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  Went to a Different Kind of Convention This Year

  by Saethydd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my old congregation's regional convention was the week before last, and for the first time in 20 years, i wasn't there.

  instead on the very same weekend, i went to a geeky fan convention called magic city con.

  i had loads of fun there, i cosplayed as a jedi and the doctor (which is my current profile pic).

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  Saethydd

  Sounds like a lot of fun good for you. Saethyyd any pics ?
  

  The phone on my camera is awful so I didn't get any myself, but a photographer got some good ones that are in this album on Facebook.

  Here are the ones I do have though.

  

  

  
  

  
  
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  Thought Bubbles Then & Now

  by steve2 in

  1. social
  2. humour

  my thought bubble in the 1980s:.

  "how can i engage with worldly people when they are just not interested in discussing these important topics as featured in the watchtower and awake?.

  my thought bubble in the 2010s:.

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  Saethydd

  My thought bubble in the 1980s:

  I really look forward to existing in 15 years
  

  
  

  My thought bubble in the 2010's:

  This stuff my parents taught me just isn't adding up.
  
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  Went to a Different Kind of Convention This Year

  by Saethydd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my old congregation's regional convention was the week before last, and for the first time in 20 years, i wasn't there.

  instead on the very same weekend, i went to a geeky fan convention called magic city con.

  i had loads of fun there, i cosplayed as a jedi and the doctor (which is my current profile pic).

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  Saethydd

  I loved Tennant, I actually intended to cosplay as him, but I didn't have everything I needed for him or for Matt Smith, so I just went as 10 1/2. Which, by the way, was a big hit at an All Fandom Dating Game I played.
  
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  Went to a Different Kind of Convention This Year

  by Saethydd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my old congregation's regional convention was the week before last, and for the first time in 20 years, i wasn't there.

  instead on the very same weekend, i went to a geeky fan convention called magic city con.

  i had loads of fun there, i cosplayed as a jedi and the doctor (which is my current profile pic).

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  Saethydd

  My old congregation's Regional Convention was the week before last, and for the first time in 20 years, I wasn't there. Instead on the very same weekend, I went to a geeky fan convention called Magic City Con. I had loads of fun there, I cosplayed as a Jedi and the Doctor (which is my current profile pic). It was incredibly enjoyable to finally be able to meet new people that I like and share common interests with and not feel that having a real friendship with them in the future is an impossibility.
  

  Another side note, this "worldly" convention was just as clean and orderly as any JW event I ever went to, and much less boring. I didn't have to pinch myself to stay awake once.

  Just wanted to share that update with you all and let you know how I'm doing.
  
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  My Introduction

  by Ray Frankz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is my first post and i'm feeling like i'm doing something bad big time!

  i know on my mind it isn't, but the feelings are less manageable.. well, since i'm still a jw it's better not to give too much info, but i'm from brazil.. i've grown-up in the religion and practicly all my family, my closest friends and my girlfriend are loyal jws.

  i used to be a regular pioneer but i still have a service privilege on my congregation.. i've had questions about the teachings of the wt since i was 10, but naturally i always pushed it away as it were "questioning the holy organization".. i started a friendship with some people in a course i took and we talked about a lot of subjects.

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  Saethydd

  Welcome to the forum, hopefully you can find what you're looking for here.
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  My parents found out

  by BlackWolf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so in my last post i talked about how i had told my younger siblings how i didn't plan to get baptized or ever be a witness.

  i thought i could trust them but i guess i was wrong, they're just kids after all.

  my oldest brother (who's 11) told on me today.

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  Saethydd

  I sympathize with you a great deal, not too long ago my situation was very much like yours. I, however, am the youngest in my family and the only who has thus far woken up. After I realized that my entire life and its "spiritual" goals had been built on lies and delusions I had many conversations with my parents over several months. It was like talking to a brick wall, nothing I said sunk in, no evidence I provided swayed them, they were incapable of conceding a single point in my favor even if they could not answer my arguments.

