their origins as Eddsworld Saloonatics characters.

So I don’t think any of them are connected to the events of your old sideblog (“old” bc idk if you still use it I didn’t check before writing this) Ask Possessed Tom

But bc of their origins in saloonatics and part of the APT story I can’t unsee Nyx and Thompson from that blog as bitter exes or something and honestly that’s really funny to me

If you’ve talked about any of this before sorry!! I haven’t been keeping up with your blog for the past few months

Oh, it's alright! I think I haven't talked about it in a good while lol.

I definitely don't blame you, I can see why and I might keep that in for the modern-day story [SDA] [again, might. I just have to see where my writing takes me.]

While on the one hand, I do like the idea of them reuniting and being all lovey-dovey, on the other hand, however, the idea of them being bitter exes or in a love-hate relationship is very tempting as well, for multiple reasons.

I'll keep brainstorming on it but man it has been a while since I've checked on that blog. It did help me out with my comic-making skills a lot tho! One day I'll get back to that rhythm, just have to get through school hell :') [there are always breaks I guess!]

[godsporncollection]

*"mormonism" is just one brand of high demand religions. If you're a questioning JW- choose option 3. Ex-SDA? Option 1. Never belonged to a high demand religion? Option 5. Just kinda "inactive" but not quite sure if you believe or not? Probably the last one, but how you feel is totally up to you.

If you find this after the time is up, feel free to reblog/reply with your answer.

[sefruit]

Bulan Oktober 2024

sampailah juga dibulan kelahiran w, tbtb 25thn bgt gak tuuu.

Marhaban bulan Oktober, bahagiaaaa buanget. Makasi ya Allah. Mari kita mulai rekap di bulan ini 1. Awal okt, banyak kado kado yg datang hihi. Wop u ol <3 2. Kondangan ke salah satu temen kuliah, Sda jauh jg 3. Mam2 sama orang kantorrr 4. Kondangan sama doi pertama kali, hihihi. Terus kegep bestie SMA 5. First time bgt ke Ampel tbtb, ternyata setenang itu yes 6. Kondangan ke temen SMA, trs ketemu bak dan met 7. Pertengahan bulan Okt niat me time malah diparani arek2 bjir 8. Hari2 olwes ke BGJ sama bos 9. fyi bobot mundak 4kg bgt bun 10. tbtb ke Sda lagi, ortu bestie meniggoy 11. tbtb ketemu temen ex ormw trs ditemeni temen north 12. AAAA kali kedua tbtb ke rumah doi lagi sama ke rumah mbaknyaaa. Very warminggg 13. ketemu temen x-kantor jg dahhhhh