Ex-JW Stuff

[ex-jw-stuff]

its hilarious because my parents, being JW’s, are supposed to be neutral in this but my mother is suffering, hoping that Clinton wins and my father is a stubborn Trump supporter. 

[glumshoe]

For everyone planning to kill themselves in the event of a Trump victory:

[fka-feminish]

randomdraggon:

peartower:

levifold:

glumshoe:

Don’t.

We need you. The world needs you. We’ve been through this before, in one way or another, and we have prevailed. Who benefits from your death? Only those who want you silenced.

There will be blue skies ahead. There will be triumphs. This is not the end of the world.

Do not go gentle - we are here today because of the stubborn refusal of our predecessors to go away. There are oases even in the darkest of times. You are not alone, and you have not been abandoned. There *will* be blue skies ahead, and you will live to see them.

List of Suicide Crisis supports in the USA:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1800-273-8255

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Online Chat

Crisis Text Line: Text START to 741-741

The Trevor Project (LBGT+):  1-866-488-7386

Trans Lifeline:  [phone]

If you need support outside the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

Please share. Stay Strong. 

I would hate myself for scrolling past this if one of my followers needs it. You are loved and there are a lot of us mourning that value you and want to support you. We will left each other up.

[ex-jw-stuff]

thank youuuuuuuu

[vampyre-bat-deactivated20180108]

holy frick how privileged are those 160,000+ third party voters? 

our lives are literally in danger now. 

had yall third party voters just voted for Clinton she would have won and everything would be fine but no

you jerks had to vote for a third party because neither of the candidates were “ideal” but literally this election means actual life or death for us and you decided that it was worth the risk. 

[egberts]

there are people across the country right now actively considering suicide because of this but it’s fine right? nbd? everyone just needs to calm down? 🖕🖕🖕

[ex-jw-stuff]

blegh, i was already considering it this just might add to my list of reasons

[poppunkwitch]

I wonder how much the suicide rate among minorities will increase after this is all over.

[ex-jw-stuff]

As a rape survivor i am appalled. As a bisexual person with a girlfriend i am appalled. i will never be able to walk home alone at night again. I will never be able to be affectionate with the girl i'm with in public without the threat of being attacked. I'm guilty of not voting (because my parents threatened to kick me out if i registered to vote) and i am deserving of what i'm about to say. fuck you if you didn't vote or voted third party. i feel physically ill.

[ex-jw-stuff]

my parents threatened to kick me out if i registered to vote and i cant do it in secret because they send mail to your house and my parents always open my mail before i get to it.

[ex-jw-stuff]

I stopped posting for a while. I’ll be coming back though. Here is what happened, if anyone is interested. 

My grandfather passed away in mid-July. He was a Jehovah’s Witness and the genuine love for him and for my family that I felt from his fellow Witnesses brought me back to them for a short while, as well as the promise of maybe someday seeing him again, and not having psychologicalmage from being raped while out “in the world,” and generally not being mentally ill anymore. 

essentially, i was re-brainwashed. 

I got my publisher privileges back pretty quickly. I started dating a witness brother. I was happy with him for a while, but I still had issues trusting The Org and the elders etc. My hall was still just as gossipy and hateful as before. 

Despite my panic attacks I forced myself to go out in service again. All that did was backpedal the progress in my recovery. So did attempting to take to heart the things I was made to believe again. I wrote a lot in my journal during this time and there are about 5 (five) pages in which I write something along the lines of “I am poisonous and toxic” because that is what the bible and Org’s literature was telling me. Even my boyfriend who I studied with told me that. 

It pushed me back to when I was so sick that I couldn’t do anything but mope and sleep. It was so awful. 

Here is the issue now. All the witnesses that I care about now have their hopes up in me coming back. They think I’m making strides in my Witness recovery. They do not care about my mental state. In fact my mental state is worse than it has ever been. 

My boyfriend broke up with me because he felt we held each other back when it came to our spirituality, and because he felt he wasnt ready yet, and because i do not trust the Org. 

When he did that, I realized what had been going on. I intended to stay with the witnesses until very recently when an old DF’d friend decided to come back and began telling me that I could never be a good witness even if i tried harder. I could never be myself. I was never given a chance to figure out who “myself” is. 

Here is the issue. I’ve been hearing this for 4 years. Almost 5. If i leave the witnesses I am disappointing all the ones I care about. I would be essentially cutting ties with people I love. My parents would not support me, nor would anyone else. I would probably go homeless due to lack of support, college education, and being kicked out since I am now 18 and they can legally do that now. 

But, if i were to stay with the witnesses, none of that would happen but I would be miserable for the rest of my life. I would never be able to grow or express myself or explore myself or the world. I have a low-paying job and will not be able to afford housing. I don’t drive and so I don’t have a car.I would be trapped both ways. 

I don’t know what other options I have and I’m seriously considering suicide as an option these days. I feel it’s my only way out and if I leave the witnesses before doing it, no one will care. 

I don’t know if I will do that. It’s a very big “probably” unless I find myself another option. 

[blackandmildwithgod]

The first sin. Misconception is that Eve was the first to sin when that’s not really all that true.

You see When God created everything and then Adam. He told him about the tree he said don’t eat of it.

God never told Eve.

When Eve was in the garden being tempted read that section you’ll find something interesting. Adam was right next to her and he didn’t say anything. He was using Eve as a Guinea pig.

Eve bit into the fruit nothing changed she handed it to Adam. And when he bit into it their eyes were opened.

So really the first sin was Man’s passive nature allowing something to happen he was told not to allow happen if he never ate their eyes may never have been opened but who knows.

