Posts by ttdtt

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What is attractive?

by Freedom rocks in

has anyone found that since leaving the borg that their tastes have changed in what they find attractive in the opposite sex?

beards, long hair, tattoo's, etc).

i don't now if it's just my taste changing as i get older or if it's coz beards were frowned upon by the society that i find them attractive now and didn't when i was younger 😊.

Does anyone have the outline for the upcoming special talk?

by NikL in

i would like to look it over.

ttdtt

Here is the info on the talk.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5401534512758784/new-letter-cong-e-2018-memorial-special-talk

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I feel like I am going crazy at times ...

by CovertsadJW in

good evening , .

i feel like i am going crazy - it’s so hard not being able to talk to the ones i love about how i really feel - meaning the “ truth “ is a big lie and a big waste of time.

it’s so weird - i can’t talk to my wife , or kids about how i really feel and it’s causing me probalms that i recognize.

ttdtt

Covertsad - your whole strategy should revolve around undermining the faith your kids may have in the cult. There is nothing more important than that.

SAVE THEM!

But you have to do it in a way that doesn't push them away from you

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A crisis of scientific reproducability

by Outahere in

https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970.

more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.

i didn't know it was so widespread...but it's a big problem in biology/medicine..

Falcon Heavy

by Coded Logic in

the falcon heavy is set to launch today.

if successful, it will become the most powerful rocket in use (twice as powerful as the delta heavy).. as it's the very first attempt, elon musk has said he thinks there's a 50/50 chance of it not blowing up.

so should be interesting.

ttdtt

Simon, cant we do both?

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Out of the mouths of babes...

by pale.emperor in

conversation with my 3yo this morning:.

me: hey, it's <friend in her nursery> birthday in a few days.

her: jehovah doesn't like birthdays.

ttdtt

It's amazing.

My youngest a few years ago before we started fading would say things that blew me away.
This was PRE us telling them that JWs are full of it.

"God cant live forever. that doesn't make any sense"
"We cant live forever, the earth cant exists forever so how could we?"
"I dont want to live forever, I think that would be scary and boring."

Just a sampling. When she was 5 she said something that completely blew us away, but I am not going to talk about that now.

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Falcon Heavy

by Coded Logic in

the falcon heavy is set to launch today.

if successful, it will become the most powerful rocket in use (twice as powerful as the delta heavy).. as it's the very first attempt, elon musk has said he thinks there's a 50/50 chance of it not blowing up.

so should be interesting.

ttdtt

Look at what we can do!

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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?

ttdtt

Splain - I am so afraid.

I think about it all the time. Because of it I sometimes see live as pointless (what does anything matter since the second I die it will be like I never lived at all).

As a result of fading away, I am currently going through a giant unexpected life trama that has shaken me as much or more than finding out the TTATT. That is not helping me cope at all.

The thought that very very soon (tomorrow or 30 years is soon since I feel like I was 8 only last week), I will just blink out of existence is impossible for me to wrap my head around. How could that happen to me?

The thought that I will miss out on all my kids will do. Because of having kids late in life so I could slave for the kingdom, means I will not have as much time with them as normal people, I will not see my grandkids grow up, like normal people.

I am struggling.

As a side note, yesterday I watched (SPOILER ALERT FOR "THE AMERICANS"} an episode of The Americans.

I am trying to catch up. It was the one where Nina is executed. It hit me like a ton of bricks for some reason.
I think the thought of your here, and in one second totally beyond your control or expectation, you are gone.
For some reason I played that scene over and over with tears in my eyes the whole time.
I had the worst feeling in my gut.

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Eulogies

by redundantcartworker in

i recently attended a non jw funeral at a local church.

during the service, a couple of friends/relatives of the deceased eloquently spoke for a few minutes about the deceased with some of their fond memories and gave heartfelt, respectful tributes.. would i ( a non jw) be given a few minutes to speak at either of my jw parents funerals at the kingdom hall ?.

i guess i already know the answer, but if the answer is "no", then why not and how would they hide the heartlessness of refusing ?

ttdtt

To me, the most LAME, thoughtless, lazy, insulting part of 99% of JW Memorial talks (99% because the 2 times I gave the talk I didn't) was read the fucking obituary at the beginning. OMG that always infuriated me!!!

I know who survived them, they are sitting in the front of the Hall! What do I care about the day they were born (now is not the birthday time) and I know when they died!

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The book burning has started

by pale.emperor in

don't know if this is a global thing but i've just been told by a pimo member of my old congregation that a min servant has been given the task of destroying all old books/literature in the kh library prior to 1992.. could be the elders (or even one of them) on a mission to stamp out dissent as my ex-wife used the same reasoning to her elder dad that i used in my jc: rutherfords books containing failed predictions.. anyone else heared anything?.

the ms who's been given the task is a company man.

no hope of him keeping them or selling them on ebay.. they have some russell books in that library too.

ttdtt

Getting rid of old books is not new.
This has happened before.