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@ex-jw-stories
Jws: One day god will rain massive fireballs down on our planet and the earth will crack open and swallow entire cities whole and many people you've known and loved for years will die horribly right before your eyes. Isn't that such a wonderful thought?
5-year-old me:
Anyone else two seconds away from a panic attack because the End Time Fearā¢?
We got a not at all insane hand-written letter alongside a certain religious group's flyer for recruitment today, and the flyer was too funny so I couldn't help myself
It's also worth noting it did, of course, come along with a pizza flyer because that's the only mail we get
no offense but every single thing i have gotten through has been without god, and every single thing i will do will be without god. if he does exist, he abandoned me and i got through it anyways.
Owen Wilson as Mobius M. Mobius and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer LOKI (2021 - ) | Episode 6: For All Time. Always.
This really feels to me like two people facing their belief systems. You have the one, Mobius, who decides to tear down the system, deconstructing his belief, and the other who doubles down. They can't break free of the cognitive dissonance and the sunk cost. It can't all be for nothing.
You arrive at the gates of Heaven and thereās a sign posted on it that says āBEING A FURRY IS STRICTLY PROHIBITEDā
This place sucks Iām going home *falls to hell*
god when slavery, starvation, natural disasters, worldwide pandemic and suffering:
god when I am gay and trans my gender:
The list of reasons to hate God is endless
Are you an atheist? Or God hater
Whatever you are (idc tbh)
But do not call God a "him"
God is NOT him
God is not a her
Or a they
Or xe or xer
Or any other pronoun
Isn't God NOT a Human?
So pronouns are human-exclusive now? Are we gatekeeping Jehovah?
@kawaii-pigeon as Godās #1 hater, I can confirm that these are the bitchās pronouns
I have never had a thought in my life. My skull has a cloud in it that bounces around like a windows screensaver
So this isnāt necessarily directed at the person who wrote that āIām Smarter Than Other ExJWsā post (though considering they @ād everyone responding in tags to make sure we KNEW they WERENāT responding to us, I wouldnāt be surprised if they were checking blogs) - this is very much an open letter to the little exJW community we have on here, especially the younger ones. I say that like Iām not young myself, but I have had more uh. āReal Lifeā experience than, obviously, a lot of PIMOs, especially those stuck at home and only able to really access the outside world through a double life, often an internet one. I do not have any irl ex-cult friends, and the ex-Christians I do know I donāt talk to frequently - not out of choice, mind, just havenāt run into too many in irl friend circles. But i HAVE been surrounded by a very diverse group of people from very different upbringings, and have been reminded, myself, time and time again, and Iām here to remind everyone else:
We were so, so sheltered, and naive, and just. Cut off from the real world. I do not mean that to say we were gullible, or stupid, or whatever - many of us were just children, after all, and as a fellow exJW, I know the pain and shame of thinking myself stupid for having āfallenā for indoctrination. But our cult did isolate us from humanity, from the world. And we have to acknowledge this. We have to. We cannot heal, truly, without doing so.
When you leave, especially born-ins like me, we have lived in a different reality, for years upon years. We have been fed lies and been told they were truth. This is exactly why waking up is so traumatic - we are finally realizing how disconnected we have been, and how little we have known, after believing we knew everything. It is horrifying and devastating and literally world-shaking.
But unlearning our indoctrination does not stop the last time we leave a Kingdom Hall. You will overturn something in your brain and find new untruths hidden underneath, like dust, collecting in places you hadnāt even considered possible. This will continue to happen, forever. It never stops. This sounds scary, and it is, but much like waking up, scary as it can be, you were not better off with those things in your head, reassuring you that you can rest and ignore and stagnate. It becomes a relief, I promise, to instead realize you had been stunted, not soothed, and now have room to grow. Beyond the bigotry, especially.
So please grow. You have questioned so much already, to be here, to read this far. Iām so sorry, and I know itās heavy, but you cannot rest in your unlearning. The world is so much bigger and confusing and complicated and beautiful for its complications than the cult made you think. It painted reality in black and white for you, and not only are there greys, there is color. You have been kept ignorant of its beauty. Do not blind yourself to it, too.
Remember you know nothing, and please be kind. We are all trying to find our way in this new reality.
Most Ex-JWs Are Kind of Like JWs
The trauma and conditioning of being a JW leaves many in a frame of mind that simply emulates the previous mode of being, when they were still a witness.
Having nothing to replace the false spirituality of the Witnesses with, they turn to another set of beliefs, usually eclectically.
It'll be something to do with Satan usually, as it's hard to dump that forbidden theme that played all through the Witness life. Wicca is another popular go-to.
