Posts by Sabendar

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What Made You Decide To Finally Leave The Organization?

by minimus in

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was there one certain event or was it more a cumulative thing?.

Sabendar

My mom kept finding my porn stashes.Sometimes she'd take my magazines and replace them with literature. One time I hid all my magazines in the trunk of her car underneath a spare tire. Of course she got a flat tire while out with a group for field service. A brother changed her tire and found my stash... He would later get DF'd for cheating on his wife.

I also had a fondness for streaking and running around naked. One night I got a little to brazen and got caught and arrested for indecent exposure... There was a local newspaper that kinda mentioned that. Elders got a hold of the newspaper and confronted my mom, then they confronted me. Charges were dropped but I got public reproof for that stunt.

Meanwhile I was dating this beautiful Irish girl. I knew I was a freak so I had one rule. Never fuck with a sister. Me and my worldly gf had lots and lots of sex. Then one day my conscious moved me and I turned myself into the elders. Private reproof, and I dumped my gf. She FREAKED. Spam calls, crying, she seriously lost her mind. Meanwhile I was really missing the sex (and I had some feelings for her)

Long story short. I didn't want to be that guy jerkin the elders around, putting my mom through ups and downs. I'd been a model Witness, baptized at 14, giving talks, taking groups out in field service. Mom regular pioneering, all the while no father in the home...

By about 17 I was just out of control. One day my mom and I were on our way to an assembly. She was driving. We got to a red light and I just opened the car door got out and ran... Eventually I moved to another town, got a place with a few random guys who shared my taste for partying and women and started my fade...

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Be extra careful if you choose to drive tonight.

by The Real Edward Gentry in

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lots of people are drinking heavily and letting their wives drive..

Sabendar

I thought it was funny... Though I wouldn't describe myself as the model of political correctness or appropriate behavior lol...

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The Exponential Growth In Technology Spell A Rapid End For Bronze Age Diety Cults Like The Watchtower

by Brokeback Watchtower in

as information floods the airwaves and available at one's finger tips in privacy.

thanks to incognito browsers one can do a search and keep it from family members with ease.

pretty soon one should be able to go to any kingdom hall and see very few youths only long time older ones.

Sabendar

I don't know... There is information that suggest smoking is harmful, yet plenty of people smoke. Information that suggest unprotected sex leads to stds, yet plenty of people still enrage in unprotected sex. Tonight is Christmas Eve and likely hundreds of men and women across the nation are gonna spend the night in jail for drunk driving. That despite all we know about the dangers of driving under the influence.

People join the organization for all types of personal reasons... Say for example there is a distraught wife who is near her breaking point because her husband is an abusive drunk. One day he is contacted by a Witness, next thing you know he hasn't had a drink or lifted his hand against his wife in five years.

Or what about a single mom raising three black sons in a drug infested crime filled neighborhood? Only her sons don't wear gang attire, don't do drugs and are respectful articulate kids.

At the end of the day, for better for worse, people are going to do what works for them...Imo absent some sort of cataclysmic event I don't see the organization going anywhere anytime soon...

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Is this life all there is?

by Fisherman in

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what do you sincerely think?

do you nurture any hope?.

Sabendar

Life is to epic and amazing to be a one and done. There's more. What, when, why and how, I don't know and can only guess, but I have a suspicion this life isn't all there is...

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What’s The Strangest Belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

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there’s a lot.

i think one strange view is how only 144000 go to heaven.

since the number is mentioned in the symbolic book of revelation, you would expect that the number would be viewed as figurative, but jws say otherwise.

Sabendar

Items owned by worldly people (or even weak members of the congregation) had a high potential of being "demonized". Thrift stores were out of the question... The Smurfs were WAY demonized, dolls were known for walking out of meetings in disgust and even attacking their owners. Some symbols and logos used by large corporations like Proctor & Gamble were demonic.

A Pac-Man arcade style mini video game was once gifted to me as a kid. My mom talked me into throwing it in the trash because of the little ghost that ran around inside the game.

Karate was bad because when you made those screams as you broke wooden blocks or bricks, you were calling on the demons to aid you. That sucked for me because I wanted to be a ninja and wanted a ninja suit so bad as a kid.

As a kid I didn't have many toys so I had a way of making things into toys. For example we had a cassette player to play the kingdom melodies on and listen to drama's etc... My sisters and I would sometimes find a blank recordable cassette and entertain ourselves by recording random stuff for hours. Long story short I took a blank cassette and put it in a player then set the player on record and walked away from it. The thing ended up recording all types of random noises in the background. That FREAKED my mom, elders had to come over and pray.

And that was just a small privy of my childhood before I discovered girls...

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Movie Titles that Describe Watchtower

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

i'll go first.... .

Sabendar

Those active in the organization would be comparable to the (light side) Jedi

Those who have faded and been df'd etc (dark side or grey) Jedi

Those who have nothing but contempt for the organization and or represent a completely opposing view. (Sith)

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Movie Titles that Describe Watchtower

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

i'll go first.... .