Posts by scratchme1010

Either way, I hope you get to a point where, like me and others, don't even use the term apostate since that's their lingo and has nothing to do with our real lives.

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JW gatherings

by Jules Saturn in

one of the things i don’t like about witness gatherings is the way everything you have to do or say has to be witness related.

the songs played at a party couldn’t be played if the lyrical content was “worldly”, and also hearing the same phrases.

a conversation about something in the news and someone will say “well, we’re living in the last days” or “we’re in this wicked system of things, everything is horrible”.

scratchme1010

Another thing was the gossip and how sisters would criticize over how some sister was dancing with a brother.

I'm afraid that part is not much different outside the JWs.

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my wife and i visited a local flea market this morning and found this herd that spreads bⱷꙇꙇ ꙅꚕꙶiꚍ... it's actually a broadcaster that spreads cow manure (or seeds i suppose)... much like herd on jw broadcasting sure feeds us a load of crap... .

scratchme1010

That's funny in a silly way.

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Even Ron Jeremy Is Accused of Sexual Abuse

by minimus in

jw
friends

what is this world coming to?.

it seems like everyone is being accused of sexual improprieties!

even porn stars like the hedgehog “.

scratchme1010

What is this world coming to?
It seems like everyone is being accused of sexual improprieties! Even porn stars like The Hedgehog “

I miss the 90s when the thing of the moment was just the Macarena, not sexual abuse.

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not a new topic - really a pet peave

by Moster in

jw
friends

makes me crazy:.

there: go over there!.

their: they own it; belonging to etc.. for the love of pete - use them correctly!.

scratchme1010

I ain't puching bottoms, but I hear you, bro.

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Genesis 38 and Me last week.

by EverApostate in

christians please pardon me.

this thread may not be suitable for you.. last week i came upon a youtube video of darkmatter2525 about genesis 38. on the preface, it says that this particular chapter - genesis 38:- has been willfully left out by many “biblical stories for children”.

true in its sense, the chapter goes on with some nasty stuff like judah, searching for prostitutes, and his own daughter in law tricking and seducing him to get pregnant.

scratchme1010

Haven’t heard this story in Kingdom halls or in my prior churches and Sunday schools.

You may have heard the parts of those stories that they love to mention. They use (misuse?) the story of Lot to go on and on and on and on, ad nauseam, attacking gay people using that Sodom and Gomorrah nonsense. However, they conveniently leave out the part of the story where lot gets his own two daughters pregnant.

And they use that hideous story as a lesson on morality. Go figure.

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Poisonous chicken

by zeb in

jw
friends

last night my wife prepared dinner.

chicken and veg.

as she was cooking the chicken it gave off the most vile smell.

scratchme1010

Morale of the story: if the chicken smells like epoxy, don't eat it.

I wonder if you really love your cat.

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Bad experiences in waking someone up?

by Fred Flintstone in

i mean, is it advisable to try to wake a friend up?

what about the risk of he/she falling into depression?

anger?

scratchme1010

I mean, is it advisable to try to wake a friend up? What about the risk of he/she falling into depression? Anger? Fury? Any bad experiences?

The professional cult interventionists that I know say that an important part of their assessment when/if they decide to approach a person in a cult, is to evaluate the lives that they had before (family, friends, relationships, etc), as well as what awaits them outside if they leave.

I was surprised to find out that there have been cases when after having a session with relatives and the family of the person "lost to a cult", the psychologist's recommendation has been to keep the person in the cult. There are instances where the lives that people run from that makes them fall into the hands of a high demand, controlling group, are not that great. There are other instances when the person's mental health or state is not appropriate for intervening in their lives about what they believe, and without asking their permission (at the end of the day, that's what we are doing if we attempt to wake up another person).

People join organizations for a number of reasons, and sometimes those reasons have to do with sheltering themselves from difficult families or other elements in their lives. They feel safe, physically and mentally, in the cult.

Another aspect is mental health. I am not a psychologist, and I cannot assess when/if a person is in the right mental health condition to handle TTATT, especially if I myself have nothing to offer that person to replace what the cult gives them.

Personally, I don't attempt to help people out because (a) I cannot be responsible of messing with whatever happens after that person leave, and most importantly (b) I'm quite done with convincing people to change what they believe; that was kind of the point of me leaving the JWs.