  So, I started leading something of a double-life. I reached out to old acquaintances from college to build true friendships with and met new people as well. I started spending quality time getting to know them while my parents thought I was at the gym or studying. I realized very quickly that it was a situation I could not endure for long because it was tearing me apart. So I started working on finding a place to live and figuring out a budget, saving up money, etc. Until finally about a month ago I had everything I needed to approach my parents and tell them I no longer wished to attend the meetings or try to get reinstated, I had been DF'd about a year earlier, unfortunately I was much like your brother, so eager to get baptized at the young age of 10 years old. (A decision that I was once proud of, but now see as perhaps one of my greatest mistakes.)

  They were stunned, to say the least, we talked for a long time. I told them how I was miserable at the meetings and knew that I could not get reinstated feeling this way. They told me that they weren't going to kick me out, but apparently, they spoke later and changed their minds on that. If I wasn't going to the meetings they didn't want me there.

  So, I followed my carefully laid plans to where I sit right now. At my desk, in my new room, in a house that I share with true friends. Friends that would never cast me aside because I didn't share their beliefs. It was hard getting here, and it's hard work staying here. I've got three part-time jobs right now and summer classes. My free time is limited, but I'm figuring out to make things work. I miss my family, I miss the people still inside that I once called friends before I realized how tenuous those relationships were, but I don't miss the religion one bit, I don't miss their God, and I'm pretty sure that's because he was never anywhere but my own imagination.

  It's not all freedom and good times away from the Organization. Sometimes I do feel sad for what I have lost, but overall, I would say I'm happier now. Finally, for the first time in my life, I don't feel confined by the mental and emotional prison constructed by the Watchtower. Finally, I feel as if I am free to seek my own path instead of following the one I've been forced to walk since birth.

  I can't tell you what to do, it's your life, and your choice, but hopefully my story will help you decide.
  
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  Evolutionist on their deathbed.

  by Nimble duck in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would really like to read the thoughts of an evolutionist as they lie on their deathbed.

  their "honest to nogod" thoughts.

  their terrors.

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  Saethydd

  I am, hopefully, a long way from my deathbed, but I would rather live my life without a delusional (or at the very least an unfounded) hope that I will somehow escape death. Rather, I will do what I can right now to improve my own life and the lives those around me and try to be content with the existence I have been so fortunate as to have.

  If by some chance there is an afterlife, then any god that I would wish to spend an eternity with wouldn't deny billions of people access to that afterlife for failing to believe in it based on the circumstantial or logically fallacious evidence which has thus far been provided for its existence.
  
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  Books are not dying out and this is not the reason for the WT turning to tablets

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there's a popular misconception that books in general are in terminal decline, that this is the reason the wt organisation has turned to tablets instead of print, and this in turn has created a financial crisis for the organisation which traditionally relied upon publishing books for income.

  this is wrong on a number of levels.

  firstly physical books are not in terminal decline, they are as popular as ever with consumers.

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  Saethydd

  Do you know when exactly they stopped charging for literature? I was unable to find it with a quick Google search.
  
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  What is the worst type of work or job you have ever had to do?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we all need to earn a living.... so just curious, what is the worst type of work or job you have ever had to do?.

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  Saethydd

  Well I'm a millennial, and it seems like the only job I can manage to get while I'm in school and living over an hour from any big city is a fast food job.
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  Contrast Jesus and Einstein

  by venus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jesus did not use his (superhuman) skills to prove the existence of either god or immortality of soul.

  further, he did not answer direct, important questions put to him (mathew 21:23-27; luke 22:70 …), and most importantly never defined ego—the root cause of all problems ….

  however, einstein, whose business was not spirituality, still defined ego as “optical illusion of consciousness.” this definition helps a lot because when one internalizes the idea that ego is only an illusion, he knows how to effectively deal with it.. .

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  Saethydd

  We have reason to believe that Einstein actually did the many things attributed to him.

  Einstein's predictions about Gravitational Waves were definitely written down long enough in advance of their discovery to make the prediction legitimately impressive.