The temptation to entertain these notions is merely self-destructive and demonstrates how much in bondage to the Witnesses you still are.
It's sad that most people absolutely need a narrative handed to them from someone else to know their place in the universe.
Religion. Is. Not. The. Answer.
There is no answer. There is no question until you ask one.
And that's just setting yourself up for the fail.
You exist. Get over it. It's a mystery for the most part, one you will never solve. Stop inventing stories. Stop regurgitating others' invented stories.
There is no Jesus. There is no Buddha. There is no Lucifer. There is no Jehovah. These are names of story book characters.
Please help yourself.
arguably one of the biggest traits of jws is the compulsive need to preach to others that their beliefs are Wrong and push that This is the right thing for everyone to believe, which is exactly what you're doing here
"It's sad that most people absolutely need a narrative handed to them from someone else to know their place in the universe." atheism/the theory of evolution are also narratives then, bc you learned them from someone else
yes, exjws are at a higher risk for getting drawn into other cults, but not all religions are cults or cultlike. it's also possible to be spiritual without being part of any particular religion
this whole post is dripping with condescension. you're not any better than people who believe in gods/higher powers just bc you're an atheist, and i'm saying this *as* an atheist. as long as people aren't hurting themselves or others with their practices or forcing others to convert to their beliefs, there's no problem with letting people believe what they want, and trying to tell them to "get over it" and "please help yourself" just makes you look like an asshole who's still got the same superiority complex jws do
so how about *you* go get help for that instead
A big thing ex-cult members need to learn is that everybody is allowed to live their life. So what if someone becomes a Satanist? If you did any research you'd know the satanic temple is an atheistic organization.
So what if someone becomes pagan? It is what it is and as long as they aren't hurting you mind your own damn bussiness.
Ouch, I must have pushed on a sensitive spot.
Must mean I said something poignant.
Wish I cared enough to fight you but you're being Witnesses again.
Shameful
Wow, you're just an asshole, then.
Me when I'm chilling in my room and my family starts belting out Kingdom Hall songs from the living room:
Most Ex-JWs Are Kind of Like JWs
The trauma and conditioning of being a JW leaves many in a frame of mind that simply emulates the previous mode of being, when they were still a witness.
Having nothing to replace the false spirituality of the Witnesses with, they turn to another set of beliefs, usually eclectically.
It'll be something to do with Satan usually, as it's hard to dump that forbidden theme that played all through the Witness life. Wicca is another popular go-to.
The temptation to entertain these notions is merely self-destructive and demonstrates how much in bondage to the Witnesses you still are.
It's sad that most people absolutely need a narrative handed to them from someone else to know their place in the universe.
Religion. Is. Not. The. Answer.
There is no answer. There is no question until you ask one.
And that's just setting yourself up for the fail.
You exist. Get over it. It's a mystery for the most part, one you will never solve. Stop inventing stories. Stop regurgitating others' invented stories.
There is no Jesus. There is no Buddha. There is no Lucifer. There is no Jehovah. These are names of story book characters.
Please help yourself.
arguably one of the biggest traits of jws is the compulsive need to preach to others that their beliefs are Wrong and push that This is the right thing for everyone to believe, which is exactly what you're doing here
"It's sad that most people absolutely need a narrative handed to them from someone else to know their place in the universe." atheism/the theory of evolution are also narratives then, bc you learned them from someone else
yes, exjws are at a higher risk for getting drawn into other cults, but not all religions are cults or cultlike. it's also possible to be spiritual without being part of any particular religion
this whole post is dripping with condescension. you're not any better than people who believe in gods/higher powers just bc you're an atheist, and i'm saying this *as* an atheist. as long as people aren't hurting themselves or others with their practices or forcing others to convert to their beliefs, there's no problem with letting people believe what they want, and trying to tell them to "get over it" and "please help yourself" just makes you look like an asshole who's still got the same superiority complex jws do
so how about *you* go get help for that instead
A big thing ex-cult members need to learn is that everybody is allowed to live their life. So what if someone becomes a Satanist? If you did any research you'd know the satanic temple is an atheistic organization.
So what if someone becomes pagan? It is what it is and as long as they aren't hurting you mind your own damn bussiness.
You wouldn't make these excuses for a human (I fucking hope), why tf is it okay for god to murder people or send bears to maul children or send plagues to make large groups suffer or threaten people with hell or just generally be a tyrant???
christians: god is the arbiter of morality so atheism has no moral code and atheists are immoral heathens
also christians: god can do whatever tf he wants no matter how immoral it ~seems~ to us and if god calls for us to do something immoral we must obey
Rebellion means clipped wings grown out with new feathers
