Posts by dubstepped

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Celebrations?

by Freedom rocks in

does anyone celebrate valentines day since leaving the borg?

and which other celebrations if any do you now take part in?.

dubstepped

The cult freedom day is what we call our "shunniversary".

The first year I tried to get a bunch of local exjws together and it bombed. Only one showed up.

Last year I started the "shunned" podcast on my second Shunniversary.

Aside from that, we don't do Valentines Day because my wife hates how forced and all about women it is.

We do the rest though. We love Halloween, Thanksgiving, have a very secular Christmas, New Years, even fireworks on the 4th of July. A friend has an adult Easter egg hunt and we did that last year. Have fun and enjoy these little things to look forward to throughout the year.

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Episode Seven - Part 2 - Sexual Abuse and Jehovah's Witnesses - David's Story

by dubstepped in

episode 7 - part 2 - sexual abuse and jehovah's witnesses - david's story.

trigger warning: sexual abuse discussion.

in part 2 you will learn more about steve b. and his interactions with david.

dubstepped

Episode 7 - Part 2 - Sexual Abuse and Jehovah's Witnesses - David's Story

Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse Discussion

In Part 2 you will learn more about Steve B. and his interactions with David. You will see how relationships impacted David, both for the good and the bad as years went by. You will see how the “loving spiritual shepherds”, the elders in the congregations, treat those that are shunned and trying to come back to their flock. You will learn about David’s eventual path out of the cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses and his new life as he is shunned. This episode is intense and raw and real, and I thank David for being so vulnerable and putting the truth out there even though it isn't easy to do. It helps others to realize that they are not alone.

Listen on iTunes (Apple Podcasts), Google Play, wherever you get podcasts, or at shunnedpodcast.com. Leave a supportive comment for David on his episode at shunnedpodcast.com.

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$5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

by Sour Grapes in

a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

it was sold a couple of years ago.

we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

dubstepped

That ^^^^^^ was a nice place, though it bothered me at first to find out that it was a former church.

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$5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

by Sour Grapes in

a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

it was sold a couple of years ago.

we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

dubstepped

Hi fellow Hoosier!!!

Wow, that's crazy. I remember them selling the assembly hall in Indy and the promises of a new one in Cincy. Lmao at all of the sheeple donating money to protect pedophiles, errr.... I mean bring glory to Jehovah with their valuable things.

Didn't they make everyone make a pledge to donate some amount chosen by each family to this? Lol, they expect you to live up to yours but they can change their end. I thought Jehovah didn't change. Idiots.

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Stock market turmoil....

by mikeflood in

dow 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..

dubstepped

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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Fear of Dying

by SplaneThisToMe in

did 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?

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 in

so, 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.

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 in

so, 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.

dubstepped

@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 in

i 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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dubstepped

I lol'ed. Nicely done!

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Unassigned territory as read by LeVar Burton (aka Jordie La Forge)

by NewYork44M in

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friends

i 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..

dubstepped

As a person that listens to audiobooks, I love it most when the author reads it.