Posts by pale.emperor

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Do any of you born into the cult feel like your mental growth was stunted?

by rockemsockem in

being born in to me was devastating.

when you are a child born in and raised with the they vs us and they are evil and worldly and going to die.

not allowed to form relationships with anyone not one of you.

pale.emperor

Oh definitely.

At 34 I'm still figuring out "the world" and real people and real situations. Mentally I feel like I'm 18 or 19. I found I went through a low/depressed stage, then a rock and roll period for a good while after I left. Had a blast.

Now I'm somewhat calmer and less angry about my JW upbringing and try to focus on the present and future. Starting University in my early 30s at first felt silly but it's something I feel I should have done straight from school so I do it.

I've seen many cases of what I can only term as a delayed adolescence in the newly departed.

I'm guilty of this! /\

It's like I'm trying to catch up with everything I missed.

26

Speaking with Demons

by BereanThinker7 in

having learned more actual christian beliefs since awaking from the org, looking back we had such strange and unhealthy obsession with demons compared to any other denomination that i know of.

i recently remembered this article from when i was a kid.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101986604?q=talk+to+the+demons&p=par#h=23.

pale.emperor

I remember reading this article on one of my many Watchtower Library binges when I was a young teen.

Looking back on it now, the writing is very amateurish and the guy is clearly just mentally ill.

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Pale.Emperor Summons Some Demons

by pale.emperor in

remember when we were jws and all loved to hear demon stories?

and then there was always that paranoid person that would shut us up "in case they're listening"?

and the resident crazy every congregation seems to have that claims to have been possessed at some point?.

pale.emperor

There's something wrong with you

You reckon?

33

Pale.Emperor Summons Some Demons

by pale.emperor in

remember when we were jws and all loved to hear demon stories?

and then there was always that paranoid person that would shut us up "in case they're listening"?

and the resident crazy every congregation seems to have that claims to have been possessed at some point?.

pale.emperor

She’s actually since become a friend of mine. I did the photography for her coven.

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Pale.Emperor Summons Some Demons

by pale.emperor in

remember when we were jws and all loved to hear demon stories?

and then there was always that paranoid person that would shut us up "in case they're listening"?

and the resident crazy every congregation seems to have that claims to have been possessed at some point?.

pale.emperor

Remember when we were JWs and all loved to hear demon stories? And then there was always that paranoid person that would shut us up "in case they're listening"? And the resident crazy every congregation seems to have that claims to have been possessed at some point?

I'm an atheist but seeing as I keep being told by evangelicals and even some former JWs that demons do indeed exist I decided to get a final answer on this and to try... and I mean really try to see if demons/jinns/spirits whatever you want to call them exist.

What I've done over the past three months should have made my home a cesspit of demonic activity. At least by JW or evangelical standard.

Here’s some of the things I’ve done:

Burned a bible.
Made a Ouija board and used it - nothing.
Burned the Ouija board - nothing.
Bought tarot cards and used them - nothing.

Spent the night in a so-called “haunted” house - nothing.
Hired a witch to curse my home - I lost my WiFi signal for the day but then Virgin Media informed me it was them drilling through a cable outside and I actually got £40 compensation.
Got the witch to burn a bible.

Got the witch to do tarot in my house while invoking any spirits at all.

Drew a huge inverted pentacle on the floor in the spare room, lit candles between each triangle and openly summoned Satan - nothing.
Read the Satanic bible and openly called out the names of the different names of “the devil”.
Regularly blasphemed god (I called him some pretty terrible things).
I collect Hindu idols.
I used a statue of Jesus to shovel dog shit from my back yard.
I used pages of the bible to smoke my joints.

So far nothing has happened. I really think I've given it a good go. But I've had nothing. So that's that.

Have a great day!

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What we did when attending a dry JW wedding reception.

by smiddy3 in

many years ago when the wife and i were still active we attended a friends wedding reception at a top class licensed restaurant in the cbd ,we were close friends with the bride and her family .apparently the grooms parents decided it was going to be a dry reception with no alcohol to be served.. as i said we were close friends with the brides parents an elder & " elderette" and they certainly liked a drink or two or three etc.. i asked the bartender for a drink for my wife & myself and was told it was a dry session & no alcohol was to be served as the grooms father was putting the bill.. so i said to the bartender i am quite happy to pay my own way for the drinks regardless ,so i got served while everybody else had to sit through a dry session.. and these were well off people trying to make a statement .. bloody wowsers..

pale.emperor

I remember my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary in 1993. My dads parents. They paid for the entire thing - the venue, the food and ALL the alcohol. We had the idea of taking turns working behind the bar (it was all bottles and boxes of wine).

Being JWs this should have been a good idea. What could possibly go wrong?

We ran out of booze after about 3 hours. Which meant my dad and his brothers went to the office license to buy more booze. How did we manage to get through so much?

Turned out, some "brothers" had took cases of beer and wine and put them in the boot of their cars. My dad hit the roof when he found out. My grandparents were annoyed but didn't want to "rock the boat".

That was the last time my family bought all the alcohol for a party. From then on we'd hire a venue with their own bar staff. Such a shame because we used to have great parties before this incident.

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What do you do when you're home alone on a meeting night?

by nowawake14 in

jw
friends

go on.

name it.🤣.

pale.emperor

Satan deliberately put some great TV programs on meeting nights.

Aint that the truth? I remember Quantum Leap (when it was modern) was on on Tuesday nights which was the book study.

If you got to miss the meeting you could actually watch it.

Then some elders wife heard about the show (heard about it, never actually seen it) and claimed that Sam was "possessing" the persons body and it was therefore demonic. So that was the end of that show.

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Sadly, This is Real

by berrygerry in

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pale.emperor

Damn. They just keep surprising me.

https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/children/become-jehovahs-friend/activities/help-others/

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New Disfellowshipping Picture

by neat blue dog in

similar to that recent convention video, this illustrates a mother ignoring her disfellowshipped daughter's phone call.

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(august 2019 meeting workbook).

pale.emperor

It’s so strange. Treating your own children as dead simply because they don’t have the same religion as you.

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Reaction to GDPR / field service letter

by sir82 in

here is a thread on the new letter to be read to all congregations in all branches on adjustments in door to door work due to the gdpr:.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6274619758608384/2019-boe-elders-letter-may-13-england-ireland-data-protection.

i have...connections....to a foreign language congregation in europe.

pale.emperor

Just told my never-baptized brother about this. He told me that his (our) uberJW mother is taking it as a sign that "...this must be "the truth™" because Satan is turning on our ministry."

Just to clarify:

When good things happen - it's proof we have "the truth™"

When bad things happen - it's proof we have "the truth™"