#jehovah witness

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

#atheism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #scientology #religion

[theozgnomian]

Added in Edit: Having had this up for a while, I have to say that it truly amazes me just how many of the religious (most of them in fact) are the epitome of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Not just stupid, but dangerously stupid. So I'm adding a couple of tags to the blog, just for them.

Barnum was right. "There's a sucker born every minute." If you can believe in a god (or gods), an invisible, all knowing, all powerful being, based on nothing but your feelings and some moldy manuscript written before modern medicine and electricity, then you'll believe anything at all, no matter how ludicrous. And the evidence of that is in front of us every damn day. Trump. Republicans. Anti-vax. Anti-science. Climate-denial. Anti-abortion. Flat Earth. Steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Added it Edit on 04/02: Just had a porn pusher call on me to repent. Typical of the breed. Hypocrites, all of them. ROTFLMAO!

#atheism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #scientology #religion #theocracy #idiocracy

[mud1888]

#lol #funny #humor #joke #memes #jokes #silly #jehovah witness #training #doors

[alex-penumbra]

i wish my family wasn't in a cult

#exjw #jehovah witness #pomo

[sky-daddy-hates-me]

When i was 13. I came home from ComicCon with a replica katana from a tv show. Unrelated to the katana, at the time, i was convinced that there was a ghost in the house. After telling my mom about a bathroom light flickering off, i remember her being like, "hmmph," and then a few weeks(?) Go by, and Mom and dad sat me down and explained what demons could do, how they could possess me and kill all of them, and not know i did it.

They had me sell the katana (my sister out of the house bought it) until i got it back when i was 18.

So the logic is; Demon sticks to random katana at a gaming convention,WAITS for someone to take it home (couldn't it just, idk, choose or possess anyone, rather than the inanimate object) comes home w me. Does things that are easily passed off as "we live in an old house, that used to be a grocery store"

Upon getting it back at 18, bringing it home.

Guess what happened then.

Nothing. Cause it didnt have a fucking demon to begin with LMAO

Now i would love to tell my mom how my Satanic Bible, my tarot cards, etc have all been in the house this whole 3 years now and not one of us has been slaughtered by a possessed family member.

Anyway, i wanted to share that w someone who understands. It took me forever to get over that, "this is bad. Demons are literally going to crawl out of this." feeling u have ingrained in you.

(Cant forget to sit around and think so hard about Jehovahs face too. For good measure. God, I'm thinking SO hard.)

Lmao, I've had tarot cards in my house for years as well, without my parents knowing for the most part, they did find one deck when i was 15 but some strategic crying and telling them i begged for jehovah's forgiveness was enough to convince that i was just holding them for a friend who came and picked them up a few days later (then gave them back to me at school). I used to draw pentagrams and satanic crosses on my meeting notes. When I was 13 I actively tried to summon demons in all 15 mirrors in the house. The amount of shows and films I've watched that my parents were certain would invite demons into the house is insane.

I'm also pretty sure there's ghost activity (vases falling off coffee table they were in the middle of, a porcelain doll somehow falling out of my bedroom window when i left it as far away from the window as possible, flickering lights, scratching noises at night) in the house and while I would love to see my parents reaction to that fact, I am not in a position to leave home yet and i would certainly be thrown out.

Apparently a friend of my family had a jacket that belonged to their 'worldly' son, and whenever they tried to get rid of the jacket it would come back. Eventually they tried burning it, but nothing happened to it, it came out of the fire looking almost the exact same. To my parents that's enough proof that demons do posses things. Turns out, leather is extremely hard to set on fire and is a fire retardant material, and their son kept sneaking the jacket back into the house.

For people who claim to not believe in superstitions, Jehovahs witnesses really do love to choose demons over facts every single time.

#jw #ex jw #ex jehovah's witness #jehovah witness #jehovah's witnesses #ex christian #ex cult

[pure-bubblegum]

TW: jehovas wittnen

Dunno if anyone will find this intresting but here goes.

