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[radio-free-beth-sarim]

A JW Kid Halloween Story

So unlike most JW kids, I grew up with Halloween for a good part of my childhood. This was because my father was worldly and decided we would have holidays. As I grew up and got further indoctrinated into the religion, the holidays stopped. So my first year without Halloween was a little awkward.

I showed up to school without a costume and was immediately asked what I was dressed as in the snide way people ask children without costumes on Halloween.

"What are you supposed to be dressed as?" She asked with annoyed disdain in her voice.

"I'm a Jehovah's Witness," I responded.

"What?" She asked as if she couldn't believe I said that.

"I'm a Jehovah's Witness," I repeated.

"You shouldn't make fun of people's religion!" She said. "They're good people!"

"I know," I said. "I'm one of them."

"That's disrespectful!" And she went off to report me until people around me began to speak up.

Eventually I showed her my blood card to prove I was actually a JW. She was extremely nice to me for the rest of the day. I told her that I appreciated the defense.

Years later it's a funny story but I felt like shit at the time.

PSA: If a kid isn't dressed up on Halloween, don't say a single fucking thing about it. You don't know what's going on in that kid's life. You're not the fucking Halloween police. Sit the fuck down.

[radio-free-beth-sarim]

When I was a child I was very often told that Armageddon would happen before I reached adulthood. What this essentially meant to me at the time is that I would lose just about everything I cared about, which was what few worldly friends I had and all my toys. This terrified me so much. Everything from "this system of things" was wicked, which I figured meant toys too. I brought this up to my mom and told her I was scared of Armageddon because it meant I'd have nothing. She and some elders in the congregation told me I'd be made perfect by Jehovah and wouldn't miss my toys so I could spend all day rebuilding and worshiping.

I cannot over-emphasize how much worse this was for my state of mind. I withdrew completely from just about everything. I stopped hanging out with friends. I stayed inside, read books, played video games. Just immersed myself in stuff I didn't think would be around much longer. I had to enjoy the things I wouldn't be able to anymore. I stopped applying myself at school because grades won't be important. Seven year old me, facing down the prospect of an eternal youth of servitude and manual labor, only cared about the things I'd be missing when they were gone.

A thing I love to do is telling prepper dudes that one of my disaster readiness skills is making stuffed animals. They never get it. Like, my dude, when things get very bad and we're all sharing overcrowded shelters, you're gonna want the power to comfort children. Trust me.

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Est ce que nous avons été une fois dans la course, pour qu'on se fasse dépasser ?

Est ce que nous avons été une fois dans la course, pour qu’on se fasse dépasser ? https://twitter.com/edithbrou/status/1844836572488761428?t=fWTtM6FRXQ_mVWblzb-XJw&s=19

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https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-08-12/endangered-species-and-wildlife/montana-federal-judge-rules-for-threatened-arctic-grayling/a91717-1?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3_hvoNdBxY4IAXKJ0hp_YcTZCtwlWLR9AgtXN3mSe06Yd-VRYTc434awQ_aem_eJKiPSy6ueUPIPssH_-xJw

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Seramik heykel workshopu | 29 Temmuz 2024 | Gökşen Parlatan Art Studio | Biletino

https://biletino.com/tr/e-xjw/seramik-heykel-workshopu/ Seramik heykel workshopumuza davetlisiniz! Kilin eğlenceli dünyasına giriş yapacağız ve ellerimizle harikalar yaratarak güzel vakit geçireceğiz. Workshop tek günlük oluyor ve gün içinde yaptığınız iş size ait oluyor, dilerseniz eve gotürebilirsiniz. Malzemeleri biz sağlıyoruz ayrıca kahveler de bizden! İçinizdeki cevheri ortaya çıkarmak…

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Jehovah's Witnesses Exposed by XJW Jordan Maxwell

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My Predictions for Caleb and Sophia

For the uninitiated: Caleb and Sophia are two characters that feature in short videos produced by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society intended to indoctrinate Jehovah's Witness children. They're two young children, siblings, raised as Jehovah's Witnesses and dealing with many of the problems growing up as one brings. For people raised as Jehovah's Witnesses, it brings back a flood of insane memories. I kind of can't help but like them. The kids go through things I went through myself, and as I watch I imagine what they're feeling in that moment. The things I would have felt. The thoughts and emotions I would have suppressed. If you're curious I recommend looking them up on youtube. Owen Morgan aka Telltale has a bunch of videos where he reacts to them and provides commentary. He's just one of many that cover the videos.