[murder-she-wont-deactivated2017]

Originally posted by realitytvgifs

[blackandmildwithgod]

I was in a bible study we went over this part and I just sat there like “wait what?!?”

[slightlycoolemma-deactivated201]

Yup! This is so real!

[poodlesaurus]

So men, in essence, have never been shit.

[elionking-deactivated20191020]

Adam prolly had a fuck boy haircut

[pastorwitch]

My pastor told me that it gets worse. Adam straight up lied. He didn’t trust Eve so he told her that she could not eat or touch the tree. The deal was they couldn’t eat the fruit. They could’ve play volleyball with the damn thing all they wanted.

Adam did not trust Eve to follow God’s instructions so he gave her an extra rule to follow. And then, like OP said, he was a little shit and watched her eat anyway. And if you look in the rest of the scriptures, Adam gets blamed.

Get wrecked.

[babyxgoth-deactivated20170611]

I want a vibrator for Christmas but like that’s not really a gift you ask for

[babyxgoth-deactivated20170611]

Also I want my boyfriends blood

[inkskinned]

there will be a moment when you realize you are more grown up than your parents are. this is the loss of childhood, my love. it is when you’re standing in the kitchen and one of your parents is screaming about something and you recognize: you will let them win the fight not because you are wrong, but simply because you know that they will keep shouting unless you drop the subject. you expect them to have childish understandings of things. they will hold onto their concept of the world as if it was not a changing thing. they must be right, and they must be somehow more right than you, always, in everything. their idea of control is so necessary to who they are that you just let it go.

this is the moment. you are 11 or 17 or 21. and you realize that you’re more mature than they ever were. 

and in some odd, sad way, this frees you. where they have stagnated, you continue.

[deej3000]

This realization fucked me up. It hit me when I was 7. My Dad was complaining about us leaving the kitchen cabinets open. Do you realize how hard it is to live through most of your childhood and all your adolescence, knowing that you’re more adult than your 39 year old father?

[misandry-mermaid]

Don’t forget that a rape survivor continuing to be married/dating/friends with/close to their rapist does NOT mean they weren’t raped.  The only thing that determines if it was rape is their lack of consent.  Someone’s behavior after being raped does NOT negate what happened to them.  The majority of rape survivors are victimized by someone they know, and being raped by a trusted friend or partner can be INCREDIBLY confusing for the survivor, so it is NOT unusual or contradictory for someone who has experienced sexual violation to try and normalize this experience by staying close, romantically or platonically, to the person who raped them.  STOP VICTIM-BLAMING AND EXCUSING RAPE BECAUSE THE SURVIVOR DIDN’T RESPOND TO THEIR TRUAMA THE WAY YOU THINK THEY SHOULD.

[deconstructingthewatchtower]

Become Jehovah’s Friend 1 : Obey Your Parents

If one were to take this video and remove all the religious elements, it would actually be a decent lesson about parenting … for parents. The parents explain their child why it is wrong what he did and what the consequences are, rather than simply say, “because we say so”. This proves effective.

Research indicates that children whose parents speak to them about transgressions (and allow them to speak back) are more effective than those who simply say “I am your parent and I say so”. Providing arguments is better than demanding obedience simply because the parent says so. Communicate with your kids, it works.

Despite this, obeying just because is the real message. No arguments are given why Jehovah is trustworthy when he gives commands, and he cannot be asked. Obedience to Jehovah is not on the same level as doing what reasonable authority figures who one can have a face to face conversation with ask a person to do. This is a false equivalence, meant to cut down questions. Just obey, because Jehovah says so (and by the way, Jehovah speaks through the Watchtower Society).

So let’s question it : is it reasonable to always obey your parents?

Tidying the house is not the only thing parents will require obedience to. Parents can make mistakes. Parents can be outdated where their children are in tune. Parents can be abusive. Parents can command you to tell nobody.

Children deserve to disobey unreasonable orders without feeling like they are sinning. The video does not outright say it is sin to disobey, but invokes that idea by making them read the bible before the parents explain. It seeks to create a link between bible and reasonable obedience.

The connection is a trick. It ensures obedience to God the Watchtower Society, while also carrying the risk of cementing children as victims. Not all kids will have the good fortune of parents who don’t abuse this rule and the power of that the Watchtower gives behind it.

[thegoodvibeco]

[kushandwizdom]

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[ex-jw-stuff]

does this mean God made me get raped because it would "help me grow" or some stupid ass bull?

[untitled40887]

Elders Handbook

I am curious how many of you know about it or have read it? Would anyone like to see some of it?

[fruitxbat-deactivated20161206]

I’ve read it!! Total sexist bullshit- not to mention it totally backs up the claim that JWs protect child molesters

[bhujangan]

I did too, and reading it made me even happier I left

[ex-jw-stuff]

I really really want to read it.

[gloryholeaction69-deactivated20]

me: I have this strong belief and it gives me a reason not to kill myself some asshole: ok but I fucking hate you

[bhujangan]

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102008088

[gloryholeaction69-deactivated20]

imagine being this pathetic

[ex-jw-stuff]

imagine avoiding the questions, changing the subject every single time and blatantly ignoring the org you follow

[satanhaus-deactivated20220217]

Growing up in an abusive household is a fucking trip dude……If you’ve never had someone angrily wash a dish at you or fold a sock in your direction then how are you gonna understand why I get nervous when you quietly do the laundry, or why I ask “are you mad at me?” when you set the bag of groceries down too hard? It’s a totally different way of living and it impacts you long after you’ve left the situation.