A few days ago my jehovas Wittness mom came to me saying she had good news so ofcourse l ask her what it was.

"Do you still have contact with G?" G is my childhood friend since 6 to around 12 years old. Haven't spoken to her since, I'm 19 now. Well aperently her last ex boyfriend was in the same situation as me, jehovas wittnen parents but not that himself and now she has Bible studies with her mom, and my mom talked with the sister G studies with and connected the dots that we knew eachother since before.

My mom looked so proud, G had told the sister she studies w that the reason she got interested in the truth was because of me, that l used to preach to her early in our childhood, untill G's mom said l would not be allowed to see G if l keeped doing that. And now that she has her own apartment she decided to pic it up again.

"This is a sign from Jehova that even the smallest of seeds becomes trees in the end"

And in the moment l didnt really know how to feel, my first initial feeling was to congratulate, then l just feelt conflicted. How ironic isn't it that l who introduced this to her left the organization.

I still remember the day l first introduced the 'truth' to her. l told her we all had a chance to revive and live in paradise after death, she begun absolutely sobbing cuz her grandmother had just passed away.

My mom asked me how l felt and if l was proud of this.

No, no absolutely no!

"Yeah.. l guess?"

And for a few days l feelt so conflicted, didn't really know if l was going to be happy for her or feel guilty. And what if l when l go to the memorial this year and see her? What will l say, if she finds out I'm not a jw will she feel discouraged? If l don't go will my parent lie and say l was simply busy? (Most likely) at the same time do l have an obligation as ex-jw to like warn her?

Today l told my friend about this and he concluded in the end that, that was her choice and l had noting to do with this, l may have been her introduction to this but in the end as an adult she made her choice. He also told me that he himself grew up with a Muslim best friend he used to pray togheter with and he himself didn't turn Muslim.

I feel better now thay he told me this, honestly this had bothered me so much these past few days.

Eitherway, don't think l will go to the memorial this year, it will be the first one l miss ✌️💗🤍

#jw #exjw #jehovah witness #ex jehovah's witness #pimo jw #l only really go to meetings sometimes #the meorial being the obligatory one l have to go to by my parents #oh #and also the yearly gettering #the 3 days long gattering shit

[jehovahwitless]

#my book of bible stories #jehovah witness

[ashterblaster]

i literally hate jehovahs witnesses and no i will not be taking criticism. you're a cult. get bent.

#jehovah witness #cult #religious trauma

[unwelcome-ozian]

Do you know anything about the Watchtower society (Jehovah's Witnesses). Do you know what kind of programming they would use.

Jehovah’s Witnesses are considered a cult and use cult/high control abuse/methods with their indoctrination.

Some methods used in cults/high control groups are:

Behavior Control

1. Regulate individual’s physical reality 2. Dictate where, how, and with whom the member lives and associates or isolates 3. When, how and with whom the member has sex 4. Control types of clothing and hairstyles 5. Regulate diet - food and drink, hunger and/or fasting 6. Manipulation and deprivation of sleep 7. Financial exploitation, manipulation or dependence 8. Restrict leisure, entertainment, vacation time 9. Major time spent with group indoctrination and rituals and/or self indoctrination including the Internet 10. Permission required for major decisions 11. Thoughts, feelings, and activities (of self and others) reported to superiors 12. Rewards and punishments used to modify behaviours, both positive and negative 13. Discourage individualism, encourage group-think 14. Impose rigid rules and regulations 15. Instil dependency and obedience 16. Threaten harm to family and friends 17. Force individual to rape or be raped 18. Instil dependency and obedience 19. Encourage and engage in corporal punishment