Whenever I watch a Caleb and Sophia video I always speculate how they end up. So here's my predictions.

We'll start with Caleb, since his story is one that easily could have been mine. Caleb is the Bart Simpson. He's a kind of rambunctious kid. He would like sports and video games if he was allowed, but he doesn't have those outlets available to him so it all becomes bible study and chores. He's given busy work at meetings and field service, and eventually he gets given "privileges" like working the soundboard and passing the microphones around at the Watchtower Magazine study or organizing and manning the literature counter. Eventually he'll make Ministerial Servant, which is the rank below Elder in the congregation and basically means he's being groomed for command. But thankfully he's never going to be an Elder. He's eventually going to be put in charge of the congregation's other rambunctious young boys, and will be responsible for studying with them and indoctrinating them into the Watchtower Society's beliefs. He's going to be seen as a role model and success story. His post high-school years will see him juggling his responsibilities with the congregation and working in a trade. Statistically window washing, but any given trade is likely. He'll apprentice under another Jehovah's Witness, possibly a relative, who is also likely an Elder who now holds his economic and social future in his hands. Now you'd think with all this going on, is Caleb happy? Well, that depends. He might genuinely be if he's kept too busy to really think about his life or what he wants from it and is too sheltered to experience anything more. But that's really difficult to do. Most JW young men get to experience just enough of the world to give them a taste, and everyone has a vice. Statistically it's porn and smoking. Chances are he'll get caught once, repent, lose his privileges, and then eventually make a slow return shortly after getting married. Caleb is getting married by 19 at the latest. He's full of so many hormones and urges if there's no release he's going to pop. So he'll marry literally the nearest non-related Jehovah's Witness girl roughly his age. If there are none nearby, he'll meet one at a convention or (scandalously) JWdate. Yes, that's real, and it's kind of an open secret because dating websites are not really what a JW should be about. Somewhere in the following years he's going to be working hard at his trade, trying to regain his status as a Ministerial Servant, and figuring out how to live with this stranger he rushed into marrying. Maybe they can make it work. Maybe they can't. I can't say. But kids will be happening soon. Eventually Caleb is going to hit a crisis moment where he needs to decide whether or not this is the life he wants. There's a roughly 66% chance he doesn't. He's got to make a choice. Does he stay in the life he has? Can he leave the Watchtower Society behind and still keep his family? That I can't say. I like to think his wife also has similar doubts, and through this their bond strengthens, they come to truly love each other deeper than they did when they first married, and leave together, sparing their children from the same life they were forced into. But doing that means they'll only ever have each other. Sometimes that's enough. Sometimes it isn't. His wife could divorce him, taking the kids and leaving him alone. He'll eventually find apostate material online and become fervently anti-JW, with only bitter memories among the ashes of a life that never had a chance to be anything but this.

Next we'll turn to Sophia. Some of my story for her is pure conjecture based on what I've seen from friends I grew up with. When I see Sophia, I see specific girls I knew growing up and I think of things they've told me about their lives. I don't have any experience being a girl in the Jehovah's Witnesses, but her story is one that I feel is honestly similar to mine just with her dealing with all of the added pressure of being a woman in a fucked up patriarchal clusterfuck like that. I'll have to make a part 2 for her, as Tumblr has a character count. I will reblog this post with that when I am done with it. Thank you for reading this far. I hope this provides some insight.

[excultbaby]

*ATTENTION QUEER CLOSETED JEHOVAH'S WITNESS KIDS*

I'm your parent now.

I love you. You're not sinful. You're not worthy of death by fireball in armageddon. There's nothing wrong with you. You're perfect. You're beautiful. You're not crazy or attention seeking. You know yourself. You're valid. You can always talk to me if you need help.

