It's my fault. After all of these years as a JW, scraping by and not preparing for my future, I finally decided to invest for us in January into index funds in a Roth IRA so that we could retire someday and not have to eat dog food. My bad markets, I didn't mean to drag you down.
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Stock market turmoil....
by mikeflood indow jones losing 1175 points today, equivalent to 4.60 % ..... same more or less around the world's stock exchanges.
it's like president bush said "wall street got drunk and now it's got a hangover".
i think people went irrational over investing, a correction is needed..
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Fear of Dying
by SplaneThisToMe indid anyone else develop a weird fear of dying and death after leaving jw?
i recently left and have realized for the first time in my life that i’m not going to live forever.
anyone else have these same feelings toward discovering your own mortality?
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dubstepped
I struggle with this one aspect more than anything. I was given a sense of permanence for 38 years and now find out it's all bullshit.
When my mind gets quiet, right before I fall asleep, is when I'll start ruminating.
I like the Twain comment that DoC posted. I'm not afraid of being dead though. I'm afraid of not being alive anymore. In business they refer to it as FOMO, fear of missing out. I have that in spades.
I was telling me wife the way I see things today. I know the destination. It's Siberia. I don't want to go to Siberia but I have to. Sure, along the journey there I'll try to have fun, try to delay, but I know how the story ends and it's not what I want. It looms large.
I'm at least determined to make sure that I live now. What's worse is not living while you're alive. I want to look back and smile on my deathbed because I did what I could to make meaning in all of this.
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DF’d or DA???
by DATA-DOG inso, i think i’m going to be df’d, but elders are out of town and no decision has been officially reached.
what would happen if i sent a certified overnight letter and said that i was going to disassociate before they have their meeting??.
i know the two conditions are similar, but i’m just curious... dd.
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dubstepped
Oh, my bad, I can see how I took that one way and could have read it another. Makes sense.
Yeah, if you DA you have to know what's up. There will be no association, thus the dis- in DA. I literally just found out by accident at the bank where my mom lives now because my deceased dad and I share a name. I didn't know where she lived anymore. I knew what was up when making my decision.
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DF’d or DA???
by DATA-DOG inso, i think i’m going to be df’d, but elders are out of town and no decision has been officially reached.
what would happen if i sent a certified overnight letter and said that i was going to disassociate before they have their meeting??.
i know the two conditions are similar, but i’m just curious... dd.
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@DoC - I didn't know you DA'd. I thought you faded. Cool.
I think it depends on the elders. Most I knew kind of got off on their power, but I'm sure that some hated having to disfellowship people. DAing certainly gives one more power though than being DF'd and in the end it should be about you and what you want. So many here are worried about them. It kind of shows the power they have that people are so worried about how they are perceived by the dubs. Just take care of you.
It's kind of the first time you get to take a stand for yourself, something you'll need as you begin a new life of living for you instead of the cult.
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Watch Tower Farms
by Lost in the fog ini know that the farms have been around for decades but i was wondering if the watch tower farms ever abbreviate their name simply to wtf?
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I lol'ed. Nicely done!
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Unassigned territory as read by LeVar Burton (aka Jordie La Forge)
by NewYork44M ini never expected this to show up on my podcast list .
https://huffduffer.com/yestertoday/457123.
a young jehovah's witness spends a blistering hot after door-to-door to hostile homeowners and questions her future..
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dubstepped
As a person that listens to audiobooks, I love it most when the author reads it.
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Unassigned territory as read by LeVar Burton (aka Jordie La Forge)
by NewYork44M ini never expected this to show up on my podcast list .
https://huffduffer.com/yestertoday/457123.
a young jehovah's witness spends a blistering hot after door-to-door to hostile homeowners and questions her future..
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dubstepped
My wife listened to that one. A friend pointed it out. She thought it was okay. She liked the trip down memory lane about how things went. If you're looking for an exjw perspective it isn't really that.
It is always funny though to listen to some podcast that you like and then boom, all of the sudden the dubs come up in conversation in some way.
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Sexual Abuse & Jehovah's Witnesses - One Man's Story - Special Podcast Coming Soon
by dubstepped in.
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And the new episode is out now. Part 1 of David's story.
When I started talking to David it was clear that this was going to be a special interview. He had so much to talk about and such a vulnerability about him and he was willing to go deep on anything we talked about very quickly. So this is the first in a three part series that includes two episodes to cover his story and a third bonus episode featuring some of the pre-interview process and what came up there. Unlike the first 5 episodes, this one is produced as a conversation between him and I.
David’s story does involve sexual abuse and he gets very real with it. With that said, David’s story is sooooo much more than that. It was a huge part of his awakening process, and as it is a huge topic right now among the cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses it is featured, but it was but one part of David’s story. It plays a pivotal role in his path out of the cult, but even then his story just builds and builds throughout these episodes.
In Episode 6 – Part 1, you will get to know David a bit. This episode builds and will take you through David’s upbringing and right up into the beginnings of adulthood. You will learn a lot about him and if you aren’t familiar with the cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses you will learn about it as well through this process. There is no mention of the abuse in this first part, so no trigger warning is necessary. That will come in Part 2 and the way these things are handled in the cult will be discussed there.
Here is the summary on my website, including resources mentioned in the episodes:
http://shunnedpodcast.com/episode-6-part-1-sexual-abuse-and-jehovahs-witnesses-davids-story/
You can listen right there, streaming from the site, or you can download and listen on your favorite podcast app.
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Watch Tower's eBay account
by neat blue dog inthe last post about the violin for sale got me to looking at their ebay account which says it's based in wallkill.
they've got over 200 items for sale, most obsolete electronics that are grossly overpriced.
among them are used hard drives, like this one:.
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I looked to see if they had a microphone for sale that I could use to record my podcasts. Unfortunately they only had wireless ones for sale, but that would be kind of awesome to use one of their mics for the "shunned" podcast.
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Reminder: super blue moon tonight
by _Morpheus injust a reminder :) i already snapped a few pics and will try to get a few of the blood moon in the morning.
post pics if you got them!.
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dubstepped
Great pic Scenic Viewer! Great idea for a thread too Morpheus.