Information Control/Deception:

 a. Deliberately withhold information

 b. Distort information to make it more acceptable

 c. Systematically lie to the cult member

2. Minimise or discourage access to non-cult sources of information, including:

 a. Internet, TV, radio, books, articles, newspapers, magazines, other media

 b.Critical information

 c. Former members

 d. Keep members busy so they don’t have time to think and investigate

 e. Control through cell phone with texting, calls, internet tracking

3. Compartmentalize information into Outsider vs. Insider doctrines

 a. Ensure that information is not freely accessible

 b.Control information at different levels and missions within group

 c. Allow only leadership to decide who needs to know what and when

4. Encourage spying on other members

 a. Impose a buddy system to monitor and control member

 b.Report deviant thoughts, feelings and actions to leadership

 c. Ensure that individual behaviour is monitored by group

5. Extensive use of cult-generated information and propaganda, including:

 a. Newsletters, magazines, journals, audiotapes, videotapes, YouTube, movies and other media

 b.Misquoting statements or using them out of context from non-cult sources

6. Unethical use of confession

 a. Information about sins used to disrupt and/or dissolve identity boundaries

 b. Withholding forgiveness or absolution

 c. Manipulation of memory, possible false memories

Thought Control. Require members to internalise the group’s doctrine as truth

 a. Adopting the group’s ‘map of reality’ as reality

 b. Instil black and white thinking

 c. Decide between good vs. evil

 d. Organise people into us vs. them (insiders vs. outsiders)

2.Change person’s name and identity

3. Use of loaded language and clichés which constrict knowledge, stop critical thoughts and reduce complexities into platitudinous buzz words

4. Encourage only ‘good and proper’ thoughts

5. Hypnotic techniques are used to alter mental states, undermine critical thinking and even to age regress the member

6. Memories are manipulated and false memories are created

7. Teaching thought-stopping techniques which shut down reality testing by stopping negative thoughts and allowing only positive thoughts, including:

 a. Denial, rationalisation, justification, wishful thinking

 b. Chanting

 c. Meditating

 d. Praying

 e. Speaking in tongues

 f. Singing or humming

8. Rejection of rational analysis, critical thinking, constructive criticism

9. Forbid critical questions about leader, doctrine, or policy allowed

10. Labelling alternative belief systems as illegitimate, evil, or not useful

Emotional Control. Manipulate and narrow the range of feelings – some emotions and/or needs are deemed as evil, wrong or selfish

2. Teach emotion-stopping techniques to block feelings of homesickness, anger, doubt

3. Make the person feel that problems are always their own fault, never the leader’s or the group’s fault

4. Promote feelings of guilt or unworthiness, such as

 a. Identity guilt

 b. You are not living up to your potential

 c. Your family is deficient

 d. Your past is suspect

 e. Your affiliations are unwise

 f. Your thoughts, feelings, actions are irrelevant or selfish

 g. Social guilt

 h. Historical guilt

5. Instil fear, such as fear of:

��a. Thinking independently

 b. The outside world

 c. Enemies

 d. Losing one’s salvation

 e. Leaving or being shunned by the group

 f. Other’s disapproval

6. Extremes of emotional highs and lows – love bombing and praise one moment and then declaring you are horrible sinner

7. Ritualistic and sometimes public confession of sins

8. Phobia indoctrination: inculcating irrational fears about leaving the group or questioning the leader’s authority

 a. No happiness or fulfilment possible outside of the group

 b. Terrible consequences if you leave: hell, demon possession, incurable diseases, accidents, suicide, insanity, 10,000 reincarnations, etc.

 c. Shunning of those who leave; fear of being rejected by friends, peers, and family

 d. Never a legitimate reason to leave; those who leave are weak, undisciplined, unspiritual, worldly, brainwashed by family or counsellor, or seduced by money, sex, or rock and roll

 e. Threats of harm to ex-member and family

Oz

#answers to questions #jehovah witness #cults #high control groups #behavior control

[jiyuvib3]

Excuse me Sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour God Ussop?

#hahaha #humor #memes #comedy #tontatta #dwarves #anime #anime memes #one piece #god ussop #Jehovah witness #jw memes

[room-on-broom]

Got jehovah'd again. Honestly I don't mind having the crack and talking theology over a cuppa. but I can't seem to get through to them that I don't want to convert and I don't get the same comfort from the bible they doeven saying no thanks. I don't want to be a dick, tho.

