Posts by dubstepped

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I need some help

by Akid48 in

well let me start with my age is 13 and i have been thinking about this jw thing and i need help i just dont know if i want to be one any more.. the help i need is some one to send me some links to places i can research i just dont know if i want to study with a jw any more..

dubstepped

7Okay then, it sounds like there are repercussions. It sounds like your aunt is a JW and so is your big brother, am I right? Oh boy, I don't know how to advise you, but JWfacts is a great site. Unfortunately though, it may not go well for you if your aunt knows that you're looking at stuff from ex-JWs. I seriously doubt that you can open their eyes and have honest discussions about it because they believe it.

You're in a tough place. You should have to face this at 13. I'm sorry, but honestly I don't know what to tell you because none of us knows your situation well at all or the people that you're dealing with.

If you have to go along with things, I guess you have no choice. Just don't get baptized. If you do, there are more severe consequences if you leave someday. The rest is a game you have to play.

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I need some help

by Akid48 in

well let me start with my age is 13 and i have been thinking about this jw thing and i need help i just dont know if i want to be one any more.. the help i need is some one to send me some links to places i can research i just dont know if i want to study with a jw any more..

dubstepped

Cool then. So if you stop studying there are no repercussions, right? Or is your aunt a JW? If so, drop it like it's hot and just tell him you don't want to study. You will save yourself a lot of heartache. You've had enough with your parents dying when you were so young. I'm so sorry. Just know that JWs are a cult and they will shun you someday and you will lose everyone again if you become one and change your mind.

You deserve better than them.

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I need some help

by Akid48 in

well let me start with my age is 13 and i have been thinking about this jw thing and i need help i just dont know if i want to be one any more.. the help i need is some one to send me some links to places i can research i just dont know if i want to study with a jw any more..

dubstepped

We need to know who is studying with you and the circumstances around that before telling you to refuse study. For all we know it's your parents, as you're just 13.

Read JWfacts.com as a place to start. If you have specific questions ask here. If you stick around and read you'll learn a lot.

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Watchtower Victims Memorial Day!!!

by Christian Gutierrez in

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hey guys i just wanted to share with you all a video we made this week for watchtower victims memorial day.

cheers!

😊.

dubstepped

Nice video outlining the realities of life as a JW, not the doctrines, but the life. I can identify with a lot of what you talked about, particularly that father that was one way at home and giving talks about happy family life at the KH. I'm telling my story on my podcast and am glad that you're sharing yours on the videos and I hope more people will share their stories. That is the kind of stuff that people that are not and have never been JWs can take in and really use to inoculate themselves and others against the cult. The human interest story of it all is fascinating, entertaining, and something that others can identify with that were never even in it.

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Man DOWN!!! Updated a Wordpress Plugin and ThisJWLife crashed.

by dubstepped in

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any wordpress gurus here that might be able to help?

i was just updating the libsyn plugin, as libsyn hosts my podcasts, and suddenly there were "internal server errors" and i got the following message:.

fatal error: can't use method return value in write context in /home4/umc/thisjwlife.com/wp-content/plugins/libsyn-podcasting/admin/lib/libsyn/api.php on line 154. can anyone here help?

dubstepped

Thanks Simon. I've had Wordpress sites for a long time without any issue, though none are really that big or involved. I do know that things are really evolving though and it may be antiquated at some point. I've never heard of Jekyll or Hugo but after a quick Google search they look interesting. It sounds like you've really gone deep into these things, or maybe I'm just easy to impress.

Libsyn released an update for their updated plugin for me to try. I guess I'll give it a go and see what happens. If it shuts it down again I know how to fix it with relative ease.

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I left the organization

by Issa in

i left the organization.

my awakening was this month of july, the first week of july.

i couldn't answer my own questions about the organization or the doctrines, i couldn't understand the prophecies, i couldn't figure quite well what i was feeling.

dubstepped

Awesome, though I'm sorry. We disasaociated and it was so freeing. Just realize that you can't un-ring that bell, so look at your circimstanes and see what is right for you. If you have no family in, and want to do it, blow it up. If you have family, don't be impulsive. Just make sure you know what you're doing. I personally wish more would take a stand and disassociate and make the membership feel that discomfort, but realize most won't. We intended to fade but refused to play their games.

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BBC News "The ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families"

by snare&racket in

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bbc news website has this linked on front page.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40704990.

dubstepped

I thought it was pretty clear that the woman was dfed for leaving an abusive relationship, which happens. I also thought it was clear that the guy was dfed for more than missing a Memorial, but because he questioned the faith and his wife turned him in. I liked the article. I realize that JWs will minimize things, but they always do that.

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Man DOWN!!! Updated a Wordpress Plugin and ThisJWLife crashed.

by dubstepped in

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friends

any wordpress gurus here that might be able to help?

i was just updating the libsyn plugin, as libsyn hosts my podcasts, and suddenly there were "internal server errors" and i got the following message:.

fatal error: can't use method return value in write context in /home4/umc/thisjwlife.com/wp-content/plugins/libsyn-podcasting/admin/lib/libsyn/api.php on line 154. can anyone here help?

dubstepped

You're certainly welcome! Hopefully I'll be updating that journey again this Sunday with a new episode.

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Man DOWN!!! Updated a Wordpress Plugin and ThisJWLife crashed.

by dubstepped in

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friends

any wordpress gurus here that might be able to help?

i was just updating the libsyn plugin, as libsyn hosts my podcasts, and suddenly there were "internal server errors" and i got the following message:.

fatal error: can't use method return value in write context in /home4/umc/thisjwlife.com/wp-content/plugins/libsyn-podcasting/admin/lib/libsyn/api.php on line 154. can anyone here help?

dubstepped

@stuckinarut2 - If the holy spirit was messing with me, then does that make jw07 Satan the Devil since he helped me get things working again? Lol.

The good news was that no matter what happened the podcast was still live on places like iTunes and Google Play or wherever you get podcasts, you just wouldn't be able to stream online from my site. So it was a minor matter, though when I went to my website and it said "fatal error" with a stream of code and I couldn't see anything I did kind of panic, lol. I've never had an issue like that from a simple plugin update before. I had a hunch that I could go in the back way through the cpanel and erase the plugin though, and that worked. Now I have an older version of the plugin instead of the newest update and it is working fine again.

This whole thing has definitely been a learning process.

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Man DOWN!!! Updated a Wordpress Plugin and ThisJWLife crashed.

by dubstepped in

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friends

any wordpress gurus here that might be able to help?

i was just updating the libsyn plugin, as libsyn hosts my podcasts, and suddenly there were "internal server errors" and i got the following message:.

fatal error: can't use method return value in write context in /home4/umc/thisjwlife.com/wp-content/plugins/libsyn-podcasting/admin/lib/libsyn/api.php on line 154. can anyone here help?

dubstepped

@jw07 - THANK YOU! I didn't know you could find the previous versions so easily. I went back two versions just for good measure. All I did was download the zip file for the plugin and upload it to my site and boom, all of the shortcodes are now back to being players for each episode again. If I had known last night it would be so easy I would have hopped on it then. I knew it was just shortcodes showing and put a note up about it and contacted Libsyn. I was going to wait on them, but honestly so far I've had a few issues with them. Everything is working now, I just won't update that plugin for a minute.