Posts by dubstepped

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Episode 5 of This JW Life is live - Enter the FOG - The Culture of Jehovah's Witnesses

by dubstepped in

episode 5 of the podcast is now up.

i will take you into the fog, tell you what it means, and explain it in the context of the jw culture.

i also use another known cult model and show how it applies, along with some of my own stories thrown in.. http://thisjwlife.com/episode-5-enter-the-fog-the-culture-of-jehovahs-witnesses/.

dubstepped

@Moster - That poem was something, wasn't it? It burned me up when I originally came across it. Although I was the only person to say that it was awful, there was a JW that pm'ed me that was married to an unbeliever that thanked me for taking a stand. I mean, come on, that's the most prejudicial thing. Like all marriage in the Borganization work out, lol. There's so much dysfunction and abuse in JW families, yet they call out unbelievers as if they own 100% of family troubles on this planet. It's ridiculous.

Yeah, trust issues abound with the cult. I got done wrong so many times.

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Episode 5 of This JW Life is live - Enter the FOG - The Culture of Jehovah's Witnesses

by dubstepped in

episode 5 of the podcast is now up.

i will take you into the fog, tell you what it means, and explain it in the context of the jw culture.

i also use another known cult model and show how it applies, along with some of my own stories thrown in.. http://thisjwlife.com/episode-5-enter-the-fog-the-culture-of-jehovahs-witnesses/.

dubstepped

Thanks guys. I just got it uploaded and then watched the first two Harry Potter movies, the first ones I've ever seen, with some exJW friends. I'm probably demon possessed now according to the JWs.

@jambon - Yeah, the watch thing was hard to take. It's been over twenty years now and it still makes me mad. I think that as much as it made me mad that it happened like that, it made me mad that my mom was so cavalier about it. Oopsy doesn't cut it at a point.

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Episode 5 of This JW Life is live - Enter the FOG - The Culture of Jehovah's Witnesses

by dubstepped in

episode 5 of the podcast is now up.

i will take you into the fog, tell you what it means, and explain it in the context of the jw culture.

i also use another known cult model and show how it applies, along with some of my own stories thrown in.. http://thisjwlife.com/episode-5-enter-the-fog-the-culture-of-jehovahs-witnesses/.

dubstepped

Episode 5 of the podcast is now up. I will take you into the FOG, tell you what it means, and explain it in the context of the JW culture. I also use another known cult model and show how it applies, along with some of my own stories thrown in.

http://thisjwlife.com/episode-5-enter-the-fog-the-culture-of-jehovahs-witnesses/

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TIL - Stay Alive Until '75 Was Plagiarized (Sort of)

by berrygerry in

"keep alive until 1925" - j.f.

rutherford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhjnywjhh8.

dubstepped

Interesting, nice share!

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My parents found out

by BlackWolf in

jw
friends

so in my last post i talked about how i had told my younger siblings how i didn't plan to get baptized or ever be a witness.

i thought i could trust them but i guess i was wrong, they're just kids after all.

my oldest brother (who's 11) told on me today.

dubstepped

You're probably feeling extra awful right now since you just went to a convention. I cannot imagine. Ugh.

Use that as motivation, as if you needed any, and a timeline. Work every hour that you're not in cult related activities and save money. Money = options. Be determined never to go to a convention again so as to avoid this feeling. You have one year to kill it.

Focus on one thing, working and saving money. I bet you could save a lot in one year even while doing dub stuff. Work full-time. Don't be distracted by things they throw at you. Work, save, leave, live free.

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So now the JW's are setting up carts/stands in our national and public parks!

by StoneWall in

thought i'd share this article i was sent today.

it's getting to where you can't go and take a leisurely stroll or hike without being bombarded with the stufff we want to get away from.http://www.citizen-times.com/story/sports/outdoors/girls-gone-outdoors/2017/07/06/proselytizing-blue-ridge-parkway/452390001/.

dubstepped

Thanks for telling us how to feel Steve.

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So now the JW's are setting up carts/stands in our national and public parks!

by StoneWall in

thought i'd share this article i was sent today.

it's getting to where you can't go and take a leisurely stroll or hike without being bombarded with the stufff we want to get away from.http://www.citizen-times.com/story/sports/outdoors/girls-gone-outdoors/2017/07/06/proselytizing-blue-ridge-parkway/452390001/.

dubstepped

That is horrific. I'm going backpacking next month for my 40th birthday and second out of the cult. I don't know what I would do if I came upon a cart while backpacking, but it makes my blood boil. They are truly disgusting.

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My 1 Year Update - I've Been Disfellowshipped One Year Today

by pale.emperor in

what a journey!.

it was a year ago today that i was announced from the platform by brother paul "twofaced" castley that i was "no longer one of jehovah's witnesses".

i didn't go to that meeting to hear the announcement because i already didn't believe the watchtower religion.. how was my first year?

dubstepped

Love it P.E.! I'm sorry about the family drama, but your little girl is freaking adorable and she alone is enough reason to get out of the cult. Just think of what this will mean for her life too.

I think it's great that you examined your life and beliefs and had the courage to face up to what you saw and made needed changes.

Happy shunniversary to you! I'm glad to count you as a friend even though we've never met. Your progress is a win for all of us.

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Episode 4 of This JW Life is out now......

by dubstepped in

spent all day yesterday writing two episodes and recording and editing one podcast of this jw life.

so, episode 4 of my podcast is now out.

i took a minute away from my story (though it is still laced throughout this one) to lay out what goes on inside of a kingdom hall, who the players are, what they believe, and hopefully set a foundation that will help explain my story as one.

dubstepped

Lol Fishy, although I did mention that the one thing some take away is that speaking ability, let's face it, the TMS doesn't create something out of nothing. There are plenty of great speakers that never set foot in "da troof" and plenty of horrific speakers that have given talks in the Borg for decades. I threw them a bone in my episode, let's not get carried away. They made me what I am, lol.

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Evolution is a Fact #40 - What Use is Half an Eye?

by cofty in

creationists often refer to the words of darwin when he pondered the evolution of the complex eye.

he said that to suppose that the complex eye evolve by natural selection seems "absurd in the highest possible degree".

what they always ignore is that darwin went right on in the very next sentence to propose how the eye could have evolved and that numerous gradations must exist between the simplest light detecting organs and the complex vertebrate eye.. in the 150 years since darwin published his book not only have those gradations been discovered in the natural world but the very genes that build the eye have been discovered by science.

dubstepped

Thanks for posting this one in particular. Evolution is still something that I know little about, and honestly I don't care to be an expert in, but this was easy to understand and made total sense vs. the creationism I was indoctrinated with. This is a simple, yet powerful refutation of an argument agsinst evolution.