Plus being queer I don't feel particularly welcome in churches bar the ones I've grown up in even if it's just social things like coffee mornings. Or trust the capital c Church partially

Like you've your faith, cool. But it's a different flavour to the one I know and I don't think I want to try it, if it's all the same to you.

#vent #christianity #jehovah witness #personal #leave me to my fanfic and painting

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

#atheism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #scientology #religion

[theozgnomian]

#atheism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #scientology #religion

[cococowboah]

Hezekiah Whitman is your less-than-model JW boy, but he does his best. He goes in service several times a week, answers at the meetings, and does his best to abide by the standards set before him, all with his best friend and spiritual brother Alan Rodriguez by his side. But a new job and his first "worldly" friend set in motion a spiral of uncertainty and realizations about himself that he never contemplated prior.

#exjw #jw #ex jehovah's witness #jehovahs witnesses #jehovas witnesses #testigos de jehova #jehovah witness #ex catholic #ex jw #ex christian #ex mormon #lgbt #lgbt pride #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbt art #pride #exjw books #excult books #lgbt books #books and reading #bookworm #reading #lgbt reads #lgbt religion #lgbt representation

[mothmans-cumrag]

Ok so. On my daily commute I currently switch from bus to train at the airport, and so while walking the 5 minutes from bus stop to train, I do a lot of people watching; business ppl doing important business, pilots, ppl going on and coming from holidays, stewards and stewardesses and so on.

Another group of people I see every day is Jehovah's witnesses, trying to hand out pamphlets and recruit into their cult. They are usually right at the stairs leading down to the train tracks, so I see them (and silently curse them out) every. day.

Now recently I noticed whenever I go from train to bus, that there is a new video ad playing opposite to the cultists, and that ad is entirely carried by a drag queen promoting... idk a car or the fair or some shit. So for the last few weeks onwards, the Jehovah's witnesses get to witness a queer gnc person absolutely slaying, and I think that's beautiful.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #drag #drag queen #drag queens #gnc #gender non conforming #positivity #sometimes the world is beautiful #jehovah witness #jehovas witnesses #is that a tag? who cares

[venting-valentine]

the memorial as an ex jw

tw: mentions of religion and jw’s

i am agnostic, but was raised as a jehovah’s witness. i never really understood anything and wasn’t very good at following the rules. i asked questions that weren’t really meant to be asked and disagree with some of the stances i was supposed to have.

after my parents split we all stopped going to the meetings. despite not being super devote both my parents still believe in jehovah.

i know my mom feels guilty by not attending since she’s baptized and her whole side of the family are also jw’s. my dad seems indifferent. he’s not an overly religious man, but i think he does find some comfort in it.

both of them are aware that i am agnostic and don’t really care for religion. i am respectful of the fact that they still believe since they don’t shove it down my throat.

now for those of you who don’t know the memorial happens every spring and it’s a very important night for jw’s. it’s where we are reminded that jesus died for our sins and where we pass wine and bread.

we’ve had multiple witnesses coming to the house to talk and invite us to go. even my mom called my dad encouraging him to go.

he did tell me that he was thinking of going and asked if i wanted to tag along. i just quietly told him “i think i’ll stay home.”

i know if i were living with my mom she would guilt me into going. despite knowing i do not believe. i remember her doing that one year and feeling so out of place.

i normally don’t care for these types of thing, but this year it’s making me emotional. it’s probably because i’m on my period, but it’s also because i feel like i’m disappointing my dad by not attending. i also don’t like the idea of him going alone. i know he won’t be 100% alone, but it still doesn’t sit right with me and maybe that’s my religious guilt talking.

i know though that if i did go i would be bored out of my mind and feel very uncomfortable. plus there would be so many people wanting to talk to me and asking about my mom. it would just be a long, unwelcome evening if i were to go.

it’s out of my hands though and as long as my mom doesn’t call me encouraging me to go i’ll be fine.

#tw religion #ex jw #ex jehovah's witness #jehovah witness #tw vent #vent #venting #personal vent #vent post #vent blog #religious trauma #religious guilt