Posts by dubstepped

Underground JW in China - Latest Episode of Shunned

by dubstepped in

i don't post most of my episodes here because most people here over time know that my podcast and youtube channel are out there if they're interested.

but i just released an episode that i thought people here might like with an ex-jw that went underground in china.

in two weeks i'm releasing an interview with an ex-scientologist, and i'm interviewing someone from the unification church soon as well.. new episode - 82 - geoff is shunned by jehovah's witnesses.

dubstepped

I don't post most of my episodes here because most people here over time know that my podcast and YouTube channel are out there if they're interested. But I just released an episode that I thought people here might like with an ex-JW that went underground in China. In two weeks I'm releasing an interview with an ex-Scientologist, and I'm interviewing someone from the Unification Church soon as well.

New Episode - 82 - Geoff is shunned by Jehovah's Witnesses

The underground. As Jehovah’s Witnesses we were trained for the possibility that someday we would have to go underground and do our public preaching work in secret. Most of us would never actually do that. Geoff did.

Geoff went to China to work underground as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in a country in which the cult is banned. Secret meetings, smuggling cult propaganda into the country, specious credentials, etc. But doing this work would backfire as it forced Geoff to realize certain things about the cult that he was involved in. Even bigger, living this underground life would force parts of his authentic self to come out and be exposed to the light of day in ways he could no longer hide.

You can listen on the podcast app of your choice such as iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Podbean, Podcast Republic (my personal choice), or many others. You can also find the podcast on iHeartRadio, Spotify, Radio Public, and Owltail. **Now on Stitcher, Gaana, Audible Podcasts, and more**

There is a player on my website where you can listen at:

https://shunnedpodcast.com/episode-eighty-two-geoff-is-shunned-by-jehovahs-witnesses/
Or watch on YouTube at:
https://youtu.be/GRRzaPGhU5Y

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Just helped my kid get his first used car.

by GrreatTeacher in

my son, only child, age 19, college sophomore, just got his first used car.

most importantly, he learned the fun and exhilarating process of buying a used car from a dealer.

he had saved some money, but everything around the $5000 range was basically a shit box on wheels.

dubstepped

I won't say my parents actively taught me this, but I watched them growing up and they didn't really do debt other than their house. Always paid cash for cars and drove cheap cars as we were poor-ish. To this day I buy all of my cars cash, find great deals from private parties, never pay more than $3500 or so, and have cars that run mostly problem free for years and years. Again, my parents weren't big on teaching me anything and what I observed was primarily what not to do in life, but this did rub off and I have little invested in depreciating assets and no debt.

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QUITTING QUIETLY here is the Canadian version of the document

by gone for good in

a while back, i suggested that an easy, quick, quiet exit with the signing and dating of a concise and irrefutable document would spur faders and pimos to preempt the elders' interference by quitting quietly first , before a fade or a confrontation.

here is the document .

https://1drv.ms/w/s!avoitfxyvyqghq3gbmkhfyqp_jqp?e=8bttg1.

dubstepped

Cults exist in their own world with their own rules. They don't care about yours. This is just another attempt at circumventing cult rules that means nothing.

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Suing The Music Industry

by Lost in the fog in

jehovah’s witnesses file copyright lawsuit in response to blundering christmas album - listen, obey, and be blessed.

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https://www.toptutorials.co.uk/jehovahs-witnesses-file-copyright-lawsuit-in-response-to-blundering-christmas-album-torrentfreak/.

dubstepped

People had all kinds of wild theories about this, that Watchtower was even building their new media center to create works and become licensing billionaires. It couldn't have been the company that screwed up. I'm sure people that buy into those theories won't be swayed by this either because people believe what they want to believe but it wouldn't be like the JWs to license a song and risk the sweet finances of free donations to get a few bucks on some sort of license deal on something like this.

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Was Jesus Born on December 25th?

by Sea Breeze in

we were told by watchtower that no way jesus was born on dec. 25th.

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what do you think now?.

dubstepped

I think that maybe there was just some guy named Jesus once that people got a bit too excited about and nothing about him ever really should have mattered anymore than an average guy in my neighborhood named Jesus.

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YOU ARE HER EVERYTHING!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

you are what she wanted to be!please, let us remove any blame to anyone right up front.

what happened to petra was not the fault of mark o'donnell, listener, corney, mike and kim, or anyone else.. constant rejection and shunning even at an early age, the depression was storing up inside of her.

she was shunned inside the hall and outside the hall.

dubstepped

If I might offer a word of encouragement, never let anything be your everything. As someone that works in the ex-JW community (and with other exes) to help people heal and move on, identity issues are residual from exposure to the cult. We don't know who we are so we are a mere reflection of others and therefore subject to being overcome by the thoughts and feelings of others. Petra doesn't need us to tell her anything if she's secure in who she is.

I don't know how old Petra is but please work toward healing. Perfectionism, people pleasing, depression, anxiety, etc. are often the residue of a certain type of life that many of us lived.

Take care of yourself. You do good work but none of that defines you. You are bigger than that. We've just been made to feel small because that's how we were able to be controlled. Sending a hug and I hope you keep working on growing as an individual and healing. :)

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2020-Articles Of Association--Bylaws--Notice Of Special Meeting! (as of 2020-11-25)

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

2020--articles of association and bylaws--3 pages.. .

2020--notice of special meeting in december--8 pages.

if you are a jw read carefully before you sign.. .

dubstepped

I would gladly share a cup of coffee over these files in the breakroom. Thank you for what you do.

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Letter read cong is now an association

by Yomama in

jw
friends

what does that mean?.

dubstepped

It means the cult is looking for loopholes to protect assets. It's always about protecting their ass-ets. Weaseling out of some sort of responsibility I'm sure.

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Do You Ever Wonder Where Are They Now?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i remember so many witnesses who were pretty liberal minded.

i knew some that were the ones someone would talk to to get a “balanced “ perspective.

they were not hardliners.

dubstepped

Many liberal JWs stay because they've made the cult what they want it to be rather than what it is. It helps them get by and they feel no reason to leave.

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Politics and Hope

by lriddle80 in

jw
friends

so there are a lot of atheists on here.

my question: where does your hope come from?

that the right people will be put in political positions and will eventually form a utopian society that will meet all needs and we will have equality for all?.

dubstepped

I'm an atheist and unsure of why I need any sort of hope. Isn't the need for hope a religious value based on a fundamental brokenness and debt to a sky daddy? I see the entire premise of this thread to be lacking. I dont have need for some overreaching hope. I'm happy and living a good life. Many are. Those that aren't can look inward or toward a governmental shift if they truly live somewhere awful. There's a lot of false hope and comfort given by religion.