Be safe and have sweet queer dreams ❤🏳️‍🌈

[sygil-loux-hq]

Ew. Found this under my blanket/stuffy bag while packing. Guess it survived the purge. #exjw #xjw https://www.instagram.com/p/CFFIvxenIqt/?igshid=1lrobh3t8us3n

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[freedomfromfictionblog]

My mother comes from a family that is three generations of deep indoctrination which is pretty significant considering the cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses roots only goes back to the 1870’s. These strong ties to the history of the Jehovah’s Witnesses means my mother and her family are strict believers that are completely unwavering in their faith. My mother is a embodiment of “Be Steadfast and Unmovable” never questioning anything that she has been taught. To her if it is in the “New World Translation” of the bible then it is factual and true. If it is proven to not be fact, then you are interpreting scripture wrong or the scientific method used was inhibited by some unaccounted external factor, possibly even Satan as an influencer. My mother is the definition of cognitive dissonance.

My father on the other hand, his family was converted when he was a young child. He remembers a single Christmas and birthday before Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked on his parent’s door resulting in his family being converted. Imagine as a child, you have all these friends and yearly celebrations that all children look forward to and suddenly that is all ripped away from you as you have to cut off all your friends and non-believing family, stop celebrating Christmas, Easter, birthdays, mother’s day, father’s day etc all because your parents are brainwashed by some people that knocked on the door one day. It must have been a confusing and awful time for him to adjust.

Because my father had experienced a world outside of being a Jehovah’s Witness, he was a questioner. He is quite an intelligent person and he spent a long time going through a studying and questioning stage which led to him being quite knowledgeable on a vast array of subjects and topics. However something must have snapped in his mind when he was trying to make a sense of the knowledge he was taking in, because all that study and research sadly resulted in him doing a U-turn straight back to the religion. My guess is that it was fear, fear of the doubts that were developing, fear of losing his wife, his child, his entire family and every one of his friends. I know personally it’s excruciatingly painful to mourn people that are not dead or even dying so I can truly understand those fears he must of had. My parents are good and decent people, they wouldn’t harm a single person unless that person had known Jehovah and turned their back on him. That is an entirely different scenario to them.

Jehovah’s Witnesses tend to classify non-believers into a few different categories. First there are Worldly People that have never known Jehovah which is not good, but they are tolerable, and as Jehovah’s Witnesses we should aim to be nice to them and attempt to educate them about Jehovah. Believers that are having doubts are a big problem, however they are savable so be nice but not too nice and attempt to squash the doubt with love whilst reminding them that if they leave, they will lose everything, essentially holding them hostage. Those that choose to leave (as in not disfellowshipped, I will be covering this in a future post) are classified into two categories, Inactive and Apostate. Jehovah’s Witnesses have no scriptural grounds to shun Inactive people however they do so anyway, and this behaviour is not discouraged by the “Governing Body”. Apostate however are the very pinnacle of a terrible person. No one can be worse than an Apostate, the person maybe a good and proper member of society but Jehovah’s Witnesses see them as worse than child molesters and murderers because they “actively work against god”.

Where do I fall? I’m classified as Inactive. What I actually am is an Apostate, but by being careful not to end up in the apostate category, I am able to have a bigger influence on those still in the cult. If you are still inside and want to leave just know you aren’t alone and there will be support if you leave.

[proboha]

Worlds Apart – Oddělené světy

Bude silnější láska k nevěřícímu nebo okovy Strážné věže? Dánské drama podle skutečného případu rozvrácené rodiny Svědků Jehovových (2008)

Poutavé drama o prosazování vlastní osobnosti vůči represivní společnosti sleduje dánskou dívku z rodiny Svědků Jehovových. Sára stejně jako její rodiče a dva mladší sourozenci žije cele svou vírou a ochotně se věnuje všem rituálům včetně obcházení domů a propagace náboženství. Její hodnotový žebříček, jenž převzala od svého okolí, jí však nahlodá vztah s nevěřícím Teisem, který musí s ohledem na zákonitosti jehovistického společenství zatajovat či různě maskovat. Nekřiklavé vyprávění, vycházející z reálného případu, nechává na divácích, aby si z předkládaných sekvencí složili paradoxy víry, která tvrdě potlačuje lidskou podstatu a individualitu. Díky tomu také film není pouhým pamfletem zaměřeným proti jednomu konkrétnímu vyznání, ale přináší obecnější motivy nelehkého hledání vlastní cesty navzdory naučeným zásadám.

Tento film vysílala ČT v neděli 2.9.2012 po půlnoci na ČT2.

Zdroj:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_Apart_(2008_film) https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10243398690-oddelene-svety/21038146375/